AudiMed Cup: From Argentina with Pride (II)
TP52 Team “Matador” from Argentina, with Guillermo Parada as skipper, a majority of Arg crews, Arg designed and made sails from Juan Garay/North Sails Arg and boat built by Argentine King Marine, beat a bunch of top notch ac teams :
© Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup Mariano and Guillermo Parada receiving 1st trophy
© Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup
Dean and Grant with 2nd place trophy, I really like TZ, but I like Team ARG the most! ; )
1st – Guillermo Parada / Matador 36pts
2nd – Russell Coutts / Artemis 37pts
3rd – Dean Barker / Team NewZealand, 38 pts
4th – Terry Htucthison / Quantum, 40pts
and other AC teams at the MedCup 1st stage in Alicante
© Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup
Watch out for this “3rd World” sailing team, add Juan K as designer and Santiago Lange and you’d better train hard Oracle and Alinghi for next 34 Americas Cup, as 33rd is going to be a Match Race in Multihulls… but hey, maybe we’ll build a 90′ foot for February 10th also ; )
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16