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21st Cascais Vela - Preview

by Clube Naval de Cascais 27 Aug 2021 01:49 PDT 27-29 August 2021
Cascais waterfront © Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team

The twenty-first edition of Cascais Vela will start this Friday, August 27th. Several dozen participants, spread across three different classes - ORC, NHC and SB20 - have already trained in Cascalenses waters.

In the "Kings Class" of the event, the ORC, participants compete for the Quebramar Trophy, divided into divisions A and B. José Carlos Prista's "Xekmatt", winner of the 2020 edition in the ORC Class - A, is again favorite for the victory in Cascais. But there are more candidates for the title: Nuno Neves, winner in division B in 2020, has a new boat, the Syone-Panther, and this year he will compete in division A, which could give headaches to the title winners.

The Quebramar Trophy will consist of four windward-leeward technical racess and one coastal race that will have a higher weight and cannot be discarded. The coastal race will award the "Pedro Mendonça Trophy" to the best boat in the ORC class in corrected time.

In the NHC class, more than two dozen boats compete in the Cascais Marina Challenge. This year we are back with the presence of the Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team, which will make its first appearance after the victory of The Ocean Race Europe in June. This boat will have a completely Portuguese crew and will be captained by the Portuguese oceanic sailor António Fontes.

This team is also the big favourite to win in real time due to the high performances that the VO65 class boats can do. Also in the NHC class we will have the presence of the colossal Green Eyes, a boat with more than 30 meters, commanded by Paulo Mirpuri. In 2021 we will have the presence of Metralha, by José Vozone, who promises to fight the bigger boats as he did in the last edition when he climbed to the highest place on the podium.

In the SB20 class, the nearly five dozen participants will compete in the Mitsubishi Challenge. With the presence of the Portuguese Olympic Sailing Team, with Jorge Lima and José Costa aboard Sargo, Pedro Costa aboard Quebramar, Diogo Costa at the helm of the SportsWorld Boat and Carolina João at the controls of Ladies First - Naturea Sailing Team.

This will be the first appearance of Portuguese athletes after the Tokyo Olympic Games. The SB20 class at Cascais Vela also has the presence of big names in the SB20 world class, such as the Russian Timur Sabirzianov, at the controls of the Vis Sailing Team, and Vasily Gregoriev, winner of the Cascais SB20 Winter Series in 2019, but also of the champions Olympic champions Nuno Barreto (Bronze Medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games), Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (Bi Olympic Champions, 2016 and 2020), Luke Patience (Silver Medal in London 202) and Toniu Toniste (Silver Medal at the Barcelona Games 92 and Bronze in Seoul 1988).

This edition of the Mitsubishi challenge framed at Cascais Vela will act as a barometer for the SB20 Class World Championship which starts next Monday 29th of August.

Cascais Vela runs from 27 to 29 August and has the support of the Municipality of Cascais, Turismo de Portugal, Cascais Tourism Association, Portuguese Sailing Federation, Quebramar, Cascais Marina, Mitsubishi, Sagres, Veneziani, Simões e Gaspar, Vista Alegre and JCDcaux.

See the club website at cncascais.com

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