In This Issue
• 51st Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca Regatta
• European Dragon Championship
• SUI 318 "1 Quick 1" wins Paul & Shark International Cup, in San Remo
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Antigua Classic Regatta: A Windy Start
• BVI Spring Regatta: Fleet racing Round Tortola and on Windward-Leewards
• Gladwell's Line
• Multihull of the Year: Only a few days left to vote!
• Cruiser-Racer Awards at Royal Cork Yacht Club
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 56-001 'Chrila'
• • Whitbread Maxi 81 - ROTHMANS
• • Arcona 415
• The Last Word: Robert Kennedy

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51st Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca Regatta
April 4-9 in Palma, Spain. More than 1,000 of the most accomplished sailing athletes from every corner of the world have arrived to compete at the first Hempel World Cup Series regatta of the new Olympic cycle.

Monday 4 April - First day of racing for ILCAs, 470, iQFoils
Tuesday 5 April - First day of racing for 49er, 49erFX, Nacra and Formula Kites

trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race

* While the Olympic classes were finalising preparations for their debut, the racer-cruisers, one designs and Musto Skiff finished their race programme today. The unstable wind and rain showers prevented the ORC, J/80 and Dragon one designs from competing which meant that the results of the previous day were definitive.

The instability of the wind, showers and lulls prevented the last day of the Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca for the ORC class and the J/80 and Dragons.

The Race Committee tried its best to get the coastal race for the cruisers and at least one windward leeward race for the one designs but it was impossible.

The day started with an easterly breeze, as most of the forecasts had predicted, but when the ORCs had been on the water for an hour there was a 180-degree shift to the west, followed by scattered showers and a total drop in the wind.

With the fleet spread out all over the Bay of Palma and barely able to make any progress, the organisers decided to suspend all the races. The leaders at the end of the day on Saturday became the winners of the 51 Trofeo Princesa Mallorca.

Javier Sanz's Elena Nova, with two firsts in the windward-leeward races of the previous day, took the victory in ORC 1-2.

In ORC 3-5, the victory went to Phillip Seippel's Shazam, with a record of one win and one third. Eduardo Horrach's Azuree, winner of yesterday's coastal race, was crowned champion in the ORC A2 class.

As for the one-designs, Michael Zankel's Powwow triumphed with three races won over Friday and Saturday, while Helena Alegre, at the helm of the J/80 AGD Desamiantados, won the J80 class with two victories and a second place.

The Musto Skiffs finished up with ten races in total and the regatta victory going to South African Andy Tarnoton and the European title going to Peter Greenhalgh of GBR who is now the European champion of the class.

www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-news

European Dragon Championship
San Remo Italy: A total of 61 boats is entered in this year's Dragon European Championship, hosted by the Yacht Club San Remo from Monday April 4 through Friday April 8.

The practice race was held this past weekend:

Top ten:
1. Provezza Dragon - Andy Beadsworth / Simon Fry / Arda Baykal, TUR
2. Yeahnah - Jan Eckert / Oisin McClelland / Torvar Mirsky, AUS
3. Yred - Peter Gilmour /Yasuhiro Yaji / Sam Gilmour, AUS
4. Birscherl - Philipp Ocker / Florian Grosser / Oliver Davis, GER
5. Bande A Part - Gery Trentesaux / Jean Queveau / Sofian Bouvet, FRA
6. Gustl XL - Rene Treifeodt / Mihkel Kosk / Eero Pank, EST
7. Ariston - Justus Kniffka / Christian Bittner / Robert Flach, SUI
8. Fever - Klaus Diederichs / Diego Negri / Jamie Lea, GBR
9. Nyari Mikulas - Lorand Gombos / Tamas Horgos / Zoltan Bartos, HUN
10. Borga - Azat Baykal / Sercan Buyuksoyleme, TUR

Complete Practice Race results

* Irish interest in the [Dragon Europeans] will be with Adam Winkelmann, National and Royal Irish Yacht Clubs, who joins the crew of the Portuguese entry Petti Portugal with reigning Dragon European & Gold Cup Champion Pedro Andrade at the helm.

Pedro is also the new owner of Petticrows, the largest builder of Dragons in Europe and they are sailing one of the earliest new boats from their production line in Portugal (moved from Burnham on Crouch in the UK).

Both Pedro and Adam are regular crew with Martin Byrne and John Simms onboard Jaguar Sailing Team from Royal St George Yacht Club, who are based in Europe, but not competing at this regatta.

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SUI 318 "1 Quick 1" wins Paul & Shark International Cup, in San Remo
San Remo Yacht Club hosted the 17th edition of the "Paul and Shark" International Dragon Cup 0ver March 17th to 20th with 43 registered boats including many top International Teams who viewed this popular event as a warm up for the European Championships. Despite strong easterly breezes all week the Race Committee did an excellent job to complete 4 quality races in tough conditions, with gusts occasionally exceeding 25kts and choppy, challenging waves.

Race 4 began in similar conditions and this time it was SUI 318 "1 Quick 1" who took the lead on the first downwind leg after deciding to "bear-a-way" set instead of gybe setting at the top mark. This rewarded helm Wolf Waschkuhn and his team of Charles Nankin & Ruairidh Scott with the choice of gate marks and they elected to go inshore on the second upwind which sealed their victory in this very exciting race. Indeed on returning to the Yacht Club on Saturday evening as "Club House Leader' Wolf and his experienced team would not have known that no racing on the final day due to too much wind, meant the Paul & Shark International Cup was theirs again for the second year running! Well done.

Runners up overall just 2pts behind was JPN 56 "YRed" helmed by Peter Gilmour who has remained in San Remo with his team of son Sam & Yaji Yasuhiro.

In 3rd place overall and taking the final podium place in this 4 race series (so no discard allowed, as 5 races were required before discard) was GBR 819 "Fever" Klaus Diederichs, crewed by Diego Negri and Jamie Lea.

internationaldragonsailing.net

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

Sailor of the Month
Talk about up-and-coming young talent. Plus there is talking green... and there is doing green

Now for some sport
Claes Eliasson, lead designer Maurizio Cossutti and the Bavaria Yachts team all agreed that now is the time for something a bit different... Have you ever sailed a cruising yacht and wondered how much faster it might be with a good set of racing sails - and with some of the heavy cruising equipment removed? Claes Eliasson, a Norwegian dealer for Bavaria Yachts and a keen club racing sailor, is leading a team with a mission to find out.

Making history
North Sails Performance clothing delivers '3DL technology for humans' (and some of the world's fastest humans at that). 'Our first year has been an outstanding one for us,' says North Sails Performance director, Nigel Musto. 'We've been delighted that several of the world's top sailors, on board some of the most exciting boats - like the Gitana Team - have chosen to wear our kit.

Scows... and IRC
How far will the unstoppable oceanic train reach into IRC... Jean Sans

Sliding doors
Tim Jeffery looks back at the original Golden Globe and at how easily things might have turned out very differently

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Antigua Classic Regatta: A Windy Start
Schooners Aschanti and Columbia hotly competing. Photo by Tyler Fields. Click on image to enlarge.

The first race, Old Road, started with winds gusting up to 35 knots but all sailors returned back safely with smiles on their faces as everyone is so pleased to be back on the water after two years of postponements . Winners in their classes were the beautiful 114' staysail schooner Aschanti IV, the classic 36' sloop Alani sailing in her first Classics, traditional Carriacou work boat Genesis, vintage 1936 Seefalke II, spirit of tradition 91' yawl Bequia, the tall ship class 157' staysail ketch Chronos and the historic class 44' LJ Windward .

Full results on YachtScoring.com

* Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta started with the single handed race being cancelled due to strong winds. However the panel of four judges spent the morning assessing those yachts that had entered for the Concours D'Elegance. Gold winners were Juno, Windbreker, Ticonderoga, Seefalke, Freya of Midgard, New Moon and Montana.

The Arne Frissel award for the most seaworthy vessel went to Vela, the 112' sail training schooner built in 2020.

The overall winner of the Locman Italy watch went to Ticonderoga. Full results can be seen here

www.antiguaclassics.com

BVI Spring Regatta: Fleet racing Round Tortola and on Windward-Leewards
Day two at the 49th BVI Spring Regatta saw the majority of the fleet compete in the Round Tortola Race, with epic starts right outside the entrance to Nanny Cay. A couple of the CSA racing fleets hung back to do windward-leeward courses, and a line of rain and wind caught them all by surprise...Video includes: footage from both on and offshore on the second day of racing, complete with interviews and highlights from the Mount Gay Rum party at Nanny Cay Regatta Village held after the first day of racing.

Video Sponsored by the Bitter End Yacht Club and House of Luxury

Produced by T2PTV: Sailing on Demand

Gladwell's Line
New Zealand is the big loser from the decision to take the opportunity of a home defence offshore.

The situation is not surprising given that the team has been dragged backwards through a blackberry bush by the NZ Government, Auckland Council and most of the mainstream media.

Those antics started soon after the Kiwis won in Bermuda, and the very public debate started over base location options. It became obvious that the panjandrums, used to dealing with a World controlling body, did not understand that Emirates Team New Zealand had complete control over THEIR event.

The 2021 America's Cup came within an ace of going to the alternate venue, and team boss Grant Dalton was in Italy to make that announcement when there was a late change of plan for Auckland.

The media campaign that was conducted against the team and its principals over claimed financial wrong-doing was hugely damaging to an America's Cup team operating in a commercial sponsorship market. While a subsequent audit investigation cleared the team, much of the media mud stuck.

Hostilities resumed as soon as the team crossed the finish line to win the America's Cup for the fourth time. Instead of being a celebration of a glorious win, the very entitled mainstream media storylines that night were all about how the Cup could be headed offshore.

It was no surprise that the exclusive three month negotiation period between Team, Council and Government broke up without an agreement. The cash Event Hosting Fee of $31million was $9million less than that paid for the 2021 Cup. It was an offer that was sure to be declined.

Read Richard Gladwell's full editorial in Sail-World.com

Multihull of the Year: Only a few days left to vote!
Vote for your favorite multihulls in 7 categories until April 17, 2022.

It's been five years now since Multihulls World magazine, our French language edition Multicoques Mag and the International Multihull Show launched the Multihull of the Year award for the best new boats in the multihull sector. Thousands of you voted in that first edition. This year, each voter can be part of our special draw by registering, for a chance to win exciting prizes!

Register to vote at multihulls-world.com

The presentation of the nominees

Cruiser-Racer Awards at Royal Cork Yacht Club
Royal Cork Yacht Club's Club weekend cruiser-racer meeting on Saturday featured a discussion on IRC ratings and ECHO handicaps and start times for this summer's Cork Harbour racing from Crosshaven.

The meeting also proved an opportunity for the presentation of prizes that could not previously be presented due to COVID.

Annamarie Fegan and Denis Murphy's Grand Soleil Nieulargo received the international Boat of Year Award presented by RCYC Admiral Kieran O' Connell.

Frank Caul's Prince of Tides took the White Sail Boat of the Year Award.

Fiona Young , the helm of the Albin Express, North Star was awarded Club Boat of the Year.

Brian Jones' Jelly Baby was awarded National Boat of Year. -- Bob Bateman

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