Scuttlebutt Europe #2073 - 19 April
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Winds will be very light overnight in the Bay of Biscay, ranging from calm to 5 knots from the North, filling in from the north. it is expected that most of the sailors will head farther west from the direct course in anticipation of picking up some wind. First around the turning mark were Henri-Paul Schipman and Pierre Canevat, they have since slipped to 11th place, but less than a mile separates the top 18 teams. Top ten at 1900 GMT: 1. Generali - Europ Assistance, Yann Elies / Jeremie Beyou Hublot Palmavela
In the TP52 class the victory was for Torbjorn Tornqvist's Artemis, thanks to her consistent performance during the two first days, where she managed to open a gap that has allowed her to remain in the first position till the end, in spite of winning no races during the last two days. The surprise of the day was provided by John Cook's Cristabella, which won the two contests, kicking Matador out of the second place in the final classification. Maxi Wallys and Mini Maxis have completed a 15,77 miles coastal race in the bay of Palma, with marks rounding in Sech and Illetas. Things went as predicted for the Mini Maxis, with a second place for Udo Schutz's Container at the end of the race, and a win for sir Peter Ogden's Jethou, which allowed him entering the podium in the third position. Second in the final classification was Andres Soriano's Alegre, whereas Neville Crichton's Shockwave gave up her place in the podium, going down to the fourth place in the last moment. The ORC class, Russian X-35 won the final victory after also winning today's both races, ahead of "Bruix IV" of Miguel Mercada and "Omi II" of Francisco Llompart. Classification Maxi Wally Mini Maxi TP 52 J-80 Platú 25 RI 1 RI 2 ORC Iceland - In The Wake Of Viking
Iceland Midnight Sun Race 10th of July 2010 New York - Barcelona Estrella Damm's passage time for an equivalent 2925 miles across the Atlantic, albeit on this more southerly routing, is unofficially timed at around 7 days 23 hours. Stamm's crossing in 2001 was 8 days 20 hours 55 minutes and 25 seconds. By comparison that sets an average speed of around 15.31 knots, compared with Stamm's 13.79 knots. Update Sunday: Virtually stuck in a wind hole, a handful of miles off Almeria, making just around four knots of boat speed in three or four knots of wind, the New York Barcelona Transoceanic Sailing Record leaders Estrella Damm were doing all they could to avoid falling prey to the consistent advances of W Hotels. Estrella Damm's rivals were further offshore Sunday afternoon, more than twice as quick, and the co-skippers considering their strategic choice: whether to step further out in search of the corridor of better breeze they felt they had identified, or to stick with profiting from the light headwinds which were still serving well the W Hotels trio Pachi Rivero, Toño Piris, and Peter Becker. April in the Mediterranean can be complex and frustrating. No one is predicting if the final 380 miles to the two IMOCA Open 60's home port of Barcelona and the finish line, will take 48 hours......or until Friday. It is that hard to compute...or guess. And in these conditions strategy is something of a high wire act, with no safety net. Close to the coast there is theoretically more chance of some thermally generated sea breeze, but so too there can be conflicting breezes which simply cancel out the sea breeze, and the result is hours sitting at crawling speeds waiting for the breeze to improve. Greek Challenge Will Call Kalamata Home and Tempt LVT to the City The vehicle for this ambitious plan is Greek Challenge, which surprised many in the first Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in 2009. Since then, Greek Challenge has been fairly quiet. Unlike other America's Cup super-teams like TEAMORIGIN and Emirates Team NZ, Greek Challenge has not been competing in the World Match Racing Tour or the Audi Med Cup. Instead, Buseas has been qorking away at building a base for the team and generating support in Greece for entry into the Louis Vuitton Series. To that end,Greek Challenge has announced that the team will be based in the greek city of Kalamata. Greek Challenge has applied to the port authorities to provide an area of 1700 square meters of warehouse space and 5200 square meters of docks to develop its base and looking forward to the finalization of the process by the end of April in order to start developing its base. YachtSponsorship.com: www.yachtsponsorship.com Spring Starts At The Royal Lymington The start of IRC Class 1 was a close call between Peter Scholfield's Zarafa and Chris and Hannah Neve's new boat No Chance, Zarafa just getting the advantage but No Chance, on her first race at the Club, crossed the finish first. They returned the compliment by crossing the start first on the second start and then carried on to take that race too. Weather conditions suited Ray Crouch's Boomerang in IRC Class 2 and she won both races in spite of some spirited challenges from David Lees' Hephzibah and Stephen James's Jacobite. Roger Harford in Red Kite found the conditions much to his liking in the Lymington Handicap class. The Folkboat fleet enjoyed some very competitive racing with Svenja taking the lead by being the most consistent. Sean Muskett, on only his second sail in the Club's RS Elite, Freebie, had a good day, with some intensive tuning of the boat during the races resulting in third place behind seasoned campaigners Activ 3g, Paul Jenkins and RSsailing.com, Martin Wadhams. Racing continues next Sunday, 18th April. Results after 2 races: KGB (The Etchells Sailboat!) Wins Coral Reef Cup The winning team sails KGB, owned by Ben Kinney, Colin Gordon and Senet Bischoff. (That is where the KGB comes from.) They sail for New York Yacht Club. When Ben cancelled out to stay in CT with wife Megan,to await the birth of their first baby, Jud Smith stepped onboard to crew. Bischoff and Gordon traded places as skipper. Their total point score for the 8 races including one drop was 18 points. In 2nd place overall was Peter Hall's Cruel Jane with Dirk Kneelman and Philip Kerrigan as crew with 24 points. Peter hails from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. They came in 1st in both races today (7 and 8). Chicago's John Podmajersky took 3rd with the assistance of Scott Kelp and Max Skelley with a total of 27 points. Much applause came from the CRYC spectator fleet when 2010-2011 Race Committee Chair Sharon Bourke, sailing on the John Deere with Tim Banks and Stuart deLisser finished 3rd in Race 8. Coral Reef Yacht Club hosted the regatta. Trophies were presented by Etchells Regatta Co-Chairmen P.J. Keenan and Henry Chau. Bill Smoak was the Principal Race Officer. Jere Woltz was Chief Judge. There were no protests, OCSs or Black Flags. For complete results, check out www.coralreefyachtclub.org Seahorse May 2010 Whitewash Out of control Scholar and gentleman Confidence If you haven't subscribed to Seahorse already we're keen to help you attend to that! - Please use the following promotional link and enjoy the hefty Scuttlebutt Europe discount... and it gets even better for 2 and 3 year subscriptions... Magrathea and Twice Eleven Take Overall Honours
Today's race from St Peter Island Resort, took the fleet on a stiff beat up the Sir Francis Drake Channel to round Ginger Island before running down behind Cooper and Salt Islands and reach between Dead Chest and Peter Island to finish off Nanny Cay. The sparkling 20knot conditions provided a fitting end not just to the regatta, but Alan Brook's jovial eight year tenure as race officer to the Oyster fleet. Magrathea' was first to reach the Ginger Island turning point, just ahead of Robin and Carla Stoop's Oyster 82 Rivendell, leaving the 'Oceana' crew pinching dangerously high in their dirty air to just squeeze round the steep cliff face. 'Katharsis was 4th round but first to get their spinnaker drawing and managed to cut inside Oceana. Magrathea' chose to pole out their headsail instead, and taking a more direct downwind route down to Peter Island, kept their lead until Katharsis' and 'Oceana' could start to make their chutes pay on the tighter reach to the finish. The Class II fleet had an equally exciting race with Mark Howard and his crew on the Oyster 56 ' Amanzi' 7 seconds ahead of Vincent Bloem's 'Windflower'. But neither could save their time against the Kidwell's evergreen Twice Eleven', the oldest and smallest yacht in the fleet. -- Barry Pickthall Yachting NSW IRC Championship Wins for Shogun and Rumbo
Shogun finished on equal points with Matt Allen and Warwick Rooklyn's Farr 40 Bandit but took the Championship victory from the Sydney boat thanks to their five wins on corrected time from six races, with no drops. Shogun will return to Sydney for the next event on the blue water calendar, the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in July, followed by Audi Hamilton Island Race Week in August then back to Melbourne for the Range Series and finally, a crack at the big one, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in December. It's no coincidence the Farr 40s finished second, third and fourth on the division one scoresheet. Conditions were tailor made for the class - 6-8 knots and flat seas - which meant the crew of the bigger TP couldn't afford a single error. In division two the local favourite, Guy and Clark Holbert's Farr 30 Rumbo from Port Stephens Yacht Club cleaned up the IRC Championship with a five point clearance back to John Streeter's Bull 9000 Raging Bull. Tony Kirby's X-41 Patrice Six from Sydney's Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, placed third. Rumbo, which has contested every Sail Port Stephens since its inception, successfully overcame a rig issue and a resulting mid-fleet finish at the class's recent national titles to score top points today against a hot Newcastle and Sydney fleet looking to snaffle some trophies as souvenirs. Full results for the Yachting NSW IRC Championship can be viewed at www.topyachtsoftware.com/results/ Marco Nannini Completes His Class40 Maiden Voyage Nannini and Peggs completed the qualifying passage over the Easter weekend just two days after launching the boat following a winter refit. The duo sailed south from Portsmouth, across the English Channel to the Baie de Seine east of Cherbourg, then headed back across the Channel to the Bembridge Ledge cardinal just east of the Isle of Wight, followed by a third Channel crossing to a point just north of Fecamp and a return crossing back to Portsmouth. Marco Nannini won his Class in the 2009 OSTAR single-handed transatlantic and Paul Peggs has already competed twice in the RBAI and can boast a very strong offshore racing CV including a Mini Transat. Letters To The Editor - * From Dee Smith: I just want to let you know that the RC 44 European Fleet is coming to the States: It is now confirmed that after the RC44 Puerto Calero World Championship in Lanzarote, the fleet will move to Miami for the first US event. The regatta will take place in Miami Beach Marina from December 7 to 14. We are working on the different aspects of the event, like transportation, customs and general organization. We will give you more details during the Austria Cup. This means we will have a fleet here to help Jump Start the US Fleet. There is also talk that the Euros will stay for a second regatta, but this has not been decided yet. The first US buyers will get their boats early enough to compete with the Euro Fleet if they want. Also, check out this YouTube flick that shows the boats trucking and unloading in Austria: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D128rHOA7j8 #22 has left the shop in Hungary, next stop Newport, RI, mid May. Featured Brokerage Morning Glory, the Record Breaking Canting Keel Super Maxi, built by McConaghy Boats, has had a strong presence in the Mediterranean Maxi racing scene since it was launched in 2004. The yacht has an enviable trophy list that amongst many wins and first to finish placings includes: Winner of the 2007 Maxi Worlds, Racing Division Morning Glory is a high performance racing yacht that has been professionally maintained and has a proven offshore and inshore track record. This Record Breaking Super Maxi is a turn key solution that will allow her new owner to compete at the highest level in any of the major regattas around the world. Brokerage through Reichel/Pugh Yachts: www.yachtworld.com/reichelpugh/ Complete listing details and seller contact information at uk.yachtworld.com The Last Word |
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