A fleet of 50 teams from around the world assembled in the venue of Fraglia Vela Riva on the shores of Lake Garda. In the end, the RC team ran eight races over the three-day event. Winning was the Spanish team of Luis Albert on PATAKIN. His team of Gerardo Prego Menor, Joan Cardona Mendez and Alejandro Muscat managed to win the regatta by 9 points, with a total of 21 points net. Second was past World Champion Joel Ronning on CATAPULT with his crew of Mark Ivey, Victor Diaz de Leon, Greiner Hobbs and Erik Shampain with 29 points net. Rounding out the podium was another American team: Rich Witzel’s ROWDY with crew of Carlos Robles, Max Salminen and Tomas Dietrich, taking third at 36 points net. Completing the top five was Michael Grau’s PAINT IT BLACK team from Germany in fourth with 39 points net. Then, the top Italian team was Luca Domenici’s NOTARO TEAM with 58 points net. Winning the Corinthian division was a Polish woman skipper: Oliwia Feret on GRP METIKAM. Her crew included Maciej Reck, Marek Stanczyk and Tomasz Feret. Second place was another woman skipper: Isabelle Fellows on CALYPSO. Her team included Jonathan Calascione, Sebastian Ripard and Benno Marstaller. Rounding out this very international podium was Australian Tim Ryan on VAMOS. His crew consisted of Charlie Gundy, Jessica Grimes and George Richardson. For more Italian J/70 Class information, visit https://www.j70.it/en/.