EuroSail News #5177 - 27 September
In This Issue
• Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards
• Iain Murray and Richard Slater in key roles for the AC
• Royal Thames J/80s
• America's Cup history maker John Bertrand
• 52 Super Series Scarlino
• Clarion call for RORC Transatlantic Race
• SailGP - What happened in Cadiz
• Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
• Route Du Rhum: The Full Organisation Is In Place
• Groupe Atlantic Wins Persico 69F Cup In Malcesine
• Featured Charter: White Star of RORC - 25m Custom Sailing Yacht
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• The Last Word: Lou Gehrig
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Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards
The shortlist of sailors or crews, including world champions, Olympic medallists and world record holders, represent the wide range of disciplines in the sport of sailing and will be voted on by World Sailing Member National Authorities (MNAs), the international sailing community, fans and the public to decide a male winner and a female winner.
Voting for the awards will open on Tuesday, 27 September, alongside voting for the World Sailing 11th Hour Sustainability Awards.
The Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards are recognised as the highest award a sailor can receive in recognition of their outstanding achievements by the world of sailing. This year's awards will be presented during the World Sailing Awards on Tuesday, 25 October in Abu Dhabi.
The winners will have their name engraved on the iconic marble and silver trophy depicting the globe and crowned with five silver spinnakers representing the continents, as well as a custom Rolex timepiece to mark the occasion.
The 2022 Rolex World Sailor of the Year finalists are:
Female category
Helene Noesmoen (FRA)
Odile Van Aanholt & Annette Duetz (NED)
Caterina Marianna Banti (ITA)
Male category
Ruggero Tita (ITA)
Jean-Baptiste Bernaz (FRA)
Nicolas Goyard (FRA)
Bart Lambriex & Floris van der Werken (NED)
Iain Murray and Richard Slater in key roles for the AC
In a double announcement by America's Cup Events Limited (ACE) it is confirmed today that Iain Murray has been appointed as Independent Regatta Director for the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona alongside Richard Slater who continues in the role as Chief Umpire, positions they both occupied for the 36th America's Cup in Auckland.
Murray's role will see him take charge of all aspects on the water of the 37th America's Cup and all AC World Series Events in the lead up to the regatta's start in September 2024. Richard Slater, one of the architects of many of the rules governing high-performance foiling, will be a key figure making the sporting calls in real-time and co-ordinating the Umpire Team and International Jury. The role also requires Richard to continue the development of the America's Cup edition of the Racing Rules of Sailing, including the World Sailing approval processes
Now in his fourth America's Cup as Regatta Director, Iain Murray's career in the Cup stretches all the way back to 1983 where he joined the crew of the 12 Metre Advance before skippering the 1987 Australian 'Task Force' defence syndicate.
Richard Slater's involvement with the America's Cup goes back to the Young Australia syndicate of 1999 where he acted as Rules Advisor to the team that included a young Jimmy Spithill on the helm.
Royal Thames J/80s
RTYC are in process of replacing their fleet of 9 matched J/80s with a new fleet of 12 Sonars.
The J/80s are matched and well maintained as a fleet but are not in class as they are primarily used for team/match racing and therefore adapted with furling jibs and symmetric spinnakers.
They each have 4 wheel road trailers and an extensive inventory of sails – North mains, jibs and symmetric spinnakers. As they have been used for top level events the sails have been graded Gold, Silver and Bronze and there is a full set of each with Gold being in first class condition used only a few times a year.
There is also an extensive inventory of spares ranging from a brand new rudder and tiller, spare winches, masts and furlers etc etc.
The fleet is available immediately for sale and expressions of interest are invited either for the whole fleet or a lesser set of boats.
America's Cup history maker John Bertrand
The fourth Series of Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast starts in emphatic fashion as double Olympic gold medallist Robertson sits down with the skipper of the America's Cup's first ever successful Challenger, Australian John Bertrand. It was exactly thirty nine years ago that Bertrand, skippering "Australia II" in Newport, crossed the finish line ahead of Dennis Connor's Defending "Liberty", to end the New York Yacht Club's one hundred and thirty two year winning streak. For the sport of sailing, it provoked a seismic shift in international competition, for the then thirty six year old Bertrand, competing in his fourth Cup, it was totally life changing.
"It was Everest, it was the four minute mile. No one had ever got through that invisible barrier, the Everest of not only sailing, but of sport. The America's Cup started before the American Civil War, it's remarkable...it was the Everest of sport that was there and was the fascination to many many entrepreneurs, including us Australians."
Robertson and Bertrand begin their chat with talk of destiny as Bertrand discusses how his great grandfather, who was an engineer in Southampton, was involved in the building of two of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock America's Cup yachts. The easy flowing conversation takes in Bertrand's Olympic campaigning, the pair share the unenviable position of both having finished an Olympic campaign in fourth place, before chat inevitably turns to the America's Cup campaign of 1983.
52 Super Series Scarlino
Two practice races in light breezes on the beautiful Gulf of Follonica out of Tuscany's Marina di Scarlino served as the final warm-up for what promises to be a brisk opening Tuesday to the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino, the fourth regatta of the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season.
Today's two one-lap practice contests marked the return to the fleet of charismatic, successful Italian Vasco Vascotto. More normally associated with the emblematic blue of the Italian Azzurra programme, with which he won the 52 SUPER SERIES three times as tactician, in 2012 - the inaugural year of the 52 SUPER SERIES circuit, in 2015 and 2017, Vascotto - now wearing the white shirt of Platoon - did not take long today to find his feet in his new role as tactician on Harm Müller-Spreer's Platoon.
Tuesday's first races are expected to see breezes over 20kts which will straight away put a premium on boat handling, especially since there has been a two month summer break since the 52 SUPER SERIES last raced on the Bay of Palma.
Clarion call for RORC Transatlantic Race
The ninth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, supported by Calero Marinas and the International Maxi Association is scheduled to start from Marina Lanzarote, Canary Islands on Sunday 8th of January 2023.
Racing across the Atlantic is a phenomenal experience and a huge variety of boats and sailors have already registered for the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 2,995nm offshore race. Held annually in association with the International Maxi Association (IMA) and the Yacht Club de France, entry is open to boats racing under IRC, Class40, Classic Yachts, Superyacht and MOCRA rating systems. Early entries and expressions of interest for the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race include teams from at least seven different countries, including; Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and the United States.
The largest yacht currently entered in the 2023 edition is the magnificent French Wally 107 Spirit Of Malouen X, sailed by Stephane Neve. The overall winner under IRC will win the RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy and past winners include four Maxi Yachts: RP78 Lupa of London, Finot 100 Nomad IV, Marten 72 Aragon and the VPLP/Verdier 100 Comanche. The first monohull to cross the line in Grenada is also awarded the magnificent IMA Transatlantic Trophy.
The RORC Transatlantic Race is part of the RORC Caribbean Series where IRC rated boat with the best combined score in both the 2023 Transatlantic Race and 2023 RORC Caribbean 600 claims the series trophy. -- Louay Habib / RORC
SailGP - What happened in Cadiz
The midway event of SailGP Season 3 is one that none of the nine teams will forget in a hurry. As the complicated sea state unsettled crews on the water, the season's scoreboard was being shaken and stirred too.
The second day in Cadiz proved why many are starting to say that SailGP Season 3 is the toughest yet where the rate that the competition is increasing is matched by the speed that the overall leaderboard is changing as the racing gets closer, more intense and less predictable than ever before. Matt Sheahan reports on Day 2 from the heart of the action in Cadiz on how the last event of the European leg was won.
Day two below:
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
A moderate W'ly wind of 15 knots, increasing to 25 knots with gusts of 30, generous sunshine and a lovely swell fringed with foam. Saint Tropez served up its much-fantasized conditions today for the 132 Modern yachts and their thrilled crews in this sporty opener to the 24th Voiles de Saint-Tropez. As such, Cavalaire witnessed a procession of boats in tip-top condition from IRC Groups B to F setting a blistering pace, the race favourites already settled nicely into position at the head of the fleet. The bunched arrivals off Le Portalet, with all their spinnakers flying, were the absolute embodiment of racing at its finest on this opening day of competition.
With the W'ly wind building, Race Management was in no doubt that the 132 Modern yachts should be sent due West, towards L'Escalet and Cavalaire, to reap the benefits of the powerful downwind conditions synonymous with speed and spectacle on their homeward leg, their spinnakers and large gennakers a rainbow of colours. The seas remained gentle and perfectly manageable, which was particularly appreciated by the smallest craft. As they made landfall at Cavalaire with its swirling winds, it proved to be one of the most boisterous episodes of the day for the crews, who promptly set to work on a series of manoeuvres and sail hoists to get round the mark before dropping down the gulf under spinnaker. Among the IRC Bs competing for the North Sails Trophy, Clive Llewellyn's Grand Soleil 50 Mad IV, a familiar face on the podium in Saint Tropez, was evenly matched against rival Ada Cuciac's formidable First 53 Yagiza. Among the honed IRC Cs vying for the BMW Trophy, Frédéric Puzin's Ker46 Daguet3 was already at an advantage ahead of Hanno Ziehm's Marten 49 Moana in elapsed time.
Discover all the results online in elapsed time on Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez's website.
Route Du Rhum: The Full Organisation Is In Place
The record field of 138 skippers who will take on the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe were presented at the official press conference which took place on Wednesday in Paris. And so it proved a good opportunity for Tip & Shaft to take look at the organisation of what after all is the biggest solo ocean race in the world.
Four years after the 11th edition, which mustered 123 skippers, there will be 138 solo racers setting off on Sunday November 6 from Saint-Malo. That is, of course, provided they all complete their qualification courses (as in a 1,200 mile solo course or a 500 miles solo race complemented by a passage to accumulate 1,400 miles). Everything seems to be on the right track according to the new race director, Francis Le Goff: "Today, we are at 80% qualified, the deadline is October 6, there will be no exemptions. We might postpone qualification of replacement skippers by two weeks [for teams wishing to register one, editor's note]."
Le Goff is confident we will see all 138 registered entrants start on the day.
If skippers don't manage to be up to date with all their formalities by October 6, they will open the doors to those on a waiting list which is now reduced to just three skippers. "In Class40 there is only Anatole Facon, in Imoca, there were two, but Denis Van Weynbergh recently pulled out, Szabi Weroes remains, and in the Rhum Multi, there is young Thomas Lurton", confirms Goff.
Groupe Atlantic Wins Persico 69F Cup In Malcesine
Lake Garda delivered great conditions this past week for the Persico 69F Cup, GP3 of the 2022 Season. 12 amazing races were finished by the nine teams competing with the winner to be crowned only after the last race, worth double points. The French Groupe Atlantic with Valentin Sipan, Clement Cron and Louis Chambet, won gold, with a thin 2-point margin over the second, Katana Sailing Team (SUI) and 2.5 over the third and fourth, tied on points, respectively FIN1Racing (FIN) and CER Mirabaud - Ville de Geneve (SUI).
Next Persico 69F Cup will move to Spain, in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, with two back-to-back events: GP4.1 from October 18th to the 23rd and GP4.2 from October 24th to the 29th.
In the meantime in USA the first of three 69F US Select Series will take place in Newport, RI, from September 30th to October 3rd, and it will see four American Magic teams among its entries. The America's Cup challenger will use the Series as a preliminary selection of their Under 25 crew to attend the Youth America's Cup in Valencia in 2024.
Persico 69F Cup GP3 Malcesine Final Ranking
208 pts - Groupe Atlantic
206 pts - Katana Sailing Team
205.5 pts - Fin1Racing
205.5 pts - CER Mirabaud - Ville de Geneve
183 pts - Team ID Voile
169 pts - Xela Racing
162.5 pts - SDS Racing
153 pts - Team Solano
128.5 pts - Parmigiano
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