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18ft Skiffs: JJ Giltinan Trophy - Live Racing and commentary - Race 9

by Richard Gladwell 12 Mar 2022 22:05 UTC 13 March 2022
2022 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship Race 8 © Frank Quealey

The Livestream coverage of Race 9 in the JJ Giltinan 18ft World Championship starts at 2:20pm (Sydney time), and the commentary starts at 2:30 featuring Andrew Buckland, Peter Shipway and Jim Bury from the SailMedia team who are on the water and following the action.

Andoo (Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton) remains top of the leaderboard and has the series sewn up but with the return of lighter wins and big rigs, they had a good contest in the first few legs with Tech 2.

The Race schedule is as follows - all race coverage starts at the same time 2.20pm each race day, unless otherwise advised. The series concludes today. The winners ribbon will be presented after the race by Iain Murray from the race ferry - an historic occasion in every JJ regatta.

  • Race 1 Saturday - Completed
  • Race 2 Sunday - Completed
  • Layday Monday
  • Race 3 and 4 Tuesday - all races abandoned
  • Race 5 Wednesday - Completed
  • Race 6 & 7 Completed
  • Race 3 & 4 Completed
  • Race 8 Completed
  • Race 9 Sunday

Video and on the water commentary brought to you by SailMedia team reporting from a purpose built camera cat.

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