On the north coast of Tasmania, sits a quaint seaside beach town called Boat
Harbour, a waterfront popular for surf life saving and outrigger paddling.
It also provides an ice cream shop, café and a chippie, a perfect place to
spend a few hours, which is exactly what my team did on Monday November 7
th,
4-hours in fact. But it wasn’t the fun filled 4-hours we would normally
spend in such a place, it was instead, a frustrating 4-hours where we sat and
watched our lead and victory in the World Championship race go to the 2
nd place team,
Team Thule (Sweden / France). Rubbing salt into the wound,
we then waited and watched as Team Silva (Sweden), the 3rd place team, go by as well.
It was an unfortunate end to the epic endurance race, for both us and the
teams going by, leaving us all with final podium placing’s we probably didn’t
truly deserve. But that’s the harsh reality of racing and sport; it’s not always fair.
We ended up 3
rd and this is what happened from my view of the race.
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