In This Issue
• Five Gold Wins, secured a day early
• Bacardi Invitational Winter Series 1
• Wight Vodka Best Sailor's Bar
• The simple moves that soon add up - 11th Hour Racing
• Fleet get ready for RORC Transatlantic Race
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Sailing World on Water, December 17.21.
• Upgraded CAptain's Mate app
• Foiling Week granted World Sailing Special Event status
• Jack Roy
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Trimaran Orma JTA Technologies LAKOTA
• • Shogun 50 - Lady Killer
• • Marstrom Seacart 30' - 2006
• The Last Word: P.G. Wodehouse

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Five Gold Wins, secured a day early
Championships presented by Hempel. The 420 girls along with both windsurfing and kitefoiling divisions have been wrapped up before Friday's final races.

With the warm wind touching just over 10 knots, this was the best breeze of the regatta so far. The ever reliable Oman sun shone brightly on the sailors, and on Thursday's gold medal winners in particular.

Female Windsurfer Bic Techno 293+
Manon Pianazza (FRA) has won windsurfing gold with an unbroken 11 race wins.

Male Windsurfer Bic Techno 293+
Federico Alan Pilloni (ITA) was mobbed by his Italian team mates as he landed at Mussanah Beach after sealing windsurfer victory with a day to spare.

Male Kiteboarding FormulaKite
The usually calm and collected Max Maeder (SGP) went crazy as he crossed the finish line this afternoon. The Singaporean had bounced back from a difficult start to the competition, dominating the latter stages and winning the gold medal with a day to spare.

Female Kiteboarding FormulaKite
Gal Zukerman (ISR) has won gold with a sensational 16 straight race wins.

Female Two Person Dinghy 420
Neus Ballester Bover and Andrea Perello Mora (ESP) have won the gold medal with a race to spare.

The final day of competition for the 335 sailors from 59 nations takes place on Friday 17 December, starting at 1200 hours local time.

To look back through the tracking from today's races, and to follow live racing for the rest of the regatta, go to youthworlds2021.sapsailing.com

For full results, go to: worldsailingywc.org/results/

Bacardi Invitational Winter Series 1
The Bacardi Winter Series 1 will host around 40 teams in Miami this weekend. The regatta will be comprised of the J70 and the Melges 24 fleets, racing out of Shake-A-Leg on Biscayne Bay.

Packed with talent, the J70 and Melges 24 are each scheduled to contest a six race series across two days, the 18th and 19th of December.

The provisional J/70 entry list features eighteen teams, including familiar names such as Michael Illbruck on 'Pinta' and Travis Odenbach, winner of the 2021 Bacardi Invitational Regatta, who is teaming up with David Jannetti on 'Very Odd'. Heading up from the Cayman Islands is Peter Cunningham and his 'Powerplay' team who are also regular front of fleet contenders.

In the twenty-two boat Melges 24 fleet, Bora Gulari and his team on 'New England Ropes' will be mission on to repeat last season's domination, culminating in glory at the Bacardi Cup Invitational Regatta. For this event 1 they will face most of the top ten from last year, including Peter Duncan on 'Rasta Mixta', who returns to the Melges 24 after winning the J/70 Worlds this summer. Also set to be up in the front of fleet battle are Travis Wiesleder on 'Lucky Dog, Bruce Ayres on 'Monsoon' and Laura Grondin on 'Dark Energy', who also switches to the Melges 24 after finishing 3rd at the J/70 Worlds.

The Bacardi Invitational Winter Series 1 and 2 (28-30 January 2022) are fiercely contested events, which set the stage and the leader board challengers for overall glory at the Bacardi Invitational Regatta series finale from 9-12 March 2022. Also racing in March are the VX One, Viper 640 and Persico 69F classes. As always the Star Class will headline at the historic Bacardi Cup, one of the world's oldest sailing events, which celebrates its 95th anniversary from 6-12 March 2022.

bacardiinvitational.com

Wight Vodka Best Sailor's Bar
Years of webmaster duties for the Bermuda Gold Cup have made your humble narrator a connoisseur of ginger beer. It's the perfect mixer... refreshing on hot summer days, yet still a bracing curative on a winter night. I just love ginger.

A company who makes, arguably, the best Tonics, also makes an excellent ginger beer. And this is a hell of a way to use it...

Ginger Fever Punch is often made with tequila... bur this variety is lighter and less likely to trigger the deeply traumatic memories of a long past night of Acey-Deucy for shots of that demon liquor.

Ingredients
1 1/2 ounces Wight Vodka
3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
3/4 ounce pomegranate juice
1/2 ounce grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce goji ginger syrup*
Fever-Tree ginger beer, to top
Garnish: pomegranate seeds
Garnish: grapefruit slice
Garnish: rosemary sprig

Steps
Add the vodka, lime juice, pomegranate juice, grapefruit juice and goji simple syrup into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Top with ginger beer.

Garnish with pomegranate seeds, a grapefruit slice and a rosemary sprig.

*Goji ginger syrup: Add 4 ounces ginger juice, 1/2 cup granulated sugar and 1 tablespoon goji berries into a blender and blend at medium speed. Strain and pour into a sealed container. Will keep, refrigerated, for up to two weeks.

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Submission deadline extended until New Year's Eve... We start voting on the top ten shortly after the New Year.

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The simple moves that soon add up - 11th Hour Racing
You'd expect the environmentally-driven 11th Hour Racing Team to push harder than most when it came to building their latest Imoca 60. They did not disappoint...

There's a quick, cost-neutral and almost effortless way to massively reduce the environmental impact of building a high-performance sailing yacht. For an Imoca 60 you can cut the total carbon footprint by almost a third, simply by ensuring that the boatyard and key suppliers are on a 100 per cent renewable electricity tariff. It's usually easy to switch energy suppliers and renewable energy is becoming very competitive in price, so it can be a triple bottom line win – for the client, for the builder and for the environment.

That's one of the key findings from 11th Hour Racing Team's project to design and build a new Imoca within the current class rules, without compromising on performance. They've set an important benchmark, explored alternative materials and compared the impact of build methods.

Full article in the January issue of Seahorse

Fleet get ready for RORC Transatlantic Race
With less than a month to the start of the RORC Transatlantic Race, well over half of the record international fleet have arrived in Calero Marinas Puerto Calero in Lanzarote for the start of the 3,000 nautical mile race to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada. Over 200 sailors from at least 22 different nations will be competing. The eclectic mix includes professional sailors from the Olympics, America's Cup, Vendée Globe, and The Ocean Race, however, the vast majority are passionate corinthians.

Double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott will be part of Peter Cunningham's crew racing his MOD70 PowerPlay. This will be Scott's first ever transatlantic, but he has a wealth of multihull experience as tactician for INEOS TEAM UK's America's Cup campaign.

The major difference for Scott will be racing offshore for a number of days and nights, something that he has not experienced in the Finn or the AC75.

With echoes of the Prada Cup in New Zealand earlier this year between INEOS, American Magic and Luna Rossa, the RORC Transatlantic Race features PowerPlay with a majority British crew, Argo from the United States, and Maserati from Italy.

The 2022 edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race has been organised in association with the Yacht Club de France and nine of the competing teams will be flying the French tricolour. French teams have lifted the RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy on three occasions: Jean-Paul Riviere's Nomad IV (2015) Eric de Turckheim's Teasing Machine (2017) and Olivier Magre's Palanad 3 (2021).

Two stand out teams racing under the burgee of the Yacht Club de France will be Jacques Pelletier's L'Ange De Milon and Remy Gerin's Faiaoahe. Jacques Pelletier has lost count of the number of Fastnet Races he has competed in, including winning class in 2019, but this will be his first RORC Transatlantic Race with his Milon 41 L'Ange De Milon. Having suffered mast problems in the heavy weather at the start of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, it is wonderful to see L'Ange De Milon has been repaired and is ready and waiting in Lanzarote. Designed by Jacques Valer of JPK fame, and with a highly experienced French crew, L'Ange De Milon will be a force to reckon with.

rorctransatlantic.rorc.org

To enter the race: rorc.sailgate.com

Seahorse January 2022
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

The Simple Moves That Soon Add Up
You'd expect the environmentally-driven 11th Hour Racing Team to push harder than most when it came to building their latest Imoca 60. They did not disappoint...

High Expectations
In little more than 12 months' time Chris Nicholson will have his seventh go at winning the Ocean Race (née Whitbread). And he's not going to let any leaky clothing slow him down...

A bold experiment
Robert Clark would end his yacht design career as a pillar of the establishment. It certainly did not start out that way... Clare Mccomb

Rocking the boat
John Fildes is an enthusiast of the philosophy of robust structures constructed from the lightest possible small precision-engineered components

New breed - Act 1
It's fair to say that, two years in, the first Class40 scows are reasonably well understood. So time to look at generation 2. Francois Chevalier

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Sailing World on Water, December 17.21.
The big news last week is the official entry into the 37th Americas' Cup, by Swiss multi Billionaire, Ernesto Berteralli, and his all new, Alinghi, Red Bull Racing Team. Announcing this all-Swiss team, there were a few recognisable faces at the club. They included his long time friend, Brad Butterworth, and Red Bull foiling sailor, Hans-Peter Steinacher. There was little detail at this stage, but Christian Horner, Principal of Red Bull Racing, was beamed in from the UK suffering, as his team had just won the 2021, F1 World Championships. This is a formidable announcement as there have been names like, Berling, Tuke, Spithill, Slingsby, mentioned in passing. Wherever Ernesto goes, he always creates great interest and the AC, 37, is no different.

The Cruising Association launched its upgraded CAptain's Mate app
CAptain's Mate is a unique app providing an invaluable and intuitive toolbox of knowledge, designed to empower yacht and motor cruisers. Putting thousands of cruising reports at your fingertips, CAptain's Mate is packed with innovative features and provides an unrivalled breadth of cruising content in one interface, covering over 6,500 locations in more than 70 countries around the world.

Available on iOS and Android, once downloaded the app works even when you have no internet connection or phone signal. If you prefer using a keyboard and larger screen, the app is also integrated on the CA website.

CAptain's Mate provides accurate, up to date and streamlined information on all types of cruising location - anchorage, marina, port, harbour, boatyard and quay.

Developed with the yacht and motor cruiser in control, the app is packed with useful features, search and filter functions. Each location displays an 'Overview', 'Info' and 'Report' tab, enabling users to easily swipe between summary content and more detailed reports.

Foiling Week granted World Sailing Special Event status for 2022 and beyond
World Sailing has awarded the upcoming 2022 Foiling Week Special Event status, ensuring the competition can grow, reach more people, and partner with international and national foiling programmes and pathways to create events within the event.

Foiling Week joins high profile activities with Special Event status such as the America's Cup, The Ocean Race, SailGP, World Match Racing Tour, PWA World Tour, Star Sailors League and GKA Kite World Tour.

Foiling Week is the hub of the world hydrofoiling community and the only World Sailing Special Event that is community-based. It includes a well-attended Forum, where talented and creative individuals share ideas and collaborate to make connections and improve the way the event operates and the class evolves.

The SuMoth Challenge, part of every Foiling Week since its introduction in 2019, was shortlisted for this year's World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award. A global challenge, it brought students from around the world together to design, manufacture and sail a sustainable Moth.

Having hosted events in Australasia, North America and Europe, Foiling Week has become a scalable, practical presence in sport both physically and online and is moving forward with World Sailing to connect, collaborate and make positive change in sport and beyond.

sailing.org

Jack Roy
The death of former Irish Sailing President and Olympic Games Race Officer Jack Roy of Greystones and Dun Laoghaire has deprived our sport of one of its most popular and enthusiastic devotees, both in terms of services to sailing and in his own great and infectious enjoyment of racing and cruising.

His sudden passing was acknowledged in a minute's silence before today's DBSC Turkey Shoot race on Dublin Bay, and Afloat. ie will be posting a full appreciation of this remarkable man next week. But meanwhile, our profoundly heartfelt condolences are with his family and his very many friends.

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) held a minutes silence in honour of Jack Roy ahead of its Turkey Shoot races. The DBSC Freebird committee boat flew flags and burgees at half-mast in a mark of respect to its former Chief Race Officer.

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) held a minutes silence in honour of Jack Roy ahead of its Turkey Shoot races this morning. The DBSC Freebird committee boat flew flags at half-mast as a mark of respect to its late Chief Race Officer.

WM Nixon's obituary in Afloat:
afloat.ie/resources/news-update/

Featured Brokerage
1990 Trimaran Orma JTA Technologies LAKOTA. 250,000 EUR. Located in Subic Bay, Philippines.

She has been converted by her current owner who is an experienced multihull sailor into a fast, simple and light cruising trimaran for transoceanic sailing and blue water cruising.

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2019 Shogun 50 - 'Ladykiller'. 1450000 EUR, Located in Stockholm, Sweden.

Designed for performance yet comfortable and incredibly light. The Shogun 50 is of course able to achieve this – with her full carbon composite from hull to rig. Has the huge advantage of a lifting keel, meaning she can sail in all waters. A seriously cool ultimate sailors dream!

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2006 Marstrom Seacart 30'. 110,000 GBP.

Buzz is one of the most successful of all the Seacart30’s built (hull #4) and certainly in the last few years one of the most successful small multihulls on the UK racing circuit having won inshore and offshore events including Cowes week and MOCRA championships with the previous owner. In the hands of the current owner Buzz has won the RORC Offshore championship 2018, 2019 and the shortened 2020 series. She has taken several line honours against the whole of the RORC fleet including The Cherbourg race in 2018 and 2019. She completed the 2019 Fastnet race - 4th MOCRA multihull to finish in 2 days 19 hours setting a new sub 40ft multihull record in the process.

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The Last Word
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