In This Issue
• Inaugural event win for U.S. team at Sail Grand Prix
• Sweden dominates at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
• Ice Cool Swedes Svea Win J Class Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
• Momo and Bribon 500 Are International Six Metre European Champions
• Spindrift Victory at TF35 Malcesine Cup
• From The Indian To The Pacific Ocean
• Etchells Pre-Worlds | Day Two
• Lessons learned after Swiss capsize in Barcelona
• John Sisk 1944-2022
• Featured Brokerage:
• • J Boats J/88
• • L30 One Design
• • Dazcat 1295
• The Last Word: Martha Wells

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Inaugural event win for U.S. team at Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix
Saint-Tropez, France: Jimmy Spithill has led his United States SailGP Team to his first ever SailGP victory, prevailing in light winds at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez. In the final he battled the in-form New Zealand team of Peter Burling chasing a third straight event win, and Ben Ainslie's Great Britain team.

In a huge contrast in conditions - that saw records break yesterday - today represented the other end of the spectrum with light winds and the F50's racing with a 29 meter wing configuration. After the United States team prevailed in the opening race of the day, race five was abandoned as the boats failed to make the race time limit, and the decision was made to go straight to the final podium race instead of the Super Sunday format that was planned.

Spithill's win revives what had to this point been a deeply troubled season for the United States team so far, with this event marking the first appearance in an event final.

The European leg of the championship concludes in two weeks' time at the Spain Sail Grand Prix | Andalucía - Cadiz, September 10-11.

SailGP Season 3 Championship Standings (after five events) //
1 // Australia // 42 points
2 // New Zealand // 41 points
3 // Great Britain // 34 points
4 // Denmark // 33 points
5 // France // 31 points
6 // Canada // 29 points
7 // United States // 25 points
8 // Spain // 15 points
9 // Switzerland // 12 points

*United States penalized 4 season points for incident with France
*Switzerland penalized 2 season points for incident with United States

sailgp.com

Sweden dominates as H20 is unbeaten at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
The final day of racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, pinnacle of the International Maxi Association's race season looked marginal due to a well forecast Mistral. Nonetheless the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda's race committee, led by Peter Craig, made a valiant effort to hold a final short coastal race for the 46 maxis, advancing the start by two hours to 1000 and shifting the start area south away from the Costa Smeralda's strongest winds. Sadly it was to no avail: As the gun went for the Maxi class start, so the AP flag was hoisted and racing was abandoned.

Andy Beadsworth, strategist on Velsheda, a J Class with a 52m tall mast, observed: "As we pulled the mainsail up the wind hit 28-29 knots. Ultimately it was a solid 25-26 gusting 30. It was a good effort and we were all in, but it was the right call."

The toughest competition came in the biggest class, the Maxis (LH: 24.09-30.50m). Going into the final day Lord Irvine Laidlaw's Reichel/Pugh 82 Highland Fling XI was seven points clear of David M. Leuschen's Wallycento Galateia with Andrea Recordati's Wally 93 Bullitt a further four points adrift in third.

These results standing came as relief for Lord Laidlaw, whom, while leading last year, witnessed victory slip through his fingers due to a broken forestay.

Next year the IMA and YCCS intend to dispense with the Maxi and Mini Maxi classes and their 80ft length division. Instead yachts of 60-100ft will simply be grouped together with similar IRC TCC ratings. -- James Boyd

Full results

www.yccs.it

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Ice Cool Swedes Svea Win J Class Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
A Mistral wind with gusts to over 30 knots thwarted efforts to run racing on the final day of the 2022 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup on Sardinia's Porto Cervo. Although the spectacular race fleet of nearly 50 Maxi yachts, including four J Class yachts, headed out to a more sheltered area to the south of Porto Cervo and a course was planned, a few minutes before the start sequences began the NW'ly was averaging 25-28kts. With the forecast for the wind only to build, the prudent decision was taken to return the fleet to the harbour.

Winning four races from this week's five starts, the overall J Class winner is the Swedish flagged Svea. Co-owned and co-skippered by three passionate Swedish sailors Niklas Zennström, Filip Engelbert and Hjalmar Winbladh, with past double Maxi world championship winner Zennström steering this week, Svea triumphed with a margin of seven points.

Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup J Class final standings after 5 races
1. Svea 6pts
2. Ranger 13pts
3. Velsheda 14pts
4. Topaz 17pts

Kohler Cup standings afrer three regattas, Saint Barths, Palma, Porto Cervo
1. Ranger 6pts, 1+3+2
2. Svea 7pts DNC 5 + 1 +1
3. Velsheda 10pts 3+4+3
4. Topaz 11pts DNC 5 + 2 +4
5. Hanuman 12 pts 2 + DNC 5+ DNC 5

jclassyachts.com

Momo and Bribon 500 Are International Six Metre European Champions
Cascais, Portugal: A spectacular photo finish eighth race brought the 2022 International Six Metre European Championship to a conclusion after five glorious days of racing off Cascais. Going into the day overnight leader Patrick Montiero de Baross's Seljm, John Harald Ornerberg's Scoundrel One, which had been helmed until the final day by Vasco Pereira, and Dieter Schoen's Momo were separated by just two points leaving the regatta wide open.

Momo is the newest Six Metre in the fleet, having been launched earlier this year, and her team of owner/helm Dieter Schoen, Markus Wieser, Dirk De Ridder, Ross Halcrow and Victor Marino Prieto have already made their mark on the class. The team has been sailing together for several years in 5.5s and Maxi 72s, twice winning the Maxi 72 World Championship, and they came to the class keen to succeed. A Judel/Vrolijk designed boat built by Wilke in Switzerland, Momo hit the ground running earlier this year with a win at the 2022 World Championship in Cascais.

In the Classic Division Bribon 500, helmed by Ross Macdonald with crew Alejandro Abascal, Alberto Viejo, Eduardo Marin and Roi Alvarez, had already been declared the 2022 Champion with a race to spare, and Catalin Trandafir's Essentia had been confirmed as Vice Champion. Both boats nonetheless elected to come out to take advantage of the wonderful sailing for one last race, and to witness the fight between Mauricio Sanchez Bella's Titia and Andy and Lisa Postle's Nirvana for the bronze medal. From the off Titia had the upper hand over Nirvana, who has not been on her usual good form this week, and she enjoyed a terrific battle with Bribon 500 and Essentia, with the three boats trading places all the way round the course. On the final run Titia just snuck in to take the line from Essential then Bribon and confirm her bronze medal place overall -- Fiona Brown

Final results:

Open Division
1st - SUI142 - Momo - Dieter Schoen - 1, 6, 1, (DSQ(11)), 4, 2, 3, 1 = 18
2nd - POR4 - Seljm - Patrick Monteiro de Barros - 3, 1, (7), 1, 5, 4, 1, 3 = 18
3rd - GBR86 - Scoundrel One - Vasco Pereira - 4, 4, 2, (8), 1, 1, 4, 7 = 23
4th - SUI140 - Ginkgo Too - Jan Eckert - 5, 2, 4, 3, (8), 3, 5, 4 = 26
5th - ESP16 - Stella - Violeta Alvarez - 2, (9), 3, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6 = 31

Classic Division
1st - ESP16 - Bribon 500 - Ross Macdonald - 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, (3) = 10
2nd - ROU65 - Essentia - Catalin Trandafir - (4), 4, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2 = 17
3rd - ESP72 - Titia - Mauricio Sanchez Bella - (6), 2, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1 = 20
4th - GBR33 - Nirvana - Andy & Lisa Postle - 1, 3, 4, 2, 4, 6, (6), 6 = 26
5th - USA96 - Hanko III - Thomas Kuhmann - 3, (5), 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4 = 28

Full Results

Spindrift Victory at TF35 Malcesine Cup
Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard's Spindrift wins the TF35 Malcesine Cup after a beautiful four-race day on Lake Garda. For the young crew onboard, this is their first win in the TF35 fleet, and helm Guichard couldn't have been prouder of his team's performance after the prizegiving: "We took the lead on the first day and kept it until the last day - that's an achievement", he enthused.

Of the seven races sailed at the TF35 Malcesine Cup, Spindrift took four race wins. The only black mark on their scorecard came in the regatta's final race today when a breakdown on the first beat handed them a DNF (did not finish) and the full eight points, which were swiftly discarded.

Racing on the sparkling lake, against the backdrop of the Dolomite Mountains towering, under blue skies and sunshine, the competition was hot, with the max boat speed foiling upwind clocked at 20 knots and the max downwind clocked over 30 knots in just 12 knots of breeze.

The final event of the 2022 TF35 Trophy will take place over the 6 - 9 October in Scarlino, Italy hosted by Yacht Club Isole di Toscana. To find out more visit www.TF35.org

TF35 Malcesine Cup
(after seven races with one discard)
1. Spindrift - 1 1 1 2 4 1 8 - 10
2. Alinghi Red Bull Racing - 5 5 2 1 3 2 1 - 14
3. Realteam for Léman hope - 3 3 4 4 1 3 2 - 16
4. Team SAILFEVER - 4 2 6 6 2 4 4 - 22
5. ZEN Too - 6 4 3 7 5 6 3 - 27
6. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier - 7 6 5 5 6 5 5 - 32
7. Vitamina Sailing - 2 7 7 3 7 8 8 - 34

tf35.org

From The Indian To The Pacific Ocean
Today saw the GLOBE40 crews take the start of the 3rd leg of the event; another substantial leg worth a coefficient 3, which will take the sailors on a journey of nearly 7,000 miles (13,000 km) from Mauritius to New Zealand, depending on the routing. The ranking remains wide open and at the end of this leg the competitors will have covered over half the planet in this GLOBE40 round the world race.

Just a few miles to the south of Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius, off the lighthouse marking the Pointe aux Caves, the racers set sail on this latest leg at 16:00 hours local time against a sublime backdrop of beaches and mountain ranges, heading south around the iconic basaltic Morne Brabant mountain before initially setting a course for the south-west tip of Australia across an Indian Ocean renowned for its complexity.

After this first section spanning nearly 3,000 nautical miles, the skippers will have to negotiate a gateway formed by Eclipse Island close to Cape Leeuwin, the second of the three legendary capes of this circumnavigation of the globe together with the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Up next will be a 1,500 nautical mile passage across the Great Australian Bight bound for the dreaded Bass Strait separating mainland Australia from Tasmania, the competitors also remaining free to go around the southern tip of Tasmania.

Once they officially make it into the Pacific Ocean, the competitors will cross the Tasman Sea to get around New Zealand's North Island at Cape Reinga before the sprint down the north coast to Auckland, the southern hemisphere's legendary City of Sails, which is synonymous with the America's Cup having hosted its most recent edition.

Four new skippers have joined the race for this leg: Italian Luca Rosetti on MILAI Around The World, American Brian Harris and Canadian Kyle Hubley on AMHAS, and Spaniard Jeronimo Santos Gonzales on WHISKEY JACK

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Etchells Pre-Worlds | Day Two
Cowes, IOW, United Kingdom: Racing action got underway for the second day of the Etchells Pre-Worlds with two windward leeward races in a south easterly breeze in the Eastern Solent. Peter Duncan's Oatmeal (USA 1453) took the first race win and Lawrie Smith's Mila (GBR 1502) took the gun in Race Two. Peter Duncan finished the day with the best cumulative score. Ante Razmilovic's Swedish Blue (GBR 1438) scored a consistent 6-3, finishing just one point off pole position. James Markby's Arena (GBR 1470) scored a 7-5 to finish in third place after two races. Lawrie Smith's Mila is fourth, and Shaun Frohlich's Exabyte (GBR 1459) fifth.

Generally, the wind was backing to the east, but also veering to the west, with a strong westerly current for most of the day. Action in the combat zone started in about eight knots of shifty breeze, piping up to 12 knots during the day.

Racing at the 2022 Etchells Pre-Worlds will conclude tomorrow, Monday September 12, with two more races scheduled in The Solent organised by the Royal Yacht Squadron. -- Louay Habib

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Lessons learned after Swiss capsize in Barcelona
Alinghi Red Bull Racing's first ever AC75 sailing day was always going to be a milestone moment in their America's Cup campaign but it turned out to be memorable for other reasons too

As it turns out though the team will remember the day not so much for their first tentative 15 minutes of AC75 sailing - including just two tacks in displacement mode - as for the sudden intense micro-storm system that engulfed them as they were about to head back to shore.

Battered by winds up to 35 knots and pelted by hailstones later described as being the size of oranges the Swiss crew had a fight on their hands to control their boat which was tied alongside one of the team's support ribs on the port side.

Maxime Bachelin - a past Swiss 420 national champion and top flight 49er sailor and now a member of the ARBR 'driving team' - was on board the AC75 during the incident and described the experience to Cup Insider.

"We were heading back ashore. Dropping the sail had worked well - it had been fast, so we were happy. Then suddenly we were hit by a huge storm and we capsized.

"Before the capsize I was on the back of the boat looking after the movement of the boom, so when it happened I was able to stay safe there holding on.

"We had practised our capsize drill beforehand and what worked well was that the safety crew and all the sailors knew what to do. But you learn more when you experience it rather than a drill.

"By going through this experience we learned a lot about how to get the boat back upright after a capsize. -- Justin Chisholm

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John Sisk 1944-2022
John Sisk (right) aboard Sarnia in Crosshaven in 1970 after winning an RORC Race from the Irish Sea. His brother George is on the left, Frank Larkin is second left, and Hal Sisk is at centre. Click on image to enlarge.

The death of John Sisk of Dun Laoghaire highlights the sailing achievements of a private yet remarkable family whose name is internationally-recognised on major building sites and civil engineering projects in several countries, while at the same time, they are known among fellow-enthusiasts for their keen involvement in other activities.

Originally a major Cork business, it was John's father - also John - who developed the Dublin focus at an exceptionally young age, such that Dublin eventually became the firm's headquarters. But while his devotion to growing the company was highly respected, he also brought from Cork a family interest in boats and sailing which for a while manifested itself in an intriguing sideline around 1950, the Dalkey Shipyard Company, which built some substantial sailing boats in addition to a range of Folkboats.

But while John Senr was interested in building boats and sailing them, racing was not his thing. Yet his three sons George, Hal and John were definitely racing inclined, so in typical John Senr style, there was correspondence with the great New York yacht designer Olin Stephens which resulted in the debut in Dun Laoghaire in 1967 of the Italian-built Gaia 36 Sarnia, one of the first boats to the hull shape which became best known as the Swan 36.

John meanwhile indicated his move to cruising by acquiring the high-quality comfort-emphasising 47-footer Provident, and Croatia became the centre of much of his sailing. Despite being the youngest brother in a remarkable trio within an exceptional family, he was very much his own man, and a real contributor to the sailing scene. We join with Frank Larkin in our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. -- WM Nixon

The full tribute to John in Afloat magazine

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