F18 Europeans 2018 @Costa Brava: Day 3

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Photos: Marc Gonzalez Alóma, more here – Mitch & his son Ruben. – Tight fight in each race for the third day of the 2018 Europeans. Great conditions once more with a building breeze ending in aournd 15-17knots for the last race. It was a bullet each for the top 3.
Mitch & Ruben Booth won R7, Henri-Wirtz R8 and Paschalidis-Trigonis race 9.

Danny & Costas showig their experience scoring all their races below 5th position, excellent consistence for them. After 9 races held in three days they maintain overall lead with 22pts, followed by Henri Demesmaeker-Wirtz (34pts) and Mitch & Ruben Booth (35pts).

Burvill-Puttman follow closely with 36pts in 4th overall and the rest are a bit behind of the podium spots.

On the Italians crews in the top ten Fantasia-Recalcati had two DNC today and trailed back in positions, but later results were modified to RDG 8.50 for them to enter the top ten again. I contacted Gianni to see what happened:  Gianni: “We were  sailing on starboard and we were hit badly by a boat on port, we broke spinnaker pole/ring and mainsail broken, in addition to compass lost etc”
The Italians teams are doing quite well and Gianni remarks how training together back home is paying now at the Euros.

Two more days of racing pending. Thursday being last day with 6 more races scheduled.

More details & pics later when available.
Top ten after 9. Full results here

Pos Sai Bow Crews Net Tot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Boat / Sail
1  GRE 7 45 Iordanis PASCHALIDIS Kostas TRIGONIS 22 27 1 3 5 2 2 5 5 3 1 Scorpion / 1D
2  BEL 3 7 Henri DEMESMAEKER Morgan WIRTZ 34 61 12 4 6 6 1 1 27 1 3 C2 / Goodall DS
3  ESP 1 10 Mitch BOOTH Ruben BOOTH 35 45 3 9 2 4 10 9 1 2 5 Scorpion / 1D
4  AUS 525 3 Brett BURVILL Max PUTTMAN 36 45 2 2 8 3 5 7 9 7 2 Edge / Next Gen
5  BEL 1 5 Patrick DEMESMAEKER Gilles TAS 52 83 4 10 31 10 3 2 13 6 4 C2 / Goodall DS
6  ITA 22 72 Lorenzo BIANCHINI Valentino RIGATTI 57 70 7 6 9 11 13 3 3 8 10 Scorpion / 1D
7  NED 77 66 Hans VAN DAM Marius VAN DAM 63 91 15 7 1 9 4 8 7 12 28 C2 / Goodall DS
8  ITA 969 59 Giovanni FANTASIA Davide RECALCATI 68 141 10 5 16 7 9 4 rdg 8.5 rdg 8.5 dsq) C2 /Landenberger DS
9  ITA 69 55 Elia MAZZUCCHI Jacopo LISIGNOLI 71 90 13 1 12 5 6 12 11 19 11 C2 / Oxo DS
10  BEL 33 75 Orion MARTIN Charles GATÉ 79 152 17 23 4 1 ufd) 6 2 13 13 Cirrus R2 / Northrop DS

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Day 3 Live Updates 
– Update Race 9: Paschalidis, Burvill, Henri, Patrick, Mitch
– Update Race 8: Henri , Booth , Paschalidis. Brett is streaming live at Goodall Design Fb

– Update:  Race 7 done: Bullet for Mitch & Ruben Booth.

2 Martin-Gaté
3 Bianchini-Rigatti
4 Radman-Cesarini
5 Paschalidis-Trigonis
Henri-Wirtz placed a 27th, Burvill-Puttman 9th.
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