In This Issue
• Cap-Martinique : Alexandre Ozon first solo sailor
• Team Australia takes Worrell 1000
• The finish of champions - Nautix
• Cup Critiqued: One size doesn't fit all
• 52 SUPER SERIES Green For Go in Galicia
• Grant Dalton levels on the Cup controversies
• Lyra crowned first IMA Maxi European Champion
• Take the 2022 Test Rule 18 Quiz
• Bedrock Trophy
• For the Record
• Featured Charter: Libertalia - VOLVO 60
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Farrier F-36
• • IMOCA 60 - Arkea Paprec FRA04
• • CF 520 IRC Racing Yacht
• The Last Word: George Carlin

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Cap-Martinique : Alexandre Ozon first solo sailor
Alexandre Ozon won Saturday May 21 the first edition of Cap-Martinique. Since leaving La Trinite-sur-Mer 20 days ago, the skipper of the Sun Fast 3,300, already winner of the Transquadra in February, has outclassed his competitors. During the first part of the race, he stayed in contact with Alexandre Bodin (A40 Architectes) but managed to take the lead after passing Madeira. In the trade winds, the sailor from Charente never stopped increasing his lead while taking the time to share an infectious joy with the land. Only Jean-Pierre Kelbert (SNSM Morbihan) managed to keep up the pace, but not enough to win on corrected time, according to the rule in force in this IRC transatlantic race.

Alexandre Ozon, 43, lives in Charente Maritime and trains in La Rochelle. Like all the competitors from Cap-Martinique, Alexandre is an amateur skipper. For this transatlantic race, he wears the colors of the Trophee Estuaire Rose association, which supports families affected by cancer.

Also finishing Saturday, May 21 , Alexandre Delemazure and Emmanuel Weil (Project Rescue Ocean) were the first double-handed team to cross the finish line of Cap-Martinique in front of the magnificent Bay of Fort-de-France. The two skippers took 19 days 23 hours 38 minutes and 46 seconds to cover the 3,800 miles of the course separating La Trinite-sur-Mer (Morbihan) from Fort-de-France (Martinique). Aboard their Figaro 2, the two friends demonstrated all their complementarity and talent. But also that these "old" boats - which made the golden years of La Solitaire du Figaro or the Transat AG2R - are well preserved!

Race tracking

Team Australia takes Worrell 1000
More than a hundred people cheered at 28th Street Saturday afternoon as 13 teams in the Worrell 1000 catamaran race sailed over the shorebreak and landed on the beach.

Team Australia won the race, completing a total of 12 legs in the least amount of time.

The race started under tough conditions, with a storm off the coast leaving the teams at the mercy of harrowing swells.

"The first three days were brutal," said Randy Smyth, Team Rudee's skipper. "Straight-up wind, giant waves."

Team Rudee's of Virginia Beach took third place overall but crossed the finish line first, winning the last leg.

As each boat arrived, Mindy Worrell stood at the water's edge, smiling. "My husband was just passionate about this race," she said. "He would be so happy."

Mike Worrell of Virginia Beach started the event in the 1970s after a bar bet. It grew into a world-renowned, long-distance offshore race for daring sailors. Mike Worrell died in 2010, and the Worrell 1000 took a hiatus for years before resurfacing this spring.

The teams left North Carolina's Kill Devil Hills around 10 a.m. Saturday. Smith and Tebo jumped out of the boat and onto the sand in Virginia Beach around 3 p.m., greeted by a swarm of fans, including staff from Rudee's Restaurant, which sponsored the team.

"We won a lot of legs, but this one was super-important to us," said Smith.

The last time he competed in the Worrell 1000 was 22 years ago. He's 67 years old.

worrell1000race.com

The finish of champions - Nautix
Equally beloved of Vendee Globe racers and leaving-it-all-behind world cruisers, Nautix's highly-regarded range of specialist yacht finishes is hitting the international mainstream

Most sailors know Nautix antifouling. They've built a great reputation for that in the last 40 years starting from scratch – good going for a small business in Brittany with just 26 staff and a background in windsurf accessories, competing against multinationals. But they don't just make antifoul. They've also developed a wide, innovative range of complete hull protection systems, above and below the waterline, for virtually all hull materials and types of boat.

The full range includes adhesion promoters for GRP, carbon, steel and aluminium, impregnation resins for composites, wood and cast iron, primers for waterproofing and abrasion resistance, undercoats, epoxy fillers for fairing and finishing, thinners, top coats, varnishes and non-skid deck paints.

Full article in the June issue of Seahorse

Cup Critiqued: One size doesn't fit all as teams look at their options for moving to Barcelona
INEOS Britannia has elaborated on skipper/CEO Ben Ainslie's comment in the Daily Telegraph on Monday saying the team was setting up a base in Palma, Mallorca, as part of their preparations for 37th America's Cup.

In a statement on the team's website, the Mallorca location is described as a "winter training base" - without any comment on where they will be training over the European Summer.

The team notes this will mark the team's return to the water following the AC36 Challenger Series in Auckland in March 2021. Under the Protocol for the 2024 America's Cup, none of the existing teams who competed in the 2021 America's Cup Regattas can sail an AC75 before September 17, 2022.

Now that Barcelona has been named as the venue and the approximate dates for the 2024 America's Cup Regattas named, all teams have to devise a strategy around where their home base will be, when they will move to Barcelona and how long they will stay, AC75 raceboat launch dates and answer a swag of other questions around those issues and dates. As we saw in the last America's Cup, these decisions can have unintended consequences in an unstable geo-political situation and a hopefully receding pandemic.

Of the other teams, Luna Rossa have a well-established base in Cagliari, Sardinia. Emirates Team NZ have the use of their base in Auckland until after the next America's Cup. American Magic will initially be sailing out of Pensacola. And Alinghi have made no announcement about a base location, even though they are expected to be the first team to go sailing in the current America's Cup cycle.

The Cup rules say the Defender gets the first AC40 out of the McConaghy yard in China. One of the perks of being Challenger of Record is that the Brits will get the second.

Emirates Team NZ's AC40 has already come out of the mould, and the British boat will be well underway if that hasn't been popped out already.

Read Richard Gladwell's full editorial (third in a continuing series) in Sail-World.com

52 SUPER SERIES Green For Go in Galicia
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet warmed up for Tuesday's start of the 2022 season with three good practice races today on the beautiful ría de Vigo off Baiona where the world's leading grand prix monohull circuit is visiting for the very first time in its ten year history.

As if to underline how open this five-regatta season is likely to be, there were three different race winners, Harm Müller Spreer's Platoon, the Plattner family's Phoenix with Tom Slingsby calling tactics and Ergin Imré's Provezza which has Argentinian aces Santi Lange and Cole Parada backing up tactician Hamish Pepper at this regatta.

The morning rain and low hanging cloud cleared away to leave light to moderate breezes (9-11kts) and flat water which offered near perfect conditions for the final practice session at this challenging new venue, but Quantum Racing's navigator Michele Ivaldi believes the first three days could see brisk N'ly winds which should challenge all aspects of the crews' teamwork right from the very first races of the season.

The champions, Takashi Okura's Sled, have their talismanic owner-driver back on the helm and are ready to start their title defence at a venue which was a happy hunting ground for their Italian tactician Francesco Bruni who won the Master de España de Match Race Internacional here in 2009. Don Cowie, project manager and mainsheet trimmer, says that last season was so close the dice rolled in their favour.

Racing runs Tuesday to Saturday.

52superseries.com

America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ's CEO Grant Dalton levels on the Cup controversies
Emirates Team New Zealand often controversial CEO Grant Dalton levels with The Platform's Martin Devlin, in a 30 minute interview that Dalton consented to give, only on the basis that it was broadcast uncut and unedited.

Martin Devlin, like many of the the Kiwi sports media has had his moments with Emirates Team New Zealand, and puts many of the clichéd perceptions to CEO Grant Dalton on the team, its funding past and present, the negotiations with the NZ Government, and when they fell over, the 2024 Venue selection, Jeddah, signing Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, the 2003 America's Cup loss and plenty more. No-one pulls their punches in this 30 minute session between Devlin in Auckland and Dalton in London. -- Martin Devlin/The Platform

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Lyra crowned first IMA Maxi European Champion
A complex week of racing at the International Maxi Association's inaugural Maxi European Championship, comprising last weekend's Regata dei Tre Golfi offshore, followed by four days of inshore and coastal courses on the Bay of Naples, culminated today in the one all competitors had been waiting for – the traditional lap of Capri, measuring just under 15 miles.

This set off in a light southerly with an upwind leg into the channel between the Sorrentine peninsula and Capri before continuing on a clockwise lap around the Italian island, past famous landmarks such as the Faraglioni rocks, the Green Grotto and the imposing lighthouse at Punta Carena.

First to benefit from the breeze finally filling in on the left side was Highland Fling XI ahead of North Star, however the park-up had allowed many slower boats to catch up and incredibly third home on the water was Terry Hui's Wally 77 Lyra ahead of Guido Paolo Gamucci's canting keel Mylius 60 Cippa Lippa X (both competing in Class 2). But with the heavyweight Frers-designed Lyra having a substantially lower rating than her rival, she won today's race overall (the lead trio had spent too long parked – even Highland Fling's time corrected out to eighth), by more than five minutes from Cippa Lippa X under IRC corrected time.

Despite being second across the line, a disappointing 11th under IRC for North Star and a devastating 19th for parked-up Jethou caused them to drop to second and third place on the Maxi Europeans podium, displaced by the all-conquering Lyra by a mere 0.75 points. North Star had won last weekend's Regata dei Tre Golfi.

Lyra's crew and her Chinese-Canadian owner Terry Hui are no strangers to winning, having frequently prevailed in Wally or maxi classes at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez and the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

internationalmaxiassociation.com

Take the 2022 Test Rule 18 Quiz
The World Sailing Rule 18 Working Party is trying to find ways to simplify rule 18 (Mark-Room) without making significant changes to the current game. They have created a test rule 18 for 2022 which is 20% shorter than the current rule, removing much extraneous and complex wording. It contains simplifications such as making mark-room the same for all inside boats whether they have the right-of-way or not and whether the leeward mark is a single mark or a gate mark, creating a clear end point for when rule 18 stops applying, and allowing boats to gybe at the windward or offset marks when their proper course is to gybe.

The Rule 18 WP is inviting sailors and race officials around the world to study the test rule, take the 2022 Test Rule 18 Quiz, and if possible use the test rule in their racing between now and July 15, 2022.

To take the virtual 2022 Test Rule 18 Quiz, click here

To learn more about the 2022 Test Rule 18, click here

If you are interested in organizing the use of the 2022 Test Rule 18 between now and July 15, 2022, email Dave Perry

Bedrock Trophy
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The UK Etchells fleet gathered for the Bedrock Trophy on the the 14th/15th of June.

Saturday started with light winds and a 2 hour delay till the sea breeze kicked in at 3pm. Despite the delayed start, the Royal Southern race committee managed to get two races completed for the 14 boat fleet.

Sunday's weather brought strong wind and rain for the majority of the day. The 14 Etchells hit the water at 10:30am and completed four races despite the lack of sun.

Congratulations to Mila sailed by Lawrie Smith, Richard Parslow, Goncalo Almeida and Ben Saxton for overall winners. Shamal sailed by Anthony Parke, Ross Mackley, Josie Meredith and Carys Randeria were the first Corinthian boat.

The next Etchells event is Southern Areas Championships on the 4th/5th of June.

etchellsukfleet.co.uk

For the Record
The WSSR Council announces the establishment of a new World Record:

Record: Cowes to Dinard Singlehanded.
Yacht: Multybo. 50ft Trimaran
Name: Thibaut Vauchel-Camus. FRA
Dates:.22nd April 2022.
Start time: 14;25;02 UTC on the 22/04/22
Finish time: 20;37;00 UTC on the 22/04/22
Elapsed time: 6 hours 11 minutes and 58 seconds
Course length: 138 NM
Average speed: 22.26 kts
Comments: Previous record: IDEC. Francis Joyon. FRA. Aug 07. 6h 23m 36s

John Reed
Secretary to the WSSR Council
sailspeedrecords.com

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