No wind for the last day of the 38th Régates Royales de Cannes, the bay of La Napoule looked almost totally flat, except for the occasional puff of breeze here and there. The crews and the organizers waited in vain for more than two hours for a decent wind to materialize but finally had to give up and go back to the Vieux Port of Cannes.
Nothing, just an ephemeral, occasional puff, anything but a breeze good enough to launch a race. The high-pressure system hovering on the Cote d’Azur created an area of no wind in the Bay of Cannes, leaving the crews and the organizers empty handed on the last racing day of the 38th Régates Royales. Some crews were hoping to race to get the necessary points to be crowned winners of the closing event of the 2016 Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, but they had to do with what they already earned in four races.
Grand slams and hardly contested wins
The week-long series ended after four races, almost all raced in southerly breezes varying from light (8 knots) to medium (15 knots). Only Moonbeam IV in the Big Boat division and Freya of Midgard in the Spirit of Tradition class come out on top with a clear score: four wins out of four races. In the other classes, victory was more contested, as happened to Arrow that only had one point advantage on Carron II in the Vintage Marconi
In other classes victory was less contested, with teams missing one or two wins but still getting on the highest step of the podium. Among the twelves Sovereign beat France, Italian-flagged Linnet won in the Vintage Gaffers in front of USA’s Spartan; Enterprise got the better of Leonore in the Vintage Marconi