In This Issue
• Lagos GC32 Worlds
• Breeze on at Volvo Cork Week
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Teams arriving at speed at the Aegean 600
• Spain wins Nations Trophy at Youth Worlds
• M32: The Anatomy of Winning
• 18 starters for the third edition of the Golden Globe
• The Sharpie Story - Saving Sabre
• Tuiga out to conquer the Adriatic
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Figaro 3 #66
• • Bavaria C45
• • Jeanneau 51 Yacht
• The Last Word: Kurt Vonnegut
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K-Challenge Team France shows the way in Lagos’ GC32 Worlds
Conditions didn’t look promising for day one of the GC32 World Championship in Lagos, Portugal. While the prevailing conditions here - strong offshore northwesterlies and flat water - have made this Algarve venue a favourite since the GC32 Racing Tour first visited in 2018, today the forecast was for a dying easterly. To get the best from this, the start for the ten flying catamaran teams was brought forward from 1300 to 1000.
Ultimately the weather proved as surprising as the results, thanks to the tenacity of PRO Stuart Childerley and his race team from the local Clube de Vela de Lagos. Despite few expecting more than three races would be completed, the full schedule of five was held across the full range: Two in ultra-light winds with upwind starts, before the entire race course was moved east into stronger conditions where there was another upwind start race followed by two more with reaching starts in winds gusting to 20+ knots and a building sea state.
Racing will start early again tomorrow with a first warning signal scheduled for 1100 local time.
Results overall asfter 5 races
1. K-Challenge Team France, 11 points
2. Alinghi Red Bull Racing, 16
3. Black Star Sailing Team, 19
4. Team Tilt, 21
5. Team Rockwool Racing, 25
6. Zoulou, 29
7. Argo, 31
8. .film AUS Racing, 34
9. HRM Racing Team, 43
10. Team Canada, 46
Breeze on at Volvo Cork Week
A sea breeze kicked in on Day Four to spice up the action on the penultimate day of Volvo Cork Week, incorporating the ICRA National Championships. The 1720 Class competing for the European Championship had a real blast today as did the Cape 31 Class competing for the Irish Nationals. After three days of light and complex racing, leaders of all the classes racing at Volvo Cork Week are emerging. However, with a number of protests still to be heard results are provisional as is the Day Four Race Report.
1720 European Championship
Rope Dock Atara with Ross McDonald on the helm representing Royal Cork YC & Howth YC, scored a 4-1-1 today to all but secure the European Championship title. Dave Kenefick’s Royal Cork Full Irish had a cracking day, scoring a 5-4-2 to fly up the leaderboard into second place. Aidan Lynch’s MO from the Baltimore SC scored a bullet in Race 6 and finished the day in third, but only on countback from Kenny Rumball’s The Conor Wouldn't from the Royal Irish YC. Padraig Byrne & Donny Wilson’s Zing from the Royal Cork drop to fifth after an 11th place in the final race. Robert Dix’s Elder Lemon from Baltimore SC came into contention for the podium but a 25th in the final race pegged the team back to sixth. Anything can happen on tomorrow’s final day, but the six boats at the top of the leaderboard are likely to decide the 1720 European Championship podium.
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Teams arriving at speed at the Aegean 600
With the main axis of the windy Meltemi shifting west to buffet the shores of Attica now with 20-30 knot winds, almost all entries have made it across the finish and are safely ashore at Olympic Marine after this second edition of the AEGEAN 600, organized by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC).
The Meltemi has been an outstanding performer this year, producing a Multihull course record of 53H 36M 02S for Adrian Keller’s Nigel Irens-designed 78-foot catamaran ALLEGRA and a new Monohull course record of 63H 02M 20S for the canting-keeled Elliot 52 RAFALE (GER) skippered by Philipp Kadelbach.
This evening there are only four teams that remain on the race course making their way across the last long leg west towards the finish line set at the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio. Among these is one last class leader: Andrejz Rozycki and Adam Skomski’s JPK 10.30 PNEUMA (POL) who lead the IRC and ORC Double Handed class. -- Dobbs Davis
Spain wins Nations Trophy at Youth Worlds
Spain has won the Nations Trophy at the conclusion of the Allianz Youth World Sailing Championships in The Hague on Friday. There are 11 new Youth Sailing World Champions across the 11 diverse events contested by this elite group of under-19 sailors.
Out of the 67 participating nations in the regatta, the combined performance of the team’s sailors means Spain has emerged on top to win the Nations Trophy. Blue skies and winds of 5 to 8 knots rounded off five days of world-class competition in Scheveningen, near The Hague in the Netherlands. Strong currents and predominantly light winds made for tactically very challenging racing, with a high premium on good starting. There were double victories in some disciplines, with male and female gold going to Ireland in the ILCA 6 dinghies and male and female gold for Argentina in the 29er skiff.
The team from Ukraine was awarded the Bengt Julin Trophy for kindness and fair play, an award given to whoever the competitors believe has done the most to represent the values encouraged at the Youth Worlds.
M32: The Anatomy of Winning
The second event of the Midtown Cup in Newport, RI, treated the fleet to close racing and beautiful sailing conditions. Pursuit with Bill Ruh and Surge with Ryan McKillen started to rack up race wins and daily first but, as we all know, consistency pays and the regatta was won by Extreme2 with skipper Dan Cheresh.
With the win in this event Extreme2 now has a solid lead in the series and has become the team to beat for the upcoming North American Championship. Extreme2 has been racing with the M32 fleet for a few seasons typically with several prominent podium positions but not many regatta wins. We got the opportunity to chat with Dan Cheresh on the success and winning events. Full Results: m32world.com/results/
Reigning World Champions team Convexity with skipper Don Wilson have been sitting out the summer series but will return for the Championships. The North American Championship is held as the last event of the summer series in Newport, RI and the World Championship is in October in Cascais, Portugal where the North American fleet will meet up with the European fleet for the highlight of the year.
18 starters for the third edition of the Golden Globe
Three North American entrants are rushing to cross the atlantic hoping to arrive on time for the prologue in Gijon and the opening of the race village in lso.
Guy deBoer, left Florida late June and his “Spirit” is currently making good progress in the North Atlantic with another 2000 miles to Gijon in time for the prologue and completing his survival course.
27-year-old Elliott Smith left Boston USA on his Gale Force 34 on July 10th a month behind schedule. He will miss the entire Prologue, sailing direct to Les Sables d’Olonne instead. He must then undertake the compulsory eight-day World Sailing Survival Course and STCW Medical Care course prior to the start on Sept 4th. This looks unlikely, as he has the whole Atlantic to cross.
Canadian Gaurav Shinde had motored his Baba 35 from Toronto to New York, ready for his transatlantic crossing, but dislocated his shoulder while putting the mast up. Already running late, he is now using his two-week recovery time to do his STCW Medical Care course. Scheduled to depart July 20, he will not make the Gijon Prologue after his 3000-mile qualifier on an untested boat fresh out of refit. Will he make the start?
In addition to the GGR compulsory survival and medical courses, there are mandatory safety briefings in both Gijon and Les Sables d’Olonne. Missing any of these will activate time and financial penalties which is highly likely.
To save time Finnish entrant Tapio Lehtinen “Captain Barnacle ” is shipping his yacht Asteria to Bilbao, Spain. During the 2018 GGR he was plagued by Barnacles that meant he was the last finisher after 322 days at sea. For 2022 he has new antifouling and is out to win! Meanwhile, New Zealander Graham Dalton, who recently retired from the GGR is now hoping to rejoin the event. This will not be considered until he completes his 2000 mile qualifying voyage and all other safety requirements before entering Gijon on 6th August.
2022 GGR entrants to date:
1. Abhilash Tomy (43) / India / Rustler 36
2. Aleix Selles Vidal (34) / Spain / Rustler 36
3. Arnaud Gaist (50) / France / BARBICAN 33 MKII (long keel version)
4. Damien Guillou (39) / France / Rustler 36
5. Edward Walentynowicz (68) / Canada / Rustler 36
6. Elliott Smith (27) / USA / Gale Force 34
7. Ertan Beskardes (60) / UK / Rustler 36
8. Gaurav Shinde (35) / Canada / Baba 35
9. Guy deBoer (66) / USA / Tashiba 36
10. Guy Waites (54) / UK / Tradewind 35
11. Ian Herbert Jones (52) / UK / Tradewind 35
12. Jeremy Bagshaw (59) / South Africa / OE32
13. Kirsten Neuschafer (39) / South Africa / Cape George 36
14. Mark Sinclair (63) / Australia / Lello 34
15. Michael Guggenberger (44) / Austria / Biscay 36
16. Pat Lawless (66) / Ireland / Saga 36
17. Simon Curwen (63) / UK / Biscay 36
18. Tapio Lehtinen (64) / Finland / Gaia 36 Masthead sloop
The Sharpie Story - Saving Sabre
TAIPAN at ANMM Wharf 7 Sydney. Photo ANMM. Click on image to enlarge.
The museum still cannot allocate much restoration work in its budget so relies on external appeals. In the end Alan Bond, with a long personal connection to Bob Miller (Ben Lexcen), gave the money to restore TAIPAN to her original 1959 configuration. She has been sailed but is normally displayed in the foyer at Wharf 7 in Sydney. ANMM also hold Miller’s drawings and original sails from TAIPAN.
This story pretty much sets out the situation. The immediate problem is prioritising what to preserve, who pays and who does the work. There is certainly a public responsibility but lack of funding means recovery relies on haphazard donations, charities but mostly privateers.
Public museums prefer formal displays (with programmed dusting) that maximises access while privateers prefer to restore AND sail their boats. TAIPAN has no monetary value but is an important 18 foot skiff worthy of museum status, demonstrating the depth Bob Miller’s design pedigree.
Heavyweight Sharpies have also achieved museum status. Jim Hardy’s TINTARA is restored and held by the SA Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide. This is about Hardy’s pedigree as an Australian Sharpie champion in the 1950’s, an Olympian in the 1960’s and America’s Cup helm in the 1970’s.
Following SWS The Sharpie Story - Finding Sabre, the three 1956 Olympic medal boats are all in private hands and in various states of restoration. Peter Mander’s JEST and her stablemate QUEST are in Nelson South Island NZ. From 2018 photos she’s ready to paint and rig. Rolly Tasker’s Australian HW Sharpie FALCON III & his Olympic Sharpie FALCON IV are being restored privately. The UK bronze medallist CHUCKLES is fully restored and sailing again near Norfolk on the SE English coast.-- by Gordon Stewart with SWS
Tuiga out to conquer the Adriatic
Tuiga and Mariska. Photo by Carlo Borlenghi, carloborlenghi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.
The gaff cutter’s summer agenda started in Venice at the IXe Trofeo Principato di Monaco (24-26 June), an historic event as Tuiga had never dropped anchor in Venetian waters before.
With her trip to the gates of San Marco Square, the longest in the Mediterranean for this gaff cutter, another chapter has been written in the 113-year history of Tuiga. It was after two days of racing, from which Tuiga emerged the overall winner, that a match race event took place against Mariska. Between these two beautiful classic yachts, designed by Scottish naval architect William Fife III, the friendly duel unfolded in the Bacino di San Marco, with the vast Venetian Arsenal providing a stunning backdrop worthy of its protagonists.
A few days later, Tuiga set sail for Slovenia’s Portoroz bay (1-3 July), a journey that took just under seven hours. After a first day training, Tuiga and Mariska had to wait patiently for several hours until the weather improved and the two gaff cutters could line up on the start of an inshore course.
It was in Trieste, Italy, (9-10 July) that the Adriatic tour ended for the two 15M IRs, with a dozen sailors from the Yacht Club Adriaco on board to lend a hand to the Monegasques on this occasion. Two races were launched in 6-12 knots on a flat sea, with the Monegasque gaff cutter in control of her opponent to the first windward mark, before crossing the finish line first to claim victory. It was all change for the second race which was finally won by Mariska.
With all things being equal between the two yachts, they will need to get together soon for a decider. Meanwhile, Tuiga is back out at sea on the way to her home port and Yacht Club de Monaco via Brindisi and Palermo.
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