Nacra 17 @Hyeres 2017: Day 2 , Vaireaux & Audinet lead after 6R
All photos Pedro Martinez / Sailing Energy / World Sailing. Full gallery here. Billy Besson is officially back, now sailing with Amelie Riou. Marie Riou , his former crew , is now preparing for next Volvo with Team DongFeng along Carloijn Brouwer. Billy & Amelie stand currently in 11th overall after 6 races.
For the MKII foiling stage, Besson has experience foiling As and the Hydros C-Class so expect he will be on top of the new flying game.
Moana Vaireux & Manon Audinet lead at Hyeres 2017 followed by Echavarri-Pacheco and Cenholt-Lubeck.
Top ten below, full results here
| pos | Sail Number | Crew | Race | Points | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Tot | Net | |||
| 1 | FRA 285 | Moana VaireauxManon Audinet | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -21 | 1 | 32 | 11 |
| 2 | ESP 028 | Fernando Echávarri ErasunTara Pacheco van Rijnsoever | 3 | 3 | -5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 15 |
| 3 | DEN 319 | Lin Ea CenholtChristian Peter Lübeck | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | -8 | 2 | 24 | 16 |
| 4 | GBR 299 | Ben SaxtonStephanie Orton | 12 | -15 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 41 | 26 |
| 5 | GBR 303 | Tom PhippsNicola Boniface | 5 | 7 | -16 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 30 |
| 6 | AUT 27 | Thomas ZajacBarbara Matz | 1 | 10 | -17 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 49 | 32 |
| 7 | GBR 301 | John GimsonAnna Burnet | 6 | -12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 44 | 32 |
| 8 | ITA 313 | Ruggero TitaCaterina Marianna Banti | -15 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 57 | 42 |
| 9 | GBR 257 | Chris RashleyLaura Marimon Giovannetti | 16 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2 | dnf | 75 | 45 |
| 10 | AUT 277 | Nico Delle – KarthLaura Schöfegger | -19 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 68 | 49 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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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