Adriatic Race 2010 - History

ADRIATIC RACE 2010. 28.04. - 02.05.

Vis - St.Andrew - Palagruza - Vis

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Presentation of the Adriatic Race 2010 and the party took place in Split, Club O'Hara 26.02. The guests were entertained by band 'Open Air Cinema'

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Race director Igor PIACUN addressed the guests with appropriate speech

Adriatic Race trophies were presented today on island of Vis in the beautiful garden of Villa Calliope. Cast bronze PROPELLERS were exposed as recognizable reward for the most successful competitors - prof. Josko BACHE's authors work

E1 is the main favorite for the fastest ship of the Adriatic race 2010

Niksa, Ban, Charlie, Fanny and Sinisa - the Race Office staff are ready to welcome starters

ERICSON and GREAT VIHARNIK at Vis 28.04.2010.

Skippers meeting was held in a relaxed atmosphere

09:00 AM 29.04.2010.

The Race Committee found that the crew of the Queen Helen first raised.

Commodore SANI: "Winds will blow!", 06:00 29.04.2010.

Race committee and buoys are rushing to their position. 10:00 29.04.2010

Vis Brass band doubles the competition charge

Start list

	Name	Model	Skipper	Club	Loa	Div.	IRC
1	E1	V 70	AGYD PENGG	JK PIRAT	21.50	M
2	VELIKI VIHARNIK	V 60	DUŠAN PUH	JK PIRAT PORTOROŽ	19.20	M
3	BARBA BRANKO	IMX 45	FILIP ZORIČIĆ	JK LABUD SPLIT	13.75	1	1,193
4	KRALJICA JELENA	SALONA 45	ALEN BIGAVA	HRM	13.55	1
5	PERJURA	NAUTIC 12	NOBILIS KRISTOF	AYC	13.20	1
6	MATCH POINT	BAVARIA 42 MATCH	DAMIR ČARGO	MORNAR SPLIT	12.46	2
7	DAMACO	FARR 40	BERISLAV VRANIĆ	GALEB	12.40	2	1.163
8	KARMEN KUCIN	FIRST 40.7	HRVOJE BANOVIĆ	JK VIS	11.92	2
9	THREE SISTERS	FIRST 40,7	TOMAŠ DOLEŽAL	TRI SESTRY SK	11.92	2	1.083

11:00 START

turn around the mark

STANDINGS at 12:15 29.04.2010.

DAMACO
GREAT VIHARNIK
THREE SISTERS
UNCLE BRANKO
PERJURA
HRM
E1
KUCINI
MATCH POINT

Rankings on Stončica after Vis: Damaco kept the advantage with excellent sailing, and as the first boat came out to open sea in front of Great Viharnik and Three Sisters

Situation on the regatta at 15:00 29.04.2010.

West wind 9 knots. Great Viharnik is in the lead with a two mile advantage followed by Damaco and E1. Damaco currently maintains a speed of 6 knots.

Alen Kustic, Race Committee Chairman and Secretary Fanny, after well done start of the race

Situation on the regatta at 20:00 29.04.2010.

It seems that Ericsson 1 sailing out of Mljet gone into leadership, while Great Viharnik chosen route through the Mljet channel closer to the Peljesac peninsula. Ericsson 1 sails with an average speed of 9.5 knots and has advantage 2 miles ahead of Great Viharnik. Behind them is Damaco and Uncle Branko which are about 10 miles behind the leaders. For other positions look at the link - tracking.

22:14

E1 turned St. Andrew

22:34

Great Viharnik turned St. Andrew

00:33 30.04.2010

Crew of Great Viharnik photographed a female whale

We do not know who has been verified gender

00:41 30.04.2010 Damaco turned St. Andrew

01:09 30:04.2010

After Great Viharnik sent the photo, Race committee has contacted the Oceanographic Institute to identify the gender of whale. We find out from biologist on duty, that basis of caudal fin, with anatomical point of view, can safely confirm that it is a female, based on photographs sent to him. Our source is assumed to be a Physeter macrocephalus which rarely goes into our water. It is assumed that frequent tectonic disturbances are cause of this, which disrupted magnetic fields and for this reason whale can not use the inherent GPS.

Great Viharnik rushes towards Palagruža with boat speed of 10 knots, from 314 direction. Will the wind of 15 -17 knots be sufficient to escape from whale female we didn't manage to find out from our interviewees

04:04 30.04.2010

Queen Jelena sent MMS

Showed that depth, is going well, as opposed to speed

05:40 30.04.2010

Uncle Branko turned St. Andrew

05:43 30.04.2010.

We will have a wonderful day on Vis, temp. 11 degrees Celsius

06:08 30.04.2010

Three Sisters turned St. Andrew

08:25 30.04.2010

E1 turned Palagruza and currently located half a mile in the course to Vis, but now floats because the wind had completely disappeared. Great Viharnik is about ten miles behind him, and Damaco more than 30 miles

Sani DELIC, Ivo RADICA Mayor of Vis, KUŠTERA port captain, and Marijan Ban closely monitoring what's is happening with and on the Race

10:04 30.04.2010

Great Viharnik rounds Palagruza

11:15 30.04.2010

Match Point rounds St. Andrew

11:27 30.04.2010

Kucini rounds St. Andrew

12:03 30.04.2010

Queen Jelena was retired from Race and sails to island of Mljet.
The reason for giving up is huge delay, so it is theoretically impossible to finish the Race in a time limit. The crew and boat are excellent and sending greetings to Kero.

E1 and Great Viharnik in a duel

14:00 30.04.2010.

It seems that there was a change at the head of Race, because we have just received the latest report from the sea. Therefore, Great Viharnik with skillful maneuvers melted away advantage of E1, and now has an advantage of about 2 miles. GV currently sails in the course to lighthouse Stončica on Vis with the speed of 5.2 knots, while E1 is slightly east to the island island Susac. It is interesting that the whale which is Great Viharnik met tonight by Mljet again seen in their immediate vicinity and taken by mobile phone. Crew of Viharnik is happy and looking forward to having escort, they are considered a female whale brings them good luck.

Whale photo received by MMS at 14:11 from Great Viharnik

The wind calmed after Palagruza and Great Viharnik approached at gunpoint from E1. E1 is quickly moved to counter attack and switched to offensive position. After, however, began to form a light east wind, and E1 is again made a slight advantage.

Mary, the Director of the Tourist board of the Community Vis, besides being responsible for the promotion and organization of an excellent race is also a stuntgirl on the Race Committee speedboat

Current situation at 21:00 hours is following:

Great Viharnik is on the threshold of Vis, directly behind is E1 with a delay of only about ten minutes. The Race committee was in control and below are the latest photos:

GV & E1, the calm....but the advantage is an advantage.

23:40 The Race Committee official vehicle brings a Commodore.

According to the reports first ship is expected soon.

01/05/2010 01:00:41 GREAT VIHARNIK

crosses the finish line as the winner !

The crew of Great Viharnik

E1 - second place finish time 01:05:01

The drama ended after 38 hours of sailing in Vis harbor. The eleven hours took leadership exchange between the two Maxi. Great Viharnik entered finish first in the final ten meters before E1. In the bay near the finish line E1 seriously twice jeopardized GV and had the bow closer to the finish line. GV with good maneuvers, each time before E1, managed to make a boat goes at this difficult calm. Several times in the mutual parry ships came so close to shore that they even threatened to strand

05:45 01.05.2010

Three Sisters passing Palagruza

05:48 sati 01.05.2010

Damaco passes Stoncica lighthouse near the port of Vis.

07:08:22

DAMACO entered the goal as the third

01.05.2010 11:43
We apologize for the delay of publication of the positions from 08:00 pm 01.05.2010. The reason is the exclusive footage of female whale. This way we thank COLNAGO Speed boat, which boarded the Web crew immediately upon alert of position and brought them to a Secret place.

11:47:15 BRANKO - fourth boat enters the finish.

Fresh sirocco blew at dawn, the ships were moved one by one. As the sirocco came, these ships in the background started to catch up the ones ahead. PERJURA appeared Uncle BRANKO right of the stern to only a couple miles away. Route is sailing downwind with full sails.

11:55:23 PERJURA - fifth boat enters the finish.

12:57:47 THREE SISTERS - sixth boat enters the finish.

Igor Piacun immediately was surrounded by numerous female fans after entering the finish

Preliminary results at 13:00

	NAME	MODEL	COUNTRY	SKIPPER	LOA	DIVISION	FINISH	ELAPSED	IRC
1	VELIKI VIHARNIK	WOR60	SLO	DUŠAN PUH	19.20	M	1/5/2010 1:00:41	38:00:41
2	E1	VO 70	AUT	AGYD PENGG	21.50	M	1/5/2010 1:05:01	38:05:01
3	DAMACO	FARR 40	CRO	BERISLAV VRANIĆ	12.40	2	1/5/2010 7:08:22	44:08:22	51:20:03
4	BRANKO	IMX-45	CRO	FILIP ZORIČIĆ	13.75	1	1/5/2010 11:47:17	48:47:17	58:12:15
5	PERJURA	NAUTIC 12	HUN	NOBILIS KRISTOF	13.20	1	1/5/2010 11:55:23	48:55:23
6	THREE SISTERS	FIRST 40,7	CZE	TOMAŠ DOLEŽAL	11.92	2	1/5/2010 12:57:47	49:57:47	54:06:36

01.05.2010 16:20
With last night dramatic fight for first place, we can expect equally dramatic battle for the penultimate position.

Will the race committee get compliments, such as those addressed by crews of the Great Viharnik and E1, for the organization that contributed to stressful finale last night. Check out after 17:00 when we expect Kucini and Match Point in the Vis bay.

17:10 01.05.2010

Carmen Kucin entering into vicinity of Stončica, Matchpoint is behind of his heel. Total calm falls and in that moment Matchpoint cleverly separates to right side and goes around Stoncica and motionless Carmen Kucin. Both ships are now almost equal, the nervousness and excitement grows... Carmen still catches some wind and begins to sail again, the battle was at its peak. Carmen is holding some sort of distance to the position next to the Czech Republic Vila, when Matchpoint again made a clever and totally cheeky move by grabbing fresh breeze again on the right side, but now into Vis bay. With this move, pass quickly into the lead, and as approaches the finish seems that Carmen Kucin has no more time for correction.