The Tuscany challenge for ClubSwan 50 and ClubSwan 36: "Hatari" victory: "Tried to play our game"

The decision in the large ClubSwan 50 class at the Swan Tuscany Challenge off Punta Ala was only made in the last of the ten high-calibre races. Marcus Brennecke's "Hatari" crew started this furious finale with a small lead of three points over August Schram's "Stella Maris", but by no means with a big cushion. While Alberto Franchi's "Giuliana" won the final race, the Brennecke team with tactician Markus Wieser held on to "Stella Maris". The duo sailed to the finish line in second and third place. This meant class victory for Brennecke and his crew - with a two-point lead over the Austrians. Hendrik Brandis' team on the ClubSwan 50 "Earlybird", which had started the series with a race win, had to be satisfied with seventh place in the final standings.

Marcus Brennecke and his team were particularly pleased about this, as they had started the Wonnewoche with a sobering sixth place and a whopping 17 points for breaking the rules, but then worked their way back to the top with a race win, two second and three third places and impressive consistency. Brennecke remembers: "It started badly for us. After that, we tried to play our game. The next day we won the first race by a minute. After that, we just tried to sail consistently." Brennecke continues: "It's getting tighter and tighter in this competition. Everyone is improving and that's great for the class. Just like August Schram, who sailed to second place with three race wins. It was really close at the end. And 'Giuliana' also had a great week with third place." Brennecke's conclusion was exuberant: "It's great when everything comes together. It was a fantastic week. So we are very, very happy!"

It also helped that "Hatari's" triumph in the Gulf of Follonica took Brennecke and his team to the top of the 2022 nation rankings. In a combined classification with Hendrik Brandis' "Earlybird", the Germans collected a total of 20 points and shared the lead with the Italian yachts "Giuliana" and "Cuordileone", who were tied on points.

In the ClubSwan 36, Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's Monnegasque "G Sport" came out on top ahead of Haakon Lorentzen's "Mamao" and Mehmet Taki's Turkish "Facing Future". Nikolai Burkart's "Goddess" sailed to 6th place. Click here for the overall results (please click!).

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