[chuso007]

Ok, this guys are very well known and respected in Spain, I would like to know if they actually get any recognition around the world (I know they do professionally but how about among the rest of the world's sailors?)

Have you heard of these?:


Roberto (Chuny) Bermúdez de Castro
Javier Gándara
Pedro Campos
Gonzalo Araujo
Jan Santana
Jose María Lastra
Jordi Calafat
Toño Gorostegui
Juan Vila
Guillermo Altadill
Felix Gancedo
Laureano Wizner
Jaime Arbones
Any of the Doreste brothers...


I'm really curious about this... ;)

Thanks

[Frank the Hammer]

I've raced Jordi Calafat in the 470s (a few years ago). An absolutely brilliant sailor, top class.

[Thiepval]

Raced against Pedro Campos in ILC 30's - but he has raced (and won) in just about everything going.
Juan Vila is a navigator - currently with Alinghi IIRC, but was also on illbruck....

Was part of the spanish comm cup team in 2002 - I'm sure I raced with some of these guys then....

[Jacko_Aus]

Well if you don't know the name Guillermo Altadill, you haven't been following any of the big Whitbread/Volvo or Round the World Record attempts too closely...


and you yourself seem to have forgotten Echavarri and Paz who are doing pretty well in the Turkey boats at the moment....

[chuso007]

Jacko_Aus, on Sep 8 2005, 05:01 PM, said:

Well if you don't know the name Guillermo Altadill, you haven't been following any of the big Whitbread/Volvo or Round the World Record attempts too closely...


and you yourself seem to have forgotten Echavarri and Paz who are doing pretty well in the Turkey boats at the moment....

Well, actually I didn't forget them, they are locals here and although they have just won Tornado Worlds this year, I was thinking more of the top big boat sailors with bigger achievements (imho) Like Chuny for example, he's been in two AC challenges, two round the world races, he´s won the Copa del Rey twie with Caixa Galicia, and now he is doing very well with the TP52s in the Med. He will also be driving along with Torben in VOR70 Brazil 1...

Altadill of course has sailed 6 Round the world races. Very good sailor.

For me one of the greatest is Javier Gándara, now semi-retired (he is a sail maker too) but he gets little to none recognition here.

thanks

[pq2]

OLE!!!!

[Trovão]

chuso007, on Sep 8 2005, 06:45 AM, said:

Ok, this guys are very well known and respected in Spain, I would like to know if they actually get any recognition around the world (I know they do professionally but how about among the rest of the world's sailors?)

Have you heard of these?:


Roberto (Chuny) Bermúdez de Castro
Javier Gándara
Pedro Campos
Gonzalo Araujo
Jan Santana
Jose María Lastra
Jordi Calafat
Toño Gorostegui
Juan Vila
Guillermo Altadill
Felix Gancedo
Laureano Wizner
Jaime Arbones
Any of the Doreste brothers...


I'm really curious about this... ;)

Thanks

heard of almost all of them.
chuny is doing vor aboard brasil 1 with torben and the rest of the bunch, so i consider him "almost" brasilian. just kidding.
pedro campos' a very well know sailor all over, as jordi calafat and toño gorostegui. juan villa is a hell of a good navigator and guillermo altadill was going to do the vor on brasil 1. doreste brothers kick arse. as a matter of fact the amount of well know top spanish sailors is growing really fast. congrats.

[The Commodork]

Luis Saenz, un buen hombre y un buen marinero. Conoces, Chuso?

[Jacko_Aus]

norbymuhle, on Sep 9 2005, 04:31 AM, said:

and guillermo altadill was going to do the vor on brasil 1.

Since jumped ship for Ericsson

[Jackovator]

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I've raced Jordi Calafat in the 470s (a few years ago). An absolutely brilliant sailor, top class.

ditto - speedy is no slouch....

and every country could do with some of that Doreste sperm. Gifted family.

[chuso007]

Coiler, on Sep 8 2005, 08:36 PM, said:

Luis Saenz, un buen hombre y un buen marinero. Conoces, Chuso?

NO personalmente, pero tenemos amigos comunes, hablan maravillas de él.


Thanks everybody I'm off to the Principe de Asturias Trophy in Bayona right now, be back on monday/tuesday...

(Surely some of the guys mentioned before will be there...)

[pq2]

chuso007, on Sep 8 2005, 11:37 PM, said:

NO personalmente, pero tenemos amigos comunes, hablan maravillas de él.


Thanks everybody I'm off to the Principe de Asturias Trophy in Bayona right now, be back on monday/tuesday...

(Surely some of the guys mentioned before will be there...)

los hermanos Doreste muy buenos tambien. Varios de ellos son los mejores de españa y suelen estar bien pagados por el rey en el BRIBON

[Speng]

Yeah and Xabi and Iker will kick your ass on a 49er any day.

[Fuerza 7]

Pedro Campos , por supuesto.

Jose Ma. VanderPloeg. Navegante de Finn.

Excelente gente.

F7

[chuso007]

Thanks everyone, yesterday the Principe de Asturias ended and as usual Pedro Campos won (no surprise here) and the prince himself got second (with Fernando Leon on board...), we did badly on the IMS 670 class (lousy 9th), we didn't expect to win because there were 5 professional teams including World Champion of the class, Sergio Llorca. and we are amateurs but with a 12th, a 13th and a 15th, we DID SUCK!!!

Anyway and besides the weather, it was a fun weekend of racing, great boats and great sailors (P. Campos, Jan Santana, Javier Gándara, G. Araujo, Fernando León...)

And we have another big race next friday... Desafìo Audi.

BTW, Any of the Spanish speakers here is actually from Spain? How many anarchists are Spaniards?

[pq2]

chuso007, on Sep 12 2005, 06:07 AM, said:

Thanks everyone, yesterday the Principe de Asturias ended and as usual Pedro Campos won (no surprise here) and the prince himself got second (with Fernando Leon on board...), we did badly on the IMS 670 class (lousy 9th), we didn't expect to win because there were 5 professional teams including World Champion of the class, Sergio Llorca. and we are amateurs but with a 12th, a 13th and a 15th, we DID SUCK!!!

Anyway and besides the weather, it was a fun weekend of racing, great boats and great sailors (P. Campos, Jan Santana, Javier Gándara, G. Araujo, Fernando León...)

And we have another big race next friday... Desafìo Audi.

BTW, Any of the Spanish speakers here is actually from Spain? How many anarchists are Spaniards?

1 MEXICANO :ph34r:

[raftco]

puertorriqueno viviendo en nueva york. B)

[Fuerza 7]

....del Sur.

[chuso007]

Picudo... yo he vivido casi siete años en México, 5 en Ensenada (de los 8 a los 12) y 1 y medio en DF (de los 28 a los 30) y mi abuela era mexicana, así que me siento medio mexicano...

Fuerza siete... como seas de Cadi pisha... tengo familia, amigos y grandes recuerdos de Cadiz, incluida la mili en La Isla...

[Fuerza 7]

Hey, Chuso...

...del Sur...de America del Sur. Pero con mucho aprecio a los de la madre Patria. Tengo grandes amigos alla, inclusive en Valencia.

Saludos
F7

[f off]

preferred the thread about the dutch girls a while back... ;)

[Ex-yachtie]

Frank the Hammer, on Sep 9 2005, 03:49 AM, said:

I've raced Jordi Calafat in the 470s (a few years ago). An absolutely brilliant sailor, top class.

ditto

[pq2]

chuso007, on Sep 12 2005, 02:43 PM, said:

Picudo... yo he vivido casi siete años en México, 5 en Ensenada (de los 8 a los 12) y 1 y medio en DF (de los 28 a los 30) y mi abuela era mexicana, así que me siento medio mexicano...

Fuerza siete... como seas de Cadi pisha... tengo familia, amigos y grandes recuerdos de Cadiz, incluida la mili en La Isla...

CHUSO, FUERZA 7,

si vienen a cancun avisenme.

[Trovão]

chuso007, on Sep 12 2005, 06:07 AM, said:

BTW, Any of the Spanish speakers here is actually from Spain? How many anarchists are Spaniards?

soy brasileño y vivo en el sur de brasil (florianópolis - estado de santa catarina) pero hablo español hace un rato (algo como 20 años, mas o menos). picudos, estuve una vez en cancún, en los 90 y el local me ha encantado. quiero volver un dia. saludos a todos los anarquistas hispano-hablantes.

[chuso007]

Anda que no me gustaría ir a Cancún.... ¡¡Apúntenme ya!!

Por cierto, Todos invitados a la salida de la Volvo Ocean Race desde Vigo (yo vivo al ladito)

norbymuhle: Conozco a Chuny Bermúdez, que va a llevar la caña del Brazil 1, estuve con él el domingo y nos contó del viaje Río - Cascais. Vente por aquí a la salida y que nos enseñe el barco....