Lake Geneva 10th July.

Britain’s Philip Crebbin helming "Lafayette" won his fifth 8 Metre Class World Cup, after a break of 10 years since his last victory, in mostly light and flukey conditions this week in Geneva.

From a fleet of 30 boats including 10 modern yachts "Lafayette" with owner J.Fuytier from Holland aboard, sailed super consistently to take three second places, three thirds and a fifth in the seven races sailed. Crebbin won overall without actually winning a race despite often leading when the fickle breeze vanished causing the fleet to close up or that race to be abandoned. Held on a placid Lake Lehman, "Lafayette" was in the lead from the second race onwards, despite her optimization for the sea and strong winds with her relatively smaller sail area. The thirteen year-old yacht was, however, sporting a new Ian Howlett designed winged keel for this event.

Racing had to be called off to-day leaving the Dutch boat with a single point advantage over P. Groh’s "Fleur de Lys" from Switzerland and G.Shaltz’s "Aluette" helmed by designer Jacques Fauroux from France.

Swiss teams took the next three places with "Yquem", "Gitana Sixty" and "Gefion" whilst the Sira Cup for classic hulled 8’s with modern rigs was won by Alain and Gilles Minos’ "Cutty Tou" and the Cartier Cup for the totally original vintage yachts was won by Giovani Monga’s "Bona" from Italy.

Results (9 races with one discard) :-

World Cup
Posn.	Yacht	Owner/Helmsman	Nation	Points
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1st	Lafayette	J.Fuytier/P.Crebbin	NED	15 (discard 5)
2nd	Fleur de Lys	G.Schmaltz/J.Fauroux	FRA	16 (discard 7)
3rd	Aluette	P.Groh	SUI	16 (discard 7)
4th	Gitana Sixty	Camila Langoux	SUI	24 (discard 9)
5th	Yquem	Jean Fabre	SUI	28 (discard 10)
6th	Gefion	B. de Gorski/P. Bonjour	SUI	32 (discard 9)
.
Sira Cup
	Cutty Tou	Alain and Gilles Minos	SUI
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Cartier Cup
	Bona	Giovani Monga	ITA

8 METRE WORLD TITLE FOR PHILIP CREBBIN - PHOTO UPDATE.

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