Sea Dubai sets it's hopes high at worlds
Going into the penultimate round of the season, the team is in sixth position with 13 points to their credit
Dubai: Team Sea Dubai will be hoping to make a move up the standings in the RC 44 World Championships when the Islas Canarias Puerto Calero Cup is held from October 11 to 16.
With no less than 13 teams confirmed for participation in one of the world's major sailing competitions off the Spanish coast next month, Team Sea Dubai will be expecting a surge upward from their current overall sixth position.
Going into the penultimate round of the six-race season, Team Sea Dubai is in sixth position with 13 points to their credit.
BMW Oracle Racing is in the lead with six points, followed by the second Dubai-based Team Aqua, Artemis and No Way Back with seven points each occupying the next three positions.
The 2010 RC 44 World Championships got under way in February this year with the Al Maktoum Sailing Cup at the Dubai International Marine Club followed by rounds in Austria (April-May), Denmark (June) and Valencia, Spain (July-August). The sixth and final round of the season will be held in Miami, US in the first half of December.
Two new teams are expected to join the RC 44 Championship during the competition in Islas Canarias next month - the Synergy Russian Sailing Team from Russia and Peninsula Petroleum from Spain.
The newcomers
Both teams have been involved in top level international yacht racing for many years and the Russian outfit Synergy is already competing in the TP 52 Class and in the Louis Vuitton Trophy, while Peninsula Petroleum has been active in the GP 42 Series.
"We are very pleased to welcome these two new teams in the RC 44 Class," said Russell Coutts, the founder of the RC 44 Class and co-designer of the boat alongside Andrej Justin.
"The RC 44 World Championships Islas Canarias Puerto Calero Cup will be the toughest regatta in the circuit so far," he predicted.
Synergy Russian Sailing Team was founded in 2004 with a goal of creating a group of professional Russian-speaking sailors able to compete on equal grounds with the world's most experienced teams. In keeping with this norm, the RC 44 crew will be entirely made of Russian sailors.
Though headed by the team's CEO Maxim Logutenko it will be Evgeniy Neugodnikov who will take the helm during match racing.
