Punta Ala, Italy – The Trofeo Gavitello d’Argento 2008 concluded last Sunday with an extended fleet including 40 ORC, 42 Irc, 17 X-35, 14 Este 24 and 14 Laser Sb3’s coming from 7 countries, competing for the Mediterranean IMS Championship and Italian Open Championship for Laser Sb3’s.
With constant winds between 10-12 knots lasting the entire week, the ORC fleet with 40 boats participating completed 5 races, of which one was a coastal race. The Comet 45 “FRAL 2” owned by Alessandro Nespega sailed a tactically brilliant race with Spidertech sails, designed by Banks Sails Italia and won in Class 1.
Exciting performance in the X-35 One Design Class with 17 boats, a class that is curently achieving excellent results with Spidertech™ Integrated System. Four boats in the top ten are designed by Spidertech™ technology, “Sberessa” Paolo Bonavolontà (Banks Sails Italia) claimed victory, “Dolcenera” by Pierluigi Schmid (Banks Sails Italia) came fourth, fifth place went to “Ave Maria” by Maria Balbo (3FL Sails), while seventh to “Oxs” by Romeo Piperno (3FL Sails).