Karaoka and Hi Fidelity neck-and-neck

KATA: With one day’s sailing still to go in the King’s Cup regatta, a clear winner has yet to emerge in the premier division, the Racing Class, with Neil Pride’s Hi Fidelity and Ray Ordoveza’s Karaoka continuing to slug it out for top honors. The regatta went into its fourth day without major problems, other than the continued strong winds blowing into Phuket every night. In the Boathouse Race today, results were as follows (figures in brackets show boats’ overall positions after four days’ racing): Racing Class 1. Karaoka (=1) 2. Yo! (5) 3. Hi Fidelity (=1) 4. Hocus Pocus (6) 5. Australia Challenger (4) Performance Cruising 1. Sayonara (=4) 2. Moonblue (=4) 3. Zephyr (2) 4. Pytheus Aura (7) 5. Malisorn (9) Ocean Multihull 1. Lee Marine Fine Pitch (1) 2. Cederswan (3) 3. Summersalt (2) 4. Palita (4) 5. Tigger (5) Cruising 1. Master Blaster (2) 2. Graffiti (1) 3. Missy (8) 4. Kelson (5) 5. Quicksilver (4) Classic 1. Isobar (1) 2. Xiphias (3) 3. Good News (4) 4. Sanook (2) 5. Eveline (5) Platu 1. Mark Haswell (1) 2. Ikuyo Hironaka (2) 3. Andrew Peters (3) 4. George Evans (6) 5. Mike Dakin (4) The results of the Phuket Sunwest Homes Race were not available in time to put them on the Online Gazette yesterday. Here they are: Racing Class 1. Karaoka 2. Yo! 3. Hi Fidelity 4. Hocus Pocus 5. Australia Challenger Performance Cruising 1. Zephyr 2. Moonblue 3. Monsoon Blue 4. Irvmiren Ocean Multihull 1. Lee Marine Fine Pitch 2. Summersalt 3. Cederswan 4. Palita 5. Dream Catcher Cruising 1. Master Blaster 2. Graffiti 3. Atares 4. Simpatico 5. Kelson Classic 1. Isobar 2. Sanook 3. Xiphias 4. Eveline 5. Good News Platu 1. Mark Haswell 2. Andrew Peters 3. Ikuyo Hironaka 4. Mike Dakin 5. Paul Kendall