Nacra 17 @Miami WC: Bissaro-Sicouri Champs
Images by Laurens Morel / saltycolours.com More here. || Vittorio Bissaro & Silvia Sicouri dominated the last 5 races of the event with three bullets, a 2nd and a 10th, putting 12pts gap over Zajac-Frank and 30 on Saxton-Diamond. The Italian team managed to put 3 boats in the Medal Race and they will pressure the Dutch / French squads in the European leg.
Glad to see Vittorio making the transition from being F18 Youth WC / 3rd overall in 2011 with Lamberto Cesari, to start the Mixed Olympic campaign with Silvia Sicouri, that has her own F18/F16 circuit experience & family legacy.
The Live tracking showed they were having extra speed, and the hard work from last Nacra 17 season is paying off. The European legs at Palma / Hyeres will be the real deal though, and the Italian teams are looking good to secure a slot for Rio at next N17 Worlds at Santander in Spetember.
Top ten below. Full Resutls at https://origin.sailing.org/worldcup/regattas/miami_2014.php?rgtaid=16345&evntid=31296&view=fleetevent#results
Daily report by Budock-Curtis:
| Pos | C | Crew | Race | Pts | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Net | |||
| 1 | ITA | Vittorio Bissaro | 5 | 2 | 10 | 5 | -22 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 60.00 | 38.00 |
| Silvia Sicouri | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | AUT | Thomas Zajac | -25 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 75.00 | 50.00 |
| Tanja Chiara Frank | SCP | |||||||||||||
| 3 | GBR | Ben Saxton | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 6 | -21 | 8 | 18 | 89.00 | 68.00 |
| Hannah Diamond | SCP | |||||||||||||
| 4 | ESP | Iker Martinez de Lizarduy | 11 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | -16 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 84.00 | 68.00 |
| Tara Pacheco | SCP | |||||||||||||
| 5 | ITA | Federica Salvà | 16 | 5 | 1 | 13 | -19 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 90.00 | 71.00 |
| Francesco Bianchi | SCP | |||||||||||||
| 6 | AUS | Darren Bundock | 15 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 7 | -20 | 5 | 8 | 93.00 | 73.00 |
| Nina Curtis | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | CAN | Luke Ramsay | 4 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 18 | -27 | 4 | 16 | 109.00 | 82.00 |
| Nikola Girke | SCP | |||||||||||||
| 8 | AUS | Euan McNicol | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 22 | 9 | -23 | 18 | 6 | 114.00 | 91.00 |
| Lucinda Whitty | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | GBR | Pippa Wilson | 13 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 3 | -28 | 9 | 12 | 140.00 | 112.00 |
| John Gimson | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | ITA | Gabrio Zandonã | -23 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 138.00 | 115.00 |
| Giulia Zappacosta | SCP | |||||||||||||
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16