| Esimit Europa 2 takes
line honours. |
| By the Giraglia Rolex
Cup Media Team. |
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Photos by
Kurt Arrigo
for Rolex.
Page edited By Peter Andrews. |
| June 17, 2010. |
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At 11:05:09 CEST, Igor Simcic’s Maxi Esimit Europa 2 crossed the finish line of the 2010 Giraglia Rolex Cup race, to take line honours in the 58th edition of the 241 nautical-mile race from St. Tropez to San Remo.
Esimit Europa 2 completed the course in just 23 hours 9 minutes, which is 5 hours and 6 minutes outside the course record. |
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Line honours winner Igor Simcic's Esimit
Europa 2 at the finish
line.
Photo © Rolex /
Kurt Arrigo.
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| At a dockside ceremony at the Yacht Club San Remo, Igor Simcic was presented with a Rolex Chronometer and the Trophy René Levainville for being first monohull yacht across the finish line. He also won the Peppe Croce Trophy for being the first boat to round Giraglia Rock. A very happy Igor Simcic expressed his feelings about this win. |
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Line honours winner Igor Simcic's Esimit Europa 2 at the finish line.
Photo © Rolex / Kurt Arrigo.
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| "I heard about the Giraglia race a long time ago when I was young, because my uncle was the skipper of the very famous boat Helisara, owned by Maestro Herbert von Karajan and he won many times the Giraglia. Two years ago we did the Giraglia Race with a smaller boat, a 65 foot boat and became second. Today we are first and we are happy to be first, because it was not so easy in the beginning, we had some technical problems in 29 to 30 knots but later on everything worked fine." |
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Igor Simcic, owner of Esimit Europa 2, receives a Rolex timepice from Lionel
Schurch, Rolex SA. Giuseppe Zaoli (left), Commodore of Yacht Club San
Remo, Igor Simcic and Lionel Schurch, Rolex SA..
Photo © Rolex / Kurt Arrigo.
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| Neville Crichton, former owner of Esimit Europa 2, came in second at 12:15:19 CEST with Shockwave. The mini-maxi rounded the Giraglia Rock three hours behind Esimit Europa 2. The countdown clock is now running for the overall corrected-time victory. |
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Neville Crichton's Mini Maxi Shockwave.
Photo © Rolex / Kurt Arrigo.
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The prize giving for 2010 Giraglia Rolex Cup will be held at 13:00 CEST on Saturday, 19th of June at the Yacht Club San Remo.
Further information on the Giraglia Rolex Cup may be found at www.giragliarolexcup.com. |
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