Greg Thomas and I were talking today. He will be out of country for a while to sail in the ISAF Worlds. He will be sailing with Jacques Bernier competing against 45 of the top catamaran teams in the world. The other team that is going are Ollie and Kelli Jason to sail on the Hobie Tigers in this race. There are a couple of USA Womens teams sailing as well, Sandra Tartaglino (skipper) and Teri McKeena (crew) as well and Annie Nelson (skipper) and Sue Korz (crew). Let’s all wish them the best in this endeavor. I have provided a list of the Olympians that will be sailing in the Formula 18 group and a list of other sailors that we know from other events. I am sure this is hardly a complete list of the exceptional sailors that will be there. I could not figure out any of the other tops as I have not sailed against them all. You can get the list at:
http://www.worldsailinggames2006.at/cms/index.php?id=393 [color:"blue"]Here are the lists of sailors attending the ISAF World Games.[/color]
Olympic Sailors from the 2004 Athens games attending:AUSTRIA
Roman Hagara (Skipper), Hans Peter Steinacher (Crew)
NEDETHERLANDS
Mitch Booth (Skipper), Herbert Dercksen (Crew)
AUSTRALIA
Darren Bundock (Skipper)
PUERTO RICO
Enrique Figueroa (Skipper), Jorge Hernandez (Crew)
RUSSIA
Andrey Kirilyuk (Skipper), Valery Ushkov (Crew)
GERMANY
Gunnar Struckmann (Crew)
CANADA
Oskar Johansson (Skipper)
Others that we know from sailing in North America:AUSTRALIA
Glenn Ashby crewing for Darren Bundock
Tim Shuwalow (Skipper), Taylor Booth (Crew)
MEXICO
Armando Noriega (Skipper), Javier Cabildo (Crew)
USA
Greg Thomas (Skipper), Jacques Bernier (Crew)
Ollie Jason (Skipper), Kelli Jason (Crew)
PUERTO RICO
Ibrahim Mustafa (Skipper)
Pedro Colon (Skipper)
Later,
Dan
