Today "Les Gazelle de mer" class gave the best story of the event.
After the first two races, Cape Arrow, Visione and P2, were all tied with six points going into today's race: a "Wrong Way Around" race of 24.5 nm.
Francesco De Angelis' clever tactic was well responding against Unfurled, which was our direct competitor of this final race: Cape Arrow leaded the fleet for almost the first half of the race.
Ph. Carlo Borlenghi/Sea Way
The first place overall was just few miles in front of us, when a silly but fatal damage to the Genoa, forced us to dramatically slow down our run to the podium!
The bitter taste of our final forth place is nothing if compared to the performance and results gained by Cape Arrow during these two weeks, both at Loro Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta and here at St Barth.
Ph. Carlo Borlenghi/Sea Way
Now it is time to turn page, set the boat to welcome our next customers for the last charter of the season and then to leave the Caribbean for the Med.
A racing and charter summer season is waiting for us and we are really looking forward to sharing Cape Arrow's performance and comfort with new guests.
See you all,
Cape Arrow crew
2 comments:
"fatal damage to the Genoa" sounds bad. What happened?
Ciao, Art e Tracy
Fatal… we should have better used another word or the italic!
Fortunately what happened was not fatal at all, it was just a lashing on the clew that went loose. By the time the bowman understood the damage was only related to an inexpensive strop of spectra, half of the fleet passed us, with "tragic" consequences… we were so disappointed that we overreacted by calling this normal mishap "fatal damage"!
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