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Giraglia Rolex Cup 2008
Société Nautiqe de Saint-Tropez France
Yacht Club Italiano Genova Italy
June 8 - 14, 2008.

Tartaruga wins the Giraglia Race by
57 seconds

by the Giraglia Rolex Cup Media Team

Photos By Kurt Arrigo and Daniel Forster for Rolex.
Edited by Peter Andrews.

June 13, 2008.

Marco Paolucci's Comet 45S, Tartaruga, has taken overall honours in the Giraglia Race 2008, concluding this year's week-long Giraglia Rolex Cup. The 45-footer completed the 243-mile course in 31 hours, 43 minutes, 27 seconds.

Tartaruga won a very close three-way battle on ORC corrected time, beating a Canard 41, Aurora, by just 57 seconds, and third-placed First 44.7 Argo by 2 minutes 13 seconds.

Marco Paolucci's Tartaruga sails past Giraglia Rock.

Photo © ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi.

Tartaruga wins the title of overall honour due to the fact that more boats were entered in the 88-strong ORC division than the 82 registered in IRC. In the IRC fleet Fissa, an A-40 RC entered by Ettore Yachting, took first place by more than 50 minutes on corrected time ahead of Vinicio Petracchi's Cookson 12M, High Five.

Marco Paolucci's Tartaruga sails past the Giraglia Rock Lighthouse.

Photo © ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi.

Earlier in the week the fleet had competed in three days of inshore racing in the Gulf of St Tropez. With the inshore and offshore results combined, Enrico Scerni's Swan 42 Kora 4 emerged as overall winner of the Giraglia Rolex Cup.

Radvojevic Vojislav's Alligator sailing past Giraglia Rock.

Photo © ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi.

Good wind on the final approaches to Genoa benefited the medium-sized boats this year, relegating the Maxis to the minor placings on handicap. However yesterday the 100-footer Alfa Romeo did at least take line honours and knocked more than four hours off the course record, which skipper Neville Crichton had set five years earlier with his previous Alfa Romeo, a 90-footer.

Igor Simcic's Esimit Europa sailing towards Giraglia Rock.

Photo © ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo.

Tomorrow the prize giving for the Giraglia Rolex Cup takes place at the Yacht Club Italiano, where the major prize winners will be awarded with Rolex timepieces.

Paolo Bonomo's Aurora during the 2008 Giraglia Rolex Cup.

Photo© ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo .

This is the 56th edition of the Giraglia Race, a 243-mile marathon starting from St Tropez via the Giraglia Rock at the northern tip of Corsica to the finish in the Italian port of Genoa.

Enrico Scerni's Kora 4 leaves its mark in a calm Med.

Photo © ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo.

Enrico Scerni's Kora 4 leaves its mark in the Med.

Giraglia Race - Overall Results

Winner Line Honours and new Course Record - Alfa Romeo (Neville Crichton)
Elapsed Time: 18 hours 3 minutes 15 seconds.

Guido Burattini's Lunatica Gatorade.

Photo © ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi.

Overall Results of 243-mile Giraglia Race (ORC corrected time)

1. Tartaruga - Marco Paolucci (ITA) - Comet 45s - 23:40:15
2. Aurora - Bonomo-Berruto (ITA) - Canard 41 - 23:41:12
3. Argo - Luciano Manfredi (ITA) - First 44.7 - 23:42:28

Overall Results of 243-mile Giraglia Race (IRC corrected time)

1. Fissa - Ettore Yachting (FRA) - A-40 RC - 13:59:52
2. High Five - Vinicio Petracchi (NZL) - Cookson 12M - 14:50:48
3. Tchin-Tchin - Jean Claude Bertrand (FRA) - A-35 - 15:00:40

The final destination for those competing in the Giraglia Rolex Cup 2008, the Yacht Club Italiano, Genoa Italy.

Photo © ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo.

For more information about the Giraglia Rolex Cup 2008, including the entry list, please visit:

www.yachtclubitaliano.it

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