In This Issue
• Puerto Portals Regatta Title Win
• Silver Moon II wins Roschier Baltic Sea Race
• Putting performance first - Mainfurl
• Cereste Wins 20th British Classic Week
• 51st entry in the Global Solo Challenge
• Antigua Sailing Week Notice Of Race Now Available
• Marstrand belongs to the U.S.
• ORC European Championship
• JOG and Henri Lloyd partnership
• Featured Charter: Iceni 39 'Andrasta'
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Zeydon Z60 - REGULUS
• • 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi WILD JOE
• • Dazcat 1295
• The Last Word: Robin Williams

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Phoenix Lay To Rest Ghosts Of Regattas Past With Comfortable Puerto Portals Regatta Title Win
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix laid to rest the ghosts of November past when they today clinched the third regatta title of the 2022 52 Super Series season, the Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week, which finished in perfect 17-20kts NE’ly offshore breezes.

After going on the water carrying a two points lead over the 52 Super Series 2021 circuit title holders Sled, Phoenix completed their first regatta win with two assured second places to win by 12 points, the biggest winning margin of the 2022 season yet.

And with Quantum Racing returning a fourth place, 19 points behind the winners - two shy of the Mallorca podium - Phoenix now top the circuit season standings by two points as the fleet now head to Scarlino, Tuscany in September.

Theirs is a popular, some might say overdue title triumph. In November at the world championships they led the penultimate race and were on course for the world title and a potential late tilt at the 2021 overall when their spinnaker blew up spectacularly on the last run.

The circuit now moves to Scarlino, Italy for the fourth regatta September 26th - October 1st

Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week Overall after 10 races
1. Phoenix (RSA), Hasso Plattner, 25 points
2. Sled (USA), Takashi Okura, 36
3. Provezza (TUR), Ergin Imre, 42
4. Quantum Racing (USA), Doug DeVos, 44
5. Interlodge (USA), Austin & Gwen Fragomen, 50
6. Platoon (GER), Harm Müller-Spreer, 51
7. Alegre (GBR), Andy Soriano, 52
8. Gladiator (GBR), Tony Langley, 71
9. Vayu (THAI), Whitcraft Family, 79

Provisional 52 SUPER SERIES 2022 Overall Ranking after three regattas, Baiona, Cascais, Puerto Portals:
1. Phoenix (RSA), Hasso & Tina Plattner, 94 points
2. Quantum Racing (USA), Doug DeVos, 96
3. Platoon (GER), Harm Müller-Spreer, 117
4. Sled (USA), Takashi Okura, 123.5
5. Alegre (GBR), Andy Soriano, 136
6. Provezza (TUR), Ergin Imre, 157
7. Interlodge (USA), Austin & Gwen Fragomen, 160
8. Vayu (THAI), Whitcraft Family, 178
9. Gladiator (GBR), Tony Langley, 204

52superseries.com

Silver Moon II wins Roschier Baltic Sea Race
Helsinki, Finland: Finnish H-323 Silver Moon II, skippered by Salla Kaven has won the Roschier Baltic Sea Race having scored the best time after IRC correction for the new race organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with the Offshore Racing Alliance. The Kaven family have raced the 9.9 metre sloop designed by Hans Groop since they were children on Lake Päijänne in Southern Finland.

The Swedish Farr 400 Wetjob, skippered by Niclas Heurlin is the winner of IRC One for the first edition of the Roschier Baltic Sea Race. Arto Linnervuo’s Finnish Xp 44 Xtra Staerk is second and was the first boat from Finland to cross the line in Helsinki. Ed Bell’s British JPK 1180 Dawn Treader is third in IRC One.

The all-Swedish crew racing Wetjob are regular competitors in the Gotland Runt; skipper Niclas Heurlin has competed in over 20 editions and has also completed two editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race.

www.rorc.org/baltic-sea-race

Putting performance first - Mainfurl
Modern in-mast and in-boom furlings systems really can allow you to enjoy the right sail shapes... (but not all of them!)

Mainfurl is the brainchild of Steen Kjolhede and his stepson Peter Westfal from Denmark. Steen is an ex-Olympic Finn sailor who has a lifetime of experience working on or around boats as a sailor, naval architect, sailmaker and sparmaker, whilst Peter also has more than 20 years’ experience as a sailmaker working for Elvstrøm and North. Together they have set out to revolutionise the furling boom industry with a focus on making safe, reliable and elegant furling booms that are also available for smaller yachts.

They founded the company in 2019 along with two other partners, CEO Claus Hulegaard who manages production and strategist Carsten Mikkelsen who is head of the board. Together they first targeted boats in the 40ft to 60ft size range, quickly building links with the world’s major spar-makers whose products are typically aimed at the 55-foot-plus market segment. They now have eight boom moulds, which enables them to select a mould that is ideally sized for boats ranging from 35ft all the way up to 90ft.

Full article in the August issue of Seahorse

Cereste Wins 20th British Classic Week
Photo by Chris Brown. Click on image for photo gallery.

This year’s British Classic Week, hosted by British Classic Yacht Club in Cowes, was won by Robert Clarke designed Bermudan sloop Cereste.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, British Classic Week attracted 50 classic sailing and motor yachts for a week of sailing, cruising, and socialising in the Solent. Yachts ranged from 19.6m Spirit 65 modern classic Chloe Giselle down to the smallest yacht in the fleet, a 7.7m folkboat named Folkdance sailed by a double-handed crew.

Class 1 was won by Sean McMillan in his Spirit 52 Flight of Ufford, only 1 point ahead of Christian Oldendorff’s Happy Forever. Equally competitive was Class 2, which was narrowly won by Louise Morton in her Andre Mauric sloop Lak II. With four wins in class to her name, Stiletto triumphed in Class 3.

One of the smallest yachts in the fleet, Stella Timoa, won both the Spirit Yachts Nab Tower and the Classic Boat Long Inshore races.

Hot off the heels of the Fife Regatta in Scotland, the beautiful gaff cutter Viola returned to British Classic Week from her home in France to win the Je Ne Sais Quoi trophy overall.

Final results at www.britishclassicweek.co.uk

American David Linger is the 51st entry in the Global Solo Challenge 2023/2024
David Linger from Seattle is the 4th American to sign up for the Global Solo Challenge, the 11th Class40/Open40 in the fleet, which is proving to be a popular choice of boat in the event. David had been in touch with the organisers for some time and recently took the big leap to buy “Koloa Maoli”, an Owen Clarke Design Class40 built by Jazz Marine formerly known as “Bolands Mills”.

Inspired by his sailing heroes and by his lifelong dream of a solo circumnavigation the right time and planets alignment has come for David to be able to undertake this great adventure. The number of entries keeps growing and there’s still a few that may enter and as one of the participants recently put it, even if just half of the entries made it to the start the GSC would be a tremendous success. We are very please to have hit the nail with the format and spirit for this event and hope to grow it organically and sustainably over the years.

globalsolochallenge.com/david-linger-news/

Antigua Sailing Week Notice Of Race Now Available
The organizers of Antigua Sailing Week announce the online publication of its 2023 Notice of Race. Campaigning skippers & crew on racing monohull, multi-hulls, bareboats, race-charter outfits, cruisers and sport boats from around the world are invited to participate in the 54th edition of this Caribbean event scheduled for April 29 through May 5, 2023. Interested parties can enter the week-long event directly via the Yachtscoring platform.

The superb conditions, including guaranteed trade winds and warm waters with big seas right outside of English Harbour, Antigua make for an exciting and challenging racing venue. In addition to a reliable international airport with direct connections to all major destinations, the island is also a convenient yacht shipping and transport hub, allowing hassle-free return of vessels post race to the UK, North America and Mediterranean.

Additional information on the destination is available on the event website.

sailingweek.com

Marstrand belongs to the U.S.
The M32 fleet gathered in Marstrand over the weekend for the 3rd event in the European Series and were joined by teams from the U.S. Reigning World Champions, team Convexity, having had a break since winning the Miami Winter Series showed they still got what it takes and aced the regatta with winning 5 of the 9 races.

New team constellation in China One Ningbo with skipper PJ Postma was seen in the lead several times and will be a team to look out for in the future. Same goes for Dutch team Leeloo with skipper Harold Vermeulen who has consistently increased the performance throughout the season.

Full results at m32world.com/results/

Marstrand did not deliver the typical Swedish July weather. The first day brought shifty winds and a pulsating current giving the tacticians quite a challenge with many passing lanes. Saturday the breeze never quite filled in but Sunday showed a westerly slowly increasing to well over 20 knots giving the fleet some proper Marstrand fjord sea-state to handle.

Next stop is the European Championship in Riva del Garda where the fleet will be joined by another three American teams. Lake Garda is one of the favourites for the M32 class and has been frequently visited in the past and will be in the future. The Europeans is also the last event before the major happening of the year, the World Championship in Cascais in October.

Full Schedule at m32world.com/calendar/

ORC European Championship
Hanko, Norway: On Monday 8 August there will be 62 teams from 7 nations starting the first race in a 6-day series of races for the 2022 ORC European Championship hosted by the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (KNS). This event will crown three new ORC European champions in each of three classes of racing.

This first race of the event is the Mills long offshore race whose length and duration is intended to last 30-36 hours for the slowest-rated boats in the fleet. On Wednesday 10 August racing resumes with two days of inshore races planned, followed by the Mills short offshore race of 10-12 hour duration on Friday 12 August. On Saturday 13 August will be a return to inshore racing followed by the Closing Ceremony.

Podium finishers will be celebrated for Class A (7 entries), Class B (24 entries) and Class C (31 entries), as well as the top Corinthian (all amateur) teams in each class. All shoreside events will be held at or near Hanko Yacht Club, and there will be two racing areas for the inshore racing held south of Hanko.

www.orcieuro2022.no

Junior Offshore Group (JOG) and Henri Lloyd partnership drives youth participation up
Since the partnership between offshore yacht racing club, Junior Offshore Group (JOG), and Henri Lloyd kicked off last year, youth membership has increased by 72% and now comprises 25% of the entire membership base.

Henri Lloyd have become valuable supporters of JOG’s youth programme, Generation JOG. With the cost of kit being one of the major obstacles to youth entry and retention in offshore yacht racing, Henri Lloyd have donated multiple sets of performance racing shells to Gen-JOG Members upon them achieving sailing milestones or targets in the past 12 months.

The success of the partnership has meant both parties have agreed to renew their partnership for at least another 18 months with the focus on scaling the positive impact even further.

Commenting on the importance of this partnership renewal, Race Captain, Stuart Lawrence said, “Partnerships are crucial in scaling positive impact. What we have with Henri Lloyd is a true testament to that. They have helped us enormously in driving youth engagement up and enabling the younger members to overcome some obstacles that have previously been considered fairly insurmountable. We really look forward to the coming months ahead and excited to see the partnership continue.”

Ross Partridge, Partnership Manager states: “Helping to grow true grass-root youth sailing within JOG has been great. These young sailors are achieving new milestones in their racing careers and we are proud to support this. We are also pleased to be partnering with many other yachts, skippers and crews of the JOG fleet.”

jog.org.uk

www.henrilloyd.com

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