They are having their own little race among themselves and are in this event a little hidden behind the 2-up crews at the top of the leader board. We are talking about the singlehanders in this event and the Formula 16 class website has taken the initiative of setting this right with a special photoseries dedicated to them; the mano-a-mano guys.

http://www.formula16.net/content/view/107/1/lang,en/

With of course Geert Ruesink on top. Well deserved by his "can-do" mentality.

Then Daniel Todd who has recovered sufficiently from a seriously injured shoulder to participate in this years Euro's

The one of the regulars of the F16 international events since the very beginnin ; Mark Pressdee. Ik remember him making the Stealth T-foils look soooooooo good in the big wind and waves of the Global Challenge 2007 (were I swam about 5 times in a single day and he didn't tip it even once)

Then we see Hans Klok in a pose that is so characteristic of him as in each Global challenge he participated in he was photographed in exactly the same manner. Here he is riding high, but at the GC2007 his body was still almost touching the waves like that.

Concluding the series is Eric Noyau with a first edition Stealth F16; the very first commercially available series build F16. Still going strong after 8 years.


My hat off to all of them !

Wouter