SAILING; Stead happy in second

BRITAIN'S ADMIRAL'S CUP team representative, Barlow Plastics, hung on to second overall in the Mumm 36 World Championship after another up and down day at Kiel, in Germany yesterday, writes Stuart Alexander.

Skipper Adrian Stead and helmsman Tim Powell were back in winning form from start to finish for the first of yesterday's pair of inshore races. But, almost repeating the first and ninth of the day before, they then found themselves on the second tier of the start line and were stuck near the back of the 10-boat fleet for much of the second, finishing eighth.

They had just held off Karol Jablonski in Thomas Friese's Thomas I Punkt in the first race, but the German dominated the second to set up an unassailable 10-point lead going into the final race today.

Stead is happy overall, saying the goal was always to be in the top three and "we are definitely faster now than we were at the beginning of the week", but his lead over the US Admiral's Cup team representative, Chris Larson in New Yorker, is just one point.

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