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The match race turned out to be fatal to the team’s hopes of winning the Tour. Due to the lack of wind, the event had to be shortened and Aqua only sailed four matches. Bad luck and a collision with Organika cost the team a massive amount of points and the overall Championship Tour. Indeed, the team finished with a negative number of points and fell down the annual ranking in one bad afternoon. Leader of the season ranking in the morning, the team fell down to fifth in the afternoon!

 

Team Aqua then sailed a good fleet Series and finished third overall. The team ends up an excellent second in the fleet race season ranking and also second of the DHL Trophy.

 

One week ago, ahead of the Gold Cup, Pieter Heerema’s No Way Back was third overall and fourth in the fleet race ranking. The double points system – heavily discussed this week – turned out massively in their favour. The Dutch team conquers the fleet race ranking and the overall Gold Cup. Last but not least, Heerema and Ray Davies win the Championship Tour 2009.

 

Thanks to their second place, Artemis remains the fleet race champion 2009.

Sea Dubai RC 44 Gold Cup - Fleet race, final results after ten races:
 
 
Ranking, name of team, helmsman, results (DHL Trophy double points regatta in bold), total number of points

 

 

1) No Way Back, Pieter Heerema, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 2, 2, 5, 2 – 28 points

2) Artemis, Tim Snedden, 5, 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 4, 3, 6 - 43 points

3) Team Aqua, Chris Bake, 9, 7, 2, 2, 8, 3, 4, 8, 4, 5 – 52 points

4) Ceeref, Igor Lah, 8, 8, 7, 7, 1, 2, 12, 6, 2, 3 – 56 points

5) BMW ORACLE Racing, Neville Crichton, 10, 6, 6, 8, 5, 6, 6, 1, 1, 9 – 58 points

6) Team Katusha, Bob Little, 4, 9, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8, 10, 7, 4 - 63 points

7) Team Sea Dubai, Yousef Lahej, 1, 5, 3, 10, 6, 9, 20, 3, 6, 1 – 64 points

8) Team Austria, Christian Binder, 6, 1, 10, 9, 7, 1, 14, 5, 10, 8 - 71 points
9) Organika, Maciej Nawrocki, 7, 4, 9, 5, 8, 8, 16, 7, 8, 7 - 79 points

10) Puerto Calero Islas Canarias, Daniel Calero, 2, 10, 8, 4, 9, 10, 18, 9, 9, 10 – 89 points

 

 

 

Ranking, name of team, points

 

1) Artemis, 10 points

2) Team Aqua, 14 points

3) No Way Back, 16 points

4) BMW ORACLE Racing 21 points

5) Ceeref, 26 points

6) Team Sea Dubai, 38 points

7) Organika, 43 points

8) Puerto Calero Islas Canarias, 46 points

9) Team Katusha, 48 points

10) Team Austria, 50 points

11) Jelik, 66 points

 

 

 

Ranking, name of team, points

 

1) No Way Back, 15 points

2) Artemis, 17 points

3) Ceeref, 19 points

4) BMW ORACLE Racing 20 points

5) Team Aqua, 22 points

6) Organika, 33 points

7) Puerto Calero Islas Canarias, 42 points

8) Team Katusha, 44 points
9) Team Sea Dubai, 47 points

10) Team Austria, 56 points

11) Jelik, 66 points