Athens, Greece -- As a consequence of the disqualification of Vincenzo de Blasio's Scugnizza by an International Jury convened after receiving an allegation of gross misconduct, a new winner is declared for Class C in the 2016 ORC European Championship regatta organized by the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki and the Offshore Racing Congress.
The Jury decision was that Scugnizza was in breach of rule 69.1(a) and thus disqualified from all races of the championship regatta held in Porto Carras, Greece over 3-10 July 2016. Therefore Aivar Tuulberg's Arcona 34 Katariina II from Estonia has been elevated from runner-up to being the new 2016 ORC Class C European champion. Another Estonian entry, Ott Kikkas's Italia 9.98 Sugar is the new Silver medalist and Baxevanis Athanasios's X-35 OD Baximus from Greece is the new Bronze medalist.
"This decision was difficult and long in coming, as it involved complex issues related to sailing trim, yet we applaud the Jury for upholding the integrity and principles of both our rules and the rules of the sport," said Bruno Finzi, Chairman of ORC.
Another perfect day of Aegean sailing and two inshore races confirms the series leaders as new 2016 European ORC champions
Porto Carras, Greece – Showing great consistency in five days and nine races competing in both inshore and offshore formats, two teams from Italy have emerged as the new 2016 ORC European champions.
After a slow start in the series with a 7th place earned in the first offshore race, Giampiero Vagliano’s modified Arya 415 Duvetica Grey Groose then came on strong to take and hold the series lead by winning only one race but never getting worse than sixth in any other. Their competition was strong among 37 teams from 12 countries, with several teams in the top ranks always keeping the pressure on these new champions.
"We sweated until the end," says Daniele Augusti, skipper of Duvetica Grey Goose. "It was a tough battle, especially against Meliti and Morgan who were great adversaries. For us in particular this result, which comes after victories in three Italian championships, is the best revenge after an all-winter controversy for the crew and for the boat. The sailing on the water was very interesting: on the race courses there were winds between 8 and 15 knots, with no waves and a warm sun, but the wind directions were not at all obvious and so the races were different from each other, forcing us to work a lot on tactics."
Besides Augusti and Vagliano, the Duvetica team included Alessandro Marega, Andrea Straniero, Ciro Di Piazza, Jacopo Ciampalini, Manuel Polo, Matteo Stroppolo, Michele Paoletti, Paolo Pinelli, and Samuele Nicolettis.
Winning the Silver medals in Class A/B were the crew of George Andreadis’s GS 42R Meliti IV-Musto from Greece, who like the Gold medalists managed to stay consistent through the week with no counted score worse than sixth. And winning Bronze medals were another team from Italy, Claudio Terrieri’s GS 43 BC Blue Sky.
In the first few days of competition, the leaderboard in Class C was starting to look stratified among three teams unable to move against each other in the scores, and the leader looking unassailable on five consecutive race victories. But in Friday’s Race 6 the game changed, with the runner-up moving into up to win that race, and then also yesterday’s offshore race as well. With both teams having low scores to discard, the race was now tightening into a possible final day showdown.
Vincenzo de Blasio’s NM 38S Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine dominated the series early on, but late challenges from Aivar Tuulberg’s Arcona 340 Katariina II from Estonia and Ott Kikkas’s Italia 9.98 Sugar also from Estonia closed the gap today to be a final day’s fight for the crown. Sugar’s victory in the first race today set up a scenario where the 2012 and 2013 World Champion could lose the European crown that seemed destined for them earlier in the week. Sugar and Katarina both sailed hard in the final race – so hard the two shared a victory in corrected time – but Scugnizza’s third in the race was good enough to claim victory by a mere 0.5 point.
De Blasio added this result to an impressive prize list that besides the Worlds titles also included UVAI Owner of the Year in 2011 and 2013, the overall Italian champion in 2012 and now the European Champion for 2016. "This was a very hard championship with very strong and hard-line opponents in every sense,” said De Blasio. “We suffered a penalty that has compromised us in all the latest results and a rating protest that also pushed us, but we are not easily intimidated and with a knife between our teeth we have fought and become the European Champions by winning the only title that was missing in our prize list."
De Blasio’s crew included Lars Borgstrom, Luigi Castria, Federico Colaninno, Ferdinando Colaninno, Umberto Coppola, Michele de Giovanni, Alberto Grippo, Carlo Alberto Malagoli, and Paolo Scutellaro.
Silver medals go to Tuulberg’s Katariina II and Bronze medals to Sugar. Tuulberg will be headed north to Copenhagen at week’s end to start the ORC World Championship in Tuulberg’s other Katariina, a 37-foot custom Cossutti design.
Corinthian division winners include the 13th-placed finisher in Class A/B, Stergios Leontardis’s IMX 40 Ellinixx-Musto from Greece, and the 5th-placed finisher in Class C, Fabio Bignolini’s modified Dufour 34 Northern Light from Italy.
“We are very happy the outcome of this championship in every sense,” said regatta organizer Akis Tsalikis from the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki. “We had nine competitive races, a good variety of weather to test all the teams, and our winners are deserving champions. We thank our club members and all their hard work to make the event a success, the race committee, International Jury and measurers for all their hard work, our hosts here at the beautiful Porto Carras Resort, our sponsors and most of all the participants who came from throughout Europe, the Middle East and as far as the USA to compete. Thanks to all.”
Top five final results after nine races:
Class A/B
1. Duvetica Grey Goose (ITA) Arya 415 mod Giampiero Vagliano
2. Meliti IV-Musto (GRE) GS 42R George Andreadis
3. Blue Sky (ITA) GS 43 BC Claudio Terrieri
4. Bullet-Encode (GRE) TP 52 Sinouris Nikolaos
5. My Way (GRE) Rodman 42 Faedon Kydoniatis
Class C
1. Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine (ITA)NM 38S Vincenzo de Blasio
2. Katariina II (EST) Arcona 340 Aivar Tuulberg
3. Sugar (EST) Italia 9.98 Ott Kikkas
4. Baximus (GRE) X-35 OD Thanasis Baxevanis
5. Northern Light (ITA) Dufour 34 mod Fabio Bignolini
Το βράδυ της Κυριακής με τις απονομές στους νικητές, πέφτει η αυλαία του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος Ιστιοπλοΐας Ανοιχτής Θαλάσσης που διοργανώνει o Ναυτικός Ομιλος Θεσσαλονίκης, στο μαγευτικό Porto Carras Grand Resort.
Με τις ιστιοδρομίες της Κυριακής να απομένουν για να ολοκληρωθεί αγωνιστικά η διοργάνωση, η κορυφή φαίνεται ότι θα έχει τα χρώματα της Ιταλίας, όπως φάνηκε και από την Offshore ιστιοδρομία που έγινε το Σάββατο, κάτω από υπέροχες καιρικές συνθήκες που βοήθησαν στο να γίνει σπουδαίος αγώνας!
Στην κατηγορία AB το ιταλικό DUVETICA GREY GOOSE νίκησε στην 7η ιστιοδρομία και παραμένει στην κορυφή!
Στις υπόλοιπες θέσεις ακολουθούν το MELITI IV-MUSTO του Γιώργου Ανδρεάδη, το MORGAN IV που ανέβηκε ξανά στην πεντάδα, το MY WAY το Φαίδωνα Κυδωνιάτη και το BLUE SKY (Ιταλία). Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι με την συμπλήρωση των επτά ιστιοδρομιών, όλα τα σκάφη είχαν το δικαίωμα να «πετάξουν» την πιο κακή τους κούρσα και να κρατήσουν όλες τις άλλες.
Σταθερή η κατάσταση και στην κατηγορία C όπου δύσκολα θα χάσει την πρωτιά το ιταλικό SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine, παρά το γεγονός ότι στην κούρσα του Σαββάτου ήταν δεύτερο πίσω από το εσθονικό KATARIINA II. Εντυπωσιακό ήταν το OXYGONON με κυβερνήτη τον Ακη Τσαλίκη που πήρε την τέταρτη θέση στην 7η ιστιοδρομία και έτσι ανέβηκε στην 5η θέση της γενικής κατάταξης, ξεπερνώντας το NORTHERN LIGHT-Samer & Co Shipping.
Ετσι, με την ολοκλήρωση της 4ης ημέρας του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος ORC και μετά από επτά ιστιοδρομίες, η κατάταξη στις δύο κατηγορίες είναι:
Class AB
1. DUVETICA GREY GOOSE (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Vagliano Giampiero
2. MELITI IV-MUSTO (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Γιώργο Ανδρεάδη
3. MORGAN IV (Iταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Nicola de Gemmis
4. MY WAY (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Φαίδωνα Κυδωνιάτη
5. BLUE SKY (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Claudio Terrieri
Class C
1. SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine (Iταλία ) με κυβερνήτη τον Vincenzo de Blasio
2. KATARIINA II (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Aivar Tuulberg
3. SUGAR (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Ott Kikkas
4. ΒΑΧIMUS (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Θανάση Μπαξεβάνη
5. ΟΧΥGONON (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη τον Ακη Τσαλίκη
Την Κυριακή στις 21.00 θα γίνει η απονομή των επάθλων στο Porto Carras Grand Resort.
ΑποτελέσματαAnother beautiful Aegean day of sailing, with a second offshore race now allowing a discard in the scores to tighten up the standings going into the final day of racing tomorrow
Porto Carras, Greece – A brief delay in the scheduled start to today’s second offshore race for wind, the wait was worth it as the weak seabreeze built to a fitful but sailable 7-10 knots in the fourth day of racing at the 2016 ORC European Championship. Class A/B raced on a roughly 26-mile windward-leeward course just west of Porto Carras, while Class C did the same on a 23-mile course.
The light conditions seemed acceptable to the series leaders in both Class A/B and Class C who continue to dominate the results. Using time-on-time scoring for the Offshore course model, it was the series leader Duvetica Grey Goose from Italy, Giampiero Vagliano’s modified Arya 415, that finally scored their first race win by a convincing 3 minutes over runner-up Extreme Ways, Andrew Holdsworth’s XP-38 from the USA. And in third George Andreadis’s GS 42R Meliti IV-Musto from Greece helps solidify her overall runner-up position in the standings.
Now that a discard is applicable, it's the final podium position that will become the real battleground tomorrow. The drop of a BFD in Race 2 has vaulted Nicola de Gemmis’s GS 39 Morgan IV from Italy into third place, but only three points ahead of a three-way tie between Faedon Kydoniatis’s Greek national champion team on his Rodman 42 My Way, Claudio Terrieri’s GS 43 BC Blue Sky from Italy, and Extreme Ways. A penalty from the Jury regarding an equipment infraction on Morgan , however, may complicate the points even further... at press time we are not certain of this outcome.
And in Class C the discards did not affect the list of Italian and Estonian contenders at the top of both the race results and the leaderboard, with Aivar Tuulberg’s Arcona 340 from Estonia taking another class win from the dominant series leader Scugnizza, Vincenzo de Blasio’s NM 38S from Italy. The pressure is on, however, as a complex measurement check is underway on Scugnizza tonight that will keep the measurers busy. At question is the difference in measurement trim between the boat’s 2015 and 2016 certificates. Only the morning will reveal the outcome of this process.
Among the Corinthian division contenders, Class A/B’s Giannis Sykaris’s ILC 40 Bana Bioletta 3 has in 9th place today kept him safe to remain in the lead, while in Class C Akis Tsalikis’s X-35 Oxygonon’s 4th place today has moved them into the lead, but by only 2.5 points. So the battle will be on tomorrow too for the Corinthian prizes as well.
More breeze is forecast tomorrow, and with two races possible, there’s no easy prediction of the podium finishers just yet – the racing tomorrow will tell all.
Top five standings after seven races:
Class A/B
1. Duvetica Grey Goose (ITA) Arya 415 mod Giampiero Vagliano
2. Meliti IV-Musto (GRE) GS 42R George Andreadis
3. Morgan IV (ITA) GS 39 Nicola de Gemmis
4. My Way (GRE) Rodman 42 Faedon Kydoniatis
5. Extreme Ways (USA) XP-38 Andrew Holdsworth
Class C
1. Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine (ITA)NM 38S Vincenzo de Blasio
2. Katarina II (EST) Arcona 340 Aivar Tuulberg
3. Sugar (EST) Italia 9.98 Ott Kikkas
4. Baximus (GRE) X-35 OD Thanasis Baxevanis
5. Oxygonon (GRE) X-35 OD Akis Tsalikis
Clear skies and gentle 7-11 knot seabreeze conditions allow for three close races in each class
Porto Carras, Greece – Yesterday’s cold front cleared the skies for a perfect Aegean day of racing, the third of five at the 2016 ORC European Championship, organized by the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki. What looked like a seabreeze filled fast at 11-12 knots just after the start at 1300, but then backed down in pressure to 7-9 knots for the end of this race, endured at this speed for most of the second race, and then filled again with some pressure for the last race.
And with the addition of another three races to the scorecards in Class A/B and Class C, the fleet is just one race away from having the seven needed under ORC rules to get a discard applied to each score. This will tighten the standings in each class, especially in Class A/B, where a clear leader is emerging but the rest of the pack is close by ready to take their place at the top.
It was in this competitive class that yet another Black Flag was needed to control the start of the first race after a general recall, catching Manuel Costantin’s First 40 Canevel Spumanti in the net to add 38 points in a BFD to their otherwise promising scoreline. This Italian team had further misfortune when at a crowded layline at the top of the first beat in the second race they were hit by another team from Italy, yesterday’s series co-leader Blue Sky, Claudio Terrieri’s Grand Soleil 43BC. There was no significant damage in the contact, Terrieri and team managed to limp away to do their two-turns penalty, but their double-digit scores in this race reflect the distraction caused by the incident.
The latest team to earn a race win in this class and advance up the standings to 4th is a 38-foot cruiser/racer who found themselves today among the larger race boats. Andrew Holdsworth’s Extreme Ways has USA on the sails, but has never actually been there since delivery was taken of this XP-38 in Denmark two years ago just prior to the ORC World Championship in Kiel that year. Ever since then Holdsworth has been working hard towards achieving the goal of winning this event, having also raced in last year’s Worlds in Barcelona and the Trofeo de Godo this year and last as well.
“Today’s last race was as perfect a sailboat race I have ever done,” he said, while headed to Porto Carras’s Kohi Beach after racing. “We are one of the smaller boats in this class, and getting clear air is really difficult. This last race we had a lane open up, got lifted on port tack in the shift, and made big gains. The crew work, trimming and tacking was perfect, and we were fast off the wind as well. Everything really came together, it was great.”
When asked his views on how well the ratings were working in this large combined class, he said “I think scientifically the system works really well, the problems are just in the course management with boats of so many varied sizes. When there is clear air available, the racing can be extremely close, like we saw today.”
In the Class A/B standings, the series is being led now by Giampiero Vagliano’s modified Arya 414 Duvetica Grey Goose, followed by George Andreadis’s Meliti IV-Musto and Faedon Kydoniatis’s Rodman 42 My Way only a few points back in second and third, respectively.
In Class C Vincenzo de Blasio’s NM38S Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine continues to dominate this class, but her winning streak fell short in the day’s last race when Aivar Tuulberg’s Arcona 340 Katarina II earned her first win of the series. Tactician Lorenzo Bodini, a multiple World Champion in ORC and other classes, said they sailed this race in a way he normally does not like but felt was necessary to defeat Scugnizza.
“Normally I like a conservative approach to sail the shifts and make gains in small steps. But I know that to beat this boat you need more than that, so I committed us to the pin end at the start, ready to get the pressure and shift I thought might be on the left side of the course. We found it and made big gains, and rather than go back to the middle we stayed on that side to gain as much as we could. This was enough to put on them the time we needed.”
In the Corinthian division, Giannis Sykaris’s ILC 40 Bana Bioletta 3 has taken the lead in Class A/B by six points, while Fabio Bignolini’s modified Dufour 34 Northern Light Sailing Team has taken the lead from Akis Tsalikis’s X-35 Oxygonon by only two points.
As event chairman, however, Tsalikis is not displeased with the progress and success of the event thusfar. “We have now enough races to have a valid championship, so that’s a relief. But more than that the racing has been good, its been fair, and the organization has been superb in race management, scoring and measurement controls. Everyone seems really happy to have come to Porto Carras to this event.”
Tomorrow racing resumes an hour earlier at 1200 with another offshore race scheduled, with the course to be announced in the morning.
Top five standings after six races:
Class AB
1. Duvetica Grey Goose (ITA) Arya 415 mod Giampiero Vagliano
2. Meliti IV-Musto (GRE) GS 42R George Andreadis
3. My Way (GRE) Rodman 42 Faedon Kydoniatis
4. Extreme Ways (USA) XP-38 Andrew Holdsworth
5. Blue Sky (ITA) GS 43 BC Claudio Terrieri
Class C
1. Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine (ITA)NM 38S Vincenzo de Blasio
2. Katarina II (EST) Arcona 340 Aivar Tuulberg
3. Sugar (EST) Italia 9.98 Ott Kikkas
4. Baximus (GRE) X-35 OD Thanasis Baxevanis
5. Northern Light Sailing Team (ITA) Dufour 34 Fabio Bignolini
Kάτω εξαιρετικές συνθήκες διεξήχθη η τρίτη ημέρα του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος Ιστιοπλοΐας Ανοιχτής Θαλάσσης που διοργανώνει o Ναυτικός Ομιλος Θεσσαλονίκης, στο Porto Carras Grand Resort, με τα ιταλικά πληρώματα να παραμένουν στην κορυφή δείχνοντας ότι είναι τα φαβορί για τη νίκη.
Σήμερα έγιναν τρεις ιστιοδρομίες Offshore κοντά στην ακτή, με έντονο ανταγωνισμό και με νότιο άνεμο που ξεκίνησε το μεσημέρι από τα 12 μίλια και κρατήθηκε σταθερός ως τα 7 και 8 με την πάροδο της ημέρας, ικανοποιώντας απολύτως τους περίπου 700 ιστιοπλόους που ευχαριστήθηκαν στο μέγιστο τους αγώνες.
Στην κατηγορία AB το ιταλικό DUVETICA GREY GOOSE μπορεί να μην νίκησε σε καμία από τις τρεις κούρσες, αλλά έχοντας πλασαρίσματα συνεχώς κοντά στην κορυφή παραμένει πρώτο, ακολουθώντας τη σωστή τακτική του Michele Paoletti που έχει πάρει μέρος σε Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες στα Finn. Η αλλαγή έγινε στην δεύτερη θέση όπου το MELITI IV-MUSTO του Γιώργου Ανδρεάδη με εξαιρετικές εμφανίσεις, ξεπέρασε το BLUE SKY και το MY WAY που είχε μπροστά του με την ολοκλήρωση της 2ης ημέρας, με το MY WAY να είναι τρίτο. Πρωταγωνιστής στην 3η ημέρα ήταν το BULLET-Encode με κυβερνήτες του Δεληγιάννη και Καμπουρίδη, το οποίο με μία πρώτη και μία δεύτερη θέση στις τρεις ιστιοδρομίες, ανέβηκε κι άλλο αφήνοντας πίσω το ατύχημα της πρώτης ημέρας, όπου είχε ως αποτέλεσμα να μηδενιστεί!
Στην κατηγορία C αμετάβλητη παρέμεινε η κατάσταση στην κορυφή και ασυναγώνιστο εμφανίζεται το ιταλικό SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine με πέντε πρώτες θέσεις στις έξι ιστιοδρομίες που έχουν γίνει ως τώρα. Ακολουθούν από κοντά, τα δύο σκάφη από την Εσθονία που περιμένουν λάθος από τους Ιταλούς στις δύο ημέρες του Ευρωπαϊκού ORC που απομένουν. Πολύ καλά τα πηγαίνει και ο Θανάσης Μπαξεβάνης με το BAXIMUS που είναι στην τέταρτη θέση.
Με την ολοκλήρωση της 3ης ημέρας του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος ORC και μετά από τρεις ιστιοδρομίες, η κατάταξη στις δύο κατηγορίες είναι:
Class AB
1. DUVETICA GREY GOOSE (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Vagliano Giampiero
2. MELITI IV-MUSTO (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Γιώργο Ανδρεάδη
3. MY WAY (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Φαίδωνα Κυδωνιάτη
4. EXTREME WAYS (Η.Π.Α.) με κυβερνήτη τον Andrew Holdsworth
5. BLUE SKY (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Claudio Terrieri
Class C
1. SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine (Iταλία ) με κυβερνήτη τον Vincenzo de Blasio
2. KATARIINA II (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Aivar Tuulberg
3. SUGAR (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Ott Kikkas
4. ΒΑΧΕMUS (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Θανάση Μπαξεβάνη
5. NORTHERN LIGHT-Samer & Co Shipping (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Fabio Bignolini
Για το Σάββατο 9 Ιουλίου είναι προγραμματισμένος αγώνας ανοικτής θαλάσσης με ώρα εκκίνησης 12:00.
Αποτελέσματα
Για δεύτερη ημέρα συνεχίστηκε το Ευρωπαϊκό Πρωτάθλημα Ιστιοπλοΐας Ανοιχτής Θαλάσσης που διοργανώνει o Ναυτικός Ομιλος Θεσσαλονίκης, στο Porto Carras Grand Resort, με τα ιταλικά πληρώματα να κυριαρχούν!
Σήμερα έγιναν δύο αγώνες Offshore κοντά στην ακτή, προσφέροντας όμορφο θέαμα στους φιλάθλους που μπόρεσαν να απολαύσουν τους αγώνες.
Στην κατηγορία AB το ιταλικό DUVETICA GREY GOOSE κρατήθηκε ψηλά στις δύο σημερινές ιστιοδρομίες και πέρασε το ελληνικό MY WAY που έχασε αρκετό έδαφος στην τελευταία ιστιοδρομία με αποτέλεσμα να πέσει από την πρώτη θέση στην τρίτη της γενικής κατάταξης. Δεύτερο είναι το επίσης ιταλικό BLUE SKY.
Aντιθέτως στην κατηγορία C δεν υπήρχε καμία μεταβολή με το ιταλικό SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine να προηγείται και να ακολουθούν τα δύο σκάφη από την Εσθονία. Πολύ καλά τα πήγε ο Θανάσης Μπαξεβάνης με το BAXIMUS που είναι στην τέταρτη θέση και φαίνεται να είναι το μοναδικό πλήρωμα που μπορεί να απειλήσει την πρώτη τριάδα.
Με την ολοκλήρωση της 2ης ημέρας του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος ORC και μετά από τρεις ιστιοδρομίες, η κατάταξη στις δύο κατηγορίες είναι:
Class AB
1. DUVETICA GREY GOOSE (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Vagliano Giampiero
3. BLUE SKY (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Claudio Terrieri
2. MY WAY (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Φαίδωνα Κυδωνιάτη
Class C
1. SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine (Iταλία ) με κυβερνήτη τον Vincenzo de Blasio
2. KATARIINA II (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Aivar Tuulberg
3. SUGAR (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Ott Kikkas
Τα σημερινά αποτελέσματα στις δύο ιστιοδρομίες που έγιναν ανά κατηγορία ήταν:
Class AB – 2η Ιστιοδρομία
1. MY WAY (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη τον Φαίδων Κυδωνιάτη
2. DUVETICA GREY GOOSE (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Vagliano Giampiero
3. MELITI IV-MUSTO (Eλλάδα) με κυβερνήτη τον Γιώργο Ανδρεάδη
Class AB – 3η Ιστιοδρομία
1. MORGAN IV (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη το Nicola de Gemmis
2. BULLET-Encode (Ελλάδα), με κυβερνήτες του Δημήτρη Δεληγιάννη και Σίμο Καμπουρίδη
3. DUVETICA GREY GOOSE (Ιταλία) με κυβερνήτη τον Vagliano Giampiero
Class C - 2η Ιστιοδρομία
1. SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine (Iταλία ) με κυβερνήτη τον Vincenzo de Blasio
2. KATARIINA II (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Aivar Tuulberg
3. SUGAR (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Ott Kikkas
Class C - 3η Ιστιοδρομία
1. SCUGNIZZA-Total Lubmarine (Iταλία ) με κυβερνήτη τον Vincenzo de Blasio
2. KATARIINA II (Εσθονία) με κυβερνήτη τον Aivar Tuulberg
3. BAXIMUS (Ελλάδα) με κυβερνήτη το Θανάση Μπαξεβάνη
Για την Παρασκευή 8 Ιουλίου είναι προγραμματισμένοι αγώνες Inshore.
ΑποτελέσματαTwo inshore races held today in conditions ranging from light to breeze-on
Porto Carras, Greece – After two hard-fought windward-leeward races today, there are two teams from the Italian Adriatic coast tied at the top of the leaderboard in Class AB at the 2016 ORC European Championship, organized by the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki. In close racing held in winds ranging from as low as 7 to as much as 17 knots, these two leaders have achieved their results by only the thinnest of margins in corrected time in both races.
And not only is their cumulative score only two points ahead of two other teams capable of grabbing the lead away at any time, there is one team whose unfortunate BFD in today’s first race marred an otherwise impressive scoreline that will shed 38 points off her score once the series gets to five races, probably tomorrow.
Venice-based Giampiero Vagliano’s modified Arya 414 Duvetica Grey Goose did not do that well in yesterday’s offshore race, placing 7th, but today came into their own with impressive 2nd and 3rd place scores earned around the buoys. To earn their tying score of 12 points, Claudio Terrieri’s Grand Soleil 43BC Blue Sky from down the coast in Ravenna was consistent: a 4th place earned in each race.
Tactically guiding Vagliano around the race courses today is Finn class Olympian Michele Paoletti, while Olympic coach and past ORC champion Gabrielle Bruni is doing the same for Terrieri and the Blue Sky team. And yet another Italian Olympic talent – Paolo Montefusco – has tactically helped guide Nicola de Gemmis’s team on his GS 39 Morgan IV to achieve impressive 2-1 results in two races, spoiled by an additional Black Flag Disqualification by being over the start line in today’s first race.
This Black Flag start was a necessary measure used by race managers after a messy General Recall in the first race, where the 11-knot, flat-water conditions kept everyone aggressive and close to the line in the class of 37 boats. In all, four boats were caught in the net. Once off the start line and with at first a dying breeze that shifted and built back to its original strength, the racing remained close in corrected time, with yesterday’s offshore race winner My Way winning another to look strong on scores of 1-1 after two races.
With a building breeze that developed under a cloud northwest of the course area, the fleet got off to a fast start in Race 3, made faster as the pressure built even more from about 12 knots into mid-teens. Those that could shift their gears quickly up range did well, while others struggled. The right shift that accompanied the pressure build also rewarded those on that side of the course on the beat and who could execute a clean gybe set at the top mark. Morgan did this best to win this race, but by a paltry 22 seconds over the TP 52 Bullet-Encode after an hour of sailing, who in turn was only 10 seconds ahead of Duvetica.
“Yesterday’s 7th place in the offshore race was not so good, but it could have been worse,” said Paoletti. “Today the team performed really well, even though with the scoring system its sometimes hard to know exactly where you are placed because the racing is so close. Tomorrow we don’t know what to expect, but we are taking this regatta day-by-day.”
In Class C there is a royal class developing at the top among Italian and Estonian-Italian teams, whose results are stratified with nearly identical scores matching their place in the standings. Yesterday’s offshore race winner Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine, Vincenzo de Blasio’s NM38S, put her newly modified keel to good work today by winning both races by margins of over a minute in corrected time. Scugnizza strategist Fernando Colaninno is yet another former Olympic talent helping get this team around the track.
The runner-up in both inshore races today and in the offshore race yesterday was Katarina II, Aivar Tuulberg’s Arcona 340 sailed by a hybrid Estonian-Italian team, and lying in third place is Ott Kikkas’s Italia 9.98 Sugar, with another Estonian-Italian team on board.
Also on board Sugar is the Italia 9.98 designer Matteo Polli, who predicted this morning that “Defeating Scugnizza will be really hard this week, they have a good boat and a good team. But we will do our best, we have the same abilities and just need to work really hard.”
Leading the Corinthian division in Class AB is Stergios Leontaridis’s IMX 40 Ellinixx-Musto on scores of 16-9-17, and in Class C is Giorgos Drakopoulos’s Bavaria 35 Match Blue Line-Free Motion on scores of 9-6-5.
Tomorrow inshore racing resumes, with the first start scheduled for 1300 local time.
Standings after three races:
Class AB
1. Duvetica Grey Goose (ITA) Arya 415 mod Giampiero Vagliano
2. Blue Sky (ITA) GS 43 BC Claudio Terrieri
3. My Way (GRE) Rodman 42 Faedon Kydoniatis
4. Meliti IV-Musto (GRE) GS 42R George Andreadis
5. Canevel Spumanti (ITA) First 40 Manuel Constantin
Class C
1. Scugnizza-Total Lubmarine (ITA)NM 38S Vincenzo de Blasio
2. Katarina II (EST) Arcona 340 Aivar Tuulberg
3. Sugar (EST) Italia 9.98 Ott Kikkas
4. Baximus (GRE) X-35 OD Thanasis Baxevanis
5. Blue Line-Free Motion Bavaria 35 Match Giorgos Drakopoulos
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| My Way winning the offshore Race 1 in Class AB - photo Nikos Pantis |
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| Sugar managed to punch out free of a crowded start of Class C - photo Andrea Carloni | |
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| The race featured scenic sailing along the Sithonia peninsula - photo Andrea Carloni | |
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| Akis Tsalikis focuses off the start on the helm of Oxygonon - photo Nikos Pantis |
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| Class AB needed three tries before getting a clean start - photo Andrea Carloni | |
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| Bullet-Encode led their class around the course, but ran aground just short of the finish - photo Andrea Carloni |
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| Extreme Ways from the USA scores third - photo Nikos Pantis | |
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record turnout of 73 teams from 12 countries are here at the Porto
Carras Marina, ready to start the first of five days racing tomorrow
in the 2016 ORC European Championship. This event, organized by the
Nautical Club of Thessaloniki and the Offshore Racing Congress
(ORC), will feature two days of offshore racing and three days of
inshore racing on the picturesque waters of the Aegean south of
Sithonia.Among these teams are several past champions from Greece and throughout Europe, including the 2009 Class A World Champion Meliti IV-Musto, a Grand Soleil 42R owned by Greece’s George Andreadis, and the 2013 Class B World Champion Scugnizza, Vincenzo de Blasio’s NM38S from Italy. Crew lists here abound with America’s Cup, Olympic, and other high-level sailing talent, as well as over 30 teams vying for trophies in the Corinthian Divisions of Class AB and Class C. Today in the 7-9 knots of wind offered in the day’s Practice Race, this cream rose to the top of the results in a short windward-leeward race held for each class in two course areas just west of the marina, within site of the beachgoers lounging at the Porto Carras Resort. In Class AB, Meliti-IV showed they had lost none of their edge from competing years ago, winning the class by nearly two minutes in corrected time. Among the crew are numerous America’s Cup and Volvo Race veterans, such as Kelvin Harrap and Dave Scott, with noted match racing talent Stratis Andreadis also on board. Runner-up in this race was Andrew Holdsworth, who coming from San Francisco is the farthest-travelled skipper in the fleet, and who did well with a podium finish in Barcelona a few weeks ago at the Trofeo de Godo on his XP-38 Extreme Ways. Holdsworth’s international crew from the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Australia is led by tactician Inaki Castaner of Spain. “The light and flat water suits us on this boat,” said Holdsworth, “as long as we just keep moving and don’t stop.” In Class C there were favorites to win at the top of the results as well, led by another highly international team on Aivar Tuulberg’s Arcona 340 Katarina II from Estonia. Past Olympian Lorenzo Bodini from Italy is tactically leading Katarina this week, and the same team is planning to go to Copenhagen to compete again in two weeks on Tuulberg’s other Katarina, a custom Cossutti design. Runner-up in the Class C practice race by about 1 minute in corrected time in the 1 hour race was another Estonian-Italian favorite, Ott Kikkas’s brand new Italia 9.98 Sugar. Helmed by the new ORC Sportboat European champion Enrico Zennaro, this team also features on board the boat’s designer, Matteo Polli also from Italy. A sistership to Sugar – Low Noise II – is the reigning Class C World Champion having won last year at the 2015 ORC World Championship in Barcelona. Tomorrow morning race managers will make a selection among several race course options for the first race of the series, which is planned to start at 1100. Due to the strong thermal component of the wind, the courses will be set to try and finish boats in the early evening before the thermal dies out. |
GRIB files for Toronaios Gulf area are available here.
These files include hourly 96-hour forecasts, courtesy of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, prepared especially for the North Aegean Cup and ORC European Chamionship 2016.
North Aegean Cup is the major regatta organized every year by the Nautical Club Thessaloniki in Porto Carras Grand Resort . This year North Aegean Cup will take place from June 30 until July 3, forming the test event for the ORC European Championship.
We invite teams to enter North Aegean Cup and have the opportunity to get acquainted with the race field beforehand, do some real training and get adapted with the wind conditions, perform measurement checks, and -why not- win a prize!
The Notice of Race has been published in North Aegean Cup website.
Porto Carras Grand Resort offers the following accommodation options, exclusively during the ORC European Championship 2016:
The Nautical Club of Thessaloniki announces the ORC European Championship 2016 from July 3th to July 10th 2016.
Races will be held in the Toroneos Gulf and the North Aegean Sea. The start of the competition and the skippers’ meeting will be held at Porto Carras in Halkidiki, which is also the headquarters of the event. Participating boats will be moored in the marina of Porto Carras.
Porto Carras Grand Resort is located in Sithonia peninsula, one and a half hour drive from Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece, featuring an international airport and commercial port. Thessaloniki airport is connected with all major European airports with direct flights or via Athens internationail airport. Porto Carras is set alongside sandy beaches and coves, giving teams the opportunity to enjoy world class racing in a luxury holiday resort.
Marking the first time the Championship is being held in Greece, Akis Tsalikis, Chairman of the Hellenic Offshore Committee and N.C. Thessaloniki Commodore, commented, "Porto Carras is a fantastic resort marina complex, and has a proven track record of experience hosting numerous other regattas and events. The perfect weather conditions, excellent facilities, and close proximity to Thessaloniki make this an ideal location to host a major championship regatta.”
The race area is characterized by the thermal breeze appearing every summer day early at noon, the wind varying from 8 up to 16 knots, gradually diminishing after sunset. These mild but steady conditions are ideal for inshore, as well as daylight offshore racing.
Racing will feature a mix of round the cans windward/leeward courses and offshore races, to fully test the teams’ skills on the waters of Toroneos Gulf. The challenge of close windward/leeward racing is likely to keep the fleet in close boat on boat battles, compared to the complexity of offshore racing. Interpreting the changing conditions and delivering consistency will reward with Championship success.
Social activities for the 2016 ORC European Championship will take place at the race village at Porto Carras Grand Resort, with renowned Greek hospitality throughout the week. A wide range of accommodation choices are available within Porto Carras, which is northern Greece’s largest marina. A huge variety of shoreside entertainment can also be enjoyed including thalassotherapy, spa, numerous restaurants, beach bars, golf together with equipment repair and support services – all set in a stunning luxury waterfront location.