GER 1162 “Desert Holly” Stephan Link, Frank Butzmann & Michi Lipp win Gold Cup. Gold Cup Podium “Pow Wow” 2nd, “Desert Holly” Winners! and “Desert Eagle” 3rd. It was a nail biting final day of the Gold Cup in St Tropez as any number of teams could still win this much sought after trophy.. The last race started at 12.16 under a […]
Winners of race 4, ITA 77, Yevgeni Braslavets, Sergey Timokhov & Sergey Pugachev. It was another perfect sailing day outside the Gulf of St Tropez for the 88 teams competing at the 2017 Gold Cup. However, after losing one of the favourites DEN 411 “African Queen” helmed by Jorgen Schonherr due to a disqualification in race 3 […]
Race 2 start of the 2017 Gold Cup in St Tropez (photo by Elena Razina) The Gold Cup has started with 2 superb races out in the bay of Pampelonne’ in the most perfect conditions. Thermal southerly winds of 8 to 12 kts have provided the 88 teams with excellent races over a 2.4 nm […]
Hans-Detmar Wagner Cup Winners RUS 76 Dmitry Samokhin, Aleksey Bushuev & Andrey Kirilyuk. On the podium from left to right Markus Wieser, Ingo Ehrlicher & Thomas Auracher (2nd). Andrey Kirilyuk, Dmitry & Aleksey Bushuev (1st). Sergio Lambertenghi, Pedro Andrade & Charles Nankin (3rd). Then CORINTHIAN winners Philipp Ocker, Florian Grosser & Oliver Davies (GER 1135) 4th. In […]
RUS 76 “Rocknrolla” Dmitry, Andrey & Aleksey now lead Hans-Detmar Wagner Cup, Torbole’ after 7 races… With two more races completed today (6th Oct) in a surprising Northerly wind, the “Peler ” on Lake Garda, we have a new leader in this final Grade 1 event of 2017.. I spoke with “Petticrows” Tim Tavinor who was […]
GER 1068 Ingo Ehrlicher, with Markus Wieser & Thomas Auracher lead after 5 races.. Three more races were completed this afternoon in Torbole, Lake Garda and GER 1068 has taken top spot after 5 races… Yes, Ingo Ehrlicher is leading this very competitive fleet after winning race 3 followed by two 3rd places. Crewed by the “famous” Markus […]
25 Dragons return to Torbole’ for the final Grade 1 event of the 2017 season on Lake Garda. It was inevitable that numbers would be reduced for the 13th Hans-Detmar Wagner Cup this year despite the added attraction of the IDA making it a Grade 1 event. Although over 90 Dragons are about to participate in the […]
39th Regates Royal winners GBR 375 “Blue Haze” Lars Hendriksen, George Leonchuk & Ulrik Sanders. It was a tense final day for Lars Hendirksen in Cannes on Saturday (30th Sept) as an uncharacteristic 24th place in race 8 slightly “opened the door” for the chasing pack, in particular race 8 winner RUS 27 “Annapurna” Anatoly Loginov.. However, […]