But it is what it is and now we need to think about Puerto Portals. It’s a shame that we were not able to do a second race in the breeze yesterday, because today were exactly the same conditions and in those conditions we feel like we have good control of the boat and normally we have a good average. Losing by one point for the second time in a row is painful but we are happy with the way we sailed. “I think that Quantum had a solid week, and so did we, and this time it’s for them. If we were closer to the pin that we were protected by the pin, or if we were able to cross on port, maybe it could have been different, but it is what it is.” The pity was that the first minute after we gybed, we didn’t have a lot of breeze, so they extended a bit and from that moment on we were catching up, catching up, catching up – but, we were not able to cross and we had to gybe. We were talking about if we were gybing early we were going to go all the way to the layline a little bit more. But there’s nothing that we can regret, we planned the day in a good way, we executed it properly and we missed just one inch… I think we lost to Platoon by only five metres at the finish line.Ĭoming down the final run, we knew that we had a chance. “There are two ways to look at it: the good way is that if we miss the next two regattas by one point, we are winning the overall the bad thing is that we lost the last two regattas by one point and that is painful.
Increasingly, with three different regatta winners this season and a mixture of podium finishers it looks like this 2019 season will go to the wire on the Costa Smeralda, home waters for Azzurra who have that small lead on the circuit standings, Parada observes: By winning the final race Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon take third overall on count-back against Bronenosec. Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec won the first race today ensuring that all seven boats racing here won at least one race. Our goal coming here was to get back in touch and we have done that, so a small victory this week, but there are two more events with a big goal at the end of that,” Appleton concludes. I have had successes here and so you come in refreshed and confident but we just went about things in the same manner. You saw that today with the boats pushed right to the edge.”įor Appleton, who arrived in Cascais on the back of winning the RC44 Worlds title, the confidence of knowing the Portuguese Atlantic waters instilled a huge measure of confidence after last month’s low point. “The whole fleet are sailing to an unbelievably high level. We had some 30 knot gusts and some unreal conditions,” Appleton enthused. These guys did a fantastic job in tough, tough conditions. We would like to have done a few things a little bit better on the final day but we have closed up enough for the season, getting out of the hole that we had dug ourselves, and in this fleet we are pretty pleased. Though the Quantum Racing team were super consistent in the first half of the regatta – 2,1,2,2,1 – their second half was a little shakier and Azzurra pushed them hard to the regatta title with four second places from the last four races. But, equally, if we were to go on and finish second in the next two regattas by a single point we would win the 2019 title, so we are not too disappointed,” smiled Azzurra skipper-helm Guillermo Parada.įor Kiwi Cameron Appleton, who joined the Quantum Racing team this season in place of Terry Hutchinson, the victory is an important milestone. To have come so close in the end as we did last month, it is a bit hard to take.
Gepostet von 52 Super Series am Samstag, 20. If Azzurra won, they would have won the regatta, pushing Quantum Racing to second, and Bronenosec Sailing Team – TP52 would have taken third! ? PHOTO FINISH | The entire podium order came down to this nail-biting photo finish between Platoon Sailing Team and Azzurra.