In This Issue
• Winners announced for RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
• New York Yacht Club Claims Inaugural Women's 2v2 Team Race
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• 44Cup Portoroz
• Highs and Lows Action for an 18ft Skiff Champion
• Transat en Double Concarneau Saint Barthelemy
• International Etchells Cowes Fleet
• IMOCA Globe Series Championship
• Vendee Globe: The View Of The Sponsors
• Nearly ninety boats expected for the Mini in May
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • MC-TEC Akilaria RC1 Class 40
• • Kinetic Catamarans - KC54
• The Last Word: Ogden Nash

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Winners announced for RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Vice Admiral's Cup came to a conclusion on Sunday 23rd May after two days of racing in fresh to feisty conditions in the Solent. The final day of racing produced more challenging conditions for the high performance classes racing under IRC and One-design Class Rules. A gentle south-westerly wind with clear skies was soon replaced by a significant rainsquall with over 20 knots of breeze, gusting over 25 on occasions.

Congratulations to the eight class winners: Niklas Zennstrom's Ran, Rob Bottomley's Sailplane 3, Glyn Locke's Toucan, Sam Laidlaw's BLT, Tony Mack's McFly, David Richards' Jumping Jellyfish, Russell Peters' Squirt and Stephen Procter's Xcellent.

Niklas Zennstrom's Ran won four out of six races to dominate the FAST40+ Class. Christian Hamilton & Guy Gillon's Fast40+ Khumbu was second, just a point ahead of Peter Morton's Jean Genie.

Rob Bottomley's Mills 42 Sailplane 3 continued their impressive form winning the Performance 40 Class with a race to spare. Michael Blair & Stevie Beckett's King 40 Cobra finished off a highly consistent performance by winning the last race of the regatta to take second place for the class. David Cummins' Ker 39 Rumbleflurg completed the podium just a point ahead of VME Racing's Mills 39 Zero II.

Sam Laidlaw's BLT won the last race of the regatta to win the Quarter Tonner class. Held in over 20 knots of wind, the last race was full-on for the Quarter Tonners. Olivia Dowling's Catch finished the regatta in second place with Julian Metherell's Bullit third.

Glyn Locke's Farr 280 Toucan was the winner of the HP30 Class, retaining the title won in 2019. Toucan was pushed to the maximum by Jerry Hill & Richard Faulkner's Farr 280 Moral Compass which finished the regatta just a point behind their rivals. Jonathan Powell's Farr 280 Peggy scored a third place in the final race to claim third, just a point ahead of Jamie Rankin's Farr 280 Pandemonium

In the J/111 Class, Tony Mack's McFly held off a strong challenge to win the J/111 Class. Chris Jones & Louise Makin's Journeymaker II won the last race to finish the regatta in second place ahead of Cornel Riklin's Jitterbug.

David Richards' Jumping Jellyfish won the J/109 Class scoring three race wins including a full-blooded final race battle with Christopher Burleigh's Jybe Talkin'. Mike Yates' Jago was third.

Russell Peters' Squirt has stamped their authority on the newly formed Cape 31 UK Class, winning five straight races to clinch the class win - the first round of the Cape 31 circuit. Lance Adams' Katabatic was runner-up for the class and Simon Perry's Jiraffe had a great final day at the Vice Admiral's Cup, winning the last race to take third place for the class.

Conditions were right on the edge for the SB20 Class with Stephen Procter's Xcellent scoring their fourth win of the regatta to take the title by a handsome margin. Tom Neilson's team was second, and an impressive final race for Lizzie Farrington's Boomerang lifted the team to third, just one point ahead of Richard McAdam's Breaking Bod.

Racing with the Royal Ocean Racing Club continues next weekend with the 230nm offshore Myth of Malham Race. The first major offshore race of the year mirrors the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race. Well over one hundred boats are expected, which will be an impressive sight, starting from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line on Saturday 29th May.

Full Results

www.rorc.org

New York Yacht Club Claims Inaugural Women's 2v2 Team Race
With a potent combination of boatspeed, tactical acumen and team racing skills, the New York Yacht Club team strung together 13 straight victories en route to a win in the inaugural Women's 2v2 Team Race, hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court this weekend. The team's lone loss—to the eventual runner-up from the College of Charleston in the final flight of races—came with overall victory already in hand. The New York Yacht Club team, led by skipper/captain Emily Maxwell and skipper Erika Reineke, finished with 13 points. Charleston was second with 11, while Southern Yacht Club took third with 8 points.

Winning the title as well was icing on the cake for Maxwell, who earned All-American honors at Boston College. But she's already looking ahead.

"I think this event will continue to further women's sailing and give more opportunities for women to continue team racing and to sail every position on the boat," she says. "Often, when you're sailing a coed team race, you're not driving or trimming main, you're more in the front of the boat. You might also see more additional clubs popping up with events, and hopefully there will be a women's team racing circuit eventually."

Final Results (Team Name, First Round Robin, Gold/Silver Round Robin, Total Points)
1. New York Yacht Club, 9-0, 4-1, 13 points
2. College of Charleston (S.C.), 8-2, 3-2, 11 points
3. Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, 5-4, 3-2, 8 points
4. Storm Trysail Club, Larchmont, N.Y., 4-5, 3-2, 7 points
5. Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass., 5-4, 2-3, 7 points
6. Annapolis (Md.) Yacht Club, 4-5, 0-5, 4 points
*7. American Yacht Club, Rye, N.Y., 3-6, 2-1, 5 points
*8. Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, New Haven, Conn., 2-7, 2-1, 4 points
*9. Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club, 2-9, 1-2, 4 points
*10. Madame Vice President, 2-9, 1-2, 3 points

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

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

When two brothers changed everything
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Take nothing for granted
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Rod Davis - Cup truth
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ORC - Worth some effort
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44Cup Portoroz
Four magnificent days of 44Cup racing in Portoroz, Slovenia concluded with further 20+ knot winds, flat water and sun, but mixed fortunes.

After a difficult second day of this regatta Slovenian Igor Lah's Team CEEREF was lowest scoring yesterday and today built on this, initially posting a second. They followed this in race two by a come-from-behind win as Torbjorn Tornqvist's Artemis Racing, for the first time at this event, led round the top mark. Team CEEREF split, gybing early into a beneficial shift and better pressure allowing her to cruise into the lead which she consolidated upon during the next upwind.

Thanks to this Team CEEREF started the final race holding a four point lead, but with Team Nika and Atom Tavatuy still capable of toppling her.

Sadly fortunes were not smiling on Chris Bake's Team Aqua initially today. After being able to do no wrong on Friday, when they scored a perfect three bullets, adding another yesterday, the wizened RC44 team left the dock leading by four points. However eighth and seventh to start with today not only lost them their lead, but dropped them from the podium.

Due to the pandemic, the 44Cup Portoroz was the first event for the high performance owner-driver one designs in 17 months. It took place with strict safety measures put in place by the RC44 class and the local organisers, including event and team bubbling and frequent testing for COVID-19. Bertrand Favre, RC44 Class Manager said: "I'd like to thank our tightly knit group of RC44 owners whose pushed for this event to take place."

Final results
1. Slovenia Team Ceeref, SLO, 39
2. Russia Team Nika, RUS, 44
3. United Kingdom Team Aqua, GBR, 46
4. Russia Atom Tavatuy, RUS, 47
5. France Aleph Racing, FRA, 50
6. United Kingdom Peninsula Racing, GBR, 67
7. Monaco Charisma, MON, 69
8. Sweden Artemis Racing, SWE, 72

www.44cup.org

Highs and Lows Action for an 18ft Skiff Champion
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Current JJ Giltinan world champion, Michael Coxon has been sailing 18s for around 20 seasons and during that time has won four JJ world titles and five Australian Championships as well as numerous other major titles, but even the world's best can have good and bad days when you are racing an 18ft Skiff around Sydney Harbour.

Michael, a member of one of Australia's most respected sailing families of world and international champions and Olympians, says that "it's critical to stay focused to the best of your ability at all times."

"Naturally, you are always striving for more speed, but when you are travelling at speed, particularly under spinnaker, things happen very quickly, especially with the increased traffic on Sydney Harbour."

"The 18s accelerate quickly, but they can also stop just as fast if they hit the wake off some passing power boat."

The excitement and exhilaration for the competitors outweighs the few 'disappointments', and spectators benefit from watching the skills of highly talented teams on a spectacular Sydney Harbour race track each weekend.

Frank Quealey
Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

www.18footers.com.au

Transat en Double Concarneau Saint Barthelemy
Tom and Gildas Mahe are in the Top 3. They have opted for the South and are finally enjoying the sun and weather at lower latitudes. Their boat seems to have been equipped by nature of a new kind of underwater sails knitted out of seaweed. Nature is very fair and all the Figaro 3 are equally carrying the same amount of sargassum around the keel, the foils and the rudder.

www.transatendouble.bzh

International Etchells Cowes Fleet
CCCA Keelboat Champs 1 15/16th May

This year's first Keelboat Champs event run by the Royal Thames Yacht Club, with an excellent race team headed by Jenny Woods, fierce competition and treacherous winds as the five Etchells Youth Academy teams battled it out on the water for the two coveted funded campaigns. The youth teams got a humbling taste of the class as they were joined by 10 other boats on the water. With incredibly challenging conditions all weekend, every team gave a fantastic show on the water.

Racing on Saturday was postponed due to flat calms, with the wind picking up heavily towards midday and leading to a day of squalls and patchy gusts, averaging 17 knots and gusting in the high twenties from the South-West. Thanks to the efforts of the race committee, we were able to get three races in in spite of a late start. The Childerleys on Polaris led the pack winning the first and second races of the day, beaten only by Shaun Frohlich's Exabyte on the third race of the day. As the day progressed the fleet saw a substantial increase in the wind, and a major shift in the final downwind of the day that saw most teams reaching on the jib to the finish line on port. Ines Pont Sanchis' youth team on Shamal went for the kite and trucked down the left side of the course on a tight reach, planing away towards the front of the fleet.

A wind-battered fleet set off again on Sunday expecting similar conditions, with a strong but shifty South-Westerly making for some active upwind legs. John Warwick's Audrey made a stellar comeback winning the first race of the day, with Ante Razmilovic on Swedish Blue taking the second victory of the day. Due to building conditions and a looming thunderstorm, the day was cut short with the third and final race of the day finishing at the first top mark.

Congratulations to the Childerleys on Polaris for winning the regatta, followed by Bruno van Dyke on Jolly Roger and Shaun Frohlich on Exabyte. Congratulations as well to Anthony Park and his youth team on Sumo for winning the youth class. -- Ines Pont Sanchis

etchellsukfleet.co.uk

IMOCA Globe Series Championship
Devised in 2017, the IMOCA Globe Series Championship, which combines the world's superlative offshore races, enjoyed its first great success with its inaugural cycle from June 2018 to March 2021. After three years of incredibly top-flight competition, the latter rounded off in style over the winter with the amazing climax of the Vendee Globe, which ultimately saw Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-YC de Monaco) crowned IMOCA Champion, ahead of Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ IV) and Charlie Dalin (APIVIA).

The title is now up for grabs once more with the official launch of the IMOCA Globe Series 2021-2025 on 29 May 2021 as The Ocean Race Europe sets sail from Lorient, Brittany.

With this new cycle of sport come a few major changes. On the one hand, the admission of crewed races as official events and on the other a development of the classification system, which will operate using a more dynamic system designed to increase the value of the sailors' annual performance. 


In addition to an extra year (4 seasons instead of 3), it also includes more races. Indeed, there are eighteen official events in all, including two round the world races, supplemented by an assortment of races grouping together short and long blue-water courses, legendary transatlantic passages, in singlehanded, double-handed and now crewed formats.

For the first time in history, two major international round the world races are accessible in IMOCA. "In practical terms, it's the apex of offshore racing, since we have both major round the world races on the programme for the first time: the Vendee Globe and The Ocean Race," says Antoine Mermod, President of Class IMOCA. "We're going to see sailors who are solo, double-handed and crewed racing specialists competing in every possible type of exercise. It's going to be interesting to see which skipper will be the best all-rounder at the end of all that."

The Overall Leader (equivalent to the world number in ATP) will gain recognition and an annual title, which will be awarded at the end of the season. The grand IMOCA Champion will be crowned at the end of the Vendee Globe 2024-25.

imoca.org

Vendee Globe: The View Of The Sponsors
"Exceptional", "very satisfying", "enormous spinoffs"... at this time when we take stock of the Vendee Globe, the sponsors which Tip & Shaft interviewed (almost all) rivalled each other to find new superlatives. It must be said that this ninth edition, of course this time contested in a particular context of the health crisis, broke all records, in particular audience and returns for the race.

"This Vendee Globe has been excellent from a communication point of view not just because there was less competition from other events but also because sailing, in these times of Covid, brought a welcome relief, a breath of fresh air", summarizes Franck Vallee, head of Initiatives, one of Sam Davies' three partners.

This has also resulted in record return for most of the sponsors: "For us, the returns show a multiplier of fivefold compared to the race four years ago," said Adrien Peyroles, CEO of Bureau Vallee, sponsor of Louis Burton. Though he does not want to reveal the figures in question, explains the reasons for the growth: "Firstly because during the confinement, the skippers, and in particular Louis, were interviewed a lot about their life of isolation, then because the wider world is now engaged in the world of Imoca, finally because it was a really super close race. "

Such returns usually evaluated in advertising purchasing equivalent are calculated for many sponsors by specialized firms. From those who agree to communicate them there are very disparate results depending on the calculation methods, the periods taken into the account and the objectives of the study itself (just for the sponsor or the sponsor and the skipper...)

Full article in Tip & Shaft

Nearly ninety boats expected for the Mini in May
The first race of the year organized by the Societe nautique de La Trinite-sur-Mer (Morbihan), the Mini in May will leave Saturday morning from the port of Trinidad, will go up to the Iroise Sea and then descend to the Gironde estuary. , or 500 miles. It is a fairly technical course which alternates between coastal and offshore phases. Meeting with Yves Le Blevec, race director.

The first race of the year organized by the Societe nautique de La Trinite-sur-Mer ( Morbihan ), the Mini in May will start on Saturday, May 22, 2021 from the port of Trinidad.

It's a Mini 6.50 race, offshore racing boats, a very dynamic class of three hundred active boats around the world. The flagship event is the Mini-transat which takes place every two years. A whole circuit has been built around this event. The Mini in May is one of them and therefore counts for the validation of the competitors to take the start of the Mini-transat. It is a rather long solo race (500 miles) which starts from La Trinite, goes up to the Iroise Sea and then descends to the Gironde estuary. It is a fairly technical course which alternates between coastal and offshore phases. It is a very interesting and very demanding course.

* Start postponed until at least Monday

www.ouest-france.fr

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* From Dave Hollom:

Magnus Wheatley's excellent article from his Rule69Blog doesn't quite hit the nail on the head. Much of what he says makes a great deal of sense, but for the one cog in an America's Cup machine, which he fails to mention. The technical side. Twice now well-funded challenges with an excellent sailing team have failed due to a poor technical outcome.

Sir Ben is undoubtedly a great sailor but I question his ability (up until now) to put together a winning technical team. In AC35 they apparently, for a long time, followed an obsolete design path and weren't open to ideas that eventually won that edition and what went technically wrong in AC36 is covered in an article in Seahorse last month (issue 495 May 2021). Everything that is mentioned there, any on the ball first year aerodynamics student or any competent yacht designer, would have known.

Part of the problem seems to be that the team is mainly composed of very clever people with PhD's and not many less clever prople but with down to earth technical common sense. With a good yacht designer or designers, active in the design process, he would not have ended up with a boat that paid no attention to the basics of yacht design and aerodynamics and as such was doomed to failure from the start. It is great to be maverick and left field but the concept must make technical sense.

I do agree that we will win the America's Cup, but remember that it is invariably won on the drawing board rather than on the water, so only when we have a well-balanced technical team.

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