In This Issue
• Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
• Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Wee
• Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
• Persico 69F Cup
• All Ireland Sailing Championship
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• IC37 North American Championship
• Bruno Dubois: "We Need To Be Able To Show An Other Face"
• Inside Tack | INEOS Britannia Reveal
• Dante's Inferno
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Knierim FC53 - NICA
• • CF 520 IRC Racing Yacht
• • BoatThree
• The Last Word: Oscar Zeta Acosta

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An awe-inspiring first week at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

As Georges Korhel, Principal Race Officer for Les Voiles is keen to point out, this first week of festivities and races has won the approval of one and all. Featuring a wide range of breezes, the Race Committees for the Modern and Classic yachts were able to validate a series of what were very hotly contested races every day, the prestige of Les Voiles familiar to sailors the world over.

Yesterday, we celebrated the fantastic winners, starting with the Classic boat category, where the Rolex Trophy went to the Herreshoff design Scud and her top-flight crew, who managed to outperform the sumptuous P Class boats. Amongst all the winners in the 10 categories of traditional racing yachts, Les Voiles crowns some truly remarkable boats, created by some of the world's most respected naval architects.

Among the Modern boats, Pretexte (Nacira 47) secures the North Sails Trophy (IRC B), and Nanoq, skippered by the Prince of Denmark won the BMW Trophy (IRC C), both of them the stand-out boats despite some particularly competitive groups.

Les Voiles 2021, the first week in numbers
200 sail boats for week one, 116 modern boats and 82 classic yachts.
2,500 crew members, representing over twenty nationalities.
200 volunteers: teams at sea and on land
60 boats for safety organisation, press and guests.
This year the crowds flocked to Les Voiles village (2,100m2 ) despite a limit of 900 people, which resulted in a few queues.

Coming up in Week 2: Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, Maxi Yachts
Sunday 3 and Monday 4 October: registration for all modern yachts above 18.29m
Wally, IRCA, Maxi yachts
Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6, Thursday 7, Friday 8, Saturday 9: regattas
Saturday 9 October: Prize Giving (Week 2)

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Platoon Win Royal Cup For Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week
Over a regatta which consisted of five races there was no room in a winning scoreline for one big result. While several rival teams left the sunshine island of Menorca today rueing small mistakes which ultimately cost them their chances of lifting the TP52 class's prestigious Royal Cup, Harm Muller Spreer's can point to a consistent scoreline as the reason his German flagged team won at the Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing week for the second time in a row.

The double world champions cut out the costly errors – such as the three red flag penalties – which ruined their possibilities of collecting the Mallorca title last month in Puerto Portals when the 52 SUPER SERIES opened. With John Kostecki and Jordi Calafat combining on tactics and strategy for owner-driver Muller-Spreer, the Platoon team composed a scoreline of 4,3,6,4,1 to win by a couple of points from Andy Soriano's Alegre.

Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, Final Results
1. Platoon (GER) (Harm Muller-Spreer) (4,3,6,4,1) 18 pts
2. Alegre (GBR) (Andres Soriano) (1,1,1,7,10) 20 pts
3. Quantum Racing (USA) (Doug DeVos) (11,4,4,2,2) 23 pts
4. Bronenosec Gazprom (RUS) (Vladimir Liubomirov) (2,DNF14 (12+2),2,3,3) 24 pts
5. Phoenix (RSA) (Tony Norris) (3,7,3,5,6) 24 pts
6. Sled (USA) (Takashi Okura) (5,8,7,1,4) 25 pts
7. Provezza (TUR) (Ergin Imre) (8,2,8,6,11) 35 pts
8. Gladiator (GBR) (Tony Langley) (6,9,9,10,5) 39 pts
9. Interlodge (USA) (Austin Fragomen) (7,10,5,8,9) 39 pts
10. THA72 (THA) (Tom and Kevin Whitcraft) (10,5,10,11,7) 43 pts
11. Paprec (FRA) (Jean Luc Petithugeunin) (9,6,11,9,8) 43 pts

Circuit Standings After 2 of 3 regattas
1. Platoon (28,18) 46 pts
2. Quantum Racing (23,23) 46 pts
3. Alegre (27,20) 47 pts
4. Sled (22,25) 47 pts
5. Phoenix (26,24) 50 pts
6. Bronenosec (30,22 +2) 54 pts
7. Provezza (27,35) 62 pts
8. Interlodge (37,39) 76 pts
9. Gladiator (50,39) 89 pts

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Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
This month's nominees:

Lindsay Owen-Jones (GBR)
In Porto Cervo last month the International Maxi Class got itself the most popular of new world champions. The skipper of Magic Carpet3 has been the most loyal supporter of this fleet through thick and thin - one of the best examples being when he built his current WallyCento, the brief to designers Reichel/Pugh being to push the rule hard with the new boat but not so hard as to destroy the fleet by rendering all other boats uncompetitive...

Diego Negri (ITA)
Not in any way to demean the latest great performance from Negri's 2021 Star World Champion crew Frihjof Kleen, but the superb German front man has won this title (and many others) before, while for Italy's perennial runner-up crossing the line in that final race brought an Oscar-level outpouring of emotion, that started... 'I must thank the Folli family for building my beautiful girl, called 21! I love her!! She is a winner like 21 in blackjack! Now she is my baby for ever... I promise!!!'

Last Month's winner:
Martine Grael/Kahena Kunze (BRA)
'Martine and Kahena rule, but Katie McCabe's feats are also amazing!!!' - Tiago Di Poerro Celestino; Martine and Kahena are simply the best' - Farley Vilaca; 'And they are the nicest too!' - Alexandre Franco Caetano; 'And the hardest working!!' - Louise Lomardo; 'Martine and Kahena - they are our golden girls... the best women sailors ever' - Leonardo Baeta; 'Two grand athletes in the great tradition of Brazilian sailing - Eraldo Pacheco Votto.

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Young Azzurra Wins The Final Grand Prix Of The Persico 69F Cup
On the final day of the Grand Prix 4.1 Persico 69F Cup, after a total of eight races held, Young Azzurra has claimed the top spot on the podium. This is the fourth Grand Prix of the circuit that the team has won in 2021, starting with the first in Malcesine in April, two legs held in July in Porto Cervo, and finally this last event in Puntaldia.

The first two days of the Grand Prix 4.1 were characterised by very light airs, with no races held at all on day one. Yesterday two races were completed, with Young Azzurra taking a win and a second-place finish to lead the provisional overall classification. Today the nine teams taking part completed a further six races, with a south-easterly wind that rose from 8 knots at the start of racing to reach 18 knots

The next sporting event for Young Azzurra will be the Youth Foiling Gold Cup in Cagliari from 21 to 31 October, followed by the grand finale, taking place from 1 to 3 November in the same location.

Full results

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All Ireland Sailing Championship
Photo by David Branigan, www.oceansport.ie. Click on image to enlarge.

2004 Athens 470 Olympic partnership Ger Owens and Ross Killian teamed up again to win the 2021 All Ireland Sailing Championships in convincing style at Royal Cork Yacht Club this afternoon.

After three wins put Owens, representing the GP14 class, firmly into Sunday's final, the dinghy champion then scored another unassailable 3, 3, 1, 1 into today's breezy final raced inside Cork Harbour.

Squib representative Ross Kearney finished second overall, a point behind with Owens clubmate Laser Radial sailor Sean Craig taking third place in the eight boat final raced in National 18 Ultras.

As per the forecast, Sunday's final certainly lived up to its heavy air billing, putting a premium on a 90kg wireman.

There was at least one capsize along with a disappointing retiral from ICRA 2 rep Nigel Biggs. "We just found our 148kg insufficient to race the boat competitively in 20 knots in the first race today; Biggs told Afloat.

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

World news
Travels through times and designs in southern California, old faces big impact, upwind or down... that typical old Transpac dilemma, knots for the dollar. Also Vendée Globe bangfor- the-euro, Class40s, Imocas, Mini 6.50s all going nuts, PR games in Auckland... and peace at last for Belcher And Ryan. Patrice Carpentier, Ivor Wilkins, Dobbs Davis, Blue Robinson, Victor Kovalenko, Grant Dalton, Michael Blackburn, Ian Lipinski, Yannick Bestaven... Plus some nice final words from Patrick Tearnan in Tokyo

We're back!!!
Thanks to incredible perseverance and hard work this winter we are going to have a proper Caribbean racing season. Carol Bareuther

Blue water super cruiser
Rolf Vrolijk, Johan Siefer, Elisabet Holm And Kieran Flatt tell the story behind Vrolijk and Baltic's latest superyacht, Path

RORC - Falling close to the tree
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Seahorse build table - (Genuinely) fit for purpose
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Sailor of the Month
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Family Triumph for Das Blau Max in IC37 North American Championship
Newport, Rhode Island USA: Most 25-year-old men are loathe to summon their parents to bail them out of trouble. Part of becoming a full-blown adult is learning to handle your own missteps. But to win the inaugural IC37 North American Championship, sailed this past weekend out of the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I., helmsman Nick Sertl had to do just that in the first race. A bad start had the Das Blau Max team looking at a whole fleet of transoms and the strong likelihood of a disappointing race to kick off the final regatta of the 2021 summer season. So he called on mom [Cory] and dad [Mark], who called tactics and trimmed main, respectively, on the family-oriented boat, and together they carved through the fleet to pull out a remarkable second.

The IC37 North American Championship was hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I., from October 1 to 3. The regatta was the final event of the summer 2021 IC37 regatta calendar and featured 17 Corinthian teams battling for top honors over eight races on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. The IC37 class was created by the New York Yacht Club to promote one-design competition for amateur sailors.

Final top five (17 Boats, 8 races, 1 throwout)
1. Das Blau Max, IC37, Cory, Mark and Nick Sertl Sertl , Jamestown, RI, USA, 27
2. Yonder, IC37, Douglas Newhouse , Newport, RI, USA, 32
3. Members Only, IC37, Cross / Kinney / Swett , Newport, RI, USA, 34
4. Ticket, IC37, Whitmore / Greenhouse , Norfolk, VA, USA, 42
5. New Wave, IC37, Steve Liebel / Ray Wulff , Tampa, FL, USA, 43

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Bruno Dubois: "We Need To Be Able To Show An Other Face"
On Monday the French SailGP team announced that they have replaced skipper Billy Besson with 2020 Nacra 17 Olympian Quentin Delapierre. The decision was taken after the Saint-Tropez Grand Prix in which the French finished last. Team manager Bruno Dubois explains the change Tip & Shaft.

When and why did you make this decision?
It is a decision which was taken after Saint-Tropez. Billy has always said he wanted to be judged on his results. We finished almost last in 2019 (5th out of 6), in 2020, we only did one event (in Sydney), we finished last, and here at the French event we are last. Even though we had progressed and got two podiums, we still had bad results in Aarhus, in Taranto and then in Saint-Tropez, we cannot accept having a French team like that. Billy is a very good racer, I am not questioning that at all, but when you are not getting the results you want in sport, it's often the captain that you have to change. I know it's tough, but people were warned at the start of the season that on SailGP we can make quick, unilateral decisions, everyone knows that.

We are less used to experiencing that in sailing...
(He cuts) I hear people talk about sport-business, but in the Vendee Globe, the Route du Rhum, this is also about sport-business! This is sailing with and for sponsors and when things don't go well, we make changes. We have already seen changes in major teams in France, this is not an Anglo-Saxon way, everyone is aware of the rules of the game.

Full interview in Tip & Shaft

Inside Tack | INEOS Britannia Reveal
The Inside Tack Show returns live from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 HQ.

On Monday 4th October at 1230PM BST Ben Ainslie and special guests including Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Toto Wolff will be revealing our core team that will be leading our 37th America's Cup challenge.

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Dante's Inferno
Diversity, inclusion and gender equality are now not something to discuss at the end of a three-hour board meeting. They are in pole position, quite rightly, and it's simply not good enough for our corporate world to talk a good book, put up a few posters and pretend all is okay. Accountability is paramount. The environment and sustainability matters. The modern workforce demands actions, not words.

And this is the backdrop that those in the America's Cup are faced with and I wonder whether they get it. On the face of it, it's an ugly spectacle of excess. A very select and diminishing few individuals with wealth beyond imagination committing eye-watering, unimaginable sums of money to something that matters little all told and barely moves a dial of any significance.

It's a sailboat race that is beautiful in action but vulgar around the edges. The very worst of human nature oft displayed – greed, avarice, duplicity, downright lies, personal attacks, cheating…the list goes on. As it stands today, right now, it's a bizarre, bewildering platform where the entry fee has sky-rocketed with boats at the extreme requiring enormous computational and man-power to even work. Has the Cup lost the plot and mis-read the room on a gargantuan scale? Would a return to a more manageable state be preferential?

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