F18: St Barts Catacup 2021: Day 1
First day of racing at St Barts Catacup 2021. Last edition was held in 2019. Argies Cruz Gonzalez Smith & Mariano Heuser won the first race, and were leading the second when they cut a trapeze line…….
Second race won by long time F18 & St Barts sailor John Casey racing with Colin Page.
Gurvan Bontemps & Ben Amiot (Scorpion / SI) lead overall after two races.
Pics from Day 1 by Pierrick Contin to be uploaded soon. Awesome shots the few we saw including these above. Complete D1 gallery here
Complete Results here
| Rang | Points | Sponsor / Crew | c_1 | c_2 |
| 1 | 8 | STICKERMAN gurvan BONTEMPS, benjamin AMIOT | 8.00 2 | 2.0 6 |
| 2 | 8 | NIKKI BEACH St Barth orion MARTIN, charles GATE | 8.00 5 | 5.0 3 |
| 3 | 9 | ST BARTH PROPERTIES john CASEY, colin PAGE | 9.00 8 | 8.0 1 |
| 4 | 11 | GYPSEA St-Barth cedric BADER, guillaume YVON | 11.00 3 | 3.0 8 |
| 5 | 11 | LES PERLES DE ST BARTH – BATIVRD patrick DEMESMAEKER, olivier GAGLIANI | 11.00 6 | 6.0 5 |
| 6 | 14 | SBDE cruz GONZALEZ SMITH, mariano HEUSER | 14.00 1 | 1.0 13 |
| 7 | 15 | CCDM clement PEDUZZI, maxime BLONDEAU | 15.00 4 | 4.0 11 |
| 8 | 16 | SALINE CHARPENTE emeric DARY, david FANOUILLERE | 16.00 12 | 12.0 4 |
| 9 | 17 | SOLUTECH.NET cristian VETTORI , maurizio STELLA | 17.00 7 | 7.0 10 |
| 10 | 20 | JULBO ad NOORDZIJ, maarten NOORDZIJ | 20.00 18 | 18.0 2 |
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