Portugal's Afonso Domingos and Bernardo Santos Win Their Second Bacardi Cup Regatta.

PR Newswire Europe, March, 2008

MIAMI, March 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- 81st Running of One of the Most Prestigious Star Class Events in the World is Decided by Tiebreaker

Portugal's Afonso Domingos and crew Bernardo Santos won the 2008 Bacardi Cup Star Class Regatta on the waters of Biscayne Bay Friday, edging 2002 Star Class World Champion Iain Percy and crew Andrew Simpson in a tiebreaker.

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Aided by substantial gains on each of the reach legs in both races, Domingos and Santos sailed to two second place finishes Friday -- and a first place tie with Percy and Simpson, who held the lead entering the final day of the regatta, but finished fifth and ninth in Friday's two races. The teams' finishes in the...

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