Nacra 17 South Americans 2014 @Rio
All Images Fred Hoffmann. Full gallery at Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro FB. While the Australians match their performance at Melbourne looking forward to their ineternal qualy , some of the top riders including 2014 CSN Sailors of the Year Billy Besson & Marie Riou are racing at Rio for the 2014 South Americans.
Top Ten below . Full Results at https://www.icrj.com.br/vela/resultados/2014/dezembro/sul_americano/nacra_17.htm
| Class. | Nat | Skipper | CrewName | SailNo | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
| 1st | NZL | Gemma Jones | Jason Saunders | NZL 222 | Milford Cruising Club | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | -6 | 20 | 14 |
| 2nd | NED | Renee Groeneveld | Steven Krol | NED 243 | KNWL | -6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 14 |
| 3rd | AUT | Tom Zajac | Tanja Frank | AUT 205 | 4 | 6 | 4 | -13 | 7 | 1 | 35 | 22 | |
| 4th | SUI | Matias Buhler | Nathlie Brugger | SUI 41 | GYC | 2 | 9 | (dns) | 1 | 11 | 5 | 52 | 28 |
| 5th | CAN | Luke Ramsay | Nikola Girke | CAN 100 | Royal Vancouver Yacht Club | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 3 | -13 | 42 | 29 |
| 6th | FRA | Vaireau | Audinet | FRA 225 | SRV | 8 | 10 | 2 | 6 | (ocs) | 4 | 54 | 30 |
| 7th | BRA | João Siemsen | Juliana Poncioni Mota | BRA 148 | ICRJ | 10 | 3 | -11 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 43 | 32 |
| 8th | ARG | Santiago Lange | Cecilia Carranza | ARG 2 | CNSI | 7 | -14 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 48 | 34 |
| 9th | ARU | Nicole Van Der Velden | Thys Visser | ARU 212 | Aruba Beach Cats | 9 | 12 | 8 | -16 | 9 | 9 | 63 | 47 |
| 10th | ITA | Bressani Lorenzo | Micol Giovanna | ITA 209 | CC.Aniene | 12 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 8 | (ocs) | 72 | 48 |
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