EXTREME SUCCESS
It has been a remarkable six months for Waterhouse
since he and Lisa won the bronze medal at the
ISAF World Championships in Santander, Spain,
in September 2014. They followed up with victory
at the ISAF World Cup in Melbourne in December
and Waterhouse was then invited by double Olympic
multihull champion Roman Hagara to helm the Red
Bull Extreme 40 at the opening Act in Singapore.
Despite never having been on an Extreme 40, which
is a notoriously difficult boat to sail well, Waterhouse
became only the second skipper (after current champion
Morgan Larsen) to win on debut.
Hagara and fellow double gold medallist Hans-Pieter
Steinacher were impressed with Waterhouse when he
helmed Objective Australia in the Youth America's Cup –
so much so that the 49-year-old Hagara went on the bow
in Singapore so Waterhouse could steer.
“Jason Waterhouse is not only talented, he is full of
passion and works day and night for victory,” Hagara
told me in an email. “He is sailing so well at the moment
because it is his priority. Already, before and during the
Red Bull Youth America ́s Cup I was sure that he is a
rising star. Now we gave him the chance to show this
as well on the Extreme 40 and look what he did!"22
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Despite having never sailed an Extreme 40,
Waterhouse won the opening Act of the
2015 Extreme Sailing Series.
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