{"id":2273,"date":"2016-03-04T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:07:19","slug":"final-act-of-the-season-for-the-3rd-edition-of-the-monaco-sportsboat-winter-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Final Act of the season for the 3rd edition of the  Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>The fifth and final Act of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series 2015\/2016 looks set to be a close-run final in both the J\/70 (4-6 March) and Melges 20 (18-20 March) classes of this international one-design series, organised by the Yacht Club de Monaco<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Everysailrace --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4487550053079833\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"8435785152\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Held once a month from October to March, an initiative of Valentin Zavadnikov (<i>Synergy<\/i>), the regattas give amateur and professional teams an opportunity to establish their winter training base in Monaco to prepare for the summer\u2019s big meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After four Acts and 17 races for the 65 entrants (seven nationalities) in the J\/70 class, British sailor Sam Carter (<i>Brutus)<\/i> currently tops the leader-board in the provisional ranking for the season. He is just ahead of Stefano Roberti <i>(Piccinina)<\/i> and Jacopo Carrain<i>(Carpe Diem), <\/i>President of the J\/70 Monaco Class Association, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> respectively and both YCM members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Racing alongside them this weekend starting on Friday will be 15 Stars, here to put on a show for Act 3 of their European Winter Series (Troph\u00e9e Princesse Grace).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Melges 20s follow in the wake of the J\/70s two weeks later (18-20 March) to conclude their season. After 15 races, the Russian Alexandr Ezhkov (<i>Pirogovo)<\/i> is leading the fleet of 33 entrants but last year\u2019s winner, Monegasque Guido Miani <i>(Out of Reach) <\/i>has yet to strike and is currently lying 5<sup>th<\/sup>. They will be joined by a dozen Smeralda 888s competing in their annual Spring Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A system of GPS trackers to follow the races live, live streaming and direct arbitration on the water are among many tools deployed by the Yacht Club de Monaco to optimise sailors\u2019 preparation and promote development of one-design racing in the Principality. With its new facilities built to host major nautical events, the YCM consolidates its reputation as a winter training &amp; racing base for international sailors. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth and final Act of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series 2015\/2016 looks set to be a close-run final in both the J\/70 (4-6 March) and Melges 20 (18-20 March) classes of this international one-design series, organised by the Yacht Club de Monaco. Held once a month from October to March, an initiative of Valentin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}