The crews they won in J70 and J80 in the Winter Series

Noticia de Luis Martín Cabiedes, con el champ canario Rayco Tabares on board, ha mastered the last part of the Winter Series and wins with authority the sixth and last. To two first of Saturday he has joined two other partial wins and the eighth place in the last Sunday test, in which he had to return after a premature departure.

Nautic Scale 3 by Gerard Marín has been second with two partial wins while the canary Forty Five by Luís Martínez Dureste achieves third place with three seconds as best results. The total number of ships in the race has been 14 from eight countries.

In this sixth series they have incorporated three new ships into the fleet of J70: the Argentine Spirit of Alginet of Gabriel Mariani, the Russian Computel of Andrey Samoylov, both with a second position as the best partial and the Italian Pyccolo of Frederick Eichhorst with a fifth as the best result.

The winner of the Barcelona Winter Series, after 29 tests and with four discards is the Russian - Cypriot Amaiz Sailing Team of Sergei Dobrovolskii with 15 points of advantage over the Nautic Scale 3 of Gerard Marín, which cut him a lot away in the fifth and sixth series, with the canary Forty Five of third classified to 36 points of the winner.

Noticia and G75, the last one patronized by Peter Fjellstad has dominated the last two Series, but they did not take part in the first four so their positions in the General are the discreet tenth and eleventh. In the Barcelona Winter Series and in the J70 class a total of 24 ships representing nine countries have participated... the final general was as follows

1 - CYPRUS - Amaiz Sailing Team - Sergei Dobrovolskii - 76 points
2nd - CNE - Nàutic Escala3 - Gerard Marín - 91
3rd - RCNGC - Forty Five - Luís Martínez Doreste - 112
4th - RTYC - Serious Fun - Mark Lees - 148

Bribón - Movistar has won this sixth series and the General Classification. This weekend it has not come down from the first podium drawer in any of the seven navigated tests. Second place in this sixth series for Mikaku by Rosa Artigas with three seconds on Sunday. Akebele de Silvia Ravetllat is the third ranked while Calimocchio de Ana Pujol ended up in fourth place.

In the total of the II Barcelona Winter Series the ship patrolled by Marc de Antonio was imposed in 19 of the 29 completed tests and a substantial advantage over Mikaku and Akebele, second and third. The J80 fleet has had nine ships in a race and has been the final general:

1 - RCNB - Bribón Movistar - Marc de Antonio - 34 points
2nd - RCNB - Mikaku - Rosa Artigas - 66
3rd - RCNB - Akebele - Silvia Ravetllat - 103
4th - RCNB - Nacex - Agustí Altadill - 105

16 / 03 / 2019: Sixth series of the Winter Series of J70 and J80 in Barcelona waters

The last weekend of the Barcelona Winter Series has started with a splendid Saturday of races in which each of the participating classes, the J70 and J80 monotypes, has completed four tests (Photo Oscar Torrades)

In J70 good results for Noticia by Luis Martín Cabiedes of the Barcelona RCN, with world champion Rayco Tabares on board, who won the first two tests, but was less effective when the wind was increased, ending third and second in the remaining ones.

Second on this first day of the sixth series a solid Nautic Scale 3 patrolling by Gerard Martín, with a first and third as better partials. G75 by Germán Panet and Gustavo Martínez Doreste of the Jávea RCN is third, after winning the last test of the day, tied to points with the Russian - Cypriot Amaiz Sailing Team of Sergei Dobrovolskii, leader in the General Classification, which has two third parties as best partial. In this sixth series 14 ships from six countries compete... the general is like this after 26 tests and 4 discards:

1 - CYPRUS - Amaiz Sailing Team - Sergei Dobrovolskii - 65 points
2nd - CNE - Nàutic Escala3 - Gerard Marín - 82
3rd - RCNGC - Forty Five - Luís Martínez Doreste - 105
4th - RTYC - Serious Fun - Mark Lees - 121

In J80 Marc de Antonio took more advantage of the rest of the fleet as the day went on. Akewiele of the perfumer Silvia Ratvetllat, Mikaku del Rosa Artigas and Calimocchio de Ana Pujol are the second place almost tied to points. At the moment it is Akebele who occupies it with two seconds as best partial. The J80 general also has 26 tests and 4 discards, but there are 9 J80 participants:

1 - RCNB - Bribón Movistar - Marc de Antonio - 31 points
2nd - RCNB - Mikaku - Rosa Artigas - 60
3rd - RCNB - Nacex - Agustí Altadill - 75
4th - RCNB - Akebele - Silvia Ravetllat - 91