St. Barth Cata Cup #13 Argentinean crew Cruz Gonzalez/Mariano Heuser take charge

After losing last year’s event due to Covid-19, the famous F18 catamaran race in the tropics did take place in 2021. On the program: warm turquoise water with white sand below the hulls and coconut palms above the masts. That was for the postcard shot, but the level of this thirteenth edition was in fact particularly high.

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Published 27/11/2021

By Emmanuel van Deth

Issue: 181

Published: jan. / feb. 2022

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Strong trade winds made it possible to offer courses that were as spectacular as they were technical. At the beginning of the fourth and final day of competition, the three leaders in the overall placing were within three points of each other, perfectly illustrating how motivated the teams are. While things quickly got tricky for the Belgians Patrick Demesmaeker and Olivier Gagliani (Les Perles de St Barth - Bativrd), first at the end of the first five legs having had a complicated start to the race, Cruz Gonzalez Smith and Mariano Heuser (SBDE) and then Gurvan Bontemps and Benjamin Amiot (Stickerman) battled it out until the end before finishing respectively first and second of this final race, finishing in that same order on the podium for the whole event.

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