Normally 44Cup events are decided in the final gybes of the last leg of the last race after four days of competition. But at the 44Cup Cascais, the second of the 2022 series for the high performance owner-driver one designs, the opposite was true. Charisma of Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons, set the benchmark high after scoring three bullets on the opening day. Their advantage may have gone up and down, but they ended the regatta having won five out of 11 races sailed. They finished the 44 Cup Cascais a massive 12 points ahead of Igor Lah’s Ceeref. Charisma’s result was especially unusual since at the 44Cup Lanzarote in February they finished last.
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44Cup Marstrand 2022 - Day 1
Njörðr, the Norse god of the sea and the wind was clearly smiling upon both the 44Cup Marstrand and local team Artemis Racing for the first day of the 2022 44Cup’s third event off western Sweden’s holiday hotspot of Marstrand. The eight teams and their high performance one design RC44 yachts were...
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44Cup Marstrand 2022 - Day 2
The waters off the Swedish holiday hotspot of Marstrand took on a different complexion on Day Two of 44Cup racing, with a sharp chop and the wind backed from the northwest to the south and gusting into the mid-high teens. But once again, the sun was out and the temperature perfect for three more ...
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44Cup Marstrand 2022 - Day 3
From southwesterly winds gusting up to 20 knots, and one of the sharpest sea states the class has endured, dropping to five to six knots and the lightest conditions sailable by the nimble RC44: the 44Cup Marstrand’s penultimate day provided a complete test for the teams off west Sweden’s holiday ...
