ISCYRA Eastern Hemisphere Championship at Yacht Club Adriaco - Day 3
by ISCYRA Press 4 May 2018 20:30 BST
2-5 May 2018
Italian crew Negri & Lambertenghi leading after day 3 of the Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship 2018 © Y.C.A. / Andrea Falcon
A cloudy, sunny, and rainy day, with an east-north-east wind blowing first (bora) and a north-west wind after, in the most changeable weather ever, the first three races of the Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship 2018, organized in Trieste by the Yacht Club Adriaco, have been held today with teams coming from 17 nations.
The Race Committee did a great effort to keep the teams at sea for eight hours until the sunset, in order to catch up the races that were not held in the two previous days.
Tomorrow (the first race will start at 10:00) just one more race (the fourth scheduled) to consider the championship valid.
A fifth race could enable the exclusion of the worst score of the races held for each team in the overall ranking.
At the top of today's ranking after three races stands the Italian team consisting of Diego Negri-Sergio Lambertenghi, who clinched a first, a second and a fourth place, followed by two USA teams: Augie Diaz-Bruno Prada (2-5-3, today) and Jack Jennings-Frithjof Kleen (4-1-11).
Great satisfaction for Trieste's crew Michele Paoletti-Matteo Nicolich, who won the third and last race today. In the overall ranking they are 25th, penalized because they were disqualified due to an early start in the first race. Paoletti-Nicolich really hope that tomorrow two races will be held in order to discard their worst score.