In This Issue
• Tom Laperche wins the Solitaire du Figaro
• Velsheda's Win Breaks Svea's Winning Sequence
• New faces winning races at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
• Maxi News
• Six Metre European Championship
• Etchells European Championship
• Race of the Century documentary on Netflix
• 100th Star Class World Championship
• TF35 Trophy Gears Up For Lake Garda Debut
• Featured Charter: Shamlor - 67ft Sailing Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Premier JV74 Nyumba
• • Bavaria C42
• • RM 1180
• The Last Word: P.J. O'Rourke

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Tom Laperche takes stage 3 victory to win the 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro
When French solo skipper Tom Laperche (Region Bretagne - CMB Performance) crossed the finish line off Saint-Nazaire at the entrance to the Loire estuary this blustery Wednesday evening at 18:54:48hrs local time to win the third and final stage of the 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro he punched the air with delight, knowing that his stage win by a comfortable margin has provisionally secured him the overall title.

With his nearest title rival, Guillaume Pirouelle (Region Normandie) 13 nautical miles behind, the 25 year old pre-race favourite Laperche soon eclipsed the 14 minutes of time advantage that Pirouelle had held going into this final 640 nautical miles stage which started on Sunday and took the 32 strong fleet across the Bay of Biscay to a mark off Galicia, Los Farallones, before a fast roller coaster downwind back across the Biscay in winds gusting to 40kts at times.

Winner of all three solo events this season leading up to the annual solo racing pinnacle, this three stage La Solitaire du Figaro, Laperche had finished third in the last two La Solitaires. He first came to prominence in his rookie year when he finished second into Kinsale in June 2019, just 33 minutes behind stage winner Yoann Richomme. A qualified engineer and meticulous technician, Laperche was soon snapped up by Vendee Globe winner Francois Gabart as the co-skipper of his Ultime trimaran.

Final top ten
1. Tom Laperche / Region Bretagne - CMB Performance
2. Guillaume Pirouelle / Region Normandie
3. Achille Nebout / Amarris - Primeo Energie
4. Erwan Le Draoulec / Skipper MACIF 2020
5. Gaston Morvan / Region Bretagne - CMB Espoir
6. Nils Palmieri / Teamwork
7. Tom Dolan / Smurfit Kappa - Kingspan
8. Elodie Bonafous / Queguiner La Vie En Rose
9. Arthur Hubert / MonAtoutEnergie.fr
10. Violette Dorange / Devenir

Race Tracker

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Velsheda's Win Breaks Svea's Winning Sequence
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

Velsheda broke the Svea string of three back-to-back wins today in the J Class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, when they triumphed around an engaging but relatively short 26-mile coastal course, down and back up the La Maddalena channel, or 'bomb alley' as it is euphemistically known, in 9-14kts of easterly breeze.

Although the series leaders Svea started well and were 44 seconds ahead at the top of the first windward leg, Velsheda stayed out to the right on a long downwind and found extra wind pressure and a favourable shift in wind direction which allowed them to enter the channel on terms with Svea.

In perfect flat water and with both crews working hard to get the most out of their respective boats, Velsheda was able to ease only slightly ahead. Several times Svea came back into them just enough to overlap them slightly but at the leeward turn - the Quebec mark at Spargi island - Velsheda were a couple of boat-lengths clear as they turned back upwind for the climb back up the channel.

Velsheda made their winning gains on the final third of the course. Svea had a couple of periods in lighter airs and had to do two extra tacks coming through the islands just before the turn to Porto Cervo. Through the finish line at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda line the owner-driven Velsheda was 1 min 34 seconds ahead of the owner driven Svea. On corrected time, this saw Velsheda win by just 36 seconds after three hours and seven minutes of racing. Ranger, with Ed Baird driving, took third and Topaz fourth.

Thursday will be a lay day for the competing teams, before a return to racing on Friday.

Race 4, corrected times
1. Velsheda 3hrs 04mins 33 secs
2. Svea 3:05:09
3. Ranger 3:06:54
4. Topaz 3:10:311

Standings after 4 races
1. Svea 5pts
2. Velsheda 10pts
3. Ranger 11pts
4. Topaz 14pts

www.jclassyachts.com

New faces winning races at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

After a lighter third day of competition between the 46 yachts, the dominant are now emerging across most of the seven classes going into the final phase of the International Maxi Association's pinnacle event, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, run by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda.

With a light forecast, racing was delayed by an hour. Today was the turn of the 13-strong Maxi class to sail two windward-leewards. These took place in a 10 knot easterly. Meanwhile the rest of the fleet sailed relatively short coastal courses up into Bomb Alley, the faster boats heading up the strait to a turning mark off Spargi before returning.

With two bullets and only one finish off the podium, Lord Irvine Laidlaw's Highland Fling XI sits on a comfortable seven point cushion after the dark green Reichel/Pugh 82 won the Maxi class' first windward-leeward race.

In today's second windward-leeward the white Wallycento Galateia finally managed a race win, despite an exceptional upwind leg from Andrea Recordati's Wally 93 Bullitt which saw her lead all the 100 footers around the top mark. For Galateia, this came after a disastrous first race when she fouled Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones' Magic Carpet Cubed and as a result had to take a penalty turn and later ripped a spinnaker.

In Mini Maxi 1 the field was reduced from six to five due to a key crewman on board Dario Ferrari's Cannonball having to be rushed to hospital yesterday with a medical condition. The Italian former Maxi 72, and defending champion here, remained at the dock today.

Tonight is the International Maxi Association's annual Members' Dinner taking place at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. Thursday is the scheduled layday before the final two days when top end conditions are forecast: 20+ knot westerlies gusting to 25. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association www.yccs.it

www.internationalmaxiassociation.com

Maxi News
Maxi News from the International Maxi Association is a digital/interactive newsletter, including active links and video.

Issue no1 is available in flipbook form at: bit.ly/3x58QCT

It includes:

- previews of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez and Rolex Middle Sea Race
- new maxi reviews: Roberto Lacorte on FlyingNikka, Giorgio Benussi on Nautor's new ClubSwan 80 My Song and, just announced, Wally's wallywind supermaxi range.
- state of the maxi nation report from IMA Secretary General Andrew McIrvine
- looking back at the IMA's very first Caribbean Maxi Challenge
- update on the maxi season so far in the Med
- 2021-22 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge winner decided: Jean-Pierre Barjon's Spirit of Lorina
- IMA and multihulls - a new initiative
- full interactive international maxi events calendar for 2023 and beyond

Six Metre European Championship
Cascais delivered more glorious conditions for day two of the International Six Metre European Championship 2022. Two further races, races three and four of the eight race series, were completed in an 6-10 knot westerly. It was a day of snakes and ladders in the Open Division where Patrick Monteiro de Barros's Seljm continues to lead the regatta by a narrow two point margin and close rival Dieter Schoen's Momo was disqualified from race four. In the Classic Division Ross Macdonald and the crew of Bribon 500 dominated the day to win both races and give themselves a five point lead at the half way stage in the regatta.

For overnight Open Division leader Seljm, a 1988 Pelle Petterson design that finished third at the 2018 and 2021 European Championships, the day did not get off to a great start, picking the wrong side of the beat and rounding the first mark near the bottom of the fleet. They did their best to pull back but could do no better than seventh. Up ahead Dieter Schoen's brand new Judel-Vrolijk designed Momo stormed away to victory with Vasco Pereira's 1986 Petterson designed Scoundrel One just pipping Violeta Alvarez's 2017 Bribón designed Stella for second on the line. Jan Eckert's Ginkgo Too, a 2020 Javier Cela design, took fourth and defending European Champion Thisbe, another Petterson boat, this time from 1987 and owned by Michel Teweles and Philip Durr, finished fifth.

The forecast for day three is for more light to moderate westerly winds and the Race Committee has confirmed that it intends to get racing underway at 14:00 with races five and six of the series programmed. Racing for the Championship continues until Saturday 10 September. A total of eight races are scheduled with five being required to declare a valid championship. Once six races have been completed a single race discard will be introduced.

Provisional Top Five Results After Four Races

Open Division
1. POR4 - Seljm - Patrick Monteiro de Barros - 3, 1, 7, 1 = 12
2. SUI140 - Ginkgo Too - Jan Eckert - 5, 2, 4, 3 = 14
3. ESP16 - Stella - Violeta Alvarez - 2, 9, 3, 2 = 16
4. GBR86 - Scoundrel One - Vasco Pereira - 4, 4, 2, 8 = 18
5. SUI142 - Momo - Dieter Schoen - 1, 6, 1, DSQ(11) = 19

Classic Division
1. ESP16 - Bribon 500 - Ross Macdonald - 2, 1, 1, 1 = 5
2. GBR33 - Nirvana - Andy Postle & Brian Pope - 1, 3, 4, 2 = 10
3. ROU65 - Essentia - Catalin Trandafir - 4, 4, 2, 3 = 13
4. USA96 - Hanko III - Thomas Kuhmann - 3, 5, 3, 4 = 15
5. ESP72 - Titia - Mauricio Sanchez Bella - 6, 2, 5, 5 = 18

Full results

Etchells European Championship
The Royal Yacht Squadron hosted the Etchells European Championships from 2 to 4 September and after three days of tight racing USA 1427 sailed by Stephen Benjamin won, closely followed by the first European boat of Lawrie Smith (GBR 1502).

The racing started on Friday 2ND September and lack of wind meant that only one race was held which was won by Lawrie Smith on Mila (GBR1502). This was followed by two days of racing in 8 to 15 knots of wind on the Saturday and Sunday allowing all six races to be completed.

Saturday started with a one-hour postponement whilst waiting for the wind to fill in followed by three races with wins by Klaus Diederichs on Fever (USA1453), Chris Hampton on Tango (AUS1466) and Stephen Benjamin on Stella Blue (USA1427). Saturday's racing was followed by a dinner held at the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Sunday was the windiest day of the event with two races each won by Lawrie Smith on Mila (GBR1502).

The Corinthian trophy was won by Graham Bailey on Matau (SGP1333) closely followed by Ante Razmilovic (GBR1438) and Jon Warwick (GBR1351).

A strong youth fleet competed with Ted Blowers on Ada (GBR 1409) taking 1st youth, followed by James Clemetson on Pulse (GBR782) and Jack Lewis on board Sumo (GBR1020).

A big thanks to Peter Saxton and the team at the Royal Yacht Squadron for some excellent racing and hosting the event, along with the team at Cowes Yacht Haven making sure all the boats were in the water ready for the event.

jclassyachts.com

Race of the Century documentary on Netflix
A chronicle of the thrilling 1983 America's Cup, "Race of the Century" is a classic underdog story. It tells the tale of the scrappy group of Australians who band together to dethrone the New York Yacht Club, and break the longest-running win streak in history 132 years. in the most prestigious sailing competition in the world. Key members of the 1983 U.S. and Australian crews sit down for interviews sharing their experience of this ultimate race to victory.

100th Star Class World Championship
Bacardí is very proud to be invited to support the Star Class World Championship. This regatta will be making sailing history with its 100th World Championship, September 8-17, 2022, in Marblehead Massachusetts.

The Star Class has always represented a hot bed of the world's sailing talent and the 2022 Star Worlds will be no different. The Star power will be coming in from across the world. Amongst the 170 sailors competing, there will be numerous past World Champions, who will be looking over their shoulders keeping an eye on future generations in the strong U30 teams.

After the practice race on Saturday, September 10, racing gets underway on September 11 with the six-races series featuring a traditional two-hour long daily race, scheduled to start at 12:30 hours and at 10:30 hours on the final day. -- Luissa Smith

2022worlds.starchampionships.org

TF35 Trophy Gears Up For Lake Garda Debut
With the Swiss half of the TF35 season complete, the cutting-edge hydro-foiling catamarans now move on to Italy for the final two events of the 2022 season; the TF35 Malcesine Cup over the 8 - 11 September and the TF35 Scarlino over 6 - 9 October.

It's only the second year of racing for the newly designed fleet, but already during the first four regattas of this season, compressed into May and June, a dramatic improvement has been seen across the fleet as the teams have got to grips with their new racing machines.

As in their debut year, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Jerôme Clerc's Realteam for Leman hope hold a firm grip on first and second place in the overall ranking at this halfway stage with just two points between them. Clerc and his crew took the first win of the season in Nyon, but fell second to the dark blue hulls of Alinghi after she claimed the TF35 Mies and the Genève-Rolle-Genève race with back-to-back victories.

New to the TF35 fleet for 2022 is Vitamina Sailing. The Italian team, led by Kiwi tactician Adam Minoprio with Andrea Lacorte on the helm, has had strong starts but is playing catch-up this season. If they can refine their technique, they will begin to get the results needed to move up the leaderboard.

All seven teams will meet again next week for the TF35 Malcesine Cup over the 8 - 11 September, hosted by the Fraglia Vela Malcesine. Racing for the first time on Lake Garda with the expectation of flat water, 12-18 knots and the dramatic backdrop with the Dolomite mountains, there is much anticipation in the fleet after the summer break: "It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful stretches of water in the world, flat, with steady wind every day, perfect conditions for these boats! Let's hope they will be faithful to what Malcesine has given us in the past," Frei concludes.

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