EuroSail News #5014 - 4 February
In This Issue
• Chief Positions for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
• 44Cup Back Up To Full Strength For 2022
• Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
• Shipwreck Found In US Confirmed As Captain Cook's Endeavour
• Dismasted on a delivery trip: How we fixed it and lessons learned
• 2,500 Years Of Perfectly Preserved Ships
• WASZP 2022 EuroCup series announced
• The Pirate Code
• Launchings
• Featured Charter: Swan 80 - Umiko
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Aeolos P45
• • Zeydon Z60 - 'Regulus'
• • Carbon Ocean 82 'Aegir'
• The Last Word: Daniel Dennett
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Race Official Technical Delegate and Chief Positions for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The appointees are:
Ricardo Navarro (BRA), Technical Delegate – Ricardo is the current chair of the Race Officials Committee and was the Field of Play Manager at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He has served as the Technical Delegate at several Regional Games including the 2019 Pan Am Games, a role he will reprise in 2023. This is his first Olympic Games Technical Delegate position.
Pinar Coskuner Genc (TUR), Principal Race Officer – Pinar was a key member of the Tokyo 2020 Race Management Team and is currently the Regions and Development Committee Chair.
Ana Sanchez Del Campo Ferrer (ESP), Chair of International Jury – Ana is currently the Chair of the Racing Rules Committee and represented World Sailing as part of the jury team at Tokyo 2020.
Jurgen Cluytmans (BEL), Chair of Technical Committee – Jurgen is currently Equipment Committee chair and previously served as the vice-chair of the Technical Committee at Tokyo 2020.
Genc will lead a team of Course Representatives, responsible for organising the racing of each Olympic Event, with a supporting team of an additional International Race Officers.
Ana Sanchez will Chair the International Jury, leading a team which will be tasked with ensuring the Racing Rules of Sailing are properly applied to ensure a fair competition.
Cluytmans will chair a committee of International Measurers, each with a specific area of expertise related to the Olympic Equipment used in competition at the Games. The Technical Committee will be responsible for ensuring that each boat complies with the Class-specific rules.
44Cup Back Up To Full Strength For 2022
For its 15th season, the 44Cup will see ten teams on the start line for the first event of 2022 in Lanzarote, hosted by Calero Marinas in Puerto Calero over the 9 - 13 February.
Alongside the long-term regulars within the fleet, the new additions have come about thanks to the 44Cup's own boat, which was made available last year for teams interested in joining the circuit.
Moscow-based lawyer Valeriya Kovelenko first tried the RC44 at the World Championship event in Scarlino 2021 and has committed her team ArtTube to the fleet by purchasing a boat for the 2022 season. Kovelenko is the circuit's first female owner-driver and is supported by her experienced crew led by tactician Igor Lisovenko.
Taking the guest helm of the 44Cup's class boat for event one in Puerto Calero will be Melges 32 World champion Christian Schwoerer and his team La Pericolosa.
From Lanzarote, it's on to a favourite venue for the fleet – Cascais, Portugal from 11 - 15 May. At the end of July will be the 44Cup Marstrand, where the locals and sailing fans on this famous Swedish summer holiday hotspot will be rooting for Artemis Racing and her Swedish owner-driver Torbjorn Tornqvist.
On Peninsula Racing, British double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott joins owner John Bassadone. Standing in for Hamish Pepper on Nico Poons' Charisma will be fiery Italian Vasco Vascotto, while on Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika Francesco Bruni will call tactics.
44Cup 2022 Event Schedule
9 - 13 February 2022 - 44Cup Calero Marinas, Lanzarote
11 - 15 May 2022 - 44Cup Cascais, Portugal
29 June - 3 July 2022 - 44Cup Marstrand, Sweden
12 - 16 October 2022 - 44Cup World Championship Portoroz, Slovenia
7 - 11 December 2022 - To be announced
Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
This month's nominees:
Dominique Knuppel (URU)
Like father like daughter. Dominique Knuppel is another Tokyo 2020 athlete with family history, father Bernd racing at the Olympic regatta in both Seoul 1988 and LA in 1984. Knuppel is not nominated for her relatively modest finish in Enoshima, 18th in the Nacra 17s, but for the enormous amount of work she puts in at home in Uruguay encouraging and supporting young sailors new to the sport. Montevideo's recruitment dynamo...
Frithjof Kleen (GER)
The GBR 49er sailed by Bithell and helm Dylan Fletcher snatched 2020 gold out from under the noses of huge pre-event favourites Burling and Tuke by successfully pulling off a most unlikely gybe in the final inches of the last race, filling a spinnaker that should never have filled in time let alone started to pull. A passionate supporter of national as well as Olympic-level dinghy sailing, 470 silver at London 2012 and gold in Japan. A nice way to bookend an outstanding career
Last Month's winner:
Stuart Bithell (GBR)
'Wins gold in Japan one week as super-crew then the UK Merlin title the following week as helm. Enough said... Not a bad bloke either!' - Barrie Edgington; 'A great ambassador for the sport, spends vast amounts of his time coaching up-and-coming youth sailors and still finds time to win a race or two' - Peter Jackson; 'When Stuart turned up at the Merlin Nationals after Tokyo we all thought, naaah. Oops' - Neal Lillywhite. 'Some fortnight!!!' - Charlie Swanson.
View past winners of Sailor of the Month
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Cast your vote, submit comments, even suggest a candidate for next month at seahorsemagazine.com/sailor-of-the-month/vote-for-sailor-of-the-month
Shipwreck Found In US Confirmed As Captain Cook's Endeavour After 22-Year Search
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) announced a wreck in Newport Harbour, off Rhode Island in the United States, had been confirmed as the ship. The Endeavour, which was scuttled in the harbour as part of the American War of Independence in 1788, has a prominent place in Australian history. In 1770 it became the first European vessel to reach the east coast.
ANMM director and CEO, Kevin Sumption, said the confirmation was significant.
"I am satisfied that this is the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia's maritime history."
Maritime archaeologists have been investigating several 18th century shipwrecks in a 2 square mile (5.2 square kilometres) area, known as RI 2394, since 1999.
"The last pieces of the puzzle had to be confirmed before I felt able to make this call. Based on archival and archaeological evidence, I'm convinced it's the Endeavour." Mr Sumption said.
Originally launched in 1764 as the Earl of Pembroke, four years later it was renamed Endeavour by Britain's Royal Navy.
Over the next three years, the ship voyaged to the South Pacific, firstly on an astronomical mission to record the transit of Venus in Tahiti, before charting Australia's east coast and the coast of New Zealand in 1770.
The vessel lay forgotten for more than two centuries, after it was sold to private owners and deliberately sunk in 1778 by British forces.
Dismasted on a delivery trip: How we fixed it and lessons learned
We were about 10 miles south of the Needles and Jeff decided it was time to gybe and head north.
The gybe didn't wake me but the almost instantaneous loud bang, followed a shortwhile later by a shout from Jeff:
"Rob – the mast has broken!" got me up pretty quickly. Going on deck, I could see that the mast had snapped almost completely into two pieces just above the upper spreaders.
The top third of the mast was hanging down by a thread of aluminium at the break and also supported by the internal halyards.
The roller genoa was in and out of the water and the lower two thirds of the mast was still standing but, with now loose lower shrouds, was waving around all over the place.
The swell, which we hadn't really noticed up to that point, was actually about 2m and really making the rig roll all over the place.
A quick appraisal left us pretty unsure what to do next and, for a brief moment, a little bit of panic set in.
We did have a VHF but the antenna was at the top of the mast.
We tried the handheld VHF we carried but no joy (and, with hindsight, not really sure what we would have achieved).
It soon became clear we needed the mast down – it was very not pleasant having it swing around above us.
But – we had absolutely nothing except a rigging set with a Captain Currey knife and a pair of pliers-...
Full article by Rob Crabbe in Practical Boatowner
2,500 Years Of Perfectly Preserved Ships
A shipwreck lover's dream has been discovered in the azure waters of the Black Sea: around 60 wrecks, from the Byzantine era to the 19th century, revealing 2,500 years of maritime history.
Described as a "ship graveyard" due to the sheer numbers, the plethora of ships found is not only incredible but some of them are in astonishingly good shape too.
The three-year project, Black Sea MAP, from the University of Southampton's Centre for Maritime Archeology and funded by the EEF, is one of the largest marine archeological projects ever staged, and to begin with it wasn't even searching for ships.
Researchers set out to complete geophysical surveys of the Black Sea to study the effects of climate change and how it had changed the environment along the Bulgarian coast. However, they found a whole lot more in this submerged world.
The earliest ship they found dates to the 4-5th century, and they go right through the Roman Empire, 10th-century Byzantine, and the Ottoman Empire, covering a period of 2,500 years and offering fascinating insight into seafaring routes and traditions.
WASZP 2022 EuroCup series announced
The EuroCup series returns to the WASZP calendar for 2022, adding even more high-quality racing opportunities for WASZP sailors around Europe.
This edition of the series makes six stops at some of Europe's best foiling venues. Scores from three events are required to contest the overall prizes, giving sailors plenty of opportunity to get their names on the series scoreboard.
The first event heads to Lanveoc, France for the 21st edition of the Grand Prix Ecole Navale.
Next the series heads to the Netherlands for the first international WASZP event for the Dutch. Medemblik, the famous sailing town, is hosting a new concept regatta - the High Performance Regatta.
Foiling Week is the third regatta on the list. This year the event, which has just been awarded World Sailing Special Event status, is perfectly positioned ahead of the WASZP Games in Malcesine, so the turnout is expected to be massive.
To celebrate the recent formation of the Danish WASZP Association, the series heads to Copenhagen for round four.
In September, the series heads to Santander for event number five. This event also forms the Spanish National Championship and the qualifier for the Spanish SailGP Inspire event
The final EuroCup event of 2022 heads to Germany and Bayerischer Yacht Club.
The Pirate Code
Despite the common stereotype depicting pirates as swashbuckling marauders and bloodthirsty predators of the high seas, pirates applied a construed form of democratic constitutional rule to minimise conflict and create piratical law and order amongst a ship's crew.
The Pirate Code was an article of agreement that varied from captain to captain, but were variously called the Chasse-Partie, Charter Party, Custom of the Coast, or the Jamaica Discipline.
Each sailor was expected to sign or make his mark on the articles, inducting them into the ship's crew and entitling them to vote, bear arms, be due compensation for injury and share in the ships plunder.
Nine piratical articles have survived, chiefly from text written by Charles Johnson in his biographies of contemporary pirates "A General History of the Pyrates" from 1724. Johnson's book gives an almost mythical status to piracy, which many historians suggest has led to the modern conception of pirates in popular culture.
The first surviving Pirates Code was written by the Irish captain George Cusack, who operated in northern Europe and the West Indies in the late 17th century.
Launchings
Dykstra Naval Architects, the studio that boasts over 50 years of experience in design, redesign, naval architecture, and marine engineering of classic and modern performance yachts, is working on 26m (85ft) 'World Cruising Ketch.'
It collaborates on the project with Rhoades Young Design of Britain and Marine Construction Management of Newport, Rhode Island.
Dykstra Naval Architects says the ketch is for a "very experienced couple, who want to sail the farthest corners of the world." Consequently, special attention goes into shorthanded and centralized sailing systems to enable the owners to handle most sailing functions from the safety and comfort of the cockpit.
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The first HH 44 catamaran that will be introduced at this winter's boat shows is a unique and innovative new design that can be configured in multiple ways to suit a wide range of owners and their specific needs.
The basic boat is a high-tech, high-performance cruising boat with a lot of carbon fiber, curved daggerboards, a powerful carbon rig and all of the details that have made HH cats leaders in the performance cruising category.
The 44 is also a true hybrid with both diesel and electric propulsion and includes a massive solar array and water generators. For cruising sailors who want all of the comforts of a catamaran, the eco- friendliness of a hybrid and want to sail at speeds close to the wind speed, the HH 44 is a very attractive design.
But there are many sailors who are happy to forgo the high-performance end of the sailing spectrum and the complications of the hybrid power systems in exchange for simplicity, so HH offers the 44 in an OC version. The OC 44 has fixed keels instead of daggerboards, diesels instead of the eco-drive, gel-coated hulls instead of custom paint coatings and a single swing-wheel helm; but, as with all high-end cats, there are a lot of options that allow you to build the OC 44 to be almost as high-tech as the original. -- George Day, Cruising Compass
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Eggemoggin 47 Plus – Designed by Brooklin Boat Yard this is the next iteration of the Eggemoggin 47. This version of the popular racing daysailer will be faster, easier to sail, and more comfortable than its predecessors. To be launched in Spring 2022.
A wolf in sheep's clothing, the Eggemoggin 47 combines the classic elegance of yachting's past with the performance of today's hot racing classes. The extremely lightweight and incredibly strong hull is strip-planked Cedar sandwiched between inner and outer carbon skins. The decks are built with lightness and strength in mind, but the eye sees only the traditional laid teak, varnished brightwork and shining polished stainless steel deck hardware.
The Eggemoggin 47 has an aggressive underwater profile with a fin / bulb lead ballast keel and balanced carbon fiber spade rudder. Aloft the Eggemoggin 47 is powered by a generous (846 sq ft) sail plan. The double-spreader, fractionally-rigged carbon fiber mast has lightweight PBO standing rigging, Harken roller-furling headstay, self-tacking jib track and Leisure-Furl boom. Most halyards and sail control lines are led back to the cockpit making single or short-handed daysailing a breeze while the well laid-out cockpit and deck plan make for highly effective crew work when in racing mode.
brooklinboatyard.com/lefort-47/
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Meet Moonshot #1, Syroco's high-tech speed sailing craft.
The project led by French kiteboarder Alex Caizergues aims to break the world speed sailing record.
The goal of Moonshot #1 is to dethrone Vestas Sailrocket 2's 2012 record set at 65.45 knots (121.21 kilometers per hour) over 500 meters in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
Moonshot #1 expects to reach 80.99 knots (150 kilometers per hour) by the end of 2022, most likely in the south of France, where Syroco has its headquarters.
Featured Charter
Swan 80 - Umiko
Umiko’s condition can quite simply be summed up in one word - stunning. She has been continually maintained and cherished throughout her life by professional crew for very discerning owners. She has also had the benefit of numerous upgrades during construction and post building. These upgrades have been made with full consultation with the factory. Maintained to exacting standards this Swan will appeal to anyone looking for the very best, whether they wish to cruise, race -- or both!
See listing details in Nautors Swan Charters
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Featured Brokerage
Aeolos P45. POA EUR.
LOS P45 breaks with many common views. With her crisp, streamlined lines, designed to cut through the waves and eat the miles, you’ll get a thrill just by looking at it. The silhouette and proportions are unmistakably AEOLOS. Athletic with clear contours and powerful curves.
The AP45 has been created to anticipate the future, as demonstrated by the use of innovative technology, including a carbon mast and the extensive use of carbon fiber. Optimised to the limits and built-in carbon prepregs. Powered by a huge ballast ratio of 50% this boat gives you a new speed experience. The design, performance and sailing dynamics flow effortlessly into this visionary approach to racing DNA. The huge twin steering wheels offer plenty of perfect positions to control this beast in any situation.
See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly
Contact
Aeolos Yachts
Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates
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2008 Zeydon Z60. 790000 EUR. Located in Marmaris, Turkey.
Super cool Zeydon Z60 - fresh from a large refit including new carbon sails. Her design has been very carefully thought-out, especially how the space flows from on deck to down below. Built in Belgium to a very high standard with an impressive strength to weight ratio meaning she sails like a dream.
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Ben Cooper
Berthon Yacht Sales
Tel: 0044 (0)1590 679 222
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2011 Carbon Ocean 82 AEGIR. 2,900,000 EUR. Located in Palma de Mallorca.
Carbon Ocean AEGIR, exceptionnal cruiser-racer, regatta winner and great cruiser !
Light, strong, fast and sharp on the water, she can also turn into an ideal blue water cruising yacht, offering excellent comfort and all the amenities of high standard sailing style, with 2 double cabins forward and one triple cabin with single beds, a large saloon and a cockpit table up to 5 guests
See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly
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