Gill Race Team and Taki 4 on top of the rankings

Italian TAKI 4 of Marco Zammarchi with Niccolò Bertola in helm, reigning Corinthian World Champion, is in the lead of the Corinthian division of the 2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Series after five events.

2017 Melges 24 European Sailing Season is approaching its finish soon.

Five events completed and finale grande – Lino Favini Cup, the Melges 24 Swiss Open Championship and the final act both for the European and Italian series – will determine the winners of the season-long tour in Europe over the weekend of October 13-15.

Eighty-nine teams, including the fifty-five Corinthian teams, have been competing at the events of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series this year.

The World Championship in this part of the world has created more excitement and rivalry, no doubt.

Seven teams shipping their boats to Europe or renting a charter boat not only for the title event, but also for the other events, has been great and fostered stronger connections between different continents in Melges 24 family.

Eighteen nations are represented in the series ranking having the biggest number of teams participating from Germany and Sweden, followed by Italy and Norway. 

Forty-five single races have been sailed during five events with seven discards as according to the scoring after every sixth race sailed a discard will apply.

The only team travelling to all events of the series is Miles Quinton’s Gill Race Team from Great Britain with Geoff Carveth helming.

The teams who have missing only one event are Italian Taki 4, Hungarian Fgf Sailing Team and Seven-Five-Nine, Danish UpUpUp, and Ukrainian Barmaley.

OVERALL top 5 boats are (89 boats ranked from 18 nations):
1. GILL RACE TEAM GBR694 – Geoff Carveth, Miles Quinton, Christian Birrell, Dan Schieber, Liam Gardener, Raffy Quinton, Ellie Meopham, Josh Wilce 
2. FGF SAILING TEAM HUN728 – Domonkos Rozsnyay, Levente Takacsy, Kristóf Takacsy, Bence Buza
3. TAKI 4 ITA778 – Niccolò Bertola, Giacomo Fossati, Marco Zammarchi, Matteo De Chiara, Giovanni Bannetta
4. UPUPUP DEN837 – Bo Boje Pedersen, Joachim Aschenbrenner, Jeppe Ditlev, Casper Ladefogde, Kristian Kvid 
5. SEVEN-FIVE-NINE HUN759 – Arpad Litkey, Gabor Büki, Zsolt Büki, Balazs Tomai, Botond Weöres, Gabor Pesti
Full Overall Ranking

CORINTHIAN division top 5 boats are (55 teams ranked from 17 nations): 
1. TAKI 4 ITA778 – Niccolò Bertola, Giacomo Fossati, Marco Zammarchi, Matteo De Chiara, Giovanni Bannetta 
2. GILL RACE TEAM GBR694 – Geoff Carveth, Miles Quinton, Christian Birrell, Dan Schieber, Liam Gardener 
3. BARMALEY UKR661 – Andriy Shafranyuk, Sergiy Levchenko, Viktor Kandyba, Vitaliy Moshkovskiy
4. LENNY EST790 – Tõnu Tõniste, Toomas Tõniste, Tammo Otsasoo, Andres Rohtla, Maiki Saaring
5. WHITE ROOM GER677 – Luis Tarabochia, Sebastian Buehler, Michael Tarabochia, Caro Tiegel, Laura Fischer, Marco Tarabochia 
Full Corinthian Ranking