RC44 World Championships - Regatta of the Year

10:24 AM Tue 5 Oct 2010 GMT

'Chris Bake’s Team Aqua is currently second of the Championship Tour, on a tie with Artemis and No Way Back. Those three teams sit one point behind leader BMW ORACLE Racing' Ignacio Baixauli /RC44 Class

The regatta of the year': this is how Team Aqua's pro skipper Cameron Appleton describes the RC44 World Championships Islas Canarias Puerto Calero Cup. The event will take place next week (October 11-16) in Lanzarote, on the Canary Islands. It will be the RC44 Class' first official World Championship, recognized by the International Sailing Federation. Team Aqua is currently second overall, on a tie with both Pieter Heerema's Team No Way Back and Torbjon Tornqvist's Artemis, just one point behind Russell Coutts and Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing. 'The Worlds in Lanzarote is going to be a very tough event, ...

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by Bernard Schopfer