Olympics: Palma Preview
Image Jesus Renedo/ Sailingstock.com: Mandy Mulder & Thijs Visser . //Lots of talented sailors will be racing at Palma.
Just to name a fiew we have the 3 strong French crews, plus 3 Dutch power tanks, plus 2 Italian experienced teams (Bissaro-Sicouri & Sorrentino-Pennati), the Gaeblers for Ger, Newberry-Casey for usa, then the ‘Flight Control’ Swedes with Tim Shuwalow-Hanna Klinga, for GBR Tom Phipps is a hidden talent, he will be crewing for Lucy McGregor.
Our own Arg team, ex Olympic Laser sailor Ceci Carranza, with former Arg F18 Champ Esteban Blando, we have two more crews also not registered at Palma. And many others that I don´t know that well but they’ll surprise for sure. But where are the Aussies?
No predictions this time, as it would be the first major event, with Sarah and John with a little racing hours advantage from Miami.
This class is clearly the most interesting with great mixed teams, and of course we have the best boat of the classes lineup. With the ACup exposure, the real Star of the event should be Mixed Multihull Racing.
All entries below, AUT crew Tanja Frank suffered some bruises while training and it seems she wont be racing this time, all the best for her and prompt recovery.
And to Vittorio and Silvia, come on guys, you are one strong team, and I’m sure you’ll come back with a recovery a la Oracle, performing even better.
https://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/inscripcion/listainscritos
| Country | Sail | Name/Sponsor | Name |
| ARG | 2016 | Enard-Rio Uruguay Seguros-Magic Marine | Cecilia Carranza Saroli Esteban Luciano Blando |
| AUT | AUT 34 | pi-power-compact.com | Sylvia Vogl Thomas Czajka |
| ESP | ESP321 | Niebla | Marc Verdaguer Marina Lopez |
| ESP | ESP | catnautic | Carolina Cañamas Jacobo Miquel |
| ESP | 19 | Toni Rivas Laia Tutzo | |
| ESP | ESP 18 | Eugin | Eli Llargues Fabian Escudé |
| FRA | 0XX | Audrey OGEREAU Matthieu VANDAME | |
| FRA | FRA ? | MOANA VAIREAUX MANON AUDINET | |
| FRA | fra01 | Billy Besson Marie Riou | |
| GBR | TBA | Ben Saxton Hannah Diamond | |
| GBR | 48 | Pippa Wilson John Gimson | |
| GBR | 56 | Lucy Macgregor Tom Phipps | |
| GBR | 14 | Rupert White Nikki Boniface | |
| GER | GER xxx | Stefan Rumpf | Stefan Rumpf Anna Bettina Goos |
| GER | 17 | Audi SAP J.J. Darboven | Roland Gaebler Nahid Gaebler |
| GER | 80 | silke hahlbrock christoph bottoni | |
| GER | 11 | Maximilian Said Merle Baars | |
| GER | XXX? | Lisa Rattemeyer Christoph Engel | |
| ITA | ITA 037 | Vittorio Bissaro Silvia Sicouri | |
| ITA | 32 | protectapes | VINCENZO SORRENTINO LAURA PENNATI |
| ITA | ita tba | Gabrio Zandonà Laura Marimon Giovannetti | |
| ITA | 91 | Francesco Porro Caterina Marianna Banti | |
| ITA | 90 | Ferdinando Trambaiolo Carlotta Gianni | |
| ITA | 89 | elia mazzucchi giorgia catarci | |
| NED | 1 | Delta Lloud Kernploeg | Mandy Mulder Thijs Visser |
| NED | 2 | Delta Lloyd Kernploeg | Renee Groeneveld Karel Begemann |
| NED | 3 | Delta Lloyd Kernploeg | Elke Delnooz Mischa Heemskerk |
| NZL | tba | Gemma Jones Jason Saunders | |
| NZL | NZL | Miranda Powrie Tomer Simhony | |
| RUS | ххх | Maksim Semenov Alena Pankratova | |
| SUI | TBD | Stéphanie Rossé Rossé Michael Gloor | |
| SUI | 41 | Matias Bühler Nathalie Brugger | |
| SWE | 12 | Sweden Racing | Tim Shuwalow Hanna Klinga |
| UKR | 1 | ENERGY | Maks Oberemko Olga Maslivets |
| USA | TBD | Sarah Newberry John Casey |
The NED teams look pumped up (and the boats VERY well prepared) and Tim S. usually in the top somehow with a boat that looks ever new (as his boats always do).
Its going to be very interesting to see how the teams choses to use the girls as helm or not and how that pans out in the result lists.
All the NED have girls helming, putting the brains in the back and the muscles in the front while Tim probably dont want to let go of the tiller even if you put a gun to his head.
Notice a R White in the list, that will be grandson of the legendary Reg White I think.
Go Dark Horses Go!
Do you think that Nacra17's rules permits the change between helm and crew in the same contest?
Infact I thing that, with medium/strong condition, may be better a female helm and male crew; the opposite in light/medium condition. Many of Nacra 17's people are both good helms (in different cats F16,F18 acc..) so can be possible the this change.
Not possible to swap helm/crew in the same event