Past weekend on May 15 the town’s celebration day of San Isidro Labrador in which the traditional regatta of small dinghies organized by the CNSI was named for, was just for this year renamed in the Centenary cup, and formatted in a way to host all Olympic classes and other invited classes such as Solings, Grumete, Cat 18 and J24.
The Club Nautico San Isidro, a special club which hosts the most Solings in South America and a tuff and technical group of Soling enthusiastic received a warm welcome from a special cold and windy weather, with the Soling family making it easier for organizers by putting their boats in the water during Friday night showing a tremendous solidarity that is quite unusual in other classes, just to make room for all the 300 optimist sailors which were using same parking lot.
The regatta counted with around of 466 boats from 13 different classes and a total of 622 sailors, and on Saturday saw the cold front arriving with very low clouds, almost no visibility, 20-26 knots of wind from South, very cold. The wind intensity, the short waves, the cold and the accidents let the Soling fleet with 4 boats less for Sunday and some of these could not even finish on Saturday first race.
Sunday were a bit better, with a bit less wind, sun but colder and now coming from southeast in 13-17 knots shifty and gusty making also very difficult the competition, results prove while three first made excellent races where the champion came only at the last race with victory for ARG 36 sailed by Despontin, Noceti and Sasso followed by the ARG 34 team Skandia Busch, Weppler, Kapa both with 10 points and ARG 36 taking the cup home due to his victory.
Third came Aardvark team ARG 38 Nottebohm, Araujo, Tumulty, who might cross another ant in his logo and be proud of an excellent regatta showing that training has it benefits.

On Saturday this group that never miss a party, and with team USA 853 Collins, Ezcurra, Cambilargu and ARG 30 with Guido Culasso Moore, Sergio Bonelli and Joaquin Portela hosting the third time, gathered together after the races around the hosts while they were cooking a Strogonoff in a Wok and presenting some cakes for dessert. The food was gone... but it was so cold that baverages were almost untouched what a waste now someone has to drink it...

Complete results are found at:
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Article wrote by Matias Collins