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| 1768.1 | | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Mon Aug 05 1991 09:41 | 26 |
| Here are the results after the channel race, which was held in very
light wind & fog.
50ft 1st Mandrake (Italy)
2nd Will (Japan)
3rd Corum Saphir (France)
4th Champosa (US)
6th Juno (UK)
2Ton 1st Bravura (US)
2nd Corum Rubis (France)
3rd Larouge (Italy)
4th Wings of Oracle (UK)
1Ton 1st Port Pendennis (UK)
2nd Vibes (USA)
3rd Zurich (Denmark ? )
4th Brava (Italy)
Overall 1st Italy
2nd USA
3rd GB
4th France
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| 1768.2 | Good stuff! | AKOCOA::DJOHNSTON | | Mon Aug 05 1991 09:59 | 3 |
| Keep these reports coming!
Dave
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| 1768.3 | tks a lot... | ROMOIS::DEANGELI | Abbasso tutte le diete!!! | Tue Aug 06 1991 11:39 | 10 |
| I agree with .2
This year for the 1st time italian national TV (RAI) is covering
a little bit of the event. I wonder if they're planning some co-
verage on the Fastnet. Maybe some of you would like to go on com-
puter coverage? If any, many thanks in advance.
Bye.
A
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| 1768.4 | | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Wed Aug 07 1991 09:54 | 51 |
| Result of Race 4 ( inshore triangle in Christchurch Bay ) - PROVISIONAL
( sorry I forgot to put in yesterdays results. I'll see if I still have
them )
50ft 1st Will (Japan)
2nd Corum Saphir (France)
3rd Champosa (USA)
4th Juno (GB)
2-Ton 1st Unibank (Denmark)
2nd Larouge (Italy)
3rd Rubin (Germany)
4th Bravura (USA)
5th Wings of Oracle (GB)
1-Ton 1st Vibes (USA)
2nd ABAP/4 (Germany)
3rd Brava (Italy)
4th Port Pendennis
Overall after 4 races
1st Italy 80.38
2nd USA 79.88
3rd GB 74.38
4th Germ. 64.00
5th France 58.50
6th Den. 56.00
7th Japan 37.00
8th Aus. 29.00
I don't know what the scoring scheme is, but there is obviously not
much between the first 3, with Germany just about in touch. There is
one more inshore race on Thursday, followed by the Fastnet, which the
points count 2.5 times.
One of the Japanese boats has lost its mast, and didn't race in race 4,
and the Australian boats are seriously off the pace.
Current top boat is Vibes, which won the one-ton race by miles
yesterday.
The weather was misty, with more wind ( force 3-5 ) and choppy seas.
British TV coverage is limited to 5 mminutes per night, but there is
usually a half hour program after the event is over.
Chris
yesterday
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| 1768.5 | | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Thu Aug 08 1991 04:08 | 7 |
| Sorry, I have lost the race 3 results.
Wings of Oracle has had 2 points deducted after a protest hearing found
that her spinnaker had hit the windward mark as it was being hoisted.
Chris
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| 1768.6 | Mr. Gardini seems to play hard... | ROMOIS::DEANGELI | Abbasso tutte le diete!!! | Wed Aug 14 1991 04:58 | 10 |
| Aug., 13th, 17.25 local time: "Passage to Venice", skippered
by Grant Dalton has won the Fastnet Race well ahead on "Merit"
and "Rothmans". The wind was so light that she has spent about
one hour to pass the arrival mark.
Does someone have the Admiral's Cup classement? Last news were
based on forecasts and so I prefer to cross my fingers.
Bye all.
Arrigo
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| 1768.7 | | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Wed Aug 14 1991 05:09 | 11 |
| The Admirals cuppers had not finished in time for this mornings (
wednesday ) papers. One of the Danish yachts reports all the AC boats
in sight, apart from Corum Saphir, the French 50ft which appears to
have got away from the fleet.
Basically, it seems to have been a very light wind lottery.
Hopefully, results tommorrow.
Chris
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| 1768.8 | France provisional winners. | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Thu Aug 15 1991 04:58 | 80 |
| Following a very light wind Fastnet, the French team pulled off a major
upset by winning the Admirals Cup, by a small margin from USA. The
Challenge from Italy and Great Britain faded as they finished 3rd and
4th. ( These results are provisional, but there are no known protests
outstanding. )
The French team, which is sponsored entirely by the Swiss Watch maker
Corum, were not very highly fancied, mainly because of lack of practice,
and the feeling that their 2-tonner was not really up to scratch. Their
50footer has spent little time in the water following the incident in
a US 50ft regatta in which the front 3 feet of her bow were removed in
a windward mark fracas ( she was called Capricorno at that regatta ).
However, the French weather information seemed to be better than the
others, and at one point, Corum Saphir was 7 hours ahead of her rivals.
This was reduced when they sailed into a big hole just short of the
finish, but they managed to stay ahead. At the end, the overall result
depended on the final position of the US one-tonner Vibes, if she
finished 3rd in her class, that would have given the cup to the USA,
but unfortunately she could only manage 5th.
Results.
Fastnet Race (605 miles)
50ft 1st Corum Saphir (France)
2nd Will (Japan)
3rd Container (Germany)
4th Champosa (USA)
...
7th Juno (UK)
2-ton 1st Bravura (USA)
2nd Corum Rubis (France)
3rd Bimblegumbie (Australia)
4th Rubin (Germany)
...
7th Wings of Oracle. (UK)
1ton 1st Courum Diamant (France)
2nd Brava (Italy)
3rd Zurich (Denmark)
4th Port Pendennis (UK)
5th Vibes (USA)
Overall
50ft 1st Corum Saphir
2nd Will
3rd Mandrake
4th Champosa
5th Juno
6th Container
7th Tuborg
8th Cyclone
2ton 1st Bravura
2nd Larouge
3rd Corum Rubis
4th Rubin
5th Unibank
6th Wings of Oracle
7th Bimblegumbie
8th Carino ( Did not compete after losing her mast in race 3 or 4 )
1 Ton 1st Brava
2nd Port Pendennis
3rd Vibes
4th Zurich
5th Corum Diamant
( rest of the results not published for some reason )
Outside the Admirals cup, the Italian Yacht Passage to Venice (
formally Windward Passage II ) won the Maxi race, with round-the-world
race boat Merit 2nd ( now with a ketch rig ) and Rothmans ( in her last
race before being put up for sale ) 3rd.
Chris
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| 1768.9 | Corrected Team results in full. | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Fri Aug 16 1991 04:35 | 34 |
| Apologies everybody, I made a mistake in the overall positions in
my note yesterday, so here they are full.
1st France 138.75 points
2nd Italy 138.13
3rd USA 134.00
4th GB 113.88
5th Germany 99.50
6th Denmark 99.00
7th Japan 66.75
8th Australia 57.00
The points were 1 per position plus a little bit ( .25 ? ) for coming
first, with the channel race points multiplied by 1.5, and the Fastnet
by 2.5, therefore the top 3 were very close.
This is the first time France has won the cup. They have had good boats
in the past, but have not been able to put in a good team performance,
including one memorable year when one of their crews mutinied before
the Fastnet. This year, they performed as a single unit, with matching
paint jobs and uniforms, sailing around as if tied together by rope.
There is considerable debate about the future of the cup, particularly
with the decline of IOR, but there will be one in two years time,
format to be decided. Meanwhile, in the even numbered years, they
will be running a new event, called the Commodores Cup, for teams of
3 IMS boats, exact format to be decided, there will be an offshore
bias, but no very long Fastnet-like race. Unfortunately, the Royal
Ocean Racing Club ( who run these events ) are rather more committed to
IMS than the British racing boat owners.
Chris
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| 1768.10 | | CHEST::BARKER | Happiness is a BCCI overdraft | Mon Aug 19 1991 04:33 | 34 |
| ITV showed a half hour program about the Fastnet and the Admirals Cup
on Saturday.
It showed lots of film of stationary yachts on a glass-smooth ocean,
going nowhere fast.
The French navigator of Corum Saphir ( 50ft ), claimed that he was
no genuis, but that the flyer that the whole team took was obvious
from the weather fax, but UK,USA and Italy were too busy covering each
other. They all went north of the rhumb line from Lands End to the
Fastnet, and ended up reaching up to the rock in new wind, while the
rest beat into fickle headwinds. Saphir was reputed to be 45 miles
ahead at one point, but this was slowly eroded to a final lead of only
1 mile ( from Will ) at the end.
The Film also seemed to show the French 1 tonner ( Corum Diamant )
finishing in front of all the 2 tonners. I will check the results
to make sure this wasn't just a poor piece of editing.
The British yachts were seriously disappointed with their performance,
and the whole crew of Juno crossed the finishing line below decks with
only a dummy hanging from the rigging, and the helm lashed. Both Mike
McIntyre, skipper of Juno, and Andrew Hurst ( skipper of Port
Pendennis for the Fastnet, while Lawrie Smith steered Rothmans ) said
they really wanted to go the same way as the French, but team
instructions said to cover the Italians. Two years ago however, similar
tactics ( covering the Danes this time ) lead to doing badly in the
Race, but winning the cup overall. It is a very fine line to tread, and
the French showed the advantage of being behind.
Roll on 1993,
Chris
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| 1768.11 | really a lottery... | ROMOIS::DEANGELI | Abbasso tutte le diete!!! | Mon Aug 19 1991 05:32 | 4 |
| ... and we lost it for .62 points!!!
Arrigo
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