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Puerto Rico Olympic Tornado Catamaran Sailors Tops at Rolex Miami OCR
MIAMI, FLORIDA (January 30, 2004) --Breathless was the word to describe the final of four days of racing at the 2004 Rolex Miami OCR. To 503 sailors competing in the regatta's 11 Olympic and Paralympic classes, no wind on Biscayne Bay resulted in the cancellation of all racing. Yesterday's results, therefore, have determined class champions and left those who were within striking distance of the leaders disappointed. The regatta winners, most with sights set on competing in the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Athens, counted their performances here as critical, since this is one of North America's largest ISAF Grade One ranking events. The 323-boat fleet, flush with world champions, Olympic medallists and America's Cup veterans, represented 39 nations.
Tornado Catamarans - 2004 North American Championship Results
Miami, Florida, USA - Saturday, January 24, 2004 - By Michael Grandfield
The 2000 Olympic Gold Medal team of Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher (AUT) proved to be in top form as they took the overall win at the 2004 North American Championship. The Austrians lead from the first day and never finished lower than 3rd in a very competitve fleet of 27 boats from 12 countries.
The USA team of John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree finished 7 points behind Hagara/Steinacher, taking 2nd place overall. Lovell and Ogletree also captured the North American Champions title as the first North Ameican boat.
Third place overall went to Olivier Backes and Laurent Voiron (FRA).
The 2000 Olympic Gold Medal team of Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher (AUT) proved to be in top form as they took the overall win at the 2004 North American Championship. The Austrians lead from the first day and never finished lower than 3rd in a very competitve fleet of 27 boats from 12 countries.
The USA team of John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree finished 7 points behind Hagara/Steinacher, taking 2nd place overall. Lovell and Ogletree also captured the North American Champions title as the first North Ameican boat.
Third place overall went to Olivier Backes and Laurent Voiron (FRA).
Great Texas Catamaran Race, South Padre Island, Texas
The 2nd Great Texas Catamaran Race will be held as on Father’s Day week. The race will start in South Padre Island on June 16 and finish on Galveston Island on June 20.
The Great Texas is a 300 mile off-shore beach catamaran race held in four legs. Racers start and finish on the beach. The four legs have the distances of 100, 100, 70 and 30. Last year’s inaugural race was a great success and everyone is excited about sailing the Texas coast again.
The Great Texas is a 300 mile off-shore beach catamaran race held in four legs. Racers start and finish on the beach. The four legs have the distances of 100, 100, 70 and 30. Last year’s inaugural race was a great success and everyone is excited about sailing the Texas coast again.
2003 Hobie Wave Nationals, Catamaran Regatta Results.
Kulkoskis Dominate the 6th Annual Hobie Wave Nationals.
Dan and Kathy Kulkoski totally dominated the Hobie Wave Nationals in conditions
that were all over the place, light and fluky the first day, blowing dogs
of their chains the second day, and the final day of 15 mph and chilly.
Dan took bullets in 8 out of 15 races to finish 21 points ahead of the
second place sailor, Jim Glanden. Kathy Kulkoski took 3rd place, followed by Bob Bergstedt and Stan Woodruff.
King Harbor Yacht Club (KHYC) Multihull Fleet Year End Wrap-up
Thirty (30) Multihulls participated in regattas at KHYC during 2003. Eighteen
(18) were KHYC members and/or participants in our KHYC Multihull Point
Series. Twelve (12) more, from other yacht clubs, joined our Offshore Trimarans in
the Santa Barbara Race. Four (4) Multihulls raced in the Twilights Series, with
over twenty (20) total attendances.
Bill Gibbs Afterburner catamaran broke the Santa Barbara record, at 5 Hr., 47 Min., averaging over 14 knots! George and Kurt Mayol took first place in the Santa Barbara Race on Exit, their home built Trimaran! All three Trimarans officially participated for the first time in the Point Dume regatta; Bob Zwisslers Shadow Fox took 1st place.
International Rolex Regatta Dates Set, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
Every year the International Rolex Regatta provides great Tornado Catamaran sailing along with other one-design classes in a beautiful island setting.
Friday, March 26 - Sunday, March 28, 2004 -Returning to the Caribbean racing calendar with its unique blend of island-style hospitality, competition and camaraderie, the St. Thomas Yacht Club’s International Rolex Regatta will celebrate its 31st year in 2004. The event features handicap and one-design racing in a beautiful setting; professional race management; and dependable Caribbean tradewinds.
Dates set for the 2004 Little America's Cup
NEWPORT, R.I. (November 19, 2003) - The Trustees of the International
Catamaran Challenge Trophy (ICCT) have announced that the 24th running of
the event better known as "The Little America's Cup" will be hosted by
Southern Yacht Club (New Orleans, La.) from October 18-23, 2004.
A-Class North American Championship Catamaran Regatta Wrapup
A record 39 catamaran sailboats attended the A-Class North American Championship held November 11-14, 2003 in Mandeville, LA at the Pontchartrain Yacht Club. Catamaran sailors came from California, Texas, Canada, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and New Zealand! The catamaran regatta was won by Pease Glaser of Newport Beach, CA who showed excellent speed and sailing smarts by dominating the event on the last day in light and shifty winds.
Catamaran Sailors Rescued off Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA, Thursday November 13 th 2003 -- Jef and Christian, two experienced catamaran sailors who have known each other since childhood, decided to go for a sail. Jef sails a NACRA 5.2 and Christian (a long time Hobie 16 owner) a Hobie 14. On Thursday, November 13 th, 2003, with high winds in the forecast, the two sailors decided that their combined 310 pounds would be put to good use on the NACRA 5.2, so Christians Hobie 14 stayed on the beach.
They had sailed the NACRA from the same spot the previous weekend with winds in the twenties and very high waves. During that sail the box of emergency flares Jef normally carries on the NACRA 5.2 had been lost at sea. On this Thursday, a gust of 44.9 mph had been reported at 8:00 am, but by the time our sailors launched the boat into unusually flat surf at 2:00 pm, the Oceana station was reporting sustained 27.6 mph with gusts up to 38.
Larsen/Pols Forumula 18 Team Win the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta (full results)
Aruba, November 14th 2003 - The Dutch Formula 18 team Gunnar Larsen and Xander Pols won the 13th Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta. On Friday November 14th, they beat the British Tornado sailors Sunnucks/Self in the last race with four minutes on rating. After the light conditions in the last couple of days, the wind was back and therefore the smiles on the faces of the competitors.
This morning the promised seabreeze at breakfast was there. The race committee put again an olympic course down. The competitors were excited to go on the water. It was their last chance to sail with stronger wind and they got it. Several catamarans capsized under spinnaker and there was also little damage to equipment, but everybody enjoyed sailing. Just like on the first racing day, it were again the Tornado's that dominated the race.
Complete scoring for the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta at the end of the full article.
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