The YC Porto Maurizio hosted a fleet of 25 boats from all over Italy and Europe (including France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain, Turkey, Monaco, Poland and Austria). The YCPM Race Committee was up to the challenge to provide world-class racing to the sailors assembled for the Italian J/70 National Championship. They managed to run eight races over the three-day event. The regatta turned into a four-way battle for the podium, with just four points separating them at the conclusion of racing on Sunday. Winning was Yann Inghilesi’s CICLONE team (Niccolo Bianchi, Stefano Angeloni and Carlo Fracassoli) with a total of 32 points net. Their record of 11-2-1-8-1-12-3-6 had a discard of a 12th. Earning the silver was Luca Domenici’s NOTARO TEAM. His crew included Diego Negri, Michele Mennuti and Davide Bortoletto. Their tally of 7-5-4-6-7-4-16-2 had a discard of their 16th for a total net of 35 points, just 3 behind the winner. The bronze was an even closer fight between two teams: Gully Guryel’s Turkish team on DENIZCIK and the Italian Mauro Roversi’s J-CURVE. Tied at 36 points net each, it was Guryel’s DENIZCIK team (Massimo Bortoletto, Ali Tezdiker and Lorenzo Bressani) who won the countback in the tiebreaker process over Roversi’s J-CURVE team (Giulia Albuzio, Filippo Amontillado, Stefano Cherin and Giulia Conti). Rounding out the top five was the Swedish team of Filip Engelbert on ELVIS with 46 points net. The ELVIS team included Jakob Gustafsson, Jimmy Hellberg and Marcus Hollander.
Corinthian Division
The British team CALYPSO, skippered by Ali Hall (crew of Jon Calascione, David Kohler and Benno Marstaller), won the Corinthian division by just three points. Taking the silver was Denis Infante’s French team on EURO-VOILES of Joyet Berier Swan, Francois Barbet and Theo Di Guglielmo. Rounding out that podium was the Italian crew of Massimo Rama on WHY NOT #CAIM (Filippo Vulcanile, Matteo Ferreti, Matteo Capurro and Giorgia Taddei). The balance of the top five included the Swiss team of Oldani Urs on IVA from Yacht Club Zug in fourth place and Gianfranco Noe’s Italian crew on WHITE HAWK.
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