First Windfoil South Americans: Potrerillos, Mendoza, ARG. March 12-15

All sailing Photos from trainings courtesy of Carlos Espinosa. – The first ever Windfoil South Americans will start today at Potrerillos Lake/Dam, located in one of our most beautiful provinces, Mendoza (West Arg, Andes Mountains). In Winter Mendoza it’s a main Ski-Snowboard destination, specially Las Leñas, one of the top backcountry / off-piste venues. Mendoza a prime Wine region with great Andes Mountains scenery & Valleys and also provided spectacular venues for the past Dakar Rallys organized in South America.

Around 40 sailors from Arg, Bra & Uru will participate in the second major event for Windfoil in Argentina. First was the Arg Nats we reported here. This time we couldn’t attend but we will be publishing pics & results send by the event organization and photos by Carlos Espinosa.

On equipment its almost OD on Foils by Starboard and Sails by Severne. Our friends & Catsailors: Lucas Gonzalez Smith will be sailing with latest Exploder Foil & M8 (1D Sails). Lucas won the rookie division in the past Arg Nats and will be targeting the top fleet in this regatta. Sergio Mehl has a Phantom PWA Foil & Severne and Julito Saubidet will aim for the podium with Starboard board/Foil & Severne. (Both Long time windsurfers too)

Rest of the top riders with Starboard Foil boards (PWA 91 mostly) and Severne Sails. Plenty of legacy Formula boards too from Starboar, Patrik and others.

Contenders are the Saubidet bros , Francisco & Bautista (Olimpic Youth RSX / BIC Techno World Class level). The Regatta it’s an IWA sanctioned event, held together with the Formula (Fin) South Ams. Notice of race by the International Formula Assoc (Foil & Fin Divisions) here.

Entries: https://registration.internationalwindsurfing.com/en/events/entries/id/291

Racing starts today.