In This Issue
• Round the Island Race: Eeyore wins again
• What happened in the Round The Island race 2021
• There is another way - Harken Derm
• Alinghi victorious, Red Bull second despite dramatic capsize
• Aegean 600: A new international sailing race unfurls its sails
• Optimist World Championship
• Irish Skippers in the Tour De Bretagne A La Voile
• World ARC 2022 - Trimming sails in uncertain times
• Featured Brokerage:
• • TP52 - "Macchia Mediterranea"
• • MARY ISLAY John E Powell Motor Yacht
• • Pilot Classic 55
• The Last Word: Jeeves

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Round the Island Race: Eeyore wins again
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

The Island Sailing Club put on a spectacular 90th anniversary party for the 2021 Round the Island Race. The huge fleet of over 1200 boats showed how much people love taking part in this event. On the water there was everything from flat calm to 25 knot gusts, fog and sun, and as with every Round the Island Race, nothing compares to the sight of the fleet stretched out around the stunning Isle of Wight coast.

Local Cowes boat Eeyore, an Alacrity 18 Bilge Keel, secured back-to-back overall victories and retained the prestigious Gold Roman Bowl which she has held since the 2019 race.

Meanwhile, the Alan Buchanan designed Cherete won the Silver Gilt Roman Bowl, awarded to the first boat overall in the ISCRS divisions.

Peter Cunningham's multihull MOD70 PowerPlay was the first to finish the race with a time of 4hrs 11mins 01secs. A light start to the race prevented any chance of beating the race record, which was set by PowerPlay, as Concise 10, in 2017 (2hrs 22mins and 23 secs). PowerPlay finished this year's race ahead of the ULTIM Actual and the 32m trimaran IDEC. Tala, owned by David Collins, was the first monohull to finish the race, with a time of 6hrs 11mins 36secs.

The Island Sailing Club would like to thank their race partners for their support: Haven Knox-Johnston, Helly Hansen, Marlin Leisure Marine, Raymarine, Chelsea Magazines and Cowes Harbour Commission.

The race in 2022 will be on Saturday 25 June.

roundtheisland.org.uk

What happened in the Round The Island race 2021
The weather may not have delivered but make no mistake, for many of the 7,000 crews that headed out for the 90th anniversary of the Island Sailing Club's Round the Island Race this was a big day out. It's been two years since we've seen a fleet of this size and for many it was their first chance to race since the global pandemic to a hold.

In fact, this year's race around the Isle of Wight is believed to have been the biggest mass participation event in the UK since the first lockdown last year.

Whatever the reason for taking part, the forecast for overcast skies and light winds were not enough to put off 1,200 teams to take part in one of the biggest races in the world. -- Matthew Sheahan

Here's what happened.

There is another way - Harken Derm
Please read carefully and then share... because these few pages of Seahorse really could save your life

Dr Edit Olasz Harken, MD, PhD, is a practicing dermatologist with a research background and expertise in the field of skin cancer prevention. She talks to Jimmy Spithill after the America's Cup in Auckland, about another difficult fight in his life... against the deadly rays of the sun.

Q: As a redhead, growing up on the water in Australia in the days when the ozone layer was pretty thin above you, was it really like having to fight the sun with a knife while the other kids with darker skin had the guns?

JS: I noticed I had to protect myself when I would blister, and a lot of my mates hardly had to wear any protection at all. One of my best mates at school was of Tongan heritage, and he used to take delight in my wiping all this sun cream all over my red face any time I had to venture out during the summer!

Q: How did you protect yourself when going to school on a boat every day? Did you use sunscreen or just protective clothing? Did you have any idea what sunscreen to use?

Sun protection is crucial for sailors, especially those with fair skin. You could wear a full-face balaclava to avoid skin damage from UV rays... or simply slap on a barrier coat of Harken Derm. Unlike other sunscreens, this one is optimised for sailing
JS: Typically protective clothing and a hat. I remember we had a great rule at primary school that during lunch it was: "No hat, no play", meaning you couldn't go out into the school yard or field, unless you brought a hat. A lot of the time we would use sun cream endorsed by the "Cancer Council" in Australia.

Full article in the July issue of Seahorse

Alinghi victorious, Red Bull second despite dramatic capsize
Alinghi has won the GC32 Lagos Cup 1 after a dominant final day in strong breeze and dramatic conditions. With the wind gusting close to 25 knots and sometimes arriving with little warning, Red Bull Sailing Team was caught out and nosedived alarmingly, resulting in a capsize.

End of Race 16 for Roman Hagara and the Austrian crew. But could they get the boat upright and ready for the final two heats? Yes, they could, and not only that but scored a 3rd and 2nd in the last two races of Lagos, enough for Austria to hold on to second place overall by just three points from Team Rockwool Racing from Denmark.

The breeze has been very shifty in Lagos over the past four days and the sailors have loved the unpredictability of the race course and the opportunities it creates. The first race of the day took place in light winds and while Alinghi started as she meant to go on, with a race win, it was the only owner-driver at this event, Erik Maris, who steered Zoulou to second place. Maris is looking forward to being joined by more owner-drivers at other events this season, but against such professional opposition he acquitted himself well.

Team Rockwool Racing started slowly with a fifth but as the breeze built the Danes got stronger, finishing off the day with a 2nd and 3rd place. Tantalisingly close to beating Red Bull, but still making the podium at Nicolai Sehested's first attempt, and edging out Black Star Sailing Team from Switzerland by a single point.

Final results
1. Alinghi, 33
2. Red Bull Sailing Team, 58
3. Team Rockwool Racing, 61
4. Black Star Sailing Team, 62
5. Zoulou, 74
6. Swiss Foiling Academy, 91

gc32racingtour.com

Aegean 600: A new international sailing race unfurls its sails
Lavrio, Greece: At Cape Sounion under the gaze of the temple of Poseidon, Greek god of the Sea, the fleet of the first edition of the Aegean 600 set off today for the start of their 605-mile odyssey throughout the Aegean archipelago. Thirty-eight monohull and multihull teams started in a gentle 7-9 knot south easterly breeze with a small upwind lap to round a buoy set just off the spectacular 100-meter sea cliffs at the Cape.

From here the fleet heads south towards their first island rounding mark at the southwest corner of Milos, about 60 miles away. The weather forecast predicts light headwinds throughout the night until resuming about midday tomorrow from the south, but unlikely to exceed 10 knots in strength. By then the faster boats may be starting the next leg on a faster spinnaker reach headed ESE towards a rounding mark placed within the spectacular caldera of Santorini.

Progress of the entries, predicted wind strength and direction, and standing in ORC and IRC scoring can be tracked using the YB tracker website at http://yb.tl/aegean6002021, or on their companion YB app.

Swedish skipper Peter Gustafson and his team are racing on his 36-foot J/111 Blur, one of numerous international teams who have come to compete in this first edition of the AEGEAN 600. They are a proven team, having won their class and a 4th overall result in ORC scoring in the 2019 Rolex Middle Sea Race, a similar 600-mile race that starts and finishes in Malta.

"We were attracted to this race because of its interesting race course around islands and the warm weather," Gustafson said yesterday.

"We have run numerous optimization models," said Gustafson, "to help us determine an ideal set up for this race." Besides choices of sails, whose limits in inventory were relaxed for this race, they also determined a crew of 9 was ideal, both for placing weight on the rail for windy windward and reaching legs, but also to have a rotation of fresh and rested crew members who can perform at the top of their game throughout what could be a challenging race ahead.

The effort seems to be paying off because in the early hours of the race even with light air upwind conditions, the Blur team is among the leaders in ORC Division 2.

www.aegean600.com

Optimist World Championship
Riva del Garda, 4 July 2021 - A single regatta completed today in the third and final day of the qualification series valid for the Optimist World Championship, an event underway in Riva del Garda that on July 9th will crown the new World Champion of the most successful Class among young sailors.

The arrival of a storm allowed to complete one race today, however enough to close the qualifying phases and to take over the discard of the worst result, once again upsetting the balances of the ranking: in the standings, the only one constant responds to the name of the leader, Weka Bhanubanhd, a Thai athlete who gains access to the Gold Fleet in first position, with a scoreline of 5-1-1-1-2. Second place for the Brazilian Alex Di Francesco Kuhl, four points behind the leader; to enter the Gold fleet in third position is the Italian Alex Demurtas, who with the discard recovers important points and positions, qualifying for the finals also as first among the Italians. The American Gil Hackel and the Irish Rocco Wright complete the top five.

The girls' ranking is led by Ewa Lwandowska from Poland, followed by Italian Lisa Vucetti and Ukraine Alina Shapovaolva.

Now that qualifications have been completed, athletes will be engaged in two spectacular and exciting days of Team World Championship: the team race will start tomorrow morning and over forty national teams have already confirmed their participation.

Full results

Irish Skippers in the Tour De Bretagne A La Voile
The 13th Edition of Tour De Bretagne a La Voile kicked off yesterday (2nd July) with the Prologue race, which saw the 32 teams in a challenging battle with light winds around the Bay of Saint-Malo. For the first time in the races' history three Irish Skippers were on the start line with RL Sailing Team becoming the first fully Irish team to compete in the famous race. The Irish newcomers, sponsored for the race by Hanley Energy, also finished in a commendable 7th overall after a close race in technical conditions.

Today, the scenic views of the Historical Corsair City of Saint-Malo, located on the Emerald Coast today, certainly set the tone for the rest of what promising to be a race filled with tough competition and the breath-taking scenery of the Brittany coast and its ancient ports.

Today, a change of atmosphere, as the 64 competitors enter the arena or, more precisely, the Bay of St Brieuc, with a first leg of 33 miles to Saint-Quay Portrieux.

The double-handed race is filled with technical and tactical courses vary from 24 miles to 350 miles along the French Coast. Many of the skippers will have raced and experienced these waters before as part of the Figaro circuit, but for newcomers such as Irish 'Bizuth' Pamela Lee of RL Sailing Team, this will be a new, complex and tactical navigational challenge to take on.

The now traditional Tour de Bretagne A La Voile is a key event in the Figaro circuit, and is a part of the French elite ocean racing championship. The race has an amateur and a pro ranking, and like the rest of the Figaro circuit sees highly experienced ocean racing champions on the same race course as ambitious new-comers, as well as every level in between. Ireland has had three skippers partake in the race to date, Damian Foxall in 1997 and 1999, Joan Mulloy became Ireland's first female entrant in 2017 and Tom Dolan raced in 2019.

Schedule this week:

Monday July 05 :
15h00 - Start of the race Saint-Quay-Portrieux-> Douarnenez
(arrival in Douarnenez on 7/07 in the morning)

Thursday 08 July :
08h00 - Start of the race Douarnenez -> Concarneau

Friday July 09 :
11h00 - Start of the race Concarneau-> Concarneau Grand Prix " Guy Cotten

Saturday 10th July :
10h00 - Start of the race Concarneau -> Quiberon

Sunday July 11 :
10h00 - Start of the race Quiberon-> Quiberon
8:00 p.m. Prize-giving ceremony for the Tour de Bretagne à la Voile 2021

afloat.ie

tourdebretagnealavoile.com/fra/

World ARC 2022 - Trimming sails in uncertain times
World Cruising Club has announced on June 29 that the 2022 edition of the World ARC round-the-world sailing rally, scheduled to start from Saint Lucia in January 2022 has been cancelled. The next planned start will now be in January 2023.

Whilst there has been optimism during 2021 that the global pandemic may be receding, World ARC is a complex international event which takes the organisers, host ports and tourism authorities' months of planning to deliver successfully, and detailed consideration has been given to the feasibility of a start in January 2022. However, on-going uncertainty about COVID infection levels, the emergence of variants, vaccination take-up, international travel and quarantine restrictions that are set to continue, even for vaccinated travellers for countries on the World ARC route unfortunately make an organised circumnavigation on a planned schedule hard to achieve. Nor would the rally provide the incredible experience normally delivered for the World ARC participants.

Responsible sailors would rightly be hesitant to leave port with an extended unfavourable forecast, and as it stands there is no clear pathway on exactly how the borders will be opened to whom, under what conditions and over what time frame. World Cruising Club committed to providing a decision on the feasibility of the rally by the end of June to provide participants with time to position boats, arrange crew, and organise their personal and domestic lives.

With a core of participants mindful of the likely continuing restrictions, World Cruising Club will be actively considering an option for intrepid sailors still keen to reach Pacific to transit the Panama Canal later in 2022.

The decision and announcement regarding World ARC in no way affects the planned departures of the transatlantic rallies ARC+, ARC and ARC January which are confirmed to depart Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as planned.

www.worldcruising.com

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