MOD70 European Tour Finished!

Like in Leg1, the last Miles of Leg5 was sailed in very weak winds and consequently low boat-speeds. 



Spindrift Racing was lucky to be the winner of Leg5. However Foncia made a good End-Sprint and gained the 2nd place in Leg 5. 

The Overall Victory was more important for Foncia and they succeeded in that.
Very much the result of constant  sailing and be in the top ranking at every event, brougth Foncia the Victory in this close battle around some European countries. 

LiveSkipper, the Best virtual Sailing site on the Web , saw also a safe finish of the many boats. The boats sailed the original route, in between Sardinia and Corsica and thus took some hours more. See the results in the  Ranking TAB, above. 

The MOD70 are now being prepared for the next sailing events: 

schedule from MOD70 
http://www.multionedesign.com/en/schedule.html

European Tour.
Timing around June 2013, 

route to be announced. 

The MOD70 Ocean World Tour. 

The global timing is stated as October 2013 - April 2014.

This MOD70  Ocean World Tour is thought to become a 3 yearly re-occurring sailing  Race, with  about 6 stop-overs. 

Global route indication for the Ocean World Tour: From Spain to Turkey, via the Middle East to Singapore. A long stretch to  Australia, and sailing the  Pacific to USA West coast (California). After passing the Panama canal, a visit to Brazil before setting sail to France. 

MOD70 Finish of Leg5 in Genoa.

The MOD70 Boats have finished Leg 5 in Genoa after a breathtaking final 20 Nm. The wind let down, as forecasted and the final miles were very slow and the tacktical game was won easily by Spindrift Racing.

MOD70 European Tour: Results for Leg 5

The moment Spindrift finishs, their main competition for the Overall win Foncia was still in 4th place, which would offer Spindrift Racing also the Overall Victory. There were some anxious moments of waiting to see the outcome of Leg5. 

As shown in above table it was Foncia, which sailed a little more westerly course and benefitting from some filling in  of the wind to gain 2nd place, shortly followed by Race for Water and Musandam Oman Sail. Edmond de Rothschild followed at a somewhat larger distance.