RC44 Cagliari Cup 2011 day three
by Paul Cayard on 2 Jul 2011
Artemis Racing - RC44 Cagliari Cup 2011 Francesco Nonnoi
RC44 Cagliari Cup 2011 update from Paul Cayard on the third day of racing in Sardinia.
The Mistral was in again today as expected. The race committee announced this morning that they would only attempt two races and that is what we got in. The first races featured 18-23 knots of wind, while the wind came up to 25 knots for the second race and even 28 knots at the finish.
Artemis Racing and Katusha both had good races today demonstrating consistency. Artemis finished 5, 5 and Katusha finished 6, 6. Artemis was in second place for most of the first race but suffered a broach half way down the last run and lost a few places. Artemis Racing's Chairman, Torbjorn Tornqvist is a good strong wind sailor and had their boat going fast all day. Gennadi is doing a great job on Katusha considering he has been sailing for just over a year now. The conditions in the second race got to the upper edge of controllability and Genaddi never lost control of the boat while many others did.
Actually, it wasn't just Artemis and Katusha who demonstrated consistency today. All boats in the top six finished in the same position in both of today’s races.
TeamAqua won both races today with excellent speed and tactics. Oracle Racing was just behind with 2, 2. Ceeref followed with 3, 3 and Islas Canarias Puerto Calero had the double 4's.
Racing continues tomorrow and the Mistral is expected to hold again. Sunday is expected to bring lighter winds.
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