3rd place at "Master de España"

During this week we've been sailing in Baiona, Galicia. Tuesday was training day, wednesday and thursday round robin. The four teams that qualified for the semifinals on friday were; Morvan, Michele Perris ( with Paolo Cian and his crew), us and Ian Ainsley.

Morvan chose Perris as opponent for the semifinals, so we had to sail against Ainsley.

The result of this stage was a final between Morvan ( 3-1 against Perris) and Ainsley (3-1 against us).

Finally Ainsley won 3-2 against Morvan and we won 2-0 against Perris in the petite final. So final results for this Master de España, Grade 2 are:

1 Ian Ainsley

2 P.A. Morvan

3 Manuel Weiller

4 Michele Perris

5 Jose Ponce

6 Daniel Maestre

7 Rui Boia

8 Javier Aguado

9 Paco Sanchez

10 Margarita Cameselle

11 Alberto Garcia

12 Francesco Bruni (cancelled his participation)

Sebatian Col takes the trophy home

Sebastian Col from france won 2 - 0 against Magnus Holmberg in the finals of portugal Match Cup. In th petit final, Mathieu Richard won over Damien Iehl.

Finishing the Round Robin

After two days of few racing (yesterday we did not sail) we finished the round robin racing against Ian Williams and Paolo Cian. In the first we won with a big advantage from the start, and in the second we lost after getting it close in the last downwind. That makes 3 wins out of 11 races.
Tomorrow the semifinals and the finals will be sailed. Magnus Holmberg, Sebastian Col, Mathieu Richard and Damien Iehl will fight for Portugal Match Cup.

Portugal Match Cup - World Match Racing Tour

Pablo Torrado as bowman

Rubrio Basilio as pitman and tailer

Luis Brito as trimmer

Fede Armeñanzas as trimmer

Manu Weiller as skipper

This is the team for our first WC grade event. Yesterday was the first day of racing, we started with a win against Alvaro Marinho's team, but then we had 4 loses... we had a bad first contact with the SM40 boat, we are the only team that never sailed this boats before, and it looks like we are paying for that on our first time.

The team did an awesome job, and we were really close to win against Mathieu Richard but the photofinish gave him as the winner.

Today we'll start our second journey, we'll improve our boathandling and will fight for every point. We'll have a more positive post tomorrow, for sure!!!

We lost our second final this week...

Everything started fine, we won the first race of the finals clearly.
After that, the wind started to raise, and we arrived to 20 knots.
The portuguese team did a great job in boathandle, much better than us, and no matter if we won the starts, they would pass us and win 3 consecutive races. So we lost another final this week, but we'll keep trying!!!
Thanks for following, we'll be in Portugal Match Cup next week!

We just got into the finals!

After finishing the two round robins in first position, we had to choose our opponent for the semifinals, we chose the russian team that ended fourth in the second stage.
We managed to win 3 - 0 and get to the finals. We are very happy with our performance and are prepared for sailing the finals tomorrow. Our opponent is not clear yet, Alvaro Marinho and Simone Ferrarese are in a tie right now, they are still sailing.
Thanks for following! See you tomorrow!

Image of "Stadio del vento", name of the racing area.

After day 1 - tie on the 1st position

The championship began with an awesome day of racing. Good wind and awesome temperature after moscow. The Race Comitte was able to finish the first round robin and to start 2 flights of the second.
After this, we and Alvaro Mariño's team from Portual are on position 1 with equal points.
Tomorrow the second round robin will be finished, and the pairing for the semifinals will be set.
See you tomorrow!