EuroSail News #5119

In This Issue
• Jean Genie wins 5.5 Metre Worlds
• Pro Sailing Tour Fleet Arrives In Cowes
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Over 100 boats set for RORC's Cowes Dinard St Malo Race
• Swan One Design Worlds
• LA28 Paralympic Games bid
• Golden Globe Race Prologue
• Women's And Youth America's Cup Events Formats Announced
• Salcombe Gin July Regatta
• Maxime Sorel
• Featured Charter: Alegria 67 Catamaran 'Semper Fidelis'
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• • Super Maxi 86 - Way Of Life
• • Swan 82 'Ipixuna'
• • Dazcat 1495
• The Last Word: Ralph Steadman

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Jean Genie wins 5.5 Metre world title on final day in Hanko
Photo by Robert Deaves. Click on image to enlarge.

Peter Morton's Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines), designed by David Hollom, and built in Cowes, UK, has won the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Hanko, Norway, on Tuesday, after winning both races on the final day. In the last ten days they have rewritten history by winning both the Scandinavian Gold Cup and the World Championship, becoming the first British boat to win either event.

New Moon II (BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Anthony Nossiter) had led all week, only once outside the top three, but could only watch as Jean Genie sailed away from the fleet in both the final races. Defending champion Artemis (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli Sæther) ended third.

It's been an amazing 10 days in Hanko at the iconic and welcoming Hanko Yacht Club, and the fleet have enjoyed the sailing as much as the extensive social activities, which is a key part of the 5.5 Metre Class. This event also marks the return of the Australian sailors who had not seen their boats for two and a half years.

This year marks the first time a newly designed 5.5 Metre has won a major championship in many decades and time will tell whether this sparks new interest in the world's best designers to look again at the 5.5 Metre rule to come up with something better.

Final results after 7 races
1. Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines) 11 points
2. New Moon II (BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Anthony Nossiter) 13
3. Artemis (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli Sæther) 17
4. Ku-Ring-Gai 3 (AUS 66, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) 27
5. Ali-Baba (BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marazzi, William Alloway) 33

Full results

5.5class.org

British Sailor Sam Goodchild Takes Line Honours As Pro Sailing Tour Fleet Arrives In Cowes
Sam Goodchild crossed the Cowes finish line onboard Leyton to the sound of the Royal Yacht Squadron cannon after a hard-fought 515nm offshore battle from Saint-Quay-Portrieux in Brittany that started on Sunday.

"The race along the Solent, the gun, the finish with Leyton, it was beautiful!" said Sam Goodchild shortly after the finish this morning. "Being here brings back a lot of memories, as my career as an ocean racer with Team Artemis started here in Cowes."

After 38 hours at sea the top three finishers arrived within 30 minutes of one another, but line honours were not enough to secure the Episode 3 podium for Goodchild. It was the youngest skipper in the fleet, Quentin Vlamynck onboard Arkema, who having won 4 out of the 6 inshore races on Friday and Saturday last week in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc (the first half of Episode 3), who won this highly technical stage. Erwan Le Roux on Koesio finished second just 25 minutes adrift and continuing his upward trend.

In the match race up to Portsall and on the way back up the Channel, Thibaut Vauchel-Camus on Solidaires En Peloton - ARSEP, and Eric Peron on Komilfo ,fell behind their rival Ocean Fifty teams overnight. And while at Portland Bill only 22nm separated Thibaut Vauchel-Camus from leader Leyton, the rich got richer with those at the back of the fleet feeling the effects of a slackening breeze and increasing tide in the Solent.

Everything comes down to the Final Rush which will start tomorrow at 19:00 CET and will take the fleet from Cowes to Roscoff via the Fastnet Rock. -- Sabina Rogerson

Order of finish of the Offshore Challenge in Cowes
1- Leyton
2- Arkema
3- Koesio
4- Solidaires En Peloton - ARSEP
5- Komilfo
6- Groupe GCA-1001 Sourires
7- Primonial (DNF)

General ranking of episode 3 (6 inshore races + Offshore Challenge to Cowes)
1- Arkema - 67 points
2- Koesio - 60
3- Leyton - 55
4- Komilfo - 41
5- Solidaires En Peloton-ARSEP - 40
6- Primonial - 28
7- Groupe CGA-1001 Sourires - 19

www.prosailingtour.com

Seahorse July 2022
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Update
Remembering Herve Devaux... without whom a lot of us would still be going a lot slower, Alinghi starts to shop, Slingers goes alongside Goodison as American Magic goes all-in, and Barcelona starts to buzz... already. Guillaume Verdier, Jack Griffin, Damia Calvet, Terry Hutchinson, Carlos Pich, Paul Bieker And Vincent Lauriot Prevost

World News
Carl Ryves is the real deal, Paul Meilhat gets his 60, Class 30... the talking's over, back at it (and eating). And remember who pays the bills. Gery Trentesaux, Blue Robinson, Patrice Carpentier, Jo Aleh, Gavin Brady, Ivor Wilkins, Dobbs Davis

Paul Cayard - Out of the drought
At the end of the tunnel a light appears...

RORC - Words into action
It's working pretty well for them... maybe it can do the same for you? Ray Campion

ORC - Head for the sun
It took them a while to work it out

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Over 100 boats set for RORC's Cowes Dinard St Malo Race
Cowes Dinard St Malo Race
Start: Friday 0800 BST 8th July from the RYS
Course: Cowes - Casquets - Les Hanois - St Malo (approx. 151nm)

The RORC Season's Points Championship continues this weekend with over 100 boats competing in Cowes Dinard St Malo Race.

The Cowes Dinard St Malo Race pre-dates the Royal Ocean Racing Club by almost 20 years, with the overall winner awarded the impressive, gold plated, King Edward VII Cup. Presented by the British Monarch to the Club Nautique de la Rance at Dinard in 1906. Most of the top teams from the 2022 RORC Season's Points Championship will be in action racing under IRC, as well as Class 40 and MOCRA Rules.

Teams from Belgium, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Poland will be competing. From the Royal Yacht Squadron Line, the RORC fleet will race out of the Solent to the west, then across the English Channel to the west of Casquets, Alderney and Les Hanois, Guernsey. Then the fleet will head south to the finish, outside the famous granite-walled port of St Malo in Brittany, France.

With over 100 hundred boats set for the Cowes Dinard St Malo Race, there will be a fantastic view for spectators on the Isle of Wight. Boats will start to gather off Cowes Parade from around 0700 BST on Friday 8th of July. From the start, the RORC fleet can be tracked using the YB App for smartphones and tablets, when the boats are in AIS range. -- Louay Habib

Full entry list

Swan One Design Worlds
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

The historic Spanish port city of Valencia takes its turn in the spotlight this week with the arrival of one of the undoubted highlights of the ClubSwan Racing season, the Swan One Design Worlds.

With the high-profile title of World Champion 2022 there to be earned in three one-design classes - ClubSwan 36, ClubSwan 42 and ClubSwan 50 - the competitive regatta will provide the arena for a clash of the titans.

Hosted by the renowned and exclusive Real Club Náutico de Valencia, the Swan One Design Worlds will bring together the diverse Nautor's Swan family, as ever combining top ranked professional racers, and passionate and enthusiastic Corinthian sailors.

The Swan One Design Worlds will see four days of racing take place from Wednesday 6 July to Saturday 9 July, with 10 races scheduled.

Race Tracker

Race results on YachtScoring.com

World Sailing reaches 'pivotal moment' with LA28 Paralympic Games bid
Today is a pivotal moment - our LA28 bid for Para Sailing is in.

"'If our bid is successful, athletes from over 46 countries on six continents will be representing their nations at one of the world's biggest sporting events.

"Our global sailing family has spoken loud and clear, coming together to #BacktheBid - to see this sport, which offers so much to so many people, back in the Paralympics," said David Graham, CEO of World Sailing.

World Sailing's ambition to be reinstated into the Paralympic Games started the moment it was removed after Rio 2016.

"Now, the International Paralympic Committee's Governing Board has the difficult task of assessing applications from International Federations vying for a place on the LA28 Games plan, which currently considers 22 Paralympic sports - the same number as Rio, Tokyo and Paris - but now with more sports looking for inclusion. Our work is far from done," explained Graham.

The Para World Sailing Strategy 2020-2023 can be viewed here.

sailing.org

Golden Globe Race Prologue
It was announced today in Gijon, that the Golden Globe Race is partnering with the Spanish Port City of Gijon for a week of activities starting 6th August. It will conclude with The SITraN Challenge Race to Les Sables d'Olonne and the start of the 2022 Golden Globe Race.

Gijon, a successful tourism destination in Asturias, northern Spain, has hosted numerous nautical events over the past 30 years, positioning itself as a traditional destination for numerous French offshore races and rallies such as La Barquera, Pornic-Gijon, Gascogne-Asturias or Royan-Gijon.

It is also the stop-over for many short-handed offshore racing classes, such as the Figaro, Mini 6,50, Class 40 and IMOCA 60, making the city a natural choice to host the GGR fleet for a week of festivities and preparation around the values of solo-sailing and adventurous voyages.

2022 GGR entrants to date:
1. Abhilash Tomy (43) / India / Rustler 36
2. Aleix Selles Vidal (34) / Spain / Rustler 36
3. Arnaud Gaist (50) / France / BARBICAN 33 MKII (long keel version)
4. Damien Guillou (39) / France / Rustler 36
5. David Scott Cowper (80) / UK / Tradewind 35
6. Edward Walentynowicz (68) / Canada / Rustler 36
7. Elliott Smith (27) / USA / Gale Force 34
8. Ertan Beskardes (60) / UK / Rustler 36
9. Gaurav Shinde (35) / Canada / Baba 35
10. Graham Dalton (68) / New Zealand / Rustler 36
11. Guy deBoer (66) / USA / Tashiba 36
12. Guy Waites (54) / UK / Tradewind 35
13. Ian Herbert Jones (52) / UK / Tradewind 35
14. Jeremy Bagshaw (59) / South Africa / OE32
15. Kirsten Neuschäfer (39) / South Africa / Cape George 36
16. Mark Sinclair (63) / Australia / Lello 34
17. Matthew Wright (52) / Australia / Rustler 36
18. Michael Guggenberger (44) / Austria / Biscay 36
19. Pat Lawless (66) / Ireland / Saga 36
20. Robin Davie (70) / UK / Rustler 36
21. Simon Curwen (63) / UK / Biscay 36
22. Tapio Lehtinen (64) / Finland / Gaia 36 Masthead sloop

www.gijon.es/en

www.goldengloberace.com

Women's And Youth America's Cup Events Formats Announced
The competition for places onboard the Challenger and Defender yachts is extreme, and, in the past, the pathway has been varied. But for 2024, the game has changed, supported magnificently by the confirmed teams, it is aimed at encouraging the next generation of superstars into the white-hot auditorium of America's Cup sailing.

In what is expected to be one of the highlights of the 37th America's Cup, both the Women's and Youth America's Cups will be sailed on the America's Cup racecourse off the Barcelona waterfront during the final stages of the Challenger Selection Series and the opening of America's Cup Match itself.

The initial scheduling shows the Women's America's Cup Final Match Race being held on a Race day of the America's Cup Match itself, guaranteeing prime-time exposure before the expected large crowds along the Barcelona waterfront and across the media platforms and broadcast.

More details of the format are now available with both Women's and Youth America's Cup regattas being contested between 12 teams split into two pools of six for an initial fleet race series. The first pool will be comprised of the teams entered and competing in the America's Cup, the second pool will then be formed by the independent yacht club entries that qualify to enter under the nationality clause of the 37th America's Cup Protocol.

Both pools will race a series of 6-9 fleet races with the top three teams from each pool progressing to the final series of 3-4 fleet races to decide the top two teams to compete in a single match-race final to determine the overall winners of each event. The variation between fleet and match racing will be a fascinating formula to play out with the very best emerging from the fleet racing to contest the winner-takes-all match race.

Racing will be in a fleet of six one design AC40's supplied by the America's Cup teams.

americascup.com

Salcombe Gin July Regatta
Hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, The Salcombe Gin July Regatta will take place this weekend (09-10 July) with a weekend of well-managed racing and fun ashore. The third regatta of the Royal Southern YC Summer Series will once again feature two racecourses in the Solent with eight classes for keelboats and sportsboats.

In White Group, the J/70 Class will be competing for Round Three of the UK Sprint Series and will be joined on the windward leeward course by the SB20 Class. In Black Group, the HP30 Class have a strong showing with ten boats already entered. The pocket rocket Cape 31s are back in action, as is the highly competitive J/111 Class. A huge variety of keelboats will race in three IRC Classes, including Ian Atkin's GP42 Dark 'N' Stormy, who took Line Honours and the Gold Roman Bowl in last month's Round the Island Race. Over 200 hundred sailors are expected to be competing in the Royal Southern's Salcombe Gin July Regatta.

Online Entry is still available for the Salcombe Gin July Regatta, which is an open event for both Royal Southern members and non-members. -- Louay Habib

Maxime Sorel: The big step from being one of the pack to becoming a performer
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You only have to look at Maxime Sorel's impressive Class 40 career to know that this 35-year Frenchman is a highly competitive sailor who is more than capable of reaching the podium in major IMOCA races.

So far he has not had that opportunity because he has not had the boat under him to show what he can do. But the Breton skipper from Cancale, who finished 10th on debut in the Vendée Globe in 2021 in a VPLP-Verdier daggerboard design from 2007, now has the machinery he needs to make an impression at the top end of this increasingly competitive fleet.

Sorel is regarded as one of the IMOCA Class's complete professionals in everything he does - sailing, communications and management of commercial partnerships. He has no qualms about stating clearly what his goals are as his new boat, V and B-Monbana-Mayenne, comes out of the shed at MerConcept in Concarneau for the first time.

"Our project has changed in scope," he told the Class. "With my former V and B-Mayenne, I wanted to finish races. Today I'm aiming for performance. It's very motivating to have a boat that can race at the front. We are up against boats with much higher budgets, but we also know that in a Vendée Globe there is not necessarily a link between budget and performance."

Sorel added that if this team has the broken rules in any department, it is in the execution of the graphic design on the new boat's hull and sails. "Our dragon required no less than two months of work, with stencils, hand-painting and a team of 10 painters, plus three people in design, working with the two world famous designers, Yann and Julian Legendre, accompanied by Jean-Baptiste Epron" he said. -- Ed Gorman

www.imoca.org/en/

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