Hippocampus Nº46

REGATTAS
JAMES ROBINSON TAYLOR
DOMINANT DEBUT
True to their sporting pedigree, Patrick Monteiro de Barros and Paulo Mirpuri
did not hold back when it came to competitive sailing, as their latest sailing
project measured up against their peers at the highest level. They reached
the podium in every race at the CIM Championship for the Falcon, the beautiful
classic yacht of the Q class, and secured an overall victory in their class,
surpassing 63 opponents
Better was (almost) impossible. In its
first competitive season, after being
acquired by two prominent figures in the
contemporary history of Clube Naval de
Cascais, Patrick Monteiro de Barros and
Paulo Mirpuri, and meticulously restored,
the fantastic Falcon, a classic Q-class yacht,
left no room for competition in the international
circuit dedicated to this type of
boat. But we’ll get to that...
For now, it’s important to give a brief historical
overview of the project that brought
the two long-time friends together, who
were also accomplices in this new adventure,
based on the accounts and memories of the
Honorary Commodore of Clube Naval de
Cascais. Starting naturally by recalling
how it all began: aboard the Green Eyes,
in a conversation between its owner, Paulo
Mirpuri, and Patrick Monteiro de Barros,
when the latter reveals that, after four
seasons competing in 6M (achieving five
podium finishes in World and European
Championships, two silvers - 2020 World
Championship and 2022 European Championship
in Cascais, both times with equal
points to the winners - and three bronzes),
he believed it was time to change classes, to
a less physical boat, considering he was the
veteran skipper in 6M. Following that, he
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