In This Issue
• Whacky races make for a day of special FX
• Perfect start for Alican Kaynar as Finns begin racing
• Harken Battcars
• Tornado European Championship
• On top of his brief - Sea Ventures
• Cork Harbour on the America's Cup shortlist
• America's Cup hosting process attracted 35 enquiries
• La Solitaire du Figaro
• Copa del Rey MAPFRE
• Featured Charter: First 40
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Italia Yachts 9.98 Fuoriserie
• • MAT 1180 - "Datacom"
• • Dazcat 1495
• The Last Word: Jean-Claude Killy

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Whacky races make for a day of special FX
Competition as the women in the 49erFX Skiff put on a display of high speed boat handling and fast-thinking tactics.

The wind was gusting and shifting wildly for the courses close to shore, although the breeze dropped later in the day for the start of Men's Skiff - 49er competition. Some pre-event favourites have made good comebacks in the Laser and Radial events, while two opening races in the Finn have gone extremely well for Turkey.

The 49erFX opened with a dramatic race that fully showcased just how challenging and unpredictable these skiffs can be. Early on it was the gold and silver medallist teams from Rio 2016 who took the lead.

Rio silver medallists Alex Maloney and Molly Meech (NZL) led around the first mark. The reigning Olympic Champions from Brazil, Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze also had a go in the lead, but they couldn't keep the British behind them.

After a slow start, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey (GBR) put the hammer down, moved into the lead and were unstoppable. Behind them all kinds of unforced errors were striking other teams. The Kiwis capsized, the Brazilians were lying in second down the final run to the finish but their gennaker sheet got jammed and they couldn't clear the problem, watching almost the whole fleet sail past as they finished in 15th.

Men's Skiff - 49er

The breeze had dropped a lot since the 49erFX fireworks earlier on the Enoshima course. The first race eventually got away after 16:00 JST in a 10-12 knot breeze which kept the teams on their toes throughout. Eventually a pattern emerged and it was Ireland's Rob Dickson and Sean Waddilove that came to the fore, hounded by Dylan Fletcher & Stu Bithell (GBR).

The young Irish crew misjudged the finish line opening the door for Great Britain to steal the win, but in a photo finish it was the Irish who took the gun. -- Andy Rice - World Sailing

Top three by class

49er Men after 1 race
1. Robert Dickson / Sean Waddilove, Ireland, 1
2. Dylan Fletcher-Scott / Stuart Bithell, Great Britain, 2
3. Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel, Germany, 3

49erFX women after 3 races
1. Charlotte Dobson / Saskia Tidey, Great Britain, 8
2. Stephanie Roble / Margaret Shea, USA, 19
3. Martine Soffiatti Grael / Kahena Kunze, Brazil, 21

Finn Men after 2 races
1. Alican Kaynar, Turkey, 2
2. Zsombor Berecz, 4
3. Joan Cardona Mendez, 6

Laser Men after 6 races, 1 discard
1. Pavlos Kontides, Cyprus, 18
2. Matthew Wearn, Australia, 27
3. Robert Scheidt, Brazil, 33

Laser Radial Women after 6 races, 1 discard
1. Anne-Marie Rindom, Denmark, 22
2. Josefin Olsson, Sweden, 34
3. Marit Bouwmeester, Netherlands, 35

RS:X Men after 6 races, 1 discard
1. Mattia Camboni, Italy, 14
2. Mateo Sanz Lanz, Switzerland, 18
3. Kiran Badloe, Netherlands, 19

RS:X Women after 6 races, 1 discard
1. Charline Picon, France, 14
2. Emma Wilson, Great Britain, 14
3. Yunxiu Lu, China, 16

tokyo2020.sailing.org/results-centre/

tokyo2020.sailing.org

Perfect start for Alican Kaynar as Finns begin racing at Tokyo 2020
Turkey's Alican Kaynar made a perfect start to his third Olympic Games with two bullets on one of the most difficult course areas in Enoshima. Hungary's Zsombor Berecz picked up two second places while Spain's Joan Cardona ended with two third places, after leading the final race all the way until the final downwind. With two very different races, it was a difficult start to what will be a long regatta.

A change in the air was forecast for Tuesday and with overnight rain and a rapidly closing in, but downgraded typhoon, it was not going to be the easiest of days on the water. Heavy clouds, with intermittent sunshine, provided the ever-present threat of rain, while an early moderate to strong offshore gradient wind that gradually died off produced shifty and puffy racing conditions kept everything open until the finish line.

For the Finn class, tucked up under the land on the Kamakura course area, it was a difficult day of two distinct halves. The first race was sailed with the top mark under the cliff and was a real case of snakes and ladders on speed. Then after more than two hours waiting, the wind spun through 180 to set up a great second race in a solid onshore breeze.

On Wednesday the Finns move to the further offshore Zushi course, with two more races starting from 12.00 local time. -- Robert Deaves

finnclass.org

Turboing Your Boat Is Exciting. Battcars Are Built for When You'd Like to Strategically, Immediately 'UnTurbo.'
Walking the docks at this summer's classic offshore events, we've noticed a lot of boats have come out of the sheds 'All Turbo'd Up.' It's impressive. And it started us thinking. For years Harken Battcar systems have been so low-friction, sailors reef without incident - for instance, blast reaching in a roll cloud squall. Think about doing that with the new monster fat-top main you added during the pandemic and being able to stay on the rum line with most everyone still on the rail rather than having to run off to reef.

Of course Battcars add a safety factor that can be critical. But reefing with Battcars is so smooth and manageable, they open the option to hold onto more sail area longer, knowing you can get it out of there before anything hits the fan. These days, our available Slug Track makes retrofitting your grooved spar with a Battcar system a realistic DIY project. Around Harken, we say there's no single rig change you can add that adds so much safety. This off-season, think of doing a strategic 'Unturbo' project.

harken.com

Michaela Pavlisova & Marek Pavlis: Tornado European Champions
The 2021 Tornado European Championship, hosted by the Füssen Forggensee Sailing Club for the first time in the club's 65-year history, came to an end on the 25th of July. A total of 17 teams from 6 nations competed at this first major after-COVID breakout event.

The championship began with very weak wind conditions, around 6 knots, plus lots of driftwood from the river Lech. Only on the last day did a constant north wind with 9 knots finally appear, so that two races could be sailed again. After a total of 5 races out of the 8 planned, the Tornado European Champions 2021 were decided.

The Czech team Pavlisova/Pavlis was the youngest and also a mixed team, they secured the European Championship titles in all three categories (Open, Mixed, and Youth). The lightest team by far, 21-year-old Michaela Pavlisova together with her 14-year-old brother Marek, both from the yacht club Kovarov, mastered the difficult light wind conditions on Lake Forggensee in the best possible way. With three first places and a third place in the fifth race, nothing stood in the way of their overall victory with six points. The Greek ex-European champions from the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki, Nikolaos Mavros and Periklis Aidinidis succeeded in gaining 2nd place, after winning a redress request.

With a gap of only 0.75 points, 3-time Mixed Tornado World Champion Estela Jentsch from Segelclub Füssen Forggensee with the crew Stefanos Pappas, Nautical Club Thessaloniki, just missed the second place and finished 3rd.

The next big international regatta of the Tornado class, which is also the highlight of the season, is the World Championship hosted by the Nautical Club Thessaloniki, Greece, from 26 September to 3rd October.

Overall results
Mixed results
Youth results

tornado-class.org

On top of his brief - Sea Ventures
Give a shorthanded specialist an exceptional range of new shorthanded oriented designs to promote... no wonder it's going so well

Hamble based Sea Ventures' day to day operations sees the company continue to be the most active of the Jeanneau distributors, but several of their staff have a passion for a style of sailing that has not only delivered more sales but has brought business and pleasure even closer together.

Among the band of UK amateur solo sailors, Sea Ventures' managing director Nigel Colley has been both competitor and one of the key players behind the growth of the Solo Ocean Racing Club (SORC). So, when Jeanneau started producing a number of models in the Sun Fast range that were designed specifically for shorthanded sailing, Colley knew exactly where their target market lay.

Full article in the August issue of Seahorse

Cork Harbour on the America's Cup shortlist
It is expected that Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney will, this morning, tell Cabinet that Ireland has been shortlisted as a potential location to hold the America's Cup in 2024.

RTE reports that Cork Harbour has been scouted as the location by a team of specialists for a team village, wind speeds and a racing circuit.

The event took place in New Zealand on the past three occasions, but is expected to be held elsewhere in 2024.

Hosting this event is believed to have been worth between €350 million and almost €600 million to New Zealand's economy.

www.echolive.ie

America's Cup hosting process attracted 35 enquiries
The bidding process to host the next America's Cup attracted 35 expressions of interest from around the world.

The number was revealed as Ireland's Minister of Foreign Affairs updated his cabinet on the Irish bid to hold the 37th edition of the America's Cup in Cork in 2024.

Simon Coveney fronted his colleagues on Wednesday (NZT) and appeared confident about Ireland's chances.

The possibility of Team New Zealand defending the Cup offshore has increased after a $99m bid by the New Zealand government and Auckland City was turned down because it didn't stack up financially.

Coveney confirmed to his cabinet that Ireland had been shortlisted to host the event.

"There were initially 34 other countries expressing an interest. It was then reduced to 12 or 14 and then reduced to a much smaller number," Coveney explained after the cabinet meeting in a report carried by RTE and the Irish Times.

He said that Ireland can "host a fantastic 37th America's Cup, if we're given the opportunity to do it. And I think we're right in there with a chance to win". -- Duncan Johnstone

www.stuff.co.nz

34 Skippers Attacking The 52nd Edition of La Solitaire du Figaro
The 52nd edition, which will start from Saint-Nazaire on August 22, promises to be quite a spectacle. Throughout the 2,400 miles to go, the 34 registered skippers will give everything to shine. Among them, 12 rookies will try the adventure for the first time

With 12 rookies, this 52 th edition of the story again demonstrates the power of attraction of the Solitaire du Figaro. Five former stage winners will be present - Fabien Delahaye, eric Peron, Alexis Loison, Gildas Mahe and Xavier Macaire. There are no former winners of the race.

Alongside them, 12 rookies - the most successful of whom will win the Eric Ingouf trophy, which rewards the winner of the Beneteau rookie rankings - are expected on the starting line. This number remains to be confirmed after the Solo Concarneau.

On the skippers' program: four particularly demanding stages, stopovers in Saint-Nazaire, Lorient, Fecamp, Baie de Morlaix and prestigious crossing points in La Coruna (stage 1), Isle of Wight and Saint Gowen (stage 3 ) as well as the Isles of Scilly and the Fastnet lighthouse (stage 4).

www.lasolitaire.com/en/

Teams representing 14 nationalities will compete in the BMW ORC Classes at the 39 Copa del Rey MAPFRE
Up to 45 boats from 14 countries will compete in the three BMW ORC classes at the 39 Copa del Rey MAPFRE. There will several 2019 champions who will return to defend their titles against a varied fleet which will include some of the most competitive teams in handicap allowance sailing.

From the start in 1982 through until the first inclusion of the TP52s in 2005, the Copa del Rey MAPFRE was largely a handicap fleets event. Now in the 39th edition, the fleet is divided between five One-Design classes that race first past the post in real time, and four classes that continue the tradition as a handicap centred regatta. And once more the organizers of the prestigious Mediterranean summer regatta will fully utilise both international ORC and IRC systems. BMW lend their name to the ORC classes in the Copa del Rey MAPFRE as indeed they have since 2014.

The ORC fleet will be divided into three classes this year: BMW ORC 1, BMW ORC 2 and BMW ORC 3. It is a varied mix of boats from just 10 m to almost 16 m long which includes 45 boats from 14 nations. Teams from Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Spain, France, Holland, England, Italy, Luxembourg, Peru, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and Uruguay will compete under the ORC rule on the Bay of Palma.

A maximum of 11 W/L races between Monday, August 2, and Saturday, August 7 are scheduled for the three BMW ORC classes.

www.regatacopadelrey.com

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