EuroSail News #5080 - 10 May
In This Issue
• Fastnet express!
• USA's Eastern Yacht Club wins Wilson Trophy
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Myra Too & Bill Barnett - Two Great 18 footer Champions
• Kevin Escoffier: Ready To Take Up Where He Left Off On His New PRB
• Helmets
• Grand Soleil Cup
• Heartfelt thanks for your magnificent support, you've helped to Save the JST!
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: Iceni 39 ‘Andrasta’
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Nautor Swan 53
• • The Makara Series
• • Gunboat 68
• The Last Word: Mark Steel
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Fastnet express!
Leaving yesterday in the middle of the afternoon from Brest, the 24 sailors of the 3rd edition of the Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race experienced, as expected, a somewhat tricky first night in the light airs. The fact remains that in accordance with the routings, it was around one hour that the first overflowed the waypoint Trophee Departement Finistère located 100 miles to the west of the tip of Brittany, before starting the ascent towards the Fastnet , the mythical Irish rock that Charlie Dalin (Apivia) was the first to roll up at 4:12 p.m. on Monday May 9, barely 24 hours after leaving the city of Ponant! If the first quarter of the course was therefore very fast, the next one promises to be too, with in particular a passage of the front announced for this evening!
while the first few miles were soft and tricky, the change of pace was quite drastic in the morning, with a south-westerly flow that gradually strengthened to 20-25 with gusts to 30
Charlie Dalin, the skipper of Apivia set a hellish pace downwind, with averages above 20 knots. At 4:12 p.m. on Monday, with a lead of 45 minutes over Jeremie Beyou (Charal), he began the descent towards the next mark of the course, the Gallimard waypoint located 340 miles to the north. -west of Cape Finisterre. with averages above 20 knots.
www.guyaderbermudes1000race.com
Top five at 22h00 French time 1. Apivia - Charlie Dalin
2. Charal - Jeremie Beyou
3. Linkedout - Thomas Ruyant
4. Banque Populaire - Nicolas Lunven
5. Groupe APICIL - Damien Seguin
USA's Eastern Yacht Club wins Wilson Trophy
The Wilson Trophy is widely regarded as the premier team racing event in the world, attracting some of the world's most skilled exponents of the discipline, along with many fleet racing and match racing world champions and Olympians.
The regatta is held annually in May, taking place at the 'theatre of dreams' that is West Kirby Marine Lake. The venue is perfectly suited to team racing with (usually) uninterrupted winds blowing across the Dee Estuary with racing taking place meters from the shore, complimented by commentary and a grandstand for spectators. This is the stadium racing that so many other disciplines are trying to recreate but West Kirby have been doing it, and doing it well for 70 years.
With typically close to 300 races being run over the three day, the Wilson Trophy is equally well regarded for its off the water activities where long standing friendships are rekindled from around the world and the infamous Wilson dinner which now always includes a mystery guest speaker, the awarding of the Joyce Evans Trophy to the crew deemed most worthy and the now traditional singing of Jerusalem lead by Wilson stalwarts the Southampton Male Voice Choir. Fierce racing, fiercer socials and the 8am start times on Saturday and Sunday really make for one unforgettable event.
After not being able to run the event for two years 32 teams competed on Marine Lake at the 73rd edition on May 6-8 in West Kirby, UK. All four teams from the USA advanced to the semi-final stage, with the Eastern Yacht Club taking the title. The winning team was Paula Grasberger, Kate Barrows, Lily McGrath, David Thompson, Thomas Barrows, and Clinton Hayes. -- Scuttlebutt
Full Results after 352(!) races
Seahorse May 2022
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
Facts and figures
The will is there but the reality remains more challenging. Rob Weiland
In every corner
Another of ocean racing's most influential historic figures who you may never even have heard of. Clare Mccomb introduces us to Algernon Maudslay
In the palm of his hand
Is there a more impressive offshore sailor out there? Jocelyn Bleriot sits down with the remarkable Damien Seguin
Simple simple simple
For the user, certainly... but by the time you fit your Cyclops remote-access sail monitoring system a huge amount of hard and very ingenious work has already been done for you
Believably unbelievable
Today's top-end lines from Teufelberger deliver performance vs weight qualities that even 10-15 years ago the typical racing sailor would have found hard to believe. But believe it they should...
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Myra Too & Bill Barnett - Two Great 18 footer Champions
Myra Too and Culex III in action during the 1951 Giltinan Championship. Click on image for photo gallery.
Champion 18 footer skipper, designer and boat builder Bill Barnett won the 1948-49 Australian Championship on Sydney Harbour in a 6ft beam boat he designed and built himself, named Myra.
The following season, again in Myra, he was part of a six-boat NSW team which travelled north to contest the 1949-50 championship on the Brisbane River but was unable to successfully defend the title.
Barnett and the NSW team was dominated by the Queenslanders and Barnett was unplaced in the regatta which was won by Lance Watts in Culex III.
In New Zealand at the same time, Jack Logan built a round bilge skimmer, named Komutu, with a transom bow based on a fifty-year-old design by his father.
Komutu was far better than every other boat in the New Zealand 18 footer fleet and dominated the 1950 World Championship, which was sailed in Auckland, finishing 13 minutes ahead of the second-placed boat in Race 1, then winning Race 2 by more than 6½ minutes to clinch the title.
The prospects of the 1950-51 Australian Championship, followed immediately by the 1951 World Championship, being sailed on Sydney Harbour led to five new boats being built in Brisbane and four in Sydney to take on the defending Australian champion, Culex III.
The top two new boats set to challenge Culex III were Brisbane's Jenny IV (Norman Wright Jr) and the Sydney Flying Squadron's Myra Too (Bill Barnett).
Barnett was determined to regain his Australian title and his design of Myra Too created a boat exceptionally suited to Sydney Harbour conditions and, along with a powerful Marconi-rigged big sail, had good, all round speed in any conditions. -- Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.
Full story: 18footers.com
Kevin Escoffier: Ready To Take Up Where He Left Off On His New PRB
When you talk to Kevin Escoffier about his new boat - due to be launched on May 7th in Lorient in the iconic colours of PRB - is the element of continuity in his thinking.
Of course almost everyone who knows anything about IMOCA knows about the drama in the southern ocean in the last Vendee Globe, when Escoffier's old PRB broke up and sank, leaving her skipper to be rescued after a night in his life-raft by Jean le Cam.
That was an incredible story of great seamanship and survival and Escoffier has dealt with the attention it brought him with patience and humility. But as he looks back, he does not see that as a watershed moment in his career. Instead he focuses on what he had been achieving up until then in the IMOCA Class; he views his new boat as the opportunity to build on those successes and to continue the learning process that was already underway.
In this context, Escoffier reminds us that, alongside Nicholas Lunven, he raced the old PRB to second place in the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race, behind Jeremie Beyou and Christopher Pratt on Charal; he was then second again, also with Lunven, in the 2019 Transat Jacques Vabre, behind Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès on APIVIA. And then he was running in third place after three weeks in the Vendee Globe when disaster struck.
Helmets
The other evening, in big breeze and standing waves, I was busy frightening myself in the Laser with more vang tension than a supertanker's mooring line, gybing like a rank amateur and I found myself thinking: 'why on earth haven't I got a helmet on?' Looking around the fleet and I wasn't alone. Nobody was wearing one and we're all of a certain age, a certain generation, the generation that doesn't wear helmets. But look around and they are everywhere. The pros in SailGP and the Cup simply wouldn't go afloat without one. And in the junior fleets you see them all over the place perhaps, you might think, due to protective parents but I'll counter that - my son wouldn't even think about going afloat without one. It's now a habit and as habits go, it's a good one.
The whole debate weighed on my mind until I slapped the card down and bought a natty Zhik one last week. I've crossed the lexicon. I am wearing a helmet from now on and I am long past the age where I give a damn about what people think.
That aluminium boom on the Laser is a vicious thing when bent like a banana in 25 knots and I think I've played roulette with it for far too long. We've had a couple of comings together - mainly in the light stuff (still hurt) but to date I've respected its anger in the breeze. On reflection, I think I've just been lucky. I don't want to play that game any longer. I'm folding. I'm retired. I'm out.
rule69.blog/2022/05/09/helmets/
Grand Soleil Cup
The Grand Soleil Cup is the most popular event of the year by Cantiere del Pardo. The GS Cup 2022 will be held from the 20th to the 22nd of May 2022 at the Punta Ala Yacht Club. For more information and to take part in the event, you can send an email to .
Every since the very beginning, the GS Cup has been an unmissable event for Grand Soleil owners. A unique occasion that includes two intense days of regattas, full of competition and fun, an event for Grand Soleil fans all over the world.
Regatas will take place with mainly coastal and/or not extremely technical courses which will be detailed in the Sailing Instructions. Racing takes place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Heartfelt thanks for your magnificent support, you've helped to Save the JST!
Your amazing generosity has taken the JST over their £500k target and set them on the way to raising the next £700k by the end of September 2022.
Your support has enabled the JST to pay their devoted Ship's crew and shore-based staff who worked without salary to help get the JST through its urgent cash flow crisis and ensured that the wonderful tall ship SV Tenacious continued with her 2022 voyage sailing programme.
Tenacious has just completed a fantastic voyage to Jersey to connect with our great long-standing friends in the Jersey branch and the wider community. Currently, Tenacious is sailing on a Portsmouth-to-Portsmouth voyage and experiencing glorious sunshine along the South Coast.
Apart from donating vital cash, financial pledges and gifts in kind, you have also contributed in so many other ways.
Over one thousand people who donated are new supporters of our mission, while existing donors have given generously and persuaded their friends and family to support our cause.
You have also voiced your thoughts with a wide range of suggested changes we could make to ensure we move forward toward a sustainable future.
Reaching this huge milestone is truly wonderful and for that we thank you for your support.
Please click here for more information on the Jubilee Sailing Trust and their plans for the future
Thank you for your generosity.
Industry News
North Sails is excited to welcome world-renown sailor Ian Walker to their management team. Walker is a two-time Olympic medallist, an America's Cup veteran, and winner of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 as skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. He most recently served as Performance Director to the British Sailing Team, who claimed five medals at the 2020 Tokyo games. Walker's next career move puts him at the helm of North Sails UK for the world's leading sailmaker.
"Lowell North founded this business on a simple philosophy - get the best people and commit yourself to make the best product," says Ken Read, President of North Sails. "Ian sits amongst the best in our sport. He possesses a winning attitude and a level of knowledge that's invaluable to our brand and all North Sails customers. Having sailed against Ian, I know he's a fierce competitor and simply a good guy. We're honoured to have him join our team."
Walker's official start date is August 1st, 2022. He will be based at the North Sails loft in Gosport, UK.
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utch equipment manufacturer and distributor Vetus has launched a new website as part of a unified branding refresh across the company's digital platforms. The new site features a user-friendly redesign for simple and speedy navigation, browsing and searching, along with a new webshop and service centre.
The move is in response to continued growth in internet traffic accelerated by the pandemic and the reduction in boat show attendance, says Vetus.
The site's new service centre allows people to access a broad range of resources including brochures, product/technical information, videos, imagery, 3D drawings and price lists. Meanwhile, the new webshop contains more than 4,000 products and thousands of spare parts.
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The first day of the South Coast Boat Show has been hailed as "just fantastic".
Boat lovers have flocked to Ocean Village Marina, in Southampton, to browse the huge selection of luxury yachts.
The show's Sales and Marketing Director Tim Mayer said it got off to a flying start on Friday.
Speaking to the Daily Echo onboard one of the 70 luxurious yachts the show has to offer, Mr Mayer said business this year has been "really buoyant, which is fantastic for Southampton, Hamble and the whole of Hampshire because things are moving and they're moving really well".
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Canada SailGP Team is pleased to join forces with Ocean Wise just a week before the Team's debut in SailGP Season 3, which starts with the Bermuda Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess on 14-15 May.
Inspiring the nation through sport, the Team aims to engage and educate fans and the next generation of sailors across the country about the importance of our ocean for the food we eat and the air we breathe.
As the Team's Race for the Future partner, Ocean Wise will collaborate with the Team on a comprehensive outreach, education and inclusivity plan focussed on protecting and restoring our ocean. The partnership will be the cornerstone of the Team's Purpose and Impact strategy, which includes the We CAN Foil development programme that will roll out across Canada this summer.
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Julian Bethwaite and the International 49er Class Association welcome interested parties to become licensed 49er builders. We are seeking excellent boatbuilders to join our existing builders to help supply the best of top-flight Olympic sailors worldwide.
Builders should review the application overview and formally apply by June 30, 2022 to ensure successful bidders can be ready to supply the fleet for the LA 2028 quadrennial.
Any questions can be sent to the Class Manager.
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During the upcoming five regatta season the 52 SUPER SERIES will utilise autonomous remote controlled marks from the German company Smartmark. The buoys were comprehensively tested last season at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Mallorca. The marks can be precisely remotely controlled to a GPS position said to be accurate to within 11cms.
The Smartmark will significantly reduce the number of RIBs and personnel required on the water each day thereby reducing the fuel burned and thereby contributing to the circuit's sustainability targets this year. It will also eliminate the use of anchors for mark buoys which damage the seabed.
And while the sustainability gains are significant and long lasting there are expected to be some improved efficiency and accuracy in course laying which is all controlled from the Race Committee Boat.
The Smartmark are built around a GRP hull - like a small RIB - and are positioned using 3-D Drone technology. Each has quadruple sensors - four gyroscopes, four barometers, four compasses and seven thermal sensors. One part of the sensors is thermally encapsulated whereas the other part is located in the atmosphere. With the help of the intelligent software the sensors are responsible for more than 70% of the precision of the Smartmark (30% by GPS). Allowing to distinguish whether the mark is moving or it's deviations in the GPS signal. They are positioned using two electric motors. A web based interface system makes it relatively straightforward for the PRO to set up the desired course geometry and make any changes quickly and efficiently.
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