The pressure on Lake Neuchâtel ramped up a notch on the final day of the SSL Gold Cup African and Oceanian Qualifiers with double points on offer.
Going into the day in the lead, tied on points with Tahiti, the Seychelles Vann Swet team had a third and a fourth in today’s races, but thankfully they’d done enough in the previous days to book their ticket for the SSL Gold Cup Finals Brasil 2026.
Jayden Vidot, Seychelles Trimmer, talked about their day and how they made things hard for themselves, “It wasn’t easy today and we struggled a little bit, especially on the takedowns of the spinnaker, but we still managed to get the ticket to Rio. Training is now going to be a little bit hard, but luckily we still sail keelboats back home – the Fareast 28R class – so we still are able to train in a way, but still not at the level of the SSL47. We will train as hard as we can on the boats that we have.”