Tabarca Vela de Alicante - Overall
by Ebury Sailing Team 22 Jul 2024 15:48 AEST
The Ebury - Foster Swiss, of the Cartagena ship owner shipowner Javier Sabiote, has won today the 28th Tabarca Vela Alicante in the ORC 2 class, one of the main objectives of the sports project led by the Murcian Julio Bernardeau in this temporada 2024.
And it has done so in a brilliant closing of the 'Tabarca', on a day in which the wind conditions have been slightly better than in the previous two. Two races on the agenda by the race committee in which the AC40rc of Sabiote has been very conservative and without incidents in the first of them, setting the tempo and leading the two upwind and the two downwind in a clear way. A situation that has caused that after obtaining the compensated times he achieved what was to be, for the moment, his fourth partial victory in Alicante.
In the second, with almost the homework done, did not want to risk, although at the start a slight haste in time led to an out of line for the AC40rc, a small handicap that already in windward began to turn it around, thanks to a great job of the whole team that their get speed in that upwind, with tactical decisions and perfect maneuvers, like a Swiss watch precision. That recovery has been noticed in the next three sections that made them add the fifth partial victory in Alicante waters and, with it, conquer the 28th Tabarca Vela Alicante Trophy in ORC 2.
The podium, in this ORC 2 class and accompanying the Ebury El Ebury - Foster Swiss Sailing Team that adds 7.5 points, closes with the Castellón Proalviento Servicios Náuticos (RCN Castellón) that ends its participation with 11.5 points, has a partial triumph, and bronze for the Cadiz Escuela Taboga that gets a total of 15 points.
After the appointments in the RCN of Valencia, as part of the SM La Reina Trophy in early July with a fifth place, and now in the Tabarca Vela Alicante in the RCR of Alicante, with a win, the AC40rc has its sights set on the Copa del Rey Mapfre in the Bay of Palma which starts soon, the first week of August, and to which it arrives with these two good results with the maximum optimism of being able to make a good result in the ORC 2 class, taking into account the boats entered in the Palma event, direct rivals with whom it has already seen the faces both in Valencia and Alicante.
Javier Sabiote, Shipbuilder: "The Tabarca Vela was on our calendar as one of the main objectives of the Ebury Sailing Team. It has been a very complete weekend and a hard-earned victory that gives us a lot of morale for the Copa del Rey.
"I am very happy with the work of the whole team in Alicante, the behavior of the boat after the improvements of these days, thanks to the good work of the shore team, we have competed with humility and with a crew that has given everything, I can only thank them for the effort and the work done".
Julio Bernardeau, Skipper: "We close the second of the three appointments in our sports project and we do it with a very important victory for everyone, it gives us a plus of high energy facing the Copa del Rey, which will not be easy, but we will try, we will look to be on the podium".
"As for this third day, with two races planned, very good in the first one in which we have been conservative, without incidents and commanding from start to finish. In the second we had an off line, we were penalized and we managed to place ourselves, at the first windward passage, close to the leading group after a very good job by the team and the boat, which proved to have a lot of speed. After that it was a matter of recovering, recovering and recovering time, until we achieved a new partial victory and thus won the Tabarca".
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