Valencia
Updated:03/07/2021 19: 15h
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They insisted on making three sleeves and did them. It had not been a day to mount three starts, but the Pablo Aliaga Regatta Committee is aware that if the regatta wants to grow, it must give at least six starts in the three days that the Queen’s trophy lasts and with very good judgment they gave them , leaving a last one for tomorrow.
Three rounds from low to high with winds oscillating from 8 to 10 knots and a fleet eager to fight on the windward-leeward routes, very tactical and difficult to haggle due to the low prevailing wind in the Manel Casanova race course. The Sanchez Barcaíztegui Martial Cup Queen Trophy in Tribute to the Spanish Navy wants to reign in the Mediterranean and its director, Rafael Chirivella, will not cease to achieve it.
The boats measured in ORC are the ideal ones to form a fleet in these international regattas and year after year it is shown that sailing is no longer carried out in real time, so the fight is against one’s own clock. It is the return to the sail of the technicians, the sail of the fight between the crews that have the obligation to get the ideal numbers from the boats to win.
Catalin Trandafir’s Romanian GS44 ‘Essentia’, with Portuguese Olympic medalist Hugo Rocha on tactic, is the new overall leader of the ORC1-2 ‘queen’ class. With two seconds and a third on the day, he now surpasses the GS43 ‘M8’ (RCN Valencia) of José Luis Francés by one point, who has totaled a fifth, a first and a third.
Four points behind the leader is the Rodman 42 ‘Maverta’ (RCN Torrevieja) under the command of José Ballester, winner in 2018, 2017 and 2015, who, with a third, a second and a first, has been among the three that tomorrow they will fight for the title.
The ‘battle’ between the most widely distributed units of divisions ORC0,1 and 2 in a single group has caused vessels up to 15.90 meters in length to have had to defend their ‘rating’ against units of 12-13 meters .
And this trend has been maintained in the third heat, today’s first, with a route of 8 miles (14 km) under a southeast component wind of 8 knots (14 km / h), which has been rising to 11 (20 km). / h) at the end of the day.
The Swan 50 ‘Tenaz’ (RCN Barcelona) by Pablo Garriga has once again been the winner in real time with 1h.07: 41, but the Swan 45 ‘Brujo’ (RCN Valencia) by Alberto de Castro, with the veteran Argentine skipper Axel Rodger, has given a whole recital against the clock, to enter third with a time of 1h.13: 12.
This record has given him the victory in the sleeve in absolute compensated time with 8 seconds of advantage over the GS 44 ‘Essential’ of Catalin Trandafir. The ‘Tenaz’ has been sixth in the test at 2:14 of the winner.
The same happened in the fourth round, with a 7-mile (12 km) route where the ‘Tenaz’ won again in real time (1h.05: 47). The rating (compensation factor) was once again decisive.
And it was the GS43 ‘M8’ (RCN Valencia) of José Luis Francés, skippered by José Luis Serrano and with the Spanish Formula Kite champion Alejandro Climent on board, who entered eighth with a time of 1h.18: 21, who he was imposed in absolute compensated with three seconds of advantage over the Rodman42 ‘Maverta’ (RCN Torrevieja) of Pedro Rebollo.
In the last round of the day, a 7-mile (12 km) route, Toni Guiu’s Tp52 ‘Blue Carbón’ (RCN Barcelona), who did not finish the second round, won in real time with a time of 1h.00: 27. It was of little use to him because he was tenth of the sleeve in absolute compensation.
Pedro Rebollo’s ‘Maverta’, who entered eleventh with a time of 1h.13: 34, was the absolute winner with a three-second advantage over Romanian ‘Essentia’, who was the leader of the general classification, by overcoming in four seconds the Valencian ‘M8’ and lead him by one point before tomorrow’s final sleeve.
In the ORC3 division, José Coello’s Sinergia 40 ‘Carmen Elite’ (RCR Cartagena) remains intractable and after winning three more rounds today, remains undefeated and surpasses by six points the Dufour40 ‘Lady’ of the Uruguayan Nicolás González, who has added a third and two seconds.
In the ORC4, the CT33 ‘Ardora III’ (RCN Denia), has placed leader of the division with three firsts and surpasses in two points to Platú 25 ‘Potxin (RCN Valencia); between the two will be victory tomorrow.
Tomorrow Sunday, starting at 12:00 hours, the third and last day will be played in which the last round will be played for all ORC divisions.
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