In This Issue
• Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta
• Fairytale victory for Japan at Italy Sail Grand Prix
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Ocean Race Europe fleet leaves Cascais for Alicante
• Send It - The Ocean Race Europe gets under way
• Behind the Scenes with Team Bomby Robertson
• Zoulou Wins The Geneve-Rolle-Geneve
• Ian Southworth’s Team Hamble on Protis Retain The Quarter Ton Cup
• Missy and Highland Fling XVII Victorious at Loro Piana Regatta
• 2021 Topper Worlds Cancelled
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • Kinetic Catamarans - KC62
• The Last Word: Stephen Hawking

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Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta
The first half of the Hempel World Cup Series - Allianz Regatta has concluded with the awarding of gold, silver and bronze World Cup medals in the ILCA 6, ILCA7, Men's and Women's RS:X and the Nacra 17.

After five days of racing, Marie Barrue (FRA) and Lorenzo Chiavarini (GBR) took gold in the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7, Piotr Myszka (POL) and Marta Maggetti (ITA) won the Men's and Women's RS:X, and home nation favourites Laila van der Meer and Bjarne Bouwer took the Nacra 17 honours.

Regatta Center Medemblik will now reset as the venue welcomes the 49er and the 49erFX fleets. Racing is scheduled to start on Wednesday 9 June and run through to Sunday 13 June.

Full results

www.allianzregatta.org

Fairytale victory for Japan at Italy Sail Grand Prix
SailGP fans were out in full force - with sellout crowds on-shore and nearly one thousand registered boats lining the racecourse - to enjoy the second and final day of the Italy Sail Grand Prix in Taranto. Keeping spectators on edge, Nathan Outteridge's Japan SailGP Team reigned supreme with a massive win in the final podium race to secure a home victory for Italian sailor Francesco Bruni. Spain finished in second place in front of Jimmy Spithill's U.S team to move to the top of the SailGP Championship leaderboard following the opening two events of the season.

Overcoming disappointment in Bermuda, Outteridge drove his team straight into the weekend's podium race with bold ambition. After an intense battle with Phil Robertson's Spanish team and an on form U.S. team - the latter being forced to pull out of the final race with a broken rudder - Japan claimed the win at the first ever Italy Sail Grand Prix.

Sunday's two fleet races were won by New Zealand and Japan respectively - the debut race win for Season 2 newcomers New Zealand with Arnaud Psarofaghis in the driving seat for the first time, while Peter Burling and Blair Tuke embark on defending their Olympic title.

SailGP takes to the waters of Plymouth, U.K on July 17-18 as the third event on the global league's championship calendar. Fans can look forward to additional events in Aarhus, Denmark (August 20-21), Saint-Tropez, France (September 11-12), Cadiz, Spain (October 9-10) to finish off 2021. Racing returns in the new year starting in Christchurch, New Zealand (January 29-30), and the Grand Final in San Francisco, U.S. (March 2-27).

Italy Sail Grand Prix | Taranto
1. Japan
2. Spain
3. United States
4. New Zealand
5. Denmark
6. Great Britain
7. France
8. Australia

SailGP.com

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

A formidable influence
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No-brainer?
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Careful what you wish for
Volvo winner and two-time medallist Ian Walker is very enthusiastic about offshore racing being in the Olympics... or is he?

The great divide - Part II
Now the two sides - north and south - slowly begin to join forces. Clare Mccomb

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Ocean Race Europe fleet leaves Cascais for Alicante
The second leg of The Ocean Race Europe got underway today in Cascais, Portugal where the event's 12 professional yacht crews representing nine countries from around the world set off on a four-day offshore passage to Alicante, Spain.

Racing in two classes of high-performance ocean-going monohull yachts - seven one design VO65s and five of the development rule IMOCA 60s - The Ocean Race Europe fleet set off from Cascais at 1300 local time on the four-day, 700-nautical mile (nm) / 1,296-kilometre (km) second stage.

The Ocean Race Europe's 12 crews are made up of European sailors from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden, as well as internationals from Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States.

The course for leg two sees the fleet pass Portugal's coastal capital city Lisbon and then south on to Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern-most point in Portugal and Europe.

Here the boats will turn southeast towards the Strait of Gibraltar

Based on the latest weather models the teams are predicted to complete leg two in four days, and so are expected to arrive in Alicante on Thursday June 9.

Follow live on the race tracker at www.theoceanrace.com

Send It - The Ocean Race Europe gets under way
It's been a while since we saw VO65's at full bore and while we have seen the IMOCA60s recently in the Vendée Globe, no one was really expecting the opeing leg of the innaugural Ocean Race Europe that combines both fleets to be quite such a spectacle. From flat calm to flat out and then one of the closest finishes we've ever seen, the opening leg of the race around Europe took everyone by surprise. (And the weather outlook suggests that there's a great deal more in store.) Having left the start in France and sprinted down to to The Ocean Race HQ in Spain, Matt Sheahan reports from Alicante on the first of three legs. -- Matthew Sheahan

Behind the Scenes with Team Bomby Robertson
Shirley Robertson and Henry Bomby have launched a series of films taking viewers behind the scenes of their 2021 mixed double handed offshore campaign. Sailing in a new Jeanneau Sunfast 3300, the pair are competing in the six race UK Double Handed Offshore Series which concludes with the 696 nautical mile Rolex Fastnet Race.

Robertson and Bomby started sailing together last year in this ever popular class, originally with a view to challenging for a spot at Paris 2024, but with the Olympic status of the double handed discipline still lying unconfirmed, the duo have set their sights on a competitive showing at the legendary Rolex Fastnet Race in early August.

The pair have been filming behind the scenes since Robertson's return from her broadcast role at the 36th America's Cup in Auckland. Throughout the winter Bomby was working hard preparing the new Sunfast 3300, and since April they have been documenting their preparation, filming training and racing as the double handed season got underway. Based in Cowes Yacht Haven, on the Isle of Wight, Team Bomby Robertson decided to document their campaign this year to in some way help inspire those that may be missing out on an annual yachting adventure in the famous British sailing hotspot.

The series of films kicks off with two editions and is available to view on YouTube via Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast channel.

Episode 1:

Zoulou Wins The Geneve-Rolle-Geneve
The TF35 Mies fleet racing was paused today to allow the seven TF35s to join more than 250 other boats to participate in the iconic Geneve-Rolle-Geneve long-distance race; the prologue to the Bol'Or Mirabaud.

After 30 nautical miles of racing in a fickle southwesterly breeze that flitted between five and ten knots, where the lead changed on a number of occasions, Zoulou took the winners gun in less than 3 hours 30 minute, two minutes ahead of second-placed Alinghi.

Team SAILFEVER took the early lead, but a windhole off Corsier kept the fleet compressed as they hugged the shoreline. An early split saw Team SAILFEVER, Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier and Alinghi venture out into the mid-lake near Mies, only to be stopped in their tracks as the wind went soft. A shift favouring the trio inshore paid, allowing Zoulou, Spindrift and Realteam Sailing to extend away.

Spindrift did enough to hold on to third with Team SAILFEVER chasing hard to take fourth. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier crossed the line in fifth in front of halfway leaders Realteam Sailing, who ended the race in sixth with ZEN Too in seventh.

Tomorrow the fleet racing will resume for the TF35 Mies, with the first race start planned for 11.30CEST.

TF35 Results Geneve-Rolle-Geneve
1. Zoulou
2. Alinghi
3. Spindrift
4. Team SAILFEVER
5. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier
6. Realteam Sailing
7. Zen TOO

www.TF35.org

Ian Southworth’s Team Hamble on Protis Retain The Quarter Ton Cup
Photo by Paul Wyeth. Click on image for photo gallery.

From a nailbiting finale, a fitting conclusion to what felt like a long, hard three-day 12 race regatta that enjoyed winds from 5kts to 18kts Ian Southworth and Team Hamble successfully retained the Quarter Ton Cup on the Solent out of Cowes today.

The veteran crew of Protis held off a sustained, spirited challenge from Louise Morton and her all-girl crew on Bullet who finished runners-up as they also did in 2019 when the event was last contested.

In so doing the crew comprising Southworth, John Santy, Lincoln Redding, Mike Stannard and Led Pritchard fittingly marked the 40th anniversary of their boat's memorable triumph in the original Quarter Ton Cup in Marseille, France when co-skippered by French sailing legend Bruno Trouble.

In 1981 Protis' original title win in the heyday of the class was secured by Trouble and crew at the end of one of the most epic offshore races of the Quarter Tonners' long history, a 180 nautical miles passage along the coast to Saint Raphael which finished in a 55-60kts Mistral wind.

Both Protis and her nearest rival Cifraline - the only two boats left in the race of the 21 which started - spent the last night of the race sheltering at anchor before finishing back into Marseille the following afternoon.

Team Hamble had an altogether tamer trial today to secure the Quarter Ton Cup for their second successive time. Southworth was making his name winning GP14 and Enterprise dinghy titles 40 years ago when his boat was giving designer Jacques Fauroux a third consecutive Quarter Ton Cup title.

The Bullet Trophy for the boat achieving the most first places went to Protis which won four times, Peter Morton and crew also collecting the Roger Swinney Trophy for the first boat overall with a handicap TCF of 0.906. The Kemp Plate was awarded to Olivia Anne, the Walking Stick for the oldest bowman in the fleet went to Protis' Led Pritchard and the Concours d'Elegance award for the best turned out boat was awarded to Duncan Pearce's Pacifist. -- Andi Robertson

2021 Quarter Ton Cup, Royal Yacht Squadron
Results after 12 races, one discard

1. Protis, Team Hamble 34.5pts
2. Bullet, Louise Morton 43pts
3. Per Elisa, Niall Dowling 44pts
4. Blackfun, Kieran Hayward 47pts
5. Catch, Olivia Dowling 51.5pts

Full results at www.halsail.com/Result/Public/50080

Missy and Highland Fling XVII Victorious at Loro Piana Regatta
After three days of perfect breeze, the conclusive day of the 14th Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Loro Piana, was characterised by lighter airs that allowed the fleet to set off at 1.45 p.m., when the Principal Race Officer Peter Craig gave the start for the Multihull division, competing in this event for the first time ever.

With a breeze from the east between 8 to 10 knots, both the Multihull and Superyacht divisions were faced with a course of about 15 miles, which brought them to round the Monaci islet, leaving its distinctive lighthouse to port to enter the Golfo delle Saline and round the Secca di Tre Monti, before heading for the finish off Porto Cervo via the Bisce pass.

The fleet taking part in the Southern Wind Rendezvous, meanwhile, sailed to Cala di Volpe bay where they anchored for lunch before returning to Porto Cervo marina for the Prize Giving.

In the Superyacht division the 33-metre Missy, built by Vitters to a Malcolm Mckeon YD, clinched another bullet to conclude the event with a perfect record of four wins. Second place overall went to the Swan 115 Shamanna - fourth in today's race - and the final step on the podium went to the Wally Y3K, owned by Claus-Peter Offen and with Karol Jablonski calling tactics, after a second place finish today.

In the Multihull division the leader of the day and the overall winner was the Gunboat 68 Highland Fling, with tactician Cameron Appleton. Second place overall went to the HH66 R-Six, just one point ahead of Allegra in third, for whom a second in today's race was just not enough to climb up the overall standings.

The SW94 Aragon, racing in the Superyacht division, received the Southern Wind Trophy.

2021 Topper Worlds Cancelled
Following weeks of waiting for Covid 19 travel restrictions to be relaxed, extensive research of all options and agonising over the decision, the Royal Cork Yacht Club and ITCA World have jointly agreed that due to the ongoing uncertainty of when overseas travel restrictions on non-EU countries in Ireland may be lifted, they sadly have no option but to cancel the 2021 Topper World Championships in Cork.

The decision was taken with the safety of sailors and their families, club members and the wider local community at its heart. We also appreciate that sailors and their families need certainty now in order to make their bookings for the event, or to plan alternative activities. Additionally, the lack of clarity on when non-essential overseas travel would be allowed into Ireland and the need to commit significant sums now to prepare for the event that has so much uncertainty around it, has left the organisers with little choice but to cancel the event.

The event was to form part of the continued Tricentenary celebrations of the Royal Cork Yacht Club which mark it's founding in 1720, making it the oldest yacht club in the world. The club is committed to hosting a Topper World championship and have requested to bid for the International Topper 2023 World Championships.

ITCA World will now focus on its plans for the 2022 International Topper World Championship at Fraglia Della Vela Riva, Garda. -- John Heyes, Secretary General, ITCA World

itcaworld.org

royalcork.com

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