Helly Hansen

Team Hiroshi - Città Di Milano sponsored by Helly Hansen conquers the Cagliari RC 44 Cup 27 Aprile, Cagliari The second event of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2008 took place in Cagliari (Sardinia Island), between April 23-27. Organised by Yacht Club Cagliari, with the support of the City of Cagliari, this regatta assembled some of the world's best sailors such as Ben Ainslie, James Spithill, Russell Coutts, Sébastien Col, Cameron Appleton and many more on board ten strict one design RC 44's. Team Hiroshi - Citta di Milano sponsored by Helly Hansen increases its lead in the 2008 Championship Tour, ahead of Patrick de Barros and Igor Lah. Armando Giulietti, his helmsman, will carry on sailing with the Championship Tour leader's gold wheels in the next event, the Austria Cup (May 28-June 1). He tells: -This is a great conclusion to a nice week. I think that this is a decisive stage for the RC 44 Class. Indeed, it is growing and attracting more and more top names. It is tough to sail against all these teams but it is great when you manage to beat them.- The tactician of Helly Hansen boat is Sebastian Col, a French guy that helmed Areva Challenge in the last America's Cup in Valencia and his sailing genius makes possible the dreams of HH Team. He tells: -Our goal is clearly the fleet racing event, so we are very happy with our week. We are using the match-race to test new sails^ this worked well and allowed us to make the right decisions in the fleet race. Our speed was excellent and we managed to sail in the right spot most of the times.- MPZ Fleet race, final results after eight races (no discard): 1) HH-Team Hiroshi-Città di Milano, Armando Giulietti, 1, 2, 6, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1 - 19 points 2) BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison, 6, 1, 5, 2, 8, 6, 2, 2 - 32 points 3) Team Banco Espirito Santo, Patrick de Barros, 4, 5, 8, 3, 3, 1, 8, 3 - 35 points 4) Sea Dubai, Joki Hellmich, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 5, 3, 7 - 35 points 5) Team Aqua, Chris Bake, 9, 3, 7, 1, 2, 4, 7, 6 - 39 points 6) Ceeref, Igor Lah, 7, 6, 2, 6, 4, 9, 4, 4 - 42 points 7) Team Organika, Maciej Nawrocki, 5, 8, 3, 9, 7, 2, 6, 8 - 48 points 8) Beecom, Isao Mita, 2, 7, 9, 8, 6, 8, 5, 5 - 50 points 9) Cro-A-Sail, Miroslav Reljanovic, 8, 9, 4, 5, 10, DNF, 9, DNF - 67 points 10) Mascalzone Latino, Vincenzo Onorato, DNS, 10, 10, 10, 9, 7, 10, 9 - 76 points RC 44 Championship Tour 2008 (after 2 events): 1) HH-Team Hiroshi-Città di Milano, 40 points 2) Team Banco Espirito Santo, 75 points 3) Ceeref, 78 points 4) Sea Dubai, 81 points 5) Team Aqua, 84 points