Les Voiles de St. Barth Press Release
December 22, 2015
Bella Mente. It means “beautiful mind” and references the spirit of Les Voiles de St. Barth just as easily as it sums up American business man Hap Fauth’s state of being when he is skippering his Maxi 72 of the same name. Bella Mente and three other Maxi 72s – Peter Ogden’s Jethou (GBR), Dieter Schön’s Momo (IVB), and George Sakellaris’s Proteus (USA) – will come to St. Barth from April 11-16 to sail as a group in the seventh edition of the Les Voiles de St. Barth regatta, joining tens of dozens of other racing machines in classes for Maxi, Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, Multihull, and One-Design.
Bella Mente Racing during the 2015 Les Voiles de St. Barth (Photo Credit: Christophe Jouany)
“That’s how I feel when I am on Bella Mente and racing: a happy spirit, a happy mind,” said Fauth, who counts this as his third boat with that name and is a nominee for US Sailing’s Yachtsman of the Year because of a slew of 2015 racing victories, including the Maxi 72 World Championship, he has claimed aboard her. “We will have an enhanced fleet at Les Voiles de St. Barth in 2016. It will be the first time Jethou and Momo have sailed in the Caribbean (the event counts toward a first-ever Maxi 72 Season Trophy) and, in general, the anticipation is that this will be a very well attended regatta by most of the race boats in the Caribbean. There are always a number of maxis and super maxis in the fleet, so it’s always very good racing. I love Les Voiles de St. Barth. It’s exciting and in my opinion very well run as a regatta.”
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