In This Issue
• Endeavour Trophy
• Top Six in Battle for M32 World Title
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Capricorno claims IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge
• MF XXII wins 2022 5.5 Metre Herbstpreis on Thunersee
• Alinghi Red Bull Racing Win The TF35 Season
• SSL Gold Cup Finals postponed
• Is The Popularity Of Solo Classes Making Sailing Unpopular?
• Black Seal wins first ClubSwan 36 European Championship
• World on Water
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• • Melges IC37 - Fargo
• The Last Word: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Endeavour Trophy
Tom Morris (left) and Guy Fillmore receive the coveted solid silver Endeavour Trophy. Photo by Roger Mant. Click on image to enlarge.

Royal Corinthian YC, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex (9 October 2022): The 2022 Investec-sponsored Endeavour Trophy dinghy champion of champions that took place this weekend at Burnham-on-Crouch (7-9 October) was one of the most interesting on record with the overall winners not being decided until the final race.

So close were the points going into the final race that it was difficult to predict the outcome. Even Morris and Fillmore (RS800), who amassed a score of 1,6,8,4,2,1 were surprised to hear the overall result, particularly as they scored their worst result of the regatta, an 11th in the final race of the event after an incident on the start line.

Having taken the overnight lead yesterday, Morris and Fillmore were unable to match the downwind speed of 2021 Endeavour champions Luke Patience, and Faye Chatterton in today's first race and had to settle for second place. The tables turned in the second race of the day (race 6) however, and it was the overnight leaders - Morris and Fillmore - who read the tricky, shifty, south-easterly winds well, and made the best tactical decisions in the strong flowing Spring tide to take the top spot. This left the ever-threatening Patience and Chatterton in second, and second overall.

Back on shore after racing this afternoon, competitors and guests attended the Endeavour prizegiving, where the winners Morris and Fillmore were presented with the spectacular solid silver model, and the half model of the America's Cup J-Class yacht Endeavour.

Plans are already underway for next year's Investec-sponsored Endeavour Trophy, which is taking place on 6-8 October 2023. -- Sue Pelling

Overall Results (7 Races, 6 to count)
1st RS800 - Tom Morris and Guy Fillmore (22pts)
2nd Returning champion - Luke Patience and Faye Chatterton (26pts)
3rd GP14 - Ian Dobson and Emma Hivey (27pts)
4th 420 - Ollie Meadowcroft and Oscar Cawthorne (30pts)
5th Osprey - Matt Burge and Rob Henderson (31pts)
6th RS200 - Arran Holman and Hayden Sewell (33pts)
7th Merlin Rocket - Christian Birrell and Rachael Gray (36pts)
8th D Zero - Nick Craig and Toby Lewis (39pts)

royalcorinthian.co.uk/endeavour/

Top Six in Battle for M32 World Title
15 races completed in the M32 World Championship and the scoreboard is still incredibly tight. The top six boats are going for the Championship Trophy after a day three that had everything. Midtown with skipper Larry Phillips moved up to the top of the leaderboard

Looking at tomorrow, there's no doubt that Cascais is going to put on a show. The forecast is looking good, only 9 points separate the top 6 boats; in 3 days of racing there's been a different daily first place finisher, and 7 out of the 11 teams have won at least one race. After a maximum of four races tomorrow one team will be the World Champion.

M32World.com

Seahorse October 2022
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Super Series - Yes we can!
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Capricorno claims IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

At the end of a challenging week of maxi racing at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez when the wind never exceeded seven knots, conditions on the final day did at last prove too light and fickle to complete a race. While all four classes for the 46 boat fleet got under way, the wind vanished and at 1500 the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez's race committee, including the IMA's Arianne Mainemare, abandoned racing. Thus results from Friday stand.

In the Maxi 3 class, Alessandro Del Bono's ILC maxi Capricorno faced stiff competition this week from Terry Hui's usually unbeatable 77ft Lyra. All was going well until they were scored OCS in yesterday's race leaving them a point behind Lyra going into today. If the breeze had held today they appeared in good shape to recover their overall lead, but it didn't. Nonetheless the Italian team had done enough to secure them the bigger prize – the IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge for 2022, which had started back in early May at PalmaVela. Capricorno results came from the IMA Maxi European Championship in Sorrento, winning both the inshore racing prior to Rolex Giraglia and the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, before this week's second place. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

2022 IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge top five results:
1. Capricorno 52
2. Magic Carpet Cubed 48
3= Galateia 45
3= North Star 45
5 Jethou 41

Full results

www.lesvoilesdesaint-tropez.fr

www.internationalmaxiassociation.com

MF XXII wins 2022 5.5 Metre Herbstpreis on Thunersee
MF XXII (SUI 232, Jurg Menzi-Schmid, Jurgen Eiermann, Christof Wilke) has won the 2022 5.5 Metre Herbstpreis, at Thunersee Yachtclub, after just one more race was possible on Sunday. Forza Del Destino (SUI 211, George Prapopoulos, Simon Pfandler, Thomas Huber) won the only race and took second overall while Pungin (SUI 213, Hans-Peter Schmid, Gilbert Durr, Walter Durr) took third overall.

The end of the Herbstpreis marks the end of the European season for the class, but it has much to look forward to both next year and in the years after. The 2023 regatta calendar is being prepared now with the highlight being the Scandinavian Gold Cup and World Championship in Porto Cervo in Sardinia.

Final top five after two races
1. MF XXII (SUI 232, Jurg Menzi-Schmid, Jurgen Eiermann, Christof Wilke) 3
2. Forza Del Destino (SUI 211, George Prapopoulos, Simon Pfandler, Thomas Huber) 5
3. Pungin (SUI 213, Hans-Peter Schmid, Gilbert Durr, Walter Durr) 8
4. Black & White (SUI 219, Daniel Schenker, Mark Dangel, Felix Schneebeli) 8
5. Skylla IV (SUI 182, Andre Bernheim, Urs Werner, Alex Bernheim) 8

Full results

5.5class.org

Alinghi Red Bull Racing Win The TF35 Season
After yesterday's five-race spectacular, today, the TF35 2022 season sadly finished with no wind on the Gulf of Follonica in Scarlino, Italy.

Winner of the TF35 Trophy overall is Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing, whose victories at the Swiss events in Mies and at the Geneve-Rolle-Geneve, followed by a second place last month in Malcesine northern Italy gave them the points gap needed to win the 2022 season with an event to spare.

Closest rivals Realteam for Leman hope started their season with the goal to defend the TF35 Trophy title for a second year running.

Second-placed in Scarlino and third in the overall standings for the season are Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard's Spindrift. Their performance had been steadily improving in consistency as the young team settled in, and they finished this week in Scarlino with top-three results in every race apart from one.

TF35 Scarlino
(after nine races with one discard)
1. Realteam for Leman hope, 9
2. Spindrift, 15
3. Alinghi Red Bull Racing, 25
4. Team SAILFEVER, 29
5. ZEN Too, 39
6. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier, 39

TF35 2022 Overall Ranking
(after six events with one discard)
1. Alinghi Red Bull Racing, 6
2. Realteam for Leman hope, 7
3. Spindrift, 10
4. Team SAILFEVER, 14
5. ZEN Too, 19
6. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier, 21
7. Vitamina Sailing, 27

tf35.org

SSL Gold Cup Finals postponed
With deep regret, the SSL Gold Cup Finals, scheduled to be held in Bahrain from October 28th to November 20th, 2022, have been postponed.

The entire SSL Team, the Bahrain Maritime Sports Association (BMSA) and the Sailing Athletes Foundation (SAF) are naturally dismayed to have to make this decision with the event so close, but logistical and technical challenges, amplified by the current world environment, made it impossible to host the event in the manner which the event deserves.

Bringing together the incredible National Teams, made up of the most decorated sailors ever assembled at one event, remains the intention of the SSL Team and, despite this setback, the goal remains as strong as ever.

We share the disappointment of the sailors set to compete, as well as that of sailing enthusiasts worldwide and the wider sporting public who were looking forward to following the event.

The scope of the SSL Gold Cup Finals is unprecedented, and arrangements for the event moving forwards will be announced in due course, following discussion with the SSL teams.

www.starsailors.com

Is The Popularity Of Solo Classes Making Sailing Unpopular?
The Olympic authorities see the Laser as the floating equivalent of the pole-vaulter's vaulting pole, thereby making Laser sailors into proper individual athletes, and very worthy of Olympic inclusion.

But meanwhile, some in the upper echelons of Olympic decision-making see two-person boats as being group-operated machines, thereby precluding double sailors from serious consideration as true Olympic athletes unless it's with a boat that is a gymnastic challenge in itself. Step forward the 49er.

As for three-person boats….forget it. This would be all well and good were the Olympics in a self-contained bubble. But the reality is that it is the Olympic imprimatur which brings sailing more effectively to public attention than any other branch of the sport - and we don't exclude the America's Cup from that grouping.

Thus the glorification of solo dinghy sailing as the ultimate ideal of sailing sport has trickled through to become the accepted group-think in much of sailing, and there are indications that this tough-minded attitude - one thinks of the Spartans leaving newborn babies on the hillside overnight as a quick and convenient selection process to weed out the weak - is really off-putting for shy and mildly introverted kids.

W M Nixon's full editorial in Afloat magazine

Black Seal wins first ClubSwan 36 European Championship
The first ever ClubSwan 36 European Championship, organised with ACI Marina and YC Labud, was won by Richard Thompson's impressively consistent Black Seal team.

Racing in largely idyllic conditions off the historic Croatian port of Split, the Anglo-Italian crew – which included Black Seal team regulars Stefano Cherin and Jeremy Elliott – took the title without winning a race.

Instead a relentless focus on steady sailing, and avoiding racing penalties which handicapped a number of their competitors, saw the British-flagged one-design claim victory six points clear of Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's G Spot and Lorenzo Mondo's Farstar, both of whom had led the 12-strong fleet earlier in the event.

With the focus now turning to the Swan Croatia Challenge, hosts ACI are already thinking ahead.

"Split is one of the most attractive places in the Mediterranean with some of the most tactically challenging sailing in the most picturesque of surroundings.

"I'm delighted that so many teams accepted our invitation to the first edition of the ClubSwan 36 Europeans. It was a great combination of a fantastic party, excellent sailing, weather and breeze, and a fabulous atmosphere in the group here."

Final top five
1. Black Seal - Richard Thompson, GBR, 23.0√ 2. G Spot - Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio, MON, 29.0
3. Farstar - Lorenzo Mondo, ITA, 30.0
4. Goddess - Nikolai P. Burkart, GER, 34.0
5. Cuordileone - Edoardo Ferragamo // Nautor Swan, ITA, 35.0

Full results at Yachtscoring.com

"World on Water" October 07.22 Global Sailing Highlights: ETNZ Land Yacht, 52 Super Series, PWA World Cup
It has been a week like no other so far, in the wind powered land speed world record campaign, with Horonuku, finally reaching its destination at Lake Gairdner in South Australia. When Glenn Ashby said last week “Lets get ready to go” he meant it. The trigger was pulled, and the wheels were in motion literally.

Emirates Team New Zealand’s land yacht ‘Horonuku’, has had its first day of sailing on Lake Gairdner in South Australia, with pilot Glenn Ashby behind the wheel ,in his bid to eclipse the 2009 wind-powered world record speed of 202.9 kilometres per hour.

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