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Great Texas Catamaran Race, South Padre Island, Texas
This year TheBeachcats.com will have on-the-scene reports from the Great Texas Catamaran Race. The race starts June 14th, so watch this space for reports and photos.
If you aren't familiar with the Great Texas, which started in 2003, here is a description from the race headquarters site "The Great Texas Catamaran Race is an off-shore beach catamaran race along the Texas Coast. Starting in South Padre Island and finishing in Galveston, the race covers approximately 300 miles along the Texas coast over the Father’s Day weekend. The race will be conducted in four stages with each stage starting and ending on the beach! This will be the fourth year that the Great Texas Catamaran race is held."
Click here for the Great Texas Catamaran Race, Notice of Race for more info.
If you aren't familiar with the Great Texas, which started in 2003, here is a description from the race headquarters site "The Great Texas Catamaran Race is an off-shore beach catamaran race along the Texas Coast. Starting in South Padre Island and finishing in Galveston, the race covers approximately 300 miles along the Texas coast over the Father’s Day weekend. The race will be conducted in four stages with each stage starting and ending on the beach! This will be the fourth year that the Great Texas Catamaran race is held."
Click here for the Great Texas Catamaran Race, Notice of Race for more info.
Spectacular capsizes at Volvo Extreme 40 Grand Prix
Team Holmatro started inconsistantly at the Volvo Extreme 40 Grand Prix in
Portsmouth (GBR). After two days and eight races, the Dutch entry claims
a fourth position overall. The Austrian Andreas Hagara, former European
and national Champion Tornado, did the honours as a skipper on Sunday.
He performed pretty well with a series of 4-2-2-4. On Tuesday May 30,
Mitch Booth returned in his role as skipper with Hagara next to him. The
crew experienced difficulties with the short course and a drop on the
point table was inevitable. Tommy Hilfiger and subsequently the Volvo
Ocean Race multihull made history as first VX 40's to capsize in a
breeze up to 25 knots. Basilica stood up against all risks and is
leading, followed by Tommy Hilfiger and Motorola.
"That
was an entertaining day", said Mitch Booth afterwards on the
dock. "I was so much distracted on the downwind leg, that I sailed over
the starting buoy." It was Leigh MacMillan that pitchpoled first with
the Motorola in the second race. The crew was hanging in the air for
seconds, with the rudders free. The VX 40 came down snail-like and
everybody drew a breath of relief, as nobody knew the consequences of a
capsize. The answer came in the last race: the carbon boat and the
sailors were very strong. Randy Smith and his teammates were given the
honour to be the very first VX 40 upside down. They were just recovering
from a pitchpole, as the next wind gust came in. It blew the American
multihull over. A heavy rib was needed to upright it. While being in
this rescue process, the Volvo Ocean Race team pitchpoled merciless.
Skipper Yves Loday, designer of the VX 40 and 1992 olympic champion
Tornado, could not avoid this unvoluntary swim and crashed badly into
the mast. Loday, who had a bruise in his face: "The cold water relieved
the pain, but my back hurts now." Nevertheless, the sailors could still
make fun of it. Randy Smith, sitting on the upper hull and shouting down
to the people in the rib: "Of course we will finish the race anyway."
This did not happen.
Team Zwitserleven, Booth/Dercksen, Close to Medal at ISAF World Sailing Games
Lake Neusiedl, Austria, May 19th 2006 - Team Zwitserleven Booth/Dercksen is close to a medal at the ISAF WorldS ailing Games 2006 in Austria. After eight races on Lake Neusiedl, the Dutchmen are second on the points table of the Hobie Tiger class. The Australians Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby are leading. The medal race on May 20 will be decisive for the final podium ranking. According to Mitch Booth, the competition is close. Theoretically, it could be a win or a tenth.
Before Herbert Dercksen starts to talk about today's racing in Austria, he expresses his feelings about the tragedy onboard ABN AMRO II: This is a really tragic story and our deepest sympathy go out to all at the ABN Amro team, and our hearts go out to Hans=92 family and close friends.
Before Herbert Dercksen starts to talk about today's racing in Austria, he expresses his feelings about the tragedy onboard ABN AMRO II: This is a really tragic story and our deepest sympathy go out to all at the ABN Amro team, and our hearts go out to Hans=92 family and close friends.
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