St Barth Catacup 2019: Win for Mourniac & Rucard
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Another edition of the St Barts Catacup comes to an end. 4 Days in Paradise for a total of 60 F18s. 2019 Title went today to JC Mourniac & Antoine Rucard sailing a Manu Boulogne Cirrus R2 (with Phantom Sails) . Quite happy to see Manu’s R2 getting consistent great performance, if you are looking for a proven winning design, plus the highest quality available in the market, don’t think twice and contact Anne Boulogne for your own R2 at bcm-catamaran.com/contact.php
On Jean Christophe Mourniac, he is long time top rider in the F18, showing his level winning 3 races, including the last one which defined the podium in their favor.
We hope JC can return to race F18s, this year I think he was doing some Diam 24 Tour a Voile circuit.
Second place overall for another usual top performer in the F18, Gurvan Bontemps & Benjamin Amiot (Scorpion / Phantom Sails), who also won 3 races and had a shot to first place today.
The two French crews were followed by one of the current top notch teams in the Class. With a third at this year 2019 Worlds at Costa Brava (only behind two Pro teams) , Cruz Gonzalez Smith & Mariano Heuser continue to display their level at every regatta they enter. The Argies had to discard a 4th, while their worst place, a 6th on the round the island course, diminished their chances at that race cannot be discarded. Today they pushed hard again finishing 2 & 2 to tie Bontemps & Amiot in pts. They were the most consistent an a standard 1 discard would have give them first place overall, but the French crews got 3 bullets each so its a deserved podium for all 3 crews.
2020 Major event will be Worlds in Italy to be held at Gaeta, more info at the IF18CA web: www.f18-international.org/2019/11/looking-forward-great-2020-worlds/
Top Ten , complete results at stbarthcatacup.com/en/pages/Results-General_ranking/
| Pos | Crew | Pts | c_1 | c_2 | c_3 | c_4 | c_5 | c_6 | c_7 |
| 1 | JC Mourniac-Cutard | 18.00 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 9.0 | 3 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | |||
| 2 | Bontemps-Amiot | 22.00 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 10.0 | 4 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | |||
| 3 | Gonzalez Smith- Heuser | 22.00 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 1.0 | 7 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | |||
| 4 | Burd-Tomeo | 33.00 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 3.0 | 16 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 14.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | |||
| 5 | Orion & Antoine Martin | 38.00 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 2.0 | OCS | 5.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 13.0 | |||
| 6 | Volker-Mehl | 54.00 | 20 | OCS | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 7 |
| 20.0 | 10 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | |||
| 7 | P Demeasmaeker-Gagliani | 54.00 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 14 |
| 12.0 | 2 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | |||
| 8 | Tomko-Atwood | 65.00 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 3 |
| 8.0 | 6 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 26.0 | 11.0 | 3.0 | |||
| 9 | Pirinoli-Trigonis | 65.00 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 6 |
| 13.0 | 9 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 28.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | |||
| 10 | Froeb-Marfaing | 65.00 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 8 |
| 4.0 | OCS | 9.0 | 16.0 | 22.0 | 13.0 | 8.0 |
