Seahorsesailor of the month AUGUST
In association with
HORACE!!! (CHN) Taking it for the team. Much as we’d like to put the whole lot of them up here we had to pick one member
of Dongfeng who we feel sums up everything that is special about the winners of the 2017-18 Volvo Race and Chen ‘Horace’ Jinhao feels like a good fit. Dongfeng’s performance in the previous race was remarkable, from complete newbies to almost winning at their first attempt. Now they’ve pulled it off. And what an amazing result this is for the sport
BOUWE BEKKING (NED)
JULY WINNER GUS MILLER (USA)
‘Gus! Stan’s [Honey] not a Finn sailor yet’ – Jack Caldwell; ‘A giant thank you to a legend’ – Cam Lewis; ‘When Andy Zawieja watched Gus win a Finn Gold Cup race aged 56 he cried, “now we’ll never get him to retire”‘ – Josje Hofland; ‘Hearing Gus is still crawling into a Finn makes me ache’ – Scott MacLeod; ‘Gus is 83 and the Finn is the most physical Olympic boat yet he has never stopped promoting the class, especially in developing countries, without any remuneration for 60 years. “Super Legend” doesn’t touch the sides!!!’ – Peter Harken. Seahorse Sailor of the Month comes to you with Zhik, Harken, McLube and Dubarry. Please ping us that email...
Oh, how we were torn. Bouwe is a good friend of us here and watching him step ashore after
falling at the last on his 8th attempt was not a nice experience. Does a 9th race beckon, maybe from shore we would guess; but Bekking is one of the best tacticians on the J Class and Superyacht circuit so has plenty else to keep him busy and plenty of opportunities to make the contacts to put something together for next time. Nevertheless...
ZHIK
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HARKEN
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DUBARRY
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