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Lalli demolishes opposition

Italian hotshots show the way at the 2012 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Regatta

Sunday February 12th 2012, Author: Joy Dunigan, Location: United States

By a substantial margin, Italy's Luca Lalli aboard BLinsailing.com, alongside super tactician Lorenzo Bressani and crew Federico Michetti, won the 2012 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Regatta, graciously hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club. Celebrating in second overall is Grant Hood on Bohica, tied in points with third place finisher Michael Kiss on Bacio. Proudly rounding out the top five, Paul Reilly on Red Sky and Brian Kamilar on Funner.

A Top Corinthian team was recognised for the first time at the Miami Winter Regatta with honours going to Marcus Eagan on Cajun Underwriting, as he and his family based crew Marc and Andrew Eagan are 2012 Corinthian Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Regatta Champions.

The event name says it all. Winter. Teams awoke to cold temperatures and seriously big breeze for the final day of racing. The early breeze was so intense that PRO Bruce Golison decided to postpone on land for and hour, if anything, to simply allow it to warm up a little. "The breeze was about 18-22 knots on the course and trust me, there is a big difference between sailing in that type of breeze in 70 degree weather versus 60," said Golison. He later announced a noon start. The teams wholeheartedly agreed as they suited up with foul weather-gear for two more awesome races.

The first race of the day delivered more victory for Lalli, pretty much securing the regatta win. He came back from quite a deep rounding at the top mark to win out over Marcus Eagan's Cajun Underwriting, which practically dominated the entire race. Gybe for gybe, Eagan and Lalli battled the last 100 yards or so to the line. Lalli came in from the left, taking the win by a boat length. Eagan was second, Kamilar came third.

With the commencement of the last and final race of the event, Lalli had all but officially won the event. However, the real battle for the remaining top five was yet to be settled. Hood, Kiss, Reilly and Tabb were only separated by a two point margin. Jason Carroll's Argo led the charge at the first mark with Lalli right behind. Downwind, Lalli turned up the speed unsurprisingly taking over the lead, with Russ Lucas' Shimmer moving up for second, Hood holding firm in third. Lalli took the win just ahead of Kiss' Bacio who beat out Lucas to the line by a hair.

Results:

Pos Sail No Yacht Name Owner/Skipper R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Net
        1 2 3 4 5 6  
1 ITA 23 Blinsailing.com Luca Lalli 1 1 3 2 1 1 6
2 CAN 129 Bohica Grant Hood 8 8 1 1 8 4 22
3 USA 13 Bacio Michael Kiss 3 4 4 10 9 2 22
4 USA 414 Red Sky Paul Reilly 2 2 19 5 11 7 27
5 USA 133 Funner Sid Gorham 7 5 8 7 3 6 28
6 USA 088 Elevation Racing Anthony Tabb 5 13 5 3 7 11 31
7 USA 176 Cajun Underwriting Marcus Eagan 10 3 12 9 2 9 33
8 USA 08 Shimmer Russell Lucas 6 12 7 38/DNF 12 3 40
9 USA 21 Fu Marc Hollerbach 13 7 10 11 5 19 46
10 USA 43 M&M Racing Team Mary Anne Ward 9 18 16 8 4 10 47
11 USA 132 Argo Jason Carroll 17 6 23 6 15 8 52
12 USA 127 Flyer Chuck Holzman 18 10 17 15/RDG 6 12 60
13 USA 3 Bliksem Pieter Taselaar 11 9 2 20 20 20 62
14 USA 12 Mach Schnell Kent Haegar 15 16 6 13 18 16 66
15 USA 202 Sicktrix20 Geoffrey Pierini 16 11 22 14 13 15 69
16 USA 121 Dark Star Doug McLean 12 14 15 17 17 13 71
17 USA 280 Volpe Ryan DeVos 14 20 25 12 10 17 73
18 USA 147 Cinghiale Robert Wilber 4 23 11 4 38/DNC 38/DNC 80
19 CAN 102 Touch2Play Rob & Sandy Butler 22 21 13 16 19 14 83
20 CAN 666 Black Sheep Jon Messenger 19 17 20 18 23 18 92
21 USA 200 Diesel Tate Russack 28 26 34 23 14 5 96
22 USA 1 Melges 115 Erwan le Gall 39/DNS 15 24 21 16 24 100
23 USA 217 Slingshot Wes Whitmyer Jr 20 19 9 38/RAF 30 26 104
24 USA 140 Kill Bill Bill Griffin 27 24 14 25 22 22 107
25 USA 201 Big Booty Pat Eudy 23 22 21 38/DNF 21 21 108
26 USA 30 Vaya Con Dios Erik Post 21 34 28 15 28 27 119
27 USA 187 Tramp Tom Ritter 24 28 30 22 24 23 121
28 USA 119 Musckrat Love Thomas Bowen 26 25 33 19 29 25 124
29 CAN 170 Batteries Not Required Rhonda Joyce 30 31 18 26 31 29 134
30 USA 17 Blink 20/20 John Arendshorst 29 27 31 27 26 31 140
31 CAN 142 CAN142 David Pollock 32 29 26 38/DNF 27 28 142
32 USA 116 Kuai Daniel Thielman 33 32 29 24 32 30 147
33 USA 186 Details Lance Smotherman 25 30 27 38/RAF 33 33 148
34 USA 120 A Little Wicked Jason Knoll 34 33 32 28 25 32 150
35 CAN 222 LLE Paul Currie 31 35 35 38/DNF 34 38/DNF 173
36 USA 207 Velocity Bruce Broussard 39/DNC 39/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 191
37 USA 193 Hip Shooter John Hamilton 39/DNC 39/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 38/DNC 191

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