In This Issue
• Route du Rhum IMOCA Finishers
• The yacht racing industry gathered in Malta
• 2023 Aegean 600 Race
• Finish with a flourish - IMA
• A True Blue Ocean Adventure - Antigua Bermuda Race 2023
• Centenary of Erskine Childers’ Execution
• Wealth Management sponsor Falmouth Classics
• Cup Spy Nov 21: Kiwi capsize aftermath .. Italians unveil sensors
• RYA unveils Paris 2024 selection policy
• Featured Charter: SW105 Wolfhound
• Featured Brokerage:
• • CNB 100
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• • The Makara Series
• The Last Word: Timothy Leary

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Route du Rhum IMOCA Finishers
7th: Swiss skipper Justine Mettraux (Teamwork.net) finishes seventh in the IMOCA, top female and first international on the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe Swiss skipper Justine Mettraux (Teamwork.net) took seventh place in the IMOCA class when she crossed the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum at 02:41:35 UTC/Local time. Racing on her first ever Route du Rhum, Mettraux, 35, is the first non-French skipper to finish in the IMOCA class and the first woman.

8th: Benjamin Dutreux (GUYOT environnement - Water Family) crossed the finish line of the twelfth edition of the Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe at 13:06:24 UTC on Tuesday. He finished eighth in the IMOCA class with a race time of 12 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes and 24 seconds. The sailor from the Vendee region sailed the 3542 theoretical miles of the race course between Saint-Malo and Pointe-a-Pitre at the speed of 11.36 knots on the Great Circle route. Out on the water, the skipper of GUYOT environnement - Water Family actually sailed 4228.58 miles averaging 13.56 knots. He finished in Pointe-a-Pitre 1d 6hrs 14h 59s after the class winner, Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut).

9th: Isabelle Joschke (MACSF) crossed the finish line of the twelfth edition of the Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe at 15:41:54 UTC on Tuesday. She finished ninth in the IMOCA class with a race time of 13 days, 2 hours, 26 minutes and 54 seconds. The Franco-German skipper sailed the 3542 theoretical miles of the race course between Saint-Malo and Pointe-a-Pitre at the speed of 11.26 knots on the Great Circle route. Out on the water, the skipper of MACSF actually sailed 3940.78 miles averaging 12.53 knots. She finished in Pointe-a-Pitre 1 day 8 hours 50 minutes and 29 seconds after the class winner, Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut).

10th: Romain Attanasio, the French skipper of Fortinet- Best Western finished the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe in tenth place in the IMOCA class when he crossed the finish line off Pointe-a-Pitre at 20:55:20hrs UTC (16:55:20 local).

11th: Sebastien Marsset, skipper of Mon Courtie Energie-Cap Azur Ensemble took 11th place in the IMOCA class when he crossed the finish line of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 21:51:55hrs. His elapsed time is 13d 8h 36m 55s.

12th: Having been 10th at the north end of the island when she passed La Tete a L’Anglais it was a disappointed Pip Hare (Medallia) who crossed the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe in 12th position in the IMOCA class.

13th: Thirteenth place in the IMOCA fleet on the 12th Route du Rhum Destination-Guadeloupe went to Tanguy le Turquais (Lazare) who crossed the finish line at 23:58:44hrs UTC today Tuesday 23/11/2022. His elapsed time is 13d 10h 43m 44s.

The Route du Rhum is 33 year old Le Turquais’ first long race solo on his 2008 Finot Conq IMOCA which was seventh on the last Vendee Globe as Damien Seguin’s Groupe Apicil. It is his third Transatlantic finish into Guadeloupe, both previous races being in the MiniTransat.

Ebullient Le Turquais’ was delighted with his 13th place but perhaps more so at becoming a father during the Transatlantic, his wife Clarisse Cremer giving birth to their daughter Mathilda four days ago. He was in contention for a top ten position at the north of the island until his rudder broke and that meant he had to sail at slower speeds

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The yacht racing industry gathered in Malta for two days of networking and business
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250 delegates from 23 nationalities representing the sports’ leading corporations and events attended the Yacht Racing Forum in Malta for two days of conferences, presentations, networking and business.

What is the state of our sport following two years of disruption? How can its status, visibility and commercial attractiveness be improved? What will be the future of our sport, both from a technological and commercial point of view? These are some of the questions that industry leaders sought to answer over the two days conference at the Yacht Racing Forum / Design & Technology Symposium in Malta.

The participants' concerns as well as hot topics have clearly evolved over the years. 2022 speakers discussed youth access to the sport, the commercial potential of sailing and the impact of the new Olympic classes on media coverage. But they also explained how the sport can benefit from blockchain technology and detailed some legal implications of the Covid pandemic. Blockchain and Covid, two words that didn’t exist three years ago...

New initiatives and world firsts were announced at the Forum, such as the Foiling Professional Association, the Blue Economy Inclusivity Project and the Sustainable Marine Alliance. Formula 1 was taken as an example by Cyril Abiteboul, former managing director of Renault F1, now managing director of CDK Technologies. Best practice in the use of social networks was also discussed, as well as the tendency of the top end of the sport to be ever more extreme and spectacular.

The Yacht Racing Forum has always been a pioneer and advocate of social and environmental change in the sport. Gender equity and equal opportunities were at the heart of many presentations.

At the Design & Technology Symposium, discussions revolved around the evolution of foils and their adaptability to more popular yachts than the America's Cup or Vendee Globe machines. Doyle Sails’ CEO Mike Sanderson presented the key technical drivers of change in sailmaking. Other presentations focused on the latest aero and load monitoring gains, high performance protective polymers and the future of IMOCA. Sustainability in the development and construction of racing yachts was also addressed for the first time.

The end of the conference focused on the top end of the sport. Bruno Dubois began by presenting SailGP's vision and plans for the future, followed by the concrete case study of the canadian model. The World Match Racing Tour and the Star Sailors League explained where they are heading, while Dee Caffari, Ian Walker and Kate Cope explained why double-handed racing is popular.

Are eight round the world races too much? Race organisers and round the world sailors including Johan Salen (The Ocean Race), Don McIntyre (Golden Globe Race), Dee Caffari and Conrad Humphreys gave their answers.

The conference ended up with interesting presentations about the trickle down effect of the America’s Cup on mainstream sailing and a preview of the Ocean Race, starting in less than two months.

The yacht racing industry is healthy and dynamic, and the 13th edition of the Forum reflected this evolution as well as the sports’ extraordinary diversity.

* Editor... in last night's issue I had the wrong award ceremony video linked up... here is the correct one below:

2023 Aegean 600 Race
The relationship of the Greeks with the sea has been measured for millennia. Since ancient times, with their small sailboats or rowing boats, they were bold seafarers and explorers. In modern times, our sailing athletes are amongst the world's leading and compete in international events in Olympic classes as well as inshore and offshore regattas.

The Aegean Sea, known from philosophy, literature and fine arts to all civilized world, is one of the most beautiful sailing venues for racing and leisure sailing. The Hellenic Offshore Racing Club, a yacht club with extensive experience in organizing international events, decided to give sailors the opportunity to take part in a 600 nm non-stop race. AEGEAN 600 is a race with many challenges as the participants will need to come "face-to-face" with the famous Aegean Northern winds while, at the same time, enjoy the beauties of the Aegean islands.

As a member of the International Olympic Committee, president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee and a former Olympic athlete, I would like to invite sailors to take part in the "AEGEAN 600", wish them to enjoy the sailing race as well as the parallel onshore events planned by the organizing committee, always taking into consideration the principles and values of Greek hospitality.

Spyros Kapralos
President Hellenic Olympic Committee

The 2023 edition of the Aegean 600 takes place 7-15 July. For information on how to register, marina and accomodation details, contact us at or call (+30) 210411 3201

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Finish with a flourish - IMA
I am writing this during the last big regatta of the year, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, where the Maxis now have the second week all for ourselves. In fact, we are coming to the end of a busy and successful season and a spectacular return to near-record fleet sizes.

On the Sunday there was an amazingly efficient transition here in the old port of St Tropez, when the forest of wooden masts belonging to the classic fleet (containing no fewer than seven giant schooners) was replaced in short order by the even taller collection of carbon rigs of the modern Maxi fleet.

I cannot miss this opportunity to mention one very honourable and respectful gesture by two British Maxis. Her Majesty the Queen died suddenly during the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup being held in Sardinia. The following day Jethou and North Star left as normal for their start. After the start they sailed for 96 seconds and then stopped and dropped their sails. The crews then lined up and removed their caps in a very moving tribute to our dear departed monarch. -- Andrew McIrvine, IMA Secretary General

Full article in the December issue of Seahorse

A True Blue Ocean Adventure - Antigua Bermuda Race 2023
After a three-year Covid hiatus, registration is now open and preparations are full steam ahead for the fourth edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race starting from Antigua on May 9th, 2023. The 935nm oceanic race is managed by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week, and supported by the Bermuda Tourism Authority and Goslings Rum. The race is designed to suit a wide range of yachts and crew, with memorable parties, both in Antigua and Bermuda.

After leaving Antigua the fleet pass Barbuda and will be out of sight of land until the finish in Bermuda. The race is an experience of about 1,000 miles of tropical Atlantic sailing - a true blue ocean adventure. Sailing in the deep, competitors will experience reaching conditions in warm oceanic swell and a magical night sky.

Meg Reilly, a three-time competitor in Canadian Pogo 12.50 Hermes, has said: "The first few days of the race are basically a guaranteed sleigh ride with reaching in the trade-winds. The approach to Bermuda tends to be more strategic sailing in lighter winds."

The race is open to IRC and CSA Racing Yachts, Cruiser Racers, Super Yachts, and Multihulls. Classic yachts and double-handed teams have their own category, and a secondary motor sailing handicap in the CSA Classes, allows yachts to use their engines and still get a result, subject to a time penalty.

The Antigua Bermuda Race is timed to coincide with the end of Antigua Sailing Week when many yachts are planning to sail north back to North America, or east from Bermuda across the Atlantic Ocean. With the high current ocean freight rates, the Antigua Bermuda Race offers a great option to take your boat north out of the Caribbean in a safe, economic and highly enjoyable way.

The 2023 Notice of Race has now been released. The online survey of interest is now open. Whole Boat race charters with an owner's rep should be available, as well as Head Boats (race charters) offering individual crew places on a competing boat - a great way to experience the event and meet new people.

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Race documents and registration at YachtScoring.com

Centenary of Erskine Childers’ Execution In Dublin On Thursday, November 24th Will Evoke A Complexity Of Responses
Molly and Erskine Childers cruising Asgard in the Baltic in 1910. His short life of 52 years from 1870 until his execution in Dublin on November 24th 1922 was one of increasing seriousness, and this is one of the very few photos which show him with even the hint of a smile Credit: Wikipix. Click on image to enlarge.

The gaunt but serene Erskine Childers (52) died an hour after dawn on November 24th 1922 in Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. He had been captured as an armed opponent of the new Irish Free State Government’s policy of implementing the compromising Anglo-Irish Treaty, resulting in the Civil War which the authorities were now ruthlessly - through a brutal programme of high-profile executions of anti-treaty forces of all ranks - bringing to a speedy if blood-laden end.

Childers died as he had lived, with dignity. Before the execution, he shook hands with each member of the firing squad. And after he had been secured in place and his eyes blindfolded, his last words were: “Take a step forward, lads - it will be easier that way”. Moreover, in the week before his execution, he had his son Erskine Hamilton Childers, a future President of Ireland, come from school to visit him in prison to extract the promise that, in adulthood, he would seek out each surviving member of the Firing Squad to shake his hand.

For Childers’ novel The Riddle of the Sands - never out of print since it was first published in 1903, and a well-received feature film in 1979 - may seem to the general reader to be a brilliant and subtle warning of how the rapidly rising Germany was building up the potential to have a viable invasion force in Friesland which could cross the North Sea to conquer an unsuspecting England on her weakest flank.

But we amateur sailors know that it is really a superbly-camouflaged description of the special joys of small boat cruising in shallow waters among interesting islands and coastal communities, the most magic sailing book.

Another wonderful article by WM Nixon in Afloat. Read more....

Wealth Management company to sponsor 2023 Falmouth Classics
Atkins Ferrie Wealth Management (AFWM), an ethical south west based financial management company is set to be the headline sponsor in 2023 for the largest classic sailing event in the south west and one of the largest in the UK - the Falmouth Classics. AFWM became a major sponsor in 2021 becoming the headline sponsor for the first time in 2022.

Falmouth Classics now in its 36th year began in 1987 following the introduction of a classic regatta in the Falmouth's twin town Douarnenez, in Brittany. Since it moved from August to coincide with the Falmouth International Shanty Festival in 2013, the event has been attracting upwards of 200 classic sailing vessels and motor boats each year. Well over 50% of the entries are visitors to the historic port of Falmouth and the idyllic sailing area provided by the Carrick Roads and Falmouth Bay. Many of the participating vessel will have been built before 1950. The oldest entry in 2022 was an East Coast smack dating from 1847.

The Classic fleet will arrive in the port on the 15th June 2023 and will include ex fishing vessels with gaff and lug rigs, pilot cutters, vessels built for cruising and racing with gaff or Bermudan rigs, recreations of vessels that plied the Cornish coastline, open sailing boats and for the first time a fleet of steam boats including the National Maritime Museum's recently rebuilt steam boat Emma. The event often attracts a tall ship or two.

www.sail-world.com/news/256319/

www.falmouthclassics.org.uk

Cup Spy Nov 21: Kiwi capsize aftermath .. Italians unveil sensors
What happened in the Cup - November 21, 2022:

Luna Rossa went for a test tow in their LEQ12 with some new sensors attached to the port wing foil. They expect to be sailing in 7-10 days.

Emirates Team New Zealand are re-evaluating their situation after severely damaging the bow of their AC40 in a training incident.

Alinghi Red Bull Racing is back in the shed for an upgrade - not expected to emerge until the end of November.

American Magic did not sail in Pensacola.

INEOS Britannia stayed ashore in Majorca.

Read more from Richard Gladwell in Sail-World.com

RYA unveils Paris 2024 selection policy
The RYA has released its selection policy for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

As Britain’s national governing body (NGB) for sailing, the RYA works with the British Olympic Association (BOA) to determine the athletes who will represent Team GB at the Olympics.

The selection policy sets out the criteria for athletes aspiring to compete for Team GB in the Paris 2024 sailing competition.

The policy is confidential, and as such can only be accessed through a secure online portal. It will only be made available to those who are eligible to compete for Team GB.

To request access please contact Alex Wardall, the RYA’s Olympic Operations Manager.

The application process will close at 5pm on Wednesday 01 February 2023.

Find out more about the British Sailing Team.

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