First day at the 44Cup Worlds in Portoroz, Slovenia. An ultra-light onshore breeze should have made for a straightforward opening day to the high performance one design’s pinnacle event of the season. In fact it demonstrated how the nimble RC44 can race meaningfully in practically no wind, but still scores were high with all eight teams suffering at least one big result. Despite a seventh place in today’s opening round when they were late for the start line, Hugues Lepic’s Aleph Racing went on to post a 2-1 final two races leaving the French team, at the end of the first day two points ahead of a trio of boats: Charisma, Ceeref and Team Aqua. (CC Available)

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