In This Issue
• European Keelboat Team Racing Tour Championships
• Melges 24 European Championship
• Unstoppable force - Sicomin
• Class40 Mediterranean Trophy
• 2023 Charleston Race Week Registration is now open
• Historic Offshore Yacht Marks 40th Entryin thee 2023 TRANSPAC
• San Diego Yacht Club Wins 2022 Lipton Cup
• 12M Restoration: Dame Pattie (KA-2)
• America's Cup Hall of Fame's Sutton Medal Ceremony
• Featured Charter: Curanta Cridhe - 50ft Catamaran
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Nautor Swan 57
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• • Reichel Pugh 60 - Wild Joe
• The Last Word: Abbie Hoffman

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European Keelboat Team Racing Tour Championships
Potsdam Yacht Club, Germany: In the final event of the 2022 2K (Keelboat team racing) season Team Roma, Saverio Ramirez and Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti and their formidable team made the most impressive of Tour returns to win the 2022 Championships in a decisive win against the leading Netherlands team, the DMTRA. Three days of difficult racing conditions saw the Potsdam Yacht Club squeezing racing into every possible moment completing two round robins and finding just enough time for a knock out Final. Poland was represented for the first time by two seasoned match racing crews led by Patryk Zboja , and a new team from northern Germany "Heizkorper ", in addition to regulars Serpentine (GBR) and Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (ITA).

Day 1 started with some surprise losses by the seasoned teams to see Team Roma and Poland in the lead, then Day 2 and with very light and shifty conditions the Poles position becomes vulnerable as the Dutch find their winning ways... and now it is all down to the second race between Poland and the Netherlands to see who will advance to the final. The wind becomes challengingly fickle, but the Dutch find the breeze first and break away on the final run...only to run out of gas just meters from the line.... the Poles are back in the game, but just too late allowing the DMTRA to win in the tensest of races.

The final sailed in even more difficult conditions saw the lead change again and again until the final two legs when both Italian boats finding the breeze first chase it to the left, leaving the Dutch to risk going right. And it works, the race is compressed... but just not enough, giving the Italians the race, the regatta and the European Tour Champions prize.

Final Positions:
1. Team Roma (ITA)
2. DMTRA (NED)
3. Team Poland (POL)
4. YCCS (ITA)
5. Serpentine (GBR)
6. Heizkorper (GER)

2kteamracing.com/

Melges 24 European Championship
Genova, Italy - After a week of favourable weather conditions, that allowed to held nine highly competitive races, Genoa greeted the 2022 Melges 24 European Championship with a day of no wind. The no race day, matured after a couple of hours of vain waiting on the eastern racecourse, has crystallized the provisional rankings, crowning Strambapapa (ITA) of Michele Paoletti and Mataran 24 (CRO) of Ante Botica as new continental champions of this competitive one-design class. Apart the winners, it's important to underline that nine different teams were the winners of the nine races of the event.

If for Strambapapa (ITA) it was to win the the overall victory, amply deserved by the Paoletti team who just yesterday had missed the opportunity to close the championship with a race to spare due to a gennaker failure, then for the Croatians on Ante Botica's Mataran 24 (CRO), sailing their first season on Melges 24 boat, it was the victory in the Corinthian division and coincided with an excellent second place overall.

Completing the overall podium of the Melges 24 European Championship was Melgina (ITA) by Paolo Brescia, able to confirm himself also again as the winner of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2022 - an international circuit consisting of six events with a total of forty-nine single races - of which the event organized by the Yacht Club Italiano was considered as a final stage. The Brescia team, flying proudly the flad of Yacht Club Italiano, was followed by the Hungarians of Chinook, led by Akos Csolto, and Michael Tarabochia's White Room (GER). Chinook and White Room were also dominating the Corinthian division, where the podium was completed by Sergio Caramel's Arkanoé by Montura (ITA).

Top 10 (9 races sailed, 1 discard):
1. Strambapapa - Michele Paoletti, Giovanna Micol, Pietro Perelli, Giulia Pignolo, Davide Bivi, ITA, 35 points
2. Mataran 24 - Corinthian - Ante Botica, Ivo Matic, Mario Skrlj, Damir Civadelic, Max Carija, CRO, 42
3. Melgina - Paolo Brescia, Simon Sivitz Kosuta, Jas Farneti, Jan Bassi, Stefano Orlandi, ITA, 50
4. Altea - Andrea Racchelli, Gaudenzio Bonini, Michele Gregoratto, Rebecca Anderson, Matteo De Luca, ITA, 59
5. Universitas Nova - Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic, Marin Golem, Filip Miroic, Mia Kljakovic Gaspic, Sime Markic, CRO, 61
6. War Canoe - Michael Goldfarb, Jonny Goldsberry, Matteo Ramian, Chris Rast, Andrea Serpi, USA, 68
7. Nefeli - Peter Karrie, Alessandro Franci, Niccolo Bianchi, Saverio Cigliano, Alessandro Saettone, GER, 71
8. Stig - Alessandro Rombelli, Giorgio Tortarolo, Matteo Ivaldi, Massimo Gherarducci, Federica Salva, ITA, 71
9. Taki 4 - Corinthian - Niccolo Bertola, Pietro Seghezza, Marco Zammarchi, Giacomo Fossati, Giovanni Bannetta, ITA, 77 10. Gilles Pietro D'ali, Marcello Caldonazzo Arvedi, Andrea Trani, Matteo Capurro, Federico Colaninno, ITA, 84

Ranking results of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2022

Unstoppable force - Sicomin
While Class40 design moves forward apace parallel improvements in materials and build techniques are adding a further layer to the relentless improvements in sailing performance and reliability that we are seeing

When Aurélien Ducroz won the Class40 World Championships last summer, his victory against stiff competition in this intensely competitive fleet was a strong endorsement of his own skills and talent, but also a validation of Crosscall, his radical and remarkable new boat. Kudos is due to the Marc Lombard design office, whose new Lift V2 design exploits the class's 2020 rule change to the full. Crosscall's builder, Grand Largue Composites (GLC), also deserves credit for delivering a boat that didn't just meet its design weight target but surpassed it, coming out of the moulds lighter than even the design team had expected. And that's another feather in the cap for Sicomin, which supplied nearly all the materials.

The boat turned out to be faster than Lombard's VPP had calculated, as GLC's managing director Xavier Gosselin explains, and since Crosscall's launch at the end of 2021 it has become clear that the CFD modelling for the Lift V2 design was run at less than its actual top speed.

Full article in the November issue of Seahorse

Kito de Pavant wins the inaugural Class40 Mediterranean Trophy
While offshore racing is more commonly associated with the English Channel and the Atlantic, the Mediterranean also proved to be a superb playground for Class40 sailors this year. The number of Class40s on the shores of the Mediterranean is growing, and with a number of sailors keen to spend time on the water in preparation for the upcoming Route du Rhum, the new Class40 Mediterranean Trophy provided the ideal contest. Three races counted towards the Trophy, and it was Kito de Pavant on his Tizh 40 HBF - Reforest'Action who took overall victory in this first edition. Jean-Pierre Balmes (FullSave) finished in second place. Mikael Mergui (Centrakor) completed the podium.

With already ten or so boats spread out along the coasts of France, Italy, Croatia and Spain, the upcoming Route du Rhum acted as a catalyst for a number of competitors more used to racing under IRC to invest in either new or second-hand boats. The inaugural Class40 Mediterranean Trophy held for the first time in 2022 was eagerly awaited.

A total of seven Mediterranean races, most of them classics, featured in this year's race calendar, and for the first time, Class40 was given its own class. Three of these races were chosen to count towards the Mediterranean Trophy ranking: the Corsica Med, Au Large de Saint-Tropez and the Duo Max.

Ten or so Class40s were able to compete against each other from April to October and make the most of the varied but always superb conditions that are to be found in Corsica, the Aeolian Islands, the islands of Porquerolles, the Bay of Marseille, Sicily, the Balearics, the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, Barcelona, and Malta, to round off a packed season.

Overall Results

class40.com

2023 Charleston Race Week Registration is now open
Registration is now open for 2023 Charleston Race Week in Charleston South Carolina USA.

Whether you come for the sailing, the post-race analyses, the JumboTron, the parties, the people... Charleston Race Week is a unique and wonderful experience.

Make plans today to combine world-class racing with a family vacation in America's #1 destination city at a regatta unlike any other - April 20-23! The Notice of Race is now available (PDF)

Register by Jan. 31st to save $100.

Registration this year is once again via YachtScoring.com

charlestonraceweek.com

Historic Offshore Yacht Marks 40th Entryin thee 2023 TRANSPAC
Solomon Ka'ne's Leglus, a 1986-built Ohashi 52, is the 40th entry to next year's 52nd edition of the 2225-mile Los Angeles-Honolulu Transpac Race. Leglus is among a diverse fleet of boats currently entered that range in size from 33 to 100 fleet long and hail from all over the US, Canada and Australia. The fleet is expected to grow even larger until the final entry deadline is reached on May 26th, 2023.

Besides hitting the 40th entry milestone for the race, Ka'ne is also one of the first entries from Hawaii for this edition of the race and is looking forward to representing his native state. "Ocean sailing is part of my heritage as a Hawaiian," said Ka'ne, "and I'm honored to represent this in the race. I'm ready to push myself and my team in this effort."

While most of the entries in the long history of this race have been from the mainland, the Hawaiian heritage to Transpac runs deep – in fact from the very beginning of this race first sailed in 1906. The idea for the race was actually proposed ten years earlier when Hawaii's King David Kalakaua extended an invitation to the Pacific Yacht Club in San Francisco to have a race to Hawaii to help celebrate his 50th birthday.

Read more...

Entry list on YachtScoring.com

Leg 1 start June 27; Leg 2 June 29; Leg 3 July 1.

San Diego Yacht Club Wins 2022 Lipton Cup
San Diego Yacht Club is the winner of the 2022 Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup! The home team has done it again.

It all came down the battle of the coasts in the final day of the Lipton Cup. After 10 highly competitive and close races, San Diego Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club got off the starting line one more time with determination to prove which coast is in fact…the best.

The final results for the 2022 Lipton Cup have San Diego Yacht Club (Skipper Tyler Sinks) in first place with 38 points, Coronado Yacht Club (Skipper Scott Harris) in second place with 43 points, and New York Yacht Club (Skipper Peter Levesque) in third place with 45 points.

sdyc.org/liptoncup/

12M Restoration: Dame Pattie (KA-2)
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I'm going to try with the low level of my English to give you a good report about this incredible adventure: becoming the owner of Dame Pattie (KA-2).

First of all, she was for sale through an auction in 2017 after she was abandoned by her previous owner (since five or six years, even more…) for tax reasons unpaid in South of France (the boat was sold by the French government). This is one of the reasons to explain the terrible state of the boat at that time, especially the metallic structure of the hull. Even if the inside looked great!

The boat was in a disaster condition and, after expertise, I realize that she was in real danger, almost close to sink. My own expertise after taking out all the inside makes me realize that she certainly had, during couple of years, a large quantity of salty water inside, under the wood floor, including the engine, but not visible.

I decided to start a really heavy restoration according to the beauty, the exceptional design, the incredible history of this boat named Dame Pattie. Even if the boat has been refitted (in 2000) to become more a cruising 12MJl than a pure racing one. The roof has good proportions and the boat keeps the spirit of being a 12 MJI.

The adventure started by putting her on a truck to come back to my region, in Brittany. The mast was put on a different truck. It took a while to organize the expedition and I decided to create my own shipyard to start the renovation. So, I rented a piece of land and built around the boat the necessary hangar to provide a good condition for renovation.

I bought wood cutting machines and organized everything: containers, tools… Then I looked for carpenters and high skilled workers which I could hire from shipyards. In 2018, we could start the work.

Read more.. and see dozens of photos at 12mrclass.com

America's Cup Hall of Fame's Sutton Medal Ceremony
The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that the Sutton Medal, named in honor of Sir Richard Francis Sutton 5th Bt, will be presented to Antony Matusch and the family of the late Maldwin Drummond on the 12th of November for volunteering thousands of hours of their time to lead the Royal Yacht Squadron's effort to produce the 2001 America's Cup Jubilee, one of the finest moments in yachting history.

The Sir Richard Francis Sutton Medal, instituted by the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2018, recognizes the spirit of the America's Cup, as set down by the founding donors in their Deed of Gift "to promote friendly competition between foreign countries."

It is awarded, from time-to-time, to persons or entities that have exemplified that spirit, in the course of their association with the America's Cup.

The Hall of Fame will also recognize the America's Cup Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductees Bryan Willis and Rolf Vrolijk who were previously honored via a virtual program - given the pandemic - in 2020.

They will finally be honored in a traditional, in-person ceremony.

The evening will begin at 6:30pm with cocktails on the RTYC terrace followed by dinner at 7:30pm in the iconic Coffee Room overlooking Hyde Park.

Tickets to the event are £100 and can be purchased at herreshoff.org/sutton or email to reserve a full table.

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Featured Brokerage
1978 Nautor Swan 57 Ketch. 195000 EUR. Located in Helsinki.

Hull number 1 of the truly iconic Sparkman & Stephens designed Nautor Swan 57 Ketch. Continually updated and presented in great condition throughout.

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Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300.

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2002/2018 Reichel Pugh 60 - Wild Joe. 440,000 EUR.

Wild Joe was originally built as Wild Oats IX with full carbon/nomex construction. As times move on so has Wild Joe which is now fitted with a new DSS foil system installed early 2018. That coupled with her new Doyle Sails package and upgrades across the board, the boat is bang up to date once again.

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The Last Word
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