Hobie 16 Europeans 2019 @La Rochelle
Hobie European and Multi-Worlds 
All images by Hobie Class Association, click for orig size & slideshow. More shots here. 2019 Hobie 16 Europeans. 90 boats fleet for a Class that continues to offer tight competitive racing as can easily seen in the top 3 of the Open division where Owen Cameron & Susan Ghent were crowned Champs by 1pt only ahead of Lauritz Bockelmann & Kim Liedke. Third overall for Klemens & Gundi KitzMueller 1pt also behind 2nd overall.
Complete H16 Open Results (pdf) available here. There is a Spi division also, see 4th shot above. Initially the Spi was added to youth Hobie 16. Open remains the main division and is still raced with original Main & Jib only.
All divisions Results at https://hobie2019larochelle.com/s/11373/results
Official web hobie2019larochelle.com/
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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