Yesterday morning, around 10 and a half hours, stage 1 of the XVIII regatta Cor Caroli – Bourgas – St. Ivan / 22 n.m. / starts at a weak western wind. About 14 knots, on gusts up to 18. Of course, these are predictive results, and perhaps the real ones are coming closer to them. The situation has changed round the island of St. Ivan, when the first yachts shot under spinnakers to the Bourgas final.
Overall, the total number of started participants is 35 yachts or a total of 229 competitors. In the first race of the series to the faster formed Evil Woman, followed by Windwalker and Petra, finishing first. Forecasts were expected to end the race at around 4:30 pm, if keep the weather.
In class ORC A, the ranking led the yacht “LZ Yachting 1991” with the skipper Lachezar Bratoev, “Bavaria Yachts” -Varna. Nikola Dukov’s crew with Petra from Varna remained second and third were “Blue Magic” with skipper Nikola Popov from Balchik.
Leaders in class ORC B are “WASABI” with skipper Valentin Nikolov from “Chernomoretz” / Bourgas /. The second is the crew of “Nimana” with skipper Georgi Nikolov from “Bavaria yachts” / Varna /. The third is “Mowgli” – Deyan Krastev from the team of “Sineva” / Varna /.Here’s what the class ranking in ORC C looks like.
First is yacht Kalina with skipper Bozhidar Karakashev from Chernomorets / Bourgas /. The second is “Castor” – Svetlozar Lazarov from “VARNA – ST” and the third is the crew of “Stella Polaris” – Emil Kosturkov from “Cap.G.Georgiev Port Varna”.
Burgas ranked the ORC D ranking. Best performance today recorded the crew of “UK Sailmakers” with legendary Misho Kopanov from “Chernomoretz” / Bourgas /. Second is the yacht “Phoenix” with skipper Bogomil Pehlivanov from “Sineva” / Varna /. The third prize came with the crew of Proxima with Svilen Doykov from Cap.G.Georgiev Port Varna.
Lachezar Bratoev and his crew are the first in the IRC 1 class, in front of Nikola Dukov and Nikola Popov. In IRC 2, Valentin Nikolov was the first to beat Georgi Nikolov from Bavaria yachts Varna and Liubomir Vechev with OBERON from Pomorie. In IRC class 3 – leader position is for Misho Kopanov, before Bozhidar Karakashev and Bogomil Pehlivanov.
The 18th edition of the Cor Caroli Sailing Regatta is organized by the Cor Caroli Foundation with the assistance of Port Bourgas EAD, Varna Port EAD and sponsors.
Schedule to the end of the regatta:
August 13, Monday
10.00 Stage II Stage: Bourgas – St. Vlas;
August 14, Tuesday
10.00 Stage III Stage: St. Vlas – Varna
August 15, Wednesday
11.00 Stage in Varna Bay
19.00 Award Winners, Regatta Closing and Cocktail.
Today is coming Stage 2 of the regatta Cor Caroli – Burgas – Vlas, the start of which is planned for 10.00 am in good weather.
