In This Issue
• Hobie 16 World Championships
• A slow day in Cannes, but hot competition for 5.5 Metre fleet
• Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award
• International Association of Cape Horners
• Ibiza JoySail
• The Gstaad Yacht Club's Centenary Trophy is back
• AC40 Is Tow Tested
• Thousand Islands Race
• Another Classic Needs Saving
• Featured Charter: Hydra - DK 46
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Maxi Dolphin 62 ab
• • Southern Wind 100 DS
• • HH44 - NEW BOAT
• The Last Word: Christopher Isherwood

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Hobie 16 World Championships
Costa Brava Pirineu de Girona, Spain: Day 2 Women/Youth/Grand Masters and Great Grand Masters Division - Day 2 of racing for the Women/Youth/Grand Masters and Great Grand Masters.

The afternoon thermal on the Gulf of Roses just keeps delivering. Lumpy and bumpy was the theme of the day. Early in the racing, the breeze was a bit stronger 12-14 knots but waned throughout the day. The waves were a bit bigger making it a bit tougher to drive upwind. Most crews were double trapezing in the first session, and single trapezing in the second session. The shore break created a bit of challenge for launching. Four more races were completed over two sessions today. The first session was Women, Youth and Great Grand Masters. The second session was Grand Masters and Women. Many sailors felt the breeze was a bit stronger offshore resulting in most boats extending out to the left off the start.

Tomorrow is the final day of racing for Women/Youth/Grand Masters and Great Grand Masters.

www.hobieworlds.com

A slow day in Cannes, but hot competition for 5.5 Metre fleet
It was a slow day in Cannes but one of intensely hot competition. The 2022 5.5 Metre French Open at the Regates Royales in Cannes started with two very light wind races. Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Flavio Marazzi) leads from Otto (NOR 68, Bent Christian Wilhelmsen, Herve Cunningham, Lasse Berthelsen) with New Moon III (BAH 25, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) in third.

After a delayed start the light winds never produced much more than 5-8 knots, sometimes less, but there was close racing at the front and the rear with the older boats and the moderns.

Racing continues until Friday

Results after 2 races
1 Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz Przemysław Gacek, Flavio Marazzi) 4
2 Otto (NOR 68, Bent Christian Wilhelmsen Herve Cunningham, Lasse Berthelsen) 4
3 New Moon III (BAH 25, Mark Holowesko Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) 6
4 No Stress (SUI 201, Jörg Sonntag Jacob Rek, Lina Urbat) 10
5 Pungin (SUI 213, Hans-Peter Schmid Gilbert Dürr, Walter Dürr) 11

Full results

Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award: Deadline approaching!
SUBMISSION - Yacht Racing photographers have until October 9 to submit their best image taken since October 5, 2021!

EXHIBITION - The top 20 images will be exhibited at World Sailing's annual conference and at the Yacht Racing Forum.

INVITATION - Yacht racing photographers are invited to the prize-giving ceremony during the Yacht Racing Forum on November 21 in Malta.

NEW VOTING SYSTEM - A new voting system has been developed, to promote participation to a wider audience and make the competition fairer.

www.yachtracingimage.com

International Association of Cape Horners
Left to right: Yannick Moreau, the Mayor of Les Sables d'Olonne; Don McIntyre, presenting Sir Chay Blyth, first man to sail solo non-stop west-about around the globe with his scroll and award; Ash Manton, chairman of IACH. Click on image to enlarge.

The first 28 inductees - all historic and pioneering names with strong sailing links to the world's most infamous Cape - now have their names recorded for posterity on IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame honours board displayed in Les Sables d'Olonne, home of the Vendee Globe, Golden Globe and Mini-Transat Ocean races.

The names range from Capt. Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire who first discovered Cape Horn and a route westward through the Pacific to the Dutch East Indies in 1616, the Finnish Captain Vern Verner Bjorkflelt who commanded the last commercial windjammer PAMIR to round the Cape before steam took over from sail in 1949 and pioneering small boat circumnavigators like Argentine sailor Vito Dumas, Frenchman Marcel Bardiaux and England's Sir Francis Chichester.

These 28 were selected by the IACH Committee, but going forward, Sir Robin Knox- Johnston, the first man to sail solo non-stop around the Globe, and French Cape Horn veteran Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, with 12 visits to Cape Horn - both listed on the Hall of Fame board - head a list of distinguished experts who will short-list future inductees to be voted on each year by members of the Int. Assoc. of Cape Horners.

The panellists include:
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston - Chairman
Jean-Luc van den Heede - Vice Chairman
Stan Honey - America's most celebrated ocean navigator and IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame inductee
Dee Caffari MBE - who has made 6 circumnavigations and first women to sail solo non-stop around the Globe both west-east and east-west. She too is an inductee into IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame
Dilip Donde - the first Indian to complete a solo circumnavigation, now mentoring other Indian sailors to follow in his wake - also inducted into the IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame
Ash Manton - Chairman of the Int. Assoc. of Cape Horners who rounded Cape Horn during the 1977/8 Whitbread Round the World Race

Each year, Les Sables d'Olonne, now the Home of the Cape Horn Hall of Fame, and the Int. Assoc. of Cape Horners will hold a ceremony to induct new names to the Honours board, to keep alive the French port's enduring connection to Cape Horn.

To read or download the citations for the first 28 inductees to the IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame, click here.

Ibiza JoySail
First-time challengers and old rivals are gathering this week for Ibiza JoySail, with the second edition of the Balearic festival of superyacht sailing

One of the final superyacht regattas of the 2022 Mediterranean sailing season, Ibiza JoySail offers a friendly four-day combination of offshore and inshore racing starting from Palma, Mallorca, on Thursday 22 September, before taking in the spectacular surroundings of Ibiza and Formentera until Sunday.

No fewer than 13 diverse and eye-catching superyachts have assembled - almost triple the number at last year's inaugural event - with all now making final preparations at the STP Palma yard, a co-organiser of Ibiza JoySail.

Though only in its second year the regatta has already been included in the international calendar of the SuperYacht Racing Association (SYRA), and made the list of Nautor Swan's recommended regattas.

First up for the fleet is the 70-mile offshore race from Palma to Ibiza -- Sabina Mollart Rogerson

Entry List - 2022

Team - Model - Shipyard
All Smoke - Sw-Rp90 - Southern Wind
Bella Ii - Y9 90 - Y Yachts
Bliss - YD 120 - Yachting Developments
Champagne Hippy - Oyster 825 - Oyster Yachts
Dark Horse - Swan 80 - Nautor Swan
Hyperion - Frers 155 - Royal Huisman
Makai - Y8 80 - Y Yachts
Miss Shell - Y7 70 - Y Yachts
Moat - Swan 115 - Nautor Swan
Patea - Warwick 95 - Aila Yachts
Sapma - Swan 80 - Nautor Swan
Windrose Of Amsterdam - Dykstra 152 - Holland Jachtbouw
Y Not - Y8 80 - Y Yachts

www.ibizajoysail.com

The Gstaad Yacht Club's Centenary Trophy is back
The 11th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy is scheduled for Thursday, 29th September, the day traditionally reserved for the "Defis", the challenges between boats at the Voiles de Saint Tropez.

Back in 2011 the Gstaad Yacht Club launched a regatta, unique in its genre, reserved to boats that are one hundred or more years old. Over the years, the Centenary Trophy has gathered some of the most gorgeous and best performing classic yachts from the past century.

After a most successful 10th anniversary edition in 2021, the event is coming back this year with the usual mix of aficionados and new entrants, so to speak, as more yachts turn centenarians.

Among the rookies the tiny Marconi Sloop Dainty (1922), the first of the Sunbeam one-design boats to be built at the shipyard Woodnutt & Co. on the Isle of Wight on a plan by Briton Alfred Wesmacott. Hence the sail number V1. The exact number of Sunbeams produced has never been established, but many still compete today and Dainty in particular has been racing in hundreds of regattas, often doing very well despite her being the smallest yacht of the fleet. Her beauty and performances were also celebrated in a book "The Brilliance of Sunbeams" by Peter Nicholson.

Another new entry in this year Centenary Trophy is WIKI, a Marconi ketch designed in Kiel in 1920 by renown German naval architect Harry Wustrau that has a pretty peculiar history, and ambitious plans for the future. She is one of the very few German wooden yachts of her age and tonnage that survived WW II and are still sailing.

gyccentenarytrophy.com

AC40 Is Tow Tested Behind Hydrogen Powered Chase Zero
The exciting new AC40 that will be used to pave the way for women and youth into the America's Cup has touched the water for the first time in Auckland today with Emirates Team New Zealand continuing its extensive commissioning process out of the shed and onto the water.

Christened by Emirates Team New Zealand designer Elise Beavis at the team's new base on Wynyard Point, the AC40 was launched and towed out to Auckland's upper harbour by 'Chase Zero' the teams hydrogen powered foiling chase boat. A spectacular sight of two revolutionary vessels both designed, built and now launched since the end of the 36th America's Cup.

The AC40 in its one design configuration will be raced using auto pilot flight control, but the commissioning requires a stepped process taking it from a manual foiling and flight control configuration before switching on the auto pilot as part of the controlled tow testing of sensors, foil trims and targets

Helming for the tow testing was Nathan Outteridge and Ray Davis on their respective port and starboard sides, with Nick Burridge and Sam Meech in the aero trimming seats to the aft.

www.emiratesteamnz.com

Thousand Islands Race
Tivat, Montenegro: The Slovenian yacht "Elaya" with her owner Dusan Usenicnik at the helm is the winner of first leg of 9th Thousand Islands Race sailed on a 278 nautical miles long course form Rijeka to Porto Montenegro marina in Tivat.

The first leg has brought all that best describes Thousand Islands Race as one of the most demanding regattas in Adriatic. It started with calm wind at the start in Rijeka. However, on the course among over thousand islands of Croatian part of Adriatic winds were as strong as 30 knots at times. That has led to retirement of three boats luckily without harm to any crew. Austrian 'Vento Cadela' had to retire due to damage to its forestay and returned to Rijeka in the first night. Secondly Austrian "Canopus" with crew of two retired after passing Losinj and thirdly the Austrian trimaran "Namaste" was after damaging one of its hulls sought help and found shelter in calm port of Grscica on the island Korcula.

The finish line in Tivat was firstly crossed by Croatian "Damaco" owned by Berislav Vranic after 49:23:03 racing hours. It was swiftly apparent that his lead under corrected time will be hard to keep because Elaya was close and crossed the line just 43 minutes later and took the lead under corrected time. It was also sufficient that no other boat can overtake her; Slovenian "Kapro" owned by Maks Vrecko finished more than two hours after Elaya, however, still enough to place him second under corrected time.

The last boat to cross the finish line was Austrian trimaran "Sayg I", only remaining multihull in the race deserving a recognition for its persistency and endurance in the difficult conditions.

The second leg of the Thousand Islands Race will start on Thursday 22 September from Tivat on the same course back to Rijeka where boats are expected to arrive form Saturday 24 September to Sunday 25 September.

www.scor.hr/regate/2022e/tir.htm

Another Classic Needs Saving
Click on image to enlarge.

KALUA 38 ft ketch built over five years at Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania during the Second World War and launched in 1944. Owner/builder Don McAllister - the brother-in-law of Jock Muir. Originally intended as a fishing boat based on a Norwegian double-ended design. Hull planking was Huon Pine.

Competed in the Second Sydney-Hobart in 1946 - with 90 year old navigator Tom Spalding. She was forced to retire due to a faulty compass. (There were 19 starters in that race - including the 8M DEFIANCE - eight vessels retired.)

Sailed to Sydney in 1948 and sold to John Tennant. Sold again the following year and sailed to Auckland, New Zealand in 1950. Later sailed to Hawaii and then was based in French Polynesia with current owner Juha Sironen.

He Writes - "I Have Owned Kalua Since 2007. I Sailed Her Extensively Around The Hawaiian Islands For Many Years And Finally To Tahiti In 2012. More Sailing Was Done Around The Society Islands.

After 3 years of negotiations to save KALUA from being destroyed by the authorities we came to an agreement and KALUA was fumigated just a couple of weeks ago and then released by Bio-Security. That cost another AU$10.000.

My original plans are not feasible anymore and I am tired. I have brought KALUA home and there she will stay. I will auction her as soon as I get import approval. I am currently waiting on response from a local Marine Surveyor in Cairns who will do a Valuation Survey for Australian Customs and then we will continue from there. I have hired an agent to do all necessary paperwork.

She has suffered for standing on the hard almost 3 years. And now must be auctioned unless someone wants to make me an offer.

Contact details, photos and more at Southern Woodenboat Sailing

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Contact
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Email:
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2006 Southern Wind 100 DS. 3950000 EUR. Located in Pisa, Italy.

Supremely elegant Farr designed composite deck saloon rocket ship from Southern Wind in S.Africa. Timeless Nauta designed innards and beautifully maintained since launch by her dedicated crew.

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The Last Word
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