In This Issue
• NYYC Claims Hinman Masters Championship
• Thrilling Climax for Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race
• Creative intuition - Doyle Sails
• French Tom v Irish Tom duel - La Solitaire du Figaro
• The 1980s A decade of innovations for 18' Skiffs
• Sydney 38 sailors in a class of their own
• Globe 40: Amhas Wins In Mauritius
• Finale of the Kiel Olympic Revival
• From the Ground Up is now LIVE!
• Featured Charter: HYPR - Volvo 70
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Alfred Mylne Glen-Coats Gaff Sloop - DUET
• • L30 One Design
• • SW78 Ocean Horse
• The Last Word: E.B. White

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New York Yacht Club Claims First Hinman Masters Championship in Nearly a Decade
Winning New York Yacht Club team: Steven Kirkpatrick (skipper, team captain) Peter Benedetto, Larry Ehrhardt, Cory Sertl, Zack Leonard (skipper), Alice Leonard, Barry Parkin, Susie Parkin, Brian Doyle (skipper), Hannah Swett Shane Wells and Steven Wolff. Pictured with Rear Commodore Clare Harrington (far left), former Commodore George R. Hinman Jr. (center) and Commodore Paul M. Zabetakis, MD (far right). Click on image to enlarge.

Newport, R.I.: The New York Yacht Club team earned the title with a win over Southern Yacht Club in the finals of the elimination bracket. In third was Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club with Larchmont Yacht Club rounding out the top four. Eastport Yacht Club finished fifth with St. Francis in sixth and the defending champion Corinthian Yacht Club in seventh.

The New York Yacht Club helped usher in a new era of adult team racing with the creation of the New York Yacht Club Invitational Team Race Regatta for the Commodore George R. Hinman Masters Trophy in 2000. That race, which requires skippers to be at least 45 years of age and crew to be over 40, was soon followed by the New York Yacht Club Invitational Team Race Regatta for the Morgan Cup, an all-ages event, in 2003 and, in 2010, the New York Yacht Club Grandmasters Team Race Regatta, which mandates skippers be at least 60 years of age and crew at least 50. The three team races are traditionally held over consecutive weekends in August at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court, using the Club's fleet of 22 Sonar keelboats, and annually attract some of the best adult team racers in the United States and Europe. New York Yacht Club Regatta Association sponsors for 2022 include Helly Hansen, Hammetts Hotel and Safe Harbor Marinas.

While the New York Yacht Club team was the highest scoring team in the round-robin portion of the regatta and went undefeated in the elimination round, the win was far from easy. The round-robin results bear this out. After 63 races, the spread between first and last was just 5 points. New York Yacht Club emerged from the triple round-robin with the best record, 12-6, while Corinthian and St. Francis each went 7-11. -- Stuart Streuli

FInal Standings
1. New York (N.Y.) Yacht Club
2. Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, La.
3. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
4. Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club
5. Eastport (Md.) Yacht Club
6. St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Calif.
7. Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass.

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Thrilling Climax for Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race
Richard Palmer and Rupert Holmes celebrate after completing the non-stop race. Photo by James Tomlinson/RORC. Click on image to enlarge.

Cowes - The Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race came to a thrilling climax on the 16th day of the 1,805 nautical mile race. In a 14-hour flurry, 10 boats finished the race and a passionate dock party on Trinity Landing was followed by a hearty meal at the RORC Clubhouse in Cowes. Five boats are still racing but none of them can realistically better the IRC corrected time scored by JPK 1010 Jangada. The Royal Ocean Racing Club has declared Richard Palmer's JPK 1010 Jangada, racing Two-Handed with Rupert Holmes, as the overall winner of the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race.

In a dramatic final twist to an intense and highly complex race, the overall winner was decided by the thinnest of margins. After IRC time correction for 15 days of racing, Jangada won overall by seven minutes and nine seconds. Rob Craigie's Sun Fast 3600 Bellino racing Two-Handed with Deb Fish was second. In percentage terms, Jangada won by just 0.03% in a race of 1,805 nautical miles. Sam White & Sam North racing JPK 1080 Mzungu! is ranked third overall, under two hours behind Jangada after IRC time correction. All three teams were racing in IRC Two-Handed.

Marie Tabarly's 73 foot ketch Pen Duick VI was the winner of IRC One. Pen Duick VI was the largest boat in the race. It was originally built for Eric Tabarly's 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. Fifty years on Marie Tabarly continues to sail Pen Duick VI with great plans for the future leading up to the Ocean Globe Race starting in the summer of 2023. Marie intends to compete Pen Duick VI in the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race and the RORC Caribbean 600.

Five boats are still racing in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race; Figaro 2 Esprit Scout, raced by Marc Dubos & Jean-Luc Schoch, Stuart Greenfield's S&S 34 Morning After, Dirk Lahmann & Wilhelm Demel's Peterson 43 Snifix Dry, Charlene Howard & Robert Drummond racing Sun Odyssey 45 AJ Wanderlust, and First 40.7 Polished Manx, raced by Kuba Szymanski & Adrian Kucmin. -- Louay Habib

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Creative intuition - Doyle Sails
The skills required of today's finest sailmakers must now extend far beyond 'just' delivering the fastest and most durable product...

While modern sailmaking is a product of highly sophisticated, computer-assisted science, it has long been acknowledged that part of the magic still resides with the sailmaker's intuitive understanding of how to use those tools to best effect – the artist's touch. A recent collaboration between Doyle Sails and the internationally renowned painter Susan Swartz highlighted a case where modern science and technology are able to turn sails into an artist's canvas – with no compromise in performance.

The project began after Jim and Susan Swartz acquired the highly successful Judel/Vrolijk Maxi 72, Momo, following its stellar run with five class victories in 2018, which included a successful defence of its Maxi World title.

Full article in the September issue of Seahorse

French Tom v Irish Tom duel at front of La Solitaire du Figaro
Pre-race favourite Tom Laperche (Region Bretagne-CMB Performance) and Ireland's Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) are leading the 644 nautical miles Stage 1 of the 2022 La Solitaire du Figaro into the second day of racing since leaving Sunday afternoon's start off the mouth of the Loire heading to Port-la-Forêt via a mark off the SW of Wales.

The 34 strong fleet were approaching the Chaussee de Sein this evening where the three first boats to pass a virtual mark will pick up a time bonus of five minutes, three minutes and one minute respectively. As it was shaping up, sprinting at some 6-7kts towards the line extending from the La Sein west cardinal mark, Laperche – winner of all three main solo races leading up to La Solitaire – looks set to collect the maximum time bonus, although Dolan – marginally further offshore to the west – was just one third of a mile behind. After a career-best third place finish on the final stage of last year's La Solitaire du Figaro race Dolan has made an impressive opening to what promises to be a complex leg with many stops and starts. But over recent hours he has matched Laperche's pace exactly.

His sometime co-skipper Alan Roberts (Seacat Services) – the Irish-Anglo duo paired up for the key double handed races this year – is lying fourth and will be pushing to pass third placed Robin Follin (Golfe de Saint Tropez-Territoire D'exception). The multi-skilled Follin from Sainte-Maxime in the south of France – who has raced Diam 24s, GC32s, the 2017 Youth America's Cup, is a match racer, and an SB20 and J/70 World Champion – led through the first night before falling prey to Laperche when the fleet tacked through a trough just before nine this morning. Roberts was only 100m or so behind his French rival.

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The 1980s A decade of innovations for 18' Skiffs
Julian Bethwaite. Photo by Bob Ross. Click on image to enlarge.

The 1970s is regarded as the 'golden era' of 18 footer racing with large fleet and champion competitors competing each week on Sydney Harbour, strong fleets in New Zealand and Queensland and emerging fleets in Western Australia, UK and the USA.

What followed during the 1980s was a mixture of incredible innovations by highly-talented individuals but it also affected costs and led to a significant reduction in all fleet sizes.

Despite the problems, it's important that we don't let the 'negatives' override the wonderful accomplishments and progress made within the evolutionary iconic 18 footer class during the 80s.

Actually, the first stage of the innovative process began during the latter half of the 1970s when New Zealand's Russell Bowler introduced modern technology into hull construction and Australian competitors began to introduce the use of 'wings' to the sides of their hulls.

New Zealand's Russell Bowler had been progressing his design ideas over the previous 3 or 4 seasons and introduced his latest design on Benson & Hedges at the 1977 World Championship. The boat was a very small, light, round-bilged hull which pioneered a polystyrene core sandwiched by a very thin fiberglass laminate, and was reportedly one-third lighter than the plywood NZ boats.

Bowler's new structure proved stiff and fast and it wasn't surprising that a similar method was adopted by the Australians for the following season to replace the lightweight moulded-timber construction.

Murray was impressed, but for the following season decided to use Nomex honeycomb paper as the core material, covered by Kevlar skins in a female mould. The hull weight was about 160 lbs, with all the fittings. -- Frank Quealey Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

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Sydney 38 sailors in a class of their own
Cinquante reefed down in the Rolex Sydney Hobart. Photo by Carlo Borlenghi / Rolex. Click on image to enlarge.

Sydney 38's and their sailors really are in a class of their own; the proof is in the pudding with the likes of Thierry Leseigneur's Eye Candy taking out IRC and ORCi honours in the Groupama Around New Caledonia Race in June, while second and third overall also went New Caledonian Sydney 38s, Guilty Pleasures - Speed Marine and Poulpito MLS FCD.

In the ORCV's Melbourne to Hobart, which takes the yachts from Melbourne down the treacherous west coast of Tasmania, it was Matt Fahey's Sydney 38, Faster Forward that prevailed. One of the smallest boats in the fleet, she took overall honours from her adversaries of all sizes.

In the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart, Kim Jaggar's Cinquante punched above her weight, finishing ninth overall in a race that favoured the TP52s, maxis and veteran yachts. Cinquante, which also placed second in Division 3, outsailed grand prix 40, 50 and 60 foot yachts in a fleet of 88 boats - and in a fleet where retirement numbers almost matched the number that finished.

When it comes to one-design racing, the Peter Byford and David Hudson owned Conspiracy is the boat to beat. This year alone, she won the won Sydney 38 NSW Championship, also scoring first place in the RPAYC Estuary Series Pointscore (under ORC), second in the Pittwater Inshore series (ORC) and third in the Lion Island Series (ORC).

The Sydney 38 Association is supporting members by maintaining a strategic stock of long delivery spares. It means owners can gain access to replacement parts speedily if they experience a breakage.

The list of spares is published on the Sydney 38 Class Association website at: www.sydney38class.com where you can also find all information regarding the class. -- Di Pearson/Sydney 38 media

Globe 40: Amhas Wins In Mauritius
After 35 days 10 hours 42 minutes and 42 seconds of navigation, Craig Horsfield and Oliver Bond reach Mauritius as the winner on this second and longest leg of the GLOBE40. By crossing the finish line this Monday morning at 2 hours 42 minutes and 42 seconds (UTC), the American crew treated themselves to a finish under the magnificent colors of the Mauritian sunrise. From Cape Verde in the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, passing through the Doldrums, the Equator, the Saint Helena High and the Cape of Good Hope at 38° South, the sailors of the GLOBE40 experienced a veritable epic of 7,667 nautical miles (14,200 km) worthy of the greatest tales of sailing around the world.

A victory acquired in a very good way by the American skippers. In the right tempo from the first miles, they have rarely accumulated more than thirty miles behind the rival and Japanese leader Milai throughout the descent of the South Atlantic. They didn't give up, despite the hardness of the stage on a physical and mental level due to its long distance, the harsh sea and weather conditions encountered and the technical problems faced. In this mano a mano on a planetary scale, the American-British duo benefited from the South African pit-stop operated by Masa Suzuki and Andrea Fantini to take the leadership of the fleet as they passed the Cape of Good Hope, without stopping never give it up to the turquoise Mauritian waters. This victory on this major stage with a coefficient of 3.

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Finale of the Kiel Olympic Revival
The conclusion of the revival of the 1972 Olympic sailing regattas once again offered high tension on the Kiel Fjord. While in the World Championship of the Tempest the award of the bronze medal was decided by the narrowest of margins, in the Northern European Championship of the Star-class and the International German Championship of the Flying Dutchman gold and silver were disputed. Besides the already determined Tempest winners Markus Wieser/Thomas Auracher, Jorgen Schonherr/Markus Koy (Star) and Kay-Uwe Ludtke/Kai Schafers (Flying Dutchman) celebrated the victorious finish off Kiel.

World Championship of the Tempest
After eight World Championship races, in which either Markus Wieser/Thomas Auracher (Munich) or Lars and Leif Bahr (Berlin) crossed the finish line first, other Tempest crews had the chance to win at the end. Gold and silver had already been awarded in the title fight, and so the world champions (Wieser/Auracher) as well as the first chasers (Bahr/Bahr) decided in the morning to cancel the last race.

For the Tempest class, the Olympic Revival was a return to the place that put the open dinghy keelboat in the spotlight. Designed by Britain's Ian Proctor, the boat was well ahead of its time in the 1960s, clearly beating design competition in the trials for a new Olympic boat class in 1965 and eventually earning Olympic status for the 1972 Games. The rapid development led to the greats of other classes, switching to the Tempest and sailing for Olympic medals. Valentin Mankin, the Russian Finn Olympic champion in 1968, won his second Olympic gold off Kiel in the Tempest. Four years later in Kingston, Canada, Mankin took another silver, beating U.S. sailing superstar Dennis Connor into third place. But after the 1976 Games, the Tempest lost its Olympic status to the Star in which Mankin won another Olympic gold in 1980, becoming one of the most successful Olympic sailors of all time.

Podium positions

Tempest
1. Markus Wieser Thomas Auracher, GER, 10 points
2. Lars Bahr / Leif Bahr, GER, 12
3. Christian Spranger / Christopher Kopp, GER, 35

Flying Dutchman German Championship
1. Kay-Uwe Ludtke / Kai Schafers, GER, 14
2. Szabolcs Majthenyi / Andras Domokos, HUN, 19
3. Shmuel Markhoff / Lars Stockmann, GER, 31

Dragon
1. Ingo Ehrlicher Dr / Michael Lipp / Anton Ehrlicher, GER, 5
2. Tim Ladehof / Tim Alexander Jesse / Arne Brugge, GER, 13
3. Olaf Sternel / Mario Wagner / Stefan Waack, GER, 16

Star
1. Jorgen Schonherr / Markus Koy, DEN, 11
2. Max Kohlhoff / Ole Burzinski, GER, 13
3. Reinhard Schmidt / Niels Hentschel, GER, 25

Results not yet posted for Finn Open and U23 European Championship, Soling

Full results

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From the Ground Up is now LIVE!
After many months, our exciting documentary project 'From the Ground Up', presented by Harken Australia, has been released online. So grab the popcorn and check it out!

Celebrating the importance of grassroots manufacturers in sailing, this 30-minute documentary uses the Australian Sharpie class as a case study and digs a little deeper into what makes these classes and our sport's boat builders tick.

Watch now, via the video link below!

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