AC45s China Team with more Tornado talent onboard to replace Booth
China Team has announced that silver Tornado medalist Charlee Ogeltree , currently on the team and Wing trimmer tactician for Booth, will be the the Skipper and Andreas Hagara, Tornado WC in 1987, Eruopean Champion and X40 skipper, (brother of double Tornado gold olympic medalist Roman Hagara), will be the new helmsman replacing Mitch Booth.
Good move for CT having more Tornado talented specialists as it will mantain the multihull fans interest on the team.
Sad to to see Mitch out, and hope he will return in another team. Will check if Pim still on the team.
So now in this new Era of globalization you have an Americas Cup , Chinese team with a high exponent of the US multihull racing.
Above: Charlee and John Lovell gambling to the extreme with the ‘Chupacabra’ code zero at Beijing Olympics, where they developed with Mith Booth and Figueroa from PR a special flat gennaker to match expected low wind conditions at Quingdao. But conditions were some of the windiest races on the class history, and right on the measurement day, Mitch discarded the Zero and the US crew kept it resulting finally in a bad decision as in high winds there underpowered, although above you have a teaser of what could have been with usual conditions at the place… https://www.americascup.com/en/Teams/China-Team/Latest/News/2011/9/Plymouth-skipper-announcement/