Day two of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week, sailed in the Gulf of Naples, saw the 51 boat fleet set out with very unstable wind conditions. Erratic southeast winds dominated the first race of the day only to suddenly change into southwesterly winds during the second race, making it incredibly difficult for all the tacticians who had to deal with the shifting wind of 50 degrees.
The race committee decided to sail the same courses as yesterday for each class.A windward-leeward course of approximately 8 nautical miles kept the Farr 40 and Swan 45 fleets busy, while the Comet and Mini Maxi fleets sailed approximately 13.5 nautical miles around the buoys positioned to the north of the island of Capri.
Among the Farr 40s, Gianluigi Serena's Enfant Terrible - with Paolo Cian calling tactics -and Massimo Mezzaroma's Nerone - with tactition Lorenzo Bressani - respectively won the two regattas of the day. The good performance of Nerone, who dominated the second part of today's last regatta, brought her a 3rd place in the provisional ranking.
The overall results for this division after two days of racing and five completed regattas sees Barking Mad (USA), of owner Jim Richardson, dominating overall with a 2nd and a 5th place today, followed by Lang Walker's Kokomo (AUS), who fell behind yesterday's top position after a disappointing 13th place in today's first race and a 9th in the second. Calvi (ITA), owned by former president of the European Farr 40s Association Carlo Alberini, performed well in the two races.
For the Swan 45 division, composed of fifteen boats, two windward-leeward races were completed which both counted in the official scoring for the event after the two warm-up races competed yesterday. Atlantica Racing (ITA), owned by Carlo Perrone, dominates overall and is followed by Leonardo Ferragamo's Cuoridileone (ITA). The all-Italian Comet division saw Maurizio Biscardi's Libertine (ITA) - with Russia's Serghei Chevtsov at the helm - taking the top position overall with two 1st places in corrected time. The Mini Maxi fleet saw Carlo Puri Negri's Atalanta II (ITA) cross the finish-line 1st in both of today's races before moving to 3rd place overall on corrected time behind Massimo Violati's Ops 5 (ITA), who is actually leading the ranking.
