First blood to Section 16

Richard Davies and crew win Porto Venere Melges 20 regatta

Sunday April 17th 2016, Author: James Boyd, Location: Italy

Richard Davies on Section 16 along with tactician Chris Rast and crew member Manuel Modena are the Porto Venere Melges 20 Sailing Series Champions this year.

Rast and Modena are new to the Section 16 team, but not so new to success in the Melges classes, in particular the Melges 24. Rast is the reigning Melges 24 World Champion. Modena won the 2005 Worlds on the bow alongside America's Cup veteran Jimmy Spithill.

The overcast, windy conditions clearly played to Davies' best advantage as his daily 2-1-2 performance sealed the deal on the first event of the 2016 Melges 20 Sailing Series.

Guido Miani's Out of Reach earned MVP of the event, bouncing back effectively from a couple of boat troubles to place second overall. Miani collected more bullets than anyone else this weekend - an impressive total of five out of the eight races completed.

Michael Illbruck's Pinta completed the podium positions placing third overall.

The 2016 Porto Venere Corinthian title went to Wilma Homann on Fantastichina! Homann rose to the occasion on Saturday and held her own through the final races on Sunday. Congratulations also to runner up Valerio Galati, the very cool named under-30.

The Melges 20 season continues on May 6-8 when the fleet moves on to Porto Ercole, Italy.

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Results

Pos Sail no Yacht Owner/Skipper R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Net
1   SUI 16 SECTION 16 Richard Davies 1 2 3 9 18 2 1 2 20
2   MON 333 OUT OF REACH Guido Miani 25 1 42/DNS 1 1 1 2 1 32
3   USA 4014 PINTA Michael Illbruck 22 25 1 8 6 3 4 4 48
4   ITA 65 STIG Alessandro Rombelli 10 31 6 10 4 19 5 10 64
5   ITA 192 MEZZALUNA Marco Franchini 6 18 4 4 11 20 33 7 70
6   MON 301 RAYA Matteo Marenghi Vaselli 2 8 10 2 42/DNS 5 19 25 71
7   ITA 23 MASCALZONE LATINO JR. Achille Onorato 17 10 14 3 2 16 20 11 73
8   RUS 296 RUSSIAN BOGATYRS Igor Rytov 13 26 7 6 9 24 6 9 74
9   RUS 276 ROCKNROLLA Dmitry Samokhin 20 3 2 12 15 9 14 32 75
10   POL 264 MAG TINY Krzysztof Krempec 21 13 15 18 8 14 7 3 78
11   ITA 050 FREMITO D'ARJA Dario Levi 33 33 11 13 5 4 3 12 81
12   RUS 47 KOTYARA Oleg Evdokimenko 16 6 5 14 34 6 12 23 82
13   RUS 2 PIROGOVO Alexander Ezhkov 12 7 18 7 13 17 16 21 90
14   GER 135 FANTASTICHINA (Corinthian) Wilma Homann 9 21 8 20 19 12 9 18 95
15   DEN 150 UPUPUP Bo Boje Pedersen 14 12 13 19 17 13 8 42/DNS 96
16   ITA 149 CAMAY Lauro Bonora 8 22 20 11 14 10 24 20 105
17   RUS 261 NIKA Vladimir Prosikin 18 5 9 23 24 29 15 15 109
18   MON 713 SYNERGY GT Valentin Zavadnikov 24 29 25 5 3 11 42/UFD 13 110
19   ITA 270 MAOLCA Manfredi Vianini Tolomei 28 19 12 29 12 28 11 14 124
20   ITA 104 #MELGES 20 NEXT (Corinthian) Valerio Galati 19 15 21 17 16 42/UFD 10 27 125
21   SWE 202 INTERMEZZO (Corinthian) Johannes Lind-Widestam 4 24 34 24 26 7 42/UFD 8 127
22   ITA 112 PECCERE' Mirko De Falco 15 16 29 16 21 15 32 16 128
23   RUS 294 PIROGOVO EVOLUTION Leonid Altunov 5 4 26 32 25 30 22 22 134
24   ITA 158 TOMAHAWK Stefano Santucci 23 9 17 22 20 22 26 28 139
25   RSA 219 TNT racing Tina Plattner/ Tony Norris 3 35 27 27 32 8 17 42/DNS 149
26   POL 208 STARTELEKOM Valdemar Salata 37 28 32 15 22 18 18 17 150
27   ITA 157 ITA 157 Francesco Farneti 27 27 22 42/UFD 7 34 31 5 153
28   SUI 231 POURSUITE Bernard Borter 11 23 30 21 27 33 28 24 164
29   ITA 106 ASANTE SANA Claudio Dutto 7 32 35 31 30 32 27 6 165
30   RUS 107 LEVIATHAN Maxim Titarenko 26 36 23 25 10 25 42/UFD 26 171
31   RUS 137 ALEX TEAM Alexander Mikhaylik 32 20 16 42/UFD 23 26 30 30 177
32   ITA 154 SPIRIT OF NERINA (Corinthian) Mirko Bargolini 29 34 24 26 29 23 36 19 184
33   RUS 185 ELF Sergei Sobolev 35 11 36 28 28 38 23 29 190
34   ITA 181 HANNEKEN (Corinthian) Simone Anichini 36 17 31 42/DNS 42/DNS 21 13 34 194
35   RUS 275 VICTOR Alexander Novoselov 31 30 19 33 35 27 34 33 207
36   RUS 25 PATH Anatoly Karachinskiy 30 14 28 42/DNS 42/DNS 31 21 42/DNS 208
37   AUT 159 N.N. (Corinthian) Klaus Schober 38 37 33 30 31 37 35 31 234
38   GER 161 MOJITO (Corinthian) Florian Rixner 39 38 38 35 33 35 29 35 243
39   RUS 156 MARUSSIA Marina Kaverzina 34 39 37 34 42/DNS 36 25 42/DNS 247
40   ITA 109 CIRCOLO VELA ERIX Circolo Vela Erix . 40 40 42/DNF 42/DNS 42/DNS 39 42/DNF 42/DNF 287
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