Italians Boggi and LaPorte Win Day Two at Star Bacardi Cup

by Event media on 11 Mar 2009 The second race of the 2009 Bacardi Cup got off to a late start today after puffy 8 to 10 knot winds caused a 20-minute postponement followed by a general recall.

The Italian team of Lucio Boggi and crew Manuele La Porta led at the start and played cat and mouse with three-time Bacardi Cup champion Peter Wright and crew Nathan Quist, both of Chicago, IL, through most of the 10.5 mile race on Biscayne Bay. The Italian duo are now in 8th place overall and the Chicagoans are in third.

Wright, who took 10 years off since his last Bacardi Cup win in 1993, said he had good speed from the start and was in a jibing duel with the Italians from the second mark on. 'We weren’t watching Bromby at all. He got between us at the end,' said Wright.

The powerhouse team of Peter Bromby and Magnus Liljedhal, both Olympians and Bacardi Cup champions, slid into second place on the run to the finish and move up to first place overall.

'We found some pressure at the right time and picked off a couple of boats by tacking to the left of the boats ahead of us just after the start,' said Bromby who was out of the top 10 at the first mark but had consistent gains throughout the race.

Miamian Augie Diaz and crew Mark Strube took fifth place today and moves into 5th place overall. 'We had a really poor start but we were fortunate that the wind came in strong when we cleared. We made it to the weather mark 9th.' Day one leader Szabo/Peters finished 20th today putting them at 6th overall and still in striking distance.

Paul Cayard commented on the Redress that was given after the first race;

'The upshot of the redress claims in yesterday's first race was that the jury gave redress to those who complained. Almost everyone lost something in the confusion; but only four boats filed for redress. I just figured the race was going to be thrown out, but I was wrong.'

'About four people complained, one of them being Peter Bromby of Bermuda who had a great race today finishing second. So the four boats who filed for redress will receive the average of their scores for that first race, making it a bit difficult to calculate the scores as their scores will be a moving average every day.'

The 62-boat fleet, peppered with Star World champions and Olympians also has a first-time Star sailor from Slovakia.

Star - 2009 Bacardi Cup positions after 2 races

1 BER 8272 Bromby Peter Liljedahl Magnus BER 8272 Isol 2.0 [2.0, MAN] 2.0 4pts
2 USA 8268 Hagebols Rodney Finlay William USA 8268 WSFB 7.0 [7.0, MAN] 7.0 14
3 USA 8265 Wright Peter Quist Nathan USA 8265 Isol 13.0 3.0 16
4 USA 8376 Vandermolen Jon Ewenson Geoff USA 8376 GL 2.0 16.0 18
5 USA 8285 Diaz Augie Strube Mark USA 8285 BisB 15.0 5.0 20
6 USA 8273 Szabo George Peters Rick USA 8273 SDB 1.0 20.0 21
7 USA 8259 Cayard Paul Sperry Austin USA 8259 WSFB 11.0 10.0 21.0001
8 ITA 8341 Boggi Lucio LaPorta Manuele ITA 8341 Gar 21.0 1.0 22
9 USA 8267 Mendelblatt Mark PRADA BRUNO USA 8267 TaB 3.0 23.0 26
10 USA 8320 Reynolds Mark Haenel Hal USA 8320 SDB 12.0 15.0 27
11 GER 8361 Pickel Marc Mitchell Steve GER 8361 Brm 5.0 26.0 31
12 IRL 8261 O'Leary Peter Goodbody Tim IRL 8261 Isol 4.0 29.0 33
13 USA 8157 Anosov Arthur Dolan Mark USA 8157 SL 17.0 17.0 34
14 USA 8253 Brethorst Rick Anderson Scott USA 8253 LS 24.0 11.0 35
15 ITA 8156 Irrera Renato Cristaldini Corrado ITA 8156 Pal 28.0 9.0 37
16 USA 8241 Campbell Andy Nichol Brad USA 8241 19.0 18.0 37.0001
17 USA 8195 Maccausland John Murphy Kevin USA 8195 CR 10.0 28.0 38
18 GBR 8025 Gimson John Greig Ed GBR 8025 SO 16.0 22.0 38.0001
19 USA 8077 Jennings Jack Rehe Mike USA 8077 LS 31.0 8.0 39
20 USA 8318 Coughlin Daniel Balmert Brad USA 8318 HB 35.0 6.0 41
21 FIN 8292 Dahlman Mathias Heinonen Erkki FIN 8292 Fin 7.0 36.0 43
22 GER 7601 Hicks Michael Hicks Patrick GER 7601 23.0 25.0 48
23 CAN 8143 Cramer Brian Johnston Matt CAN 8143 WLOC 22.0 27.0 49
24 USA 8362 Merriman Rick Sharp Brian USA 8362 LH 6.0 44.0 50
25 USA 8215 Allen Bill Hatfield Bruce USA 8215 WH 32.0 21.0 53
26 UKR 8247 GUREYEV Vasyl Korotkov Volodmyr UKR 8247 Ukr 26.0 31.0 57
27 SWE 8338 Johansson Mats Moller Leif SWE 8338 Kat 8.0 53.0 61
28 CAN 7930 Hofkirchner Terry Imai Jeffrey CAN 7930 LOC 49.0 14.0 63
29 AUT 8369 Tomasini Grinover Roberto Bahr Gunnar AUT 8369 AU 44.0 19.0 63.0001
30 GER 8311 Hampe Alex Conrads Chris GER 8311 ZuW 27.0 38.0 65
31 GER 7750 Burmester Jens Kleine Friedrich GER 7750 ED 37.0 30.0 67
32 USA 8279 Bonanni Claude Burgess Rick USA 8279 TaB 34.0 33.0 67.0001
33 USA 8333 Bischoff Clay Bjorn Tyler USA 8333 64.0 [OCS] 4.0 68
34 ITA 8344 Barovier Alberto NOBILI Gilberto ITA 8344 SG 35.0 [35.0, MAN] 35.0 70
35 USA 8072 Smith Doug Moore Mike USA 8072 SBC 29.0 42.0 71
36 SUI 8364 Marazzi Flavio SUI 8364 TB 64.0 [OCS] 12.0 76
37 USA 8250 Macdonald Andy Fatih Brian USA 8250 NH 64.0 [DNF] 13.0 77
38 NED 8263 Jorissen Sander Veldhuizen Erik NED 8263 Med 14.0 64.0 [BFD] 78
39 USA 7307 Sutter Larry Jenkins John USA 7307 MES 38.0 41.0 79
40 USA 8095 Weissenberger Gunti Hardin Chris USA 8095 NCB 39.0 45.0 84
41 USA 7902 Gunther Stephen Armstrong Lance USA 7902 CD 53.0 32.0 85
42 ITA 8183 Tamburini Antonio Ricci Renzo ITA 8183 SI 47.0 39.0 86
43 ITA 8177 Modena Luca Lambertenghi Sergio ITA 8177 NG 43.0 [43.0, MAN] 43.0 86.0001
44 CAN 7626 Passmore Mark Bunner Ivan CAN 7626 WLOC 64.0 [OCS] 24.0 88
45 SUI 8286 Dannesboe Henrick Morey Edward SUI 8286 Sem 30.0 58.0 88.0001
46 USA 8170 Londrigan Tom Hall Stewart USA 8170 LS 25.0 64.0 [BFD] 89
47 USA 8063 Collins Bert Avellon Guy USA 8063 AN 43.0 48.0 91
48 USA 8132 Kohlhas Jock Gesing Witold USA 8132 BisB 46.0 [46.0, MAN] 46.0 92
49 USA 45 Valasek Marek Fedyszn Todd USA 45 57.0 37.0 94
50 GER 7865 Lehnert Stefan Struve Dirk GER 7865 Brm 45.0 50.0 95
51 SUI 8329 Wyss Daniel Joss Urs SUI 8329 ZU 42.0 54.0 96
52 NED 8348 Bierman Guus Skinner Duncan NED 8348 LO 46.0 51.0 97
53 USA 7713 Fransen Ben Coleman Ian USA 7713 AN 64.0 [OCS] 34.0 98
54 USA 8217 Phinney Mike Poole Greg USA 8217 WLE 40.0 59.0 99
55 USA 8112 Bainton John Rogers Chris USA 8112 NB 52.0 47.0 99.0001
56 CAN 8024 Fogh Hans Cheer Roger CAN 8024 LOC 36.0 64.0 [DNF] 100
57 USA 7986 Biegel-Vosbury Barbara Zuschnit Michael USA 7986 AN 50.0 52.0 102
58 USA 8323 Doyle Erick Calder Steve USA 8323 NH 64.0 [DNS] 40.0 104
59 CAN 7501 Karahanas Amanda Karahanas Tony CAN 7501 LOC 55.0 49.0 104
60 USA 8083 Chiarella John Carlson Bob USA 8083 Sun 48.0 57.0 105
61 USA 7970 Hopkins Sam Serenis Aaron USA 7970 AN 54.0 56.0 110
62 USA 8245 Zambella Joe Scott Larry USA 8245 BH 55.0 [55.0, MAN] 55.0 110
63 USA 7497 Wilson Kris Quinn Sean USA 7497 AN 56.0 60.0 116