St Barth Catacup 2016: Day 1 by Pierrick Contin
All images: Pierrick Contin / Pierrickcontin.fr , click for HQ & Slideshow – Great to have Pierrick again at St Barts shooting paradise at its best. Check more great pics from him and Alain Blanchard at stbarthcatacup.com/fr/pages/Photos-2016/Prix%20Designaffairs/.
On the racing, Gurvan Bontemps & Benjamin Amiot again sailing Manu Boulogne’s Cirrus R, equiped this time with Hyde sails (For those who asked me on the Hyde spi from Simon Northrop, there you have its performance). Cirrus R will delivered now from factory with Hyde Sails.
Second place for Le Clainche-Joubert , 3rd Demesmaeker-Gagiani (C2), 4th -Wilmot-Burd (MKII) and 5th for Cruz Gonzalez Smith & Mariano Heuser (MKII).
More info later when official results pusblished. Official web stbarthcatacup.com/
Full results Race 1: stbarthcatacup.com/fr/pages/classements-Course_1/
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
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