
19 October 2022 | Zeilwereld.nl
“I just want that Cape Horn Tattoo!”
Now that the Ocean Race for Team NextGen is canceled, there is a gap in Jelmer van Beek’s agenda. He doesn’t do that sitting still. The Ocean Race is still a priority.
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Now that the Ocean Race for Team NextGen is canceled, there is a gap in Jelmer van Beek’s agenda. He doesn’t do that sitting still. The Ocean Race is still a priority.
Team NextGen is not participating in the Ocean Race. A big damper for Jelmer van Beek, but he will not let it go. The race around the world has always been his one and only goal, and it will remain so. A podcast about resilience, dreams and goals.
Attention for Skûtsjesilen. There are match reports and reports from the SKS Skûtsjesilen in Friesland. After a year of absence, the competition will take place again this year.
Skipper Jelmer van Beek’s boyhood dream. Zeilen.nl speaks Jelmer van Beek at the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta 2022. He is 27 years old, sails at the highest level and is skipper on the VO65 of Team Dutch Sail – Janssen de Jong. We were allowed to spend a day on board the VO65. In between…
He started in the Laser, but soon decided to join Roy Heiner’s apprenticeship. Since then, Jelmer van Beek mainly sails on large boats and dreams of large sailing campaigns. We talk to the professional sailor about his goals and dreams.
This article was already written in September 2019, after DutchWave became Danish Champion. It is still nice to read how the America’s Cup keeps Jelmer van Beek busy. Not one, but two AC75s were launched recently. Those New Zealanders were the first with their Te Aihe, which means ‘dolphin’ in Maori. However, the Americans were…
Sailor Jelmer van Beek (24) won the Warren Jones Regatta this year. He is ninth in the world ranking with his team Dutch Wave. The Ocean Race will start in two years’ time: “So every choice has to be in the right direction now.”
The Dutch team Dutch Wave has won the open Dutch Match Racing Championship after a blistering final. The winning team consisted of Jelmer van Beek (22, Groningen), Rob Sprij (26, Schiedam) and Wietse Pijlman (24, Groningen).