Down To The Wire: 2016 RC44 Championship Tour Documentary Video

Down to the wire - 2016 RC44 Championship Tour documentary

Video above published Feb 27, 2017: Find out just what it takes to race on one of the most competitive one-design racing circuits in the world as we recap the highlights from 2016 - the most competitive season in RC44's 10-year history.

The 2017 RC44 Class events season and host venues will be comprised of five European events. Starting in Sotogrande, Spain (27 – 30 April), the fleet will return to the iconic Sardinian sailing mecca of Porto Cervo, Italy (29 June – 2 July), before moving onto to the Marstrand, Sweden for the 2017 RC44 World Championship (10 – 13 August). The penultimate regatta of the season will be held in the sailor’s favourite stop, Cascais, Portugal (28 September – 1 October), with the season finale in November to be announced in the coming weeks. More info: rc44.com

2016 RC44 video playlist:

Playlist:

• RC44 Valletta Cup wrap-up 6:09
• Day 4 Fleet Racing - Team Aqua by a point; Team CEEREF by a point 4:44
• Day 3 Fleet Racing - RC44 podiums wide open going into final day 3:33
• Day 2 Fleet Racing - Three bullet Bake 4:33
• Day 1 Fleet Racing - Strong start for Katusha at the RC44 Valletta Cup 4:12
• 2016 RC44 Match Racing Final - Decided in last breath 4:00
• RC44 Cascais Cup wrap-up 6:08
• Day 4 Fleet Racing - Artemis Racing claims victory in final metres. 3:57
• Day 3 Fleet Racing - BlackWater rises through the ranks 4:35
• Fleet Racing Day 2 - Fully powered up 4:22
• Fleet racing day 1 - What does it take to perform the “perfect start” in Cascais? 4:19
• Match Racing - Artemis Racing join Team Nika in the top spot 3:42
• Celebrating 10-years of the RC44 2:22RC44 Portsmouth Cup wrap-up 9:38
• Fleet Racing Day 4 - Massive win in Portsmouth for Nika: golden wheels for Aqua 4:24
• Fleet Racing Day 3 - Reward and punishment at the RC44 Portsmouth Cup 4:14
• Fleet Racing Day 2 - Artemis Racing Youth's best day ever in Portsmouth 3:20
• Fleet Racing Day 1 - Team Nika finds order from chaos in Portsmouth 4:11
• Match Racing - Bronenosec wins the day in Portsmouth but Nika takes the lead 4:52
• RC44 World Championship Marina de Sotogrande wrap-up 10:44
• Fleet racing day 4 - Team CEEREF wins RC44 World Championship in two horse race 3:01
• Fleet racing day 3 -Team Ceeref, ahead but far from safe in RC44 World Championship 3:32
• Fleet racing day 2 - Bassadone's Gibraltar greyhounds on the ascent 4:04
• Fleet racing day 1 - Team CEEREF masters Atlantic winds in Sotogrande 3:36
• Match Racing - Squally Sotogrande stunts match racing day 4:07
• RC44 Bermuda Cup wrap-up 6:47
• Day 4 Fleet Racing - Team Aqua hangs on in last race nailbiter in Bermuda 4:07
• Fleet Racing Day 3 - Team Nika's day in the Bermudan sun 4:11
• Fleet Racing Day 2 - Young guns line-up on Bermuda's Great Sound 4:08
• Fleet Racing Day 1- Team Aqua prevails again in Bermuda 3:38
• Match Racing - Bronenosec the class act in brisk Bermuda 4:08
• The stage set for 2016 RC44 Championship Tour 2:50

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RC44 Fleet Racing: Massive win in Portsmouth for Nika, Sailing Videos

Fleet Racing Day 4 - Massive win in Portsmouth for Nika and golden wheels for Aqua:

Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika today scored one of the biggest wins in the one design keelboat class' recent history when she claimed the RC44 Portsmouth Cup by a massive 14 points. Published July 18, 2016

Team Nika started with a 12-point advantage in the 11 boat fleet, so had all but won the regatta before this. As tactician Ed Baird explained: "The only way we couldn't win was if Team Aqua won and we had a collision and got penalty points." Team Aqua took second place regaining the RC44 golden wheels as current Championship Tour leaders and Katusha took third. 

Fleet Racing Day 1 - Team Nika finds order from chaos in Portsmouth

Fleet racing at the RC44 Portsmouth Cup began today on a new race course, laid further east beyond the Solent towards Hayling Bay. Despite this, conditions remained ultra-shifty, making for a challenging, high scoring day for all of the RC44 teams. Except Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team Nika. The defending RC44 fleet racing champion somehow managed to put in a consistent 1-3-3 score despite the chaotic conditions that forced tacticians to make the most of their local knowledge, skill, intuition or sheer crystal ball gazing ability to anticipate what would happen next. Published July 14, 2016

The RC44 Portsmouth Cup is the third event of the 2016 Championship Tour, which pitts the world's top businessmen and the best sailors in the industry compete in high performance one-design 44-foot carbon racing yachts.

2016 RC44 Championship Tour: Events - RC Forty Four:

• RC44 BERMUDA CUP - 2 - 6 March
• RC44 SOTOGRANDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - 11 - 15 May
• RC44 PORTSMOUTH CUP - 13 - 17 July
• RC44 CASCAIS CUP - 21 - 25 September - fleet returns to Cascais, Portugal, as Clube Naval de Cascais hosts the fourth event of the season;
• RC44 VALLETTA CUP - 23 - 27 November - The last event of the 2016 tour will be in Malta’s renowned capital Valletta, City of the Knights.

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