EuroSail News #4798 - 17 March
In This Issue
• Emirates Team New Zealand Wins the America's Cup
• America's Cup presented by PRADA - Daily Report || Day 06
• America's Cup - Day 6 Nerves
• "Course C - why aren't we here all the time?"
• Rigged By Marlow
• Liberty Bitcoin Youth Foiling Gold Cup
• Classic Fantastics
• 'High-Speed Craft Design with CFD: Is it worth it?'
• White diesel, what white diesel?
• Albert Hakvoort Sr.
• Featured Charter: Swan 60 Ulysses
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Pazienza - Bermudan Cutter
• • Bavaria C38
• • Jeanneau 64
• The Last Word: Allen Ginsberg
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Emirates Team New Zealand Wins the America's Cup
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Emirates Team New Zealand won Race 10 with a lead of 46 seconds to win the America's Cup. Full report in tomorrow's issue. Congratulations to both teams on a fantastic regatta.
America's Cup presented by PRADA - Daily Report || Day 06 The sixth day of the 36th America's Cup presented by PRADA comes to an end with just one race completed, won by Emirates Team New Zealand, after an astounding battle of tacking and jibing throughout over 4 legs. Luna Rossa was in the lead up to the middle of the second upwind leg when the New Zealand boat, optimizing on a separation and a big wind shift, managed to break away, round the upwind gate with an 18-second advantage and close the race #9 in the lead.
Francesco Bruni, Helmsman
"It's a hard one to digest. We raced flawlessly until they overtook us: we had to decide whether to defend the left or go right, and in hindsight it probably was the wrong choice. It was very hard to keep them behind, they definitely had an extra gear because whenever we tried to stretch our lead we couldn't shake them off and as soon as we gave them some space they just set off. We don't feel too much remorse because the race was conducted very well, but we don't plan to give up and we will continue to do what we need to do, analyzing where we can improve to get back on the water geared up to go win. "
America's Cup - Day 6 Nerves
As the America's Cup gets cloer to being lifted above the heads of a team, the pressure continues to rise. David 'Freddie' Carr chats to Matt Sheahan and gives his views on what he's seen, what he thinks and what lies in store while Matt gives his summary of Day 6 at the 36th America's Cup.
"Course C - why aren't we here all the time?"
...asked Nathan Outteridge plaintively from the commentary booth. Of course the former (but not former forever) America's Cup helmsman knows why - race officer Iain Murray and his team are constrained by the wind strength and direction. The stadium confines of Course C mean it only really works in a south-westerly, and the forecast of a 10 to 15 knot north-easterly for Wednesday is likely to see competition go back on Course A or E.
If only it could always be on Course C. That's what the skippers were saying, the commentators, everyone in Auckland. The shifty, unpredictable nature of the breeze makes it a tactician's race course and it was tactics - not boatspeed - that decided today's stunning duel between Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand.
"Sail like your boat is faster," is a phrase that Kenny Read has carried with him from his days sailing alongside America's Cup navigator Peter Isler. Kenny brought that up during Monday's nailbiting driftathon, explaining that if you believe your boat is faster you look at the race course in a different way. You see the possibilities rather than the roadblocks.
It's a great phrase that comes to mind often when watching Luna Rossa doing their best to fend off the marginally faster boat of Emirates Team New Zealand. If only they could be more confident in their speed. If only they could be more Isler. But the harsh reality is they can't. Yes, they're only a click slower, but it still makes life hard, just as Bruni and Spithill had made life so hard for the marginally slower Ineos Team UK a few weeks earlier. Nathan's 'make your elbows wide' observation of the Italians trying to stop the Kiwis getting past has become the new catchphrase of this Cup. -- Andy Rice
Rigged By Marlow: Herrmann & Hare, The Vendee Globe History-Makers
For Marlow Ropes, the 2020-21 Vendee Globe has been a highly anticipated, history-making race, electrified by two inspirational Marlow-rigged skippers. Boris Herrmann (Germany) and Pip Hare (UK) who completed the Vendee Globe 2020-21 respectively, rigged with Marlow's bespoke Grand Prix (MGP)* series.
Known as the 'Everest of the seas' the Vendee Globe is the pinnacle of single handed, non-stop races that sailors aim for and only 89 out of 167 contenders have ever managed to cross the finish line. Herrmann, as the first German skipper to compete the 2020-21 race finished in fifth place on Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco and was crowned the new IMOCA Globe Series champion, due to his consistent campaign with Team Malizia over the last three years.
British skipper Pip Hare made history as only the 8th woman to have ever completed the race and is the first British skipper to finish the 2020-21 race, having dreamt of competing in the Vendee since she was a teenager. Crossing the line after 95 days, she follows in the footsteps of UK sailing success, Ellen MacArthur, who was also rigged by Marlow in her 2000 Vendee Globe.
Commenting on working with the global rope manufacturer, a heartfelt Hare said: "I want to thank you (Marlow Ropes) for investing in my campaign at such an early stage, trusting me to deliver and supporting me through all these months. I hope you feel this has been your success as well as mine. Once again from the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping to make this happen."
Marlow's Leisure Marine Director, Paul Honess comments on Marlow's work with Herrmann and Hare:
"Both of these sailors have triumphed the Vendee in their own unique way and we are very proud to have played a small, yet vital part in their Vendee Globe victories. Marlow's relationship with Vendee Globe's elite sailors dates back 24 years thanks to our 200+ year history of manufacturing ropes capable of extreme round-the-world sailing.
The high performing Grand Prix Series is made for this type of challenge and both skippers used MGP to very different specifications. Each skipper we work with needs a different specification, and Boris and Pip are no different. Working with this calibre of athlete gives us vital technical knowledge to ensure our rope innovation and development stays at the top of the game."
*Marlow's MGP (Grand Prix) Series is a bespoke rigging service customised to exact specifications of the race boat. The UK and US based rope manufacturer have worked with many offshore sailors and race teams, who have used their bespoke service including America's Cup 2021 challengers American Magic and Ineos Team UK.
Liberty Bitcoin Youth Foiling Gold Cup
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The Liberty Bitcoin Youth Foiling Gold Cup is an international series of regattas raced by 18 to 25-year-old sailors from the Netherlands, USA, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Curaçao.
For all the hype of flying boats, the early season conditions in Gaeta were often light and variable and constantly pushed the sailors to finesse the trimming of the sails, and the foils, to fly. For a young class, whose first races were held in July last year, such challenging conditions made for very steep learning curves for the teams who learned to change gear several times per race, up to six races per day.
69F Chief Sailing Officer, Dede De Luca, was very happy with the season's first official event. "We completed 28 official races and almost as many practice races, so we are very lucky to have done so much sailing, especially as most of Italy is now in lockdown again. The racing was just like the America's Cup too, with exciting sailing and big leads that could be quickly erased."
De Luca, a former America's Cup sailor himself, offered crucial advice to the sailors, especially to the smaller teams without coaches. While impressed by the Dutch team's performance, he welcomed other teams to come and take them on in the next round.
"The Dutch are not impossible to beat, they also made mistakes and they still have space to improve. With quality training, the other teams can certainly catch up, especially in the next round in Limone where the more consistent wind will mean that the training days better resemble the racing days."
For DutchSail - Janssen de Jong's coach, Olympian Pieter-Jan Postma, the momentum going into the next round will be a huge boost to an already strong team who won 8 out of 10 races in the finals.
Final results:
65.0 pts NED- Team DutchSail - Janssen de Jong
47.5 pts ITA: Young Azzurra
42.0 pts HKG: RHKYC Team Agiplast
32.5 pts EUR: Kingdom Team
30.0 pts USA: Southern Challenge
26,0 pts SUI: One Switzerland
Classic Fantastics
The oldest boat in the Rolex Fastnet Race - the 1939 Amokura will be raced two handed by owner Paul Moxon. Photo by Nic Compton. Click on image to enlarge.
As the Rolex Fastnet Race approaches its 50th edition in 2023 and the 100th anniversary of the Royal Ocean Racing Club two years later, so we can expect to see more classic yachts taking part with ancient associations to what has grown into the world's largest offshore yacht race.
In this year's Rolex Fastnet Race, oldest among the giant 400+ boat fleet is Amokura, the 50ft yawl built by Moodys in 1939, originally for Lord Mountbatten's Aide de Camp, Ernest Harston. Amokura competed in the 1959 Fastnet Race and again 60 years on in 2019, but finished neither.
Present owner Paul Moxon originally bought Amokura to take his family cruising, but has since acquired the bug for racing his classic boat.
Uniquely among this group, Moxon races two handed with Steve Jones, and while Amokura is not a lightweight flier like the SunFasts or Class40s, her vintage provides other benefits for shorthanding.
Some of the most significant maxis from the third quarter of the 20th century are entered. The 63ft S&S designed yawl-rigged offshore racer Rafanut was originally built in 1955 for Jacob Wallenberg of the famous Swedish banking and business dynasty. She is now campaigned by his grandson Fredrik. Sailing was Jacob's passion and over 30 years his boats, culminating in the S&S 63, dominated the sport in Sweden. He was a repeat winner of the Baltic's top offshore race, the Gotland Runt and was also a long term chairman of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club (KSSS). In Fredrik Wallenberg's hands Rafanut has most recently won the classic division of the Gotland Runt.
Stormvogel has belonged to the same Italian owner since 1983, during which time she has sailed to the far corners of the globe, including 19 years spent in South East Asia cruising and racing. She has also posted good results in the Mediterranean Panerai Classic circuit during 2007 and 2008 and competed in the 2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first race when Bruynzeel won line honours. Her last event was Antigua Classic Week in 2015.
Other 'modern classic' yachts from the 1960s and 70s include yacht broker Chris Cecil-Wright's Nicholson 55s Eager, skippered by Richard Powell.
Currently on the waiting list for the Rolex Fastnet Race is Pen Duick VI, the last of the famous series of yachts campaigned heavily by France's most famous yachtsman, Eric Tabarly. The 73ft André Mauric-designed aluminium ketch competed in the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, during which she dismasted twice. Most impressively Tabarly entered this same maxi yacht in the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) in 1976 and entered the history books when he won the race for a second time (following his victory in 1964), despite this 32 tonne beast, usually requiring a crew of 12 to manhandle her. Such was Tabarly's resulting fame that he unwittingly launched offshore racing in France, not only as a sport, but as the significant business it has become today. Pen Duick VI competed alongside the 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race as an unofficial entrant, due to her keel being ballasted with spent uranium.
'High-Speed Craft Design with CFD: Is it worth it?'
Hydrodynamic simulation using CFD has advanced significantly in recent years, and simulations have become firmly rooted as a third pillar of science next to theory and experimentation. However, the utilization of CFD simulations in the design of high-speed craft has lagged behind scientific acceptance of the technology because of concerns related to cost, schedule, and accuracy.
In this webinar, we hope to address these concerns and show you how CFD can effectively and reliably be used in the design of a high-speed craft to deliver better boats and reduce risk. Please join us on March 23rd to learn how CFD can be used in your designs and more importantly, what it takes for you to trust it.
We invite you to join us for the webinar on 03/23/2021 at 11AM EDT as we cover this exciting topic.
White diesel, what white diesel?
Miserable options for leisure boaters in Northern Ireland
From 30 June non-commercial vessels wishing to refuel in Northern Ireland must do so with white diesel. What's the snag? There are no marine white diesel pumps in Northern Ireland, and demand is insufficient for commercial operators to make provision.
At a meeting this week with HMRC, and involving the Cruising Association (CA), the RYA and British Marine, it became clear that there will be only three alternatives to the illegal purchase of red diesel in Northern Ireland after June.
Firstly, sail a minimum of 90 miles to Scotland or the Isle of Man to lawfully purchase red diesel, which can be reimported to Northern Ireland, upon documentary proof, under the Istanbul convention. Or, secondly, sail a minimum of 75 miles, to the nearest white diesel Marine pump, which is in Dublin. Plus the return journey of course. Thirdly, the purchase of white diesel from filling stations in jerry cans where the marine rebate will not be available, and where the number of cans/journeys required for most boats would be considerable. In addition, there is the environmental hazards and regulations associated with refuelling by this method.
Given the short time for the proposal to be enacted the CA, with the RYA, urged HMRC to rapidly issue clear guidance to owners and fuel suppliers facing this unprecedented situation.
Julian Dussek, President of the Cruising Association said, "Although these options may be viable, they are completely unreasonable. I cannot imagine another situation in which legislation would be passed knowing that compliance was well-nigh impossible."
He urged the Treasury to work with the Northern Ireland Assembly to produce financial incentives for the fuel industry to create a viable marine supply of white diesel in the province. -- Peta Stuart-Hunt
Albert Hakvoort Sr.
Hakvoort Shipyards is saddened to report the death of Albert Hakvoort Sr at the age of 80. One of the guiding lights of the yard and its workforce for decades, Albert started work at the family business in 1955 and dedicated his life to helping the yard grow into one of the most renowned premium superyacht builders in the world.
He was joined in the 1990s by the fourth generation of Hakvoorts, Klaas and Albert Jr, who eventually took over the helm in 2014. Albert Sr went on to enjoy a much-deserved retirement after 60 years of service, although he was often seen at the yard sharing his words of wisdom and encouragement.
The fact that Hakvoort Shipyards received the Royal designation in November 2020 was the crowning achievement for a man who did more than anyone to earn the yard this rare honour.
The yard issued the following statement:
"The superyacht industry is full of characters but Albert will be remembered as one of the finest. He was a man without airs and graces who never forgot a face and had a kind word for everyone he met. His legendary sense of dry humour was a joy and his love of boats matched only by a passion for motorbikes which began when, at the age of four, Albert saw Canadian troops liberate the town of Monnickendam. One soldier rode a Harley and, half a century later in 1995, Albert bought a HD Fat Boy for himself and had it fitted with the beamiest handlebars imaginable in gleaming stainless steel.
"This was probably the flashiest thing Albert ever did or owned. A humble man who took the same warm and kind-hearted approach to billionaire clients and first-year apprentices alike, he leaves behind an unrivalled legacy of boatbuilding and a world of friendships and memories."
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