In This Issue
• From Auckland To French Polynesia
• RORC Transatlantic Race
• Fresh look - A&T Instruments
• RS21 World Championship
• Golden Globe Race windvane safety
• INEOS Britannia and Mercedes-AMG's first ever yacht design
• World Sailing Show - World Sailing Awards
• J/24 North American Champion
• Peter de Savary
• Featured Charter: Aragon - Maarten 72
• Featured Brokerage:
• • IMOCA 60 Austria One
• • Sangermani S&S 56
• • RM 1380
• The Last Word: Daniel Berrigan

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From Auckland To French Polynesia
The skippers competing in the 4th leg of the GLOBE40 set sail today at 12:00 hours local time just near the famous Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Stretching some 2,300 miles, this leg should take the crews 12 to 14 days to make the waters of French Polynesia, which is the largest maritime area in the world dependent on a single state spanning 5 archipelagos, 118 islands, and 5.5 million km2. Austral, Gambier, Society Islands, Tuamotu, Marquesas… the names of the archipelagos certainly ignite the imagination. And yet, they had never hosted a round the world yacht race, a territory usually reserved for the countries in more southerly latitudes… until now.

Entering the name Bora Bora into your GPS to prepare your navigation is a pretty unique moment in the life of an offshore racer, but that’s exactly what the GLOBE40 skippers have been doing today. The famous atoll formed by the Leeward Islands of the Society archipelago will be the only course mark for the competitors racing from Auckland to Papeete on the island of Tahiti. After what promises to be a windy start, the Class40s will leave the Hauraki Gulf in their wake and will quickly have to make a series of tactical choices with a zone of light breeze to the east of the course.

Spanning 7,000 miles between Mauritius and New Zealand, the third leg proved to be a tough and particularly competitive one with a truly epic finish, just 34 minutes separating the top two after 34 days at sea. With the leg taking considerably longer than planned, the crews only had a maximum of 2 weeks to rest their tired bodies and overhaul their machines after a half-lap of the world. Fortunately, the quality of Auckland’s marine professionals enabled them to complete their maintenance operations in record time, with some supreme logistical management making it possible to unstep masts, carry out rig checks, repair sails, haul the boats out and check the hulls.

www.globe40.com/en/

RORC Transatlantic Race
Entries are ramping up for the ninth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, promising thrilling battles right through the fleet. Twenty one teams from nine nations have so far expressed their intention to race 3,000-miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club and supported by Calero Marinas and the International Maxi Association, along with Yacht Club de France, the RORC fleet will set off from Marina Lanzarote on the 8th of January 2023, bound for Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina Grenada.

Two Superyachts are favourites to contest the IMA Transatlantic Trophy for Monohull Line Honours. The largest boat currently confirmed for the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race is the 115ft Swan Jasi skippered by Toby Clarke. The 107ft Wally Spirit of Malouen X skippered by Stephane Neve will be an equal match for Jasi. Spirit of Malouen’s latest triumph was winning the Maxi 1 Class at this year’s Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, significantly beating Jasi. However, the 3,000-mile RORC Transatlantic Race is a very different contest to inshore racing in the Mediterranean.

Joining the modern Supermaxis on the start line will be two renowned classic Maxis. The famous 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI was built for Eric Tabarly’s 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race and for the RORC Transatlantic Race, Marie Tabarly will skipper the boat, as she did for the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. L'Esprit D'Equipe, winner of the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race, will be skippered by Atlantic racing legend Lionel Regnier. The fascinating encounter pits two historic yachts against each other rated under IRC, making a fair match after time correction. -- Louay Habib

rorctransatlantic.rorc.org

Fresh look - A&T Instruments
The better the instrumentation the more important the quality of the inputs upon which the system depends... which is why the engineers at A+T decided it was time to turn their attention to the once humble wind sensor

It does not need stressing that fully accurate and fast wind measurement is critical to all aspects of a racing yacht's performance and equally important for the ever more complex sail systems on superyachts. Many companies have looked at novel ways of measuring wind including acoustics, but the spinning cup for speed and the vane for apparent wind angle are still the most accurate and reliable method. The A+T 500 series is a new design that moves this technology forward. It's in full production and provides compatible upgrade parts for the large installed base of existing B&G systems even dating back to the 1980s.

The main attributes of a "perfect" wind sensor include resolution, accuracy and fastest possible response time. Dynamic response is particularly important if masthead motion is compensated which is crucial both for raceboats and, with ever taller masts, superyachts.

Full article in the November issue of Seahorse

RS21 World Championship
The inaugural RS21 World Championship commences tomorrow in Biograd Na Moru, Croatia. Hosted by the Ilirija Resorts, the eagerly awaited four day championship promises fierce competition, stunning scenery, marvellous socials and memories for life. There are over 40 boats registered from 13 nations and more than 160 RS21 sailors coming together to battle it out on the water with the aspiration to be crowned the first-ever RS21 World Champion.

The RS21 World Championship will kick off with the Practice Race on Wednesday 2nd of November followed by the Opening Ceremony.

This inaugural RS21 World Championship will use MarkSetBots with the vision to support fully remote regattas in the future.

As this is the first RS21 World Championship, teams are coming together from different nations worldwide. Everyone is trying to find out what the best set-up and tuning for their boat is, but also practising the most effective ways to complete manoeuvres. The RS21 International Class encourage this and has partnered with Niall Myant, a high-performance racing coach from the UK to deliver two days of race practice and coaching for interested RS21 teams. Niall is on-site until the end of the event to provide coaching and support to bring performance to the next level.

www.rs21sailing.org

Golden Globe Race windvane safety
Deep in the Southern Ocean battling 12m seas and 70kt winds in a GGR yacht, you need to know your self-steering gear will keep working. If it fails you are seriously struggling to keep the odds in your favour that you will still be smiling when it blows over!

In the late 70s I set sail from Adelaide, South Australia for a three-year Pacific cruise in my Duncanson 29 SKYE. I fitted a Plastimo NAVIK windvane which was expensive to import, but I knew from watching the first Mini Transat’s (with Jean-Luc Van Den Heede!) that a good self-steering system was very important.

700 miles later, sailing through Bass Strait, a 5mm bolt holding the Navik wooden quadrant slipped out, rendering it inoperable in the middle of the night. With 35kts and 4-meter seas I could not fix it. I hand steered for 16 hours, unable to leave the helm to change hanked sails for fear of rounding up. I was over canvased and, on the edge, until we made anchorage. It taught me a few important lessons I never forgot. I now spanner check “things” before and during a major passage. --Don McIntyre

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Cup Critiqued: INEOS Britannia and Mercedes-AMG's first ever yacht design
Port quarter view - complex bow shape, slab topsides, large crew cockpits, and refined aerodynamic presentation. Photo by Ugo Fonolla/ America's Cup. Click on image to enlarge.

Last Thursday, INEOS Britannia - the British Challenger for the 2024 America's Cup launched their surrogate/test yacht from the team's sailing base at Mallorca, Spain.

The team will relocate 110nm to the 2024 America's Cup venue at Barcelona when their permanent base has been constructed.

At the launch, team CEO and Skipper Ben Ainslie said the surrogate boat was the result of "a lot of work between ourselves and Mercedes F1 - a collaboration with the two teams - is the start of a long journey of testing between now and when we finalise our designs for RB3, and then the combined components for RB3, our race boat for the America's Cup."

Even though the America's Cup class is now a monohull, the "Platform" concept - which comes from the multihull world - is a better way of thinking about the component development and testing approach.

T6 looks like it will be a handy test platform - above and below the water. Despite Ainslie's comments T6 not being "the fastest 40-foot foiling monohull." The hull shape has to be in the same ballpark as the state-of-the-art AC75s but is not supercritical - as its main function is as a testing platform. -- Richard Gladwell

Richard's full article in Sail-World.com

World Sailing Show - World Sailing Awards
The special October episode of the World Sailing Show, which premiered on 31 October 2022, goes inside the World Sailing Awards, a glittering ceremony where unstoppable Nacra 17 teammates Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti were named male and female Rolex World Sailor of the Year, respectively, this year’s most innovative sustainability initiative was revealed, the boat and team of the year were celebrated and awards for lifetime contributions to the sport were also presented.

The action also includes:

- Celebrating the achievement of all the nominees and winners
- A catch up with Charles Caudrelier as he takes on the first edition of Finistère Atlantique
- All the action from the ILCA 6 World Championships
- Recap of 2022 Steering the Course global women’s sailing festival

J/24 North American Champion: Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger
Annapolis, Maryland USA: Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger, with team Jay Miles, Chris Morgan, Monica Morgan and Terry Shannon, are the 2022 J/24 North American Champions. Seven races were completed in the series, although none on Sunday due to lack of breeze, at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Maryland. Odenbach tallied 18 points, one better than Mike Marshall’s American Garage who took the silver. Kohei Ichikawa’s Gekko Diana of Japan claimed the bronze position with 27 points.

Evan Petley-Jones’ Lifted (crew Evan Burns, Spenser Dalzell, Ben Maloney and Matt Soosalu) topped the 17-boat Corinthian Division, followed by Finn Hadlock’s Boreas and Al Constants’ Blitz.

Top Five Overall:
1. Honeybadger, Travis Odenbach – 2 –[11] -3 -2 -1 -1 -9 ; 18
2. American Garage, Mike Marshall – 10 –[12] -2 -1 -2 -2 -2 ; 19
3. Gekko Diana, Kohei Ichikawa – 3 –[17] -4 -5 -8 -6 -1 ; 27
4. Bangor Packet, Tony Parker – 4 -9 -5 –[11] -4 -4 -7 ; 33
5. Mental Floss, Aidan Glackin – 8 -7 -6 -4 -3 -13 –[17] ; 41

Thirty-eight teams competed from October 28-30.

Complete results at YachtScoring.com

Peter de Savary
In Newport RI, 1983. Photo by Guy Gurney

Yacht owner and businessman Peter de Savary has died at the age of 78.

A passionate yachtsman, de Savary owned more than 30 boats during his lifetime, including a 30 metre rive barge named Savvy, the iconic Hollywood yacht Kalizma and Herreshoff-designed sailing yacht Vagrant.

The British entrepreneur also led the British challenge for the America’s Cup by Royal Burnham Yacht Club in 1983. The team made it to the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup but were beaten by Alan Bond’s Australian syndicate, who went on to claim the Auld Mug by defeating the New York Yacht Club for the first time in 132 years.

Famously expelled from school at the age of 16, de Savary started his business empire with an export business to Africa in the 1960s. However, he is best known for his work in the hospitality industry. He founded the St James’s Club franchise and started the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, where Guy Richie married Madonna.

De Savary also invested heavily in Grenada, developing the Port Louis site as a marina and owning Mount Cinnamon Resort on Grand Anse Beach. During his colourful career, he also founded Pendennis Shipyard and was the chairman of Millwall Football Club.

De Savary is survived by his third wife and his five daughters.

www.boatinternational.com

Featured Charter
Aragon - Maarten 72. Located in the Mediterranean.

Sailing yacht Aragon is the perfect choice for competitively sailing in offshore/inshore racing while retaining comfort to go cruising or day sailing. The Reichel Pugh 72 was commissioned by a performance-oriented owner with a remarkable family history of racing lineage.

Aragon was the overall winner of the 2016 RORC TransAtlantic Race.

See listing details in Seahorse Charters

Contact
Lucy Jackson - LV Yachting
Call: +44 (0) 20 3920 6261
Email:
http://lvyachting.com

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Featured Brokerage
1995 IMOCA 60 Austria One. 145000 EUR. Located in Split, Croatia.

AUSTRIA ONE participated in the Vendee Globe 2008 2009 with the skipper Norbert Sedlacek and arrived at 11 th from 30 started boats.

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Contact
BERNARD GALLAY Yacht Brokerage
+33 (0) 467 66 39 93

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1969 Sangermani S&S 56. 695,000 EUR. Located in Zaandam, Netherlands

Utterly stunning and completely refitted historic Sparkman & Stephens designed performance sloop from Cantiere Sangermani in 1969.

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Contact
Jascha Bach
Tel: +31 641 486879
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RM 1380. From 374,850 ex VAT EUR.

RM Yachts is proud and delighted to announce the imminent launch of the RM1380.

Available in 2, 3 or 4 cabins, she inherits - like all RM yachts - of a luminous and bright, loft-style interior, thanks to her panoramic windshield, one of RM Yachts’ signatures.

In addition, she comes with a list of optional ocean-cruising-oriented equipment (arch for solar panels with dinghy davits, dog-house, etc.) as well as an on-demand folding transom.

Designed to sail far and fast, with her wide hull and cutter rig, the RM1380 has stunning sailing capacities and a second-to-none route stability which will undoubtedly become a new reference in the booming long-range cruisers market segment.

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Contact
RM Yachts
Zone Industrielle des 4 chevaliers, Rond-Point de la République, 17180 Perigny, France

+33 5 46 44 73 00
rm-yachts.com

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The Last Word
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can. -- Daniel Berrigan

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