13.10.2017

2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Series in Luino
Maidollis Takes Early Lead on Day One of Lino Favini Cup

October 13, 2017 – Luino, Italy- Lake Maggiore doesn’t disappoint expectations and the Melges 24 fleet starts the last event of the 2017 European Sailing Series at full rhythm: a day of springy conditions, with the local southern breeze called Inverna blowing between 10 and 13 knots, grants the conclusion of the first three races of Lino Favini Cup, event that celebrates this year its 14th anniversary, hosted by the Associazione Velica Alto Verbano and promoted by Melges 24 International Class Association with the support of Melges 24 Italian Class.

Coming from the victory in the previous event of the season, held in Medemblik, the Hungarian guys on board FGF SAILING TEAM (1-7-2) with Robert Bakoczy helming, immediately find their rhythm and scored the first bullet of the series, leaving at their back the reigning World Champions from Italy, MAIDOLLIS (2-2-1) by Gian Luca Perego. The second victory of the day goes to the Corinthian double-World Champions of TAKI 4 (5-1-5) by Marco Zammarchi, with Niccolò Bertola in helm.

MAIDOLLIS, with Carlo Fracassoli in helm and Enrico Fonda at tactics is the most consistent boat of the fleet in the first day of racing and with a total of five points including a bullet in the third race, gain the leadership of the provisional ranking, followed with a margin of 5 points by FGF SAILING TEAM and by TAKI 4.
Overall results

TAKI 4 (1-1-2 in Corinthian), further than occupying the provisional bronze step of the overall podium, is also leader in the Corinthian division, with an advantage of 4 points over GILL RACE TEAM (5-2-1 C.) by Miles Quinton with Geoff Carveth helming, only boat of the fleet that has taken part to all the events of 2017 edition of the European Sailing Series. The provisional Corinthian podium is completed by the German entry WHITE ROOM (2-7-6 C.) by Tarabochia family.
The results of the Corinthian division

Day One photo gallery by (c) IM24CA/Zerogradinord

Tomorrow, second day of racing, the Race Committee with PRO Fabio Barrasso intend to give the first warning signal at 12.00, time when the typical Inverna wind generally fills in. After race number six of the series, discard of the worst result will come into play.

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Racing updates from Luino will be delivered to you across the IM24CA social media. Each day, the IM24CA and Zerogradinord will work hard to bring you updates via video, photos and text. Zerogradinord represented by Mauro Melandri and Silvia Gallegati will push hard to deliver wonderful photos to you daily and video footage after the event. Racing can be followed also in real time via TracTrac webpage on Saturday and Sunday. You can follow all the latest actions and coverage of the event at the official IM24CA Facebook Page.

Associazione Velica Alto Verbano will be the hosting event for this final event for the third time already co-organized by International Melges 24 Class Association, with the precious support of Lino Town Council and of Chamber Of Commerce of Varese.

The busy season of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2017 started in Portoroz, Slovenia in April followed by the second regatta in Riva del Garda, Italy in May and the third in Marstrand, Sweden in June. Fourth event, the most important title event of the year – the World Championship – was held in Helsinki, Finland in August and the fifth event in Medemblik, the Netherlands, in September.

More information about the series, the Notice of Race and online registration of the events are available at melges24.com/europeansailingseries

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For further information on the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2017, please contact:
Piret Salmistu
IM24CA Administrator & Media Coordinator
+372 507 7217
piret@melges24.com

03.10.2017

2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Series
Gill Race Team and Taki 4 on Top of the Rankings
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October 3, 2017 – IM24CA – 2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Season is approaching its finish soon. Five events completed and finale grande – Lino Favini Cup, the Melges 24 Swiss Open Championship and the final act both for the European and Italian series – will determine the winners of the season-long tour in Europe over the weekend of October 13-15.

Eighty-nine teams, including the fifty-five Corinthian teams, have been competing at the events of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series this year. The World Championship in this part of the world has created more excitement and rivalry, no doubt. Seven teams shipping their boats to Europe or renting a charter boat not only for the title event, but also for the other events, has been great and fostered stronger connections between different continents in Melges 24 family. Eighteen nations are represented in the series ranking having the biggest number of teams participating from Germany and Sweden, followed by Italy and Norway.

Forty-five single races have been sailed during five events with seven discards as according to the scoring after every sixth race sailed a discard will apply. The only team travelling to all events of the series is Miles Quinton’s GILL RACE TEAM from Great Britain with Geoff Carveth helming. The teams who have missing only one event are Italian TAKI 4, Hungarian FGF SAILING TEAM and SEVEN-FIVE-NINE, Danish UPUPUP, and Ukrainian BARMALEY.

OVERALL top 5 boats are (89 boats ranked from 18 nations):
1. GILL RACE TEAM GBR694 – Geoff Carveth, Miles Quinton, Christian Birrell, Dan Schieber, Liam Gardener, Raffy Quinton, Ellie Meopham, Josh Wilce
2. FGF SAILING TEAM HUN728 – Domonkos Rozsnyay, Levente Takacsy, Kristóf Takacsy, Bence Buza
3. TAKI 4 ITA778 – Niccolò Bertola, Giacomo Fossati, Marco Zammarchi, Matteo De Chiara, Giovanni Bannetta
4. UPUPUP DEN837 – Bo Boje Pedersen, Joachim Aschenbrenner, Jeppe Ditlev, Casper Ladefogde, Kristian Kvid
5. SEVEN-FIVE-NINE HUN759 – Arpad Litkey, Gabor Büki, Zsolt Büki, Balazs Tomai, Botond Weöres, Gabor Pesti
Full Overall Ranking

CORINTHIAN division top 5 boats are (55 teams ranked from 17 nations):
1. TAKI 4 ITA778 – Niccolò Bertola, Giacomo Fossati, Marco Zammarchi, Matteo De Chiara, Giovanni Bannetta
2. GILL RACE TEAM GBR694 – Geoff Carveth, Miles Quinton, Christian Birrell, Dan Schieber, Liam Gardener
3. BARMALEY UKR661 – Andriy Shafranyuk, Sergiy Levchenko, Viktor Kandyba, Vitaliy Moshkovskiy
4. LENNY EST790 – Tõnu Tõniste, Toomas Tõniste, Tammo Otsasoo, Andres Rohtla, Maiki Saaring
5. WHITE ROOM GER677 – Luis Tarabochia, Sebastian Buehler, Michael Tarabochia, Caro Tiegel, Laura Fischer, Marco Tarabochia
Full Corinthian Ranking

The final event of the 2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Series will be hosted by Associazione Velica Alto Verbano (AVAV) and supported by Luino Town Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Varese. The race will be for the trophy dedicated to Flavio Favini’s, 2007 and 2013 Melges 24 European and 2014 Melges 24 World Champion, father. Also the perpetual trophies of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series, in hold of 2016 winners Italian Andrea Racchelli’s ALTEA and Corinthian Miles Quinton’s GILL RACE TEAM, will find new holders there.

Both current leaders of the overall and Corinthian divisions – Miles Quinton’s GILL RACE TEAM with Geoff Carveth on the helm and Marco Zammarchi’s TAKI 4 with Bertola-Fossati – have entered already. Some of the best teams in the class will be challenging from Italy – current world champion Gian Luca Perego’s MAIDOLLIS with Fracassoli-Fonda and the winner of the 2016 European Sailing Series Andrea Racchelli’s ALTEA. Also, the winner of the pre-ultimate event in Medemblik, Hungarian FGF SAILING TEAM with Robert Bakoczy at the helm is one candidate for the final podium place in Luino. It’s great to see many German entries and Mike Goldfarb’s WARCANOE from U.S. coming to Luino. See the current entry list here

Flavio Favini with AVAV is happy to host the Melges 24 international fleet in Luino: „We are getting ready for our Melges 24 end of the season Classic, the Coppa Lino Favini. Again, we will have an honour of hosting the Swiss Nationals, the Italian and European circuit finals. We are proud to have been chosen once again by my favourite class to be the final event of a wonderful season. We promise to do our best to match the high level of Melges 24 class and to make you feel at home here at AVAV. We are pleased to invite you to Luino, October 13-15, to race and have a good time after sailing with us!“

The busy season of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2017 started in Portoroz, Slovenia in April followed by the second regatta in Riva del Garda, Italy in May and the third in Marstrand, Sweden in June. Fourth event, the most important title event of the year – the World Championship – was held in Helsinki, Finland in August and the fifth event in Medemblik, the Netherlands, in September.

More information about the series, the Notice of Race of the Luino regatta and online registration of the event are available at melges24.com/europeansailingseries

Follow also:
Facebook of the International Melges 24 Class Association
Website of the International Melges 24 Class Association

Instagram
Twitter
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For further information on the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2017, please contact:
Piret Salmistu
IM24CA Administrator & Media Coordinator
+372 507 7217
piret@melges24.com