In This Issue
• J/70 Worlds at Yacht Club Monaco
• First Up Victory For Shaw & Partners
• What Is The Best Yacht Racing Image Of The Year?
• WingFoil pioneers ready to race on Lake Garda
• ORC Worlds 2023 on course for a record?
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Project Landspeed: A Creep Of Frustration
• How do you get power when sailing around the world?
• Lost 'whaleback' steamship discovered after 120 years
• Featured Charter: SW 72 Far Wind
• Featured Brokerage:
• • International 8 Metre - MIRABELLE
• • RM 970
• • Arcona 385
• The Last Word: Jane Goodall

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J/70 Worlds at Yacht Club Monaco
Some 400 sailors, 90 teams, 23 nations and as many promises of results are on the menu for the J/70 World Championship organised by Yacht Club de Monaco in partnership with the Monegasque Sailing Federation, FxPro, Sebago and technical sports clothing brand Slam which is supplying garments for all crew members on the podium. After what was a first glimpse of the race area for some during a warm-up race this afternoon, sailors opened the World Championship in style at the Opening Ceremony.

It was a warm-up race in name only as competitors pulled out all the stops to showcase the full potential and talent of an exceptionally compact fleet. In a 4-7 knot breeze, 90 teams tested out a race zone set to be the scene of extraordinary confrontations over the next five days. And the least we can say is that from the start the Monegasques showed they know the ins and outs of a tricky setting as evidenced by Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio (G-Spot) who won this first contest, a race in which YCM Vice-President Pierre Casiraghi and his team came 4th.

The results may not count but are proof of the determination and desire to win of many of the locals as they prepare to face top level international teams.

It all kicks off tomorrow from 11.00am when the first warning signal is fired.

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First Up Victory For Shaw & Partners
Shaw and Partners during the 2020-21 Australian Championship. Click on image for photo gallery.

The Shaw & Partners Financial Services 18ft skiff team of Jim Colley, Tom Quigley and Charlie Wyatt were sailing together for the first time but showed their class to come from behind and grab a narrow win in last Sunday's Race 1 of the Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour.

Jim Colley previously skippered an 18 for Shaw & Partners when he contested the 2020-21 season with Shaun Connor and Harry Bethwaite and led the team to finish third in the 2021 JJ Giltinan World Championship behind Michael Coxon's Smeg and John Winning Jr's Yandoo Winning Group.

Colley returned to the 49ers last season as part of his long-term plan in that class but took the opportunity to have another season in the 18s in 2022-23.

Bowman Tom Quigley, the son of 1996 JJ Giltinan World champion Stephen Quigley, sailed five full seasons in the 18s, before missing most of the 2021-22 season due to studies, and the third member of last Sunday's team, sheet hand Charlie Wyatt, was an invaluable asset because of his knowledge of the former Tech2 skiff.

After trailing John Winning's Yandoo and Marcus Ashley-Jones' Lazarus for most of the Easterly course, Shaw & Partners took advantage of the 3-buoys handicapping system to grab the lead at the final top mark and defeat Lazarus by just 7s from Lazarus.

Colley was full of praise for Charlie Wyatt, who was a member of Jack Macartney's twice Australian champion Tech2 team over the past three seasons. "The boat was already well put together and it was a bonus for us to have Charlie on board to talk us through the set up."

The 7-race Spring Championship has a cumulative, NO DROP point score system, with the 2022-23 champion not being determined until after Race 7 on Sunday, November 20. -- Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

www.18footers.com

What Is The Best Yacht Racing Image Of The Year?
The Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award is in full swing. No less than 150 yacht racing photographers representing 29 countries have submitted an image for this year's photo contest dedicated to competitive sailing. The top 20 images selected by the international Jury will be exhibited at World Sailing's annual conference in Abu Dhabi and at the Yacht Racing Forum in Malta.

Votes for the Public Award are open until November 15. The winners will be celebrated in front of the sports' personalities from all over the world at the Yacht Racing Forum in Malta on November 21.

Vote for your favourite pictures: www.yachtracingimage.com

WingFoil pioneers ready to race on Lake Garda
The 2022 Sabfoil Wingfoil Racing World Cup & Open European Championships has attracted 52 pioneering riders to the western shore of Lake Garda in the north of Italy. Wingfoiling has exploded as a new recreational sport across the world, and increasingly some competitive-minded riders are looking to raise it to the next level and put their high-speed skills to test on a race course.

Over the next four days, from 19 to 22 October, the riders will compete in a variety of long-distance and short-course formats to see who emerges as the men's and women's champions of the Sabfoil Wingfoil World Cup. The event is hosted by Campione Univela on the western shore of Lake Garda.

In just a few years, Campione Univela has established itself as one of the go-to training and racing venues for all types of wind-powered high-performance machines. Wingfoil racing is one of the newest and least developed forms of hydrofoiling sport, and there is a feeling this week of being at the cutting edge of a new wave of a sport that is moving rapidly from being purely a fun beach pasttime to a seriously fun form of high-performance competition.

The experience in the fleet varies enormously, from the likes of 18-year-old Margherita Barro (ITA) who only stepped on to a wingfoil board three months ago to early adopters such as 45-year-old Gunnar Biniasch (GER) who has been a keen winger pretty much since the sport began.

Racing begins on Wednesday morning with up to three long distance races on the schedule, with a target time of 30 minutes for the first to finish. On Thursday the short-course competition begins in qualifying groups, culminating with gold fleet racing on the final day this weekend.

www.campioneunivela.it

ORC Worlds 2023 on course for a record?
The Offshore (ORC) World Championship (August 4 - 12, 2023) is on record course. At the end of the pre-registration, 128 yachts from 16 nations were entered in the list of participants, with some strong candidates from Estonia still missing, who dominated Group C at the World Championship two years ago in Tallinn and the European Championship this year in Hankö (Norway). But already now the second ORC World Championship in Kiel has the chance to set new records for participants. 151 offshore yachts from 15 nations competed in the 2014 World Championship in Kiel. This mark is unrivaled until now - perhaps only until August 2023.

In addition to the large German fleet, the Scandinavian countries Sweden (9), Denmark (8), Finland, Lithuania and Norway (6 each) provide the largest contingents, as expected. While at the World Championships on the Mediterranean Sea mainly Mediterranean countries were at the start, the majority in 2023 comes as expected from the Baltic Sea. Following the cancellation of the 2020 Offshore World Championships in the US, the venue for the World Championships will now alternate annually between the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. The 2021 World Championship in Tallinn (Estonia) with 104 participants from twelve nations and the 2022 World Championship at the Italian club Costa Smeralda (Sardinia) with 69 starters from 14 nations will now again be followed by the Baltic Sea with Kiel as the venue.

In 2014, 70 German yachts were at the start here, and 60 are currently registered for 2023. The fast pre-registration success was probably also helped by a lure, because one of the pre-registered yachts gets the entry fee waived.

The infrastructure in the Olympic Sailing Centre Kiel-Schilksee with cranes, shared berths and parking spaces for the trailers, the race office with rooms for jury, race committee and organization, sailing in front of the spectators, a modern media center and areas for large event tents are powerful arguments for the state capital.

Framed by an opening ceremony and the award ceremony, two days of registration and measurement are planned, as well as seven days of racing.

As of today, the largest fleet is once again provided by the X-Yachts shipyard with, among others, the X-41 (6 yachts), X-35 (5) and X-332 (5). The Italia 9.98 fleet is also strongly represented with five boats. -- Hermann Hell

www.orcworlds2023.com

Seahorse November 2022
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Fundamental changes
Where have all the big boats gone? Rob Weiland

Circus minimus - Part I
With others like Buddy Melges, Olaf and Peter Harken, Pete Barrett and the Gougeon brothers, Bill Mattison was one of the towering figures at the heart of US iceboat racing. And that was just the start of it... Carol Cronin

Building a boat
Last winter Gavin TappendeN built his first 5.5 Metre. Nine months later it is the 2022 World Champion

Kings of the hill - Part I
Sparkman & Stephens, Madison Avenue New York, Intrepid, Flyer, Courageous... a stream of consciousness that could run for ever. And Julian Everitt was a part of the story...

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Project Landspeed: A Creep Of Frustration
South Australia: The creep of water was accompanied by the creep of frustration on Lake Gairdner for Glenn Ashby and the land speed team as near perfect winds blew across the wetted lake surface restricting any sailing again.

"Unfortunately, again we're greeted with a really super thin layer of water pretty much across the whole lake surface." Ashby explained.

"The craft is ready to go. The boys are all ready to go. We've got really good breeze forecast for this afternoon, but unfortunately with that bit of rain the surface is not going to be ideal for us."

Due to the large catchment area that is Lake Gairdner, just a few millimetres of rain can be swiftly moved into a small area resulting in a compounding depth too deep to get out on the lake.

With the knowledge that the water can move on as fast as it arrives, the team are utilising every spare minute to continue to improve and prepare for the opportunities when they present themselves.

emiratesteamnz.com

How do you get power when sailing around the world?
Whilst the sailing world is undoubtedly grateful to companies like Raymarine for the incredible safety and information technologies that we now take as standard when we are at sea, we have to remember that every one of these devices takes power.

The electronic self-steering gear, the chart-plotter, the radar, the radio, and other devices all require power, as well of course, as the traditional powered devices like the refrigerator, the freezer, the lighting systems, the desalinator...

On yachts, this power comes typically from a series of batteries, and generally, there will be two distinct systems. The first is the engine battery, used like a car battery to start the engine and the other is the 'house' or 'hotel' system, which will be a bank of batteries that will power all the other devices. These will normally be in banks, and the number of batteries and their power depends on the requirements of the particular boat.

Recharging these batteries and providing sufficient power to keep the batteries charged, and consequently healthy for a long voyage, is a subject that the entrants to the Global Solo Challenge (GSC) will be thinking about, as they will be away from any shore power for several months and in vastly different climatic conditions from Ocean to Ocean.

Traditionally, the batteries would be charged by simply running the engine or a diesel generator unit, and then power would be drawn via the alternator to charge both sets of batteries.

Aside from properly installed diesel generators, some smaller boats venture into the use of petrol generators, these however are dangerous both for their exhaust fumes and the dangers involved with carrying cans of petrol, which unlike diesel can explode, and its fumes are highly flammable.

Read more...

Lost 'whaleback' steamship discovered after 120 years
An unusual 89-metre steamship that sank in a storm 120 years ago has been found in Lake Superior, according to officials from a shipwreck museum.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) announced on Wednesday (12 October 2022) that a whaleback vessel named Barge 129 was found 35 miles off Vermilion Point, 200 metres below the surface.

Between 1887 and 1898, 44 whalebacks were produced: 23 were barges, and 21 were steamships, including one passenger vessel.

The society made the discovery along with eight other wrecks in 2021 using sonar technology, but waited until the 120th anniversary of the sinking to make the announcement.

Barge 129 sank on 13 October 1902. It was carrying a load of iron ore and had been under the tow of steamer Maunaloa when a storm struck, according to the historical society. The towline connecting the two ships snapped in heavy seas. Maunaloa turned around in an attempt to reconnect the towline, but the wind and waves slammed the two ships together, with Maunaloa's port side anchor ripping into Barge 129's starboard side.

As the barge began to sink, Captain Josiah Bailey and his crew struggled to launch their lifeboat but eventually made it onto Maunaloa as the whaleback sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior.

marineindustrynews.co.uk

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