|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Recent
yachting and boating events covered by Outimage Publications |
|
|
|
 |
|
Rolex Middle
Sea Race 2010
Valletta, Malta,
October 23-30, 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
The 18 Footers.
Regular Updates from the The Australian 18 Footers League. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Le Voiles de
Saint Tropez 2010
St. Tropez, France,
Sept 28 - Oct 3, 2010.
Photos by Carlo Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Swan Rolex Cup
2010.
Porto Cervo, Italy,
September 15 - 17, 2010.
Photos by Carlo Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Maxi Yacht Rolex
Cup 2010.
Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy.
September 5 - 11, 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Italian Youth
Championships
Marsala, Italy, Sept 2, 2010.
Photos by Carlo Borlenghi and Luca Butto. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Rolex Ilhabela
Sailing Week
Ilhabela, São Paulo, Brazil,
July 17-24, 2010. Photos by Carlo Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Audi MedCup Circuit
Marseille Trophy, Marseille, France, June 15-20, 2010. Photos
by Carlo Borlenghi and Guido Trombetta. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Giraglia Rolex
Cup 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Giraglia Rolex
Cup 2010
by Studio Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Rolex Capri
Sailing Week 2010 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Louis Vuitton
Trophy
La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy.
May 22 -June 6, 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Portofino Rolex
Trophy |
| Photos by Carlo
Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| America's Cup
Index |
| Photos by Carlo
Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Rolex Farr 40
World's |
| Casa de Campo,
Dominican Republic April 21-24, 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Audi Melges
32 Series |
| Photos by Guido
Trombetta. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Rolex China Sea
Race 2010. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Louis Vuitton
Trophy |
| Auckland New
Zealand |
| Photos by Howard
Wright. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Louis Vuitton
Trophy |
| Auckland New
Zealand |
| Photos by Stefano
Gattini. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| RORC Caribbean
600 |
by Carlo Borlenghi
and Stefano Gattini. |
|
|
|
 |
|
XXVI Primo Cup
- Trophée
Credit Suisse by Stefano |
| Gattini and Bruno
Cocozza. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Alinghi, defender
of the |
| 33rd America’s
Cup |
| Photos by Carlo
Borlenghi. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Rolex Sydney
Hobart 2009. |
|
|
|
 |
|
| SOLAS Big Boat
Challenge. |
|
|
|
|
| Nerone finishes
off the job with One Design Series. |
| By the Rolex
Trophy Media Team. |
|
Photos by Peter
Andrews,
Page edited By Peter Andrews. |
| December 12, 2010. |
|
In the lead
up to the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds, reigning World and European
champion Nerone (ITA) has eaten the rest of the
competition alive to take out the Rolex Trophy One Design
Series that wound up off Sydney, after another day of waiting
around for fickle light winds to breathe a bit of life into
sails.
From two days ago, when the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
hosted series started, there was no doubt that that Massimo
Mezzaroma and Antonio Sodo Migliori’s boat was the
one to beat. But nobody, including themselves, expected
the Italians to win six of the eight races to leave the
rest of the fleet reeling with their 25 point victory over
nearest competitor, Brett Neill with White Cloud from
New Zealand. Excitement has been in the voice of Nerone tactician
Vasco Vascotto every day as his team ticked off win after
win. |
|
Massimo Mezzaroma and Antonio Sodo Migliori’s reigning World
and European champion, Nerone (ITA), during the 2010 Rolex
Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
"Of course
we are very happy. It was the most difficult day, so we have
to congratulate Transfusion on their second place
and win today. They sailed very well," he said of the
third placegetter.
"We will go to the World’s now with a great buzz,
but we know we are starting all over again. We are confident,
but the sailors and boats in the Farr 40s are the best in the
world, so we cannot take for granted that we will win. And I
know we cannot possibly win so many races, this is very unusual.
We still cannot believe it," Vascotto added. |
| |
Brett Neill's New Zealand entry White Cloud, during the 2010 Rolex
Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
Vascotto affirmed
it was a hard day for the tacticians. "We expected the
wind to go right, but it was everywhere and we had to play
between the shifts. Antonio did a beautiful job on the starts
again and drove well."
"Maybe we did too well," said a circumspect Sodo Migliori. "This
has never happened before. These are very strong sailors we sailed
against here, so it is hard to see how we won all these races," he
added.
"Every day things came good for us. I just tried to drive
the boat fast. Now the boat is 100 percent good and the crew
is very good. The only improvement to make for the Worlds is
some new sails and we will have those next week." |
|
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis' Transfusion (AUS) chasing Andrew
Hunn's Tasmanian entry, Voodoo Chile (AUS) around the top
mark, during the 2010 Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
| Nerone won
Race 7 today, but dropped to third in the final Race 8. This
their worst score for the series, that was sailed in unusual
Mediterranean style conditions. However, as Sodo Migliori
pointed out, "We are very good in all conditions and
would have been happy to see some stronger winds." |
|
Massimo Mezzaroma and Antonio Sodo Migliori’s reigning World
and European champion, Nerone (ITA), crosses the finishing
line during the 2010 Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
| |
The 11 yachts
in the Rolex Trophy were left like ducks bobbing on a pond
as they waited and waited in light breezes, unfit for racing
that kept going around the dial in dizzying fashion. Finally
at 1.32pm, the penultimate race of the series was underway.
Forced to cut short the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
nine-race series by one race, Principal Race Officer Denis
Thompson described the day. "We had to go two and a
half miles out to see and wait for the nor’ easter
to fill in," he said.
Instead it was an easterly breeze, but it flicked all over
the place, forcing Thompson to abandon the first start
after a general recall because of a major wind shift. These
conditions meant cutting the series short by one race.
"The sea was very flat. It’s not often you get to
see that, and we had a strong flowing north current, making it
hard to lay the course. The day would have kept tacticians very
busy and put them to the test," Thompson said. |
|
The starting line, during the 2010 Rolex Trophy One Design Series,
offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
Brett Neill,
the owner-driver of White Cloud agreed. "We
had a good local tactician, Steve McConaghy, who was very
useful to us, especially with the north current. It was weird.
He got us out of trouble a couple of times when we were buried
deep in the fleet too."
Neill and his crew jumped straight off the boat after racing
and headed for the airport, as all have to work tomorrow.
On their second place overall, Neill commented: "We
are nicely surprised. A couple of factors helped us. Steve
McConaghy and a bigger fleet changing the usual start procedures.
It took a while for the Aussies to settle into that and
it’s reflected in the results towards the end." |
| |
Lang Walker's Kokomo (AUS) ahead of Martin and Lisa Hill's Estate
Master (AUS) with Jim Richardson's Barking Mad in the
background, during the 2010 Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore
Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis
(AUS) pulled a rabbit out of the hat to move into third overall.
The World’s runner-up, he and his Transfusion crew
seemed to struggle this week and did not look good to even
make the top five going into today.
One should never write off a class act. Transfusion moved
up a gear to score second in Race 7 and went on to win
Race 8. "We made a few silly changes and we realised
and went back to how we normally sail. We were fast, had
good height and good crew work today. I especially have
to thank Mike Leigh (a Canadian Olympic sailor) for the
tough job he did as tactician."
"I congratulate Nerone on the awesome job they
did," Belgiorno-Nettis continued. "We had difficult
conditions, but they sailed better than anybody else. They are
well polished and that’s how the rest of us have to be,
is the lesson I take away from this." |
|
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis' Transfusion (AUS), during the 2010
Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
The big losers
were Martin and Lisa Hill on Estate Master (AUS).
This morning they were sitting second overall, but an uncharacteristic
10th in Race 7 changed the landscape.
"I am sorry for Estate Master. We took third place
from them. One race and us changed their fortunes," Belgiorno-Nettis
acknowledged. |
|
Martin and Lisa Hill's Estate Master (AUS), during the 2010
Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
| |
"We thought
the wind would go right, it went left," said a Pragmatic
Hill. "Then we thought it would be left, and guess what!
It was like that all through the race. It happens sometimes."
Hill remains enthusiastic as ever. "The good to come
out of this great series is that Neville Crichton has said
he’ll buy a boat and join the fleet and Marcus Blackmore’s
going to get back into it and charter a yacht." |
|
The Farr 40 fleet under spinnaker, during the 2010 Rolex Trophy One
Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
|
Behind Nerone,
the scores were so compacted it could have gone to any of
the next four yachts in what looked like the luck of the
draw in the conditions faced by the fleet.
Disappointment for Voodoo Chile, which had been
having an excellent series, but her chances were diminished
in the protest room last evening when Tasmanian Andrew
Hunn and his crew were disqualified from Races 3 and 4
in port and starboard incidents. |
|
Andrew Hunn's Tasmanian entry, Voodoo Chile (AUS), during
the 2010 Rolex Trophy One Design Series, offshore Sydney.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage Australia.
|
 |
|
| |
If there was
a disappointment to the Rolex Trophy One-Design Series, it
was that we did not get see Nerone perform in strong
conditions.
Full results of Rolex Trophy One-Design Series can be found
at: http://www.cyca.com.au/sysfile/downloads/2010/club/2010RTSODF40/series.htm. |
|
| Outimage and
Rolex © 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Scuttlebutt Europe Daily News Feed. |
| Produced by boats.com Europe, Scuttlebutt Europe is a digest of sailing news and opinion, regatta results, new boat and gear information and letters from sailors. |
| To the Scuttlebutt Europe Daily News Feed Page. |
|
|
|
| Outimage
Links and Site Info |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Outimage
Site Map |
Outimage
Help Page |
|
|
|
|
| Outimage
Contact Info |
Copyright
Info |
|
|
|
| This
page was checked and found to be a valid
XHTML 1.0 Transitional webpage by the WC3
organisation. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
