The fleet is ready and raring to race!
Written by Andrew Simpson | 06 January 2010
Brazil is the home of star sailing and the Brazilians have a great Olympic pedigree in this class. They boast 3 Star world championship winning teams and a total of 14 Olympic medals between them! These guys know the water well and we need to keep an eye on them!! The European teams are here in force with the ever strong Swedish, Swiss and French teams having put in a lot of Rio training hours ready for this event.
This event is a great marker for us and missing the 2009 worlds due to my wedding means we are even hungrier for this one. There will be no worlds for another 22 months so it would be great to take home the title and keep it for such a long period!
Obviously we are here to win. But there are some strong teams and medaling at the worlds is never an easy task with only 6 races, one slip up can cost you dearly. Hopefully things will go well and we can bring back the trophy that Iain won in 2002!
Fingers crossed... we will keep you updated!