Alinghi 5: The cat out of the bag
Photo:George Johns / Alinghi
Photo copyright BYM News/Thomas Schmidt
Click here for the 1st pictures of this monster.
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
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The new Alinghi Cat look AWESOME and it will hopefully make for some really exciting sailing!
Great blog, by the way!
Yep, I like that they´ve choose to go "two hulls".
Incredible cat, too extreme bows for that size, expect some capsizes during training in high winds.
For sure calm winds location for the DoG match.
But BOR may surprise with a catamaran too.