Formula 18: 1st Official South Americans, BA Week 2011

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We keep pushing hard for multihull racing and the Formula 18 class here in Argentina, trying to spread the word to the rest of the countries. 
Last year James Baeckler (F18 FGral Sec) saw that we were having some guys from abroad on SBA 2010 and offered us to organize the first official F18 South Americans. Well here they are thanks to the support of the Yacht Club Argentino.

We have 20 boats and sadly many couldn’t race, crews from Chile and Uruguay confirmed.
Brazil has no F18 fleet yet, we missed to bring some H16 guns to race.

The 1st SA will be organized by the Yacht Club Argentino (YCA) within the Buenos Aires Week 2011, that already has more than 500 boats in the diff participating classes.
The growth of the local F18 class is quite impressive and we are all very proud of showing the traditional monohull sailing community in Argentina, what’s Catamaran Racing all about after Lange and Camau lone rangers achievements.

The race days for the SA will be October 8,9,10. This weekend we start with the parallel SBA championship.
Now that the AC45s are showing the way for non believers, we’ll try to put on a show too, people will get stunned by seeing 20 F18s racing, secene viewed only once here  at the Tornado Worlds 2006 (50 boats) 
More info to come, photos hopefully from the local Master photographer Matías Capizzano

Nº Vela Timonel Tripulantes Club
1 ARG 7 Mehl Sergio Aragones Nicolas AGUILA
2 ARG 162 Krevisky Agustin N.PNA
3 ARG 163 Berberian Gabriel Culotta Leonardo C.U.B.A.
4 ARG 164 Caputo Alejandro Mazza Sebastian AGUILA
5 ARG 166 Petre Nicolas Izorna Rodrigo C.N.M.
6 ARG 666 Rodger Ian Benitez Juan Martin AGUILA
7 ARG 1062 Sucic Juan P. Copani Juan Carlos Y.C.A.
8 ARG 1069 Castro Memo Collazo Jose Y.C.A.
9 ARG 1123 Osuna Gustavo Poclava La Fuente Javier AGUILA
10 ARG 1124 Heuser Federico Heuser Javier AGUILA
11 ARG 1240 Vilate Christian Vilate Pablo AGUILA
12 ARG 1479 Gonzalez Smith Cruz Heuser Mariano Y.C.A.
13 ARG 1496 Faustin Bros Juan Gonzalez Smith Lucas AGUILA
14 ARG 2016 Blando Esteban Martín Vanzulli CVR/CNP
15 ARG 2127 Daneri Esteban Acosta Rodrigo
16 CHI 1041 Kovacevic Nicolas Kovacevic Lukas RAPEL
17 CHI 1111 Gutierrez Alfonso ACULEO
18 CHI 1132 Del Rio Humberto Davila Benjamin RAPEL
19 URU 115 Schewe Cristopher Radovitzky Ricardo Y.C.U.
20 URU 117 Grunwaldt Juan Grunwaldt Juan Y.C.U.

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