Bárbara Wright Cup

From November 17 to 19 in Búzios the 11th Bárbara Wright Cup will take place. Participants include 1980 Olympic Champions Alex Welter and Lars Bjorgstrom, together again in a Tornado after decades in other classes - that includes about everything that floats, IACC and the like.

This competition is one of the main Tornado events in Brazil, together with the Nationals and the Pre-Olympic series. Besides Welter and Bjorgstrom (a tipical Brazilian name <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />), other confirmed participants are: Lars Grael (Tornado olympic bronze 1988 and 1996), Clínio Freitas (Tornado olympic bronze 1988), Kiko Pellicano (Tornado Olympic bronze 1996), Eduardo Penido (470 olympic gold 1980), Betão Pandiani (adventurer who crossed from the Horn to Antartida in a cat and slightly extended the Tybee 500 - to Greenland), Pedro Bulhões (Laser Pan-American Gold 1983), Roger Wright (A-Cat Brazilian champion) and Cláudia Swan (470 Pan-American gold), among others.

The XI Bárbara Wright Cup is promoted by Roger Wright and organized by Búzios Vela Clube (BVC) and Lars Grael. Speaking of him, Lars was recently elected President of the Brazilan Federation of Sailing (CBVM), which is Brasil's ISAF Member National Authority. It'll certainly be nice to have a multihuller in the sport's highest position in Brazil. It's alright to envy our luck... In the long term your country will have one too. But in the long term we'll all be DEAD!

Invited classes are: Tornado, A-Cat, Formula 20, Eagle Cat, Hobie 16, Hobie 14, Supercat 17 and Open (Portsmouth, I guess). Anything with more than one hull and a sail is welcome. Naturally they accept entries from countries with weaker multihull representation... so everyone is welcome to the party. There's good reason to celebrate!