Matrix ArcaTxActive (ITA), owned by Luigi Melegari and Gianmarco Rinaldi and with Tommaso Chieffi on tactics, is the new M30 World Champion. Jim Richardsons Barking Mad (USA) with Terry Hutchinson calling tactics came second and Vincent Portugals New Caledonia (FRA), with Francois Brenac on tactics, came in third.
Vincenzo Onoratos Mascalzone Latino fought back from yesterdays ninth place to come in fifth overall behind Optimumm in fourth.
Race Seven, the first of the day, started with northerly winds of approximately 14 knots and saw Barking Mad take her first victory of the World Championship series ahead of Guy Stenings' Optimumm (AUS) and Lorenzo Santinis Uka Uka (ITA).
In Race Eight Enfant Terribile, owned by Gianluigi Serena took her first victory of the series over Mezza Luna (FIN) Harry Roshier in second and Maga Joanna (ITA), owned by Luigi Parente, in third.
By the start of Race Nine the wind had shifted to 340 degrees and dropped to approximately 5-6 knots. Matrix ArcaTxActive took first place in this final race of the series ahead of Fausto Rubinis Thule (MON) and Uka Uka.
-- Barby MacGowan
Final top ten:
1. Matrix Arca Tx Active, Gianmarco Rinaldi, ITA, 50.00 points
2. Barking Mad, James B. Richardson, USA, 58.00
3. New Caledonia, Vincent Portugal, FRA, 60.00
4. Optimumm, Guy Stening, AUS, 70.00
5. Mascalzone Latino, Vincenzo Onorato, ITA, 97.00
6. Uka Uka, Lorenzo Santini, ITA, 100.00 7. Enfant Terrible, Serena Gianluigi, ITA, 114.00
8. Ann Be Espoir IDF, Yoann Richomme, FRA, 115.00
9. Assotubi Mummyone, Mingozzi / Bonora, ITA, 119.00
10. Groovederci, Deneen B. Demourkas, USA, 120.00
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Porto Cervo, Italy: On the fourth and final day of the Moby M30 Worlds, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, the Race Committee once again managed to fit in three windward-leeward races.