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Régates Royales in Cannes 2011
20.-25.September 2010
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Wednesday, September 21st 2011****
Sun shines on the Régates Royales
[image: Description : 110921RRC_1709]***Not another day in the office at
all. The stunning bay of La Napoule provided the competitors with great
sailing conditions, ideal for close, fast racing. Under blue skies, in
bright sun and good breeze the sixty-eight classic yachts and fifty-eight
Dragons completed the second day of the Régates Royales, final and decisive
event of the Panerai Trophy 2011. *
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The Big Boats sailing past the Lérins Islands stole everyone’s attention
once more, the magnificent high masts and immense sails making spectators
and photographers happy. The 20 mile long coastal race was won by Moonbeam
of Fife III followed by Moonbeam IV, the couple are still on top of the
provisional ranking at 4 and 6 points respectively while James Thom’s
Mariquita coming in fourth is tied at points in third place. Among the big
gaffers Nan of Fife scored another first that keep her on top with 2 points,
British flagged Avel scored another second and is following at 4 and, thanks
to a fourth today the third provisional place is occupied by Oriole. Among
the nine Classics Arcadia is in the lead by a little point on White Dolphin
and four on Italian Navy’s Stella Polare. In the big Marconi class, the
reigning champion Rowdy left the first step of the provisional podium
because of a fourth, and is now tied at points with Havsornen at 5, the top
spot going to The Blue Peter that scored two second places. Among the
smaller Marconi Leonore got a clean score and leads with 2 points, but
Cholita is still in her tracks at 4 and Anne Sophie is third at 6 points.
Irish flagged Shamrock is securely leading the Spirit of Tradition class
with two wins, second placed are Gaulois and the modern J Class Lionheart at
5 points.**
The Russians bounce back*****
The 58 boat strong Dragon fleet had two more windward/leeward races today.
Day 2 marked the comeback of reigning champion Anatoly Longinov on
Annapurna. With a twelfth and a second, the Russian skipper managed to keep
his competitors at bay and jump on top of the provisional ranking with 36
points. Ever consistent Poul Richard Hoi Jensen on Danish Blue, scoring a
third and a 15th is now second on the overall scoreboard distanced by only
one point whilst luck was not to Martin Byrne’s side today: the Irish
helmsman could not keep up to the excellent result of the opening day with a
29th and a 17th that make his Jaguar Bear slip back to third in the ranking
with 22 points. Italian Giuseppe Duca on Cloud, with a second and a sixth,
and having discarded a black flag disqualification he got yesterday, is now
fourth and still close to the top trio. HRH Prince Heinrik of Denmark on
White Lady is now fifth in the overall standing at 26 points and British
Ivan Bradbury on Blue Haze sixth a 33 points. ****
Phoebus II, fast from the lake…
In 1892 French designer Auguste Godinet conceived an original and
experimental new rule, offering an alternative to the traditional V-shaped
hulls and fin-keeled and bulb-keeled boats. As the former are theoretically
more seafaring, more powerful upwind, but heavy and less spacious, the
latter are beamer, flatter and subsequently faster downwind but less safe.
Considering the real hull shape, by measuring the “offset”, decreasing the
stem to half the hull length, Godinet managed to make the new boats less
extreme, more harmonious and sufficiently stable.****
*Poil-de-Carotte*, built by Emile Belly and Auguste Godinet himself was the
first of the eleven produced “Three Tonners”, they were pretty different
from one another and designed by well known architects like Guédon, de
Cactus, Herreshoff or Costaguta. *Calypso* (Guédon) was also a heavy
displacement boat with a V-shaped hull contrary to
*Poil-de-Carotte*(Godinet), a lighter, shorter but also faster boat.
*Phoebus II* is a replica of the original *Poil de Carotte* launched in
1903. She has been built as an identical copy in 1991 using the hull of *
Phoebus* that was in such a bad state that it was impossible to give her a
second life. *Phoebus II* has taken part to several Bol d’Or races on Lake
Geneva since 1992, was also present to the classic yachts events in Brest
(92-96-2000) and Gironde in 1996. ****
*For full results please visit: www.regatesroyales.com*
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Singlebörsen Alexis Courcoux / Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai ***
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