Smiling like a cat with a mouse in his mouth!!

coutts_smiling, originally uploaded by lzp.

Russell Coutts, sailing the Star with Beat Stegmeier (CH)in the Kieler Woche has been yellow flagged in yesterday's race 2 for infringing rule 42 (kineticks!).

He made a one turn penalty turn only, thus was disqualified from that race.

He got the flag from America's Cup umpire Bosse Sammuelsson (SWE) and Siegfried Uecker (GER). Coutts' crew, Mr Stegmeier, was asked why they did only one turn and said, "Well the helm said one is enough ..".

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