In This Issue
• Capricorno fights back at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
• Portopiccolo Maxi Race
• Yacht Racing Forum, the must attend event
• TF35 return to Marina di Scarlino
• 44Cup Portoroz World Championship
• Harry Price & 'The Rag'
• Superyachts set for a thrilling 2023 in Antigua
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: SW 82 'Ammonite'
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Reichel/Pugh 45 - 'Pterodactyl'
• • Persico Fly 40
• • Cat Attack - Reynolds Turbo 33
• The Last Word: Albert Einstein

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Capricorno fights back at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
Once again, the race committee of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez showed the patience of Job as they and the 46 maxi yachts competing waited for the wind to defy the forecast and fill in on the Golfe de Saint-Tropez. Finally a light easterly from 070° arrived and, after almost an hour and a half's wait, racing got under way for the maxi fleet's four classes, ranging in size from the Swedish-owned Swan 115 Yasi to 60 footers from manufacturers such as CNB, Nautor's Swan and Mylius.

Week two of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, run by the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez with assistance from the International Maxi Association (IMA), is the final event of the IMA's 2022 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge. Leader going into this event was Alessandro Del Bono's Capricorno. The 27-year-old ILC maxi further asserted her position in this today by winning the Maxi 3 class ahead of Terry Hui's Wally 77 Lyra, a past winner here.

Showing that their win yesterday wasn't an aberration, Walter Pizzoli's Swan 601 Les Amis was fourth today, leaving her just one point behind Capricorno and Lyra, which are tied on points at the top overall.

The most star-studded class is Maxi 2, in which there is a unique fight between the 'hot 100s' - such as the trio of Wallycentos, Leopard 3 and Claus-Peter Offen's Y3K (plus the highest rated in the class, George David's Rambler 88) - and the grand prix racer former Maxi 72s - Cannonball, Jethou and North Star. Yesterday owner Dario Ferrari, afterguard Michele Ivaldi and Vasco Vascotto and the crew of the 75ft Cannonball gave the fleet a light wind racing masterclass. Today, in a fraction more pressure, the winner was Peter Dubens' Judel/Vrolijk 72 North Star. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

Full results

www.lesvoilesdesaint-tropez.fr

www.internationalmaxiassociation.com

Portopiccolo Maxi Race
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

Maximum performance, spectacle, and uncompromising sailing, all in a "maxi" format. These are the watchwords when the largest and fastest racing boats on the sailing scene challenge each other. The highly anticipated Portopiccolo Maxi Race is back with the strongest Italian, Slovenian and Croatian sailing teams on 3 and 4 October.

Two days of pure sailing, in which competition, glamor and fun come together in a unique event capable of making Portopiccolo and the passion of all lovers of our sport pulsate. The event will take place in the Gulf of Trieste with stick or triangle trials and coastal trials – Bernetti Trophy. The boats will be divided into classes as per the notice of race.

Barcolana Maxi - Trofeo Portopiccolo is an event created within the event as part of Trieste's Barcolana. It will be organised by Societa Velica di Barcola e Grignano and Yacht Club Portopiccolo under the aegis of Federazione Italiana Vela. The event is dedicated to boats more than 16 metres long and will feature a series of high-level regattas in a glamorous and unique location.

Notice of Race

www.barcolana.it

Yacht Racing Forum, the must attend event
The sports leading personalities from all over the world will gather in Malta on November 21-22 for two days of conferences, debates, networking and business.

The event will cover mainstream racing as well as the top end of the sport, design & technology, business & marketing.

Registration is open : www.yachtracingforum.com

TF35 return to Marina di Scarlino
The Yacht Club Isole di Toscana returns to the forefront of international sailing by hosting the TF35 class for the second consecutive year, to affirm once again how the Gulf of Follonica and the Marina di Scarlino facilities are among the most popular destinations of the major One Design classes in the world.

From 6 to 9 October, the TF35 acrobatic catamarans return to salt water, boats with extreme performance that will battle in the waters of the gulf for the final event of their second circuit.

Six 35-foot catamarans will compete for the TF35 SCARLINO 2022. At the moment, the leadership of the circuit belongs to the Swiss Alinghi Red Bull Racing pressed by just two points from his compatriot Realteam for Léman hope.

There will br 4/6 very fast regattas per day, lasting 20/30 minutes.

The event is organized by the Yacht Club Isole di Toscana, with the support of Comune di Scarlino and the synergic collaboration of Marina di Scarlino, Scarlino Yacht Service and Marina di Scarlino Resort.

www.yachtclubisoleditoscana.com/it/

44Cup Portoroz World Championship
The 44Cup Portoroz World Championship, taking place in Slovenia next week over 12-16 October represents the 'big one' of the year; the world champion's trophy the one that all eight owner-drivers would like to be admiring on their mantlepiece this winter.

Going into the Slovenian stopover, the fourth and penultimate event of the 2022 44Cup, the local heroes on Igor Lah's Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 hold a commanding five point lead in the season's championship leaderboard. Showing their usual impeccable consistency, the team on which British ace Adrian Stead calls tactics, has posted a 2-1-1 scoreline so far in Puerto Calero, Cascais and Marstrand. However on a roll since their dire 8th place finish at the start of the season in Lanzarote is Nico Poons' Charisma. The Dutchman's team, led by Kiwi tactician Hamish Pepper, has finally bucked their 'zero to hero' trend of the last seasons and won both the last two events back-to-back, the first in Cascais by a massive 12 points.

When the 44Cup was last in Portoroz at the beginning of 2021, Team Aqua finished third behind CEEREF and Team Nika. Bake would clearly like to make it the 44Cup's first ever World Championship hat-trick but warns that "Portoroz is a difficult venue. We prefer windier venues like Marstrand or Cascais. But perhaps in October we could get wind there."

The only other occasion the RC44 World Championship was held on the Adriatic was at the Adris 44 Worlds in Rovinj, Croatia, some 30 miles to the south of Portoroz in 2012. On that occasion it was won by John Bassadone's Peninsula Racing.

Racing starts at 1200 Thursday, 13 October and runs until Sunday, with up to three races scheduled each day.

www.44cup.org

Harry Price & 'The Rag' - A winning 18 footer combination
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One of the highlights of the Australian 18 Footers League's 2021-22 season was the performance of the talented rookie Rag & Famish Hotel team of Harry Price, Josh McKnight and Harry Hall against the world's best and most experienced teams in the 18s.

Now, the team is about to take the next step towards its aim at becoming world #1 in 2022-23 with the acquisition of a brand new Van Munster hull for the League's upcoming season, which begins on October 16, with the annual Spring Championship.

There was never any doubt about the team's ability to adapt to the extremely difficult boats, but to achieve the success it did, throughout a tough season of predominantly strong southerly winds during 2021-22, was outstanding and certainly marked it down as a potential Giltinan World champion outfit.

The team's third place in the 2022 Giltinan World Championship on Sydney Harbour in March showed the level of it's ability, however it only re-enforced the knowledge of followers who had seen what happened earlier in the season when a severe storm hit Sydney during a race in the NSW Championship.

When the storm hit on the afternoon of Sunday, December 19, causing major damage right across the city, it whipped up strong WNW winds which produced extreme conditions for the teams competing mid-way through the League's championship race.

The young Rag & Famish Hotel team was one of only a few which survived (without a capsize) when a 30+ knot squall battered the race course as the fleet was racing downwind on the long spinnaker run from Kurraba Point on the northern side of the harbour to the bottom mark in Rose Bay on the south. -- Frank Quealey, 18 Footers League, www.18footers.com

Full story here

Superyachts set for a thrilling 2023 in Antigua
An exciting superyacht racing season is set for the Antigua in 2023 with a fantastic programme of racing including the 12th edition of the Superyacht Challenge Antigua and the inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 Series.

The 12th edition of the Superyacht Challenge Antigua is set for 6-12 March 2023. The regatta has one clear objective; to provide all the facilities to stage an ideal event for an exclusive selection of superyachts, where fair racing and good companionship are valued above all else. Designed to be solely for the pleasure of superyacht owners, their guests and crew, the magnificent fleet takes part in five days of spectacular racing. Together with laid back social events, the regatta is a wonderful celebration of sailing and parties. Yachts are requested to apply no later than 1 December 2022 with the entry fee due by 1 January 2023.

Before the 2023 Superyacht Challenge Antigua, The Royal Ocean Racing Club has announced the inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 Series which will be based in Antigua 14-24 February 2023. This new event will include long inshore day races in the waters around Antigua before the 600-mile offshore. The Superyacht Challenge Antigua believes this is a fantastic opportunity for superyachts to enjoy spectacular racing and would point out that yachts can enter just the day races. For more information on the RORC Caribbean 600 Series: http://www.rorc.org/news/news-2011/news-2022/announcing-the-rorc-caribbean-600-series

There was excellent news from the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, which updated travel advisory at the end of August 2022. The Government has officially lifted all travel restrictions for air and sea passengers, to facilitate the smooth movement of passengers to and from Antigua.

The Notice of Race for the 2023 Superyacht Challenge Antigua is available at www.superyachtchallengeantigua.com

Industry News
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committees, it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in INNOV'SAIL 2023, the sixth conference in the series, to be held in Lorient, France, 29-31 May 2023.

The conference venue is the Cite de la Voile Eric Tabarly, in the heart of the Bretagne Sailing Valley®, home of many high-technology yachting and competitive sailing industries as well as racing teams.

Over 3 days, the conference will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest scientific and technological research and its application in the complex field of sailing. The applications may be either yacht racing or wind-assisted ships.

Papers are invited on the following topics to be covered by the conference (list not exhaustive). Note that the topics apply to yacht racing as well as wind-assisted ships:

- Aerodynamics
- Design of sails, masts, rigging, wings, other wind propulsion systems
- Hydrodynamics
- Design of hulls, appendages, foils
- Structural analysis and materials
- Fluid structure interaction
- Computational methods and model validation
- New experimental results and techniques
- Towing tank, wind tunnel and full-scale measurements
- Performance enhancement in general
- Performance prediction
- Weather routing, fuel savings
- Racing tactics and strategy, micro-meteorology and sites investigation
- Optimization, data science, artificial intelligence for sailing and wind propulsion
- Data analysis and integration with sailing and routing strategies

Abstracts of no more than 400 words and 2 pages should be sent to by 17 October 2022. Notification of acceptance will be given by 10 December 2022. Full papers of accepted abstracts will be due by 20 February 2023.

www.bdi.fr/en/landing/innovsail-2023-6th-edition/

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The finalists of the 2022 Australian Sailing Awards have been announced, with clubs, volunteers and Australian Sailing Team stars all in the running for recognition at the nation's peak sailing awards.

In the Male and Female Sailor of the Year categories, finalists include world champions, Olympic gold medalists and Kiel Week champions.

Reigning ILCA 7 Olympic champion, Matt Wearn OAM, is a finalist in the Male Sailor of the Year category having placed second at the Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta in Palma in April. Tom Slingsby OAM has also been recognised as a finalist, with significant international wins across three classes during the awards season. 2021 Hansa 303 Doubles World Champion Chris Symonds rounds out the category, and has been recognised for his significant achievements by being named as a finalist for both Male Sailor of the Year and Para Sailor of the Year categories.

Having previously won Female Sailor of the Year in 2012, Nina Curtis is no stranger to the Australian Sailing Awards. She has been recognised once again as a finalist in the category for her winning results at multiple SailGP events during the season. Zoe Thomson is the second of the finalists, having placed first in the ILCA 6 class at Sail Melbourne in January and finishing sixth at Kiel Week. Mara Stransky is the third finalist included in the Female Sailor of the Year category, with a current world ranking of three and the 2022 Kiel Week trophy under her belt.

The winners of each of the categories will be announced at the National Sailing Awards on Friday November 4 at the stunning Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.

Full list of finalists

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73,000 VIsitors at the Grand Pavois La Rochelle 2022

Although this 2022 event came to a close with a beautiful sunny afternoon, it has to be said that the weather was not all that great for this 2022 edition. Visitor numbers followed the weather patterns and 73,000 visitors were present on the pontoons and visited the alleys of the international in-water boat show, namely a 10% decrease in relation to the previous edition in 2021.

A slight decrease in the number of visitors, but high-quality visitors who were interested in the 800 international brands present, 750 boats on show, and approximately 110 new boats and products. Following this much-awaited edition, the Grand Pavois La Rochelle confirms that it is a show for business, a show for new products, an event that reflects future trends in water sports, and a reference show for French and European water sports fans.

ww.grand-pavois.com

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Helly Hansen is proud to announce its continued partnership with New York Yacht Club American Magic, the US Challenger for the 37th America's Cup. Building on their experience from the previous campaign, the Norwegian-based brand and the world-class sailing team are again joining forces, determined to bring sailing's most coveted prize back home to the United States.

American Magic spent the summer building the team's base in the Port of Pensacola, FL, where sailing conditions in Pensacola Bay are perfect for developing the AC75, before commencing the team's third winter of training on the Gulf Coast. The team will spend all winter in Pensacola before relocating to Barcelona for the final push into the 37th America's Cup campaign in 2024. The 37th America's Cup will take place in Barcelona, Spain, in September and October 2024.

To stay updated on the partnership between Helly Hansen and New York Yacht Club American Magic, visit hellyhansen.com and americanmagic.americascup.com.

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Sailing holidays have become increasingly popular among in recent years, with a new record set this summer.

Bookings for boat holidays are up 25 per cent this summer in the UK compared to last year, according to figures released by boat holiday platform Zizoo. The platform confirms that "most ships are already booked out" for September and October 2022.

The pandemic caused a shift in behaviour that spurred growth in the boat rental market over the last two years, as people sought out socially distanced alternatives to traditional holidays. Statistics from Future Market Insights indicate the global market will this year grow to over US$17 billion, far exceeding the cruise ship market, which is worth US$7.25 billion.

But the trend has caught on, and shows no signs of slowing down post-pandemic. By 2031, the yacht charter market is expected to exceed US$28 billion at a CAGR of 5.3 per cent, with Europe taking the lion's share at 31.9 per cent.

Rising fuel costs mean that some charter holiday expenses now cost as much as the charter itself, according to competing boat charter platform Borrow a Boat. Despite this, demand remains strong, with Borrow a Boat CEO Matt Ovenden recently predicting the firm's revenue will double in 2023.

Meanwhile, bespoke yacht charter broker Helm - part of the Borrow a Boat Group - reports a 975 per cent increase in bookings from the US in 2022, and says it expects the trend to continue in 2023.

marineindustrynews.co.uk

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2006 Reichel/Pugh 45 - 'Pterodactyl'. 375000 USD. Located in Newport, RI - USA.

The evergreen Reichel/Pugh 45 is a very good all round option for inshore, coastal and offshore racing. Pterodactyl has had numerous updates in recent times and is still very competitive, having recently won the prestigious Vineyard race in the USA overall.

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Persico Fly 40. POA EUR.

The future of owner-racer racing is here: Persico Marine has transferred its America's Cup experience to a 12-metre foiler designed for a 5-person crew.

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Via Lombardia, 4
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2006 Reynolds Turbo 33 - "Cat Attack". 40,000 or best offer EUR. Located in Oslo, Norway.

Do you like speed? Are Line honours for you?

Cat Attack, a Reynolds Turbo 33 catamaran designed by Randy Reynolds and built by Morelli & Melvin is for sale and will give you all that in addition to four bunks, a small galley, toilet and a custom road trailer for transport and storage.

Cat Attack is a fast boat with at rating equivalent to 1.563 in the NOR system. Cat Attack finished the 2018 Færder race in 15 hours beaten by boats like TP 52s and Club Swan 50 but ahead of boats like "Rå Glede", an HH42 and "Yani", a Marten 49.

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