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Seahorse Sailor of the Month

JUNE'S NOMINEES
Sailor of the Month SAMUEL GONÇALVES (BRA)
Star World Champion in 2015 crewing for amputee Lars Grael, Gonçalves is a graduate of ‘The Grael Project’ which introduces impoverished children to sailing, over 6,000 having passed through to date. After more success in the Star, Gonçalves works with World Sailing to develop social sailing projects around the world –while in his free time he created the Brazilian Sailing Academy which every year turns out hundreds of qualified sailing instructors

Sailor of the Month PETE BURLING (NZL)
And you all thought we had overlooked him. As he signs off from Team New Zealand, having won the America’s Cup three times on the bounce, what better moment to recognise one of, if not the greatest sailor of his generation. Among so many extraordinary highlights, we especially recall that after winning the silver medal in 49ers at London 2012 Burling and Blair Tuke won every single major 49er regatta they contested before securing inevitable gold at Rio 2016

 

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MAY'S WINNER
Sailor of the Month Winner BRUNO PRADA (BRA)
‘Bruno is our hero!’ – Luciano Gubert; ‘Bruno is the best crew in the world and has way too many titles!’ – Pedro Trouche; ‘The best sailor and the best person’ – Fabricio Cobra; ‘How do Bruno and Mateusz make it look so easy in such a difficult class?’ – Hannah Noll; ‘Congrats, Bruno, you deserve much more like this!!!’ – Ale Bandeira; ‘A fantastic sailor and a great role model’ – Tom Lofstedt; ‘Sorry, Bruno, but Denis deserves to win something after so tragically missing the VG cut-off’ – Carol Cronin.
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