Nacra 17s @Palma 2018: Day 1
Images Tomás Moya / Sailing Energy / Trofeo Princesa Sofia 2018. First day of racing for the Olympic Nacra 17 European 2018 season . Tita & Banti continue their drive performance from last year and lead after 3 races. 2016 Gold Medalists Lange & Carranza are also keeping the pace in foiling mode scoring 9,2 and a bullet on their fleet. Saxton & Boniface third overall.
This is the Qualifying stage , Finals will separate Gold & Silver fleet.
We don’t see Billy Besson on the lineup sadly for Palma. French sailors are well represented though by Moana Vaireux & Manon Audinet.
Top ten below, full results & official webb trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall
| Pos | SAIL # | BOW# | CREW | Nett | PtS | 1Q | 2Q | 3Q |
| 1 | ITA 3 | 8 | Ruggero TITA Caterina BANTI | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | ARG 1 | 10 | Santiago LANGE Cecilia CARRANZA SAROLI | 3 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | GBR 91 | 2 | Ben SAXTON Nicola BONIFACE | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | FRA 81 | 6 | Moana VAIREAUX Manon AUDINET | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | BRA 110 | 18 | Samuel ALBRECHT Bruna MARTINELLI | 7 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | DEN 432 | 4 | Lin CENHOLT Mathias BRUUN | 9 | 27 | 3 | 18 | 6 |
| 7 | NZL 22 | 17 | Gemma JONES Jason SAUNDERS | 9 | 23 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| 8 | ESP 70 | 19 | Iker MARTINEZ Olga MASLIVETS | 9 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | GBR 21 | 3 | John GIMSON Anna BURNET | 10 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| 10 | GBR 338 | 7 | Chris RASHLEY Laura MARIMON GIOVANNETTI | 11 | 25 | 1 | 10 | 14 |
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