Three new champions at the 2023 ORC Mediterranean Championship

At last, after two days with weather at both ends of the spectrum, today conditions were perfect for completing three races and determining an overall winner at the 2023 ORC Mediterranean Championship, supported by Rolex as Official Timepiece.

The easterly breeze from 9-16 knots was perfect for close racing today, with many races won and loss by only a few seconds in corrected time throughout the fleet, indicating a quite high level of competition.

For example, in today’s first race, Karl Kwok’s TP 52 BEAU GESTE defeated Fernando Chain’s Swan 45 FROM NOW ON by only 3 seconds in corrected time after a relatively short 40-minute race. In the next race BEAU GESTE came out on top again, this time by only 1 second over Antonio Guiul’s TP 52 BLUE CARBON after nearly an hour of sailing, with Roberto Monti’s TP 52 BLUE trailing in third place by only 39 seconds.

This pattern repeated in the final race of the day in Class A where a new team emerged at the top: Bob Pethick’s Cookson 50 TESTACUORERACE, who defeated second-placed BLUE CARBON by only 2 seconds, BEAU GESTE in third place by 15 seconds, and Claudio Terrieri’s Swan 45 BLUE SKY in fourth place by only 22 seconds.