Video Shots of the Day - 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019

Onboard with Artemis Racing

44Cup video above published Jul 13, 2019: Ever wonder what it is like to be onboard an RC44? Our Icarus camera man jumped onboard during racing yesterday to capture the experience.

360° onboard Artemis Racing

44Cup video above published Jul 11, 2019: #Shotoftheday - 360° onboard Artemis Racing

See also: 44Cup Marstrand World Championship, Jul 9-13, Marstrand, Sweden

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44Cup Marstrand World Championship, Jul 9-13, Marstrand, Sweden

Day 4 - Final Day of 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019

July 13, 2019: World Championship claimed by Team Aqua. Holding an eight point advantage going into the final day, and then doing enough to hang on, enabled Chris Bake’s Team Aqua to be crowned the 44Cup Marstrand World Champions for 2019. The team claimed this year’s title ahead of Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team Nika and Torbjörn Törnqvist’s local heroes aboard Artemis Racing. “I feel really good about it,” said Bake, still dripping from his victor’s plunge once Team Aqua was back at her berth on the Marstrand quayside. “Yesterday was a good day and the boat was going really well. Today was tough – shifty and really patchy.” Today the teams had a long wait out on the water as the breeze faded, subsequently materialising just long enough to allow two races to be sailed before the 1500 cut-off.

Best of the 2019 44Cup World Championship, Marstrand

44Cup video above published Jul 13, 2019: All the best shots from the 2019 44Cup World Championship in Marstrand Sweden.

Day 3: 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019

44Cup video above, Jul 12, 2019: "After a marginal forecast left the nine strong 44Cup fleet parked at the dock until 1300, the Swedish wind gods came good allowing four races to be held in 8-12 knots on the penultimate day of the 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019. This helped the schedule recover following no races yesterday due to a lack of wind. Stand-out performer today was Chris Bake’s Team Aqua, which, much like Hugues Lepic’s Aleph Racing on day one, scored no race worse than a fifth place. Her resounding 2-5-2-1 scoreline has left Bake’s team with a useful eight point advantage going into the final day."

Marstrand, Sweden  is the third event of the 2019 44Cup which pits the world's top businessmen and the best sailors in the industry compete in high-performance one-design 44-foot carbon racing yachts.

Day 2: 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019 - Skunked on day two video (no racing on Day 2). 44Cup Jul 11, 2019: "Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and unfortunately today was the latter for day two of the 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019. At the skippers briefing in the morning PRO Peter ‘Luigi’ Reggio kept the crews ashore. The race committee then took to the high seas to the west of Marstrand island to check out the conditions. They kept abreast of the situation, on the hour updating crews and owners with news as they waiting patiently in the 44Cup hospitality area on Marstrand’s quayside. However when there was still no wind at 1530, Reggio pulled the plug on racing for the day."

Day 1 44Cup World Championship 2019

The opening day of the 44Cup Marstrand World Championship 2019, July 10, was one of exceptional sailing conditions in 15 knot winds, on top of a short, sharp chop making for an exhilarating, if wet ride for the nine crews competing:

"Despite the relatively stable conditions it was an unusually high scoring day for all but Hugues Lepic’s Aleph Racing. Winner of the last 2019 44Cup event in Rovinj, Croatia in May, the French team claimed the opening race after winning the start and making the most of the favourable left. However in the next two races they had to fight back from poor starts. However with no score worse than a fifth, Aleph Racing leads the World Championship after day one."

Welcome to Marstrand and the 44Cup World Championship 2019--preview video: "Highlight of the 44Cup season, the World Championship sets sail in Marstrand, the sailing mecca on the west coast of Sweden. Nine of the one design owner-driver monohull teams are competing and as usual in this hotly competitive class all boats in the fleet are capable of winning races but success will come down to which can string together the most consistently good score line over the next four days."

44Cup Marstrand World Championship, Jul 9-13, Marstrand, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Teams in order of standings overall after 44Cup Marstrand World Championship, total points with one discard:
 Team Aqua (GBR 2041)--4;
 Team Nika (RUS 10)--4; 
Team Ceeref (SLO 11)--5;
 Artemis Racing (SWE44)--6;
Aleph Racing (FRA17)--7;
Peninsula Petroleum (GBR 1)--8;
Charisma (MON 69)--11; 
Tavatuy Sailing Team (RUS 21)--12;
Bronenosec Sailing (RUS 18)--14.

Official website: 44cup.org;  Results: 44cup.org/results; Tracker: tractrac.com.

Points are allocated on the standard World Sailing ‘low point system’, so the boat that comes first in a race gets one point, second gets two points etc. The team with the fewest points at the end of each event is the winner. All 44Cup YouTube videos.

Event schedule:

• Tuesday, 9 July: Practice Racing 
• Wednesday, 10 July - Saturday, 13 July: Fleet Racing
• Saturday, 13 July, 16.00: Prize giving ceremony + buffet

44Cup EVENTS 2019:

• 44Cup Porto Montenegro April 10-14, Porto Montenegro, Tivat, Montenegro
• ADRIS 44Cup May 29 - Jun 2, Rovinj, Istria County, Croatia
• 44Cup Marstrand Jul 9 - 13, Marstrand, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
• 44Cup Cascais Oct 2 - 6, Clube Naval de Cascais, Cascais, Lisbon District, Portugal
• 44Palma Cup Nov 13 - 17, Real Club Náutico de Palma, Palma de Majorca, Spain

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RC44 Marstrand Cup, Marstrand, Sweden, June 28 - July 1, LIVE Feed

The best of the 2018 RC44 Marstrand Cup

RC44ClassAssociation video above published Jul 1, 2018: All the very best shots from a stunning week of racing in Marstrand.

RC44 Marstrand Cup Day 3: Artemis Racing displaces CEEREF to take a narrow lead

RC44 Class Association video above published Jun 30, 2018:  Torbjorn Tornqvist and his crew on Artemis Racing continued their progressive form on a closely-fought third day at the RC44 Marstrand Cup off Sweden’s west coast, moving from second place to first overall after nine races.

The dark blue-hulled all-carbon one-design with Tornqvist on the wheel scored a third place in the first race of the day – heat seven of the series – then second in race eight, and recovered well to finish fifth in race nine when they briefly dropped from first to eighth at the leeward mark.

Artemis now leads the overall ranking on 37 points and by two points from Nico Poons’ crew on the much-improved Charisma which jumped four places from sixth to second with the best overall performance of the day. They scored a win in race seven, were fifth in race eight and were second in race nine.

In third place, another two points behind, is Bronenosec Sailing Team jointly skippered this week by Vladimir Liubomirov and Kirill Frolov. Then comes their fellow Russian Vladimir Prosikhin on Team Nika in fourth place. Meanwhile Igor Lah’s CEEREF – which led after the first day and won today’s final race – is now in fifth place.

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

Trying the RC44 out for size

RC44 Class Association video above published Jun 28, 2018: Testing out the RC44 in Marstrand is new Russian crew Tavatuy Sailing Team. In search of a fresh challenge after running a successful Melges 32 campaign, watch the team to get their first impressions of the boat.

Welcome to the RC44 Marstrand Cup

RC44 Class Association video above published June 27, 2018: Practice racing at the RC44 Marstrand Cup - It doesn't get much better than this.

RC44 Marstrand Cup, Marstrand, Sweden, June 28 - July 1, Venue: Marstrand on the west coast of Sweden where racing will take place from 27th June until 1st July. This event provides the opportunity for the two Swedish teams, Torbjörn Törnqvist’s Artemis Racing and Artemis Racing Youth, to compete on home waters. Racing schedule and results.

2018 RC44 Class RC44 Championship Tour 2018 event schedule

• 28 Feb - 4 Mar – RC44 Calero Marinas Cup 2018 – Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
• 9 - 13 May – RC44 Portorož Cup – Portorož, Slovenia
• 28 Jun - 1 Jul - RC44 Marstrand Cup – Marstrand, Sweden
• 26 - 30 Sep - RC44 Cascais World Championship – Cascais, Portugal 
• 14 - 18 Nov – RC44 Valletta Cup – Valletta, Malta

Standings before Marstrand Cup:

• Slovenia Team Ceeref (SLO 11) - 5
• United Kingdom Team Aqua (GBR 2041) - 6 
• Monaco Charisma (MON 69) - 7 
• Russia Team Nika (RUS 10) - 9 
• Sweden Artemis Racing (SWE44) - 9 
• France Aleph Racing (FRA17) - 10 
• United Kingdom Peninsula Petroleum (GBR 1) - 10 
• Russia Bronenosec Sailing (RUS 18) - 16

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RC44 Championship Tour 2017, Down To The Wire Video (Episode 2)

RC44 Championship Tour 2017: Down to the wire - Episode 2

Episode 2 of the RC44 Championship Tour documentary Down to the wire featuring the 2017 Marstrand World Championship. Down to the wire is an exclusive three-part series with Bloomberg TV EMEA so you can follow all the action, watch unseen interviews with the owners and find out from the sailors themselves just what it takes to race on one of the most competitive one-design racing circuits in the world.

OK MONDAY LET'S DO THIS! #9daystogo #mondaymotivation #rc44caleromarinascup #endofseason pic.twitter.com/y7wSN9VB9M

— RC44 Class (@RC44Class) November 13, 2017

LANZAROTE: THE PLACE TO BE FOR WINTER RACING. @LanzaroteMarina hosts RC44 2017 final & RORC Transat start this month👉https://t.co/mA8SFjYRSZ pic.twitter.com/yBSh8RuH9J

— RC44 Class (@RC44Class) November 2, 2017

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RC44 Marstrand World Championship 2017 Aug 10-13 (video)

Day 4 RC44 Marstrand World Championship - Battleship Nika sweeps to victory

Video above published Aug 13, 2017: Team Nika have won the RC44 Marstrand World Championship after a dominant performance across the four days of competition. The final day delivered the strongest wind of the week, with the north-westerly breeze blowing at 15 knots and with a big, lumpy seaway. Vladimir Prosikhin may not have won any races today but he steered Nika to a comfortable victory overall, earning back the trophy he last raised in 2015.

The final race was a close battle for second and third. Team Ceeref, the 2016 World Champion, crossed in second place behind Artemis Racing. This was sufficient to secure second overall for Igor Lah from Slovenia. Behind him, Bronenosec's photo-finish ahead of Peninsula Petroleum was sufficient to put two Russian teams on equal points. On tie-break, Bronenosec beat Katusha for third place overall.

The RC44 Marstrand World Championship is the third event of the 2017 RC44 Championship Tour, which pits the world's top businessmen and the best sailors in the industry compete in high-performance one-design 44-foot carbon racing yachts.

Day 3 RC44 Marstrand World Championship - Nika Unstoppable

Video above published Aug 13, 2017: A few boats had a good go at the front of the fleet on day three of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship, but none could match the consistency of Team Nika. Vladimir Prosikhin took the winner's gun in the first race of the day, sailed in 10 knots and lumpy seas. When the rain fell, it made little difference to his fortunes, following up with a second and fourth place.​ The Russian team has impressively taken a race win every day of the World Championship so far, putting them 15 points ahead. Nika's closest rivals struggled, opening up a big points gap to second place, now held by Bronenosec with Ceeref on equal points.

Day 2 RC44 Marstrand World Championship - Bronenosec's young guns hit their mark

Aug 11, 2017: Bronenosec Sailing showed some serious interest in the title after putting in some good scores on day two of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship. Vladimir Liubomirov steered the blue boat to victory in the first race of the day, sailed in about 8 to 10 knots of westerly wind. A sixth in the next race was not so special but Bronenosec surged into the lead of the third race of the day, only to let it slip to Artemis Racing on the final run to the finish.

Day 1 RC44 Marstrand World Championship - Things go right for Nika

Video above published Aug 10, 2017: Vladimir Prosikhin has steered Team Nika into the lead of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship after a solid opening day in Sweden. The Russian crew notched up scores of 2,6,1 in the nine-boat fleet to hold a two-point advantage over defending World Champion, Team Ceeref from Slovenia.

RC44 Class Association: RC44 Marstrand (Sweden) 2017 RC44 World Championship, 10 – 13 August 2017

LIVE Tracking

Results / Fleet Standings after RC44 Marstrand:

1.    Russia Team Nika (RUS 10)
2.    Russia Bronenosec Sailing (RUS 18)
3.    Russia Katusha (RUS 21)
4.    Slovenia Team Ceeref (SLO 11)
5.    United Kingdom Peninsula Petroleum (GBR 1)
6.    United Kingdom Team Aqua (GBR 2041)
7.    Sweden Artemis Racing (SWE44)
8.    Monaco Charisma (MON 69)
9.    Sweden Artemis Racing Youth (SWE 4)

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WMRT Match Cup Sweden 2017 | World Match Racing Tour, July 3-8

GKSS Match Cup Sweden 2017 Final Day (Day 6) LIVE

GKSS Match Cup Sweden 2017 Final Day (Day 6) LIVE World Match Racing Tour - Starts: July 8, 2017 SAT 8:00 AM EDT (US)

GKSS Match Cup Sweden - Day 6 - Finals Highlights:

WMRT Marstrand 2017 - Friday, Day 5 Highlights:

WMRT Marstrand 2017 Friday, Day 5 Highlights (July 7, 2017)

WMRT Marstrand 2017 - Thursday, Day 4 Highlights:

World Match Racing Tour: WMRT Marstrand 2017 - Thursday, day 4 highlights, July 6, 2017

WMRT Marstrand 2017 - Day 3 Highlights (July 5):

WMRT Marstrand 2017 - Day 3 (July 5) Highlights

WMRT GKSS Match Cup Sweden RESULTS

Season 2017: Where we are--video published Jul 1, 2017--quick recap on the first event of the 2017 season, WMRT Match Cup Australia.

WMRT Match Cup Sweden 2017 | World Match Racing Tour: July 3-8
This historic sailing event returns to the World Match Racing Tour to continue its 23 year legacy into the 2017 season. One week each summer the picturesque and beautiful island of Marstrand transforms from a quiet archipelago village into a hotspot of the Swedish summer. With over 150,000 visitors, the best match racing sailors in the world, the business society mingling, exciting nightlife and entertainment for the entire family, everyone is invited to a truly amazing week. Joining the 10 Tour Card holders at this event will be the top two qualifying teams from Geographe Bay Cup, Miami Match Cup and Gothenburg Match Cup, as well as two wild card invitations. 
See also http://www.matchcupsweden.com/.

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This Is Why We Race: 2017 RC44 Championship Tour (video)

This is why we race - 2017 RC44 Championship Tour

Video above published Apr 4, 2017: Join in all the action from one of the most competitive one-design racing circuits in the world, the 2017 RC44 Championship Tour.

2017 RC44 Championship Tour Calendar of Events:

• RC44 Sotogrande Cup 27 - 30 Apr
• RC44 Porto Cervo Cup 29 Jun - 2 Jul
• RC44 Marstrand World Championship 10 - 13 Aug
• RC44 Cascais Cup 28 Sept - 1 Oct
• RC44 Calero Marinas Cup 23 - 26 Nov

The 2017 RC44 Class events season and host venues will be comprised of five European events: Sotogrande, Spain (27 – 30 April), the iconic Sardinian sailing mecca of Porto Cervo, Italy (29 June – 2 July), Marstrand, Sweden for the 2017 RC44 World Championship (10 – 13 August), then the penultimate regatta of the season will be held in the sailor’s favourite stop, Cascais, Portugal (28 September – 1 October), with season finale, the RC44 Calero Marinas Cup 23-26 Nov. More info: rc44.com.

FIT FOR THE JOB – training for a faster 2017 RC44 season. READ MORE>> https://t.co/TSjmV2m0rQ pic.twitter.com/gKPpR8XEJ2

— RC44 Class (@RC44Class) March 30, 2017

NEWS: RC44 CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR HEADS TO LANZAROTE FOR 2017 FINAL. Read more >> https://t.co/yJZ5Uv1b4x #rc44 #ThisIsWhyWeRace #wintersun pic.twitter.com/JSvLvq5zX6

— RC44 Class (@RC44Class) March 23, 2017

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The Mystery of Marstrand, WMRT Marstrand 2016, Sailing Videos

The Mystery of Marstrand - WMRT Marstrand 2016:

To solve the puzzle the teams train in one of the most challenging sailing arenas in world. But will it be enough to knock Björn Hansen off his perch and claim the one million dollar prize fund. Published on July 4, 2016

WMRT Marstrand 2016:

Published July 8, 2016: STEELE THROUGH WITH THE MATCH POINT! - WMRT Marstrand 2016

Phil Robertson has been crowned World Match Racing Champion after beating Taylor Canfield in an epic, high-wind duel today in the Final of the World Match Racing Tour. The 29-year-old and his Robertson Racing crew also banked US $33,000 for winning in Marstrand, Sweden, plus a World Champion’s bonus of $1,000,000. It’s the largest prize money ever awarded in the sport of sailing, but Robertson’s whoops of joy and celebration were more about winning the title of Match Racing World Champion. “It’s a dream come true and the goal we’ve been striving for since 2009,” he told the crowd that he just done his best to drench with champagne. “ To do it here in Marstrand, I couldn’t think of a better place. Thank you all for watching, I hope it was entertaining because we sure had fun.” More info: wmrt.com -  Top 20 teams from the season leader board battled all out in this final leg with an eye for the biggest prize money in sailing history of USD1million and the championship trophy.

THE OVERALL RESULTS
POS--COUNTRY--SKIPPER--TEAM:
 1 Phil Robertson Robertson Racing
 2 Taylor Canfield US One
 3 Matt Jerwood Redline Racing
 4 Chris Steele 36 Below Racing
 5 Iker Martinez Team Espāna
 6 Yann Guichard Spindrift Racing
 7 Ian Williams GAC Pinddar
 8 Hans Wallen Wallen Racing
 9 Sam Gilmour Neptune Racing
10 Steve Thomas RPM Racing
11 Mattias Rahm RAhm Racing
12 Nicklas Dackhammar Essiq Racing
13 Johnie Berntsson Flux Team
14 Murray Jones Full Bants Racing
15 Eric Monnin Albert Riele Swiss Team
16 Nicolai Sehested Trefor Racing
17 Evan Walker KA Match - CYCA
18 Keith Swinton Team Accure
19 Sally Barkow Team Magenta 32
20 Bjorn Hansen Nautiska Racing

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World Match Racing Tour Marstrand, July 4th to 9th, Sailing Video

WMRT Marstrand Day 1 Highlights:

Day 1 and the magic of Marstrand has been cast. With the sun out and the wind up, spectators flooded the arena. We've seen crashes, penalties and photo finishes, promising the Finals of WMRT to keep you spellbound. Published July 4, 2016

WMRT Marstrand - 4th July to 9th July 2016:

WMRT Marstrand - 4th July to 9th July 2016 - World Match Racing Tour

The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) is the world's leading match racing series featuring World-Class Championship events across the globe. The series is sanctioned by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) with "Special Event" status.

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• www.wmrt.com
• www.facebook.com/worldmatchracingtour
• www.twitter.com/worldmrt

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