Nacra 17 @Palma 2018: Day 4 Results
All images Jesús Renedo / Sailing Energy / Trofeo Princesa Sofia – 3 More races held today Thursday at Palma Mallorca, for the 49 Trofeo Princesa Sofia. First two in light winds and 10-12 for the last one. Saxton-Boniface and Martinez-Maslivets took the best scores top position themselves in 2nd & 3rd overall.
Tita & Banti continue to lead after 12 races, 6 from the qualifying stage. Italy, Spain , Argentina and New Zealand have placed two crews each on the top ten.
The highlight is clearly Majdalani & Bosco, the young Arg crew fighting 1 to 1 at the highest level, they were ahead of Lange after 12F.
Also Bressani & Zorzi from Italy, haven’t seen them much in the Nacra 17 Class or other Multihull one. Their fellow crew Tita & Banti showed already last year top 3 level.
One more day of racing pending and then the Medal Race.
Top ten below, full results at trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall
| Pos | SAIL # | BOW# | CREW | Nett | Tot | 1Q | 2Q | 3Q | 4Q | 5Q | 6Q | 7F | 8F | 9F | 10F | 11F | 12F |
| 1 | ITA 3 | 8 | Ruggero TITA Caterina BANTI | 27 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | GBR 91 | 2 | Ben SAXTON Nicola BONIFACE | 34 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | ESP 70 | 19 | Iker MARTINEZ Olga MASLIVETS | 66 | 91 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | DNC | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | ARG 1 | 10 | Santiago LANGE Cecilia CARRANZA | 72 | 90 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 7 |
| 5 | ITA 363 | 9 | Lorenzo BRESSANI Cecilia ZORZI | 74 | 90 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | ARG 372 | 12 | Mateo MAJDALANI Eugenia BOSCO | 77 | 96 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | ESP 028 | 1 | Fernando ECHAVARRI Tara PACHECO | 80 | 103 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 6 |
| 8 | AUT 3 | 5 | Thomas ZAJAC Barbara MATZ | 81 | 97 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 5 |
| 9 | NZL 96 | 14 | Olivia MACKAY Micah WILKINSON | 82 | 102 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 |
| 10 | NZL 22 | 17 | Gemma JONES Jason SAUNDERS | 85 | 101 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 1 |
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