Islas Canarias Puerto Calero tactician Jose Maria Ponce aims to hit top- 5 at 2011 Adris RC44 Cup
Spanish RC44 boat, Islas Canarias Puerto Calero skippered by Daniel Calero produced a consistent sail even under the north western thermal mistral of Rovinj and made their way up to the third podium spot in the overall result board of 2011 Adris RC44 Cup
in Croatia. Spanish team’s tactician, Jose Maria Ponce, says their team is aiming to remain in the top-five podiums until the end of the event.
Islas Canarias Puerto Calero boat had a tricky second day, as the winds did not allow any thrilling race throughout the day. The 12 knots breeze was not enough to hold on to a superb run. However, skipper, Daniel Calero and tactician, Jose Maria Ponce along
with the crew did their best and were able to perform consistently in all four races.
While speaking to local media at the end of Day 2, Ponce said, “It was a really tricky day, very shifty with different pressure in the racing area. We aim to be top five in every race and finally we had good results, we had a good position at the top mark
and good speed up wind and downwind so we were very consistent the whole day.”
He further added, “Yesterday we had a few problems when we hoisted the spinnaker so today we changed some manoeuvres and now I think we have solved the problem, having a good day has really encouraged the team to do well, we know it’s going to be very difficult
and every day will be different but we only try to be in the top five and wait to see what happens.”
The current leader board is America’s Oracle Racing with 16 points while the Swedish Artemis Racing is on second place. The Spanish team is just one point behind the top two and they need a little bit more hard work to nudge them down.
The overall standings of Adris RC44 Cup fleet at the end of Day 2 are given below:
1. ORACLE Racing (USA 19) Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts 1, 10, 1, 4 = 16 points
2. Artemis Racing (SWE 44) Torbjorn Tornqvist, Morgan Larson 2, 1, 3, 10 = 16 points
3. Islas Canarias Puerto Calero (ESP 1) Daniel Calero, Jose Maria Ponce 3, 7, 2, 5 = 17 points
4. Team Aqua (GBR 2041) Chris Bake, Cameron Appleton 13, 2, 6, 1 = 22 points
5. No Way Back (NED 18) Pieter Heerema, Mark Mendelblatt 5, 6, 9, 3 = 23 points
6. Ironbound (USA 1) David Murphy, Peter Evans 11, 5, 12, 2 = 30 points
7. RC44 TEAM CEEREF (SLO 11) Igor Lah, Michele Ivaldi 10, 8, 4, 8 = 30 points
8. Peninsula Petroleum Sailing Team (GBR 1) John Bassadone, Paolo Cian 6, 11, 7, 6 = 30 points
9. Aleph Sailing Team (FRA 17) Hugues Lepic, Mathieu Richard 4, 9, 11, 7 = 31 points
10. Team Nika (RUS 10) Vladimir Prosikhin, Tomislav Basic 12, 3, 8, 11 = 34 points
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