EuroSail News #5053

In This Issue
• BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival
• 2021-22 League 18 Footer Season Review
• SY Midnight - Mate Required
• Matthew Sheahan on the Venue announcement
• Racing Rules of Sailing cannot be simple
• 83-Year-Old Sailor Headed to Osaka
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Hai Times on the Baltic
• International Women into Marine Day
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Charter: Tiga Belas - 81ft Sailing Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Rambler 88
• • ICE 54 - ICE YACHTS
• • IMOCA 60 - Arkea Paprec FRA04
• The Last Word: Jack Kerouac

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BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival
British Virgin Islands: The Atmosphere Was Nothing Short Of Festive Around Nanny Cay This Morning As Boats Prepared For The First race of the 49th BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, which took the fleet on an approximate 15 NM course to Scrub Island. It was quite a sight to see race boats leaving Nanny Cay for the first time in three years and cheering shoreside accompanied the fleet as it headed to the start for a perfect day of racing in paradise. For most it was an opportunity to shake out the cobwebs after a few years of downtime, and Scrub Island Resort provided the perfect venue for sailors to get their Caribbean groove on.

In Racing 1, the Botin 52 FOX, owned and skippered by Victor Wild (US), and racing BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival took first, while long-time participant Tony Mack (UK) and crew on the J-122 El Ocaso took second, and on the J-111 Spike, Sam Talbot (BVI) and crew took third.

Long-time regatta competitor, Bernie Evan-Wong (ANU), also competing in Racing 1 on the RP37 Taz, finished mid-fleet and was just plain old happy to be back on the water: "It was a really nice day, we tried to port tack the whole fleet, but FOX came over the line so fast - we almost nailed it," Evan-Wong laughed. "We still did pretty well though, it was an awesome day and it's beautiful at Scrub Island, a lovely spot. Our crew is completely different this year as Covid really played havoc for getting people to commit, but it's so lovely to be out racing again, it just doesn't really matter. Obviously, you want to do well but it's most important to get out there and participate."

Results for top 3 in class:

Racing (CSA - 15 Boats)
1. FOX, Botin 52 52, Victor Wild , San Diego, CA, USA - 1 ; 1
2. McFly on El Ocaso, J 122 40, Tony Mack , GBR - 2 ; 2
3. Spike, J111 36, Sam Talbot , BVI - 3 ; 3

Cruising/Performance Cruising (CSA - 9 Boats)
1. Portomar, Hanse 455 45'9, Juan Teixidor , San Juan, PR, PUR - 1 ; 1
2. Libertas, Beneteau 40 40, Walter Keenan , Nanny Cay, Tortola, BVI - 2 ; 2
3. Moxie, Beneteau 440 44, Pat Nolan , BVI - 3 ; 3

Bareboat / Cruising Multihull (CSA - 16 Boats)
1. Candle in the Dark, Sunsail 41 41, Brian McCarthy , USA - 1 ; 1
2. Makin' Memories, Sunsail 41 41, Willem Ellemeet , NL - 2 ; 2
3. Sea's the Daze, Moorings 45 45, Florian Lienau , GER - 3 ; 3

Performance Multihull (CSA - 3 Boats)
1. Mach Schnell, Gunboat 62 62, Kent Haeger , USA - 1 ; 1
2. NEMO, HH66 66, Todd Slyngstad , Los Gatos, CA, USA - 2 ; 2
3. Byzantine, MC 60 60, Bruce Gates , USA - 4 ; 4

Event page on YachtScoring.com

bvispringregatta.org

2021-22 League 18 Footer Season Review
JJ Giltinan champion Andoo team with Iain Murray and John Winning Jr. Click on image for photo gallery.

When the Smeg team with Charmaine Hill on board won last Sunday-week's Queen of the Harbour race on Sydney Harbour, it brought a very successful Australian 18 Footers League 2021-22 racing season to an end.

Despite the delayed start last October because of the Covid restrictions imposed on the club, at the time, the season produced so many positive steps that it has raised many expectations of 18s footers supporters for the 2022-23 season.

Highlight was the recent JJ Giltinan Championship which attracted C-Tech (Dave Hayter) from Queensland, Black Swan (Grant Rollerson/Luke Parkinson) from Western Australia, Black Knight (Heinrich Von Bayern) from Germany and Bloody Vikings (Jesper Brondum) from Denmark, to take on the local champions.

Considering the travel, and other, restrictions in force, it was really a great result to have top quality teams competing so strongly in the twenty five-boat fleet.

The Andoo team, of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton, was incredible as it powered to victory with seven race wins and two second placings from the nine-race championship.

It was Seve's ninth victory (eight as a skipper) and Sam's seventh. For Matt, it was his first in the 18s, although he is an Australian 16 footer champion.

What a JJ Giltinan contest it could be in 2023 if the all-conquering Andoo team is able to clash with the three-time champion Honda Marine team on Sydney Harbour.

Frank Quealey's full article in 18footers.com

SY Midnight - Mate Required
An opportunity for a Mate to join the crew of the Oyster 82 Midnight, whose owner is the founder of Oyster.

Activities are shared between charter and owner use and this season the yacht will passage from Antigua to Scotland in May to act as mother ship at the Fife Regatta and then at Cork Week, after which she will passage to Naples for charter and complete the European season as mother ship at classic events in Cannes and St Tropez.

As might be expected, the yacht is immaculately maintained and the Mate's role is crucial in the smooth running of the vessel. The successful candidate must have relevant experience and will need STCW certification as a minimum, with a Yachtmaster qualification being advantageous.

Midnight is a happy ship that loves to sail to interesting places.

CV's in confidence to

Matthew Sheahan on the Venue announcement
So, we now know where the America's Cup is going - Barcelona in 2024. After plenty of speculation, debate and indeed arguments, the Kiwi defence of the America's Cup is heading to Europe. Matt Sheahan considers what this means for the event.

www.planetsail.co.uk

Racing Rules of Sailing cannot be simple
UK Sailmakers Rules guru, Charles "Butch" Ulmer, wrote in the March 22 issue of Scuttlebutt Sailing News that the Racing Rules of Sailing cannot be simple. This article explains why sailors at all levels need to learn the Racing Rules of Sailing. It also reasons that you need to know more than just the basic rules because some of them that would appear simple are, in fact, complicated.

Take the seemingly simple rule like starboard having right of way over port (Rule 10). Overall, yes, starboard has ROW over port...but there are a handful of situations when starboard must give way to port. Don't believe me? How about these situations:

1. While taking a penalty (Rule 21.2)

2. While returning to the pre-start side of the line after the starting signal (Rule 21.1)

3. While tacking (Rule 13)

4. When sailing backwards (Rule 21.3)

5. While passing a continuing obstruction (Rule 19.2c)

Here is another example of a complicated rules situation situation involving two boats on the port tack layline and another boat on the starboard tack layline. This video was shot by Sailing World at the 2015 NOOD Regatta and shows an incident at a windward mark involving two Beneteau First 40.7s. One boat is yelling, "No Room! Don't go in there!" and the other boat is yelling, "Don't Tack!" Which Beneteau 40.7 was wrong and which Beneteau 40.7 was right?

The answer here...

An 83-Year-Old Sailor Just Left San Francisco on a Tiny Sailboat Headed to Osaka
83-year-old Kenichi Horie, who's captaining the Mermaid III - a small 19-foot-long sailboat - left the San Francisco Bay Saturday morning en route to Osaka, Japan. What's even more impressive? Horie is doing the entire trip by himself.

This isn't the well-practiced ocean navigator's first time sailing this course, mind you. In 1962, a 23-year-old Horie took his tiny wooden ship - the original Mermaid - on a three-month solo journey from Osaka to San Francisco. He completed the 5,300 hundred miles in just 94 days.

But once he set foot on dry land, the young Horie wasn't exactly given the most gracious and kind of warm welcome. In fact, he was arrested for arriving without a passport; he had no money, either. As KTVU opined about, his story arc from vilified alien to, without hyperbole, eventually released from jail by then-San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, who then also gave him both a 30-day visa and gifted him a key to the city, is one for the history books.

Having conducted this same voyage alone before, Horie expects to feel lonely. That feeling of solitude, however, will be mitigated by the people back on land cheering him on from afar: "I do get lonely, but everybody is rooting for me," said Horie through an interpreter

sfist.com

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

World news
Damn, some of those Kiwis are multi talented, and fast (we knew that, ed), Fabrice Amadeo's foil shopping, 40 boats in the next Vendee Globe (!!!), another seven laps of the world (sic), Transquadra celebration, a Southern Ocean reminder and doing without the 'buoys'. Plus the USA is getting out the glue again. Ivor Wilkins, Patrice Carpentier, Carlos Pich, Dobbs Davis, Maria Torrijo, Miguel Allen, Ray Davies... and Moose

Petit a petit
Two different sides but still the same equation. Rob Weiland

Mountain-Muhammad
For many years they have been fastidiously creating some of the world's finest yachts. One small drawback is that for many clients Baltic Yachts has always been rather a long way away geographically. Not any more... There are big advantages to building yachts on the west coast of Finland. For the last 50 years it has been a centre of excellence where a talented workforce of shipwrights, joiners, composite builders and many other specialists produce some of the finest sailing yachts in the world

Rod Davis - Payback
A much needed initiative - but still a tough road

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Hai Times on the Baltic: The roots and legacy of a classic Finnish one-design
At the EVLI Hangon Regatta in Hanko, Finland, the crew of the Hai-class sloop SIOEN displays precision teamwork at the windward mark. Click on image to enlarge.

As we headed out to the starting line in her Hai-boat, KAUNE, Anita Saksi reminded me about the jaska (boom vang). Our three-person crew consisted of Anita as skipper, Heidi Nieminen handling the foredeck, and me between them in the "pit" position. I was in Naantali, Finland, for the 2018 National Championship (SM 2018) of the Hai class. When I left Maine a few weeks earlier, I had no idea that I would be sailing in this regatta. My hope was to watch the races from a spectator boat, but that was before I got to know the sailors of the Hai class.

I first saw a Hai (named MARUFFA) in Maine in the late 1970s, and I fell in love with the lines of the boat. In 1984, I bought Hai No. 22. Since then, I have been the proud owner, sailor, and occasional surgeon of this great boat, which was originally named SUOMI and is now called MAKO. In celebration of my 60th birthday and 34 years with MAKO, I decided it was time to travel to Finland in search of her origins and relatives.

How did I end up sailing a Hai boat in its native waters? Well, I suppose it goes back to 1932, when A.L. Anderson of the Camden (Maine) Yacht Club, journeyed to northern Europe in search of a class boat for his club.

After visiting several boatbuilders in Sweden and Finland, Anderson chose a new design by the Finnish yacht designer Gunnar L. Stenbäck. It was called the Hai (Haj in Swedish, meaning shark, and pronounced "hi"). Over the next three years, the great Finnish boatbuilder Åbo Båtvarf shipped 25 of these boats to Maine. The Swedish spelling of the name was adopted in Maine (Stenbäck preferred the Swedish language, and the boatbuilder was in a Swedish-speaking region of Finland), where they are also referred to as "Finnboats."

www.woodenboat.com/hai-times-baltic

International Women into Marine Day
A Devon college at the forefront of helping women break into the marine sector is celebrating International Women into Marine Day on Friday.

South Devon College wants to help change the perception of a career in marine by encouraging more women to work in the industry.

The event in April, being held at South Devon College's Hi Tech & Digital Centre, is aimed at girls and young women who are interested in a career within marine. As well as a variety of activities planned there will be a talk by Holly Manvell, founder of Clean Sailors.

Holly started her not-for-profit organisation to raise awareness of ocean conservation and cleaner sailing practices.

"Our aim is to create an ocean ambassador out of each and every sailor around the world," explained Holly.

This year, she launched the Clean Sailors Youth Racing Team with three young champion sailors competing at the highest standard of foiling sailing, including CJ Perez, the youngest sailor ever to join the SailGP sailing league and the first female sailor to win a SailGP race.

For more information go to www.southdevon.ac.uk

Letters To The Editor -
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* From David Evans re: Women who marked the history of offshore sailing

I read this article with interest, but it is quite clear the PR "folk" have got to the information and clearly do not understand what they are looking at...

I would like to set the record "dead" straight!

Denise "Dee" Caffari MBE (born 23 January 1973) is a British sailor, and in 2006 became the first woman to sail single-handedly and non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; westward against the prevailing winds and currents, on a 72 ft yacht!

How many of us guys, (Super heroes of offshore sailing! I count myself amongst that number - well to a point!) could even SAIL A 72FT YACHT SINGLE HANDED, let alone do it in just under 179 days!

So in my books she is light years ahead on any other competitors for the title of Greatest Offshore Female Sailor.

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