Team Bermuda At South American Champs
14-year-old Makai Joell [pictured] was the top Team Bermuda sailor at the completion of the 2011 IODA South American Championships finishing an impressive 30th out of the 162 sailors in Algarobbo, Chile.
Antonio Bailey finished 63rd while Rory Caslin ended in 96th and Chase Cooper was 114th. Organizers lost 2 days of racing due to large waves preventing the sailors from launching or not enough wind. They were able to complete at total nine races which allowed sailors to drop their worst score.
In the 1 day team racing event for the Nations Cup (for non South American countries), Bermuda won their first match against Canada 2 and then lost a close match against the US Virgin Islands. They then lost to Canada 1 which eliminated them from the contest.
The newly crowned South American Champion is Tiago Brito of Brazil, followed by Francisco Ducasse from Chile. In 3rd place was Diogo Pereira, who was the winner of last year’s RenRe Jr Gold Cup here in Bermuda. The top two girls of the South American Championships were Justina Pacheco (5th) from the Dominican Republic and Odile Van Aanholt from the Netherlands Antilles (18th). Both girls were also front runners in the 2010 RenRe Jr. Gold Cup last October.
well done!
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