In This Issue
• IRC Runners and Riders - RORC Caribbean 600
• Bermudes Lorient - Defi Pure Ocean
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• IC37 Class 2022 Season Championship Trophy
• A bumper year for the International Flying Fifteen Class at Cowes
• The Kin of Cape Cod Shipbuilding
• 18 Footers Club Championship Final This Sunday
• Entries open for 2022 RYA Youth Nationals
• New Zealand Challenge yacht up for grabs
• Enright speaks at One Ocean Summit
• Featured Charter: Figaro 3 - Raw
• Featured Brokerage:
• • 2006 Marstrom Seacart 30'
• • Globe - Ex IMOCA 60
• • Outremer 55 - NEW BOAT
• The Last Word: James Joyce

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IRC Runners and Riders - RORC Caribbean 600
Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Club Swan 125 Skorpios (MON) skippered by Fernando Echavarri is one of the favourites for Monohull Line Honours. Photo by Team Skorpios. Click on image to enlarge.

Seventy-five boats are entered for the RORC Caribbean 600 which starts on Monday 21 February in Antigua. The bulk of the astonishing fleet will be racing under IRC for overall victory and the RORC Caribbean 600 Trophy. The glitterati of the sailing world will be taking part, as will passionate Corinthians. Over 700 sailors from 32 different nations will take on the thrilling race in the deep mid-winter of the Northern Hemisphere. The beauty of the course is matched by the beast of conditions; trade winds and ocean swell create an exhilarating blast in tropical air around 11 islands in the Caribbean.

Dmitry Rybolovlev's ClubSwan 125 Skorpios (MON), sailed by Fernando Echavarri, and the VPLP/Verdier 100 Comanche (CAY) skippered by Mitch Booth are favourites for Monohull Line Honours. Both Maxis are very capable of beating the Monohull Race Record set in 2018 by George David's Rambler 88 (37 hours, 41 minutes, 45 seconds). The wild card for Line Honours is the Farr 100 Leopard skippered by Chris Sherlock. Leopard took Line Honours in the very first edition and it is great to see the famous boat back in Antigua. Comanche and Skorpios have only raced each other once before with Comanche taking the spoils in the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race.

Fifteen Maxis will race in IRC Zero, just one less than the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race. For the RORC Caribbean 600 six Volvo 70s and three VO65s will be racing in IRC Super Zero. The fastest on IRC Rating is the Volvo 70 L4 Trifork (DEN) sailed by Jens Dolmer, with Joern Larsen at the helm. Tactician Bouwe Bekking commented that L4 Trifork's primary goal is to be the first Volvo 70 to finish the race. Competition in the Volvo 70s will come from Johannes Schwarz's Ocean Breeze with a crew from the Yacht Club Sopot in Poland and Il Mostro (CAN) skippered by Gilles Barbot of Atlas Ocean Racing. I Love Poland (POL) skippered by Konrad Lipski has one of the youngest teams in the race, including teenagers Mateusz and Kacper Gwozdz. Olympic Gold medallist and Volvo Ocean Race sailor Tamara Echegoyen will be racing on Jens Lindner's HYPR (ESP). Six different nationalities make up the crew on Lance Shepherd's Telefonica Black (GBR), with charter guests from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland and the United States.

www.caribbean600.rorc.org

Bermudes Lorient - Defi Pure Ocean
After two successful editions in 2020 and 2021 between St Pierre et Miquelon and Lorient, The Defi Pure Ocean will take place between Bermuda and Lorient in May 2022.

Bermudes Lorient - Defi Pure Ocean, proposed by Pure Ocean, Absolute Dreamer and Lorient Grand Large is a sailing challenge across the Atlantic Ocean, open to all sailing boat types and classes, with several goals:

- Beat the reference time
- Raise public awareness about the Ocean and its conservation
- Collect useful data via citizen science to help scientific research for the Ocean
- Raise funds to support state-of-the-art applied research projects to conserve marine biodiversity, protect and restore fragile marine ecosystems and increase knowledge of the ocean

The core value of this challenge is to be an "other" race, fully focused on the urgent need to protect the Ocean and the means to achieve this.

Registration is open! Do you have a sailboat and would like to take part in an extraordinary challenge?

Join the adventure and commit to the Ocean!

www.pure-ocean.org/en/race-for-pure-ocean/7986-2/

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

World news
It's onto the Generation 2 scows with Sam Manuard and David Raison... but foils are a dead-end, a green Class40, a packed Rhum, Luke Berry gets his prize, Finot-Conq are back in the game, Kiwi bitch-fest continues, a bumpy ride down to Hobart and Joe Harris is officially our latest Captain Persistent. Carlos Pich, Patrice Carpentier, Blue Robinson, Ivor Wilkins, Dobbs Davis

Much to report upon
A family affair... as three-time TJV winner Antoine Carpentier talks to his uncle about the pace of development in the Class40

It's the people (stupid)
Having filled the top six places at the last Moth Worlds it's fair to call Paul Bieker's first Moth design a success. But he did not get there alone

Totally bonkers
Giuliano Luzzatto sits down with Roberto Lacorte, project manager Micky Costa and sail designer Alessio Razeto as he tries to 'come to terms' with Lacorte's new flying 60ft coastal racer that is now nearing completion at King Marine

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IC37 Class 2022 Season Championship Trophy
Eligibility: All IC37 Class One Design yachts and "Charterers" (together, "Teams"). A Charterer is defined as an individual or group that are signatories to a specific charter agreement with the New York Yacht Club.

Events: Required regattas are the 168th Annual Regatta, IC37 Class National Championships (held as part of Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex) and IC37 Class North American Championship plus at least two of the following regattas: East Coast Championship (held the second weekend of the American Yacht Club Spring Regatta), Sail Newport Regatta, and Safe Harbor Race Weekend (together, "Other Events"). If a Team sails more than two Other Events, the best two scores will be counted.

Scoring: High Point as follows: The ranking for the Season Championship will be calculated by adding the five scored events as determined in paragraph 1 as follows: A Team's final score for each event will be the number of the participants minus the number of boats that finished ahead of it. For example, if a Team wins a 25-boat event, it will be awarded 25 points; second place will earn 24 points; third place 23 points and so on. The 25th place boat will earn 1 point. A boat attending an event and scoring DNC will receive 0 points. If a boat is scored DNC in all races of an event then that event will not count towards qualifying. The Team with the highest combined score will win the Season Championship. Ties between two Teams will be broken by head-to-head results. Ties between three or more teams will be broken based on the results of the North American Championship of the current season.

Prizes: Awards will be given to the top 5 Teams and presented at the awards ceremony for the North American Championship.

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A bumper year for the International Flying Fifteen Class at Cowes
Photo by Hamo Thorneycroft, yacht-photos.co.uk . Click on image to enlarge.

The International Flying Fifteen 75th Anniversary Regatta, incorporating the 2022 European Championship and 75th Anniversary Race, will be hosted by Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club from 20 to 26 August 2022.

Over the week before from 18 to 22 August, there will be an Open Regatta weekend and series of shore-based events celebrating the life and work of Uffa Fox. The event is called Uffa Fox 2022.

Uffa designed the Flying Fifteen in late 1947. There are several stories on how it came about from a eureka moment in the bath to the workforce stretching out an International 14 mould in the workshop!

Sailing will be at the heart of the event which will also include static displays for historic boats. The Classic Boat Museum will host receptions and talks in their buildings which include a large Uffa Fox Collection.

Uffa Fox designs include:
National 12, International 14, North Norfolk 16, National 18, Firefly, Pegasus, Jollyboat, Albacore, Redwing, Daysailer, Flying 15, Other Racing Keelboats, Duckling, Fox Cub 18 and Atalanta.

There is only one criterium for entry and participation and that is that boats must have been designed solely by Uffa Fox.

For more info on the Flying Fifteen 2022 European championship visit: www.ff75.org

The Kin of Cape Cod Shipbuilding
Heirlooms and albums get passed down through generations, but for the Goodwin family, it's the shipyard and the pride of building everlasting one-designs.

Wendy Goodwin had been so busy running Cape Cod Shipbuilding, the 122-year-old family business, she didn't have time to have a family of her own. Then the pandemic hit, the opportunity arose, and she began the process of fostering to adopt an 8-year-old girl.

On a day in early spring, when the sun shines on the Cape and the winter is almost forgotten, Goodwin's daughter is in her office attending math class remotely. Goodwin is in a spare room, once the domain of the parts manager. Long before that, this space was where her grandfather, Les Goodwin, slept with his ballerina bride, Audrey, in the early days after they purchased the boatyard.

The place today certainly looks its age. Past Cranberry Highway, on the south side of the two-lane Narrows Road, a sign welcomes visitors onto the waterfront property along the swift-running Wareham River, which feeds into Buzzards Bay. A dozen buildings of different sizes and shapes are strewn about the 9.5-acre grounds. Most wear their patina of age with pride. All serve their purpose. No one ever said that a working shipyard had to be fancy, but quite a few boats inside and under Cape Cod's care certainly are.

The past here is omnipresent. Outdated molds gather moss and have become part of the landscape, proving the longevity of fiberglass. Old-growth wooden floors inside the buildings are worn smooth by generations of boatbuilders. Big machines, lathes, jigs and tools created by dearly departed artisans live on, ready to put in an honest day's work on designs that may well be immortal.

Full article by Joe Berkeley in SailingWorld.com

18 Footers Club Championship Final This Sunday
Tech2 team with the League Club Championship in its grasp. Click on image for photo gallery.

One of the Australian 18 Footers League's most important events of each season comes to a conclusion this Sunday (February 20) on Sydney Harbour with the final race of the 2022 Club Championship.

The championship recognises the most consistently good performances in the club's fleet as no team is allowed to discard its worst performance from the 17 races.

2021 club champion Tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake, has once again proved itself as being able to maintain consistently high-performance standards over an extended period and holds an almost unbeatable lead going into Sunday's final race.

While the importance of winning the championship is undoubted, there is a lot more at stake for all teams as Sunday's race is the last championship-style race before the 2022 JJ Giltinan Championship is contested on Sydney Harbour from March 5-13.

After winning the NSW Championship earlier in the year, Tech2 had to be content with finishing in fourth place, behind Andoo (Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta, Sam Newton), Smeg(Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge, Zac Barnabas) and Noakesailing (Sean Langman, Ed Powys, Josh Porebski) at the Australian Championship, which concluded last Sunday.

With no discards allowed, there are only two teams capable of taking the 2022 title. Tech2 and the Yandoo team of John Winning, Fang Warren and Mike Kennedy.

Tech2 holds a 20 points lead over Yandoo and it will take a dramatic problem for the Tech2 team to prevent it from winning a third consecutive Club Championship.

Sail Media'slive-as-it-happens broadcast team will be on Sydney Harbour to capture all the action.

Live streaming is available at www.18footers.com by clicking on the '18 Footers TV' link.

DON'T FORGET: The 2022 JJ Giltinan Championship will be sailed on Sydney Harbour, from March 5-13. -- Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

www.18footers.com

Entries open for 2022 RYA Youth Nationals
The RYA Youth National Championships is making a much-anticipated return to Wales in 2022 - and entries are now open.

The week-long regatta heads to Plas Heli, the Welsh National Sailing Academy in Pwllheli, north Wales, for the first time since 2016.

The regatta will take place from April 9 to 15 against the backdrop of the beautiful Cardigan Bay, and will be the first time that all current British Youth Sailing youth pathway classes have competed at the same event.

A full foiling compliment of iQFOiL and kitefoil classes will feature alongside the ILCA 6 and 7, the 420, 29er and Nacra 15.

To enter the regatta head to the event's dedicated website youthnationals.rya.org.uk.

The site also contains all the information you need about the regatta, including entry fees, a class-specific schedule and the Notice of Race.

The RYA Youth National Championships app will also be returning for 2022. Available from the App Store and Google Play, it will be the main channel of communication to competitors and can be used to access important regatta information as well as submit documents, requests and protests.

www.britishyouthsailing.co.uk

www.plasheli.org

America's Cup cast-offs: Unique New Zealand Challenge yacht up for grabs
The distinctive red hull of NZL 20 peeks through the trees near the entrance to the Gulf Harbour Marina. Photo by Chris Mckeen/Stuff. Click on image to enlarge.

Team New Zealand's first successful America's Cup boat, 1995's "Black Magic", enjoys its retirement proudly on display at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. But what happens to some of the boats that didn't win the cup? Caroline Williams reports.

NZL 20, the yacht used by New Zealand Challenge in the 1992 America's Cup in San Diego in the United States, has sat at the Gulf Harbour Marina on Auckland's Whangaparāoa Peninsula for more than a decade.

It is a humble resting place compared with the museum glory afforded to NZL 32, aka Black Magic.

The distinctive red of NZL 20's hull is one of the first boats to greet you as you drive into the marina. Despite needing a good polish, the old girl is in OK nick.

What happened to NZL 20 between the conclusion of the competition and it ending up at the Gulf Harbour Marina is unclear.

Gulf Harbour Marina manager Mike Keown said the marina seized the boat from its owner, who went into arrears with his fees.

"Someone could get themselves a really nice project," Keown said.

With the yacht comes a 40-foot container, its rigging, sails, deck gear and winches - all of which are in good condition.

NZL 20's Trade Me auction has a buy now price of $30,000 but Keown said the marina was open to offers and more interested in seeing it get another shot at glory on the water than profit.

www.sail-world.com

Enright speaks at One Ocean Summit: "Collaboration is a necessity for positive ocean health."
11th Hour Racing Team Skipper, Charlie Enright, joined some of the world's very best offshore sailors at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, France, to appeal for global collaboration for the health of the ocean.

The three-day summit was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations, with an aim to deliver concrete action through global policy.

Enright highlighted the importance of sustainable innovation and the collective responsibility of the marine industry to work together for positive change.

11th Hour Racing Team's recently published lifecycle analysis study presented as an example of how to initiate collective efforts amongst sports teams, NGOs, and politicians.

Enright and an international line-up of sailing talent, including the likes of Vendee Globe winner François Gabart (FRA), Pip Hare (GBR), Yves Parlier (FRA), Alan Roura (SUI), and Charlie Dalin (FRA) confirmed their commitment by signing the 'Seafarer's Appeal for the Ocean'. The Appeal calls on governments around the world to act now for positive ocean health.

"Not one person here alone, not one single government, nor one organization can protect our ocean on their own. It is only through collaboration can we make the radical changes that are required for positive ocean health," concluded Enright.

11thhourracing.org

Featured Charter
Figaro 3 - Raw. POA.

The Figaro 3 is the first production foiling one-design monohull. Resulting from a collaboration between Beneteau’s best experts and the Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prevost (VPLP) office, the architects of the two last boats to win the Vendee Globe, this boat is fast, powerful and very exciting to sail. It is equipped with foils, a slender and deeper keel, a setback mast and an extensive and large sail plan.

The Figaro 3 has recently been awarded Sailing Worlds “Boat of the Year” for 2019, with judges praising its sailing on all points of sail! Chartering the Figaro 3 will be the experience of a lifetime. A truly awesome racing machine, you are bound to have an exhilarating time on the water putting the boat through its paces.

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Featured Brokerage
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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1992 Globe - Ex IMOCA 60. 110000 EUR. Located in Gdansk, Poland.

GLOBE - Ex Bagages Superior, winner of the 1992 Vendée Globe, 2nd in the Transat Jacques Vabre 1993 and 2nd in the Route du Rhum 1994 with skipper Alain Gauthier.

Ex Legal le Gout, 4th in the Vendée Globe 1997 with skipper Eric Dumont.

Ex UUDS, 10th in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2001 and 8th in the Route du Rhum 2002 with skipper Miranda Merron.

Ex Operon, 2nd in the Velux 5 Oceans Race 2011 with Zbigniew Gutkowski.

She is a great Open Imoca 60 type monohull. She is ideal to win next Ostar Race.

She is well equipped: canting keel, carbon mast, central water ballast for upwind sailing and twin rudders.

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Outremer 51 - New Boat. POA EUR.

The Outremer 51 is THE reference blue water catamaran for families sailing around the world. This best seller was awarded European Yacht Of the Year and Boat Of the Year.

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