In This Issue
• How to follow the RORC Transatlantic Race
• America's Cup: New York Yacht Club expected to re-enter with American Magic
• Job/Role Title: World Sailing Classes Executive
• Round Britain & Ireland Race - now with a Fully Crewed class
• MailASail OSTAR and Twostar Race
• Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar
• Positive Changes for Edgartown Race Weekend
• Sailing World on Water January
• Nicolas Abiven: "We hope to see the first sailing ships sailing in 2025"
• Launchings
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Cannonball M72 Custom Maxi Racer
• • Swan 68-004 Explotadot
• • Seaquest SQ46
• The Last Word: Mark Twain

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How to follow the RORC Transatlantic Race
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with the International Maxi Association and Yacht Club de France

Track the fleet, follow the race updates via the website and RORC social media

From the mighty Comanche to the minuscule Jangada, 30 teams from all over the world will start the 8th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race on Saturday 8th January.

Start 1100 UTC/local time
Saturday 8th January 2022
Marina Lanzarote, Arrecife, Canary Islands

The race start will be streamed LIVE by Puerto Calero Marinas in Spanish with commentary and in English by Vendée Globe star Pip Hare.

LIVE STREAM Facebook: www.facebook.com/CaleroMarinas
Start of live stream 1030-1130 UTC

Race fans can keep up-to-date with the 3,000-mile race to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada via the race website and social media. You can track the fleet and follow all the updates as the race unfolds:-

rorctransatlantic.rorc.org

Race Tracker

Facebook: www.facebook.com/royaloceanracingclub
Instagram: https:/instagram.com/rorcracing
Twitter: https:/www.twitter.com/rorcracing
YouTube: https:/www.youtube.com/rorcracing
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@rorcracing
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/royaloceanracingclub

Join the Virtual Regatta: www.virtualregatta.com/en/offshore-game/

America's Cup: New York Yacht Club expected to re-enter with American Magic
The New York Yacht Club, which in July 2021 made a surprise announcement that they had chosen to run with Stars+Stripes, a late challenger for the 36th America's Cup, and in October announced they were "pausing" their America's Cup efforts, is expected to announce within a few hours, that they will be re-joining with American Magic.

Sail-World understands that Olympic Gold medalist, Paul Goodison will be announced as skipper/helmsman. Although a British passport holder and National, Goodison qualifies to sail for the team by virtue of the fact that he was part of the American Magic team for the 36th America's Cup, and is therefore eligible to sail for the same team in AC37. -- Richard Gladwell

www.sail-world.com/news/245322/

Job/Role Title: World Sailing Classes Executive
Reporting To: Technical And Offshore Director

Role summary

Main responsibilities:
The WS Classes Executive is responsible for managing the administrative and technical services to the 120 World Sailing Class Associations and their manufacturers, specially focused on servicing classes and maintaining World Sailing’s databases and reporting systems.

Key Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support to the World Sailing Classes and their manufacturers,
- Manage the review of World Sailing Classes against regulatory requirements,
- Review and maintain the Class Agreements, Class Constitutions, Class Rules and plaque fee schemes,
- Manage Annual Class reports and World Championship reports,
- Control world-wide production of equipment tracking plaques and certification, manage equipment registration schemes and equipment databases,
- Maintain World Sailing Technical and Offshore webpages using World Sailing’s CMS
- Maintain Class Association CRM database by liaising with 120 Class Associations and ensuring the database is up to date and compliant with GDPR guidelines,
- Manage Class applications for World Sailing Class status,
- Monitor and promote World Sailing’s 2030 Sustainability Agenda commitments among World Sailing Classes and their manufacturers,
- Provide full support to the following World Sailing Committees:
-- World Sailing Classes Committee
-- Equipment Committee
-- International Measurer’s Sub-Committee

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Knowledge:
- A working knowledge and understanding of CRM and database administration
- Experience of using Wordpress CMS
- Knowledge of sailing’s equipment key performance factors
- Knowledge of equipment manufacturing processes and materials
- Knowledge of the Equipment Rules of Sailing, Racing Rules of Sailing and World Sailing Regulations
- Experience around sailing events

Skills:
- Previous involvement in sailing through any technical capacity. (i.e. coaching, naval architecture, performance optimization, manufacture, measurement)
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- High computer literacy. Database experience a plus.
- Good communication ability, both verbal and in writing (technical and non-technical)
- Interest and involvement in the sport of sailing.
- Completely comfortable working irregular hours and traveling internationally.
- Ambitious with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Organized, methodical and thorough individual.
- Constant improvement driven.
- A willingness to learn new skills and develop existing competencies.
- Second international language encouraged.

Applications should be sent to . Applicants should provide a current CV and covering letter.

The closing date for all vacancies is 8 January 2022.

sailing.org/worldsailing/secretariat/

Round Britain & Ireland Race - now with a Fully Crewed class
A fully crewed class is now open for entries and will run alongside the classic Double Handed RB&I. At approaching 30 entries, 8 of which are multihulls, this will be a great race for all those competing. With limited spaces of just 50 for the entire fleet, the RB&I is expected to be a sell out.

Early entry fee discounts have been extended for the RB&I and will now close on March 1st. The maximum LOA has also been extended to 70ft. Whilst not compulsory, crew changes of up to 50% can be made during the stop overs in Galway and Blyth. This is ONLY applicable for fully crewed boats.

The fully crewed class is an exciting addition to the original RB&I race, allowing many more sailors to be part of a team racing around the British Isles without the need to take excessive time off work but able to experience some of one of the toughest races in the offshore calendar.

Starting on 29th May 2022, the new course will have stop overs in Galway, Lerwick and Blyth, making this the most accessible race of its kind to date.

Current entries and notes of interest will soon be posted on the website.

For further information and to enter either race please contact the organising team on

rwyc.org

MailASail OSTAR and Twostar Race
The 60th Anniversary OSTAR race sponsored by MailASail now has entries numbering 16 and a number of boats showing an expression of interest. Combine this with the TWOSTAR race potential entry of 8, then we have a truly impressive international field of adventurers who are now working on their qualifying process.

It is our aim to make this a great race, so in order to tempt those who are still on the fence we are extending the Early entry Discount to March 1st.

This will already be the best entry for many years in what will be an historic edition of the race.

rwyc.org

Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar
Our 2014 winner, The King & Queen of Hamble UK, is holding a slight lead in this year's voting after four days. Could they be a two time winner?

They will if customer remarks and notes to this scribbler are any indications. A notable drink from their bar menu is the Turbo - Boosted Pimms:

Pimms & lemonade with Fresh Fruit & Mint Shot of Wight Vodka

Voting continues on our top ten until January 19.

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Positive Changes for Edgartown Race Weekend
Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard: Edgartown Yacht Club has scheduled its 2022 Edgartown Race Weekend for June 23-25, shifting the popular three-day event from its typical July time slot to “shoulder season” on Martha’s Vineyard, the popular island retreat where it is held. In addition, the Club has announced that the event will lead with two days of ‘Round-the-Sound (‘RTS) Races on Thursday and Friday before culminating with the marquee ‘Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race on Saturday.

The 56-nautical-mile ‘RTI Race, configured to start and finish off Edgartown, has been an annual tradition on Martha’s Vineyard for 84 years, making it one of America’s oldest distance races. Last year, 78 boats took part in the race, and it is expected that many of those competing in the ‘RTI this year will use the ‘RTS as a warm-up. The ‘RTS Races will be between 20 and 25 nautical miles, around government marks on Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Sound (one race per day) and will be scored separately from the ‘RTI with separate prizes given.

Classes include ORC, PHRF-NE (including Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, and Doublehanded Divisions), and Multi-Hulls. Participating vessels must meet the Safety & Equipment Requirements outlined on the regatta website.

Current sponsors of Edgartown Race Weekend are Mount Gay Rum, North Sails, Regatta Craft Mixers, Hinckley Yachts, Storm Trysail Club, and Team One Newport.

www.rtirace.org

Sailing World on Water January
This is the twelfth year we have produced a weekly highlight show of the best sailing videos from all over the world. We film, distribute, and work with Sailing content producers globally, and we have hundreds of hours of top quality sailing content on our YouTube Channel which has 27,500 Subscribers. We are viewer funded, so if you would like to support us, then we have Pay Pal, Patreon, and website joining opportunities.

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Nicolas Abiven: "We hope to see the first sailing ships sailing in 2025"
This Autumn of 2021 the Aeoldrive / SolidSail project reached a new milestone with the start of building of the second part of the balestron rig (Aeoldrive) and the sails which are composite panels (SolidSail) of the demonstrator model which is in Saint-Nazaire. Multiplast is effectively doubly involved as they are manufacturing the sails as well as part of the mast tube. He is a an update with Nicolas Abiven who is the engineer in charge of the project for Chantiers de l'Atlantique.

Can you remind us just how this Aeoldrive / SolidSail project started out?
The desire of Chantiers de l'Atlantique to build ships that use wind for propulsion to reduce diesel consumption dates back a little over ten years. At first there was a considerable period of research and development and studies quickly showed that traditional flexible sails were not suitable for big surface areas both actually operating them and in terms of durability. The engineers then considered sails made of panels which were independent of each other, connected by hinges. This principle was validated in the summer of 2016, Chantiers then called me to take care of the actual implementation of the idea. We started in September of that year with a very small sail on a J/80, then the following year on a 130 m2 sail aboard Jean Le Cam's Imoca. These tests were conclusive, so that we mounted it on the Le Ponant cruise ship for a whole season, until October 2019. At the same time, we manufactured a prototype SolidSail of 50 m2 with a balestron rig which was installed in the port of Pornichet. We have been testing it for two years and we are very happy with it.

Where did the decision to go up to full scale come from?
At the end of 2019, we launched the construction of the first part of the balestron rigging and sails intended for use on the first cruise ships. These were all installed last summer on the Chantiers de l'Atlantique site, in Saint Nazaire. Now we are in the process of manufacturing the additional mast and sails: 1,500 m2 in all, 1,100 for the mainsail, 400 for the jib. So that we will have the first complete 70m high rig erected on the port of Saint-Nazaire in September 2022. At the same time, we are discussing the marketing sailing ships (called Silenseas) with owners. We hope that the first orders will be signed in the first quarter of 2022 and that they will be sailing from the summer of 2025.

multiplast.eu

Launchings
Ovni 370: how modern hull shape allows a 37ft aluminium centre-boarder to offer spacious ocean-going potential.

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The YYachts success story began with the Y8. After "Cool Breeze", the first YYacht ever, and further individual Y8 follow-up orders, YYachts now developed a modified 80 feet platform for a Swiss customer. For the new Y8, the YYachts design and development team based in Palma de Mallorca cooperated with Surge Projects. The Mallorcan design studio around Javier Jaudenes has a "knack" for a timelessly elegant design, but also has great experience in designing fast yachts. Surge designs have won many trophies, and the studio has developed such interesting yachts as "Win Win" or the Café Racer. YYachts CEO Dirk Zademack says: "Javier Jaudenes is an excellent fit for YYachts with his previous projects; he is a great addition to Bill Tripp. We build fast boats that are both safe and easy to handle. That they also display outstanding design is a given."

In contrast to the previous Y8, the new model has a wider stern, so in combination with the mast set further back, Javier Jaudenes predicts high speed potential for his design: "The Jib will provide a lot of speed. A lot of R&D results from previous projects have gone into the Y8. It is an essence of our experience and will be fast, but at the same time very safe under any conditions. The fact that YYachts builds from carbon naturally suits our philosophy." Jaudenes: "The new Y8 is a lot of fun. I would describe her as a good-mood yacht."

The first three units of the new Y8 have already been sold.

www.yyachts.de

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The RS Aero Class has an accolade of being a corinthian class with inclusivity at the core of its values. The RS Aero 6 rig has been developed to bolster this value further. Specifically designed for small adults, the RS Aero 6 rig will remove barriers for women and smaller men who have previously found themselves between rig sizes.

RS Aero Class Manager Peter Barton commented, “After a long period of consideration, trialling, testing and consulting it is really exciting for the RS Aero Class to be adopting the new RS Aero 6 rig. The time is now right within the Class' evolvement and international support for the proposal. The RS Aero 6 size fits a highly populated space between the RS Aero 5 & 7 rig sizes with a large number of current and future RS Aero owners eager to have one. The new option will provide a sweet spot for many sailors, notably smaller adults, and particularly females, keen to grow the new RS Aero 6 fleet and with it grow the RS Aero Class as a whole."

The new rig system includes a 6.3m² mainsail, which is manufactured by North Sails. The radial cut sail is in line with the existing characteristics of the RS Aero 7 mainsail but with a slightly flatter head.

rssailing.com

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The Cape 31s Give An Entirely New Meaning To “Local Club Evening Racing”

The Mark Mills-designed Cape 31s have been stretching their limbs and muscles at the Royal Cape Yacht Cub in South Africa for long enough now to attract much interest elsewhere, and by next year they’ll be coming to a club near you in Ireland to raise the pace in the local programme.

We can’t promise the weather, but the performance is guaranteed...

afloat.ie/sail/

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VPLP Design in collaboration with Olivier Petit, architect responsible for Antarctica (now Tara), has been given the task of designing Perseverance, a 40 m aluminium schooner which will serve as the supply ship for the Polar Pod, Jean-Louis Etienne’s future drifting oceanographic station in the Antarctic Ocean. She will be built by the Piriou yard and is scheduled for delivery in 2023.

vplp.fr/en/shipping/perseverance/

piriou.com

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1993 Swan 68-004 Explotadot . 950,000 VAT Paid EUR. Located in Badalona, Spain.

Swan 68-004 Explotadot was originally launched in 1993 as ‘Solleone’ for the chairman of Nautor’s Swan. She was the first Swan 68 to feature four guest cabins with a galley forward arrangement, allowing greater separation from guests and crew.

See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly

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Nautor's Swan Brokerage - Giorgio Passarella

Tel. +377 97 97 95 07
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Seaquest SQ46. POA USD.

Introducing the innovative SeaQuest 46 Catamaran. In a collaboration between Carkeek Design Partners and builder Eaton Marine, the SeaQuest Catamaran has arrived. Renowned racing yacht designer, Shaun Carkeek, delivers signature hull forms and sleek lines, currently proving themselves in races around the world including America‘s Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, and Grand Prix Yachting.

Eaton Marine has manufactured award-winning sailing vessels for nearly three decades. This new venture is based in Dubai, UAE, the construction and manufacturing epicenter of the world where cutting-edge technology is utilized in all aspects of building and design.

The synergy between elite design, build excellence, and progressive technology achieves a completely new level of combined performance, style, and capability. Advanced hull design, semi carbon-fibre construction, and acute attention to weight throughout, deliver performance without compromising an ounce of comfort.

This listing is for a brand new catamaran, currently under construction. Launching in 12/2021. Commission, Sea Trial, Delivery 1/2022.

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The Last Word
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!" -- attributed to Mark Twain (he never said it but he's the kind of guy who would have...)

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