Apollo 1, pictured above, is available as a last minute option to any sailor out there who would like to compete in the 60 boat Grade 1 Allianz Grand Prix in Cannes, starting Weds. Yes Campers, it’s true, Joop Doomernik has a brand new “Work’s Boat” already in Cannes waiting to be raced in this […]
Yes Campers, 2K is an exciting new “Keel-Boat” Team Racing Phenomena.. What is 2K Stavros? Well basically, it’s two boat team racing instead of three boats per team… With Fleet racing (which is what most of us do), there is always a great deal of wasted time and very little for spectators to observe. In […]
RUS 76 Dmitry Samokhin (2nd right), receives his winners prize, with Alexsey Bushuer (right) and tactician Andrey Kirilyuk (centre), of the 4th Winter Series in Cascais 2012. Yes Campers, its back to back victories for Dmitry Samokhin after a great final day here in Cascais. With three races sailed today in the most perfect Dragon […]
DEN 405 Out of Bounce, helmed by the current European Champion Jens Christensen, crewed by Kim Andersen and Andreas Bagger took the overall lead yesterday by winning the only race sailed as the wind played tricks and changed direction all day. The day started well with steady Easterly wind of around 8 kts and not a […]
The Clube Naval de Cascais served up two delicious races today with sunshine, 10-15 kts of breeze from a Northerly direction and 21 very competitive Dragon’s, two of them were brand new !! In fact of the two different race winners, one of them was a new Petticrow, straight out of the wrapper. In race one, GBR 720 […]
The 4th Portugal Winter Series will take place this weekend, 10th-12th Feb in Cascais.. With two new Petticrow boats adding to the already building numbers it should be a fantastic event. One of the new boats is none other than the current European Champion Jens Christensen who will be bringing down his winning team to […]
Dmitry holds aloft the Primo Cup Trophy, surrounded by prize winners and friends… RUS 76 “Strange Little Girl” helmed by Dmitry Samokhin and crewed by Andrey Kiriluyk and one of the biggest Russians in the world.. Aleksey Bushuer! Some how managed to win the last two races here yesterday in Monaco, despite being behind at the […]
There were a total of 76 boats on the water yesterday for the start of the 2nd day of the Primo Cup. Other than the small Dragon Fleet, are Star’s, J 24’s and The Surprise (a French Class). The PRO tried to start the Dragons at around 10.30am, but the wind died to nothing. Then […]
Oleg Khoperskiy took the helm today of “Sunflower” RUS 35, as Victor (the owner), had a delayed flight to Nice. Oleg, famous for his Finn Class days, in which he took the European Championship along with a runners up medal at the Worlds, helmed very well today despite a very confused sea state and little […]
Despite the snow & sub-zero temperatures in Eastern Europe and generally light winds in Monaco, a number of Dragons will still “keep the faith” and turn up in this playground for the rich and famous….. For a number of years now there has been very little wind, in fact last year we only managed one race over the three […]