PHOTOGALLERY – VELA Cup in the sign of SuperNikka: but what a party at sea!
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While some boats have yet to complete the 7-mile triangle course in the Gulf of Tigullio, there are already those celebrating on the dock at the TAG Heuer VELAFestival. They are the guys from SuperNikka, Vismara Mills 62 by. Roberto Lacorte (also aboard the newly crowned Sailor of the Year Giancarlo Pedote), real time winner of the VELA Cup, which this year had a record 209 boats participating. A true Tyrrhenian Barcolana in spirit and organization. (photo by James Robinson Taylor)
A MATCH-RACE BETWEEN HOLY MONSTERS
Weather conditions were also ideal: sunshine, flat sea, and a southeast-south wind of 8 knots of intensity. After a battle to the last gybe, behind SuperNikka came the 80-foot Maxi Ourdream-Rigoni from Asiago, with Mauro Pelaschier at the helm. It was a tight head-to-head from the very first edges, a match-race perpetrated for the duration of the race (62-foot SuperNikka versus 80-foot Ourdream, the first younger by 20 years), until, with two hundred meters to go, the recovering 80-foot Reichel Pugh exploded the gennaker, effectively leaving the way clear for Lacorte and co.
NACRA MIRACLE
In third place in real time was Walter Caldonazzi’s Mylius 50 Oscar2, ahead of Implacable, Marco Puppo’s Nacra F18, which left everyone literally speechless, starring in a photo finish against Max Ferruzzi’s legendary Moro di Venezia I, fifth overall. (E.R.)
THE REGATTA PHOTO GALLERY (PHOTO BY JAMES ROBINSON TAYLOR)
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