RC-44 prize cermony

The prize winning cermony

Just want to show some pictures I took during the price cermony, after the last race

on Saturday the 16th. The cermony was fantastic with a big band playing latin american

music. And all the food, and all kind of drinks was for free to all VIP's invited.

And I was lucky to be one of them. The party lasted to 6 in the morning.

A happy Pieter Heerema from Holland is the owner and the helmsman ( skipper)

onboard. The boat name is: No Way Back, and they placed 3.

They were the leading boat for the season, before the race started, after they won the unofficial world championship

in Dubai last December 2009. There will be a all season winner, after the last race which is in

Miami december this year. For the moment they are on the second place overall.
This is very good, since they all are the world first class sailors, with the last American cup winner,
the last olumpic gold winner in 49 class Martin Kirketerp from Denmark ( one the No Way Back team)
The boat Ceeref I was lucky to sail with in two races was captained by Olympic gold winner in STAR 8 in 1982. Rod Davis from Australia. ( This was mentioned for you Charles)

This is Magnus from Norway which is working with team.

He is an experience sailer, and has crossed the Atlantic in 2006

He got the honor of getting the troffy from the orgenizers.