In This Issue
• ORC European Championship
• Early lead for local 44Cup heroes
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Transat en Double Concarneau Saint Barthelemy
• Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2021 photo competition
• Women's 2v2 Team Race
• Goody Goody
• Sailing World on Water
• Launchings
• Rich Roberts
• Featured Brokerage:
• • CF 520 IRC Racing Yacht
• • Baltic 66 - SEI TU II
• • Blue Note - JPK 1080
• The Last Word: P. J. O'Rourke

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ORC European Championship
Today marked the final day of racing on the waters of Capri for the boats competing for the title of ORC European Champion 2021. After yesterday's two windward-leewards brought the fleet to a total of five races held, the Race Committee was on the water at 10 this morning to position the course and kick off the closing races of the event. Very light and shifty air, however, meant that racing could not get underway until 1 p.m. when the first start of the day was given in 6-8 knots of breeze from 260°. As the wind filled in to 15 knots, two races were held for groups A and C and one for Group B, thus bringing the total races held to 7 and 6 respectively. At the conclusion of the ORC European Championship, the overall rankings are as follows:

Class A
1 Xio - TP52 - Marco Serafini - Club Vela Portocivitanova - ITA
2 Fever - Swan 45 - Klaus Diederichs - RORC - C.V. Venezia - GBR
3 Freccia Rossa - TP52 - Vadim Yakimenko - Y.C. Calvi - ITA

Class B
1 Fantaghiro - ClubSwan 42 - Carlandrea Simonelli - C.N. Marina di Carrara - ITA
2 Mela - ClubSwan 42 - Andrea Rossi - C.N. Marina di Carrara - ITA
3 Bewild - ClubSwan 42 - Renzo Grottesi - C.V. Portocivitanova - ITA

Class C
1 Scugnizza - Italia 11.98 - Vincenzo De Blasio - Circolo Canottieri Napoli - ITA
2 Sugar 3 - Italia 11.98 - Ott Kikkas - Yacht Club Tallinn - EST
3 Topas - Farr 30 - H. Bruening - KYC - WYC - RORC - GER

The winners in the Corinthian category for each class also received prizes:

Class A
Tengher - Swan 45 - Alberto Magnani - Yacht Club Italiano - ITA

Class B
Chestress 3 - J122 - Giancarlo Ghislanzoni - Yacht Club Italiano - ITA

Class C
Topas - Farr 30 - H. Bruening - KYC - WYC - RORC - GER

Two special prizes were also awarded: the Trofeo Yacht Club Italiano for the sailing club with the most members on the podium, which went to Club Nautico Marina di Carrara and the Swan Trophy for the best ClubSwan in the largest class by number - Class B - presented to the Clubswan 42 Fantaghirò, owned by Carlandrea Simonelli.

rolexcaprisailingweek.com

Early lead for local 44Cup heroes
With its light start, brilliant sunshine and the ancient town of Piran and the still snowcapped Slovenian Alps as a backdrop, the day could not have been better for the 44Cup fleet to blow away any cobwebs after such a long absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Having not lined up since November 2019, 44Cup competition resumed today for the high performance owner-driver one designs, with three races successfully held on the Bay of Piran. These started in a 6 knots and built to 12 over the afternoon.

The 44Cup Portoroz is being hosted by Vladimir Prosikhin and Igor Lah, owners of Team Nika and Team CEEREF respectively. Team CEEREF is the 44Cup's Slovenian-flagged RC44 while two key crew on board Team Nika once represented Slovenia in the Olympic Games, come from Portoroz and one, Mitja Margon, is this event's organiser. It was appropriate therefore that these two RC44s won the first two races. Team Nika posted by far the most consistent results today, returning ashore with a four point lead. Behind her the competition is far closer with just four points separating second from seventh places.

John Bassadone's newly rechristened Peninsula Racing had a tough day. After a solid second in the first race, they were unable to fight back from an OCS in race two and then had the top of their rig damaged and Windex torn off after Chris Bake's Team Aqua clashed rigs with them at the start of the third race (for which Bake's team was awarded two penalty points).

Racing resumes tomorrow with stronger winds forecast.

Follow live at 44cup.org

Seahorse June 2021
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Missing piece - Part III
It's time to build Dogzilla... Tim Smyth, Mark Turner, Mike Drummond, Roger Vaughan And Jimmy Spithill

Pent up demand
For their first new mid-size model to be launched in close to 15 years Oyster Yachts went back to a previously highly successful formula but now applied in a very different and contemporary modern package

All in a day's work
Sails for an 81-metre Panamax three-masted schooner, total sail area 3,500sqm... that won't be a problem, sir

RORC - Au revoir
Eddie Warden-Owen

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Transat en Double Concarneau Saint Barthelemy
Ireland's Tom Dolan, racing with the French co-skipper Gildas Mahe on Breizh Cola, lies in fourth place on the Transat en Double Concarneau Saint Barthelemy as the fleet heads west across the Atlantic after passing the Canary Islands rounding mark in fifth early on Monday morning. Mahe and Dolan are less than two miles behind the leaders Alexis Loison and Guillaume Pirouelle.

Racing at around 11 knots of boatspeed in a moderated NE'ly tradewinds there is nothing between the top group of boats.

Dolan reported today, "It feels great to be at the top of the fleet, there is a great match going on and it's really stimulating. Even though we're crossing the Atlantic it's still a Figaro race in terms of sheer intensity, and so constant contact with other boats makes it all the better. Our team work together is great, we got a right kicking at La Palma this morning, we sailed into the headland to exploit the acceleration zone and shift and ended up in 40+ knots of winds. We didn't break anything though and it did allow us to get a bit of a boost to get south.

afloat.ie/sail/

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Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2021 photo competition
Initiated in 2010, the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image is delighted to launch its twelfth edition. The leading international photo competition dedicated to sailing as a competitive sport allows professional photographers to share their passion with as many people as possible.

After a special edition in 2020, when the competition changed its format to adapt to the pandemic, rewarding the best photo taken since the beginning of the century, the format returns to normal and will celebrate the best photo of the year. Photos submitted must have been taken between 7 October 2020 and 7 September 2021 (full rules available here).

The Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image can once again count on its main partner, the Mirabaud Group, which has been loyal since the first edition. The title sponsor has confirmed its support for the next three years.

An international jury is currently being nominated and will be announced later this summer. The 80 best images submitted by photographers from around the world will be shortlisted by this jury and published on the event website on 14 September. The public will then be able to vote, until 11 October 2021, to determine the winner of the Public Award.

The 20 best images chosen by the international jury will be exhibited at the Yacht Racing Forum, (location to be announced) on 25 October. A third prize will be awarded by the delegates attending the event.

Submissions are open until 7 September 2021 at 23:59 (GMT) on the event website.

Women's 2v2 Team Race
Newport, Rhode Island: Top women sailors from around the country are en route to Rhode Island for the New York Yacht Club's inaugural Women's 2v2 Team Race, which will be sailed out of the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court this coming Saturday and Sunday.

The roster of sailors includes some of the best female sailors in American history: two-time Olympic medalist JJ Fetter will sail alongside her daughter Marly Isler for the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club team; 2016 Olympian Paris Henken will skipper one of the two boats for the College of Charleston squad, and the host Club will be represented by two former winners of US Sailing's Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year award, Erika Reineke (2017) and current US Sailing President Cory Sertl (1995 and 2001).

"This event provides women more opportunities to team race and sail post-college," says Emily Maxwell, the event chairperson, "and the opportunity to try every position on the boat,"

But, even more than the opportunity to compete against an elite field of female sailors, is the opportunity to sail, period.

"Last year, all team racing events were canceled at New York Yacht Club due to the pandemic," says Maxwell, "so it will be great to get on the water again. I'm looking forward to sailing against such a talented group of women."

nyyc.org/2021-women-s-2v2-team-race

Goody Goody
There's a great phrase often used in sports that: "It's not the team with the best players that win. It's the players with the best team that wins." And that's true in the America's Cup. The number of all-star AC teams that have been thrown together in the past but just didn't quite make it are long and storied. British teams are world class, weapons-grade even, at collecting unbelievable talent and falling short. Go back to the days of Lawrie Smith, Phil Crebbin, Chris Law and Harold Cudmore and by rights and on paper, history should have been written. But it wasn't. And the aftermath was anything but pretty.

Today, the British Team have the greatest chance ever - although we do seem to say that about every America's Cup team that heralds from these parts - but I am starting to believe it now. Talent being squarely backed by the open chequebooks of a group of businessmen enjoying their play time in global sport at just the right time is tantalising. Timing is…everything.

Jim Ratcliffe sat beside Toto Wolff in the coveted control position inside his one third-owned Mercedes Formula 1 pit bay recently in Barcelona before hitting the podium to be doused in champagne by Sir Lewis Hamilton. Beats the tow-in having being eliminated from the Cup by a fair margin but in throwing more cash at the problem, the situation simply has to and will reverse. Ineos Team UK will win the America's Cup - and that's not just my opinion but the opinion of many right in the know at the America's Cup. It's a wall of money, a tsunami, a Japanese-cartoon-esque tidal wave at a time when bottom-lines are under more scrutiny than ever before. It simply will happen. Believe it.

Magnus Wheatley's full grenade in Rule69 Blog

Sailing World on Water
Alex Thomson, after he retired from the Vendee Globe, has worked on his boat and will start in the RORC, Rolex Fastnet Race, which finishes this year in France.

Fifty-nine teams battled each other and the elements at the 2021 J 70 North American Championship, and despite breezy conditions during the registration days, Mother Nature then turned off the winds, allowing three races to determine the Championship. We have the Wrap Video.

Volvo Race Winner Charles Caudrelier will also be in the Rolex Fastnet Race in his Maxi Trimaran Edmund De Rothschild.

We are Great lovers of the Finn Class and have the 2021 Porto Finn Gold Cup Regatta Video.

7 teams contested Days 1 and 2 of the TF 35 Nyon, Foiling Fleet Championships. The breeze died on the last day.

The 470 European Championships were held in Vilamoura, Portugal. We have the Event video.

Sevenstar have confirmed that they will sponsor the RORC Round Britain Race again next year.

Super Maxi Comanche will have competition in the Rolex Middle Sea race, as the huge Club Swan 135 was rolled out of the shed last week and will be launched in June.

Spindrift Racing have finished the upgrades to their Super Maxi Tri, and they have rebranded her, Sails of Change, 30 by 30. This boat is fast and HUGE!

boatson.tv

Launchings
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New images show the 48 metre sailing yacht Wisp has been returned to "perfect" condition following extensive maintenance work at her home yard Royal Huisman.

The yacht, which was first launched in 2014, arrived at the Dutch yard's Huisfit facility in October 2020 for scheduled maintenance work and has now been successfully redelivered to its owner. The work was overseen by MCM Newport and captain Richard Humphries.

The list of works included a new paint job, antifouling, exterior varnish and interior paintwork and realignment of the propulsion line.

Maintenance work was also undertaken on the sail handling systems and several advanced preparations were made ahead of Wisp's upcoming 10 year Lloyd's survey.

www.boatinternational.com

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The IMOCA CORUM L'Epargne was relaunched on 18 May in her port of registry of Lorient, south-west Brittany. Nicolas Troussel, her skipper, and a crew made up of Sebastien Josse, Marie Riou and Benjamin Schwartz, will take her on her first sea trials in the next few days in order to get a feel for the boat and familiarise themselves with the latest optimisations with a view to the upcoming races.

Kicking off in February, the work undertaken by the team has enabled the necessary optimisations to be made to the boat with a view to this year's race schedule: adaptation to crewed configuration (one helming station, one watch position, a relaxation area geared around two sailors, on-board equipment suited for legs lasting a few days rather than a singlehanded round the world…), reinforcement of the hull bottom, optimisation of the electronics, a safety upgrade in the form of new sensors, the installation of a device to ward off cetaceans, as well as the stepping and rigging of a new mast.

Following measurement tests and a weigh-in to check that the boat complies with the IMOCA rules, the four sailors will have ten days or so to familiarise themselves with the IMOCA CORUM L'Epargne, learn to sail together and validate the work carried out over recent months. They will then take the start of The Ocean Race Europe, which will be contested in three legs spanning the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

This race is the first meeting in a very extensive 2021 sailing programme. Nicolas Troussel will then go to participate alongside Sebastien Josse in the Rolex Fastnet Race setting sail from the Isle of Wight (off the south coast of England) on 8 August. From there they will return to Lorient where they are due to participate in the Defi Azimut in mid-September, prior to the start of the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre scheduled to set off on 7 November.

imoca.org

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When the Palma International Boat Show takes place from 3 to 6 June YYachts will also be part of one of the first boat shows in many months. The Greifswald shipyard is mooring the almost 22-metre-long Y7 "CinCin" at berth 121.

A displacement of only 29 tonnes, almost 300 square metres of upwind sail area and a generous 700 square metres of downwind sail area keep the Y7 "CinCin" – as all models from YYachts – moving even in light winds. Through the ballast, she is very stable and heels little, which makes her very pleasant to sail.

The Y7 was created for long family vacations, able to sail alone or with a very small crew to assist the owner. As a standard, the carbon yacht is of course also equipped with carbon fibre masts and booms as well as with the typical YYachts garage across the stern.

Below deck, the Y7 also has a very modern atmosphere. The interior design is the work of the Danish, award-winning Norm Architects. The Copenhagen designers created a reduced ambience with a Scandinavian touch and used two different types of wood for the floor and panels as well as light colours to create the most generous feeling of space.

www.yyachts.de

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The extensive construction experience of the Forlì-based shipyard is combined with the development of innovative solutions, that place increasing emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency, to create the Grand Soleil 72 Performance. A completely Made in Italy design process developed according to the needs of those owners who appreciate a made-to-measure approach, to live their adventures in comfort, safety, and autonomy in the utmost respect of the marine habitat.

The 72-footer will be the result of a completely new and Made in Italy design process, with a team of professionals representing Italian excellence in the international nautical sector. The creation of the new yacht will be supervised by project manager Franco Corazza, Matteo Polli has been in charge of naval architecture, Marco Lostuzzi worked on the structures and Nauta Design designed the general layout, the deck and the interiors.

The Grand Soleil 72 Performance, like all Cantiere del Pardo yachts, strives for a responsible and sustainable goal for the marine environment in which it will sail. Both the choice of construction materials and the design used to assemble them aim at the lowest environmental impact and the highest degree of recyclability.

www.grandsoleil.net

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This new version of the Swan 55 model Line represents a new generation of hull design developed over the past couple of years with the assistance of tools available today to study the behavior of the canoe body in all sailing conditions.

Hulls with a powerful back end that attain maximum sailing length and low resistance while heeled thus the lowest possible displacement / length ratio and excellent balance through the range of heel angles in combination with the well proven twin rudder set up.

When designing the bow sections which are well rounded transversally and have a sharp entry angle, we have favored the sailing condition and comfortable ride when heeled. Because of the longitudinal high length to depth ratio sometimes it will be necessary to slow the speed while powering against a head chop.

The hull displacement is the result of a thorough study of weight and the position of the equipment onboard . These boats need to carry a fair amount of equipment for the comfort of the people living and enjoying life on board. However, the speed will be very good all around.

She will be a pleasant yacht to sail, easy to handle and cruise in its standard version and race in in its performance set up version, which includes a square to mainsail and a bowsprit for the light weather and downwind sails.

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Rich Roberts
Noted sports journalist Richard "Rich" Roberts passed away May 12, 2021 in San Pedro, CA. He was 88.

Born and raised in Wilmington, California on March 6, 1933 into a family of newspaper men, Rich quickly learned how to use a camera and how to spot a story while working for the local Press Journal after school and on weekends.

For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles approached, Rich was assigned to cover the Olympic sailing venue, and as with every other new challenge, he did an amazing job and gained world-wide notoriety.

The TransPacific Yacht Race (Transpac), the Congressional Cup, the America's Cup, the World Match Racing Tour, and the Whitbread Around the World Race (now know as The Ocean Race) all came to him for his journalistic expertise in representing their sailing events to the world.

Rich is survived by Frances, Lori, Rick, daughter-in-law Amy, granddaughter, grandson, four great-grandsons, two nieces, a nephew and a great-niece.

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com

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The first of the series is principally for offshore racing and will feature a water ballast tank system designed to reduce the crew numbers to 8. However, Carkeek Design Partners and FIBRE Mechanics are making a wide range of equipment options available allowing subsequent boats to be configured to suit different racing programmes.

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The Last Word
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. -- P. J. O'Rourke

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