Porto Rotondo, Italy. 2nd October 2010. Nerone (ITA), owned by Massimo Mezzaroma and Antonio
Racing was delayed slightly as the fleet waited for the predicted easterly breeze to arrive. At 1 p.m. Race Six of the series started in approximately eight knots of wind from 060°. Struntje Light, with tactician Jes Gram Hansen, chose the right hand side of the course and it paid off as the German boat led from start to finish. Tactician Hamish Pepper took Barking Mad into second place on the first downwind leg and held the position to cross the line ahead of Andrea Canavesio’s Mangusta Risk who, despite an average start, steadily gained ground on each leg to finish third.
Race Seven saw current Rolex Farr 40 World Champion Nerone lead the fleet from the start and build on the lead throughout to commence the final downwind leg over one minute ahead of Charisma (MON), owned by Nico Poons, and Alessandro Barnaba’s Fiamma (ITA). All three crossed the finish line in the same order.
The breeze shifted slightly left for the start of the third and final race of the day and remained at approximately eight to nine knots. Leaders from the off were Barking Mad, Struntje Light and Nerone and they remained undisturbed for the duration.
Antonio Sodo Migliori, co-owner of Nerone also found the condition’s challenging: “It was a difficult day because when you have light wind and unstable conditions it is always very hard to choose a side of the course and also to control your opponents. We believed in the right side of the course and the sirocco that was supposed to come in but didn’t, so sometimes we went right and it didn’t go so well. We managed to recover though and a first, a third and a fifth is not bad.”
Sodo Migliori heads into the final race day in first place but is aware he needs to be consistent tomorrow too: “With two more races and no discard a four point lead is not much, we need to sail well . Here you can take a seventh or an eighth place before you know it.”
Racing is scheduled to conclude tomorrow, Sunday 3rd October with the first signal at 11 a.m. The final prize giving is due to take place at 5.30 p.m.
This event closes the Farr 40 racing season in the Mediterranean and several of the participating boats will now travel from here to Australia to compete on the Farr 40 circuit there in preparation for the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2011 scheduled to be held in Sydney from 23rd to 26th February 2011.
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Provisional results 2nd October 2010 Pos. Boat, (Nation), Owner Overall Score (R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8)
1. Nerone, (ITA), Massimo Mezzaroma, pt. 24 (3-4-2-3-3-5-1-3)
2. Barking Mad, USA, James Richardson, pt. 28 (2-1-4-7-4- 2-7-1)
3. Struntje Light, (GER), Wolfgang Schaefer, pt. 32 (8-5-3-1-7-1 -5-2)
4. Plenty, (USA), Alex Roepers, pt. 32 (1-6-5-4-2-4-4-6)
5. Charisma, (MON), Nico Poons, pt. 39 (6-8-1-2-5-7-2-8)
6. Fiamma, (ITA), Alessandro Barnaba, pt. 42 (5-7-7-9-1-6-3-4)
7. Mangusta Risk, (ITA), Andrea Canavesio, pt. 53 (10-2-9-8-8-3-6-7)
8. Monick, (DEN), David Holm, pt. 54 (4-10-6-6-6 8-9-5)
9. Enfant Terrible, (ITA), Alberto Rossi, pt. 63 (9-3-8-5-9 -raf-8-10)
10. Hooligan VI, (GBR), Edward Broadway, pt. 74 (7-9-10-10-10-9-10-9)
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