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GIRL POWER VERSUS GENERATION NEXT IN VIPER BATTLE
While former round the world team-mates Carolijn Brouwer and Liz Wardley are hoping girl power will sweep them to their second major win as a Viper team, multiple Olympic medallist Darren Bundock will be relying on youthful exuberance and enthusiasm to keep at bay a rising tide of young sailing talent.
The two-time Olympic Tornado silver medallist has enlisted the aid of teenage Viper skipper to match it with some of the top multihull sailors in the world and the rising stars of the game on beautiful Lake Como in Italy in this weeks F16 Euro Challenge.
Dutch sailor Froukje Feenstra, just 17, will be calling the shots on the Viper with Bundock assuming the unusual role of crew for the event which starts today.
CHAMPION CHASING "LUCKY" 13th WORLD SAILING CROWN
In a sport where bananas, anything green, starting a voyage on a Friday and even whistling are considered "unlucky" on boats, dual Olympic medallist Darren Bundock said he doesn't have a superstitious bone in his body ahead of his campaign for a 13th world sailing crown.
The two-time Olympic silver medallist in the Tornado class said he knows plenty of rivals who would be nervous even to mention the "unlucky" number 13. But for him it's not a problem.
"I know people who won't try to win, let alone even finish, an invitation race before a regatta because they consider it unlucky and would freak out completely if there was anything green on their boat," said Bundock, who has won a record seven world titles in the Tornado class, three in the F18 and two ISAF world sailing crowns in his stellar career.
MULTIPLE OLYMPIAN EXTENDS PERFECT RECORD THANKS TO LUCKY COIN TOSS
Multiple sailing Olympian Carolijn Brouwer won her first battle on land when a coin toss secured her the skippers position on her new Viper and claimed her second triumph soon after when she and partner Darren Bundock raced to victory in the Belgian open multihull championships in Knokke on the weekend.
The pair was a newly formed mixed crew racing at the event but dominated from the start, winning five of their seven races during the two-day regatta.
Brouwer has now recorded back-to-back victories on the Viper following her history-making win with crewmate Liz Wardley at the recent Eurocat regatta in Carnac, France, and the first win by a mixed crew in the two-day Belgian open multihull championships on the North Sea.
FEMALE "LIGHTWEIGHTS" CREATE HISTORY IN SEASON OPENER
Two former round-the-world team-mates have written a new entry in sailing's record books with with Carolijn Brouwer and Liz Wardley the first all-female crew ever to win the famous Eurocat regatta in Carnac, France.
Barely 120 kilo dripping wet, the catamaran lightweights excelled in a variety of conditions to claim the 16-foot division in a Viper they had raced together for the first time just three days earlier.
Brouwer, from The Netherlands, and France-based Australian Wardley, finished no worst than 3rd over the entire weekend with their discard result following some equipment problems and Wardley falling overboard in the final race of the regatta in Carnac.
ROUND THE WORLD SAILORS REUNITE FOR VIPER ASSAULT
For the first time since they raced across some of the most dangerous stretches of water on the planet in a Volvo Ocean Race, multiple Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer and renown single-handed sailor Liz Wardley will join forces on a Viper catamaran in a quest to write their names into sailing's history books.
Two of the most accomplished female sailors on the international racing scene, Brouwer and Wardley have jumped at the chance to reunite on the water for a shot at creating history in the three-day Eurocat regatta in France from Friday.
"No all-female crew has ever won the Eurocat regatta," said Brouwer, a former world Europe dinghy champion who with old crewmate Sebastien Godefroid won a silver at the 2007 world Tornado championships in Portugal.
FORMER RIVALS TEAM UP TO CHASE HISTORY IN FAMOUS SEASON OPENER
Former Olympic sailing rivals Darren Bundock and Will Howden have forged a formidable partnership to take on two former team-mates at this week's famed Eurocat regatta in Carnac, France.
Multiple world catamaran champion and two-time Olympic medallist Bundock will jump aboard the C2 Formula 18 with Howden, a former world Tornado silver medallist, at the three-day regatta which starts Friday.
Now based in The Netherlands, Australian Bundock and English sailor Howden will square off a strong international fleet which includes two sailors they both know well and have raced with and against for more than a decade.
OLYMPIC PAIR CHANGE TACK
Rivals on the water for years, multiple Olympians and sailing world champions Darren Bundock and Carolijn Brouwer have joined forces in a new business venture set to create waves for a new generation of sailors.
With the Tornado catamaran dropped from the Olympic program for 2012, the talented multihull sailors are starting a new chapter in their lives which they hope will help spark a resurgence of interest in the sport of sailing.
The long-term goal of the pair is to establish a circuit for the best young sailors in the world complete with professional teams, professional racing, professional coaching and professional media coverage.
LAUNCH OF THE NEW C2 FORMULA 18
The new C2 Formula 18 is the next generation of F18 catamarans. While the Capricorn was considered one of the highest performing F18’s the new C2 is even better.
The new bow shape of the C2 Formula 18 has improved the water flow and volume in the front section of the hull, while utilizing the maximum possible water line length.
With shifting the main beam aft, the C2 Formula 18 has more bow than any other Formula 18 on the market. This, in addition to the increased bow buoyancy, results in a significant increase of performance downwind. The square transom and raised rear beam are designed to decrease beam slap and increase large wave handling.
The successful mast and beam sections from the Capricorn have been carried over to the new C2 Formula 18