EuroSail News #4978 - 10 December
In This Issue
• Star Southern Hemisphere Championship
• Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image Award
• First ORC Double Handed Championship in Stockholm in 2022
• Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar
• 49er Short Track World Championship
• Grant Dalton addresses New Zealand hosting bid
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Youth Sailing World Championships
• Santiago Lange Becomes Nacra 17 Class President
• SailGP Insights
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Beneteau 57 ARION
• • Cannonball M72 Custom Maxi Racer
• • Alfred Mylne Glen-Coats Gaff Sloop 1926 - Duet
• The Last Word: Steve Jobs
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Star Southern Hemisphere Championship
A beautiful day in Buenos Aires welcomed the 25 teams gathered on Rio de la Plata from the main South American countries to attend the 2021 Star Southern Hemisphere Championship. The Silver Star event started today and will end on Sunday December 12th, organized by Club Nautico Olivos, Star District 18th and the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association.
Two races were sailed on Day One, with the classic local breeze blowing from South-East over Rio de la Plata. The wind stayed between 10/12 knots for the first race while it got up to 15 and more for the second wilder run.
The fight for the first bullet was mainly between Ricky Fabini / Fede Calegari (URU/ARG) and the Altolaguirre brothers, Leandro and Lucas (ARG). The Argentinians got the best and were followed by Fabini/Calegari and Juan Pablo Percossi with Felipe Caivano (ARG).
The Altolaguirre brothers won also the second windier race, followed by Alberto Zanetti with Gustavo Warburg (ARG), and Fabian Mac Gowan and Nicolas Rosas (ARG).
Leandro and Lucas are leading the provisional ranking at the end of Day One, with Percossi/Caivano second and Fabini/Calegari third. A similar forecast is expected for tomorrow and the rest of the week.
Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image Award
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Some of the world's greatest yacht racing photographers gathered in Paris this evening for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award prize giving. Among them, French photographer Loic Venance, winner of the main award thanks to his picture of french sailor Jeremie Beyou in the Vendee Globe, and Patrick Condy (UK), winner of the Public Award.
Born in Paris in 1975, Loic Venance studied photography at the Ecole de l'Image (Gobelins). He joined Agence France Presse (AFP) in 2001 and covered numerous subjects in France and abroad, including Lybia, Bolivia or Thailand. Venance started to work in sailing in 2016, covering offshore races such as the Vendee Globe, Route du Rhum or Transat Jacques Vabre.
The Public Award, based on the number of public votes cast on the internet, was won by Patrick Condy from the UK with an image of Alex Thomson's Hugo Boss rounding the Fastnet Rock. Condy leads two Hungarian photographers: Brigi Torok and Joka Gemesi.
First ORC Double Handed Championship in Stockholm in 2022
The Royal Swedish Yacht Club (KSSS) will host the first ever ORC Double Handed World Championship starting on 30 June 2022 with registration, preparations and inspections at the starting venue in the middle of Stockholm. Here the race will start with an intricate navigation race through the archipelago before reaching the open sea and a sail around the island of Gotland: this will be a true challenge for the competitors.
The championship is a part of the KSSS regatta Gotland Runt - the world´s largest annual offshore race which has been organized by the Royal Swedish Yacht Club since 1937 and is regarded as the season's highlight in offshore sailing in the Baltic.
The race itself starts on Sunday 3 July 2022 and we expect the world's best boats and crews to gather at the start in Stockholm. Being a part of Gotland Runt also means that all competitors will be a part of one of Stockholm's major summer events. As the boats start in the middle of the city, tens of thousands of spectators gather on the shores and in vessels all along the route through the archipelago.
Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar Competition
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49er Short Track World Championship
The Short Track World Championship is an action-packed tournament format that showcases the best of sailing in a fan-friendly package. The world's best 49er and 49erFX sailors will race in the world's best amphitheater for sailing. The regatta will run from July 14-17, 2022 as part of a summer of sailing in Marstrand, Sweden. Host for the event will be GKSS, The Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club, with a long track record of hosting prestigious regattas as Volvo Ocean Race Stop Over, Americas Cup Act, Gold Dragon Cup, and numerous World Championships.
Short Track is the progression of the Theatre Style concept pioneered by the 49er class last decade. Each race is eight minutes long in a windward-leeward course, bounded on each side to keep the racing close and the fans closer.
Grant Dalton addresses New Zealand hosting bid
Emirates Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton has attempted to smooth the waters around the team's stance on hosting the next America's Cup in home waters, saying a bid to do so is about $50 million short of being a viable option.
Since the end of the 36th America's Cup in Auckland earlier this year, there has been speculation as to where the next edition would be held, with the belief that it would almost certainly be offshore.
While Ireland, Spain and Saudi Arabia have all been floated as possible venues, a bid launched by Kiwi rich lister Mark Dunphy to once again host the Cup in Auckland has drawn a lot of attention.
Addressing members of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron last night, Dalton explained to the club that while Dunphy believed his bid had the money needed, it was not a viable option for the team.
"Since March this year our numbers of an overall budget of $200m split between team ($120m) and event costs ($80m) have never changed," Dalton said.
"Of this total $200m budget, the consistent ask of potential venues has been essentially $120m with slight variations for relative overseas costs like accommodation. To be clear, categorically, it is not a process of 'selecting the highest bidder', as has also been mischievously circulated. -- Christopher Reive
Seahorse December 2021
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
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Fuelling the revival
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A nest of vipers
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Youth Sailing World Championships
The seaside resort of Mussanah in Oman is ready to host the world's best young sailors when the 2021 Youth Sailing World Championships presented by Hempel commences on 11 December.
A total of 433 sailors from 56 nations are entered in 11 youth events including the Male and Female divisions of the 29er Skiff, 420 Two Person Dinghy, ILCA 6 One Person Dinghy along with the Mixed Two Person Multihull, the Nacra 15. New additions to the class line-up are Male and Female categories in Windsurfer Bic Techno 293+ and Kiteboarding FormulaKite.
This year is the 50th edition of this prestigious competition, with racing taking place from 11-17 December and is the first Youth Worlds since July 2019, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Hosted at the Barceló Mussanah Resort in Mussanah, the local organising team at Oman Sail have been getting plenty of high-level regatta practice in recent weeks. The 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships took place here less than a month ago, and the ILCA 6 Worlds have only just concluded at the beginning of December.
With light to moderate breezes expected, and daytime temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius, the sailors can look forward to excellent sailing conditions.
11 Events at the Youth Worlds
Female Windsurfer Bic Techno 293+
Male Windsurfer Bic Techno 293+
Male Kiteboarding FormulaKite
Female Kiteboarding FormulaKite
Female Two Person Dinghy 420
Male/Mixed Two Person Dinghy 420
Female One Person Dinghy ILCA 6
Male One Person Dinghy ILCA 6
Male Skiff 29er
Female Skiff 29er
Mixed Two Person Multihull Nacra 15
Santiago Lange Becomes Nacra 17 Class President
Santiago Lange (ARG) is the new President of the International Nacra 17 Class Association. The Nacra 17 executive co-opted Santi officially into the role at an executive meeting on December 8th. Santi stepped up to the commitment and is prepared to lead us through the World Sailing Event review for the 2028 Olympics. He takes over from Nathan Outteridge (AUS) who has turned his focus toward the next America's Cup.
Santiago is a world class sailor with unrivaled experience in the sport. He won gold in the Nacra 17 in Rio 2016 and competed in Tokyo 2020. He now aims at Paris 2024 and is a committed defender of the sailors in the class.
Santi also has extensive Olympic and professional sailing experience, with medals in the Tornado and racing/coaching/consulting in the America's Cup, TP52, SailGP and more.
As a class, we must showcase how the multihull remains the best opportunity for mixed sailing to thrive," Santiago Lange
SailGP Insights
SailGP is proud to officially launch SailGP Insights, a new online dashboard which provides fans with vast amounts of data from the identical hydrofoiling F50 catamarans that feature in the purpose-led, global racing league.
SailGP Insights perfectly complements SailGP's broadcast partners' coverage, enabling fans to access in-depth information about the world's most exciting racing on-water, while watching the live event feed.
Every second of every race of each SailGP event will be tracked by SailGP Insights, and fans can follow all eight teams on the dashboard to discover and understand key in-race statistics and incidents, with all the data pulled from the boats in real-time.
SailGP Insights is powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), delivering real-time data to fans worldwide – as well as the eight teams themselves and SailGP's broadcast partners.
SailGP Insights will be available for the very first time at the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG, to be held in Sydney on December 17 and 18.
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