ROUND TEXEL WORLD RECORD BROKEN AFTER 7 YEARSThe world record time for a catamaran sailing around the Dutch island Texel ( 42 NM) has always been a challenge for many catsailors. The old record was set 22 years ago and has never been beaten by anyone. Then in 1999 the Beach cat club Westerslag forbid the old route due to a change of the low water areas in the north of the island and environmental reasons on the Vlakte of the Kerken.The new route was 9 miles longer and Olympic sailors Ron van Teylingen and Paul Manuel on a Tornado put the new record on the timetables in 1997.For 7 years all kinds of cats have tried to beat the record of 2 hours 30 minutes and 36 seconds. Some came very close but nobody beat them. Yesterday Hans Bouscholte and Ruurd van Wieren pushed their Tornado Sport of the beach for the second time this week and they did it. "27 seconds" Hans Bouscholte shouted to his crew. The new record of 2 hours 30 minutes and 9 seconds will stand at least until April next year when the new record season is opened. Maybe during the famous Round Texel race in June it will fall.

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