North Sails: News Details

7/9/2012

Optimist European Championship

Joost Houweling

Congrats Stijn Paardekooper, powered by North DZero6!

13 year old Stijn Paardekooper, 2012 European Optimist Champion using his North Sails Dzero6 sail.
 

Lignano Sabbiadoro, ITALY
June 30 - July 7

13 year old Stijn Paardekooper became the European Optimist Champion 2012 using his North Sails DZero6 sail.

“Thank you very much for developing this sail! The D-zero-6 is for me in light conditions perfect and brought me the advantage on my competitors. Even when my starts where not always perfect I could develop more speed than other sailors. This resulted in a very consistent series with a ninth place as my worst score”.

Stijn sailed a very strong 9-race series showing great speed and consistency all week, beating  the 158 boat fleet, discarding only a 9th place!

Complete results here.

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