Alex Tinoco of the Club Marítimo de Mahón wins the Snipe European Cup

The coach and sailor from the Club Marítimo de Mahón, Alex Tinoco, convincingly won the Snipe European Cup held in the British town of Saint Lawrence, with six victories out of the eight races held on the Black Water River at the Stones Sailing Club.

Tinoco competed alongside the Belgian Manu Hens, with whom he will also participate in the Snipe World Championship, where they will join three other crews from the Club Marítimo de Mahón, formed by Jordi Triay and Enric Noguera, Manel Beltrán and Bernardo Mur, and Marta Torner and Enrique Mir.

The competition, held last weekend, was characterized by varying wind conditions which generated strong currents for the 49 participating boats from five different continents. Tinoco and Hens won 6 of the eight races and placed second in the other two, finishing with a total of 6 points, ahead of the second-place finishers, Herman and Dann Vandormael, with 22 points, and the Japanese sailors Yohei Koso and Haruna Egawa with 23 points.

Tinoco himself explains that this competition “has helped us a lot in preparation for the Snipe World Championship in Argentina. It was very important and has given us a lot of morale and encouragement to continue training towards the goal of going as far as possible.”