In This Issue
• J/24 World Championship
• Shifting Winds Around The Cans
• All the performance and none of the guilt - Marlow Ropes
• Global Team Race Regatta
• IRC special offer for 2022 Hamble Classics Regatta
• Roschier Baltic Sea Race
• America's Cup: No more Spy versus Spy
• Celebrating 75 years of the Cadet Dinghy
• Featured Charter: Ichi Ban - Carkeek 60
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Spirit Of Malouen VIII
• • SW110 Thalima
• • Swan 115-001 Solleone
• The Last Word: Robert Kennedy

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Breezy Day Delights Sailors at J/24 World Championship
Corpus Christi, Texas USA: The standings tightened up on day two of the 2022 J/24 World Championship hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club in Texas USA. Paul Foerster's Grand Slam 2 added a third consecutive bullet in Race three, but with a seventh in Tuesday's next scheduled race, finished with 10 points overall. John Mollicone's New England Ropes dominated the day with a 2,3, moving them into second place with 13 points. The next three positions are separated by only three points: Keith Whittemore's Furio (15), Mike Marshall's American Garage (16) and Nobuyuki Imai's Siesta (17). Foerster also leads the impressive 27-boat Corinthian division, ahead of Imai's Siesta and James Freedman's LOL.

Race three began under a Black Flag and was all clear. Winds were blowing 17-19 knots, and most boats had their small jibs up. As with Day 1, the course was five legs at 1.4 nautical miles. Race four also started under a black flag (all clear) with the same course five at 1.4 nautical miles. The breeze picked up to 19-22 knots in choppy waters.

Thirty-eight boats are representing Argentina, Chile, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Trinidad and the United States. Racing continues through Friday.

Top five after 4 races
1. Paul Foerster, Rush Creek Yacht Club, 10 points
2, John Mollicone [J] Sail Newport, 13
3. Keith Whittemore, CYC Seattle, 15
4. Mike Marshall, NYYC, 16
5. Nobuyuki Imai, WSC, 17

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Shifting Winds Around The Cans
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

The 20th British Classic Week continued with class racing around the cans sponsored by OneSails GBR on day three of the regatta.

All classes started on the Royal Yacht Squadron inner line to the east against the tide. The forecast started as predicted with 15-18 knots from the south west as Classes 1 and 2 set off on the upwind leg to Kemp's Quay.

From Kemp's Quay to port, spinnakers were hoisted for the downwind leg with the tide to North Ryde Middle. With the mark out of the water on a barge for maintenance, Classes 1 and 2 rounded the barge to port and set off upwind to Mother Bank in 13-15 knots from the south west.

Rounding Mother Bank to starboard, Classes 1 and 2 raced downwind in the sunshine to Goodall Roofing. Hot work for the foredeck crew as kites were packed in the by now sweltering conditions on the upwind leg to Peel Bank.

Rounding Peel Bank to starboard, the yachts set off on what they thought was their third downwind leg. By now, the wind had dropped to 3-5 knots and the Solent started to look like a millpond, before a light breeze swung round and filled in from the north east for the (now) upwind leg to Royal Thames. From Royal Thames it was a last-minute dash across to Snowden in the Medina River estuary before a short run in the re-established south westerly to finish on the RYS line.

Classes 3 and 4 experienced a similar pattern of events on their course from the start to South East Ryde Middle. Rounding the mark to port, it was a champagne sail downwind to Yacht Data Bank and an upwind leg back up to Quarr, just off Wooton Creek. Round Quarr to starboard the downwind leg breeze died and swung round to the north east for the upwind leg to West Ryde Middle, before the wind direction changed again to make it a run into the finish on the RYS line.

On corrected time, Sean McMillan's Spirit 52 Flight of Ufford won Class 1, Laurent Giles designed Whooper won Class 2, Stiletto made it three wins from three races in Class 3, and Stella Timoa took first in Class 4.

www.britishclassicweek.co.uk

All the performance and none of the guilt - Marlow Ropes
Marlow's Blue Ocean ropes are identical to their conventional lines, but with just a tiny fraction of the usual carbon footprint

Many of the eco options available to sailors come with compromises attached. Electric motors need heavy batteries and have limited range, whilst bio-composites cannot match the performance of carbon fibre for most applications. Marlow Ropes' Blue Ocean range delivers sustainability with zero compromise, protecting our environment whilst delivering identical performance to conventional products. There really is no excuse not to use them!

Sustainability at Marlow Ropes is not a tick-box PR exercise, it has been embraced across the company. Sugar cane-based recyclable bio-plastic is used for all plastic packaging. All cardboard and paper used is FSC certified and mostly recyclable at point of destination. Supply chains have been redesigned to avoid air freight where possible. Perhaps more important than any of that, Marlow invested early in the development of sustainable rope-making materials.

Full article in the August issue of Seahorse

Third Edition of Global Team Race Regatta Starts Friday
Newport, Rhode Island, USA: The first two editions of the Global Team Race Regatta, staged in 2018 in Newport, R.I., and 2019 on the Solent in Great Britain, had one striking thing in common: the same three teams finished on the podium. The Royal Thames Yacht Club finished first in 2018 and second in 2019 while St. Francis Yacht Club was third in 2018 and first in 2019. New York Yacht Club completed the podium in each case.

But with a three-year break since the regatta was last held - and a lot of new faces on the team rosters - it's hard to rely too much on the event's short history when looking at which of 11 teams, from seven countries, will shine once racing starts on Friday.

The Global Team Race Regatta was conceived by the New York Yacht Club, which hosted the first edition in October 2018. A second edition of the Global Team Race Regatta was held in England in 2019. The third edition was scheduled for Italy in 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-10 pandemic, and eventually rescheduled for this summer in Newport, R.I., where it will once again be held out of the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court.

All 11 teams are expected to take part in a practice session on Thursday. Racing will start on Friday morning shortly after a competitors meeting at 9 am and will conclude on Sunday afternoon. The regatta format is scheduled to include a round-robin portion followed by a knock-out competition to determine the champion. All racing will be on the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, most likely between Rose Island and Goat Island.

Competing teams: Bayerischer Yacht Club, Starnberg, Germany; Japan Sailing Federation, Tokyo, Japan; New York Yacht Club, New York, N.Y.; Newport Harbor Yacht Club, Newport Beach, Calif.; Royal Belgian Sailing Club, Zeebrugge, Belgium; Royal Cork Yacht Club, Cork, Ireland; Royal Thames Yacht Club, London, England; Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, England; Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club, Sorrento, Australia; St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco; The Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass.

Click here for 2022 entries & team rosters

IRC special offer for 2022 Hamble Classics Regatta
The 7th Hamble Classics Regatta will be held on 10-11 September 2022, co-hosted by Hamble River Sailing Club and the Royal Air Force Yacht Club. The founding mission of Hamble Classics in 2016 was for a fun and inclusive event where owners of classic yachts and their crews celebrate their shared passion for sailing. The Classics are an important and growing fleet and the RORC Rating Office wishes to encourage future participation of classic boats in IRC racing.

The Rating Office is offering a special price for boats entering the IRC classes at this year's Hamble Classics Regatta. For the 2022 event boats that do not already hold a current IRC certificate may race with a Single Event Rating (SER) by submitting a completed IRC SER application through the RORC Rating Office MyIRC application portal. As an example, the cost for a 10m boat just for these two days of racing would be £32.10. Once a Single Event Rating has been issued there is the option to upgrade to a full certificate at a reduced fee, allowing the boat to enter further IRC events.

For those wishing to apply for a full certificate allowing them to race in any IRC event until 31 December 2022 the IRC new application, revalidation and upgrade fees will be discounted by 50% for certificates issued from 1 September for the end of the season, reducing the cost of a new application for a 10m boat from £125.00 to £62.50. This discount will be applied automatically in MyIRC from 25 August.

More information:
Event website: hambleclassics.co.uk
MyIRC application portal: myirc.rorcrating.com

Roschier Baltic Sea Race
The inaugural Roschier Baltic Sea Race starts from Helsinki, Finland on Thursday 21st July 2022, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club together with the Ocean Racing Alliance. The race is approx. 635 nautical miles, starting and finishing off Helsinki in the Gulf of Finland. The course incorporates the Swedish island of Gotland, located approximately 250nm southwest of Helsinki.

The Roschier Baltic Sea Race has attracted 27 entries from 11 countries; the host nation Finland; Denmark; Estonia; Germany; Great Britain; the Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Spain; Sweden and the United States of America. A huge diversity of entries; a totally new course and a variety of weather scenarios makes predicting the elapsed time for the competing yachts to be far from straight forward. Three teams; Ambersail 2, I Love Poland and GP Bullhound can be considered favourites to set the race record. Janne Kjellman's TS-42 Squid from Helsinki is the only multihull entered. The overall winner of the Roschier Baltic Sea Race will score the best corrected time under the IRC Rating Rule.

How to follow the Roschier Baltic Sea Race
The first edition of the Roschier Baltic Sea Race starts from Helsinki, Finland. First Warning Signal: 18:30 (UTC+02:00) - Three Starts at 10 minute intervals. Competing boats will depart from Marina Bay - Katajanokka from about 17:00 ((UTC+02:00). The start line is SW of the island Suomenlinna, 4 km southeast of the city centre of Helsinki.

All yachts are fitted with YB Trackers. Follow an individual boat, class or the whole fleet. Free to download for smart phones and tablets find YB Races at your App Store. Access the race player for free from computer or laptop: yb.tl/Balticsearace2022

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America's Cup: No more Spy versus Spy - the Recon Game is changing
The America's Cup reconnaissance rules are changing for America's Cup 2024, to be sailed in Barcelona, Spain in September/October 2024.

Instead of individual reconnaissance teams working for the individual teams, the spies are now all working together to spy on each other.

In John Bertrand's seminal tome 'Born to Win' that brilliantly documented Australia II's dramatic win in Newport, Rhode Island in 1983 to end 132 years of Cup dominance by the USA, there's a line about spying: "...there was an uproar down at our dock just as the crew was awakening. Our guards caught an underwater cameraman in a wetsuit photographing the keel of Australia II. Phil Judge, our tender skipper, jumped into the water fully clothed, dragged him out, and turned him over to Newport police. We dropped charges when the film was handed over and we had assurances that there was only one diver. But there were in fact two, and much later we found another film of our keel in the Canadian house."

For the 37th America's Cup, buried deep in the Protocol Document (it is Rule 41 in Part F) is a new and highly significant rule aimed at curbing the expenditure, reducing the frustration that teams have traditionally experienced of being spied upon and opening up the event for spectators to get a consistent view of developments and techniques that all the syndicates will be honing, in this cycle.

The 'Reconnaissance' rule is both broad and comprehensive putting spectators right in the heart of the action with stills, video and analysis that will be available to view publicly on www.americascup.com but equally forming a valuable, cost-saving service for all the teams.

Architect of the new initiative, Dan Bernasconi, from the all-conquering Emirates Team New Zealand, has been pining for change in this area for a while.

Read Magnus Wheatley's full article in Sail-World.com or on AmericasCup.com

Celebrating 75 years of the Cadet Dinghy
The Royal Torbay Yacht Club through its Junior sailing has enjoyed a long association with the International Cadet Class. It was one of the earliest Cadet Squadrons (No13) to be established in the UK and many of its club officers and members sailing today started off in the Cadet Class Dinghy.

The Cadet Dinghy was designed in 1947 by the legendary designer Jack Holt who was commissioned to design a boat to train young people in the sport. The Cadet is a two- person dinghy with main sail, jib and spinnaker and has enjoyed considerable success as a Junior training dinghy. Over 10,000 cadet boats have been built worldwide by licensed builders in four continents.

The club has hosted numerous National Championships over the years and also the 50th Anniversary World Championships in 1997. It is delighted to be welcoming the International Cadet Class back to Torquay for their UK Nationals Championships and the 75th Anniversary European Championships.

Over 80 boats will be competing in this festival of Junior sailing with entries from the UK, Netherlands. Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Ukraine.

We do hope you will be able to join us at the Official Opening Ceremony of the European Championships on Saturday 30th July.

Bob Penfold
Event Director

Royal Torbay Yacht Club

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The Last Word
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