In This Issue
• Rollercoasters In Light Winds
• GC32 Lagos Cup opens with Psarofaghis masterclass
• Harken Reverses Course, Begins Adding Friction
• SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race
• We've got it covered - Persico
• ORC World Championship
• Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
• All systems go for Superyacht Cup Palma 2022
• Uffa Fox 50
• Featured Brokerage:
• • RM 970
• • Elan GT6
• • AEOLOS P30
• The Last Word: Mark Twain

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Rollercoasters In Light Winds
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

While Quantum Racing returned a second and a sixth to finish the day with a two points lead at the top of the Rolex TP52 World Championship on the waters off Cascais, Portugal one of the most impressive displays today was that of the Whitcraft family's Vayu team which now lies second only two points behind the USA's three times world champions.

The Thai flagged team which has Britain's double Olympic 470 medallist Nick Rogers calling tactics were fourth in the first race and then chased Alegre across the finish line of the second contest. They are sailing smart but also - again - have excellent boat speed in the light, 7-10kts wind conditions thanks to the 2015 Botin design.

Rolex TP52 World Championship 2022 Classifica after six races
1. Quantum Racing (USA) Doug DeVos, 18 points
2. Vayu (THAI) Whitcraft family, 20
3. Platoon (GER) Harm Muller Spreer, 23
4. Alegre (GBR) Andy Soriano, 25
5. Phoenix (RSA) Hasso & Tina Plattner, 26
6. Sled (USA) Takashi Okura, 33
7. Provezza (TUR) Ergin Imre, 36
8. Gladiator (GBR) Tony Langley, 42
9. Interlodge (USA) Austin & Gwen Fragomen, 47

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GC32 Lagos Cup opens with Psarofaghis masterclass
While Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing team has topped GC32 competition for many years, they are now focused on 37th America's Cup training and so are fielding two teams on the GC32 Racing Tour: SUI 8, which emphatically won last month on Riva del Garda and their development team SUI 15. For the GC32 Lagos Cup their skippers - Arnaud Psarofaghis and Maxime Bachelin - have swapped boats, begging the question: "Does a helmsman or the crew make the most difference on a GC32? Today Psarofaghis left no doubt to this, leading the young crew on SUI 15 to victory in three out of five races.

The light marginal foiling conditions to start with also showed up the huge variation in skill across the fleet from immaculate Alinghi who seem able to foil downwind in the slightest zephyr to the new teams struggling to fly a hull, let alone pop up onto their foils. But as Nicolai Sehested advised: "They have to take time to get used to the boats. We were the same last year when we were new. By the end of this event they'll be competing and putting in good results. And at the Worlds you will see them doing better."

Racing resumes Friday at 1300. Conditions are forecast to be brisker with the wind into the high teens and gusting above 20 knots. -- James Boyd

Results 1. Alinghi Red Bull Racing - SUI, 9 points
2. Team Rockwool Racing, 12
3. Zoulou, 18
4. Alinghi Red Bull Racing - SUI, 21
5. Black Star Sailing Team, 25
6. Team Tilt , 29
7. K-Challenge Team France, 31
8. .film AUS Racing, 38
9. HRM Racing Team, 44
10. Team Canada, 48

www.gc32racingtour.com

Harken Reverses Course, Begins Adding Friction
Who better than we in Pewaukee, obsessed with making things slide with ever less friction, to know how to keep things from sliding?

Test results prove Harken Marine Grip sticks at least 40% more effectively than competitive products whether you're wearing leather shoes, boat shoes, or no shoes at all.

Originally designed by a surfer to mimic the feel of surf wax while outlasting it, Marine Grip is easy to clean and install. Plus, it's cost-effective. Apply it anywhere you really do not want to slip: decks, docks, sprits, ladder steps, cockpit floors. It's available in gray, black, and translucent white for hatches or deck prisms. And it comes in rolls, strips, and modular hexagons you can assemble to cover irregular cockpit or foredecks.

But make no mistake: there are some things Harken Marine Grip simply does not do. It doesn't rip up your hands and knees. It doesn't chafe your board shorts or foul weather gear. It doesn't change color or get slick in cold weather. It keeps sticking after months in the UVs and salt. And when it needs replacing, it doesn't take all day to remove.

After more than 50 years of fighting friction, we know what sticks!

Harken Marine Grip. If you try it, we believe you'll stick with it.

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SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race
With just under half the fleet still at sea in the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race, SL ENERGIES Groupe Fastwave skippered by Laurent Charmy has been provisionally listed as the clubhouse winner of the 705 nautical-mile event.

As the seventh finisher out of 44 starters in the race, Charmy's team had to wait a further eight hours to watch their nearest rivals complete the course.

Mike and Ritchie Evans' Snapshot narrowly missed displacing the leader by just five minutes on corrected handicap time.

After days of light winds on the Irish Sea, a stark contrast to the big waves and headwinds of the west coast, the Irish crew was amongst a group of contenders that reached fresher conditions south of Dublin Bay on Thursday afternoon but just too late to make up lost time.

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.

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We've got it covered - Persico
Persico Marine is in the throes of delivering everything from a new Imoca for brilliant skipper Paul Meilhat to the first batch of Persico FLY40s which will mark the debut of the large foiling one design

Development classes have always and always will be a place for innovation in our sport. For far too many years it has felt like the top end of yacht engineering was an area limited to refinement of established practices. But there is a point where the level of refinement in itself is a revolution. The current development classes of main focus in our sport are Imoca and AC75. Persico Marine is currently working hard at balancing the calendar of these two classes, as well as some intriguing in-house developments, to ensure that the company is centre stage for all that the classes and their designers and teams can come up with.

The AC75 build is still some way into the future. But the planning is well established with Luna Rossa Challenge.

Full article in the July issue of Seahorse

Sixty-nine teams ready to race at 2022 ORC World Championship
Porto Cervo, Sardinia: Sixty-nine teams from 16 nations are assembled in the beautiful harbor in front of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda getting ready to race tomorrow at the 2022 ORC World Championship. The fleet is divided into three classes – 20 in Class A, 27 in Class B and 22 in Class C – who will race for separate World Championship medals awarded in each class. Each class will also have scoring and awards for all-amateur Corinthian entries.

The format is a mix of offshore, coastal and inshore windward/leeward course racing. The schedule calls for a Saturday 25 June start to the Offshore race intended to last for 30-36 hours for the slowest boats on a course around the Costa Smeralda, the scenic northeast coast of Sardinia. This will require not only accurate navigation but it will help to have experience in knowing what lies around each corner of this complex coast dotted with islands of all sizes, rocky promontories and secluded beaches.

For Monday and Tuesday 27-28 June there will be inshore windward/leeward racing on two course areas set east of the harbor, with Classes A and B sharing a course area and Class C being on its own course. Wednesday 29 June will feature a 10-12 hour Coastal race along the Costa Smeralda for all classes, and Thursday 30 June will resume inshore racing followed by Awards to conclude the championship. A minimum of one Offshore and four inshore races or two Offshore and three inshore races are needed to constitute a Championship, and up to three inshore races can be held daily.

A video interview with Gavin Brady talking to SEAHORSE magazine's Dobbs Davis:

Another ORC champion tactician, Lorenzo Bodini (ITA) :

A video interview with Matteo Polli:

www.yccs.it

www.orc.org

Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
This month's nominees:

Kenichi Horie (JPN)
It's hard to argue that the largely low-dairy Japanese national diet has its benefits. Kenichi Horie knows his way across the Pacific Ocean having successfully traversed it in a curious range of boat types including one built out of aluminium drinks' cans. He has lost count of all these various voyages but we know his latest was completed at the age of 83 aboard a 'compact' 19-foot sloop. Asked if he had concerns about the trip he laughed... 'maybe a little about being old'

Ossie Stewart (GBR)
We have tried before, Ossie, really we have. Still a nipper at 68, the Olympic Soling bronze medallist of 1992 has amassed a huge tally of major national and international titles but always as a crew. Winning the 2022 RS Elite title marked his first ever in the back of the bus. Crewed by his son Tom and renowned one design sailor Geoff Carveth, Stewart took his big win by just 1pt ahead of old friend and rival Russell Peters who was taking time out from his own full-on Cape 31 campaign

June's winner:
Sviatoslav Madonich (UKR)
'Of course I am voting for Sviatoslav. Slava Ukraini!' - Ian Williams; 'Ukrainians are the strongest and the bravest. Love for Ukraine' - Vitaliy Kuznyetsov; 'Super! Gloria for Ukraine!' - Oleksandr Blavatnyi; 'The greatest youth sailor Ukraine has ever been blessed with' - Valentyn Klymentyev; 'Sviatoslav is simply brilliant!' - Debbie Smith; 'Slava is young, strong and a straightforward Ukrainian sportsman' - Denys Silchenko.

View past winners of Sailor of the Month

Seahorse Sailor of the Month is sponsored by Harken Derm, Musto and Dubarry. Who needs silverware, our prizes are usable!

Cast your vote, submit comments, even suggest a candidate for next month at seahorsemagazine.com/sailor-of-the-month/vote-for-sailor-of-the-month

All systems go for Superyacht Cup Palma 2022
It is all systems go for the start of Superyacht Cup Palma 2022, with a diverse selection of some of the planet's most inspiring superyachts preparing to put on a show at the home of Mediterranean superyachting.

Leading the charge out on the water are the quartet of iconic J-Class yachts, with the J-Class Association having selected Superyacht Cup Palma as the second of their three key events in 2022, bracketed by the Saint Barth's Bucket back in March and the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in September.

Ranger heads into the Palma regatta having clinched victory in St Barth's by a single point ahead of Velsheda, a situation the latter will be keen to reverse at their Mallorcan encounter. Meanwhile, Svea and Topaz will each be looking to gate-crash the Palma party – and podium – with all four yachts crewed by a veritable Who's Who of top-line professional yacht racers.

While the J-Class yachts will have two exclusive races to themselves on Wednesday, they will join the rest of the SYC fleet for the following three days of racing, making them eligible for the overall Superyacht Cup Palma trophy.

Looking to deny them that opportunity are two other highly competitive classes. Class A features a trio of high-performance flyers, namely the 32m Farr designed Kiboko Tres, the 24m Wally yacht Rose, and the 33m Malcolm McKeon designed Pattoo, second in her class last year.

Class B also has an entry aiming to go one better than last year in the shape of the 46m performance cruiser Ganesha, runner-up in class to overall 2021 winner Ravenger. She is joined by the powerful 37.6m Humphreys design Oyster 1225 Archelon – taking part in her first ever regatta – the 27m David Pedrick designed modern classic Savannah, and the 43m sloop La Belle, making her SYC debut.

Superyacht Cup Palma 2022 will get formally underway on June 28. -- Daphne Morgan Barnicoat

Uffa Fox 50
Organisers of the UF50 Celebration sailing regatta have announced that those attending the event will now be able to enter free of charge, as well as benefit from a generous 50% discount off their car ferry.

"We are delighted to announce that Red Funnel have provided us with 50% discount vouchers on their Car Ferry from 17 to 22 August 2022 for those entering. In addition, we have received a most kind and significant donation for the event from Patsy and David Franks which enables us to let you enter free of charge (entry fees to date will be reimbursed) and also allows us to let entrants for the UF50 sailing regatta have a further subsidy on the Red Funnel car ferry of £100," says Peter J Taylor, MBE and Chairman of the Organising Committee.

"So if your ferry quote for car and trailer is say, £300, Red Funnel will halve it to £150 and we will provide a further subsidy of £100 leaving a net car ferry cost to you of £50 plus the bonus of a free entry," says Peter.

The Red Funnel discount code will be provided after entry by contacting the Royal London Yacht Club office and the further subsidy reimbursement will be provided upon provision of ferry booking details at the Registration office during the event.

The above offers are open until 1700 on Friday 15 July.

On the accommodation side there are still cost-effective options available at the Royal London Yacht Club, the Island Sailing Club and the UKSA. Contact directly for booking information.

You can find further details at www.UF50.org

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The Last Word
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