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American Rowdy eclipses Italian J/70 Cup Series

by J-Boats 28 Oct 09:48 PDT 18-20 October 2024
Italian J/70 Cup Series © J/70 Italian Class / Zerogradinord

For the first time in the ten-plus years the Italian J/70 Class has been running their famous Italy J/70 Cup Series, a "foreigner" from Chicago Yacht Club won the 26-race series over five regattas in the 2024 summer season!

The series featured 130 entries in the Open Division and 67 entries in the Corinthian Division. In the end, it was Rich Witzel's ROWDY team (Carlos Robles, Mortiz Spitzauer, and Tomas Dietrich) that won the series by a massive 34 pts margin, ending up at 66 pts net!

Taking the silver medal was a famous Italian J/70 team, Luca Domenici's NOTARO TEAM with a crew of Diego Negri, Michele Mennuti, and Davide Bortoletto. They finished the series with 100 pts net even. Rounding out the podium was Alessandro Molla's VIVA team with 163 pts net. Then, rounding out the top five was Gianfranco Noe's WHITE HAWK with 191 pts. net in fourth place and top women's skipper Sofia Giondi's WANDERLUST ended up fifth place.

Corinthian Division
Winning the Corinthians Division was Noe's WHITE HAWK. The silver medal went to Sofia's WANDERLUST, then taking the bronze medal was Massimo Rama's WHY NotCAIM.

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