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*O Sole Mio – the Italians revel in sunny conditions*

The conditions off Pori were apparently to the Italian taste on the
third day of racing. On the menu were a fresh breeze from the northeast,
puffy 20-degree shifts of planning and non-planing varieties, and
sparkling water sin olas grandes, without large waves. In the second
race of the day, Pietro Fantoni and crew Jacopo Ferrari-Bravo were
probably lustily singing O Sole Mio as they pulled away to a solid lead.
– Well, it was actually quite difficult to keep our lead, said a happy
Pietro, who hails from the bay of Trieste. - You had to keep one eye on
the wind and the other on your competitors. His countryman Roger
Olivieri from Lago di Garda kept the second slot for a lap or more, but
finally had to be content with a fourth place. In the first race of the
day, fellow Triestino Stefano Longhi, our European Secretary, nabbed a
good third place. Giampiero Poggi returned to his earlier form and
grabbed a useful eighth place. The geographical Italian boot got a
well-deserved polishing up today, with Poggi and Fantoni climbing to
tenth and eleventh in the total standings.

At the top of the standings, things resemble a Spanish corrida, with no
less than five Spanish matadors and their picador assistants at the
front. The top honors have been shared rather evenly between the
mainland contenders Fresneda & Travado from Almeria and the Ferrers from
Alicante, with Fresneda only half a point ahead. They are chased by a
pack of islanders, Triay from the Baleares in third followed by
A.Gonzales and Rayco Tabares from the Canarias. The strong Belgian team
of Hans, Hartig and Bomans, raised and trained on excellent Belgian
beer, occupies the following three standings.

On the Scandinavian front, the Edwall brothers from Askim on the west
coast of Sweden led the first race and finished in a very satisfactory
fourth place, while the eighth place was taken by the Danes Skjoldvang –
Löwenborg from Espergärde on the strait of Elsinore. The old Snipe fox
Bigga Jansen took a tenth place in the second race, but otherwise ‘syns
det meg at det norske flagg ikke vajet serlig sterkt’, i.e. that the
Norwegian flag did not wave quite as strongly as on some previous days
in this regatta.

Henry Ericsson

Below is a summary of the top standings. The full results in table form
have been sent earlier today.

*Preliminary results, a*fter the three races sailed on the third day. A
total of 8 races have been completed, of the 11 planned.

*Race 6:* 1) Alfredo Gonzàlez - Cristian Sanchez, Las Palmas, Spain/.
/2)/ /Andrey Astashev - Andrey Samoilov, Russia. 3) Stefano Longhi -
Paolo Lambertenghi, Trieste, Italy. 4) Per Edwall - Axel Edwall, Askim,
Sweden. 5) Ben van Cauwenbergh - Nadia Deferm, Wiesbaden, Belgium. 6)
Thierry Den Hartigh - Greet Jansen, Antwerp, Belgium.

*Race 7: *1)* *Pietro Fantoni - Jacopo Ferrari-Bravo, Maruzzo, Italy. 2)
Francisco Sanchez Ferrer - Marina Sanchez Ferrer, Alicante, Spain. 3)
Emmanuel Hens - Thomas Van Schaftinghen, Leest, Belgium. 4)/ /Rayco
Tabares Àlvarez - Gonzalo Morales Quintal, Las Palmas, Spain. 5) Victor
Perez – Rafael Benitez, Madrid, Spain. 6) Roger Olivieri - Silvia
Pederiva, Garda, Italy

*Race 8: *1) Pablo Fresneda - Cesar Travado, Spain. 2) Bart Bomans –
Jill Ponet, Belgium. 3) Eduard Skornykov - Pavel Karachev, Moscow,
Russia. 4) Giovanni Galeotti – Floris Mortelmans, Antwerp, Belgium. 5)
Francisco Sanchez Ferrer - Marina Sanchez Ferrer. 6) Giampiero Poggi –
Silvia Boccato, Roma, Italy. …

*Preliminary total standings after 8 races,* with 1 discard:

1) Pablo Fresneda - Cesar Travado, 27.25 p. 2) Francisco Sanchez Ferrer
- Marina Sanchez Ferrer, 27.75 p. 3) Jordi Triay - Jose Escudero,
Menorca, Spain, 48.75 p. 4) Alfredo Gonzàlez - Cristian Sanchez, 57.5 p.
5) Rayco Tabares Àlvarez - Gonzalo Morales Quintal, 67 p. 6) Emmanuel
Hens - Thomas Van Schaftinghen, 69 p. 7) Thierry Den Hartigh - Greet
Jansen, Antwerp, Belgium, 70 p. 8) Bart Bomans – Jill Ponet, 74 p. 9)
Eduard Skornykov - Pavel Karachev, 74 p. 10) Giampiero Poggi – Silvia
Boccato, 89 p. /
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