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2022 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole - Overall

by Robert Deaves 30 Apr 2022 18:54 PDT 28-30 April 2022

GBR 42 Jean Genie (James Howells, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott) have won the Int. 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole on Lake Garda after the two final races on Saturday. SUI 229 Helly Hansen (Kristian Neergard, Trond Soli Sather, Espen Styokkeland), took second with POL 17 Aspire (Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemyslaw Gacek, Simon Fry) in third. The final two races were won by BAH 24 New Moon (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) and Helly Hanson.

After two days of classic Garda breezes, the final day brought a change with very different conditions, cloudy skies and a light shifty gradient wind from the south.

In race 7, New Moon was the leader from the left on the first beat. There was a good battle with SUI 214 Caracole (Bernard Haissly, Nicolas Berthoud, Daniel Stampfli) on the second lap followed by a good recovery from Jean Genie who got through a busy mid pack to take third.

With everything still to play for the event would come down to the final race. It was another tricky and variable race. Helly Hansen backed their strategy and made good gains to the right side of the course. BAH 22 John B (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn Johannessen, Mathias Dalhman) made a strong second lap to take a number of boats, also working the right of the second upwind to finish in second place, with third place going to Caracole.

A fourth place for Jean Genie was enough to take the Alpen Cup from Helly Hansen by just two points, with Aspire some way adrift in third.

James Howells was relieved to get the job done, and commented "Some very difficult tricky races today with 8-12 knots and nip and tuck all the way round the course with lots of place changing on every leg."

With Jean Genie winning, it also marks the third time in a row that the Alpen Cup has been won by a British boat, having being won by Peter Morton in 2019 in GBR 40, and in 2021 in GBR 41, and leads to the prospect of an potential unprecedented three British boats taking part in this summer's world championship in Hankø, Norway.

The International 5.5 Metre Category A series continues next month with the German Open / Robbe & Berking Sterling Cup at Glücksburg on Flensburg Fjord from 16-19 June. This is preceded by the Bronia Preis at the same venue the previous weekend from 4-6 June, providing a great opportunity for a two great events.

Overall Results: (top five, 8 races)

1 GBR 42 Jean Genie (James Howells, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott) 13pts
2 SUI 229 Helly Hansen (Kristian Neergard, Trond Soli Sather, Espen Styokkeland) 15pts
3 POL 17 Aspire (Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemyslaw Gacek, Simon Fry) 24pts
4 BAH 24 New Moon (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) 31pts
5 BAH 23 Ali Baba (Craig Symonette, Flavio Marazzi, Will Alloway) 36pts

Full results available here.

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