St Barth Catacup 2018: Day 1
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St Barth always deliver.
+ 20knots and big waves, those were the conditions for yesterday at St Barth. The races had a dealy on strong winds but they managed to complete two. Today more wind expected.
Not much analysis to make on a quota registered regatta but good to have the Greeks (World Champs 2018) and Demesmaeker as benchmarks, also Enrique Figueroa, Gavin Colby, Le Clainche-Joubert , Manu Boulogne and Mitch Booth but racing with his daughter this time, still great effort by Rita Booth pushing in the tough conditions for a 10th overall.
On the conditions, that’s the beauty of the F18, A-Cats cannot even start to launch their boats and current foiling cats for amateurs can be a dangerous carnage.
After two races Arg Volker-Mehl (Scorpion/1D) lead followed by Demesmaeker-Gagliani (C2/Goodall), Figeroa-Booth (Scorpion/1D), Gonzalez Smith-Heuser (Scorpion/1D) and Paschalidis-Trigonis (Scorpion/1D).
Top ten belwo, Full results for day one here.
| Pos | Flag | Crew | R1 | R2 | Tot |
| 1 | ARG 7 | Pablo VOLKER, Sergio MEHL | 2 2.0 | 2 2.0 |
4 |
| 2 | BEL 1 | Demesmaeker – Gagliani | 1 1.0 |
5 5.0 |
6 |
| 3 | PUR | Figueroa – Booth | 4 4.0 |
3 3.0 |
7 |
| 4 | ARG 11 | Cruz GONZALEZ SMITH, Mariano HEUSER | 3 3.0 |
4 4.0 |
7 |
| 5 | GRE 7 | Paschalidis-Trigonis | 11 11.0 |
1 1.0 |
12 |
| 6 | FRA | Le Clainche-Joubert | 5 5.0 |
7 7.0 |
12 |
| 7 | ARG 111 | Vilate-Gonzalez Smith | 6 6.0 |
6 6.0 |
12 |
| 8 | FRA | Boulogne-BOulogne | 7 7.0 |
9 9.0 |
16 |
| 9 | ESP 1 | Mitch BOOTH, Rita BOOTH | 8 8.0 |
10 10.0 |
18 |
| 10 | SUI | Andreas LUTZ, Raymond SCHLATTER | 9 9.0 |
13 13.0 |
22 |
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