F18 ARG: Mar del Plata Sailing Week 2020, Day 1 by Matías Capizzano
All images by Matias Capizzano / Semana Internacional del Yachting, Mar del Plata 2020. More at Capizzano Fb. Mar del Plata sailing week is the Best annual Regatta in Argentina. Located 400kms from Buenos Aires on the Atlantic Coast, Mar del Plata provides a top notch racing course.
On the racing, 3 of the Arg crews who finished in the Top ten at Costa Brava F18 Worlds 2019 are racing: Cruz Gonzalez Smith – Mariano Heuser (3rd) , Agustín Krevisky-Tigre Benitez (6th) and Sergio Mehl (8th) at helm now sailing with Nico Aragones.
Agustín & ‘Tigre’ (Phantom / 1D DS) lead after 7 races, with Vilate-Dorbessan (Scorpion/1D) in second and Salerno-Andres Grimaldi (Phantom/ 1D) third overall.
Two more days of racing pending for the F18 Class. Later rest of dinghy Classes will start racing.
| Pl | Sail | Crew | Crew | T | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 66 | Agustin | Krevisky | Juan Martin | Benitez | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | (6) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 111 | Christian | Vilate | Octavio | Dorbessan | 18 | (7) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | 6 | Hernan | Salerno | Andres | Grimaldi | 19 | (8) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 21 | Sergio | Mehl | Nicolas | Aragones | 21 | 4 | 1 | 4 | (7) | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 747 | Juan | Faustin | Juan Cruz | Benitez | 25 | 2 | 4 | (6) | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 1985 | Francisco | Venetucci | Nicolas | Quagliotti | 34 | 5 | (8) | 7 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | 1124 | Juan | Grimaldi | Matias | Grimaldi | 36 | 6 | 7 | 8 | (10) | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 11 | Cruz | Cruz G Smith | Mariano | Heuser | 40 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ( dnf ) | dnf | dnf |
| 9 | 29 | Gustavo | Rizzi | Ernesto | Lagrava | 51 | (dnf) | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| 10 | 14 | Ambrosio | Solari | Santiago | Fischer | 59 | 9 | ( dnf ) | dnf | 9 | 9 | 8 | dnf |
| 11 | 27 | Pedro | Anino | Alejandro | Rosso | 67 | ( dnf ) | dnf | 10 | 11 | 10 | dnf | dnf |
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