Valencia Eventos Náuticos

One might or might not approve the way Russell Coutts is managing the America’s Cup but there is one area, in my opinion, where we must unanimously agree.

The RC44 one-design yacht, conceived and created by Coutts, is weathering the crisis very well with a fleet that fluctuates between 14 and 16 boats, a very respectable number. We caught up with Bertrand Favre, the RC44 Class Manager, and talked about the present and future of the class.

Four back to back races at the RC44 Puerto Calero Cup shook up the leaderboard on a race track Michele Ivaldi (ITA) described as, “full of traps and important to keep an eye on the pressure to cope with the shifts.”

With lighter winds forecast, the course was moved around the coast of Lanzarote to Puerto del Carmen, in sight of Lanzarote’s capital Arrecife. A weakened north-easterly gradient breeze, with the gusts topping just 12 knots, made for a very different days racing from the strong breezes that had dominated the event thus far.