The J/70 Sandberg Estates World Championships already have a winner. After five intense days of competition in the Bay of Palma, the American “Yonder” from Douglas New House And Jeremy Wilmot was proclaimed this Saturday world class champion during an event organized by the Real Club Náutico de Palma (RCNP) and the International Association of the J/70 class.
With a north-easterly wind of around ten knots on average, the race committee gave the starting signal punctually, at 11:30 a.m., for a final and definitive manga in which the British “Brutus II” won Charles Thompson And Tom Mallindine, followed by the Spanish “Patakin” Louis-Albert in second place and the Brazilian “To Nessa” from Renato Fariawho was third.
Leader since the first day of the World Cup, the American “Yonder” of Douglas Newhouse and Jeremy Wilmot, from New York YC, scored an eleventh which allowed him to condemn the championship and proclaim himself the new world champion of the J/70. He also won, with a ten-point lead over the second-placed rider, accumulating two partial podiums in the eight races contested and excluding a 23rd place. Consistency and not making big mistakes were undoubtedly the key to the J/70 Sandberg Estates Worlds.
“After a lot of hard work, planning, training, racing and teamwork, we managed to win the world championship, which is honestly incredible. We had the regatta of our lives and the team fought very hard,” Newhouse said upon arriving at the RCNP docks.
Behind, second place on the podium finally went to the Brazilian “Mindset” of Ralph Vasconcellos from IC Rio de Janeiro and third place to the reigning champion, the British “Brutus II” from Royal Southern YC, who was able to come back from fifth position which he occupied yesterday thanks to the first place sealed during this last round of the World Cup.
In addition to the intercontinental title, the event organized by the Real Club Náutico de Palma and the International Association of the J/70 class also rewards the first classified in the Corinthian divisions – non-professional crew – and One Pro – only one professional sailor on board. -, Youth, Women, Mixed and the best among those who competed with a woman on the cane.
In Corinthian The victory went to the Uruguayan “Plan B” Pedro Garra of YC Punta del Este. He is followed in the general classification by the Bermudian “Hedgehog” of Alec Cutler from Royal Bermuda YC and the Italian “Wanderlust” of Sofia Giondi of YC Rimini, second and third respectively.
In UnProThe first ranked was “Vamos” by Tim Ryan of Cruising YC Australia, also achieving a brilliant fifth position in the general classification. Second place went to Mexico thanks to “Zaguero” of Ignacio Perez del Vallarta YC and the third was the Portuguese “Baba II” of Nuno Holy Spiritfrom CN Cascais.
For his part, The prize for the first mixed team went to the local boat “Balearia” of María Bover, The first miner was taken by the Dutch representative “Moore DRV” from S.come on Van Der Plasse From WV Wolphaartsdijk, the first women’s team was the American “Team Convergence” from Ava Wilson from Chicago YC and the first crew with a woman at the helm, the “Dark Energy” also American from Laura Grondin of the YC/GKPYC of New York. Grondin’s team also finished in fifteenth position in the general classification.
Among the Spanish representatives, excellent result for the “Patakin” of Luis Albert of the RCNP, which closes the World Cup in eleventh position after the second place obtained today.
In the words of Albert: “We are happy, but we also think that we could have done a little better. In the end, you have to win these regattas day by day because This is a fleet that is probably the best in the world, all classes combined. and the Americans are way ahead of everyone.
“Honestly, and it’s not because I’m local, I think This is the best World Cup of its kind that has ever existed.. The foreign teams are impressed by everything, by the club, by Palma, by the media… There has been a very important media deployment and the commitment of the club and the class for the new ‘RaceSense’ starting system has been shown that it is a good progress. For me, it is the most successful World Cup in history so far,” he added.
