Rolex Capri Sailing Week 2006

The Rolex Capri Sailing Week is underway, with a 35 strong fleet battling for honours in Italy. So far Vincenzo ONORATO’s (ITA) Mascalzone Latino has made all the running in the Farr 40, whilst Leonardo FERRAGAMO’s (ITA) Cuordileone tops the Swan 45 leaderboard.

Day two of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week, organized by the Yacht Club Capri and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, saw the fleet set out at around midday in torrential rain and south westerly winds of around ten knots which gradually gave way to sunshine, blue skies and a breeze which had dropped to around six to seven knots and shifted to the southeast by mid afternoon.
The Race Committee stuck to first day formula with the Mini-Maxi and Comet divisions taking the first start before setting out on a coastal course of around 33 miles. The Farr 40 division and the Swan 45’s meanwhile competed on a windward-leeward course which the Race Committee was forced to re-position several times due to the continually shifting winds.
Mascalzone Stays On Top
Yesterday’s first race was won by Mascalzone Latino for the Farr 40s, while shifting winds in the second race meant none of the fleet managed to attain a firm lead until TWT, owned by Marco RODOLFI (ITA) and with Tiziano NAVA (ITA) calling tactics, soared ahead to take victory.
'Today’s sailing was very difficult, things went better for us in the second race although the shifty conditions after the rain passed were very tricky. We made the right decisions today,' commented NAVA. Overall results for the class, after five races, see Mascalzone Latino holding onto a firm lead on 16 points, eight points ahead of Giovanni MASPERO’s (ITA) Joe Fly and Serena GIANLUIGI’s (ITA) Enfant Terrible, which are both on 23 points. The Rolex Capri Sailing Week constitutes the second leg of the Farr 40 European Circuit which will next move to Porto Cervo from 1-3 June.
Swan 45 Battle
The Swan 45’s saw Andrea MASI’s (ITA) Startrading take the first race of the day while Carlo PERRONE’s (ITA) Atlantica Racing won the second. Nautor’s Swan boss FERRAGAMO’s Cuordileone managed a third and sixth place respectively, which was enough to remain in first place overall on 15 points, while Marco SALVI’s (ITA) Vertigo, with ex-Team New Zealander Hamish PEPPER (NZL) onboard, is in second place with 17 points ahead of Mintaka, owned by Stefano POLTI (ITA), on 20.
The Mini-Maxi and Comet divisions struggled with the shifting winds on a course which should have them from Capri north to Napoli before heading back down to the port of Capri. The Race Committee’s decision to score Friday’s coastal course as two races meant that Massimo VIOLATI’s (ITA) Ops 5 started the day with two firsts and hence first place overall in the Mini-Maxi division. Among the Comets, first place in corrected time, was claimed by Lino RONCONE’s (ITA) Andromeda and Guido MORISCO’s (ITA) Nur respectively, with Andromeda in first place overall heading into race three.
The fleet’s slow progress led the race committee to shorten the course to around 20 miles with Nur once again coming in first on corrected time among the Comets, while Giorgio RUFFO’s (ITA) Aleph took victory for the first time among the Mini-Maxi’s. The overall classification for the Mini-Maxi division sees Ops 5 and Aleph in first and second on four and five points respectively, ahead of third place Sei Tu II on nine points. A similarly tight situation among the Comets has Nur and Ola on five and six respectively, with Andromeda in third place on eight points.
Onsite meteorologist Filippo PETTRUCCI predicts another cloudy start to today, with skies clearing in the afternoon and light winds moving from west or southwest. Racing in today’s third and penultimate day of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week is due to start at 1200 local time.
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