In This Issue
• A fast and perfect start for the Aegean 600
• Stipanovic and Bilic Star European Champions
• Arkema Confirms 2022 Pro Sailing Tour Victory
• Time Travellers rejoice in St Malo
• Youth World Sailing Championship
• NACRA 17 European Championship
• Tricky Medal Race
• Three Ways to be a World Champion
• From the Dinghy Show
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Baltic Yachts 61
• • Jeanneau 54
• • The Makara Series
• The Last Word: Carl Sagan

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A fast and perfect start for the Aegean 600
Lavrion, Greece - With a 18-22 knot Meltemi wind blowing from the north generating white-capped seas under bright blue skies, race managers from the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC) got the fleet off to a fast start today in the 2nd edition of the Aegean 600. The conditions were a truly perfect example of Aegean sailing, with the race starting with a short 1.5-mile upwind leg to an inflatable mark positioned just under the ancient Temple of Poseidon, where spectators enjoyed a fabulous view of the boats and the race course area.

First to start were the five entries in the Multihull Class, with Robert Szustkowski's HH66 catamaran R-SIX (POL) fighting for the lead with Adrian Keller's larger custom catamaran Allegra (SUI). R-SIX tacked away early from the left side of the course in search for more consistent pressure to the right, found it, and crossed Allegra to take the lead around the mark.

Both of these big cats set their huge white and red gennakers to start speeding down the course at boat speeds in the teens. Next multihull around the mark was the ORMA 60 trimaran Akron Aoton (GRE) skippered by Ioannas Barkas, who accelerated even faster in a cloud of spray even while throttled back a bit with their reefed mainsail.

At 2000 local time Allegra held an impressive lead on the fleet, having sailed 90 miles in 6 hours and is headed to Santorini at 17 knots while close to being overtaken by Akron Aoton who is slightly faster at 18 knots of boat speed.

Ten minutes after the first start the entire monohull fleet started on a long start line, with Jean-Philippe Blancpain's (ITA) Vismara Mills 62 Leaps And Bounds 2 (ITA) taking the early lead being first around the top mark with Gregor Stimpfl's (ITA) Scuderia 65 HAGAR V chasing close astern before they too set spinnakers for the long port tack downwind leg to Milos.

Daily race analysis videos will start tomorrow with Seahorse Magazine's Dobbs Davis providing insight on the race based on weather patterns and position data of the fleet from YB trackers.

aegean600.com

Stipanovic and Bilic Star European Champions
Two bullets on the very last day of the 2022 Star European Championship delivered the continental title unquestionably to Tonci Stipanovic and Tudor Bilic. It was a hard fought battle for the Croatian team who right after they christened their new Star boat here in Copenhagen, had a very bad day to start the Championship. A little disheartened, they began the climb to the top on day 2, when they finished first and third, to finalize the work today with two wins to undoubtedly earn the right to engrave their name on the 40-year-old Star European Championship Trophy.

A very well managed 2022 European Championship by the Royal Danish Yacht Club whose management got also involved in helping two Ukrainian teams to have a license to join the fleet and be able to forget about the bombings for a week of just sport among friends.

The Star class fleet will meet again in a little more than a month on Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, for the 2022 Star Western Hemisphere, before the long awaited 100th Anniversary 2022 Star World Championship in Marblehead, Massachusetts in mid September. -- Rachele Vitello

Final top five
1. Tonci Stipanovic - Tudor Bilic, CRO
2. Jack Jennings - Pedro Trouche, USA
3. Hubert Merkelbach - Kilian Weise, GER
4. Marin Misura - Tonco Barac, CRO
5. Piet Eckert - Frederico Melo, SUI

Full results

2022euro.starchampionships.org

Arkema Confirms 2022 Pro Sailing Tour Victory
The final standings in the 2022 Pro Sailing Tour remained in the balance until the closing moments of the 'Final Rush', when Quentin Vlamynck on Arkema crossed the finish line off Roscoff to take a hard earned and well-deserved victory.

The French skipper, at 28 the youngest skipper in the history of the Ocean Fifty class and the Pro Sailing Tour runner-up in 2021, went into the finale of offshore sailing's most exciting new competition a single point ahead of defending British champion Sam Goodchild on Leyton.

With all to play for the high-intensity season came down to a challenging 940 nm course from Cowes to Roscoff which Vlamynck and his crew of Etienne Carra and Mayeul Riffet took in their stride to claim the overall prize.

Speaking in Roscoff at the conclusion of the racing Julien Mauriat, CEO of the Pro Sailing Tour, said: "Our second season has been a great success across all three of our focus areas: performance - the difference in performance between season 1 and season 2 is obvious, and this year there were four or five teams capable of reaching the podium. Performance has been a major draw of this circuit for the skippers.

"Diversity, being able to show the diversity of the places and the story of these sailors through our documentary series, and to share this with as many people as possible.

Pro Sailing Tour fans can enjoy all the action through the extraordinary TV documentaries that will result from the 2022 Pro Sailing Tour circuit.

2023: in January, an immersive documentary, the "Ocean Fifty" series, will be broadcast in 4 episodes about the 2022 Pro Sailing Tour

prosailingtour.com/en/

Time Travellers rejoice in St Malo
Henry Bateson’s Iceni 39 Andrasta, skippered by Bill Edgerton with a youth team from the RORC’s Griffin Initiative. Photo by Paul Wyeth/RORC. Click on image to enlarge.

Winning the King Edward VII Cup is a huge achievement for any offshore racing team, and the 2022 Cowes Dinard St Malo Race attracted 105 teams from all over Europe. Racing in a huge variety of boats including the latest offshore performance designs, right through to classic yachts of the 1960s, the race to the walled-port of St Malo is always one of the highlights of the RORC season.

This year's results were highly unusual, as in a light airs race, three classic yachts claimed the top three results overall. Henri Vergnoux's 1966 John Illingworth designed 33ft sloop Arabel, scored the best corrected time under IRC, winning the impressive King Edward VII Cup, dating back to 1906. Classic Swan 38 Xara skippered by Jonathan Rolls was second and Stuart Greenfield's 1968 S&S 34 Morning After was third.

Eric de Turckheim's NMYD54 Teasing Machine took Line Honours for the race winning the Sandison Memorial Salver and retained the Lloyds of London Salver, for winning IRC Zero for a second year. Teasing Machine now leads IRC Zero for the RORC Season's Points Championship.

There were more awards in IRC Two-Handed with the John West team trophy won by Nick Martin's Sun Fast 3600 Diablo and Jim Driver's Sun Fast 3300 Chilli Pepper. Gavin Howe's Sun Fast 3600 Tigris, raced Two-Handed by Mike O'Donovan and Saoirse Reynolds, won the Newcombe Hoare Trophy for best youth team. -- Louay Habib

www.rorc.org/racing/race-results

Youth World Sailing Championship
On Saturday night the competitors from 67 nations came together for the Opening Ceremony on Scheveningen beach.

The weather forecast points to a light to medium north-westerly breeze blowing at around 8 to 10 knots when racing starts at 1100 hours, although it could get a bit softer during the afternoon.

There are five course areas:

Course A - two races each for the Male/Mixed and Female Two Person Dinghy fleets (420 class)
Course B - two races each for Skiff Male and Skiff Female (29er class)
Course C - two races each for One Person Dinghy Male and Female fleets (ILCA 6 class), then three races for Multihull Mixed (Nacra 15 class)
Course D - four races each for Windsurfing Male and Female (Youth iQFOiL)
Course E - four races each for Kiteboarding Male and Female (FormulaKite)

Every boat and board is carrying a GPS tracking unit supplied by TracTrac, which means you can watch all the racing live on SAP Sailing Analytics

youthworlds2022.sapsailing.com

NACRA 17 European Championship
Aarhus, Denmark - Olympic sailing is hugely competitive, but dominating performances, and seasons do happen. Rarely, if ever, has a team won a major championship the way Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti won this European Championship in Aarhus. In 15 races they won nine of them, were second 5 times, and had an eighth. In total, their 21 points is less than a quarter of the 86 points the second place team scored.

The Nacra 17 had a reset in March as the fleet introduced adjustable rudder rake systems. The change allows foiling upwind most of the time and it seems to have played right into the strength of the reigning gold medalists. Tita and Bandi are dominant on the foil, which was already clear from their downwind sailing in the Tokyo quad and has become unwieldly as the fleet has move to full foiling.

Full results

Tricky Medal Race
After a dramatic penultimate day that saw boats launching and crashing in bursts of spray, the medal races Sunday were a 180 from Saturday where racing was cancelled early. The 2022 European Champions were crowned in the 49er and 49erFX after the Bay of Aarhus dished out subtle but game changing shifts and puffs that wound up determining podium.

Double Olympic gold medalists Grael/Kunze (BRA) slid into first Saturday after a slow but deliberate climb to the top that saw them picking their way through the fleet each race of the series. Not always the fastest, but often the most calculated, the pair didn't risk a close start in the Medal Race and headed back to the line with Americans Roble/Shea as the rest of the 10-boat fleet, each team from a different country, marched out to a dominant left hand shift in the flat seas and six to eight-knot winds. Last for most of the race, the Brazilians did just enough to get around two boats, finishing eighth, and winning the championship by six points.

Current world champions van Aanholt/Duetz (NED) had a chance earlier in the race to keep their upward march going towards first, but several fickle shifts didn't go their way and they settled for silver. Bobeck/Netzler (SWE) who lead the fleet for the majority of the event held onto third by winning the Medal Race.

49er Full results

49erFX Full results

Three Ways to be a World Champion
For some classes it's not unusual for a world championships to look much like their normal racing programme. But when the Swan One Design World Championships rolled into the Spanish city of Valencia for theirs it was clear that this would be different;

- 34 Teams
- 13 nationalities
- 3 classes

But what makes this event particularly special with owners and crews is Swan's recipe that combines amateur with professionals to deliver some impressively close racing across three very different types of boats. PlanetSails was there to report on how the Swan One Design worlds played out, why it works and how three teams became world champions.

www.planetsail.org

From the Dinghy Show...
It is always exciting to discover the new products being launched into the sailing market and when it comes to dinghy gear, there is no better place to find them, than the dinghy show. Christian managed to sneak away from our stand to zip around the show and catch up with friends from across the industry.

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