In This Issue
• 40th Copa del Rey MAPFRE Moves Into The Finals
• Cowes Week Day Six
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• RYA reveals key appointments
• Sailor Survives in an Air Pocket in Capsized Yacht
• Eggemoggin Reach Regatta
• 2022 Youth Foiling Gold Cup Grand Final
• Moth European Championship
• A new boat for Jeremie Beyou
• San Jose Galleon
• Featured Brokerage:
• • X65 Abraxas4
• • Swan 77-006 ‘CALLISTO’
• • Canard 41
• The Last Word: John Wayne

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It's The Big Squeeze As The 40th Copa del Rey MAPFRE Moves Into The Finals
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

As the 40th Copa del Rey MAPFRE passed today into the Finals stage many of the class leads are cut right back to one or two points which should ensure an exciting finale on Saturday. Today sees seven of the nine classes with new leaders. In the highly charged 14 boat ClubSwan 50 class it is Stefan Heidenreich's OneGroup which now holds a three points lead after Jochen Schümann guided the Swiss flagged crew, with the owner steering, to a first and a second today.

After a first and a second today the German triple Olympic medallist Schümann might rue ceding the lead of the second race to rivals, double world champions Hatari, in the final stages of the contest, but such a regret is minor compared to those of defending Copa del Rey champions Earlybird.

Earlybird found themselves trapped in the middle of a sandwich of boats approaching the inner 'protector' windward mark set to reduce the possibility of boats arriving directly to the windward mark on the give way port tack. For infringing the boat to windward and then not executing their penalty properly they had to do two penalties in total and dropped to 14th in the 14 boat fleet. Earlybird, class leaders into today, drop to fifth, 12 points behind OneGroup.

The ClubSwan 42 class podium could not be tighter, all three top boats Koyre-Spirit of Nerina, Canopo and Nadir are all locked on the same points tally, 9, with three scheduled races to go.

Overall results. Day 4

ClubSwan 50
1. OneGroup, Stefan HeidenReich, 3+1+2=6
2. Hatari, Marcus Brennecke, 4+4+1=9
3. Niramo, Sonke Meier-Sawatzki, 6+2+5=13
14 boats.

ClubSwan 42
1. Koyre-Spirit of Nerina, Mirko Bargolini, 1+7+1=9
2. Canopo, Adriano Majolino, 4+1+4=9
3. Nadir, Pedro Vaquer, 5+2+2=9
9 boats.

ClubSwan 36
1. Farstar, Lorenzo Mondo, 1+3+1=5
2. G Spot, Giangiancomo Serena, 2+1+5=8
3. Facing Future, Mehmetr Taki, 4+2+4=10
8 boats.

BMW ORC 1
1. HM Hospitales, Carles Rodríguez, 1+1+2=4
2. Estrella Damm, Luis Martínez Doreste, 2+2+3=7
3. Red Bandit, Carl-Peter Forster, 4+6+1=11
18 boats.

BMW ORC 2
1. Katarina II, Aivar Tuulberg, 2+2+2=6
2. Teatro Soho Caixabank, Daniel Cuevas, 1+1+5=7
3. Defcom Seguridad, Jose Ballester, 4+4+3=11
14 boats.

BMW ORC 3
1. Brujo, Federico Linares, 2+4+1=7
2. Scugnizza, Enzo de Blasio, 1+2+5=8
3. Immac Fram, Kai Mares, 3+6+2=11
21 boats.

BMW ORC 4
1. Pulpo Negro, Giampiero Giannetti, 6+NSC/8+1=15
2. Meerblick Fun, Otto Pohlmann, 1+NSC/8+NSC/8=17
3. Enewtec, F. Miguel Gimenez, 2+NSC/8+NSC/8=18
7 boats.

Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup
1. Dorsia Covirán, Natalia Vía-Dufresne, 2+3+1+1=7
2. Soho Boutique Hotels-Trocadero, Eva González, 3+1+4+2=10
3. Balearia, María Bover, 1+2+3+5=11
9 boats.

Herbalife Nutrition J70
1. Alcaidesa Marina, Gustavo Martínez Doreste, 2+1+2+1=6
2. Les Roches-Tripsst, Luis Bugallo, 1+2+3+3=9
3. Patakin, Luis Albert Solana, 6+5+1+2=14
8 boats.

Overall results

Cowes Week Day Six
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

A thrilling finish for the Grand Prix yachts competing for the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup, one of sailing's most coveted prizes, saw Christian Zugel's GP42 Tschuss lead three boats across the Royal Yacht Squadron line just 30 seconds apart. Places four and five on the water were also very tightly fought, with two IC37s, Chris Bake's Team Aqua and Bertie Bicket's Fargo, only 19 seconds apart after almost three hours of racing.

However, with the prize award to the boat with the best corrected time, the early leaders had a tantalising wait before Guy Gillon's and Christian Hamilton's Fast 40 Khumbu could be confirmed as winner, 22 seconds ahead of Tschuss.

Racing took place today in a 10-15 knot west-southwesterly sea breeze, with big shifts and some wind holes. The start times on the Royal Yacht Squadron line also coincided with the beginning of an inshore west-going tidal eddy between the start line and Egypt point almost half a mile to the west. This resulted in a number of boats misjudging their starts and two of the nine classes starting here were subject to general recalls.

There was disappointment for the overall leader at the start of the day in the Daring class, Graham Wilkinson and John Corby's and Doublet, which started prematurely and had a big deficit to recover from once she had returned to the correct side of the line. Doublet recovered to finish third, but a win for Milo Carver, Richard Romer-Lee, Jane Peckham and Joshua Peckham on Dauntless lifted her to the head of the leaderboard.

The pattern repeated for the second start, where a couple of Dragons were premature, and overall class leader, Eric Williams' Ecstatic, returned even though she had been just behind the line at the gun. Williams was able to discard today's seventh place, but a win for Gavia Wilkinson-Cox's Jerboa lifted her into first overall, one point ahead of Ecstatic.

Full results for all classes

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

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RYA reveals key appointments of Director of Racing and Performance Director
Heralding a new era for RYA Racing, today sees the announcement that Nick Scott will be taking up the Director of Racing position this autumn and Mark Robinson MBE is assuming a new role as Performance Director following the British Sailing Team's success at Tokyo 2020.

As Director of Racing, Nick will oversee the development of sail racing within the UK, including determining and developing the strategy of youth, junior, keelboat and coach development programmes. Formerly the RYA Olympic Manager, Mark will focus on leading the team responsible for executing the Paris 2024 strategy and building towards LA 2028.

Nick has been involved in performance sport since his time on the Sailing World Class Programme as an athlete. The former Olympic Development Squad sailor and RYA Scotland High Performance Manager returns to the RYA following two Olympic cycles with the English Institute of Sport, first at British Triathlon and latterly at British Rowing.

Newly promoted Mark Robinson MBE, who has more than 35 years' experience in the sport as a competitor, coach, and National Team Manager led Australia's Paralympic sailors to the top of the medal table at Rio 2016, and at Tokyo 2020 delivered the most successful Olympics for our British sailors since Beijing 2008.

"Topping the Tokyo sailing medal table, with three golds, one silver and one bronze, confirmed the British sailing Team as the most successful national Olympic sailing team of all time. It's a true privilege to be given the opportunity to lead the team into Paris 2024 and beyond," Mark said.

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French Sailor Survives Overnight in an Air Pocket in Capsized Yacht
Against all odds, a French sailor in his 60s survived inside of a capsized sailing yacht off the coast of Galicia, Spain overnight Monday, breathing from an air pocket until Spanish rescue divers reached him the following afternoon.

At about 2000 hours on Monday, the Class40 sailing yacht Jeanne Solo Sailor capsized at a position about 14 miles northwest of the Sisargas Islands, west of A Coruña. The sole occupant, 62-year-old French national Laurent Camprubi, told Spanish outlet Efe that the vessel went over in just 15 seconds. He managed to activate his EPIRB, but he was trapped inside the vessel with "30-40 centimeters of air" to breathe in heavy seas.

A rescue helicopter located the upturned yacht's hull that night and vectored in a response boat carrying divers from Salvamento Maritimo. A diver made contact with Camprubi by knocking on the hull, but the seas were too rough to allow for a rescue. They decided to wait for morning and an improvement in the weather, and they affixed float bags to the hull to keep it from sinking.

At about noon on Tuesday, the weather abated and the divers managed to get under the yacht and reach Camprubi. He was safely evacuated, and a helicopter flew him to shore at Alvedro for medical examination

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Eggemoggin Reach Regatta
August 6, 2022 - Brooklin, ME

The Eggemoggin Reach Regatta began humbly in 1985 with thirteen wooden boats and a dream. Organizer Steve White along with Frank Hull of Brooklin Boatyard first envisioned the race as an opportunity for wooden boat owners to get to together and enjoy each others company as well as to compete. The race quickly grew to 125 boats and is now co-hosted by Brooklin Boatyard and Rockport Marine.

The Regatta's 15-mile course has remained the same over the years and only once was the race cancelled due to fog. (The party still happened though!) The Camden Feeder Regatta and the Castine Classic Yacht Race soon joined the ERR to create a truly spectacular three-day event.

erregatta.com

2022 Youth Foiling Gold Cup Grand Final
Barcelona will be the venue of the 2022 Youth Foiling Gold Cup Grand Final from November 3rd to the 6th, and it will welcome the event for the next three years, in cooperation with Marina Vela Barcelona and Club Nàutic Villasar de Mar.

The Youth Foiling Gold Cup, is one of the 69F circuits, the one reserved to the Under 25 sailors. Every year it ends with a Grand Final, to which the best two teams of each event are invited. With four Acts in 2022, the teams attending the Grand Final will be eight, and we are only left to know the last two to join after the upcoming mid-August event in Torbole, lake Garda.

The Grand Final will be a four-day of fierce competition on the same waters that will host the 37th America's Cup in 2024

The partners of 69F for the most important event of the year are Marina Vela and Club Nàutic Villasar de Mar.

69fsailing.com

Moth European Championship
Yacht Club Carnac, France: The moth was born in the 1930s in the United States. At the time, moths were built by individuals in their garages. Today, four shipyards share the construction of these flying dinghies.

This class has always been in evolution and the moths of the 1970s no longer have much to do with the dragonflies that we see flying on the water today: the hulls were refined in the 80s, in 1990 carbon makes its appearance in construction.

In the 2000s, the advent of foils made the moth the fastest single-handed dinghy in the world. We are expecting a good sixty competitors for this event organized on the ENVSN site.

Final top ten
1. Dylan Fletcher, GBR, 15 points
2. Brad Funk, USA, 22
3. Philipp Buhl, GER, 37
4. Nicolai Jacobsen, NOR, 38
5. Robert Greenhalgh, AUS, 46
6. Kyle Stoneham, GBR, 54
7. Simon Hiscocks, GBR, 65
8. Enzo Balanger, FRA, 71
9. Michael Lennon, GBR, 85
10. Eddie Bridle, FRA, 92

Full results

A new boat and the force driving Jeremie Beyou back to the Vendee Globe
Having started four Vendee Globes and finished two of them, once on the podium in third place, once after starting a second time nine days late, you would think that Jeremie Beyou had done enough. But not so - writes Ed Gorman.

The 46-year-old skipper from Finistère in northwest France is certainly nowhere near finished with the IMOCA Class and nor with the Vendee Globe, and gets out of bed every morning driven by the goal of finally winning a race that has so far eluded him.

In a few days, he will launch his new IMOCA, Charal 2 - this time from the board of Sam Manuard with its signature scow bow - and the goal for this boat is crystal clear, as Beyou told the Class when asked what it was that is driving him on.

"Getting back to the Vendee Globe and winning it," said the man who won justified acclaim for the way he stuck to his guns when finishing 13th last time out, having started as one of the favourites. "That's what's driving me and I think I have the ability to do it and the team to do it and I really have a really strong motivation, so that's it."

yachtracing.life

San Jose Galleon
The Colombian army has released a video showing gold coins and other valuable items around the shipwreck of the San Jose galleon, believed to be the resting place of billions of dollars in treasure.

Royal Navy vessels sank the Spanish flagship in 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession, but its resting place - near the port of Cartagena on Colombia's coast with the Caribbean - had been a mystery for more than three centuries before the Colombian navy formally announced its discovery in 2015.

Experts speculate that the ship was loaded with at least 200 tons of treasure, including millions of high-purity gold doubloon coins, as well as many silver coins and emeralds that the Spanish empire had plundered from South America, worth up to $17bn (£13.5bn) today.

The video reveals an enormous bounty aboard the vessel even beyond the gold coins and ingots, including ancient cannons as well as intact Chinese porcelain, pottery and cannons.

Colombian government and military archaeologists are studying the inscriptions on this material to determine where it originated from.

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