F18, Texel Open 2016: Delnooz & van Leeuwen 1st

All images Round Texel. Like every year before the Roudn Texel, the Texel Open takes place in the usual course racing format. F18s race together in the same fleet with F16s, Nacra F20s and Sunnuck’s vampire M20. The FP fleet have abandoned the Texel stop for the more near local Emeraude Raid.

Elke Delnooz & Jeroen van Leeuwen have been racing together Nacra 17 past year, they also went to St Barts in F18 and together they won this 2016 TDO edition o nan infusion.
Second place for Oscar Zeekant & Karel Begemann (C2) and third for Xander Pols & Stefan Dubbeldam on F20 FCS. These are Texel handicap system scoring.

Annual visitors to Texel, and one of Arg top crews, Smith.-Heuser finished in 4th place (3rd for F18) on their preparation for coming F18 Europeans at Brest, which will a previous stop for their main goal this year which will be Argentina F18 Worlds 2016 to be held at Buenos Aires in October 28.

I commented yesterday that Mischa, Bundy & Carolijn have intentions to come and race with us, we’ll  see if we can arrange for them some boats along the container Nacra is preparing from its headquarters. Also those near Poland you can contact me or Jakub Kopylowicz from Exploder as a second container might be gathered.

Official 2016 F18 Worlds at f18worlds2016.org.ar/ , July 31st is the last day for early entry fee.

TDO 2016 Top ten below, full results at roundtexel.com/results-tdo-2016/