Over four of the most difficult days of racing in 44Cup history, an impressive seven races were still held at the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote frequently in 5-6 knots wind, conditions, frankly, in which most other yachts would have been unable to race. Nonetheless it produced two worthy winners with Team Aleph winning the event and Team Aqua the season.
A last minute manoeuvre by Nico Poons’ Charisma won them the final race of the 44Cup Scarlino World Championship by a mere second, but it was the defending champions on Chris Bake’s Team Aqua that defended their title in this 11th RC44 World Championship by one slender point.
While the forecast indicated that it might be sailable, the opening day of this 11th RC44 World Championship was blown out with the northerly winds off Scarlino, Italy regularly reaching the high 20s and gusting into the high 30s. After a wait out on the water the race committee sent the boats back to the Marina di Scarlino to see if conditions would abate and when instead the wind built, soon after 1400 racing was abandoned for the day.
The final day of the 44Cup Cowes was always going to be big. Despite the overnight seven point gap between the leaders Aleph and second placed Ceeref, experience told Hugues Lepic and his team that they should take nothing for granted.
What the opening day of the 44Cup in Cowes lacked in sunshine it more than made up for with close racing. The morning had started with just 8-10 knots of breeze and flat seas but, as the day played out a series of subtle changes took place that kept everyone from trimmers to tacticians on their toes.
It is rare even between the ultra-close RC44s for an event to go to the wire in such an extreme way as it did at the conclusion of the 44Cup Marstrand.
In an example of the high performance RC44 one design class’ typically ultra-close racing, so yesterday’s winners dropped to the bottom of the pile at the 44Cup Marstrand today as those managing to remain the most consistent rose gradually to the top.
Four magnificent days of 44Cup racing in Portoroz, Slovenia concluded with further 20+ knot winds, flat water and sun, but mixed fortunes.
Powered by: Portoroz– Gli RC44 hanno aperto la loro stagione a Portoroz, in Slovenia, con la 44th Cup Portoroz, prima regata della classe fondata da Russell Coutts dopo un anno e mezzo di stop dovuto alla pandemia. Dopo dieci entusiasmanti prove disputate in quattro giorni, la vittoria è andata a Team Ceeref dello sloveno Igor
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Whether it is in big waves or small, gale force or sub-10 winds, Chris Bake's Team Aqua has shone this week and as a result today won the 44Cup Cascais with a race to spare.
At the halfway stage of the 44Cup Cascais, Chris Bake's Team Aqua has joined Nico Poons' Charisma at the top of the leaderboard and is even ahead on countback.
Holding an eight point advantage going into the final day, and then doing enough to hang on, enabled Chris Bake's Team Aqua to be crowned the 44Cup Marstrand World Champions for 2019. The team claimed this year's title ahead of Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika and Torbjörn Törnqvist's local heroes aboard Artemis Racing.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and unfortunately today was the latter for day two of the 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019.
This morning Hugues Lepic's Aleph Racing scored their third bullet out of four races, increasing their five point lead at the day's start to a massive 10.
After yesterday's multi-faceted single race, conditions settled down with a 10-12 knot northwesterly allowing three races to be held on the second day of the Adris 44Cup Rovinj.
After a successful start to the 2019 44Cup last month in Porto Montenegro, the nine one-design RC44s have travelled 840km north up the Adriatic coast to Rovinj, Croatia, for event two: The Adris 44Cup Rovinj, over the 30 May– 2 June.
Bay of Tivat came good for the final day of the 44Cup Porto Montenegro with three races held and a worthy winner in Igor Lah's Team Ceeref.