Win Goes to Peter Holmberg of Oracle Challenge

Peter Holmberg of the Oracle America’s Cup Challenge, out of San Francisco, won the Steinlager/Line 7 Regatta on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour, after a countback, when lack of wind prevented any competition in the final.

Holmberg had a tough fight with Rod Davis of the Prada Challenge, to claim his place in the final, and faced Denmark’s Jes Gram-Hansen in the final that didn’t happen.

As race officer Peter Carr of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron commented,