In This Issue
• Landspeed Project: A Positive Progression To 200 Km/H
• 2023 ORC Double Handed Europeans now open for entries
• Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series
• World Sailing Show
• What kept you all? - Persico
• Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race
• Dick Carter - Yacht Designer
• St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: VOR65 Ambersail 2
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Carkeek 46 - "LOKI"
• • Infiniti 52R
• • MC62 Multihull
• The Last Word: Aristotle

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Landspeed Project: A Positive Progression To 200 Km/H
After what has seemed like endless weather delays over the past couple of months, finally Horonuku got to stretch its legs on a dry Lake Gairdner with breeze that is edging closer into the required zone for world record attempts.

The promising weather forecast coupled with reports of a dry lake was enough for the Landspeed team to remobilise within days and get back to the lake to re-rig Horonuku in searing 40-degree temperatures in preparation for the expected 20+ knot SW front on Sunday evening.

It was the most positive session for the Land speed team so far, not yet about timing or clocking official records but identifying obvious elements that can be improved to increase performance to be able to achieve the best speeds possible.

The constant search of performance gains continues as will the patience required for the optimal wind conditions that will provide the opportunity for an attempt at an 'official' world record run for the team. But for Ashby, he can take initial comfort that his new unchartered speeds in Horonuku come without too much surprise. "It was exactly as I have been picturing it in my head and how I expected it to be at those speeds. There is plenty going on but am 100% comfortable to keep hanging on and sending it until it taps out. It is bloody awesome."

But not nearly as awesome as it might be if Ashby can become the fastest person ever in a wind powered craft.

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2023 ORC Double Handed Europeans now open for entries
Helsingor, Denmark: The Helsingor Sailing Club is pleased to announce that the registration and entry process for the 2023 ORC DH European Championship is now open. The event will take place from 10-17 June 2023 and is being held under the authority of the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), the Danish Sailing Association along with Helsingor Sailing Club.

The venue is located at Helsingor Marina in the beautiful town of Helsingor with the Unesco Heritage Kronborg Castle (shown in photo above) as the closest neighbor. The club has existed for almost 90 years, currently has more than 500 members, and has an ambition of further developing the club with dedicated activities in the areas of a youth sailing, a general Sailing School and sailing activities focused on both women and aging sailors.

Since 1947 Helsingor Sailing Club has hosted the Sjælland Rundt Race. While starting small just after World War II, the race grew to more than 2000 boats in the early eighties where every Danish sailor wanted to try out what has been known locally as the "Marathon of the Sea."

The race is still developing and this year will host activities stretching over a full week that include One-Design J70 racing, the traditional Sjælland Rundt Race and the ORC DH European Championship.

The ORC DH European Championship is open to any boat with a valid ORC DH International certificate with a 2022 APH value of between 420.0 to 630.0 s/NM – this will be adjusted for 2023 certificates. 2023 European ORC DH Champion titles and top three awards will be given in three classes, with CDL limits establishing these classes given final definition once the 2023 ORC VPP is finalized. Top three all-amateur Corinthian prizes will also be awarded in each class.

All information regarding course and other details is given in the Notice of Race, available at the event's documents page on Manage2Sail.

Other information is on the event's website at sjaellandrundt.dk/orc-dh

Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series
Act 2: December 2022 - March 2023
In line with the YCM's sailing policy, having been initiated in the Melges 20 class in 2013 at the instigation of Valentin Zavadnikov, then the J/70s, the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series is a monthly programme of regattas and training weekends for one-design boats from December to March.

It has proved a very successful format with more than 350 sailors coming from across Europe to set up their winter training base in the Principality to prepare for the upcoming season's big meetings.

For Monegasque teams, this Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series is their qualifier for the J/70 World Championship being organised for the first time by YCM in partnership with FxPro.

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Go behind the scenes at the America's Cup with the latest episode of the World Sailing Show
The latest episode of the World Sailing show goes behind the scenes to look at the first weeks of testing ahead of the 2024 America's Cup in Barcelona. Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli's LEQ12 test boat is currently in Cagliari as they get used to the systems and controls while familiarising themselves with tactical moves to prepare for the main event.

There is a special look at this year's Rolex Middle Sea Race and a rundown of recent events including the 470 Worlds, 52 Super Series, Route du Rhum, Women's Match Racing Tour, and Yacht Racing Forum in Malta.

There is also an in-depth look at the GKA Kite World Tour in Taiba, Brazil, where 2022 Freestyle World Champions were crowned and Frenchman Charles Brodel made history by landing the first contra loop front roll board off and back roll kite loop board-offs on a hydrofoil in a competition.

Elsewhere in the show, we look at the only team - so far - to lift the SailGP trophy, newly-crowned World Sailing Team of the Year, Team Australia SailGP skippered by two-time Rolex World Sailor of the Year Tom Slingsby as their quest for a third consecutive title continues.

What kept you all? - Persico
While others rave about the 'new' crossover between automotive and America's Cup technology, one of Italy's most respected engineering institutions has been hard at it for years. The ClubSwan80 'My Song' the latest beneficiary of that hard won experience...

To the majority of us, if you ask the question "where would you find the most refined carbon fibre structures?", the answer would probably be motorsport or aerospace applications. However, long before any of these sectors embraced composite structures fully, the marine industry had found a home for the growing choices of materials and was pushing the boundaries. Persico Marine stepped into the field once the use of composites was well established and continues to push these boundaries. Not only in the marine field, but anywhere the benefits of a precisely assembled and consistently manufactured solution is needed and where tolerances are tight and failure is not an option.

To many, the idea of a boatbuilding facility cradled in the heart of the foot hills of the Alps, 200 kilometres from the nearest place to launch a yacht (excluding the alpine lakes!) seems crazy. But Persico Marine remains closely tied to the rest of the Persico Group, be that automotive, aerospace, rotomoulding, or architectural, the group grows and learns together. This also allows cross-pollination within the group and an exchange of ideas.

Full article in the December issue of Seahorse

The 75th Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race
Newport Beach, California: The Newport Ocean Sailing Association announces that online registration is open for the 75th Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race. The iconic coastal race will start off the Balboa Pier on April 28, 2023.

For 2023, NOSA is re-focusing on its distance racing heritage and will have only two courses; the traditional Newport to Ensenada International 125-mile overnight race and the California Coastal 90-mile San Diego course.

Also new for this year will be a new online entry system driven by Regatta Network, making registration and race management easier than before. Racing classes will include, ORR, PHRF, ULDB, Cruising (Spinnaker and non-Spinnaker), and Multihulls.

For those looking to brush up on new requirements, night sailing techniques, provisioning, weather, and crew tips for a fun, safe and trophy-winning race, in-person and Zoom seminars will be offered in January and February. The race will once again feature YB Race Tracking.

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Dick Carter - Yacht Designer
In the Golden age of offshore racing
Special limited edition signed by Dick Carter - Great Xmas gift!
With foreword by John Rousmaniere

In 1965 Dick Carter entered Rabbit, the first boat he had ever designed into that year's classic Fastnet race - And Won! Two years later, racing Red Rooster, an even more innovative boat of his own design, he won the Race again, his centreboarder finishing top boat in the Admiral's Cup which contributed greatly to overall victory for the American team!

Over the next decade, Carter and his yachts dominated across the world, winning successive World One Ton Cups with the likes of Tina, Optimist, Wai-Aniwa and Ydra, the Half Ton Cup with Crocodile and Two Ton Cup with Aggressive. During 1972 Wai-Aniwa skippered by New Zealander Chris Bouzaid capped off a great season by finishing Top Boat in the Southern Cross series lifting New Zealand to win the team trophy.

The stories behind other top Dick Carter designed racing yachts include Robin Aisher's Frigate, 2nd boat overall in the 1973 Admiral's Cup, Carina III, a member of the winning team at the same event, Chica Tica II, winner of the 1976 Cape/Rio Race, Dr Recchi's Custom 65 footer Benbow, line honours and handicap winner in the 1977 Middle Sea Race, and William Hubbard's Lively Lady II which dominated the 2006 Bermuda Race prize-giving.

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St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
Simpson Bay, St Maarten: The 43rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta takes place from March 2-5 2023, with four adrenalin and fun-filled days of multi-class racing out of Simpson Bay. Hundreds of international sailors and their racing yachts have already ear-marked this bucket-list event in their diaries, eagerly anticipating the well-organized and varied racing that this regatta delivers.

A major attraction of the event is its variety. On the water there's everything from Maxis with their highly-polished, high-performance professional crews, through to thrill-seeking catamarans, and close racing within the sportsboat classes, with skippers and crews ranging from Olympic sailors, world-class tacticians and navigators to newcomers. There's the opportunity for anyone to come and have a go - whether a seasoned sailor, a first-timer on a crewed charter yacht or a group of friends hiring a bareboat. Even live-aboards and world travelers enjoy the Regatta's "Serious Fun" by competing in the Island Time class races.

With over 35 countries participating, entries already received for 2023 will see some exciting battles in the highly contested small boat classes. The popular sportsboat divisions will see more than 25 yachts comprising up-and-coming along with legendary local talent from St. Maarten/Martin, Antigua, and Barbados, as well as from the USA and the UK.

The competition already includes Ross Applebey's Scarlet Oyster 48, and Caribbean-based competitors Whistler, a J121 from Barbados.

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Industry News
Extreme adventurer Mike Horn will open the doors of this new staging of the Paris Boat Show on Saturday, 3 December at 10 a.m. Nearly 170,000 visitors are expected this year to meet the 650 exhibitors on site. Several new features will mark the 61st Nautic, which promises great experiences for lovers of boating and yachting. The show will have a more concentrated format over nine days, with a preview evening reserved exclusively for exhibitors and their guests and a closing night on Saturday, 10 December, for a festive nautical night open to all.

Visitors will also be invited to meet the future winners of the Innovation competition. About fifteen finalists out of more than sixty project entries will be exhibited in this space set aside specifically for this purpose. The grand final will take place on the nautical stage on Saturday, 10 December in front of a jury made up of personalities and experts.\

One new feature presented at Nautic will be a virtual reality space to live through an experience without getting wet! "We are experimenting with a new approach, as we are convinced that virtual reality, without of course replacing the pleasure of the activity in real life, can bring us new developments in the very near future", emphasises FIN.

Nautic will welcome the OCEAN exhibition, a remarkable immersive experience Preservation of the marine environment will also be clearly reflected through an immersion dive within the exhibition on the Ocean & Climate Platform covering nearly 500 m2 in Hall 1. The visitor will be treated to a fun, smart, visual and auditory experience thanks to a 40-metre graphic fresco and a dome projecting a film at 360 degrees.

Tuesday, 6 December, 5.30 p.m.: B-to-B evening in the equipment manufacturers' hall

Saturday, 10 December:
Presentation of prizes to the winners of the innovation competition
Presentation of the Prizes for the Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe 2022 attended by the skippers
Closing of the show with the Nuit Nautic

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The Ocean Race and sustainable materials specialist Archwey, are today announcing a new partnership to inspire action to combat plastic pollution in the seas.

The purpose-driven partnership combines The Ocean Race's award-winning sustainability programme, developed with Founding Partner 11th Hour Racing and dedicated to restoring ocean health, with Archwey's mission to rid the world of virgin plastic and raise awareness of the urgent need for a circular economy, in which materials and products are shared, reused, repaired and recycled for as long as possible.

As an Official Partner of the Race and an Official Plastic-free Ocean Partner, Archwey will partake in key elements of The Ocean Race's work to protect the seas, including The Ocean Race Summits. This series of events, held across the world, brings together decision-makers and ocean advocates to drive new and improved policies to tackle the issues affecting the marine world and explore how ocean rights could help to safeguard it.

The announcement comes ahead of the start of The Ocean Race 2022-23, which sets sail from Alicante, Spain, on January 15th.

The collaborators will also work together to highlight The Ocean Race's One Blue Voice campaign, which has an ambitious goal of securing a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights by 2030.

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Hot on the heels of a very successful tenth anniversary season for the 52 SUPER SERIES which saw ten teams competing at the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week, the fifth and final regatta of a season which took the teams to Baiona (Galicia,Spain), Cascais (Portugal), Puerto Portals (Mallorca, Spain) and to Scarlino (Tuscany, Italy), the world's leading grand prix monohull circuit are delighted to have signed a new collaboration agreement with logistics partners Peters & May. Having first formalised the partnership in 2015 this new agreement spans the period 2023 to 2025.

During the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES, Peters & May not only handled all the transportation of the high-performance TP52s when these were not conducted on their own keels but also looking after 80% of the fleet containers for all five events.

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Teams racing at the 2022/2023 Bacardi Winter Series and 2023 Bacardi Cup Invitational Regatta in Miami, USA will once again be supported with coaching expertise from Quantum Sails.

Launched in 2021, the partnership will support each event with a practice racing day run by Ed Furry of Sail22 and Quantum Sails for the Melges 24 and J/70 fleets, followed up with a post-race online debrief by Quantum Sails' one-design experts.

Quantum also brings you pre-race morning weather briefings, hosted by SailFlow Weather's Shea Gibson along with local knowledge insights from Quantum Sails' one-design experts to kick start everyone's day off fast.

The 2022-2023 Bacardi Winter Series features racing for the J/70 and Melges 24 at event 1 from December 17-18, 2022 and event 2 from January 27-29, 2023. The 2023 Bacardi Cup Invitational Regatta kicks off with the Star Class racing for the iconic 96th Bacardi Cup from March 5-11, 2023, and three days of racing for the Melges 24, J/70, VX One, Melges 15, L30 and 69F classes from March 9-11, 2023.

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Infiniti 52 R POA EUR.

The Infiniti 52 R is a custom-designed Grand Prix racing yacht developed to take full advantage of the performance benefits of DSS. Ideally suited to race coastal and offshore in locations all over the world and competitive under all rating systems, the Infiniti 52 R changes the game in this size range. Developed in conjunction with 4-time Whitbread/Volvo winner Stu Bannatyne, the Infiniti 52 R was developed to fulfil the wishes of a number of clients who were looking for a yacht that would provide a significant performance increase over current options but able to sail and race with 50-60% of the crew traditionally required for yachts of this size.

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McConaghy MC62.

MC62 multihull - PERFORMANCE SAILING MEETS STYLISH LIVING

This range has been designed using a group of experienced owners and sailors (who between them have spent decades sailing and cruising multihulls), a highly experienced design and engineering team, and McConaghy’s 50 years of building yachts for the most demanding customers and conditions.

The MC62’s wide saloon offers a versatile and spacious living area that, with large windows running the full length of the hulls and retractable glass doors to aft, is exceptionally light and provides fantastic views. The galley is arranged open-plan to this area which creates an apartment-like feel and is particularly well suited to socialising.

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