Open | Finals | Race 17

It is Friday. Like the name of Robinson Crusoe’s slave. And talking about the famous character of William Defoe, did you know that Robinson Crusoe (isle in Juan Fernandez, Chile) is the name of the only island in that area that has a permanently concentrated population in the city of San Juan Bautista and its whereabouts, and that the principal local economy is based on the catch of lobsters?

In this tiny group of isles, almost 640 km from the coast, it is located more than 60% of the species of native plants that you will not find anywhere else on earth and their noticeable fauna includes six species and sub-species of birds and the two haired sea wolf, almost extinct at the beginning of the ninth century.

Oh! Sorry, sometimes we get distracted… and talking about Friday and slavery, there’s some job to do.

It is 10 am in the morning in the 10th day of competition, the first race starts. Good weather, good sun and 10 knots of wind. There are six times 10 boats and 10 times twelve men and women in the ocean.

Read the upper paragraph again and you’ll have read 10 times number 10.

In this 2G course, this is the order in which they go by the marks. We have here the position of the mark and if its down wind or up wind.

1 UWM 31, 10, 52, 56, 30
2 UWM 56, 52, 04, 30, 31
2 DWM 56, 30, 04, 52, 33
3 UWM 56, 30, 33, 41, 04

And it ends like this: 56, 30, 33, 04 and 49.

We will tell you who got in the first places: Tim Shualow and Susan Etherington from Australia. The second and the third are Legal and Delavaux from France, followed by Detlef Mohr and Svenja Taruttman from Germany.

The ones that follow are on the list.

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Open | Finals | Race 18

Second of the day. Almost noon. The wind has gone up to 11 knots. We have a cloudy sky and the waves grow to a meter of height. At the middle of the run, sky seems to be sad before the inminent ending of this event and cries a little bit.

Sail number 58 of Legal and Delevaux crosses the first, the second, and the third mark in first place. But it looks like the thin rain refreshes the spirit of captain Axel Silvy and his crew Pauline Jupin. They surpass the leading team and cross the finish line with a wide advantage.

France wins again. They are turning this part of the ocean in the gulf of Lyon.

Results

Open | Finals | Race 19

Third and one before the last one. The start is postponed due to lack of wind. A 4 knot breeze does not even make a cat crawl. But the mayan god of wind, wakes from his siesta with a 15 knot blow and now it is time to fly to the start line.

It is a 2G. Total distance of the course: 7.5 Nautical miles.

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Open | Finals | Race 20

From dawn, wake up coffees, one final race, lunch, wrap-it-up maneuvers, prizing ceremony, to the International Fiesta Party.

For 2 weeks in the Yucatan Peninsula, sails were bigger than we have ever seen. They were as big as the effort and the heart of the competitors. All of us who were there to witness honorable participants holding proudly to a tiller like if it was the mast of their flag, felt our hearts growing too... with enthusiasm and joy.

All of them are winners. They have been in the land of the "Mayab", which in the Mayan language means "not many". Therefore, this is the land of the few, of the chosen. The land of the ones that believed in themselves so much, that others could notice it and have helped them to come here.

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