..cOSE dELL'aLTRO mONDO..

E' in arrivo l'eventone dell'anno per la vela one-design stelle&strisce
(di seguito una presentazione in corsivo blu)..

..eventone che quest'anno si correrà
pensa un po'
sulla beccaccia..

..come se la Federazione prendesse tutti i più forti specialisti di monotipo italiani e li mettesse per una regata sullo snipe..

..va be'.. tiriamo avanti, che è meglio!


pic courtesy of etruscamarina.it

PS: la foto ovviamente non è stelle&strisce, ma maremmana, ossia Giorgio e Marco all'ultima nazionale snipe disputatasi poche settimane fa in quel di Scarlino!

***txt courtesy of sailingscuttlebutt.com***

DIAZ FAVORED TO BE KING
When racing starts at the U.S. Championship of Champions this Thursday,
October 18 at Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego, Calif., the starting line
will be packed with familiar names from across the country's one-design
sailing community. This should be no surprise, the event - which wraps up on
Saturday, October 20 - is known as one of the toughest one-design
competitions since it brings together the country's top 19 one-design sailors
of all ages who have won major events in their respective one-design classes
in the last year. The Championship, sponsored by Rolex Watch U.S.A. and Dry
Creek Vineyard, is held in a different one-design boat every year in a
different part of the country.

This year's event is sailed in Snipes, which could make Augie Diaz (Miami,
Fla.), the 2003 US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman of the Year who has countless
Snipe titles to his name, the odds-on favorite. But a win by Diaz is by no
means guaranteed because he will be joined on the starting line by sailors
such as 19-year-old Kyle Rogachenko (Collegeville, Pa.) who won the Laser
Radial Youth World Championship and the U.S. Singlehanded Championship this
year, 70-year-old seasoned Sunfish sailor Dick Tillman (Syracuse, Ind.) who
is the oldest of fleet, US Sailing Team member and Olympic hopeful Carrie
Howe (Grosse Point, Mich.) representing the Formula 18 class at this event,
and several others. And perhaps the upset could come from local favorite Jake
La Dow (San Diego, Calif.), who at age 14 is the youngest of the fleet and
qualified after winning the Naples Sabot Junior National Championship last
year.