Barbanneau wins two races at Seth Cascais Worlds

by media on 11 Jul 2008
The Hungarian Zoltan Pegan is still in the lead of Seth Cascais Worlds 2008, which is taking place until next Saturday in Cascais-Portugal. The Hungarian has three points lead over Britain's Luke Barbanneau, who was the star, winning two of the three races of the day.

Another fantastic sailing day, welcomed the 28 boat Challenger fleet which are competing in Cascais Bay for the IFDS Multihull World Championship . In the second day of the event, three races were sailed with the Barbanneau showing his potential winning two races and climbing to the second position overall, just three points behind the Hungarian.

Pegan is still defending his world title. Today with a 2nd, 4th and a 1st in the last race of the day, keeps leading the fleet:

'Today was a good day. I’m keeping in the front of the fleet, but young Luke sailed really well today, winning the first two races of the day. The sailing conditions were very favourable. The wind was light in the beginning and it built up towards the afternoon and the waves were small. Another sunny day.'

The British fleet has five sailors in the top 10.

IFDS Multihull World Championship - Class Challenger results after 5 races, 1 discard:

1 HUN 272 Zoltan Pegan 1 1 2 4 1 5 pts
2 GBR 258 Luke Barbanneau 9 3 1 1 3 8 pts
3 GBR 270 Graham Hall 3 2 6 8 4 15 pts
4 GBR 277 John Draper 2 8 5 3 8 18 pts
5 POR 273 Bento Amaral 10 11 3 2 5 20 pts
6 GBR 257 Val Millward 15 4 12 6 2 24 pts
7 GBR 280 Elizabeth Eaton 4 7 4 12 20 27 pts
8 ARG 213 Juan Fernandez Ocampo 6 5 8 9 15 28 pts
9 GBR 202 Judi Figgures 5 19 15 7 6 33 pts
10 POR 232 Bruno Pereira 16 6 9 11 7 33 pts
11 FRA 252 Magali Moraines 8 14 7 5 21 34 pts
12 CRO 178 Boris Marangunic 13 12 13 10 13 48 pts
13 AUS 231 Stephan Churm 12 15 20 13 12 52 pts
14 GBR 222 Andy Smith 7 22 16 19 11 53 pts
15 ESP 249 Sebastian Garcia Navarrete 14 17 11 14 16 55 pts
16 CAN 250 Nigist Sewnnett 17 25 10 22 9 58 pts
17 TUR 216 Murat Etler 21 10 19 17 14 60 pts
18 GBR 188 Alex Hovden 11 21 17 15 23 64 pts
19 GBR 281 Simon Wright 24 13 14 20 18 65 pts
20 FRA 212 Jean-claude Loiseau 29 9 23 18 17 67 pts
21 CAN 205 Han Tacoma 20 24 21 25 10 75 pts
22 CRO 251 Diego Cukaric 18 23 22 16 22 78 pts
23 USA 160 Carwile LeRoy 22 20 24 23 19 84 pts
24 GBR 10 David Morse 23 18 25 21 25 87 pts
25 USA 263 Brian Tabler 25 26 18 24 24 91 pts
26 GBR 224 Tim Harpen 19 16 29 29 29 93 pts
27 POR 261 António Santos 26 27 26 29 26 105 pts
28 SER 214 Ljubinco Velickovic 29 29 29 29 29 116 pts


The Seth Cascais Worlds 2008 is a continuation of the successful programme for disabled sailing called Vela Sem Limites which started in 2005 and is a joint programme between the Clube Naval de Cascais, the Câmara Municipal de Cascais and Cercica.

It provides continuous sailing throughout the year for the disabled of Cascais council, providing an open air activity with therapeutic benefits for all.