![]() ![]() The Junior NA’s and Worlds have been ongoing for 40 years. There are other funds to help U30 sailors defray entry fee costs. The Lightning class has placed a focus on getting post-college-age people into the boat through their boat grant program. We’ll talk about the racing a bit later, because the real story is the culture of the class, and how the long-term strategy is playing out.Ĭlasses like the Lightning, Star, Snipe, Thistle, and all the Scows have stayed relevant because they have adapted to changes in the sport throughout the decades. Jonathon also won the South Americans the weekend before the Worlds, while Augie won the International Masters. Jonathan Martinelli from Ecuador with Moira Padilla and Alisson Haon won, defending World Champ and current class President David Starck was second and Snipe/Star legend Augie Diaz was third. The Lightning Worlds were held recently in Cartegena Colombia at the Club Naval facility, with generous assistance from Club Nautico El Portillo, Case Lightning Colombia, and the Federation Colombiana de Vela. Because you don’t care enough to do anything at all. The thin-skinned, now pro-Putin party komrades lose their shit with the slightest poke.Īnd there is little doubt the sailing community by and large doesn’t care when it comes to serious global issues, but here, in this case, you can make your voice heard, make a statement, get involved.īut you won’t. And invariably it comes from the right-wingers. “Come on man, this is sailing, not politics” is a refrain we hear all the time when we dare to post something that doesn’t neatly fit into whatever preordained idea of what a sailing site is “supposed to be”. I mean after all, why worry about schools and hospitals being purposely bombed by Russia when there is rum to drink, right? And they are right, you don’t give a fuck. Pretending that Bacardi isn’t a company that continues to do business in Russia, profiteering, unabated, and uncaring about that country’s brutal and savage unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the promotors of the Bacardi Cup are counting on you sailors to not give a flying fuck. ![]()
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