With Teo di Battista at the helm, the V1R Mark II fitted with the new BIMARE Flexi-Plus mast showed a commanding control of the over the 78 boat fleet (with many of the top European Acatters such as Bob Baier, Sjoerd Hoekstra, Paolo Penco, Peterjan Dwarhuis, Arno Terra; Peter Saarberg etc).
The excellent performance of the V1R was confirmed by Francesco Marcolini who finished 4th in front of the past Europen Champion Bob Baier.
The second BIG news is that both the first placed BIMARE A cats were fitted with straight boards, thus ending an egemony of curved boards which lasted many months.
As far as I know BIMARE is actually the only boatyard selling A cats with trunks which can host both straight and curved boards. Perhaps others will follow.
The 6 races were sailed in very regular conditions with steady 5 to 12 knot wind and fairly flat waters.
At the the Vele di Pasqua regatta made their debut the new Peter Saarberg's design named Vision which got the 2nd spot with Sjoerd Hoekstra, past three time winner of the event (2006-2007 and 2008), and the 26th with the same Pieter Saarberg and the Flyer F4 which with Helmut Stumhofer placed 9th.
In all BIMARE V1R won 4 out of the 6 races.
In the top ranked we find also Georg Reutter (3rd), Bob Baier (5th) and Mathias Dietz (6th) all sailing Nils Bunkenburg designed NIkitas.
Source: Sailing Anarchy www.sailinganarchy.com
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten