19 Year Old Wins Mini Transat Eurochef Production Class Leg 1 Out of 90 Starters. English Report #10

Please Like, Subscribe and hit Bell for our upload alerts. Though the top three prototypes finished within 1 hour and 10 minutes of one another at the end of the 1,350-mile first leg in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef between Les Sables d’Olonne and Santa Cruz de La Palma, there is a much bigger gap between the top three production boats. Indeed, Melwin Fink (920 – SignForCom) crossed the finish line with a lead of 19hr12 over Christian Kargl (980 – All Hands on Deck) and 25hr52 in relation to Hugo Dhallenne (979 – YC Saint Lunaire), respectively second and third in this first act with its most unlikely scenario. A scenario in which the leader continued racing, whilst the remainder of the podium made a pit-stop in Portugal and all his rivals made the collective decision to put into port to avoid a front rolling in offshore of Cape Finisterre. It is still anyone’s game prior to round two of course, but for the German skipper it was clearly a case of snapping up the opportunity whilst the going was good!