EuroSail News #5042

In This Issue
• Windsurfing's Newest Olympic Foiling Class
• Meet Tall Ship Grace O'Malley: A Replacement for Asgard II?
• Have a rigging challenge and can’t find the perfect Harken solution?
• Crunch Time
• Foiling Film Festival ready for take off
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Mallorca Sailing Centre Training Regatta
• Clinker boats - the Viking era
• Oyster World Rally 2026-27 dates announced
• Sam Richmond
• Featured Charter: Cookson 50 - TestaCuore
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Shogun 50 - Lady Killer
• • Kelpie - Alfred Mylne 57 FT Gaff Cutter 1903/2012
• • Aeolos P30
• The Last Word: Calvin & Hobbes

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Windsurfing's Newest Olympic Foiling Class
In just its second year as an official class, senior and youth participation in iQFOiL is soaring. The class started fast in 2022 and in the first two months of the year, the class has already held the iQFOiL Games, Winter Series, Andalusian Sailing Week, the US Open Series in Miami and Clearwater as well as several national events in the Southern Hemisphere. The highlight, however, has to be the Lanzarote Foil Challenge, a special Regatta which introduced a brand new extreme ULTRA format.

While long-distance is a fixed part of the annual iQFOiL Class calendar, the beginning of February saw the first extreme Ultra Regatta at the Lanzarote Foil Challenge.

Competitors had to race over 200km around the island while competing in six different legs. The competitor with the least points at the end of the day would win the challenge.

The race was won by Nicolas Goyard (FRA), following up his impressive performance at the 2022 iQFOiL International Games with another excellent showing. Amado Vrieswijk (NED) finished second and Mateus Isaac (BRA) was third.

The action continues in March and April with the North American Championships, Spanish National Championships, the Trofeo Princesa Sofía in Palma, Mallorca, Campione del Garda in Italy and French Olympic Week in Hyères.

www.sailing.org

Meet Tall Ship Grace O'Malley: A Replacement for Asgard II?
Intended to replace the lost Asgard II, the Atlantic Youth Trust Charity chaired by Round the World sailor Enda O'Coineen, says a 164ft Tradewind schooner it has identified will act as the new 'flagship' for introducing young people across the island of Ireland to maritime and careers.

In addition, the Charity says the tall ship will have a key role to play in the areas of research, innovation, tourism promotion and providing a support outlet for vulnerable young people.

In looking for a solution to this, the Atlantic Youth Trust have identified, a 164ft Tradewind schooner lying in Sweden which is an ideally suited replacement for delivering youth maritime development and sail training. The ship is to be renamed the Grace O'Malley, after the so-called Mayo 'Pirate Queen'. Built of steel in a modern structure, and elegant lines of a 19th century Tall Ship, she is considered fit for purpose to high safety specifications.

The Grace O'Malley, is a 164ft Tradewind schooner. The ship is a realistic and modern version of her Edwardian counterpart. She is a replica of a timber merchant schooner originally built in Denmark in 1909.

Built to the same design of Lars-Erik Johansson and constructed in Sweden by Kockcums Submarine Yard, she was launched on 10th August 1980.

afloat.ie/sail/tall-ships

Have a rigging challenge and can’t find the perfect Harken solution?
Search Peter’s Desk Drawer
Harken has been building hardware for 50+ years. We get excellent suggestions all the time for new products we should design. Some of those become best sellers in our catalog. And then, there's a group of products that are very slight, purposeful, sometimes even obscure adaptations of that stuff. Not everyone knows it, but we sell them at catalog, not custom, prices and carefully include them in the collection we call Peter's Desk Drawer. He's out of town. So we're sliding the drawer open.

Perhaps a boat builder requested a modification for a new design. Maybe there's something in there just perfect for that traveler challenge you have. You never know what you'll find in the drawer. (If you only knew...)

So, look for Peter's Desk Drawer in the 'Complementary Hardware' section of our catalog and website. If you don't find what you're looking for, please Harken Technical Service. Those guys know just about every product we've ever made!

Open the drawer: harken.com/en/shop/peters-desk-drawer/

Crunch Time
Mousetrap. Snakes & Ladders. Cluedo. Monopoly. Bring them all together in a virtual reality Metaverse and you have the America's Cup venue bidding war in a nutshell. As we get to the business end of the decision, it sounds like one door is opening as others close with the bidders lining up like desperate financiers circling an Oligarch's prize asset. Rugs are being pulled, mis-steps occurring, geo-politics is in play and a war of local words is a gnats whisker from erupting. The Cup is on tenterhooks. Great isn't it?

And it's big business firmly at play too with the Qatari's looking in pole position to secure the future of Team New Zealand through the medium of clever middle-men in Spain. Barcelona is reportedly back in the frame and don't forget that the Qatar Sports Group has a rather significant interest in that City's football team. Malaga is still right there in the running, and guess who owns that city's football club? Throw a blanket over the Costa del Sol and there's gas money everywhere like a giant vampire squid jabbing its tentacles into the investment world, desperately trying to find a long term yield. The America's Cup will do just fine and be a very welcome guest on the Costa Al Arabia.

And plugged into this shady matrix are the key players of the Cup world, busy jetting from venue to venue, glad-handing and eyeballing the prospective venues with one eye on the prevailing weather conditions and another on the cheque-book whilst keeping the sailing world in suspense and holding their breath on the Ukraine situation.

Foiling Film Festival ready for take off
After the huge success and popularity of all the foiling sports in the last years, this year Foiling Week launches the first Film Festival all about Foiling: a competitive event bringing together the spirit of adventure, action, environment and new technology from around the world.

Foiling Film Festival features the best foiling adventures, water sports action, environmental and event documentaries.

All films can be subscribed starting from March 15th until April 30th (late deadline May 20th) on the Film Freeway online Platform here or through email at

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

Secret sauce
The further your racing takes you from land the harder it is becoming to succeed without mastery of and access to the latest onboard routeing tools. Fred Augendre, Jean-Luc Nelias, Alexis Loison and Jean-Yves Bernot

A welcome addition
Autopilots are an absolute hotbed of performance development - the news that a market leader in superyacht electronics is joining the party will raise the bar even further. A+T has built a well-established reputation for high performance instruments, with beautiful engineering and second-to-none support. Their products are now being used on over 400 of the world's largest and fastest superyachts.

No problems!
Two-handed racers Jules Hall and Jan Scholten left all of their Sydney Hobart Race rivals trailing and many of them quite literally speechless. The product was pretty good, too...The 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race was a particularly challenging one with a near gale on the nose, blowing against the current for the first few days, creating a brutal sea state, and a painstaking, tactical drift to the finish.

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Mallorca Sailing Centre Training Regatta
The Mallorca Sailing Centre Training Regatta for the Olympic classes ended over the weekend with Howth Yacht Club's Ewan McMahon finishing 10th overall after eight races sailed in an ILCA 7/Laser fleet of 66 entries.

The National Yacht Club's Finn Lynch had an uneven scoresheet, despite scoring a three in race four he did not compete in three other races of the series.

Freya Black and the Royal Irish Yacht Club's Saskia Tidey were 13th in their new Team GB partnership for Paris.

The Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta reaffirmed the status of the Bay of Palma as one of the world's benchmarks for Olympic class sailing competition. Nearly 280 sailors made the best of three intense days racing at this traditional training regatta to familiarise themselves with the scenario in which they will compete in the 51 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca.

Greece's Vasileia Karachaliou (ILCA 6), Britain's Matt Beckett (ILCA 7), Spain's Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman (470 Mixed), Poland's Domonik Buksak and Szymon Wierzbicki (49er), Brazil's Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (FX), and Denmark's Natacha Saouma-Pedersen and Mathias Bruun (Nacra) sailed into the top spots in their respective classes at the Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta. The huge training regatta which is the warm up to Princesa Sofía Mallorca mustered 280 crews to race on the bay of Palma last weekend for three days of fine-tuning in full competition mode.

Full results

afloat.ie/sail/

Clinker boats - the Viking era
Click on image to enlarge.

Boatbuilding is the construction of vessels and their systems. Today sailing vessels, like the planned EcoClipper500, are predominantly built with modern materials such as steel. However, in the past, the main resources were natural materials. Humans have a rich tradition of boatbuilding and our ancestors developed various techniques and designs which are still used today.

A common boatbuilding technique is carvel construction where planks are laid edge to edge and fastened to a robust frame. Other traditional boats and constructions include: rafts; coracles - light and shaped like a bowl; canoes; catamarans; and outrigger boats which are small boats with projecting structures mounted at the sides. One of the oldest and most recognisable boat building techniques is known as clinker-built, where the edges of the hull planks overlap each other.

Throughout history, clinker boats have had a multitude of uses from lifeboats to fishing vessels. And they are still used today. Clinker vessel design, however, was specifically developed in the Viking era.

A fascinating read: ecoclipper.org/News/clinker-boats-the-viking-era/

Oyster World Rally 2026-27 dates announced
Entries are open for the Oyster World Rally 2026-27, which begins in Antigua on the 11 January 2026

From the moment owners sign up the Oyster World Rally support team is on hand to offer help and advice on everything from finding the ideal Oyster yacht for the Rally, equipment choices, to full training and preparation, assisting with finding crew, destination guides and much more, helping entrants every step of the way before setting sail on this ultimate adventure.

To register interest for the Oyster World Rally 2026-27, please click here.

oysteryachts.com/oyster-world-rally/

Sam Richmond
"Universally loved" and one of the industry's "brightest stars" is how a British sailor who died after a horrific accident in Antigua is being remembered.

Sam Richmond, from Hampshire in the UK, was practicing ahead of the Superyacht Challenge which finished yesterday in English Harbour when the incident occurred on Tuesday.

Part of the rigging on the vessel he was aboard apparently broke, smashing into him and causing head injuries, a spokesman for search and rescue group ABSAR told Observer.

Crew from another yacht responded to help, along with ABSAR's rescue boat. Richmond was taken to hospital before being medically evacuated to Florida where he died on Thursday.

Richmond, a professional sailor for two decades, had been due to race aboard the 102ft luxury vessel Farfalla.

Richmond had worked as UK sales manager for sail-making firm North Sails in south-east England for more than a decade.

He was a well-known name in the industry having also managed a variety of yacht racing campaigns. Richmond had been sailing since childhood, after learning the ropes in an Optimist dinghy at the age of six. His transition from sailing as a hobby to a career began with a stint as an instructor in Spain, followed by coaching national youth squads before going on to race big boats in 2004.

antiguaobserver.com

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Featured Brokerage
2019 Shogun 50 - 'Ladykiller'. 1,200,000 EUR, Located in Stockholm, Sweden.

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KELPIE - Alfred Mylne Gaff Cutter. 295000 EUR. Located in United Kingdom.

KELPIE is a race and regatta winner designed by Alfred Mylne, and one of the most beautiful and fastest classic yachts of her size.

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22 Market Street
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AEOLOS P30. From 94.000* EUR. * introduction offer, without sails and tax, depending on the exchange rates/raw material prices EUR.

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The Last Word
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