EuroSail News #4966 - 22 November
In This Issue
• Compression in Cape Verde
• Team Aqua Claims 2021 44Cup
• Dinghy Star Pro Ultra STS
• Straight into it - 52 Super Series
• 69F Pro Cup
• Design Work Continues For American Magic
• 36th ARC Departs Las Palmas
• Ireland's America's Cup Venue Selection Agony Extended
• Live Chat This week: Philippe Presti
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • SW78 Elise Whisper
• • Jeanneau 54
• The Last Word: Abbie Hoffman
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Compression in Cape Verde
Since yesterday evening, the six "historic" leaders of the Transat Jacques Vabre made in Class40 have bumped into the vast zone of light winds spread around the Cape Verde archipelago, and on the island of Sal, which the competitors in the 12.19 m long class must leave to starboard before starting the Atlantic crossing towards Martinique.
The result is a spectacular change in the rankings, with a change of leader to the benefit of the Belgian-French duo Gerkens-Hantzperg of the Max 40 Volvo. The six protagonists who have been leading the way to Cape Verde until now, with whom Credit Mutuel (Lipinski - Pulve) and the astonishing British duo of Tquila, Brian Thompson and Alister Richardson, have been linked since dawn, are still benefiting from a slight gap in the South, which is going to favor their approach to the archipelago. However, it is now the group elegantly named "2nd Division" by Cedric Chateau (Seafrigo - Sogestran) that we must look for to find real changes in the ranking, as the positions are calculated in relation to the direct route, which runs due west. This morning, 4th place is proudly occupied by Axel Trehin and Frederic Denis (Project Rescue Ocean) and 5th place by the amazing girls of La Boulangère Bio, Amelie Grassi and Marie Riou. This shake-up in the rankings should not erase the reality of the placements on the water, with a clear advantage for the most southerly boats. On the other hand, the compression of the head of the fleet is very real, and 17 boats, including Legallais de Pierre-Cazenave-Pere and Kevin Bloch, are within 100 miles of each other.
Team Aqua Claims 2021 44Cup
Over four of the most difficult days of racing in 44Cup history, an impressive seven races were still held at the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote frequently in 5-6 knots wind, conditions, frankly, in which most other yachts would have been unable to race. Nonetheless it produced two worthy winners with Team Aleph winning the event and Team Aqua the season.
The schedule for the final day of racing, off the blackened lunar landscape of Lanzarote's south coast, was brought forward by two hours to 1000 UTC. PRO María Torrijo had made this call in order to provide the best window of opportunity to race, given the forecast of a fourth day of light winds in this usually windy venue.
Ultimately just one race was successfully sailed and this produced a photo-finish between Pavel Kuznetsov's Atom Tavatuy and John Bassadone's Peninsula Petroleum, with the Russian team taking the bullet by millimetres, from the Gibraltese on which double Olympic Finn gold medallist Giles Scott was calling tactics for the first time.
This was the Russian team's third bullet in seven races sailed and was enough to leave them ending the regatta second. However, in typical 44Cup style, this was on a complex countback, tied on points with Igor Lah's Team Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 and Chris Bake's Team Aqua. In turn they were just one ahead of 44Cup newbies ARTTUBE, skippered by the 44Cup's sole female helm, Valeriya Kovalenko, who finished fifth of nine in her second ever 44Cup event.
Going into this event, Chris Bake's World Championship winning team on Team Aqua were leading by two points from Ceeref. A highly uncharacteristic last place in today's only race dropped Team Aqua back to fourth, with Ceeref in third, but tied on points. Effectively separated now by just one point, meant some match racing between the two teams was certain going into the final race. Sadly, with the wind down to 3-4 knots and after a long wait, Mother Nature deprived history of this occurring, handing the 2021 44Cup title to Team Aqua.
The 44Cup resumes in 2022 with five events scheduled.
44CUP Overall Ranking 2021
(after five events)
1. United Kingdom TEAM AQUA - 3 1 3 1 4 - 9 points
2. Slovenia CEEREF powered by HRASTNIK 1860 -1 4 2 4 3 - 10
3. France ALEPH RACING - 5 5 1 5 1 - 12
4. Monaco CHARISMA - 7 2 4 2 7 - 15
5. Russia ATOM TAVATUY - 4 6 5 7 2 - 17
6. Sweden ARTEMIS RACING - 8 3 7 3 8 - 21
7. Russia TEAM NIKA - 2 7 8 6 9 - 24
8. United Kingdom PENINSULA RACING - 6 8 6 8 6 - 26
9. Russia ARTTUBE - 10 10 10 8 5 - 35
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Straight into it - 52 Super Series
This may be an inherently short, compact season but with two regattas sailed and just four points covering the top six teams it looks near certain that whichever team wins the forthcoming TP52 Worlds will win the 2021 circuit overall. With 11 races sailed during the first two events, high scores are punitive and, against the usual Super Series trend of ultra-consistency and the avoidance of errors, many of this year's top boats are sitting with at least one of them, no doubt caused by a lack of regular hard racing.
The TP52 20th Anniversary Invitational in Puerto Portals was outstanding, well worth the enforced one-year wait as well as all the effort required and the minor tweaks to the normal 52 Super Series race schedule to have 16 TP52s line up on the same startlines.
Full article in the December issue of Seahorse
69F Pro Cup
Circolo Velico Sferracavallo: Many foiling boats can't race when they can't fly, but the Persico 69F was able to demonstrate its versatility in today's light winds, and the fleet completed five races. With the light winds came a change at the top of the leaderboard as New Zealander Phil Robertson and his team (Umberto Molineris & Neil Hunter) won two races and took the top spot on the leaderboard.
Tomorrow, it all changes again as the teams gear up for a match racing series that will determine the overall winner. First up in the quarter-finals will be Team Bruni against Team Tita and Team Fletcher against Team Echegoyen. The winner of the first matchup will advance to the semi-finals to face Team DutchSail - Janssen de Jong, and the winner of the second quarter-final will face off against Team Robertson in the semis.
Ranking - Day 2
39.0 Team Robertson - Phil Robertson, Neil Hunter, Umberto Molineris
37.5 Team DutchSail - Janssen de Jong - Cas Van Dongen, Scipio Houtman, Ismene Usman
33.5 Team Bruni - Checco Bruni, Lorenzo Bianchini, Pierluigi de Felice
30.5 Team Fletcher - Dylan Fletcher, Stuart Bithell, Jacopo Plazzi Marzotto
17.0 Team Echegoyen - Tamara Echegoyen, Margherita Zanuso, Paula Barcelo
14.5 Team Tita - Ruggero Tita, Lorenzo Franceschini, Simone Salva
Top Speed Of The Day
16.97 kn - DutchSail - Janssen de Jong
Design Work Continues For American Magic
American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th America's Cup [AC36] and a prospective Challenger for the 37th, was pleased to receive the AC37 Protocol and updated AC75 Class Rule as part of a joint release earlier this week from the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, and the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia. Along with the Deed of Gift, the Protocol and Class Rule are the governing documents for the next America's Cup and provide a framework to allow design and planning work to accelerate for all teams.
"Our team plans to compete at AC37, and as part of that process we continue to learn as much about the next event as we can," said Doug DeVos, Co-Founder and Team Principal of American Magic. "The racing venue and the regatta dates remain unknown, but the release of the Protocol and the Class Rule is definitely welcome. The big-picture goals outlined in this Protocol, in terms of helping the America's Cup as an event gain teams, raise visibility, improve racing, create more diversity, include female sailors, and increase sustainability, are goals that American Magic absolutely supports."
"So much is uncertain from a rules perspective until we have these documents in hand," said Terry Hutchinson (Annapolis, Md.), President of Sailing Operations and Skipper for American Magic. "Fortunately, we have not been sitting still as we waited. Thanks to the support of our Principals, our design team and our operations staff have been laying the groundwork for our next campaign."
36th ARC Departs Las Palmas
Cruisers, racers, and multihulls; sleek ocean racing machines alongside comfortable family cruisers; superyachts with professional crews, and excited friends living the dream - these were the boats and sailors departing Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today to start the 36th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC). With crew representing 38 different nationalities, the ocean crossing community has filled the docks of Las Palmas Marina for the past two weeks and today's start sees 141 yachts and almost 900 participants now on their way to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Spreading across the horizon the fleet of white sails made an impressive sight as the crews waved goodbye to Gran Canaria for a great adventure on the ocean.
Out in the starting area, the wind was a steady 12-15 knots blowing from the South-East as the fleet prepared for an untypical upwind ARC start. The first start, at 12:30 local time, was for the Multihulls and Open Divisions, with Outremer 51 Moxie (USA) leading the charge. In recent years, it has been the dashing multihulls that have claimed Line Honours in Rodney Bay, and previous victors Banzaï (FRA), Guyader Saveol (FRA), and Minimole (ITA) all returned to the ARC this year to battle to reach the rum punch first. A total of 31 catamarans and trimarans are sailing in the ARC, and the non-competitive Open Division sailing features the 38m traditional schooner Helena (FIN), owned by the Finnish Sail Training.
The departure of the ARC fleet sailing directly to Saint Lucia today means a combined total of 208 yachts are crossing the Atlantic under the ARC banner in November 2021. ARC+ fleet of 67 yachts departed Mindelo, Cape Verde for their second leg of their crossing last Friday, bound for Grenada. A further 60 yachts will join the first edition of ARC January, setting sail in the new year in a third Atlantic crossing rally organised by World Cruising Club sailing from Gran Canaria to Saint Lucia.
Ireland's America's Cup Venue Selection Agony Extended
The staging of [The America's Cup] has become one very difficult, demanding and expensive proposition. But if it weren't for the fact that Ireland has become involved in the venue selection process, it would be hugely entertaining to observe all this wheeler-dealing. However, with Cork apparently still in the potential lineup despite the absence of any likely Irish team, it has become a minefield for anyone in Irish sailing who dares to question the wisdom of spending tens of millions of euros of taxpayers money in developing the sort of shore base facility at the former Verolme Dockyard at Rushbrook in Cork Harbour which the 37th America's Cup advocates suggest is essential.
Down Cork way within the sailing community, pariah status awaits anyone who doubts the good sense of Cork going hell-for-leather with high-profile public money in pursuit of this America's Cup Venue status. It takes the greatest Leeside verbal dexterity to side-step stating clearly whether you're for or against...
But in the rest of the country's sailing world, a sceptical viewpoint can just about survive, even if the debate about cost-effectiveness is blurred by the fact that the most recent figures from the 36th staging is Auckland must be adversely affected by the global pandemic battle.
Nevertheless, last weekend's detailed Sunday Independent enquiry into the topic by Hugh O'Connell revealed – through use of the Freedom of Information Act - just how far back and how deeply the Irish manoeuvring behind the scenes had been and was still going on, with the analysis of released emails and other sources.--RM Nixon in Afloat magazine
Live Chat This week: Philippe Presti, AC Coach & Finn World Champ
Philippe Presti is an America's Cup winning coach and a great sailor in his own right. Twice winner of the Finn Gold Cup and twice representing France at the Olympics, Philippe has gone on to sail with and coach top America's Cup teams including Oracle Racing and most recently Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in the 2021 Final in Auckland, and with Team USA in SailGP.
In this week's Q&A with Road To Gold, Philippe will talk between the similarities and differences of small boat and big team campaigns, and cover topics including starting, tactics, strategy and team management. And what made the Luna Rossa team so special in 2021.
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