REGATTAS SOFIA NILO E JOSÉ CARLOS PINA CLÁUDIA E JOSÉ SOTTO MAYOR MATOSO MAYTTE E FREDY TAURINES VASCO E WANDA PINTO BASTO 46 <strong>Hippocampus</strong>
Cascais Vela 2023 FRANCISCO GERALDES NUNO MELO E PEDRO LEOTE LISA KURITZEN E VASCO SERPA JACQUELINE ACEVEDO E HOWARD JAY Vela was ultimately marked by the strong wind that was felt on Sunday, the last day of the championship. An unforeseen setback meant that it wasn’t possible to hold races that day and, as a result, the final classification had to respect the order that the contenders occupied overall after all of Saturday’s races had taken place. But the competition started on Friday, although only for the ORC class. With the wind blowing from the north-west at an average intensity between 8 and 12 knots, two windward-leeward races were held, with Hugo Barrier Henrique’s Xekmatt isolating itself in the lead after beating the competition in one of the races and finishing second in the other. Rodrigo Vargas-Zuñiga Bamak and António Domingues’ Eagle I rounded off the rest of the podium, tied on 6 points. On Saturday, the Finn, SB20 and NHC class boats joined the race, with the wind blowing from the north at around 17 knots. In the SB20s, the BBDouro team of Francisca Barros, Tiago Morais, Diogo Pontes and Teresa Borges Coutinho gave no chance, winning all three races, followed by the Hotel Valverde team of Tomás Silva, António Pereira, Ricardo Schedel and Maria Tavares, all CNCascais sailors, as well as the TLEVEL. PT, which occupied the lowest step of the podium, made up of André Gray, Guilherme Gomes, Luisa Figueiredo and Tiago Vasco. In the Finn class, the fight was much closer. After the three races on Saturday, Jorge Pinheiro de Melo, with two wins but unable to start the first race, was crowned champion with six points, but on equal points with Fernando Bello (one win, one second place and one third place), with both having a lead of no more than one point over third-placed Francisco Pinheiro de Melo. As for the cruisers, Saturday was the day to compete in a coastal regatta: the Pedro Mendonça Trophy for the ORC, and the Marina de Cascais Challenge for the NHC - whose score was weighted x1.5 in the final classification. Among the ORCs, Hugo Barrier Henrique’s Xekmatt, from the Associação Naval de Lisboa (Lisbon Naval Association), secured the title after finishing second, with Luís Charola Syone Panther taking second place overall, ahead of António Domingues’ Eagle I, Nuno Barreto’s Super Açor and Rodrigo Vargas-Zuñiga Bamak. In the NHC, José Vozone’s Metralha, from Clube Naval de CASCAIS 47