Tuesday 18 June 2013

36th Round Texel Race completed

From the following article on Sail-World submitted by Simon Keijzer:

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Round-Texel---Line-honours-for-Peter-Vink-and-Jeroen-van-Leeuwen/110291

On Sunday morning, half past 10, all competitors in the 36th Round Texel Race heard the redeeming words: 'the 36th Round Texel will be raced today!' Following the postponement of 15 June, due to the strong winds, 194 of the initial 288 registered catamarans appeared at the start for the postponned version of the Biggest Cat race of the World.

After 2 hours and 35 minutes Peter Vink and Jeroen van Leeuwen crossed the finish line in front of Paal 17 first. Vink and Van Leeuwen took the lead at the lighthouse and did not look back. Sailing on their brand new and ultra-bright Nacra F20 Carbon the duo skimmed the water thanks to the specially prepared foils on the rudders and reached top speeds.


read more here

Another article is on the excellent catsailingnews blog here:

http://www.catsailingnews.com/2013/06/texel-round-2013-oscar-zeekant-charlie.html

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