The Italian couple formed by Stefan Griesmeyer and Catalina Degli are proclaimed European champions of Hobie 16 in Sant Pere Pescador

The Costa Brava arrives at the end of the Hobie Europeans Championship, announcing that in May 2022 it will be the world's championships... the European has been organized by the Whaling Club, the Nautical Club of L'Escalo and the Royal Spanish Vela Federation, in collaboration with the Catalan Vela Federation and the European Hobie Cat Association.

The Hobie 16 Worlds are recognized worldwide by the headquarters where they have been organized in the past, all of them easily identified as Paradise tourist destinations, such as Fiji, Rivera Maya and Huatulco in Mexico, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Florida and Texas in the USA. The United States, Jervis Bay in Australia, Dapeng and Weihai in China, and in its previous 22 editions it has only been through Europe twice, in Scheveningen - Holland and last time in Sotogrande, in Cadiz more than twenty-two four years ago.

After the Italians Stefan Griesmeyer and Catalina Degli who obtained the gold... the silver of the Hobie Europeans Championship has been for the French Aranaud Thieme and Ludovic Siguret, while also the Italians Pierandrea Gessa and Roberto Dessy have been third.

The first Spanish crew at this Hobie Europeans Championship Costa Brava has been the catamaran of the couple formed by Marc Jovani and Marta Puerta, who have achieved a meritorious tenth square.

2021-09-23: In the absence of two days on the Brava Coast the Italian Hobie dominates

The first Spanish crew at this Hobie European Championship Costa Brava is the catamaran of the couple formed by Marc Jovani and Marta Porta

The great protagonists of the tests on the beach of the Cortal de la Devesa de Sant Pere Pescador, in front of the campsite La Ballena Alegre, are being the Italian catamarans, who take four of the first eight positions.

At the head, the Italian mixed couple Stefan Griesmeyer and Caterina Degli do not seem to have a rival, which they have achieved in all the races between 1 and 2. In second position, the Italians also Pierandrea Gessa and Roberto Dessy, who have a certain advantage over the third parties, the French Aranaud Thieme and Ludovic Siguret.

We arrived at the equator of the Hobie European Championship Costa Brava and there are only two days left to meet the winners of the Hobie 16 Open class. In these two days of official competition after the classifications, seven tests have been disputed... which has already been valid for each participant to be able to discard their worst score.

With 40 vessels with 80 regatists from 10 different countries, the largest fleet will be Spanish, with a total of 11 crews, followed by Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium and Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland and Greece.

2021-09-20: 45 Hobie 16 Open join the show on the Costa Brava

The championship is organized jointly by the Club de Vela La Ballena Alegre, the Club Nàutic L'Calo and the Real Federación Española de Vela, in collaboration with the Federación Catalana de Vela and the European Hobie Cat Association

After four days of race, the competition of the MultiEuropean Hobie Costa Brava 2021 in the Hobie 14, Dragoon and Hobie 16 master classes ended... the championship is held until September 25 at the Club de Vela La Whale Alegre de Sant Pere Pescador.

The 25 holes that have competed in the three categories in liza so far have dealt with soft winds from the south between the 9 and the 16 knots that have allowed to fight four races daily.

In the Homie 14 class, the Dutch winner Gerard Loos has been proclaimed, while the Italian couple Alessandro Vargiu-Luigi Giuseppe Maria Zonca has been imposed on Dragoon and the French Arnaud Theme and Ludovic Siguret, in Hobie 16 master.

From today on, the Hobie 16 Open has entered the scene, a show of water colors with the participation of 45 ships with 90 regatists from 10 countries.

The largest fleet is Spanish, with a total of 11 crews, followed by Italy (8), Germany (7), France (6), Austria, Belgium and Great Britain (3 each), the Netherlands (2) and Poland and Greece (1 each).

The first two days (Monday and Tuesday) will be devoted to the qualifying series and to from Wednesday, all the ships will sail with identical candles (even the colors) in a field of races with two turns to a barlovento-sotavento tour.