(Riva del Garda, Italy)- The first pan-European J/70 event took place on
the spectacular waters of Lago di Garda in 2014. As usual, the host
club in Riva del Garda- the famous Fraglia de la Riva- played host to a
fleet of nearly 50 boats that first year. In the 4th edition for the
2018 Euro Cup Regatta, a new record fleet of seventy-three entries will
be vying for the prestigious trophy. J/70s from fourteen nations across the pantheon of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, & Turkey) and two international countries (Brazil & Cayman Islands) will be looking forward to three-days of sailing fantasia.
The famous Lake Garda “wind machine” during the summertime can be scheduled for racing like clockwork. After a lazy morning breakfast and stroll along the waterfront, the teams assemble at the yacht club and begin to saunter out to the starting area between 12 and 1 pm. As the breeze builds up to 15-20 kts from the south, the PRO simply sets the standard course and can, generally, conduct three races per day.
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for some of these teams to be factors on the leaderboard over the
weekend, Austrian Klaus Diem’s PFANDER, Belgian Patrick Van Heurck’s
JAXX, two Brazilians (Mauricio Santa Cruz’s MANDACHUVA and Marcos
Soares’ CAPIM CANELA), Cayman Islander Peter Cunningham’s POWERPLAY,
Spaniard Jose Maria “Pichu” Torcida’s NOTICIA, British Jeremy Thorp’s
PHAN, German Tobias Feuerherdt’s HANDWERKER, six Italians (Carlo
Alberini’s CALVI NETWORK, Claudia Rossi’s PETITE TERRIBLE, Luca
Domenici’s NOTARO TEAM, Vittorio Di Mauro’s TCL TEAM, Gianfranco Noe’s
WHITEHAWK, & Alessandro Zampori’s MAGIE DAS TEAM), Maltese Sebastian
Ripard’s CALYPSO, two Monegasques (Ludovic Fassitelli’s JUNDA- BANCA
DEL SEMPIONE & Stefano Roberti’s PICCININA), Dutchman Wouter
Kollmann’s PLAJ, two Polish (Krzysztof Krempec’s EWA & Pawel
Tarnowski’s APOTEX), three Russians (Valerya Kovalenko’s ARTTUBE RUS1,
Denis Cherevatenko’s JOYFUL, & Petr Nosov’s JESSIE TANTA), two Swiss
(Ruedi Corbelli’s JIM & Julian Flessati’s JILL), and the Turkish
Emir Icgoren’s AMEERA JET. For more J/70 EURO CUP sailing information
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