La flota de la Sardinha Cup set sail from Figueira da Foz to Saint-Hilare-de-Riez

Leaving the pontoons, everyone expected a long and complicated stage, due to the uncertain and stormy weather situation, but the sporting objectives differed, especially in relation to the results of the initial stage.

La flota de la Sardinha Cup set sail from Figueira da Foz to Saint-Hilare-de-Riez

Leaving the pontoons, everyone expected a long and complicated stage, due to the uncertain and stormy weather situation, but the sporting objectives differed, especially in relation to the results of the initial stage. For the winner between Pays de Saint-Gilles and Portugal, Maël Garnier, teammate of Pierre Leboucher in the «Ageas – Team Baie de Saint-Brieuc», confides: "Obviously, we want to give a blow in the general classification, but each stage is so different that we start from scratch. We are going to concentrate on making our way through the race, as in the first stage, without worrying too much about the classification of the first stage”.

Second in Figueira da Foz, Pierre Quiroga, co-skipper of Achille Nebout in «Amarris-Primeo Energie», declared: "Before the start in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, I said that a quarter of the fleet could win the Sardinha Cup, which was already a lot and still is.

Among these potential winners is Tom Laperche (Région Bretagne-CMB Performance, with Morgan Lagravière), who has won the first two rounds of the French Elite Ocean Racing Championship season (Solo Maître CoQ and Le Havre All Mer Cup) and He was fifth in the first stage. It's still a good place in Figaro; Afterwards, obviously I've already won a few races this season, so obviously I'm looking forward to winning more, but it's never easy to be at the front all the time on this circuit."

Loïs Berrehar, who last Friday with Erwan Le Draoulec (Skipper Macif) managed to snatch third place from Guillaume Pirouelle/Robin Follin (Région Normandie) had a similar opinion: "My goal this season is to finish on the podium in all the rounds of the French Championship, including the Sardinha Cup. Afterwards, I know that the Figaro Beneteau circuit is so competitive that sometimes it is reduced to one or two places, as we have seen here at the end of the first stage”.

At 1:34 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the start of this second stage began after lifting the prevailing fog in the bay of Figueira da Foz. First a windward-leeward journey and then the fleet of 22 one-design Figaro 3s headed north to tackle the 560-mile journey to the French port of Saint-Hilare-de-Riez. A route that has three complicated areas, a first to Cape Finisterre, a second bordering the Galician coast to Cape Ortegal and then the entire Bay of Biscay.

At 7:00 p.m. today, the fleet was already passing through the port of Aveiro on its ascent of the first 167 miles to Cape Finisterre. Coastline that the teams in A Two will try to make the most of the prevailing weather conditions when the center of the storm is about 120 miles northwest of their positions when half the fleet sails within a mile of distance between they.

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