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Samba Pa Ti claims the title

John Kilroy's team wins the Melges 32 World Championship in Newport, RI

Saturday September 29th 2012, Author: Joy Dunigan, Location: United States

The final day of competition at the 2012 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by the New York Yacht Club, had spectators on the edge of their seats for the last race of the ten part racing series.

John Kilroy Jnr on Samba Pa Ti triumphed over the 33 strong fleet to claim the Melges 32 World Champion ship title.

"We've worked so hard for so long to accomplish this," commented Kilroy during the awards ceremony. "We won in Key West, then felt as though we were a little off track. Officially, we are back where we need to be with this incredible win, a win I consider one of the most treasured I have ever won."

Kilroy was joined on board by tactician and Laser Gold medallist Paul Goodison and crew Federico Michetti, Harry Melges III, Luca Faravelli, Martino Tortarolo, Justin Smart and Marco Carpinello.

Second overall was Alec Cutler on Hedgehog with tactician Richard Clarke and in third, a deserving Steve Howe on Warpath with Morgan Larson on tactics.

Race number ten provided more surprises under overcast skies, light and shifty breezes out of the Northeast. Keisuke Suzuki from Japan on Swing, with tactician Jesper Radich put the fleet on alert when he challenged and overtook John Taylor's Ninkasi with Jeff Madrigali on tactics. Suzuki slowly but surely acquired a monster lead as the race progressed, then gained more momentum and extended furthermore earning over a two minute lead at the finish for the win. Edoardo Lupi's Torpyone had a great race finishing second, while Alex Jackson on Leenabarca claimed third.

Full results below

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Final results:

Pos Sail no Yacht Owner R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 Dis Tot
1 USA 13131 Samba Pa Ti John Kilroy 20 8 1 12 1 1 1 2 8 5 [20] 39
2 BER 1 Hedgehog Alec Cutler 5 7 2 4 7 6 4 4 11 10 [11] 49
3 USA 32917 Warpath Stephen Howe 2 15 4 7 8 3 8 3 12 20 [20] 62
4 USA 230 Pisces Benjamin Schwartz 4 1 19 2 4 13 11 14 2 19 [19] 70
5 USA 169 Bliksem Pieter Taselaar 7 16 6 11 5 11 7 1 9 18 [18] 73
6 USA 2 Goombay Smash William Douglass 3 3 12 29 9 9 3 21 7 14 [29] 81
7 ITA 2121 Mascalzone Latino Vincenzo Onorato 12 2 13 19 19 7 6 5 1 22 [22] 84
8 ITA 229 Bombarda Andrea Pozzi 1 6 9 3 2 26 21 6 30 16 [30] 90
9 ITA 487 Torpyone Edoardo Lupi 8 4 3 6 22 22 22 19 6 2 [22] 92
10 SUI 1 Robertissima 1 Roberto Tomasini Grinover 6 21 5 20 3 14 16 9 3 24 [24] 97
11 USA 128 Argo Jason Carroll 9 27 14 31 13 2 14 13 14 7 [31] 113
12 USA 180 Volpe Ryan DeVos 13 9 10 24 21 12 2 22 17 8 [24] 114
13 USA 136 Rougarou Andy Lovell Burt Benrud 14 5 16 13 6 4 30 15 16 25 [30] 114
14 USA 174 Leenabarca Alex Jackson 28 24 11 9 30 10 10 12 15 3 [30] 122
15 ITA 212 Fantastica Lanfranco Cirillo 11 14 7 26 16 15 23 24 5 12 [26] 127
16 JPN 233 Swing Keisuke Suzuki 15 13 34/DNF 1 23 25 17 20 19 1 [34] 134
17 IVB 007 INTAC Mark Plaxton 23 11 8 25 18 20 26 10 13 6 [26] 134
18 USA 1215 Delta Dalton DeVos 26 18 15 18 11 23 9 30 10 9 [30] 139
19 JPN 199 Mamma Aiuto Naofumi Kamei 16 10 22 14 10 24 19 8 31 17 [31] 140
20 USA 157 Mojo Steve Rhyne 19 12 27 16 17 8 15 23 22 13 [27] 145
21 USA 184 Bronco Michael Dominguez 18 23 23 21 12 17 18 16 4 21 [23] 150
22 SWE 321 Inga From Sweden Richard Goransson 32 19 34/OCS 22 15 29 5 7 29 15 [34] 173
23 JPN 218 Esmeralda Makoto Uematsu 21 28 17 10 14 19 27 11 26 31 [31] 173
24 USA 211 Arethusa Philip Lotz 25 25 18 5 26 18 25 28 23 11 [28] 176
25 USA 134 Catapult Joel Ronning 10 17 29 30 29 5 20 27 21 30 [30] 188
26 USA 201 Groovederci Deneen Demourkas 17 29 25 17 24 21 32 26 18 28 [32] 205
27 JPN 203 Yasha Samurai Yukihiro Ishida 24 22 24 27 20 16 33 17 27 32 [33] 209
28 JPN 5095 SLED Takashi Okura 34/DNF 34/DNC 20 8 32 31 12 31 20 26 [34] 214
29 USA 208 Celeritas Malcolm Gefter 22 26 30 23 27 33 24 18 24 27 [33] 221
30 USA 1315 Ninkasi John Taylor 31 20 26 33 28 27 29 32 33 4 [33] 230
31 USA 126 Flat Stanley T. Sheehan / T. McSweeney 30 34/DNF 28 32 25 28 13 29 28 23 [34] 236
32 USA 162 Zetiana Alexis Michas 27 31 21 15 31 32 28 25 32 33 [33] 242
33 JPN 210 Quetefeek Daisuke Kimura 29 30 31 28 33 30 31 33 25 29 [33] 266

 

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