(Chiavari, Italy)- This past weekend, the Yacht Club Chiavari played hosted to sixty five boats on the water in classes that ranged from IRC and ORC to one-designs like J/80s. In the end, the J/80s did incredibly well against all of their counterparts on the water racing for the Trofeo Marina Yachting.Saturday had little wind forecast from Southeast. Nevertheless, the starting was aggressive and complicated by the different pressures on the field of play towards the first mark. Despite the poor start, Daniela Magistro sailing JOCONDA ended up doing well in the first race. The right side paid for JENIALE, enough to close the distance to first, but unable to overtake his opponent. The wind dropped off for the last race of the day, but with the same results for 1st and 2nd. Afterwards, there was a "great happy hour at the YCC until dinner", according to one competitor.
On Sunday were totally different weather conditions, waiting for the thermal wind to overcome the light north wind. By mid-day the wind had risen to 15-17 knots with some great racing. This time JENIALE! took first with JOCONDA second, with COCCHI, JBES and MONTPRES filling out the top five, respectively. For the second race of the day, in similar conditions, the entire fleet lined up and locked-in battle to the first mark- essentially a close reach with no gennakers. In the end, it was JOCONDA again the quickest, having a sweet burst of speed and taking a well-deserved victory. Congratulations to Daniela Magistro for a job well done! For more J/80 Italy sailing information
