EuroSail News #5110 - 23 June
In This Issue
• SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race
• 52nd Newport Bermuda Race
• When time is money - Hexel
• Quantum Racing's Superior Consistency
• Kiel Cup went to "Intermezzo" and "Halbtrocken"
• Excitement building for Aegean 600
• New Winter Regatta To Be Held Annually In Abu Dhabi
• 50th Anniversary Of The Cape2Rio Race
• Fredrik Loof back on top as OK Dinghy World Ranking list restarts
• Featured Charter: Iceni 39 'Andrasta'
• Featured Brokerage:
• • 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi WILD JOE
• • Arcona 465 Carbon
• • MC100 Multihull
• The Last Word: Robert Benchley
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Kuka3 takes line honours in SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race
After just over 100 hours in the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race, Franco Niggeler's Kuka3 crossed the finishing-line at Wicklow Harbour on Wednesday evening after convincingly leading the on the water race for four solid days.
Becalmed on the Irish Sea for most of the day, a change with the ebb tide finally got the crew back to Wicklow helped by a gentle evening breeze.
The course time was unusually slow despite fresh winds for the first half of the race that started on Saturday and is a marked contrast to the current course record set in 2016 by George David on Rambler 88 of just over 50 hours.
The Volvo 70-footer Green Dragon is the next expected finisher at Wicklow probably at dusk while the next group of five boats with 35 miles still to sail were racing against another evening shutdown of the light breeze and expected turn of the tide; their arrival at Wicklow Sailing Club was not expected until the early hours of Thursday morning.
52nd Newport Bermuda Race
Hamilton, Bermuda: The great majority of the 186-boat fleet arrived overnight inBermuda and yesterday's provisional divisional leaders have all been confirmed as the winners in the 52nd running of the Newport Bermuda Race.
Winning the largest division in the race, the St. David's Lighthouse Division with 108 boats, is Illusion, a Cal 40 owned by Sally and Stan Honey (Palo Alto, California). Illusion's victory is the fourth time a Cal 40 has won the St. David's Lighthouse Division, following on from Vincent Learson's Thunderbird in 1966 and Peter Rebovich, Sr.'s Sinn Fein in 2006 and '08.
Racing with 1984 Olympic Gold medalist Carl Buchan (Seattle, Wash.), fellow Cal 40 owner Don Jesberg (Belvedere, Calif.) and multi-tasker Jonathan "Bird" Livingston (Richmond, Calif.) as bowman, Illusion completed the 635-nautical-mile course with an elapsed time of 87h:01m:33s, good for a corrected time of 51:02:13 and a decisive victory of more than two hours over Andrew Clark's (Greenwich, Connecticut) J/122 Zig Zag. Jim Murray's (Lake Bluff, Illinois) Pac52 Callisto, the divisional line honors winner, finished third, just 15 seconds astern of Zig Zag on corrected time.
Sailing their "final hurrah" in Illusion (they've sold the boat to Stan's nephew), Sally Honey said it was the perfect ending to an illustrious, 33-year run with the boat.
In the 38-boat Finisterre Division for cruisers, Dudley Johnson's (New York City) Tripp 65 Prevail earned first place, beating Andrew Burton's (Newport, Rhode Island) Baltic 47 Masquerade by just over 25 minutes. The division was divided into three classes, with Prevail winning Class 9, Masquerade Class 8, and Brian Bush's (North Chatham, Massachusetts) Toujours, a Tartan 37-2, Class 7.
The overall line honors winner, Jason Carroll's (New York City) MOD70 Argo, finished late Saturday night, marking the first-ever Saturday finish in the 116-year history of the race. Argo set a new course record of 33 hours, at an average speed of 19.24 knots.
In the high-performance Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Division, Warrior Won, Christopher Sheehan's (Larchmont, New York) Pac52, captured first place not only on corrected time but also elapsed time, earning monohull line honors and the Corporation of Hamilton prize as the elapsed-time winner of the combined St. David's Lighthouse and Gibbs Hill Lighthouse divisions.
Warrior Won's elapsed time of 56h:43m:34s corrected out to a win of nearly 37 minutes over Darren Walters' (Boston, Massachusetts) Sunfast 3300 Alchemist, the smallest boats in the division.
When time is money - Hexel
Hexcel's new range of G-Vent pre-pregs solves many of the biggest challenges for composite yacht and component manufacturers... including allowing a much-accelerated production process
Hexcel is one of the world's leading carbon fibre suppliers with a multi- billion-dollar annual turnover. Their largest research and technology centre for resin systems and adhesives is at Duxford in Cambridgeshire, UK, with strong links to a number of the UK's leading universities. The fibre they supply is used extensively within the latest generation America's Cup and Imoca fleets as well as within the aviation, defence, energy and automotive industries, and naturally when a company with such a reputation says it has developed a game-changing technology, we listen carefully.
Hexcel announced the launch of G-Vent pre-preg in March this year, and instantly solved many of the biggest complicating factors of pre-preg manufacture.
Full article in the July issue of Seahorse
Quantum Racing's Superior Consistency
Maintaining a superior level of consistency Quantum Racing lead the Rolex TP52 World Championship by four points after another two challenging light winds races on the waters off Cascais, Portugal. And while double world champions Platoon are pressing their US flagged rivals hard, pairing a fourth to a comprehensive race win in the second contest of the day, the Thailand team Vayu of the Whitcraft family continue to punch above their weight holding third overall with their slippery 2015 generation boat.
Broadly speaking the top four teams of the nine boat fleet have managed to string together a measure of regular results. Doug DeVos' leaders Quantum Racing have not finished outside the top three, piecing together three second places and a third. Platoon have improved daily, going 5,3,4,1 and even the Plattner family's fourth placed Phoenix with Tom Slingsby calling tactics have sailed 4,4,5,4 but others have ridden the big dipper, Alegre notably partnering two race wins with an eighth and a ninth and Takashi Okura's defending world champions Sled are 8,1,8,5 in sixth.
Rolex TP52 World Championship 2022 after four races
1 QUANTUM RACING (USA) Doug DeVos 2,2,2,3. 9pts
2 PLATOON (GER) Harm Müller Spreer 5,3,4,1. 13 pts
3 VAYU (THAI) Whitcraft family 3,6,3,2. 14 pts
4 PHOENIX (RSA) Hasso & Tina Plattner 4,4,5,4. 17 pts
5 ALEGRE (GBR) Andy Soriano 1,8,1,9. 19 pts
6 SLED (USA) Takashi Okura 8,1,8,5. 22 pts
7 PROVEZZA (TUR) Ergin Imre 6,5,9,7. 27 pts
8 GLADIATOR (GBR) Tony Langley 9,7,6,6. 28 pts
9 INTERLODGE (USA) Austin & Gwen Fragomen 7,9,7,8. 31 pts
Kiel Cup went to "Intermezzo" and "Halbtrocken"
The weather gods had little in mind for the sailors today, Wednesday, June 22nd, at the start of the Olympic part of Kiel Week. Because the sun hid for too long, the thermal easterly wind did not build up. Doldrums - no races were possible in the eight disciplines neither for the 11th ACO Musto Skiff World Championships. Next attempt on Thursday from 11 o'clock. On Sunday, June 26th, the final medal races are scheduled. At least one light wind race succeeded on the offshore course to conclude the Kiel Cup with overall German winners from Berlin ("Intermezzo"/Jens Kuphal/ORC I/II) and Flensburg (Knut Freudenberg/"Halbtrocken"/ORC III/IV).
With a lot of patience, great adaptability to the most diverse weather phenomena and the willingness to hold out until the last moment, the crews of the offshore yachts and the organization boats around principal race officer Eckart Reinke got the maximum out of the possibilities of the Kiel Cup regattas. The six races in three days demanded from the crews not only good seamanship, trim and tactics, but also navigational skills in the Coastal Races.
The new, innovative courses of the coastal races were also a test run for the ORC World Championship, which will be held off Kiel in August 2023.
Day 6 of Kiel Week 2022 will be livestreamed on Thursday, June 23rd starting with Nacra17 at 13:00 (UTC +2).
For streaming links, click here.
Excitement building for Aegean 600
Sounio, Greece - Teams are entered from all over the world for next month's Aegean 600, the second edition of this iconic offshore racing tour of the Aegean Sea. With one month left to the start, an impressive fleet of 37 entries have registered thusfar, representing 14 nations spread from as near as Greece to as far away as Australia. This group of monohulls and multihulls is a more diverse international fleet compared to this event's inaugural edition last year.
Daily race analysis videos using YB trackers will be provided by veteran offshore race commentator Dobbs Davis
The fleet will start their 605-mile journey around 13 islands in the Aegean archipelago on Sunday, 10 July. The start line will be located under the cliffs of Cape Sounio where the Temple of Poseidon and race spectators will overlook the fleet as they head southeast towards their first island on the course, the island of Milos. The remaining legs will take the fleet on a anticounter-clockwise circuit that includes roundings at Santorini, Kassos, Karpathos, Rhodos, Kandelousa, Kos, Kalolimnos, Farmakonissi, Patmos, Agathonissi, Mikonos, and Kea before crossing the finish at Cape Sounio.
New Winter Regatta To Be Held Annually In Abu Dhabi
Cowes Week Ltd is delighted to announce that Visit Abu Dhabi will be the Presenting Sponsor of Cowes Week 2022. To further reinforce the relationship, Cowes Week Ltd has joined forces with Global Mission in Abu Dhabi to launch a new regatta, the Cowes Week Winter Regatta. This entirely new event will take place in late January each year in Abu Dhabi, giving sailors from around the world a unique opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the people of Abu Dhabi, as well as the fantastic sailing conditions in the Emirates at that time of year.
Cowes Week Ltd will use its technical expertise to run the on-water elements of the new Cowes Week Winter Regatta, with Global Mission and its local partner the Karamm Group / Z Zone responsible for organising the onshore social programme, including an opening party, mid-week gala dinner and the closing prize-giving.
The inaugural edition of the Cowes Week Winter Regatta will take place from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th January 2023, with racing for a range of one-design classes (including J70, SB20, Etchells, Dragons and Cape 31) as well as IRC yachts and Performance Cruiser and Club Cruiser divisions. Entries are invited from boats of all shapes and sizes, with subsidised shipping available for early entrants. The online entry form will be available shortly.
Racing will take place just off the Corniche Beach for the one-designs, with longer courses including a possible Round Lulu Island Race, for the bigger boats. There will be a challenging mix of round the cans and open-course racing, with highly experienced Cowes Week race teams from the UK providing the on-the-water race management. Cowes Week's world leading App will keep competitors fully up to date throughout the week with everything happening, both on the water and onshore.
50th Anniversary Of The Cape2Rio Race
We are counting down to the start of the iconic #Cape2RioRace, which will be celebrating its 50th year in 2023. Boats set sail on 2 January for the #adventureofalifetime.
The Cape 2 Rio Yacht Race, is the longest continent to continent yacht race in the southern hemisphere. It was inspired by South African sailing legend, Bruce Dalling, winner on handicap of the 1968 Transatlantic Single-Handed Yacht Race.
The race was conceived to give South African & Brazilian sailors an opportunity to take part in a Trans-Atlantic Ocean crossing. Since its inception, the race has evolved into a strong competitive event attracting famous sailors and yachts including Icap Leopard, Morning Glory, Rambler, Broomstick and Parker Pen.
Despite the introduction of multi class and record setting entries, the race however remains true to its roots as and is open to cruising yachts and sailors.
The Cape2Rio Race 2023 will commence 2 January 2023
Contact Jennifer on or download all info from our website: www.cape2riorace.com
Fredrik Loof back on top as OK Dinghy World Ranking list restarts
After more than two years in stasis, the OK Dinghy World Ranking list is back, with a new overall leader. After briefly taking the No.1 spot in April 2019, Sweden's Fredrik Loof, is back on top, though without sailing any more events.
Fellow Swede, Thomas Hansson-Mild was No.1 when the Ranking List was put on hold in 2020 following the onset of the pandemic, but as neither of them have sailed any events so far in 2022, Loof takes the lead by virtue of higher scoring regattas in 2019.
Tomasz Gaj, from Poland stays in third, while there are very few other changes in the top 20.
The Ranking List was restarted in April 2022 with qualifying events at the Spring Cup in Medemblik, the French Nationals in La Rochelle and the Nordics in Varberg, Sweden.
The class is going through a period of extraordinary growth with individual membership increasing by around six per cent each year. In the past two years OKDIA has welcomed six new national associations to swell its membership to 18 member countries. During the same time more new boats have been built since any time since the 1970s and this trend shows no sign of slowing down.
Everything is going to be OK, again.
OK Dinghy World Ranking List - June 2022 Top 10 from 565 - Download
1. Fredrik Loof SWE, 978.21 - 7
2. Thomas Hansson-Mild, SWE, 960.94 - 10
3. Tomasz Gaj, POL, 896.29 - 13
4. Greg Wilcox, NZL, 880.55 - 15
5. Luke Gower, NZL, 813.26 -7
6. Jan Kurfeld, GER, 772.81 -7
7. Chris Turner, GBR, 752.78 -7
8. Bo Petersen, DEN, 740.30 -11
9. Steve McDowell, NZL, 735.18 - 6
10. Luke O'Connell, NZL, 733.47 - 6
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