http://www.thegreatcup.com/newsitem.aspx?newsId=04f65659-6828-4c4e-b962-e7b22e263e9a&month=05&year=2013
Grand prix catamaran racing comes to the idyllic setting of Lake Traunsee, Austria next week (8-12 May) with the much anticipated debut of The Great Cup, as part of Allianz Traunsee Week.
Competing will be the first three GC32s built (a fourth is already en route to Europe from the UAE).
For the event, the three carbon fibre catamarans will sail under the colours of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria and to maximise the number of teams competing, each boat is being allocated two crews, who will alternate.
Thus, Spax Solution Sailing Team from the Netherlands, skippered by creator of The Great Cup, Laurent Lenne, and whose four man crew includes Aussie catamaran ace Andrew Macpherson and Swedish Volvo Ocean Race and America’s Cup sailor Micke Lundh, will be swapping with another exclusively Dutch crew led by ex-Tornado Olympian Pim Nieuwenhuis. The latter team includes Thijs Visser, who won the new Nacra 17 catamaran class at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma in March.
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