(Pornic, France)- The Club Nautique Pornic recently hosted twenty-three
J/80s for the annual Pornic J-Cup sailed from June 27th to 29th on
Pornic Bay. After sailing seven races on a beautiful weekend in France,
it was the long-time J/80 Champion, Eric Brezellec on COURIER JUNIOR
that took the overall Pornic J Cup championship with his crew of Nicolas
Richard, Damien Dayot, Julie Richeux, and Herve Corlay. The COURIER
JUNIOR team did not even have to sail the last race, but they did
anyhow, and finished with a stunning scoreline of two 1sts and five 2nds
to win by the enormous margin of ten points. The first day of sailing was gorgeous, with the promised postcard perfect conditions greeting the fleet with winds from 270 to 340 degrees and blowing 6-12 kts under sunny skies. As if the first day was not nice enough, the second day brought even more sunny conditions with westerly winds in the 8-17 kts range. The, surprise surprise, the final day of racing produced more sun and a southerly breeze, for a change, with sunny conditions and winds in the 5-7 kts range that ultimately did shift to the regular seabreeze from the west, again!!
Beside COURIER JUNIOR’s dominating performance, also loving the benign sailing conditions was ATLANTIS, with skipper Gael Jaffrezic and crew of Benjamin Diouris, Hugues Bernard and Jean-Yves Jaffrezic taking second by a comfortable margin. Their consistent record of 5-3-5-5-2-1-4 for 20 pts net was five points in front of Herve Leduc’s PIERRE OCEANE in third place. Leduc’s crew consisted of Loic Avram, Stephane Barrazu and Jacky Lambert. The rest of the top five was determined by a tie-breaker between JO’LINE and CNP BROUILLON LASSALLE, both sitting on 27 pts each. Winning the tie-break was Hugo Abeguile’s JO’LINE with crew of Luc Pillot, Paul Medinger, Elliot Le Dem and Pierre-Louis Ramee. Fifth was Remi Rabbe’s crew that included Frank Vallet, Guillaume Accarion, Thibaud Lab and Geoffrey Banasiak. For more J/80 Pornic J-Cup sailing information
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