In This Issue
• Bullitt is top owner-driver maxi at Palmavela
• Sunshine Racing at the North Sails May Regatta
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Cup Critiqued
• Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race
• Cap Martinique
• This Monday: Q&A Live Call with Morgan Reeser
• How Paprec Have Become Doubly Committed To The Figaro Circuit
• Australia to host 2023 International WASZP Games
• Featured Charter: Swan 601 - Lorina
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Persico Fly 40
• • Maxi 86 - Way of Life (Ex-Morning Glory)
• • SW 78 Elise Whisper
• The Last Word: Ncuti Gatwa, the 14th Doctor

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Bullitt is top owner-driver maxi at Palmavela
The International Maxi Association's 2022 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge had a successful start with the Real Club Nautico de Palma's traditional season opener, Palmavela concluding today.

With seven yachts racing under IRC, the IMA Maxi class was modest but strong and demonstrated a welcome resurgence of maxi yacht interest in an event originally launched in 2004 as Maxi Race Week. This week the Bay of Palma and Majorca showed why it is one of yacht racing's most popular venues: Over the four race days that began on Thursday, competitors underwent a 'compete test' with conditions spanning a solid 20-22 knots gusting to mid-20s on the opening day before dropping to the weekend's lighter sea breeze.

Sadly due to work commitments, Galateia's owner David M. Leuschen was unable to steer his white Wallycento, handing over the wheel to his tactician, Kiwi pro sailor Kelvin Harrap. Galateia went on win all six races - two races held on Friday and Saturday, with single longer coastals on Thursday and today.

The race for second was principally between Magic Carpet Cubed and the new team on Bullitt. Two second placed finishes in the last two races while Magic Carpet Cubed had a final day they would rather forget, allowed the new Italian team to take second overall by just a point.

Launched in 2018 as Nahita, the 93ft Bullitt is one of the most recently launched Wallys. A Judel-Vrolijk design, she was originally conceived to race, albeit within the usual Wally aesthetic. At the end of 2021 she was acquired by Italian Andrea Recordati for whom this is his third Wally. Recordati stopped racing nine years ago due to family and work commitments, but the latter eased recently. "I was at the last Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and met up with some of my old team and I looked at all the racers and I said 'it is time to get back into the game'. I knew Nahita, so I looked her up, she was available and here I am!" -- James Boyd, International Maxi Association

Full Maxi results

www.palmavela.com

Sunshine Racing at the North Sails May Regatta
The Royal Southern Yacht Club's 2022 Summer Series is off and running with the North Sails May Regatta held 7-8 May on The Solent. The race management team, led by Principal Race Officer Peter Bateson and Race Officer Peter Saxton, provided 60 teams with great racing in seven different classes. Black Group had six races, on a mixture of windward-leeward and tight round the cans courses. While White Group had ten short, sharp windward leeward races.

North Sails May Regatta Class Winners: Twenty (SB20), Eat Sleep J Repeat (J/70 Open), Powder Monkey (J/70 Corinthian), Gweilo (HP30), Jagerbomb (J/111), Sailplane 3 (IRC 1), Happy Daize (IRC 2), Banter (IRC 3).

The next regatta for the Royal Southern Summer Series will be a special occasion at the prestigious club. The Champagne Charlie Platinum Jubilee Regatta will be held 4-5 June, celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The regatta is supported by Charles Heidsieck Champagne and is an open event for club members and visitors to the Royal Southern YC. A Crew Ball will be held at the Clubhouse during the regatta. -- Louay Habib

Full Results on YachtScoring.com

www.royal-southern.co.uk

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

World news
A solo season, 'Global' ambition, a heritage worth celebrating, life returns along the seaboards (and the lakes), preserving the (Aussie) gold standard. Charlie Dalin, Dobbs Davis, Ivor Wilkins, Guillaume Verdier, Patrice Carpentier, Damien Guillou, Blue Robinson, Michael Blackburn

Paul Cayard - Tradition and excellence
Forty-five years in for Paul Cayard and 100 world championships and counting for the Star Class

ORC - Attention to detail
Two-handed vs fully-crewed… some of the first hard numbers make for interesting reading. Dobbs Davis and Andy Claughton

IMA - Much bigger questions
And even with several of your fleet chained to the dock there is justifiable cause for optimism

TP52 Super Series - Stand by
And yet again picking a winner before game-time is a fool's errand. Rod Davis, Ed Reynolds, Jordi Calafat and Andi Robertson

Sailor of the Month
This one will test your heartstrings

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Cup Critiqued
First of a new series taking an off-piste view of what isn't said in the media releases from the teams, Cup organisers, other Cup related parties and anything that isn't being done to death elsewhere.

Media releases are notable for raising more questions than answers.

Last week's release from American Magic telling of their return to Pensacola confirmed what had already been leaked by local media a few days previously.

This week's missive from the Classic Boat Museum base in Cowes had plenty to read between the lines too, but more of that later.

The Pensacola move raised questions about what American Magic would do with their Bristol base and build facility - used to build four boats in the buildup to the 36th America's Cup in Auckland.

In the official release a couple of days later, American Magic, as well as confirming the Pensacola move, also advised that they would be relocating to Barcelona after training all winter "until relocating to Barcelona for the final push into AC37".

Those familiar with the 2024 America's Cup Protocol will know there are some key sailing times rules that control what a team may and may not do.

In late March, after announcing the venue for the 37th Match and its preliminaries, America's Cup Event CEO Grant Dalton said that such was the state of preparation of Barcelona, teams could move in the next day. With the rider that the team first had to sort a ground lease with the Port company.

The latest Cup Protocol is more prescriptive than its predecessors regarding where and when teams can sail.

From June 1 to September 30 next year, teams will not be allowed to sail in their home waters and will only be able to sail for those four months in Barcelona. -- A bit from Richard Gladwell's latest must-read in Sail-World.com

www.sail-world.com

Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race
The start of the 3rd edition of the Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race was given off Brest this Sunday at 2 p.m. In this qualifying race for the Route du Rhum 2022, the 24 Imoca monohulls competing will make a loop in the Atlantic via the Fastnet at the southwestern tip of Ireland and a buoy located northwest of Cape Finisterre (Waypoint Gallimard). The arrival of the first boats at the Port du Château in Brest is estimated on Thursday 12 May. After two and a half hours of racing , Charlie Dalin (Apivia) was leading the fleet ahead of Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut, +2.3 miles) and Nicolas Lunven (Banque Populaire, +2.8).

Top five at 05h00 French time
1. Apivia - Charlie Dalin
2. Linkedout - Thomas Ruyant
3. Charal - Jeremie Beyou
4. Banque Populaire - Nicolas Lunven
5. Groupe APICIL - Damien Seguin

Race Tracker

Cap Martinique
He did everything to get back in the race but Regis Vian had to resign himself to giving up today. The skipper in the colors of Esperances Banlieues contacted race management at the end of the afternoon to indicate his withdrawal from Cap-Martinique. This retirement, just a few miles from Lisbon, marks the end of an adventure for a skipper who has already inscribed his name in the history of the race.

After losing his rudder, this SME boss managed to cobble together a makeshift rudder that he was even able to connect to his autopilot. This feat, worthy of MacGyver, even allowed him to return to the Portuguese coast without calling for help. In this harsh sea typical of Cape Finisterre, he could have been forced to deliver it to a hazardous tow, or even to leave it on board a helicopter. Vian can therefore congratulate himself on having saved his faithful A31. He even hoped for a long time to be able to return to racing thanks to the complicity of a friend who would have brought him a spare rudder. Unfortunately, the accumulation of logistical constraints forced him to throw in the towel.

Cap Martinique fleet includes both double-handed and solo sailors following a simple route: departure from Trinite-sur-mer on May 1, 2022, an island of Madeira to be left to starboard and arrival in Fort-de-France.

Rankings Cartography

cap-martinique.com

This Monday: Q&A Live Call with Morgan Reeser
'Never look at the scoreboard until the final day,' is one of Morgan Reeser's many pearls of wisdom. Morgan and his 470 crew Kevin Burnham went to the Barcelona 92 Games for USA, but with very little expectation of winning a medal. Yet they came away with Olympic silver.

So how do you punch above your weight and bring out your best performance for when it matters the most? How do you RISE to the pressure? This is one of the many things to ask Morgan when he appears as the latest Expert Guest on a Road To Gold Q&A session this Monday, 9 May.

Join Road To Gold's Hamish Willcox and Andy Rice who will be hosting the 60-minute live Q&A with Morgan. This is your opportunity to put your questions to one of the most successful coaches of the modern era. One we'll be keen to find out is what are Morgan's '3 Non-Negotiables of winning an Olympic Medal'.

The Q&A kicks off on Zoom at 1300 hours UK time on Monday 9 May/ 0000 hours NZ time on Tuesday 10 May.

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How Paprec Have Become Doubly Committed To The Figaro Circuit
Involved in ocean racing since the mid-1990s, most notably co-sponsoring Jean-Pierre Dick on the Imoca circuit, the Paprec Group formalized their notably increased support of sailing this week. First up they becomes the new title partner of what will now be known as the Transat Paprec. As background the historical sponsors since the first edition back in 1992, AG2R La Mondiale, told OC Sport Pen Duick in January 2020 that they would not continue beyond the 2020 race (which was postponed for a year). And as well as that agreement they become the main partner of La Solitaire du Figaro, which did not have a title partner after the withdrawal of Urgo at the end of the 50th edition, in 2019.

The first contacts between OC Sport Pen Duick, organizer of the two races, and the Paprec Group which is led by Sebastien Petithuguenin date back about a year. "It was done in two stages," Herve Favre, CEO of OC Sport tells Tip & Shaft. "We approached them for the first time in April 2021 to tell them about La Solitaire and as often happens it did not work out at the first try but finally, they called us back in October saying that they wanted to chat…"

Sebastien Petithuguenin continues: "We asked ourselves the questions about sponsoring in the Figaro, or developing an academy, we finally decided to take the opportunity offered by OC Sport and then everything really accelerated at the end of the year."

Read more in Tip & Shaft

Australia to host 2023 International WASZP Games
December 2023, the southern end of Port Phillip Bay will come to life, with Sorrento Sailing & Couta Boat Club set to host the International WASZP Games (Worlds). Sorrento has been a fantastic supporter of WASZP sailing since the class first hit the water in 2017, hosting two successful Australian Nationals Championships in 2018 and 2021 and having an active fleet at the club itself.

With 135 WASZPs in Australia currently and strong interest from overseas, this will be the jewel in the crown of the Australian summer. Providing high-speed colour and action against the stunning Mornington Peninsula backdrop, the flat water and solid sea breezes, give the perfect blend for the WASZP Class to enjoy. The Australian WASZP Class can not wait to welcome a large contingent of international sailors, there are expectations of containers out of Europe, UK and New Zealand, with a good contingent of sailors from the USA, Canada and Hong Kong also expected. It is a bucket list opportunity to spend a summer in Australia.

waszp.com

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The Last Word
I couldn't believe I was homeless and working in Harrods. How many people must be going through this in London? -- Ncuti Gatwa

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