Hong Kong brought an intense Sailing weekend for the VOR.

The VolvoOceanRace fleet had an buzy and interesting weekend in Hong Kong, sailing Saturday the In-Port Race followed on Sunday by a Round the Island race. The classification of both events were combined into a final HK In-Port scoring.

The In-Port race offered fair winds and an interesting race. Dongfeng typically blocked Mapfre at the start to get a benefit that resulted in them beating Mapfre but was not enough for the Victory as AkzoNobel sailed a sublime race and took the winners honors. There were many close moments around the marks and many protest request, but none were awarded.  
In-Port Race order:

1. AkzoNobel
2. Dongfeng Race Team
3. Brunel
4. Mapfre
5. SunHungKai
6. CleanSeas 

Mapfre creeping away in wind calm on the Round the Island race

The Round the Island race has fair winds at the start, where 3 Boats had to restart because early starts, Brunel recovered fastest, CleanSeas made up a good deal in the next half hour of wind calm, while SunHungKai passed the start line as last Boat.
Mapfre had a tiny lead and took meter by meter till they as first boat fetched the better winds that brought in no time a 2 km advantage. This was big enough to take it to the Victory. Dongfeng was the 2nd boat to pick up the better breeze. 
Brunel in the back and SunHungKai just ahead , took a better route on the East side of the Island and passes both AkzoNobel and CleanSeas to take 4th and 3rd repectively. AkzoNobel got the 5th place and Clean Seas finished just within the limit for duration of the race.
Vestas did not participate as their boat is under repair after the collision with a fishing boat on the approach to Hong Kong Finihs in leg 4. 

Results for the Hong Kong weekend sailing and overall scorecard In-Port races

Scorecard HongKong In-Port race