(Sandhamn, Sweden)- Every year, the KSSS (Royal Swedish YC) roll out the
red carpet for all Swedish sailors in one of their summer season
highlights, the "Sandhamn Open Regatta". As they have for the past few
years, the J/80s had a good turnout, especially in view of the fact that
three or more teams were practicing their final event before heading to
the enormous J/80 World Championship in Marseilles, France. 
Perhaps
establishing primal supremacy over those other Swedish teams, ROCAD
RACING won this year's J/80 Sandhamn event. It was good conditions with
sunshine and winds between 2-6 m/s all day. The first day offered three
races and team HAPPY led after the first day, closely followed by A2 and
the aforementioned ROCAD. Saturday was team ROCAD RACING's day, they
nailed all four races, winning them decisively and led the fleet. During
one of the races on Saturday, the field of teams was further mixed up
when several large container ships sailed through the race course!
On
Sunday it was only one race and it looked like ROCAD RACING had the
event won by a significant margin. The real fight was for the balance
of the podium for second and third. A2 and HAPPY were only separated by
one point. Like an Olympic Sailing Finals Medal Race, HAPPY managed to
keep the nerves under control and nailed the final race, closely
followed by Rocad Racing and A2, and thus took silver. A2 finished 3rd
after a very consistent sailing in the top all weekend followed by Team
Heavy Duty fourth.For more J/80 Sweden sailing information, please visit their Facebook Page.
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