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THE MALTESE 42-FEET WINS THE FIRST DAY OF REGATTA - SOLARIS CUP 2017
Porto Rotondo, 3rd June 2017. First day of racing took place today at the Solaris Cup that during these days liven up the Yacht Club Porto Rotondo. Key players are thirty-four models of lenghts between 32' and 72', rapresentativ of the prestigious Friulan shipyard.
Leader of the day one of racing is Unica, the maltese 42-feet, already winner of the 2016 Solaris Cup. The first itinerary (about 20 miles) involved a buoy round near Capo Figari and another round near the Island Soffi and Mortorio.
In the difficulty of handling the wind from the east, south east very light, which has never exceeded 10 knots, found the right strategies the German Solaris 72' Anka 3, first in real time after an hour and 14 minutes of navigation, the Italian Clerici’s Stay Away, the new jewel of the Aquileia shipyard, has a slight advantage.
Racing resumes tomorrow with the first warning signal at 12:00 pm.
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