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Enrique's Hobie Tiger wins Beachcats at BVI, Hobie 16 Women do Well
In Beach Cats, it came as no surprise that Puerto Rico's 2004 Olympic Tornado team of Enrique Figueroa and crew Jorge Fernandez aboard Movistar/Suzuki/Red Bull defended their title, winning three races to clinch their four-race series and top 12 boats. This was the first year in recent history that the Beach Cats were not divided into spinnaker and non-spinnaker classes. Sailing to a Portsmouth handicap while other classes sailed to the Caribbean Sailing Association rating rule, the Beach Cats were dominated by Figueroa's Hobie Tiger, an 18 footer with spinnaker that is popular in Europe and is similar to Figueroa's Olympic Tornado. Close on his heels in second was the Hobie 16 Exodus/Ensysa, sailing without a spinnaker and skippered by another, but unrelated, Enrique Figueroa, also from Puerto Rico.
Two notable women's skippers--Rosarita Martinez (Carolina, PR) aboard the Hobie 16 Yuisa and Susan Korzeniewski (Liverpool, N.Y.), sailing the Hobie 16 WOW--competed in preparation for the Hobie 16 Worlds to be held in Cancun the first week of May. Martinez, who has sailed this event for the past five years and won her class in 2001, is the 2003 Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion. Korzeniewski is a past Continental Women's Champion and a veteran of the grueling Worrell 1000 event for catamarans. Martinez and Korzeniewski finished fourth and eighth, respectively.
Read more for the rest of the Rolex Wrap-up and complete results. Hi Res Regatta Pictures
Two notable women's skippers--Rosarita Martinez (Carolina, PR) aboard the Hobie 16 Yuisa and Susan Korzeniewski (Liverpool, N.Y.), sailing the Hobie 16 WOW--competed in preparation for the Hobie 16 Worlds to be held in Cancun the first week of May. Martinez, who has sailed this event for the past five years and won her class in 2001, is the 2003 Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion. Korzeniewski is a past Continental Women's Champion and a veteran of the grueling Worrell 1000 event for catamarans. Martinez and Korzeniewski finished fourth and eighth, respectively.
Read more for the rest of the Rolex Wrap-up and complete results. Hi Res Regatta Pictures
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Enrique Figueroa takes both 1st and 2nd place in Beachcats Class at Rolex.
ST. THOMAS, USVI (March 28, 2004)--For winners in nine classes at the three-day International Rolex Regatta 2004, life was good today. "Real good," according to Chris Curreri of St. Thomas, who--like the other class leaders--claimed a Rolex watch for his efforts in the IC-24 class. The event, in its 31st year at the St. Thomas Yacht Club in the U.S. Virgin Islands, hosted 91 boats and hundreds of sailors who were tested by a variety of wind conditions on the racecourse and never a dull party moment ashore.
In Beach Cats, it came as no surprise that Puerto Rico's 2004 Olympic Tornado team of Enrique Figueroa and crew Jorge Fernandez aboard Movistar/Suzuki/Red Bull won its final race to clench a four-race series. This was the first year in recent history that the Beach Cats were not divided into spinnaker and non-spinnaker racing classes. Sailing to a Portsmouth handicap while other classes sailed to the Caribbean Sailing Association rating rule, the Beach Cats were dominated by Figueroa's Hobie Tiger, sailing with a spinnaker. Close on his heels in second was the Hobie 16 Exodus/Ensysa, sailing without a spinnaker and skippered by another, but unrelated, Enrique Figueroa, also from Puerto Rico.
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