Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship - Final - Snipe Class International

Buenos Aires, November 21-25, 2012. Regatta report by Jerelyn Biehl.

Bethlem and Bianchi Dominate the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship

Bruno Bethlem and Dante Bianchi proved their championship status by adding one more title to their resume. Three races were held on the final day of the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship on the Rio de la Plata, finally serving up the conditions everyone had come for. The gradually building sea breeze was back with races held in 15-20 knots and providing optimal conditions for the Snipe.

Bethlem and Bianchi sailed a 8-9-(41) for their final races, realizing they had won the championship prior to the last race. Local sailors Luis Soubie and Diego Lipsszyc (ARG) turned it on the final day to move them up considerably in the standings to finish second overall, 10 points behind the leaders. Junichiro Shiraishi and Sinsei Ueda (JPN) dropped one position to finish 3rd overall after a stellar week on the race course.

The top Master was Augie Diaz with Kathleen Tocke (USA) crewing who finished 6th overall. The top junior team was Yasuhiori Oguri and Naoyuku Nanba (JPN) who finished 17th overall with the honors of the top female team going to Brenda Quagliotti and Victoria Courtade (ARG) in 30th position.

Arguably the Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship is one of the toughest events in the Snipe class as the Snipe World Champions have hailed from a Western Hemisphere & Orient nation since 1977. The Snipe World Championship will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2013.

About the Snipe:
Hosted by Yacht Club Olivos, this is the 4th time the Snipe Class has returned to Argentina for the championship which has been held since 1950, with the first event held in Havana, Cuba. SCIRA (Snipe Class International Racing Association) is celebrating its 81st year of competition with fleets in 27 countries and over 31,000 boats built.

Results

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Pl	Sail #	Crew	Fm	Subgroup	Tot	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9
1	30997	Bruno Bethlem & Dante Bianchi	BRA	Senior	38	1	5	2	3	3	7	8	9	(41)
2	28701	Luis Soubie & Diego Lipszyc	ARG	Senior	48	8	9	12	(16)	2	6	1	5	5
3	31033	Junichiro Shiraishi & Shinsei Ueda	JPN	Senior	58	9	1	3	11\ZFP	26	1	4	3	(31)
4	31961	Mario Tinoco & Gabriel Borges	BRA	Senior	59	11	(26)	1	4	5	5	9	7	17
5	31071	Yasushi Kondo & Shingo Ishikawa	JPN	Senior	71	12	2	24	7	1	3	3	19	(26)
6	30288	Augie Diaz & Kathleen Tocke	USA	Master & Mixed	74	(22)	7	5	21	10	9	7	8	7
7	31066	Mateus Tavares & Daniel Claro	BRA	Senior	87	3	25	15	8	6	4	15	11	(27)
8	30439	Brian Kamilar & Enrique Quintero	USA	Senior	91	6	21	26	18	7	10	(29)	1	2
9	31002	Yuuichi Ooi & Noriaki Sakai	JPN	Senior	91	17	8	13	(37)	24	2	10	2	15
10	29887	Augusto Amato & Constanza Alvarez	ARG	Senior & Mixed	94	7	19	9	13	8	(32)	2	14	22
11	31040	Eduardo Fumagallo & Alejandro Noe	ARG	Master	107	15	4	4	24	9	(51\OCS)	16	21	14
12	29818	Paulo Santos & Thiago Sangineto	BRA	Master	110	2	11	6	(38)	11	14	32	13	21
13	30266	Breno Valdetaro Bianchi & Luiz Felipe Caneppa	BRA	Senior	114	4	31	8	(35)	13	22	13	15	8
14	29886	Federico Calabrese & Gonzalo Ramos Vertiz	ARG	Senior	119	5	3	16	20	27	29	(30)	16	3
15	29829	Pablo Defazio & Mariana Foglia	URU	Senior & Mixed	131	23	29	(31)	5	4	13	14	18	25
16	29003	Takeshi Yoshioka & Takairo Maruko	JPN	Senior	139	(51\OCS)	18	32	2	20	34	23	6	4
17	30711	Yasuhiro Oguri & Naoyuki Nanba	JPN	Junior	141	16	14	20	(29)	18	15	18	22	18
18	31062	Adolfo Benavidez Ruiz & Guido Morlachetti	ARG	Senior	143	(51\OCS)	12	10	15	15	24	27	29	11
19	31109	Ricardo Rezende & Arthur Souza	BRA	Senior	143	19	15	(35)	25	12	11	11	31	19
20	31008	Javier Moyano & Javier Matheu	ARG	Senior	145	20	22	14	11	21	35	6	(38)	16
21	30473	Ernesto Rodriguez & Esteban Echavarría	USA	Senior	147	25	20	34	(51\ZFP)	14	16	28	4	6
22	31121	Felipe Linhares & Alex Juk	BRA	Senior	148	10	27	25	9	(28)	18	25	24	10
23	31047	Felipe Sabino & Víctor Sabino	BRA	Junior	148	13	13	33	10	22	12	17	(34)	28
24	31004	Rafael Gaglioti & Henrique Wisniewski	BRA	Senior	155	14	10	30	22	(51\DSQ)	8	19	51\DNE	1
25	29675	Naoki Inoue & Tsunenari Kawal	JPN	Master	170	18	6	22	(44)	30	42	5	23	24
26	28984	Mariano Arroyo & Nicolás Coppari	ARG	Senior	176	27	16	7	33\ZFP	16	(38)	26	28	23
27	30690	Felipe Cunha & Luiz Eduardo Garrido	BRA	Senior	182	32	34	18	6	36	27	12	17	(37)
28	30544	Juliana Duque & Marcus Cunha	BRA	Junior & Mixed	184	30	17	(41)	32	23	25	35	10	12
29	28026	Federico Waksman & Paolo Sassi	URU	Senior	207	40	24	39	12	19	21	22	(41)	30
30	30949	Brenda Quagliotti & Victoria Courtade	ARG	Women	208	39	32	21	14	40	(41)	41	12	9
31	29112	Kevin Reali & Timothy King	USA	Senior	219	36	30	23	17	(39)	19	20	35	39
32	30453	Martín Viale & Agustín Pérez Gori	ARG	Senior	223	26	(40)	11	34	33	28	33	25	33
33	31091	Mario Urban & Rafael Sapucaia	BRA	Senior	233	29	36	37	(51\OCS)	25	20	31	42	13
34	31070	Mitsugu Nakajima & Kazuhiro Ito	JPN	Senior	234	28	33	17	38\ZFP	17	(51\OCS)	24	33	44
35	28697	Franco Camba & Federico Secchi	ARG	Senior	239	24	23	28	(43)	34	40	34	20	36
36	29228	Matías Chemes & Jorge Chemes	ARG	Junior	249	31	38	19	27	35	30	(40)	37	32
37	28663	Andrea Foglia & María Tato	URU	Women	252	21	42	43	30	38	17	(44)	27	34
38	28645	Carlos Castrillo & Axel Chamson	ARG	Master	261	43	(44)	38	19	41	23	21	36	40
39	28699	Cara Vavolotis & Rachel Pokorny	USA	Women	262	38	28	29	31	29	39	(42)	26	42
40	30691	Rafael Martins & Mila Beckerath	BRA	Mixed	282	35	39	44	(51\DNF)	32	36	37	30	29
41	28643	Patricio Middleton & Néstor Valdés	CHI	Master	283	(42)	37	40	39	42	26	39	40	20
42	29671	Tarasa Davis & Kim Calnan	USA	Senior & Women	299	37	(43)	27	36	37	37	43	39	43
43	30487	Roberto Malsch & Carmina Malsch	CHI	Senior & Mixed	322	44	(45)	45	43\ZFP	44	31	36	44	35
44	30604	Emanuel Aghem & Luciano Pesci	ARG	Junior	336	33	35	(51\OCS)	51\ZFP	31	33	51\DNF	51\DNC	51\DNC
45	30953	Leonardo Taboada & Daniela Harfush	BRA	Senior & Mixed	348	41	46	(51\DNF)	51\ZFP	51\DNC	51\DNC	38	32	38
46	28845	Sebastián Rodriguez Estruch & Martín Jacobi	CHI	Senior	350	(48)	47	46	26	47	45	45	47	47
47	30819	Francisco Pérez & Leonel Cabrera	CAN	Senior	352	45	(50)	36	45	43	43	47	45	48
48	30492	Alejandro Triggiano & Diego Hardie	ARG	Senior	361	34	41	42	40	(51\DNF)	51\DNC	51\DNC	51\DNC	51\DNC
49	29318	Christopher Hains & Barbara Mann	CAN	Master	368	46	48	48\RDG	46	46	(51\DNC)	46	43	45
50	30594	Tomás Rodriguez & Benjamín Aylwin	CHI	Master	370	47	(49)	47\RDG	47	45	44	48	46	46