We have WINNERS ! - - - - F16 europeans 2010

The F16 European championships have just been concluded and we have crowned the winners



Jason Waterhouse (18, AUS) and Lisa Darmanin (18, AUS) ; AHPC Viper F16




2nd place Darren Bundock (who crewed for Froukje Feenstra 18 also) said on Twitter

"Very well deserved win by the young Aussie team.. A good future for Australian cat sailing. The next generation is coming.. "


5th place Carolijn Brouwer added via the same communication channel

"Cool to see the young kids pushing the Vipers hard. Really enjoying the close racing. "


More stories, links and lots of photographs can be found at :

http://www.catsailor.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=216399#Post216399

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52269442@N04

and

http://catsailingnews.blogspot.com/search/label/F16%20Europeans

Congratulations from all of us and we wish you the best of success and enjoyment in your sailing years ahead !

And here our winners doing some formation flying towards the mark.

They are in the middle sailing on AUS-192, flanked on the left by BEL-888 of Carolijn Brouwer and Liz Wardley and on the right by BEL-666 sailed by Gill de Bruyne and Kathleen van den Bulcke.


I couldn't resist as I think this is such a beautiful picture by Marco Lazzetta.

Wouter

those are some flat looking spinnakers....

Loog good! Every cat Kite I have had has been flatter than the one before; flat is good!

One of the benefits of being a formula class. The design slowly converges to the best setup possible and isn't stalled in a setup that once was considered best.

Wouter