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On the occasion of season half time, the committee is glad to herewith publish the preliminary total ranking of the Esse 850 IC Cup 2018. Congratulations to the team of GER 041 with skipper Martin Buck for the current lead!

For its 3rd consecutive year, the Geneva Cup beat a couple of records. The sunny weather and wind conditions were excellent with a nice Bise throughout the 3 days, with gusts reaching 30 nots on Friday.

The world's largest lake regatta celebrated its 80th anniversary – and Esseboats was strongly represented. Of the 580 boats at the Bol d'Or Mirabaud on Lake Geneva, 18 were Esseboats boats.

After the race started with very light winds the weathergod blessed the fleet with a „nice“ thunderstorm over the Swiss coast which brought some rain, but more importantly a very good south westerly breeze with 4-5 Beaufort.
That wind stayed until the mark Eichhorn. But also the Überlinger See which is usually known for its very light wind surprised the boats with a solid breeze all the way in and out.

Due to the distinctly higher number of Esse 850 IC Cup events emanating from the new cup formula, the committee introduced a new procedure regarding event reports at the general assembly in Rapperswil. According to this procedure, event reports from now on shall be provided by the winning team of every official Esse 850 IC Cup event (grades 1-3).