EuroSail News #4878

In This Issue
• Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race: Ino XXX wins the King Edward VII Cup
• Fastnet Line Honours
• Sevenstar Racing Yacht Logistics is recruiting!
• A Mission To Be Fulfilled In The Aegean Sea
• Valerian Lebrun leads OK Dinghy International Regatta on Garda
• Team BombyRobertson - Double Handed Offshore 2021 - Ep 3
• Fine Margins
• Dee Caffari's Round The Island Race
• 25th entry in the GSC
• Featured Charter: CNB 77 Sailing Yacht 'Swallows and Amazons'
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Vismara V78
• • Aeolos P30
• • Gunboat 68
• The Last Word: Sally Ride

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Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race: Ino XXX wins the King Edward VII Cup
120 boats competed in the 2021 Cowes Dinard St Malo Race. The historic race which dates back to 1906, was won overall by RORC Commodore James Neville's HH42 Ino XXX. Ed Bell's JPK 1180 Dawn Treader was second and Ed Fishwick's GP42 Redshift was third. In the modern era, James Neville is the first RORC Commodore in office to win the King Edward VII Cup.

Line Honours for the MOCRA Class was taken by Francis Joyon's IDEC. Line Honours for monohulls ,and winner of IRC Zero, was Eric de Turckheim's NMYD54 Teasing Machine. Congratulations to all the class winners: Nicolas Jossier's Class40 La Manche #EvidenceNautique, Ed Bell's JPK 1180 Dawn Treader, Louis-Marie Dussere's JPK 1080 Raging-Bee², and Elizabeth Wallis' Albin Express, Expressly Forbidden.

Francis Joyon's IDEC and Yves Le Blevec's Ultim Actual, sailed by Ronan Dehayes, had an extraordinary dial up for the start of the race. The two giant trimarans circled each other match racing for position. Actual seemed to win the start, racing to windward of IDEC in a controlling position. IDEC was just ahead of Actual at The Needles and eventually pulled away. A westerly breeze kicked in as IDEC rounded the Casquets, ramping up the trimaran to over 20 knots of boat speed. IDEC took Multihull Line Honours and the win in the MOCRA Class. Andrew Fennell's Morpheus was the third to finish and second in the MOCRA Class. James Holder's Dazcat 1295 Slinky Malinki completed the MOCRA podium.

31 teams started the race in IRC Two Handed Elizabeth Wallis racing her Albin Express Expressly Forbidden with Bryn Phillips, revelled in the light upwind conditions to win by approximately seven minutes after IRC time correction from Mike Yates' J/109 JAGO. Tim Goodhew & Kelvin Matthews, racing Sun Fast 3200 Cora was third. Elizabeth Wallis and Bryn Phillips are both under thirty and taking part in their first RORC race of the season. Expressly Forbidden, with an overall length of 25ft was the smallest boat in the race.

Full results

www.rorc.org

Fastnet Line Honours
A major clash of the titans will take place between two of the world's fastest maxi-monohulls at August's Rolex Fastnet Race. While the most sought-after victory is, of course, the overall win under IRC, for the monohull that is first home into Cherbourg there is also plenty at stake. The kudos and personal satisfaction that come with winning on the water are as significant as the more tangible rewards: the Erroll Bruce Cup and, since the Swiss watchmaker partnered the race some twenty years ago, a Rolex chronometer.

Part of this kudos is that alongside the race's overall winner, the monohull line honours winner is also remembered in the history books. These date back to the first Ocean Race (as it was originally called) in 1925, won by the Le Havre pilot cutter Jolie Brise campaigned by the future first Commodore of the Ocean Racing Club (as it was known until 1931), Commander EG Martin.

Since then some of the world's largest and most magnificent racing yachts have claimed line honours.

Isaac Bell's Camper & Nicholson 63 footer Bloodhound was first home in both 1937 and in 1953 (before being bought by Prince Philip). The 1960s to the end of the 1980s was the era of the mighty IOR maxis such as Edmond de Rothschild's Gitana IV (1965), Ted Turner's American Eagle (1971), Marvin Green's Nirvana (1985) while, spectacularly, Bob Bell's Condor won line honours in three consecutive races over 1979-1983.This period appropriately was rounded off by the late Sir Peter Blake's ketch Steinlager 2 (1989) arriving home first immediately prior to her exceptional Whitbread Round the World Race victory.

One of the most famous line honours winners will be back on the start line this year in the 74ft Stormvogel. She will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of when her original Dutch owner, Cornelius Bruynzeel claimed Fastnet Race line honours in 1961. (Read more about her here).

The new ClubSwan 125 Skorpios will be the largest monohull ever to have entered the Rolex Fastnet Race

Sevenstar Racing Yacht Logistics is recruiting!
The largest global provider of yacht shipping services is actively seeking a Sales and Operations Coordinator for their Racing Yacht division to join their team preferably in Amsterdam but other locations may be considered. This is a unique opportunity for candidates with freight forwarding & logistics experience along with commercial awareness.

The Role:

As Racing Yacht Coordinator you will be responsible for the complete, start to finish, shipping activities & shipments for highly valued customers - racing teams. Working as part of a small, tight-knit team in a busy and varied role. This is an opportunity to work in a unique sector of the shipping industry and further your career down a specialist path. You will be liaising with loadmasters and port authorities, handling all shipping documentation such as bills of lading (BOLs) and you will be responsible for the completion of all customs requirements.

Along with your operational duties, you will display commercial awareness and given the nature of the industry, your ability to problem solve in a timely manner. This will mean working independently, taking full responsibility for and ownership of tasks.

Essential Criteria:

- Knowledge of the racing yacht world, captains, crew and owners
- Freight forwarding experience is a prerequisite
- Marine industry knowledge
- Work under pressure in a 24/7 environment
- Excellent customer service / communication skills

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A Mission To Be Fulfilled In The Aegean Sea
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Together with our Greek partner we had planned to participate in the new exciting nonstop Aegean 600 offshore race where some of the hottest race boats participated. 600 NM around the Greek islands starting south of Athens.

We had chosen to sail a top race equipped Xp 44 with all the necessary sails. Everything was ready – 7 Danish, 3 Greek and one Norwegian navigators were all on their marks for the big race after many hours of preparation.

3 days before the start, the crew who had rented the boat the week before the start, sailed into a rock at 8.5 knots. With a keel damage we could not manage to get the boat ready for start. The most positive thing was that the boat was safe to sail back to the harbor even though it did not have a steel frame, but a carbon fibre frame. Our designers can only be proud of that.

However, our project was having a hard time! We did not have another Xp 44 available, but "only" a standard X46 charter boat.

It turned out, however, that the sails from the Xp 44 could fit to the mast, even if they were a little too small, especially our genoa could be a problem, but with alternative sheeting points etc. we could succeed with it.

Our ambitions had to be moderated somewhat, but we made the decision, to fulfil the mission and started the race on board an X46.

We won the start at the pin end but it was an exciting start with almost no wind to shifty winds, but after a few days it got more windy up to 35 knots and challenging 3 meters waves. This was something the X46 liked, so we ended up with extremely good results after a roaring finish, where we logged up to 15 knots. Despite our modest ambitions, we came in first in our IRC class and 3 overall out of all participating boats. Only beaten by a TP52 and Farr 70. Ib Kunøe was at the helm when we crossed the finish line after 3 days and 23 hours. 77 years old Ib was one of 4 helmsmen on the boat.

A wonderful race with high spirits and water in the hair. There was "some" appreciation of our result from the carbon racer crews, when we arrived at the pier.

Ib Kunøe – lost 3 kg, since cooking was difficult due to rough conditions the last 2 days. He has announced he will not be gaining the weight again.

Really proud to see the team growing over the days at sea, since we had not sailed together before.-- Ib Kunøe and Kræn Brinck Nielsen

www.x-yachts.com

Valerian Lebrun leads OK Dinghy International Regatta on Garda
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The OK Dinghy fleet has returned to Lake Garda, in Italy, for the first time in living memory for an international regatta, a replacement for the 2021 World Championship, cancelled some five weeks ago. After a first day in atypical Garda conditions, Valerian Lebrun, from France, leads from Denmark's Bo Petersen and Soenke Behrens, from Germany, after they each won a race.

Lebrun, who placed second at the 2019 European Championship, had the best day with a 2,1,2, but double European Champion, Petersen is just one point behind with a 3,2,1. Behrens took a fifth in the final race to sit in third overnight.

With the forecast for a big change overnight, bringing rain and storms, an earlier start time has been set for 0800 on Tuesday.

Racing continues until Thursday.

Results after Day 1
1. Valerian Lebrun, FRA, 5 points
2. Bo Petersen Man DEN, 6
3. Soenke Behrens, GER, 10
4. Pawel Pawlaczyk, POL, 17
5. Greg Wilcox, NZL, 17
6. Mogens Johansen, DEN, 24
7. Andreas Pich, GER, 26
8. Yann Vilein, FRA, 26
9. Michael Nissen, GER, 30
10. Dirk Dame, GER, 31

Full results

Team BombyRobertson - Double Handed Offshore 2021 - Ep 3
The Double Handed Offshore Season continues, as Henry Bomby and Shirley Robertson continue their build up to the legendary offshore Fastnet Race.

IN this edition, Henry and Shirley deep dive into the IRC rating rules as they measure the boat and try to maximise their rating amongst the double handed offshore fleet.

They then take on the 230 nautical mile Myth of Malham race, an offshore race from their home port of Cowes, around the Eddystone Lighthouse and back.

Fine Margins
This past weekend of global sport was something else. Novak Djokovic careering towards the calendar slam with his sixth Wimbledon title. Mark Cavendish equalling the greatest bike rider of all time, Eddie Merckx, notching up his thirty-fourth Tour de France stage win. And Italy out-foxing a youthful England football team with a masterclass display of adaptability borne from long experience. Valuable lessons were learned at Wembley but what ties the successes and underlines the victories at Wimbledon, the Tour de France and the European Championships is that experience matters when it really matters.

In sailing's pinnacle we see it time and again. There's almost a moment when it's your time to win. The stars align fusing design with an unbelievable team performing on auto-pilot almost. In recent times you look back at Australia II in 1983, Stars & Stripes in 1987, Black Magic in 1995, Alinghi in 2003, Oracle in 2013 and Team New Zealand in 2021. All outstanding teams that when you look back with hindsight, you realise that their win was just obvious. It was written in the stars and all the clues were hidden right there in plain sight.

Looking back at the last edition from a British perspective, it was a filler regatta. From utter embarrassment in the Christmas Regatta, the team got it together as a weather window played into Britannia's strengths but by the final of the real-thing, the design was proven agricultural and brutally exposed. The detailing was poor. The sailors had gold medals aplenty but one hand tied behind their back and miracles rarely happen.

However from that utterly deflating experience, lessons as valuable as a Wembley penalty shoot-out were learned and the bitter taste of defeat will make for a better Challenge, and in my eyes a winning Challenge, next time.

Magnus Wheatley's full editorial in Rule69Blog

Dee Caffari's Round The Island Race
Continuing the story of their doublehanded racing season, Dee Caffari and James Harayda report on their race around the Isle of Wight

25th entry in the GSC
Colin Bastable from Cedar Park, Texas, USA, bought his boat after his father died and renamed her to Frank in his memory. He had bought the his Sadler 35 in the UK and then sailed all the way to his home in Texas.

My Father, Frank, was in the Royal Navy, so I grew up and lived by the sea. As children my siblings and I would go the the Navy Base in Singapore and take our Piccolos (basically a flat wood raft with a sail) and sail around the ships at anchor in the Straits.

When I had a young family we did the Sunsail bareboat thing in Greece and Turkey, and a started thinking about sailing around the world.

When my Father died, I bought my boat, renamed it after him and sailed her from England to my home in Texas.

I feel quite at home in a small sailboat in a vast sea.

What lessons have you learnt from sailing?
There are many better sailors than me, and often they let me know it, or it is readily apparent to all. Surprisingly few, however, are willing, to go it alone, despite having the abilities. It's the same in business: I do startups in IT. It seems easier and safer to be employed, but in truth we are all sailing our own boat. Trust the boat. Sat in the cockpit with the seas towering above you, you are more likely to let the boat down than she you. Halyards yearn to be free – seizing wire is your friend.

The engine is auxiliary, not primary. When I lost my engine west of Grand Cayman, I just kept going and despite some intense surfing through the Yucatan Straight, it was stressless. I did have solar panels, mind you.

Mostly, I learned about myself: I can do it. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. One can be lonely in company and quite content alone.

That last tin of peaches is a feast.

globalsolochallenge.com/colin-bastable-news/

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