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12 October 2003, 07:59 pm

Final Report

Mumm 30 World Championship

Elba

Italy will keep the Royal Canadian Yacht Club trophy for another year. Claudio Rechhi and Carla Ubertelli's Cheyenne navigated their way through the last day of very tough conditions to claim the World Championship title.

Ubertelli said that it was not an easy win. The final day was long, with numerous postponements to reset the line and wait for the fluky breeze to settle in long enough for a starting sequence to be completed. Dark clouds covered the mountaintops, and the wind was light to start with and finally filled in later in the afternoon and clocked around to 155 degrees for the last race, which had an upwind "closer to home" finish.

The final three races of the series followed the pattern of whoever got a good start and the first shift, were able to stay out of the fray at the mark roundings and out of the protest room in the evening.

The Mumm 30 Worlds in 2004 returns to North America and will be hosted by the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, on August 25-28.

Full results are available on the event website at the address below.

Laura Jelmini

Isaf TV

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.