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Honours For Team Bouscholte/Van Wiernen: Booth/Dercksen
Provisional Overall Winners
Paal
17, June 5th 2004 – On Saturday June 5th,
team Bouscholte/Van Wieren crossed the finish
line of the Zwitserleven Round Texel at breakneck
speed in first position. This couple needed 2
hours and 41 minutes to roudn the island with
their brand new Eagle 20 garbon. Zwitserleven
team Booth/Dercksen finished fifth with its Hobie
Tiger, which is enough for the provisional overall
title of 27th Zwitserleven Round Texel. For 602
teams, world’s biggest catrace started this
morning at 9:30 hours with a northwester force
five.
“We
went for the line honours. Our goal was to finish
first and to beat the Tornado’s”,
said Bouscholte in a first reaction. The sailors
had just unpacked the Eagle 20 carbon. “I
am very satisfied with the boat”, commented
crew Ruurd van Wieren realisticly. The team, sponsored
by Sport-track.com, took the lead in the first
part of the race. “The start was difficult
with immediately a shower of rain and changeable
wind, but aftwards we were doing very well.”
The Eagle could maintain the lead during the whole
race, but at the end the Tornado was coming closer.
Op enige afstand finishte Finally, team Enrique
Figueroa and Jorge Hernandez from Puerto Rico
crossed the line in second position, followed
by the Britons Simon Northrop and Matt Young.
Booth/Dercksen
Initially,
Zwitserleven team Booth/Dercksen got a black flag
for starting too early. Later, the jury decided
that they could not be certain whether it was
concerning this team. After all, there are several
catamarans with the same number. That makes the
team of mainsponsor Zwitserleven the provisional
overall winner of world’s biggest Catrace.
The Olympic sailors reacted enthusiasticly: “It
was again a beautiful race. Nice to have won this
together.” The Boulogne brothers from France,
the current Formula 18 world champions, are with
their Cirrus the provisional numbers two overall,
followed by Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby on
a Hobie Tiger.
On
the beach
It
was another spectacular start. Due to an onshore
wind and a moderate surf, many participants had
difficutlies to sail out. Hundreds of spectators
watched the sailors foughtingER themselves to
the open sea. Thanks to live images shown on the
TNG screen, the race could be followed on the
beach. People at home could use the event website
and Sport-track.com displayed live positions with
a tracing & tracking system. Race co-ordinator
Edwin Lodder: “Despite the weather forecast
of the last week, we had fantastic sailing conditions.
It was great that all live applications were functioning.
Therefore the people on Texel and anywere else
in the world, were able to follow the race. We
are definitely looking back at a succesful event.”
Next
to Zwitserleven, the Round Texel is also sponsored
by Repeat Sales Promotions B.V., TNG Swiss watches,
Komatsu, Holkema Group, Tros, Mondriaan Onderwijsgroep,
SportLive.nl, Sport-Track.com, Nissan, Teso and
VVV Texel.
