GC32 Championships 2017: Day 1 by Jesús Renedo
All photos Jesús Renedo / GC32 Championship Oman 2017 – First day for the inaugural joined GC32 Championships, an unofficial ‘Worlds’ indeed for the Class. 11 teams present from both European & Extreme Series circuit. Oman Air leads after 5 races held today at Muscat. Second place for SAP Extreme Sailing and third overall for Alinghi with Bertarelli at the helm. Ernesto’s multihull experience is paying at the helm, I doubt many other top notch teams owners can a handle a GC32.
Team Engie with Sebastien Rogues at the helm and three french F18 sailors onboard (Bontemps, Amiot & Joubert) holds 5th place.
Day 1 results below, official event web and more info at gc32championship.com/:
| Rank | Team | Total | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 |
| 1 | Oman Air | 14 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | SAP Extreme Sailing Team | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 3 | Alinghi | 17 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Team TILT | 18 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Team ENGIE | 20 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Red Bull Sailing Team | 31 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | Land Rover BAR Academy | 34 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 8 | Tawera Racing | 37 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| 9 | Argo | 38 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 4 |
| 10 | SVB Team Germany | 49 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | Youth Vikings Denmark | 55 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
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