Team Oman Air get new racing campaign off to winning start

Team Oman Air got their first ever GC32 Racing Tour season off to the most ideal begin with triumph at the opening occasion of 2019, the GC32 Villasimius Cup in Sardinia. 

Dashing in once in a while dubious and troublesome conditions the Oman Air team demonstrated their grit in an exceedingly focused 10-in number armada of fast thwarting sailboats to guarantee the first round by a reasonable nine before the seeking after pack. The success denoted an effective presentation for the new-look Oman Air group, which has seen set up colleagues Pete Greenhalgh, Nasser Al Mashari and Stewart Dodson joined by the exceedingly appraised New Zealand helmsman Adam Minoprio as captain and the accomplished British mariner Adam Piggott. 

"We are another group and making a decent attempt, and we have had the option to discover a few regions that are unmistakable qualities," said Greenhalgh, Oman Air's task supervisor, mainsail trimmer and strategist. "We had an incredible group on paper and everything came bravo. We are great downwind and our moves have likewise been great, and we have been aggressive upwind also." 

"It's likewise been working truly well between Adam Minoprio and I, calling the strategies and getting the vessel moving the correct way, so we are truly satisfied that that is worked out just as it has – we are only pleasantly in sync which is the way it ought to be." 

In the wake of imparting the early lead to protecting GC32 champions Norauto, driven by French expert Franck Cammas, the decided Oman Air group fabricated the establishments for their definitive accomplishment with a cap trap of race triumphs on the third of four days of hustling. Going into Sunday's last races the group held an eight point advantage, a lead they had the option to keep up regardless of industrious weight from the pursuing pack, eminently Ernesto Bertarelli's Swiss group on Alinghi and various Olympic gold award champ Ben Ainslie's team on INEOS Rebels UK, who took second and third places individually on the general platform. Triumph was fixed with a second spot in the sixteenth and last race of the regatta. 

"It has been strong, persistent downpour throughout the previous couple of days and we have had a great deal of wind now and again, with it being very sneaky – troublesome conditions however we some way or another figured out how to get the hustling in," said Greenhalgh of the unseasonal conditions. 

"We battled in a few races today and slipped back a bit, yet we hung on for a great outcome and we are obviously content with that."