EuroSail News #5070 - 26 April
In This Issue
• A flying return for the Semaine Olympique Francaise
• Clean sweep for Twin Soul B at Portofino Regate di Primavera
• Fast boats. Fast read. Dispatches At The Front of sailing, Harken style!
• ClubSwan Racing season goes full throttle in Tuscany
• Tom Dolan 19th In La Solo Maitre Coq
• Round the Island Race Village will be open to all
• New Entry For Iconic Cape To Rio Race 2023 - White Mischief
• RIO100 Blows Away Previous N2E Record
• Two-Handed Titans - Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race
• Featured Charter: HYPR - Volvo 70
• Featured Brokerage:
• • MOD 70 Powerplay
• • Alfred Mylne Glen-Coats Gaff Sloop 1926 - Duet
• • Ice 54 - Ice Yachts
• The Last Word: Ray Bradbury
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A flying return for the Semaine Olympique Francaise
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The 53rd Semaine Olympique Francaise de Hyeres - TPM opened in classic Cote d'Azur style on Monday with the world's best rising to the strong winds through a field of 751 sailors from over 50 countries. It was like they had never been away.
After missing two years because of Covid, it was the most welcome and vivacious of returns for a venue and event that means so much to so many.Racing began at 11 in glorious sunshine, under cloudless skies and with strong offshore westerly winds of 15-20 knots. A choppy sea state, more so on the more the easterly courses with less protection from the bay and iles d'Or, as well as wind gusts between 25-30, kept everyone on their toes. Both the world and sailing have changed since the last Semaine Olympique Francaise de Hyeres in 2019. The 10 classes that will be contested in Marseille for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were in Hyeres - which is just 50 miles west down the coast - for the first time. And it was flight time for the five foiling classes on show.
"We haven't seen the SOF for 3 years, it's great to have all the classes and it's a first regatta for the iQFOiL in Hyeres - we've already done Marseille!" Hélene Noesmoen, France's iQFOiL World and European Champion, said. Noesmoen confirmed her total dominance by winning all five of the races. Fellow Frenchwoman, Delphine Cousin, lies in second but it looked as if there were two separate races being run, Noesmoen and the rest.
The quality of competition throughout the fleets was immediately demonstrated at the start of the day in the men's ILCA 7, where Matthew Wearn, Australia's Olympic champion, and Philipp Buhl, Germany's 2020 World Champion, traded wins at the head of a lead group that dominated both races.
Clean sweep for Twin Soul B at Portofino Regate di Primavera
The Mediterranean maxi racing season got off to a start with the Portofino Regate di Primavera, that concluded today after a four day long weekend of racing. The picturesque Ligurian hamlet of Portofino has a long history of hosting maxi yacht events such as the Nespresso Cup and the Zegna Trophy. Portofino Regate di Primavera is the latest incarnation, organised and hosted by the Yacht Club Italiano, under the patronage of the Italian sailing federation (FIV) and in conjunction with the Comune di Portofino and the International Maxi Association.
Racing for the maxi yachts on the Gulf of Tigullio was hampered by weather that was more 'winter' than 'spring'. Despite the best efforts of the race committee including the International Maxi Association's Race Advisor Alfredo Ricci, racing was cancelled on the opening day due to no wind and then after a blustery Saturday night, it had to be cancelled on Sunday due to an excessive 'Libeccio' southwesterly, brought on by a nearby depression. Nonetheless three of the scheduled four races were held.
The maxis competing ranged in size from Francesco De Santis' Southern Wind 100 Morgana down to several 60 footers such as the two Mylius 60s Antonio Romeo's Jecalu and Franz Wilhelm Baruffaldi Preis's Manticore.
Even before the blustery Saturday night, the southwesterly on-shore wind was building during the day from 14-18 knots at start time, and the wave state with it. With two metre waves, three boats were forced to retire - Dario Castiglia's Hanse 630e Remax One, Jürg Schneider's Swan 65 Saida and the Grand Soleil 65 Indomabile Pensiero belonging to the YCI's Beppe Croce Sea School.
In this 26 mile race the pecking order for the remainder of the regatta was established with the immaculate Morgana leading the fleet home on the water, but with Twin Soul B, the all-black Mylius 80 campaigned by Luciano Gandini, winning under IRC corrected time.
Racing resumes in the International Maxi Association's Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge with La Larga, the offshore race of Palmavela on 30 April and in the Caribbean, Antigua Sailing Week, the final event of the IMA's inaugural Caribbean Maxi Challenge. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association
www.internationalmaxiassociation.com
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ClubSwan Racing season goes full throttle in Tuscany
Tuscany's exquisite coastline is the backdrop for the much-anticipated opening regatta in what promises to be an exciting and ultra-competitive ClubSwan Racing season.
A fleet of more than 20 ClubSwan yachts have gathered for the Swan Tuscany Challenge in the Marina di Scarlino, the home of Swan in the Mediterranean.
No fewer than 11 nationalities are represented among the owners of the ClubSwan 50s and ClubSwan 36s taking part, and all will be aiming to start adding points to their country's account in the hotly contested season-long Nations League competition.
The 2022 season opener will see full-blown racing action out on the Gulf of Follonica organised by the experienced race management teams of Yacht Club Isole di Toscana and ClubSwan Racing. -- Sabina Mollart Rogerson
The Nations League 2022
26-30 April: Swan Tuscany Challenge
31 May-4 June: Swan Sardinia Challenge
5-9 July: Swan One Design Worlds
1-6 August: Copa del Rey
11-18 September: Rolex Swan Cup
4-8 October: ClubSwan 36 Europeans
Tom Dolan 19th In La Solo Maitre Coq
A hard earned 12 th place in the final coastal race (Sunday) was small consolation for Irish solo racer Tom Dolan. Added to his 13 th from Saturday's light wind windward-leeward circuit Dolan, skipper of Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan finishes the first major race of his 2022 season, the Solo Maitre Coq in 19th place.
The solid short course results buoyed Dolan's mood slightly after last week's massively disappointing 330 miles long opening offshore race. He tore his spinnaker beyond repair midway down a long downwind leg and had to race on under small spinnaker. Desperately short of power he haemorrhaged places before picking up a few positions in light winds on the approach back to Les Sables d'Olonne. He was subsequently also penalized 10pts under the Figaro Beneteau 3 for having to swap to a replacement spinnaker for the remaining two races.
Dolan did finish with his best race today, largely holding his own around the 34 nautical miles coastal course off Les Sables d'Olonne. With good upwind speed he was 10 th at the last windward turning mark but lost a couple of boats on the final run due to a problem with his spinnaker halyard.
* The last race of the 19th edition of the Solo Maitre CoQ contested this Sunday promised to be decisive for the general classification and it kept all its promises! Finally won by the Briton Alan Roberts (Seacat Services) ahead of Gaston Morvan (Brittany Region - CMB Espoir) and Tom Laperche (Brittany Region - CMB Performance), this final round with a coefficient of 1.5 turned the situation upside down somewhat. general classification of the event. By finishing 6th in this 34-mile coastal race, Corentin Horeau (Mutuelle Bleue), who will certainly have made an impression by winning the big race,
Round the Island Race Village will be open to all
The Island Sailing Club (ISC) has announced that they will be working in partnership with Cowes Yacht Haven to stage a 'Round the Island Race Village', which will be open from midday on Friday 24th June and throughout the race weekend. Daniel Jehan, Managing Director of the Cowes Yacht Haven, said: "We are very excited to be hosting the Race Village and look forward to entertaining competitors, supporters and spectators with our pop-up food hall, bar area and terrace." Race Partners Marathon Watch, B&G, Helly Hansen, Chelsea Magazines and Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust will all have stands offering fun activities, great product promotions and support for competitors.
The Round the Island Race welcomes sailors from all over the world, from professional sailors to keen amateur crews, families and first-time racers, competing on the same 58-mile racecourse around the striking Isle of Wight coastline. Over one hundred trophies are up for grabs and most boats have the chance to win several different prizes! The most famous is the Gold Roman Bowl, which has been awarded to the overall winner of the race (now the IRC division) since the first race in 1931 - but there are many other wonderful trophies with fascinating histories that are given away each year to worthy winners in their respective classes. This year, eight lucky yachts will also be awarded a prize of a Swiss made General Purpose Marathon Watch.
New Entry For Iconic Cape To Rio Race 2023 - White Mischief
The Royal Cape Yacht Club & Iate Club do Rio de Janeiro are pleased to announce a new entry to this iconic race. This brings the total number of entries received to date to 12 boats, with another 14 boats waiting in the wings to enter. With exactly 9 months to go to the start of this prestigious South Atlantic Dash, the Organising authority anticipate a bumper entry come 2 January 2023. International competitors are being canvassed behind the scenes.
White Mischief, a Sovereign 51, is skippered by Richard Wiederhold, previous winner of the Cape To Rio, he will share the skippering duties with Bernard Haupt and Glen Landridge. Crew members will include Richard's 18-year-old son Alex, who has junior provincial sailing colours, another championship sailor with provincial colours, Greg Plunkett, along with Donovan Penaluna and Cherene Nel. White Mischief is currently based at the Royal Cape Yacht Club.
RIO100 Blows Away Previous N2E Record
Rio100 sails into Ensenada before dark. Photo by Lisa Bronitt. Click on image to enlarge.
Ensenada, Mexico: Rio100, a custom Bakewell White and its crew, led by owner Manouch Moshayedi, has decimated the Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race's elapsed time record for a monohull with an unofficial finish of 7:02:17, a remarkable 2.33.17 less than the previous record set by Steve Maheen's R/P 63 Aszhous in 2016.
The record also represents the first time a monohull has crossed the finish line here before sundown.
Not far aft in Rio100's wake, the rest of the Maxi fleet; some also positioned to break the old record, battled for top-of-the-class honors.
According to the YB tracker, multiple-time N2E winner Bill Gibbs' Wahoo led the entire fleet down the coast until being passed by Rio100 off San Diego - about the time its spinnaker blew out. They recovered and were south of the border before Ray Paul's 65 Botin Armetis passed by. Still, the 45-foot Schionning was the first ORCA-class boat to arrive, setting a new personal-best finish for team Wahoo.
Friday morning winds that blew directly from the west at 18 to 20 knots off the Balboa Pier, represented one of the windiest and bounciest starts in recent memory.
Yet Moshayedi called the record-breaking conditions "Fantastic; a straight shot down the coast, a great experience."
Included in the crew of 16 U.S. and New Zealand-based sailors were his son Sebastian and Peter Isler. The win gives Isler the exclusive distinction of being part of two record-holding crews. The multihull record set by the Mod70 Orion in 2016, and now the monohull record set by Rio100.
By 1 a.m. about a dozen boats had crossed the finish line. Diminishing overnight winds between 4 - 8 knots have slowed progress for some but are predicted to pick up mid-Saturday morning and usher in the remaining competitors.
Two-Handed Titans - Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race
For the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race a record 15 teams are planning to take on the marathon IRC Two-Handed. Short-handed racing with the RORC has been booming in recent years with 84 teams competing in the 2021 RORC Season's Points Championship. The 1,800-mile Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race is a hard task for a full-crew, let alone Two-Handed. Since IRC Two-Handed was introduced 12 years ago, 25 teams have started the race; only nine have finished.
Experienced Two-Handed skippers planning to race for 2022 include Richard Palmer's JPK 10.10 Jangada, 2020 RORC Yacht of the Year and overall winner of the RORC Transatlantic Race. 2012 RORC Yacht of the Year skipper Nick Martin will race his Sun Fast 3600 Diablo. The highly experienced Nigel de Quervain Colley will race his Sun Fast 3300 Fastrak XII and Sam White, 4th in IRC Two-Handed for the 2021 Rolex Fastnet, will race his latest boat, the JPK 1080 Mzungu!
Dee Caffari MBE and Shirley Robertson OBE will be racing together on a brand-new Sun Fast 3300 RockIT (GBR), which is due for launch in April. Shirley's strength is sailing the boat hard, keeping up the intensity of speed. Dee's strength is her knowledge and confidence of the course, possessing all the ingredients towards making the right decisions.
Dee Caffari has sailed around the world six times and was the first woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world in both directions. Dee has an equally impressive record in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race, setting the Women's Monohull Course Record as skipper of IMOCA Aviva (2009), and then breaking her own record as part of Sam Davies's crew on VO65 Team SCA (2014 - 4 days 21 hours 00 mins 39 secs). Dee has completed the race four times.
Shirley Robertson made history becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal at consecutive games. In the last two years Shirley has raced Two-Handed with Henry Bomby on Sun Fast 3300 Swell. Shirley and Henry took Line Honours in the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race for IRC Two-Handed and were second overall in a fleet of 56 boats, after time correction. Shirley has accumulated expert knowledge racing the Sun Fast 3300, but this will be her first Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. -- Trish Jenkins
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