EuroSail News #5086 - 20 May
In This Issue
• Oskari Muhonen moves into lead on Day 3 of Finn Gold Cup
• 50 teams to contest RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• TF35: Technical Opening Day
• 2022 Round Mann Yacht Race
• Owner-driver championship strengthens for 2022 GC32 Racing Tour
• Kiteboarding Youth Worlds
• Hall of Boats: Clara
• Brest to host the World Military Sailing Championship
• 2.4 Metre European Championship
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Aeolos P30
• • Nautor Swan 36
• • Excess 12 - Catamaran
• The Last Word: George Whitman
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Oskari Muhonen moves into lead on Day 3 of Finn Gold Cup
After three very different races, Finland's Oskari Muhonen has taken the lead at the 2022 Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. He won two more races to take a three point lead from Pieter-Jan Postma, from The Netherlands. Austria's Florian Raudaschl won the second race and moves up to third overall. Four races remain.
After losing the first day with no wind, the event is back on schedule. But still the conditions defy the local weather-lore with a long wait for racing to begin on Thursday. In the end the first race was started in 6-7 knots and at the top mark, there were some big holes. Most of the leaders survived, but a few had some deep results.
The second race was sailed in slightly more breeze, though it started to build significantly on the final downwind, setting up a great third race in 12-14 knots.
Otto Strandvig, from Denmark, led at the top in Race 4, but the race was a fight between France's Laurent Hay and Muhonen. Hay led at the downwind and at the second top mark, but Muhonen got past in a last few hundred metres before the final gate to take the race win.
Results after six races
1. Oskari Muhonen, FIN, 12
2. Pieter-Jan Postma, NED, 15
3. Raudaschl Florian, AUT, 25
4. Domonkos Nemeth, HUN, 31
5. Marko Kolic, ITA, 40
6. Matteo Iovenitti, ITA, 46
7. Miguel Fernandez Vasco, ESP, 54
8. Roberto Strappati, ITA, 59
9. Peter Peet, NED, 60
10. Hay Laurent, FRA, 62
50 teams to contest RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
A 50-strong entry will contest RORC's Vice Admiral's Cup this weekend, with up to eight short, sharp races scheduled across three days for the six classes competing. Light to moderate airs at the start of each day are forecast to build from the southwest, with gusts potentially reaching 25 knots on the opening day.
Very light displacement boats are, unsurprisingly, becoming increasingly popular for this style of racing and the Cape 31 class, which raced at the Vice Admiral's Cup for the first time last year, is now the biggest class at the regatta. In total 13 boats are entered, including many familiar and very successful names from across the yacht racing sphere.
This diversity of talent makes it impossible to predict likely overall winners, especially as two new boats are out for the first time in the hands of very experienced owners: James Howells' Gelert and Anthony O'Leary's Antix. Nevertheless, Michael Wilson and Vince Hayter's Shotgunn will be doing their best to defend their position at the top of the class's 2022 overall leaderboard, while Michael Bartholomew's Tokoloshe 4 will be equally keen to cement their place on the podium.
The HP30 class is home to a variety of fast and lightweight designs that compete under IRC ratings. Nine boats are entered this weekend, when Chris Townsend's modified Farr 280 Gweilo will be looking to continue his winning form, having taken victory in this season's first event, with an almost unbroken run of race wins.
Sam Laidlaw's BLT will be seeking to repeat his success at last year's Vice Admiral's Cup, but will face strong competition from many others in the fleet, including Louise Morton's Bullet, winner of the 2019 Vice Admiral's Cup and three time Quarter Ton Cup winner. She will be racing with an all-star female crew, including Hannah Diamond, Kate Macgregor, Ellie Cumpsty, Bethan Carden, Nicky Macgregor, Suzy Russell and Imogen Stanley.
Morton's husband Peter, who's also a multiple QTC winner, makes a return to the fray this year, racing Hellaby, a boat he bought only six weeks ago. She's a Laurie Davidson design that was second in the 1980 Quarter Ton Cup in Auckland to Bullit, which is now owned by Julian Metherell and will also be racing.
Racing for the Vice Admiral's Cup will take place in the central Solent from Friday May 20 to Sunday May 22. -- Louay Habib
Seahorse June 2022
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
Update
Getting stung in St Barts, but entertained in San Francisco, we're all off to Barcelona, but while the AC75s get faster they don't get cheaper, Vasco Da Gama he was not, winners and grinners at the end of SailGP but one man is hogging the top step. Jack Griffin, Tom Slingsby, Terry Hutchinson, Adrian Morgan, Jimmy Spithill, Russell Coutts, Rob Kothe
Politics
Taking it on the chin... or when even the Russian sailors know that the Russian sailors should not be allowed out on the pitch. Rob Weiland
Thing of beauty
Not only a very beautiful piece of fast craftsmanship, but maybe also a glimmer of hope for home builders. Akihiro Kanai, Act
Happy Sad
While everyone else was making a lot of noise Barcelona was quietly getting on with the job. Carlos Pich, Ivor Wilkins, Grant Dalton
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TF35: Technical Opening Day
Nyon, Switzerland: After an hour of practice racing under brilliant sunshine on the sparkling waters of Lake Geneve, the seven TF35 teams had shaken off any winter dust that might have accumulated. They were ready for the Realstone Cup for Leman hope, the opening event of the TF35's 2022 season.
After a short break under AP, as the wind kicked up to 21 knots and then settled down again, Lake Geneva's notoriously fickle breeze allowed just one race to take place in a comfortable 15 knots from the southwest.
In this, the smooth consistency of Realteam Sailing saw the 2021 defending champions leading the race by the first mark, with co-skipper Jerome Clerc once again setting the pace for the TF35 fleet and crossing the finish line clear ahead to take the only win of the day.
Tomorrow the forecast is for a building southwesterly that is set to reach 30 knots midafternoon. To make the most of the day before the conditions get too intense, the race committee will start racing at 10.30 local time.
Realstone Cup For Leman Hope
Overall Ranking
(After one race)
1. Realteam Sailing
2. Alinghi Red Bull Racing
3. Spindrift
4. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier
5. ZEN Too
6. Vitamina Sailing
7. Team SAILFEVER
Far Shore Merchants announced as sponsor for 2022 Round Mann Yacht Race
Far Shore Merchants is delighted to announce its sponsorship of this year's 40th anniversary Peggy Round Mann Yacht Race which takes place on 3rd-4th June 2022 over the extended Jubilee weekend holidays.
The 65 nautical mile circumnavigation of the Isle of Man, organised by the Isle of Man Yacht Club, will start as usual from Port St Mary at 7am with competitors given a 30-hour time limit to complete the course. It is open to any ballasted sailing vessel and is well-known amongst the sailing community for its challenges of tricky tidal conditions as well as unpredictable weather.
This year's event has been renamed Peggy Round Mann Yacht Race after Far Shore Merchant's popular brand, Peggy Dark Rum. The rum itself was named in honour of the Isle of Man's most famous and oldest surviving wooden yacht which sailed the Manx seas in the 18th Century and has been linked to tales of mystery and intrigue in its past life.
Owner-driver championship strengthens for 2022 GC32 Racing Tour
The GC32 Racing Tour several years ago introduced its own Owner-Driver Championship, compete with prizes at each event and for the season. With one week to go from the GC32 Riva Cup, opening event of the 2022 GC32 Racing Tour, this Championship is being revitalised this season following a break due to the pandemic.
Overdue in his return to the GC32 Racing Tour has been GC32 International Class Association President Simon Delzoppo who competed in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, ending on a high with a third place finish, including a race win at the final event in Toulon. His .film Racing also finished third in the Owner-Driver championship that year.
On board .film AUS Racing with Delzoppo this season will be two who sailed previously with the Australian team - Ed Powys (mainsheet/tactics) and reigning GC32 World Champion Rhys Mara (trim). Joining his team for the first time will be the otherwise familiar figures of America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race sailor Guy Endean (float) and the Kiwi SailGP team's James Wierzbowski (bow).
2022 GC32 Racing Tour
25 - 29 May: Riva del Garda (ITA)
22 - 26 June: Lagos (POR)
13-17 July: Lagos World Championship (POR)
14-18 September: Villasimius (ITA)
19-23 October: Mar Menor (ESP)
Kiteboarding Youth Worlds
Day one of the Formula Kite U21 and Youth Foil World Championships in Sardinia delivered challenging and shifty wind between 9 to 13 knots, but still the favourites rose to the top of the scoreboard.
- Two breezes fighting each other for supremacy made the Gulf of Oristano on Sardinia's west coast a tricky place to race, but 9 to 13 knot breezes late in the afternoon enabled all four scheduled races to take place\
- Defending male champion Max Maeder from Singapore won all four of his opening heats in his half of the qualifying fleet in the Formula Kite division
- Italian rider Riccardo Pianosi picks up a UFD disqualification in his opening race, but follows up with three bullets on his side of the male Formula Kite draw
- Gal Zukerman of Israel leads the female Formula Kite fleet
- Jakub Balewicz leads the Polish charge in the mixed A's Youth Foil fleet.
Racing continues on Thursday with four more races scheduled in the Male and Formula Kite divisions and the Youth Foil mixed fleet. -- Icarus Sports
Hall of Boats: Clara
Cruising boats were never Nathanael Herreshoff's primary focus, but when newly married, he owned two in succession, both narrow and deep cat-yawls: CLARA (named for his wife) and before that CONSUELO (named for we know not whom). Despite her huge bat-wing mainsail, N.G.H. sailed CLARA alone at times, later admitting he preferred the smaller CONSUELO with her gaff rig, which was easier to handle.
Eight years was enough of sailboat cruising, and after he invented the svelte and slippery fin-keelers in 1891, beginning with DILEMMA (HMCo. #412) he owned a succession of them. For cruising later on as a family man, he turned to steam yachts, mostly ROAMER (HMCo. #215), the 95-footer laid out specifically for him and his wife and their six children—and, of course, the paid crew.
herreshoff.org/hall_of_boats/clara/
Brest to host the World Military Sailing Championship
For the third time in the event's history, the city of Brest is hosting the World Military Sailing Championship. Organised from 31 May to 4 June 2022 in the Finistère region of north-west France, it will gather together 9 nations including India, Bahrain, the United States, Canada and, of course, France.
France is set to compete with a top-flight team since its members are flying the flag of the French Navy as part of the French sailing team. The tricolour boat will be skippered by the leading rating, Jean-Baptiste Bernaz, 6th at the last Olympic Games in the Laser category. Jean-Baptiste will notably be accompanied by the event local and first officer, Marie Riou, winner of the last edition of the Volvo Ocean Race and named World Sailor of the Year in 2018.
To guarantee perfect sporting equity, the Worlds are raced on boats supplied by the organisation - J80s - for a match racing format, where each country competes against the other, one on one, during an initial qualification phase. Following this four-day clash in which more than 36 races will be run, the best placed teams will qualify for the final phases, which will be contested on Saturday 4 June. The grand finale will decide Italy's successor for the title of World Military Sailing Champion.
The competing countries:
Bahrain / Canada / Denmark / Spain / Greece / India / Poland / United States / France
www.milsport.one/sports/sailing
2.4 Metre European Championship
44 boats from all over Europe are sailing in Quiberon.
Megan Pascoe, reigning world champion was winning as of yesterday. Racing continues through Friday.
Top ten after 6 races, 1 throwout:
1. Megan Pascoe, GBR, 8 points
2. Damien Seguin, FRA, 10
3. Antonio Squizzato, ITA, 20
4. Heiko Kroeger, GER, 22
5. Ulli Libor, GER, 23
6. Karl Dehler, GER, 26
7. Jonathan Currell, GBR, 29
8. Urs Infanger, SUI, 30
9. Fia Fjelddahl, SWE, 40
10. Antti Kokkala, FIN, 51
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