Shaheen 39 was crowned by its owner Mohammed Rashid Al Rumaithi and led by Al Nokhadha Khalifa Abed Thani Al Marri, the 43-foot Dubai local sailing boat champion, organized by the Dubai International Marine Sports Club at the opening of the new marine sports season 2019-2020.
The inaugural race of the season was a success and the number of participants reached 79 with more than 1,200 sailors on board.The boats sailed after raising the green flag from the depths of the Arabian Gulf towards the finish line off the shores of Jumeirah and the Burj Al Arab Hotel for more than 10 nautical miles.
Wind speeds of up to 13 knots in some stages helped the sailors and sailors to guide the boats towards the right path towards the finish line, while luck did not smile for a number of them after disrupted and stumbled in the first start, which was wrong, and the race went smoothly, where the average speed reached 16 nautical miles Shaheen reached the finish line 41 minutes from the start.
The young Nukhitha Khalifa Abed Al Marri succeeded in choosing the right path that took the boat Shaheen first to the finish line, surpassing most of the participating boats, including the two boats in the second place earthquake 217 of its owner HH Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan and led by Nukhitha Mohammed Abdullah Al Marzouqi, and third place Lightning 230 for its owner, Mohammed Jaber Al Hammadi and led by Noukhaza Jaber Mohammed Al Hammadi, who topped the scene in the early stages and were the closest to the coronation, but Shahin 39 said his speech at the end of the race and won the first race of the maritime sports season 2019-2020.
In the rest of the centers came the storm storm 87 of its owner Abdullah Marwan Al Hammadi and led by Nokhitha Issa Al Marzouki in fourth place, and the Ghazi 180 for its owner Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan and led by Nokhatha Khalifa Ali Al Rumaithi in fifth place, and won the boat Hashim 153 owner Bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan and led by Noukhaza Hassan Marzouki in sixth place.
The boat crossed 203 for its owner Saif Saeed Al Rumaithi and led by Ali Khalifa Al Rumaithi in seventh place, while the boat shares 170 for its owner Abdullah Ibrahim Al Hammadi and led by Nokhatha Ahmed Yousef Al Hammadi eighth, while ninth went to the boat scissors 73 for owner Musabah Rashed Al Fattan and led by Nokhadha Khalid Mohammed Al-Rumaithi and the tenth boat Khuzam 255 came to its owner Nokhatha Ibrahim Ismail Al-Marzouqi.
After the race, the 43-foot Dubai local sailing champions were crowned at the Arabian Gulf waters in the presence of Nakhuda and the owners of the boats (Shaheen 39 I), (earthquake 217 II) and (Lightning 230 III) where the Executive Director of Dubai International Sports Club Marine Abdullah Mohammed Hareb, Director of Racing Department Supervisor Hazim Mohammed Al-Qamzi, presented the trophies to the champions.
Mohammed Abdullah Hareb, Executive Director of Dubai International Marine Sports Club, blessed the organizational and technical success of the 43-foot Dubai local sailing race organized by the Dubai International Marine Club with the opening of the 2019-2020 Marine Sports Season. Hareb praised the great cooperation witnessed in the race between the organizing committee, the Nakhuda and the co-owners, which contributed to the majority of boats safely reaching the finish line in a record time.
Successful partnership
The Director of the Racing Department at Dubai International Marine Sports Club, Hazim Mohammed Al Qamzi, thanked the success partners from government departments and national institutions that are always behind the success of the races, especially the Dubai Police General Headquarters (Marine Rescue and Ports Police Station) for their influential role in organizing And secure the race.
He also appreciated the role of Dubai Media Incorporated and the family of Dubai Sports channels, which carried the race live and the Yas channel.
Good start
Nakhitha veteran Mohammed Rashid Al Rumaithi, owner of the boat Shaheen 39, said that the launch of the marine sport season 2019-2020 in Dubai came good and promising despite the circumstances that accompanied the race, which usually happens at the beginning of any season.
Al-Rumaithi expressed his happiness with the brilliance shown by the boat Shaheen in the first maritime races, pointing out that the group of many local sailing boats always seek excellence, praising the abilities of young Nuketha Khalifa Abed Thani Al-Marri, who led Shaheen 39 skill and know-how to the first place.