29.11.2011 The organizers of the RC44 Championship Tour has unveiled the regatta's calendar for 2012 and the beginning of 2013.
The series' new season is set to begin on Lanzarote, where the 2011 RC44 World Championship has been held in November. The very first regatta of the RC44 Championship Tour-2012 will be staged on 8-12 February in Puerto Calero. Second event will be held since 28 March to 1 April in Cascais, Portugal. This city, situated at the Atlantic coast, hosts Audi MedCup's regattas and is set to host RC44 class for the first time.
Then the RC44 Championship Tour will make stops in Gmunden, Marstrand and Rovinj. And Auckland, New Zealand, is going to host the RC44 regatta in the beginning of the January 2013.
27.11.2011 Synergy's trimmer Alexander Ekimov summarizes the outcome of the RC44 World Championship, where the Russian team captured 5 wins in match racing.
"The World Championship was tough", says Synergy's yachtsman. "Not everyone managed to race well in the RC44 Championship Tour-2011, and the latter regatta provided with a chance to do better. That's way many teams tried to add some experience yachtsmen and provide themselves with new tacticians. Tommaso Chieffi served as tactician at Synergy. He has a lot of experience, his presence made us stronger. We fought all over the regatta, and, to my opinion, we raced better. But we need to practice more and to achieve better results".
Synergy won a total of 15 races in match racing during the RC44 Championship Tour-2011 and finished in top-3 in 5 fleet races.
20.11.2011 The RC44 World Championship is over. Synergy came in 3rd in race number 10 after holding this position from the first mark till the end. Artemis became the RC44 World Champion in fleet racing. Three fleet races have been held on Sunday to close the RC44 World Championship. Katusha won all three and climbed from 7th to 4th position in the standings.
Artemis and Ironbound were contenders for the fleet racing title, and they competed until the last race. The Americans has a chance to beat the opponents, they could capture gold medals, if they would beat the Swedish side by 7 position in race number 11. But they didn't manage to do so and got silver. Artemis won the title, Peninsula Petroleum finished third.
20.11.2011 Three more fleet races are planned to conclude the RC44 World Championship and the RC44 Championship Tour-2011. The opening warning signal is scheduled for 11:30 GMT (15:30 Moscow time), and the last race has to begin before 3 p.m. because of the prizegiving ceremony. The forecast says the yachtsmen will experience 22-23 degrees and up to 18 knots of wind speed today.
Artemis and Islas Canarias Puerto Calero share the top spot in fleet racing standing of the World Championship after 8 races. Third place is split by Ironbound and Peninsula Petroleum, each has 41 points.
19.11.2011 All four planned fleet races have been held on Saturday at the RC44 World Championship. Synergy's best result is 7th place in second race of the day.
The wind became stronger in Puerto Calero today as opposed to Friday. The participants saw 22-23 knots early in the afternoon. But it slowed down to 8-10 knots during the last race.
Synergy had two top-10 finishes on Saturday. The best result, 7th place, was achieved in second race (number 6 for the regatta). Synergy competed against Artemis and Peninsula Petroleum and overtook title contenders on the last run.
Team Aqua, Ironbound, Aleph and Artemis scored wins today (in order from 1st to 4th race). The latter still holds the lead in the standing for fleet racing. But the domestic Islas Canarias Puerto Calero has the same score.
19.11.2011 Saturday is the penultimate day of the RC44 World Championship. Increasing wind speed is expected for today on Lanzarote. Changes of wind's speed and direction forced the organizers of the regatta to cut the schedule from three races to just one. There was a possibility of canceling the action for the first time in the RC44 Championship Tour this season.
Still one race was staged, while the wind wasn't stronger than 8 knots. Artemis won it to become the leader of the standings in fleet racing, and Synergy came in ninth.
The forecast says the wind is going to strengthen with gusts up to 23 knots in Puerto Calero on 19 November. The program of the action includes four fleet races. The end of the World Championship and the season is just 6 races away.
18.11.2011 In contrast to previous two days of the RC44 World Championship, there was lack of wind in Puerto Calero on Friday, and only one fleet race was held.
The participant of the regatta were forced to wait about 2 hours before the starting sequence due to lack and instability of the wind. The organizers relayed the course and moved it in North-Eastern direction in an effort to catch the wind. Still the action has begun at 14:30. Only one race was staged.
Artemis was leading from start to finish and eventually captured the victory. The Swedish team became the leader of fleet racing part of the event. Synergy's yachtsmen went to the left side at the first run and found themselves in rearguard of the fleet. Nevertheless the Russians managed to come back and to return in top-10. Synergy came in 9th.
18.11.2011 Great Britain's Peninsula Petroleum leads the standings of the regatta after three fleet races.
Three more fleet races are set to be held in Puerto Calero today. Synergy gradually improved the results yesterday and finished twice in top-10.
In race number 3 the Russian crew made a big push on the last run to came in sixth and to overtake the defending RC44 Championship Tour's match racing title holder Team Aqua among others.
It's going to be warm again on Lanzarote today, the projected air temperature may be as high as 24 degrees, and the wind speed promises to reach 14-15 knots.
