In This Issue
• Leaderboards take shape at the Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta
• Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta
• Something big is coming!
• Quarter Ton Cup Crews Muster in Cowes
• Never Enough
• Lawyers on deck
• ORC Fleet Tops 50 Boats for America's Oldest Regatta
• Venice Hospitality Challenge
• Sir Stephen Tindall retires from Emirates Team New Zealand Board
• Eight Bells: Bruno Bich
• Featured Charter
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Powerplay
• • Jeanneau 54 - Grace
• • Sly 42
• The Last Word: John Greenleaf Whittier

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Leaderboards take shape at the Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta
The second day of racing at the Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta saw the leaderboards take shape in the ILCA 6, ILCA 7, Men's and Women's RS:X and the Nacra 17.

For the ILCA 7, it saw an end to their qualification phase with the top half of the pack progressing to the gold fleet and the lower half settling for the silver.

Thursday's racing played out in a stronger breeze than the day before with 7-10 knots prevalent across the two racing areas in Medemblik, The Netherlands.

Sailors looked to play some of the shifts on the water to maintain their position in the fleet as they target the Medal Races this coming Sunday.

The seven-boat Women's RS:X fleet is compiled of seven Tokyo 2020 athletes, all of whom who have their eyes on a medal at the Olympic Games.

Katy Spychakov (ISR) snapped up two races wins and leads on six points. Marta Maggetti (ITA) won the days other race and is second on seven points.

Tokyo 2020 will be Patricia Freitas' fourth Olympic Games. She is using Medemblik to continue her Games preparations and is currentlyin fourth, two points off the third placed Lilian de Geus (NED).

Racing continues on Friday 4 June from 10:30 local time.

Full results

www.allianzregatta.org

Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta
Ideal Conditions For Race Day 2

The Costa Smeralda put on its best show to deliver a second unforgettable race day for the fleet taking part in the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta. A fresh wind from east-southeast of around 15 knots, sunshine and clear skies made for ideal sailing conditions, and perfectly highlighted the incredible scenery that this part of Sardinia is famous for.

A spectacular and challenging course of around 30 miles was set by the Race Committee, which included an upwind leg to the islands of Mortorio and Soffi, before returning past Porto Cervo, through the Bisce pass to the Secca Tre Monti in the Golfo delle Saline, and from there leaving the Monaci islet to starboard and heading back to the finish line off Porto Cervo.

The Southern Wind fleet set off at 11.30 a.m. for their daily sail in the SW Rendezvous and Trophy, which in part followed the race route: once through the Bisce pass, the yachts from the South African yard headed for the bay of Liscia di Vacca and returned to port towards evening.

The Multihull division started on schedule at 12.30 p.m., with the Gunboat 68 Highland Fling pulling ahead from the off and gradually stretching her lead to claim first place in both real and corrected time

The Superyacht division's staggered start saw individual departures spaced 3 minutes apart, with the fastest boat being the last off the line.

Victory in corrected time once again went to Missy, the 33-metre yacht designed by Malcom McKeon and built by Vitters, which with two wins now sits firmly at the top of the provisional rankings. Claiming second place of the day, the Swan 115 Shammana also sits in second in the general classification followed by the SW94 Aragon in third. Y3K, which placed second yesterday, was forced to retire today due to a technical issue, causing it to slide into fourth in the provisional overall classification.

Results

www.yccs.it

Something big is coming!
This is the start of an exciting and innovative web series featuring some of the sports' greatest talents preparing to compete in a major sailing regatta and much more: The Sailing Squad!

Stay tuned and don't miss the adventure, which starts on 11 June.

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Quarter Ton Cup Crews Muster in Cowes
Over the next three days on the Solent out of Cowes Ian Southworth and the Team Hamble crew of Protis will do their best to retain the Quarter Ton Cup title that they won on the same waters in 2019, the last time the coveted trophy was raced for.

If they can achieve this and come out top of the white hot 17 strong fleet that includes three owners who have between them shared the title ten times over the 15 editions contested since the class's top trophy was rejuvenated in 2005, overall victory it would be an appropriate way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their boat winning a breezy Quarter Ton Cup in Marseille, France.

Recent preparations did not go completely to plan for Protis, which was built for Bruno Trouble as a development of Jacques Fauroux designs which won the Quarter Ton Cup three times consecutively after 1979. During the recent windy Vice Admiral's Cup they lost their rudder and had to withdraw and hastily seek a replacement in order to be ready to race this weekend.

Two times winner Sam Laidlaw and crew of BLT laid down a marker when they won the class at the Vice Admiral's Cup two weekends ago, although the windy conditions were very much to the liking of their boat which is also a beautifully restored former Fauroux Bullit which won the Quarter Ton Cup in 1980. Winds on the Solent are expected to start out light at least for the first couple of days of the event for which the ambitious target is up to four races a day over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Peter Morton and Louise Morton, husband and wife rivals who are longstanding stalwarts of the revived class, have four and three Quarter Ton Cup titles respectively, although Louise' boat actually won in 2011 when she was sidelined with a broken leg.

Peter 'Morty' Morton will this time race the Gonzalez designed Cote. If he were to win it would be his fourth different boat succeed with, after Espada (Farr) in 2007, Anchor Challenge (Farr) in 2009, Bullit (1978 Fauroux) in 2012 and 2014. Morty has been making some modifications to the boat over recent weeks and races with Volvo Ocean Race winner Jules Salter, a long time Quarter Tonner fan - with Salter's two sons Fred 15, and Edward, 18 and Annabel Vose.

Racing is being run by the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes with the first race sequence planned for 1025hrs each day and up to 12 races scheduled. -- Andi Robertson

www.rys.org.uk

Never Enough
I don't know who said it but it stuck in the memory bank: "Even if you give them everything they asked for, it will never be enough." And in the America's Cup, the words 'that's enough' are rarely uttered - particularly at the money end of the game. News, rumour, gossip, call it what you will, that the Kiwi government have tabled a NZD100 million offer to Team New Zealand has been greeted like a drunken uncle at an 18 year old's birthday party. The cool kids are smoking something exotic on a corner sofa watching with interest whilst the grown-ups deal with the situation. Officially it's all 'too early to comment on' - 'wrong to speculate' whilst negotiations are ongoing and, as is the way with all dialogue with politicians and commercial entities, the deal is never done, if it is to be done, if all parties want it done, until one minute to midnight on the final day.

The inevitable rumour is spreading that Team New Zealand 'wanted NZD200 million' and that's to be expected. If a billion had been offered they'd want two. Pick a number out of the air and the other party wants double. It's called negotiation. Opening gambits are proffered and as a matter of principle, rejected. Think second-hand car dealing. It's barter. It's a game. But in this situation it's high stakes with national pride on the table, the slogan 'stay loyal' is already doing the rounds and for Team New Zealand this is a tough one where timing is everything.

On one side you have the Kiwi government who are easy pickings in a PR spin whirlwind if things don't go the right way but on the other side of the table, making all the right noises like a wolf in sheep's clothing as Challenger of Record, are the hardest negotiators in world commerce.

Magnus Wheatley's full editorial at Rule69Blog

Lawyers on deck
Any yacht race can only have one winner. So too an off-water collision between some of the sailing fraternity's highest profile members - and biggest egos - over eligibility rules for the Sydney to Hobart.

In this particular skirmish, millionaire yachtsman and retired investment banker Matt Allen emerged in front after securing two grovelling apologies from Cruising Yacht Club of Australia commodore Hugo van Kretschmar and Queensland yachtie Mark Hipgrave.

This was in the wake of a defamation spat which included a community appeal and an online Adolf Hitler meme. Spicy, indeed.

At issue: whether boats with just two crew members should be eligible for the great race.

The stoush broke out last year when the CYCA race organisers gave the green light to two-handed boats entering the offshore race for the first time in its 75-year history.

But then the CYCA backlipped after Allen, a former CYCA commodore and two-time race winner on Ichi Ban, and others pointed out the smaller boats carried an auto-helm system allowing them to be piloted by a computer.

Many two-handed skippers were furious.

The full spat...

ORC Fleet Tops 50 Boats for America's Oldest Regatta
The 167th edition of North America's oldest sailing competition, the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, has pulled in an historic fleet of 90-plus boats racing under ORC and PHRF.

The surge in ORC entries, which hit 50 last week, has been a pleasant surprise given that the rule, while popular abroad, has yet to gain a strong foothold in the United States. This is the first year the New York Yacht Club will utilize ORC for all of its top-level rating-rule competition.

The Annual Regatta was first sailed on the Hudson River on July 16 and 18, 1846. A similar competition the previous year was called a Trial of Speed. With a few exceptions for world wars and other global crises, the event has been held every year since. For the majority of its existence, the New York Yacht Club held its Annual Regatta on waters close to New York City. Since 1988, however, the event has been sailed out of the Harbour Court clubhouse in Newport, R.I., and has settled into the current three-day format, which includes a race around Conanicut Island on Friday and two days of buoy racing or navigator-course racing on Saturday and Sunday. The 167th Annual Regatta is sponsored by Hammetts Hotel and Helly Hansen.

Racing in the 167th edition of the Annual Regatta will start with the traditional lap of Conanicut Island on Friday, June 11. That race is scored separately from the weekend series, which features buoy or point-to-point racing for boats racing in one-design classes and under ORC, PHRF and classic-yacht rating formulas. -- Stuart Streuli

nyyc.org/167th-annual-regatta

Venice Hospitality Challenge
The Venice Hospitality Challenge 2021 was presented yesterday at the Torre Nuova of the Arsenal in the context of the Venice Boat Show. This eighth edition of the famous regatta, the one and only sailing competition that takes place in the heart of the city, is part of the celebrations for the 1600 years of the long and significant past of the Serenissima that has crossed the ages enriching itself with unparalleled history, art and traditions.

The regatta, reserved only for maxi yachts at the invitation of the Yacht Club Venezia, will take place on Saturday 16 October. An opportunity not to be missed for the public and fans who will be able to admire famous skippers fighting a few meters from the banks to compete for the coveted "Doge's Hat" which has become the symbol of the event. The last edition of the Venice Hospitality Challenge ended with the Overall and Class 1 victory of Portopiccolo Prosecco Doc - Hilton Molino Stucky, skipper Claudio Demartis and helmed by Stefano Cherin.

Arianna Nardi, Marketing Director of Generali Italia, commented: "Generali Italia has been supporting the Venice Hospitality Challenge for years and renews its commitment to a city to which it is linked by history but above all for its openness to sport, well-being and healthy lifestyle of people. A commitment that we carry out daily with our Agents, Life Partners in the relevant moments of our customers. "

The event, organized as always by the Yacht Club Venezia, avails itself of the support of Bisol 1452 to which is added the collaboration of Dolomia, Energia Pura, Alilaguna, CMV Panfido, Venezia Unica and VYP Venice Yacht Pier.

www.sail-world.com/news/238193/

www.venicehospitalitychallenge.it/eng/

Sir Stephen Tindall retires from Emirates Team New Zealand Board
Sir Stephen Tindall is retiring as Chairman and Director of the Board of Emirates Team New Zealand after a long and successful tenure as Director of the 4 x America's Cup winning team.

Sir Stephen is best known as a businessman, philanthropist and investor. He is the founder of the Warehouse Group which he started in 1982 and has also recently retired as Director of the Warehouse Board after almost 40 years. He has had a long association with Emirates Team New Zealand having backed the team for more than 20 years and as Chairman of the board since 2013.

He has been an integral leader of the team through a number of evolutions, but notably winning the America's Cup back for New Zealand after 14 years in 2017 at the 35th America's Cup in Bermuda, and successfully Defending the 36th America's Cup in Auckland earlier this year - on both occasions proudly displaying the New Zealand flag on the winning boats moments after crossing the finish lines.

www.emiratesteamnz.com

Eight Bells: Bruno Bich
Bruno Bich, 74, died on May 30, 2021. Son of Marcel Bich, founder of BIC, Bruno devoted́ his entire professional life to the company and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2006, and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2018.

Bruno attended New York University Business School, then worked at a stock brokerage and investment‐banking firm before joining BIC. He worked his way up through the organization and developed BIC's North American business before leading the Group in 1993. A well-respected global business leader, he epitomized the very essence of the values established by his father.

Alongside his father, the Bich family made a significant commitment to winning the America's Cup. Their 1970 challenge was the first from outside the English-speaking world, to which Bruno said, "The only man who knows how much it's costing is my father. And if he told how much it was, my mother would probably shoot him."

The Bichs pioneered the concept of multiple challenges which had their participation in 1970, 1974, 1977, and 1980. While never selected as Challenger, their effort altered and strengthened the America's Cup for all time.

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com

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The Last Word
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. -- John Greenleaf Whittier

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