F18 Arg: C2 dominates weekend Racing

Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com

Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com

Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com

Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com

Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com
This is the beauty of the F18 Class, last Regatta held at Mar del Plata was totally dominated by the current Arg champions on their Infusion (Cruz Smith-Mariano Heuser), and this past weekend, top contenders Sergio Mehl-Nico Aragonés won 6 out of 7 races with their ex Bundy’s C2, in two quite different conditions for Sat-Sunday, 20-25 Offshore flat with huge gusts on day one and 10-14knots South with waves.
For more info on the C2 check label here

Bad weekend for us, crewing this time, we had only one start on 7 races, with just a good moment, above 1123 chasing the leaders, on the 1st race on Sunday that we couldn´t even finish due to a broken rudder casting on the last downwind leg…
Photo: Jorge Cousillas / www.elojonautico.com
Two weekends ago I left some 5 imported boats behind with my school beat up Racecat with Landys, and yesterday one of the only two Tigers of the fleet had some excellent moments like photo above (leading the top crews), where Alberto Viera got a solid lead at the top mark of this race but ended with a spinnaker stuck in the front stay, he was using a Landy set too, showing how an ‘old’ boat with a good set of sails and the right crew can still be competitive against the top guns with the latest boats of the fleet.
Contact Felix Egner at www.landenberger-sailing.com for a custom set for your F18, now they are developing for the Wildcat on german sailors request.