Tuesday, August 11, 2015

J/122 Eclipsing Adriatic Offshore series!

J/122 sailing off Italy (Port San Rocco, Italy)- A J/122 sailing on the Adriatic Sea in Italy has enjoyed a very successful 2015 summer season so far.  Piero Santi, the owner of AOI ME, from the YC Porto San Rocco, described their recent good fortunes:

“We had a good start to the season for AOI ME, we have made it to the podium in all races that we have participated in so far!

Sailing in the Adriatic Sea, we participated in the “39th Muggia-Portorose-Muggia”, with more than 120 boats on the starting line; this race was hosted by Circolo della Vela Muggia.  We won both legs going from Muggia, Italy over to Portorose, Slovenia and back!  As a result, we won overall with two first places!  Even more impressive was the fact we came in 5th and 7th on elapsed time on both legs against much, much larger boats!

On the 20th to 21st of June, the Trofeo Internazionale dell’Adriatico IRC was sailed in the Golfo de Trieste, the easternmost part of Italy on the Adriatic Sea.  AOI ME was not in her best form, but despite an OCS in the 2nd race, we still managed to finish 3rd in IRC Racing Class!

Then, over two weekends in July, the 11th-12th and 18th-19th, we sailed in the Mittel Europe IRC Criterium.  In IRC A class, we won the class with six straight 1sts!  Even more importantly, we sailed well enough to finish 2nd in IRC Class Overall!  We love our J/122 AOI ME, such a wonderful, beautiful, easy boat to sail!  Ciao! Piero”