District 9  Regatta Report

Sat Dec 28th, 2013 through Mon Dec 30th, 2013

Winners Diego Negri and Sergio Lamberthengi

Winners Diego Negri and Sergio Lamberthengi

2013 Nice Christmas Regatta

 

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Results for six races on Dec. 28, 29 and 30 at Nice, France.

Report by sailing-news.ch:
Day One: No sun and an afternoon with rain showers was the opening day of the Star Christmas Race at the Côte d'Azur. Two races were sailed in light winds, the second race had even to be shortened, and in both heats, Diego Negri/Sergio Lambertenghi ITA were the winners. They clearly lead the overall rankings ahead of Michel Vaucher/Didier Pfister SUI and Lorenz Zimmermann/Nils Hollweg SUI. The local favorites Xavier Rohart/Stéphane Pontre FRA are in 4th place (finishes of 10 and 4).

Day Two: Instead of the usual morning North wind, an unconstant shifty Westerly breeze dominated the race course on the Bay of Nice. Two races were sailed again with Diego Negri/Sergio Lambertenghi ITA adding a third bullet before they were defeated for the first time by Papathanassiou/Tsotras GRE in the fourth heat. The Greeks and Bailey/Bailey GBR at equal points occupy rank 2 and 3. Only one point behind are the French youngsters Martin and Rémi Tenconi FRA.

Day 3 report by Jean Francois Puissegur:
The North Thermic breeze raised as usual but a bit stronger than yesterday. 12 to 15 knots, perfect condition, no clouds in the Nice Sky. Except for the temperature being a bit cold we were close to “champagne sailing”. Two races were held as expected by race committee officer, Dominique Giorgi (also Nice fleet secretary.

Race 5:
In the first one, after two general recalls the race committee raised the black flag but without any damages on the third start attempt for the 33 starboats. It was a great fight between 3 Olympics team. Emilios took the best start at the pin end and secured his position until the end even if Diego came back close to the Greeks and forced them to enter into a match race in the last upwind leg until the end of the race. Xavier Rohart with crew Stephane Pontre managed to secure their third place. The rest of the fleet arrived in two packs not so far from the first three. That means that in this race everybody had the chance to play the game at his own level.

Race 6:
Once again, after a general recall, the race committee decided to raise the black flag. Only one boat was BFD, and Xavier and Diego took the best starts at the pin end. Diego tacked immediately to secure the right and arrived at the upwind mark with a comfortable lead ahead of French local sailors Terrol & Ferey and Astorri/Vongher from Viareggio. Diego extended his lead until the end of the race and claimed the 57th Nice Christmas regatta with 4 bullets in 6 races and a confirmation of his great season after his fourth place in Star Sailors League finals.

This year was a great edition, with 33 boats from 10 nations and a very high level regatta. We had the chance to be supported by SSL with live tracking and Virtual regatta team, we hope to build a 58th edition much more exciting in the same trend. Hope to see you in 2014. I wish you all an happy new year !


Star
Place Boat Skipper Crew Sail #: Fleet 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
1 ITA 8266   Diego Negri   Sergio Lamberthengi   ITA 8266   VE   1.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 6
2 GRE 8434   Emilios Papathanasiou   Antonis Tsotras   GRE 8434   GR   15.0 8.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 17
3 FRA 8237   Xavier Rohart   Stephane Pontre   FRA 8237   NI   12.0 2.0 10.0 4.0 3.0 4.0 23
4 MON 7624   Andrea Orlando   Jean-Gabriel Charton   MON 7624   MO   8.0 5.0 5.0 11.0 4.0 6.0 28
5 GBR 8097   Graham Bailey   Philip Bailey   GBR 8097   NI   14.0 6.0 3.0 2.0 8.0 20.0 33
6 FRA 7877   Martin Tenconi   Yves Tenconi   FRA 7877   FdeSA   3.0 9.0 4.0 5.0 16.0 22.0 37
7 SUI 7295   Michel Vaucher   Didier Pfister   SUI 7295   G   5.0 3.0 13.0 15.0 12.0 11.0 44
8 SUI 8482   Lorenz Zimmermann   Nils Hollweg   SUI 8482   LUV   4.0 7.0 8.0 18.0 15.0 10.0 44.0001
9 ITA 8402   Raffaello Astorri   Alessandro Vongher   ITA 8402   Viar   21.0 21.0 7.0 7.0 5.0 7.0 47
10 FRA 7778   Olivier Terrol   David Ferey   FRA 7778   FdeM   6.0 24.0 34.0 [DNF] 6.0 10.0 2.0 48
11 ITA 8219   Giovanni Coppo   Giovanni Bradanini   ITA 8219   Man   9.0 4.0 6.0 16.0 13.0 34.0 [DNF] 48.0001
12 SUI 7990   Daniel Stegmeier   Beat Stegmeier   SUI 7990   TB   2.0 23.0 16.0 23.0 6.0 3.0 50
13 FRA 8375   Jean-FrançOis PuisséGur   Nathan Babonneau   FRA 8375   NI   20.0 10.0 15.0 9.0 18.0 8.0 60
14 GER 7971   Ulrich Vater   Karsten Morf   GER 7971   BF   17.0 15.0 9.0 13.0 7.0 18.0 61
15 SUI 8457   Hans Stoeckli   Urs Spar   SUI 8457   Rap   16.0 19.0 18.0 8.0 11.0 9.0 62
16 AUT 8249   Franz Kloiber   Englbert Prutsch   AUT 8249   SMA   7.0 16.0 23.0 10.0 17.0 13.0 63
17 ITA 8435   ROBERTO RIGHI   Davide Mugnaini   ITA 8435   Viar   30.0 12.0 11.0 20.0 9.0 12.0 64
18 GBR 8151   Julia Bailey   Tim Tavinor   GBR 8151   NI   25.0 13.0 12.0 12.0 21.0 14.0 72
19 SUI 8133   Urs Infanger   Oleg Chtchetinine   SUI 8133   LUV   18.0 11.0 20.0 14.0 20.0 23.0 83
20 ITA 7   Dominik Fallais   Simon Fallais   ITA 7   Aac   24.0 28.0 14.0 25.0 14.0 15.0 92
21 GER 7522   Ewald Koestler   Marcel Beltz   GER 7522   Sta   23.0 22.0 19.0 19.0 19.0 19.0 98
22 SUI 8085   Gerald Birbaum   Martine Birbaum   SUI 8085   G   11.0 26.0 27.0 28.0 22.0 17.0 103
23 SUI 7399   Felix Wurtich   Colin Nussbaum   SUI 7399   Sem   19.0 14.0 21.0 26.0 29.0 24.0 104
24 FIN 7795   Christian Oller   Gustav Oller   FIN 7795   Fin   27.0 29.0 22.0 21.0 24.0 16.0 110
25 SUI 8316   Jean Paul Hirt   Marc Trinquart   SUI 8316   G   10.0 27.0 24.0 31.0 25.0 25.0 111
26 FRA 7038   Michael Willis   Patrice Loche   FRA 7038   VF   13.0 18.0 28.0 29.0 27.0 27.0 113
27 FRA 6844   Fabrice Dot   Olivier Vallone   FRA 6844   NI   26.0 32.0 17.0 17.0 26.0 28.0 114
28 FRA 8424   Herve Godest   Jean-Louis Menoret   FRA 8424   FdeP   28.0 17.0 25.0 24.0 23.0 30.0 117
29 GER 7948   Alexander Tennigkeit   Heike Schoeller   GER 7948   UB   22.0 30.0 30.0 27.0 30.0 21.0 130
30 FRA 7527   Philippe Courteaud   Thibaud Courteaud   FRA 7527   IF   31.0 31.0 26.0 22.0 28.0 26.0 133
31 POL 7516   Ireneusz Stawiany   Jakub Stawiany   POL 7516   ISOL   32.0 20.0 32.0 33.0 31.0 29.0 144
32 ITA 7335   Antonio Rubino   Alain Kornyeli   ITA 7335   VF   29.0 25.0 31.0 30.0 32.0 31.0 146
33 FRA 8270   Thierry Petitjean   Petitjean   FRA 8270   VF   34.0 [DNC] 34.0 [DNC] 29.0 32.0 33.0 32.0 160

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