In This Issue
• Sydney Ready To Welcome World Match Racing Tour Final
• Strong line-up already for the second IMA Maxi Europeans
• RORC Racing Co-Ordinator
• (Mighty) congratulations all round - Nautor's Swan
• Irish Finalists in the RYA Club of the Year Awards
• Magnus Wheatley - Yacht Racing Podcast
• Seeking inspiration for a novel Christmas gift?
• Love it when a plan comes together.
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: IKIGAI - 82ft JFA Sailing Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • HH42 - INO XXX
• • Seaquest SQ46
• • Outremer 4X - New Boat
• The Last Word: Dr. Seuss

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Sydney Ready To Welcome World Match Racing Tour Final
The line-up for the 2022 finale of the World Match Racing Tour has been confirmed with ten teams heading to Sydney, Australia to compete at the WMRT Final for the Open Match Racing World Championship title 13-18 December in Sydney Harbour. The event is being co-hosted with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), home of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with five scheduled race days from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 December 2022.

The change of venue to Sydney for the 2022 WMRT Final follows the ongoing border closures in China during 2022, where the WMRT Final was previously scheduled to take place in Shenzhen from 6-11 December. Strict travel restrictions for international visitors to China since 2020 prevented the tour from hosting the final in China this year, hence the change of venue to Sydney with the kind support of the CYCA.

Seven countries are being represented at this year's WMRT Final for the Open Match Racing World Championship. Denmark, Estonia, France and Italy each have one entry, whilst hosts Australia, New Zealand and the USA will each field two teams for the event. Defending world champion Taylor Canfield (USA) and six-time world champion Ian William (GBR) were unable to attend the event.

American Chris Poole heads into the world championship as one of the favourites. Poole currently leads the overall Tour Leader board, after finishing third at the Long Beach Yacht Club's 57th Congressional Cup in April, followed by a regatta win at the Chicago Grand Slam WMRT Qualifier event in August. Fellow Americans David Hood and his DH3 Racing team complete the USA line-up having had strong results at events in Los Angeles and Italy this year.

cyca.com.au

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Strong line-up already for the second IMA Maxi Europeans
The second edition of the International Maxi Association's Maxi European Championship is to take place again as part of Tre Golfi Sailing Week, out of Sorrento's Marina Piccola over 12-18 May 2023.

Supported by Rolex, the event is run by the Circolo Remo e Vela Italia (CRVI) in conjunction with the IMA, the body officially tasked by World Sailing to administer and develop maxi yacht racing internationally. The event is supported by the Yacht Club Italiano and the Reale Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia.

The IMA Maxi European Championship will provide a mix of inshore and coastal courses, including an overnight race, which will launch the event: the 68th edition of the Regata dei Tre Golfi, the second oldest distance race in the Italian yachting calendar after the Rolex Giraglia. This will set sail at 1700 on Friday 12 May from Naples' Castel dell'Ovo, where the CRVI's clubhouse is located within Santa Lucia Marina.

The Regata dei Tre Golfi's 150 mile course takes the boats from Naples, past Procida, west-northwest to the island of Ponza. After rounding this turning mark, competitors return, past Ventotene and Ischia, towards Punta Campanella, the tip of the Sorrento Peninsula. They then round the Li Galli islands off the Amalfi coast, before returning around the south side of Capri back into the Bay of Naples, and this year, for the first time, finishing off Sorrento.

In 2022 Furio Benussi's 100ft maxi ARCA SGR won line honours and in light conditions narrowly bettered the elapsed time of Giovanni Soldini's Multi70 trimaran Maserati. However Peter Dubens' former Maxi 72 North Star (ex Rán 2) prevailed under IRC corrected time after an intense match race with Sir Peter Ogden's Judel/Vrolijk 77 Jethou.

Over Monday to Thursday, 15-18 May, will be the inshore/coastal races of the IMA Maxi Europeans for the Maxi Yacht Sorrento Trophy. Racing for this will be run by the IMA's Principal Race Officer for the event, Stuart Childerley, who aside from being a multiple World Champion and ex-Olympic sailor, as a PRO has run racing at the Olympic Games, for the GC32 Racing Tour, the Royal Ocean Racing Club and numerous World and European Championships. -- James Boyd

www.internationalmaxiassociation.com

RORC Racing Co-Ordinator
The Royal Ocean Racing Club are looking to appoint a full time racing co-ordinator to join their small but focused race team based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

We are seeking a self motivated, team player to assist with all aspects of a busy race season both in the UK and abroad.

For an informal chat or to obtain the full job and personal specification please call 019832295144 or email

(Mighty) congratulations all round - Nautor's Swan
When the first ClubSwan 80 made its racing debut at Porto Cervo in September more than a few of those most closely involved were collectively holding their breath. They need not have worried...

When Nautor Swan announced their new ClubSwan 80 at the Düsseldorf Boat Show in 2020 they knew they had set themselves an ambitious goal. But what they and indeed everyone else hadn't predicted was the arrival of a global pandemic that would turn the world on its head. Almost two years later and with the ClubSwan 80 afloat and with early results from the racecourse now declared, the project is still raising eyebrows and the reasons are clear.

This is a stunningly good looking, high-performance carbon racer, but one that has also been created to be a strict owner-driven one-design. These are factors that place her in a category of her own from the start, but there's more. This is a carbon composite rocket ship that can be reconfigured in hours to be a performance cruiser, capable of being sailed shorthanded. And even then, with all this in mind, the final key objective is arguably the boldest, to ensure that she can fight it out with the best in a handicap fleet.

Full article in the December issue of Seahorse

122-Year-Old Waverley Yacht Class Connects Two Northern Ireland Finalists in the RYA Club of the Year Awards
A newspaper photograph of Waverley Number 7 Lilias (Mr James Mahood)competing in Whitehead on Belfast Lough in August 1929 Credit: courtesy Waverley Class. Click on image for photo gallery.

Northern Ireland's Ballyholme Yacht Club and County Antrim Yacht Club have both been announced as finalists in the RYA Club of the Year 2023.

Although six miles apart on opposite sides of Belfast Lough, the clubs were formed within about twenty years of each other, CAYC emerging with the twentieth century in 1902 and Ballyholme in 1919. But one keelboat class connects the two, the Waverley class, designed by John Wylie and first raced in 1903 at Whitehead, the home of County Antrim YC. By the end of WW1, the class was no longer exclusive to CAYC, and two boats were built at Ballyholme. By 1961 when the class had been reformed as a racing class at BYC, there were Waverleys at most Belfast Lough Clubs. Now the class has moved on again, this time to Strangford Lough Yacht Club at Whiterock. -- Betty Armstrong

Full article in Afloat magazine

Magnus Wheatley - Yacht Racing Podcast
British sailing writer and America's Cup aficionado Magnus Wheatley has been obsessed with yacht racing's oldest and most prestigious competition since he was in his mid-teens.

Seeking inspiration for a novel Christmas gift?
World renowned yachting photographer Ingrid Abery is currently showcasing a selection of her Premium Hand Prints in this virtual exhibition: ingridabery.com/virtual-gallery

Ranging from high-octane close-race scenarios from the revered J-Class to serene Classic yacht scenes these artworks will enliven a wall.

Prints on Fine Art and Archival papers are available framed or unframed. Orders for that special Christmas gift can be placed by contacting:

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Love it when a plan comes together.
As we race to the start of the 5th Caribbean Multihull Challenge - 3 February, all good things are happening. The Racing list is growing containing a host of fast, powerful multihulls ready to duke it out on the water. Previous entries are back including the impressive Bieker 53 Fujin, the dramatic 51' Schionning 2-2 Tango and St Maarten's Arawak, the Joubert/Nivelt 52. Entered for the first time, are the Gunboat 60 Cui Bono and an Outremer 51 Mo'orea. Add these to a fleet of six Diam 24 trimarans flying in local waters.

For 2023, we introduced a concurrently run CMC Cruising Rally stopping at French-side Anse Marcel and then Anguilla's Sandy Ground. It appears that this Rally – open to all multihulls is taking off. Joining with a good thing, Phillp Berman's Balance Brand cats have signed up to celebrate their 10th anniversary with the CMC in SXM. Four are now registered. More to come.

While we tend to emphasize big multi's, CMC Racing will see action in other classes with Catana, Corsair, Leopard, Neel, and others represented. Racing and Cruising considered, we're expecting a record 30 – 35 boats sailing and having fun with us!

International yachting press will be here to cover it all. For them a highlight will be the newly branded 'CMC Trifecta' consisting of three distance races held over three days; a 60 mile circuit up to, across, and down from St. Barth's, a 52 mile power reaching blast over to Saba and back, and a challenging 27 mile circumnavigation of St Maarten/St Martin. The winner of the Trifecta will win a $2,000.00 Oris Aquis Diver's watch.

Race/Rally registration is open until Thursday 2 February at 1400 hrs. Registration and details at YachtScoring.com and at CaribbeanMultihullChallenge.com

Industry News
MAX mini nominated for the DAME Design Award 2022 ''It highly motivates our team to keep fulfilling our mission''

Sailmon's newest innovation, the MAX mini, has been nominated for the DAME Design Award 2022. CEO Kim Coster is delighted about the news: "Based on our commitment and unconditional love for the sport, we at Sailmon are working 24/7 to make watersports like sailing, wingfoiling and surfing more challenging and fun for the participants, coaches and audiences. We achieve this through innovative and affordable solutions. MAX mini fits in seamlessly with this mission. That's why we see this award nomination by a jury of experts as appreciation for our journey! It highly motivates our team to keep fulfilling our mission."

MAX mini is a portable, light-weight, and highly accurate tracker that automatically sends all performances on the water to the Sailmon App - live or afterwards (thanks to integrated LTE-M internet connectivity). Users can relive and analyse their trips based on a graph/map, data and even imported videos. From now on, the debriefing will be accessible, affordable and understandable for everyone.

blog.sailmon.com

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With only 100 days to go until the inaugural New Zealand Sail Grand Prix, SailGP today announced a multi-year, national partnership with iconic Kiwi brand ITM. The partnership will see the building supply company become the Title Partner of the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Christchurch next 18-19 March, as well as the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland the following year.

Well-known in the Kiwi sporting circuit, ITM joins a suite of established partners behind next summer's event, demonstrating the commercial growth of SailGP in New Zealand and around the world, and the pinnacle status of the event itself – already a sell-out success in its first-ever iteration.

ITM, which operates 91 stores and 27 Frame and Truss plants nationally (12 of which are in the Canterbury region) are New Zealand's foremost building supply specialists, with an extensive history of sponsoring iconic Kiwi sporting events.

SailGP.com/NewZealand

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Typhoon International has confirmed that it will be continuing its sponsorship of the 29er UK Class Association in 2023.

This will be the third consecutive year that the leading watersports clothing and equipment manufacturer has supported the class as Official Technical Clothing Class Sponsor.

As part of Typhoon's sponsorship in 2023, it will be providing prizes at the major events in 29er Class Association calendar.

Started in 1998, the 29er class is one of the most highly competitive youth classes in the world with 40 plus teams competing in national and international events. The powerful dinghy is a stepping stone in pre-Olympic training for young athletes with medal potential.

The 29er UK National Championships will be held from 22-24 July 2023 at Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy, with many other regattas being held throughout the year at various locations around the UK.

For more information on Typhoon International and its quality marine products and apparel visit www.typhoon-int.co.uk

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Extreme adventurer Mike Horn opened 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.

Spread over two halls at the Porte de Versailles, yachts will rub shoulders with motor boats, board sports and equipment as well as tourism professionals, the swimming pool and spa sector and nautical territories. The show will invite the enthusiast, amateur or curious to explore all the attractions of nautical know-how. Many new products will also line the show's aisles, some exhibiting alternative energy solutions and products with less impact on the natural environment.

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.

www.salonnautiqueparis.com/en

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IKIGAI - 82ft JFA Sailing Yacht. Price : From 28,000 per week EUR. Location : WINTER : Brazil

Sailing Ikigai is an absolute joy: sensational to helm, she is simply fantastic upwind.

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2013 HH42 - INO XXX. 375000 GBP. Located in Malta.

HH42, INO XXX is one of the most successful RORC yachts on the last few years. Now turbocharged into an offshore rocket with twin rudders, deeper keel and bigger rig. 2nd in the Fastnet 2021, and has the horsepower to go one better in 2023.

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Seaquest SQ46. POA USD.

Introducing the innovative SeaQuest 46 Catamaran. In a collaboration between Carkeek Design Partners and builder Eaton Marine, the SeaQuest Catamaran has arrived. Renowned racing yacht designer, Shaun Carkeek, delivers signature hull forms and sleek lines, currently proving themselves in races around the world including America‘s Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, and Grand Prix Yachting.

Eaton Marine has manufactured award-winning sailing vessels for nearly three decades. This new venture is based in Dubai, UAE, the construction and manufacturing epicenter of the world where cutting-edge technology is utilized in all aspects of building and design.

The synergy between elite design, build excellence, and progressive technology achieves a completely new level of combined performance, style, and capability. Advanced hull design, semi carbon-fibre construction, and acute attention to weight throughout, deliver performance without compromising an ounce of comfort.

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Outremer 4X - New Boat

Outremer 4X is the fastest sailboat in its category. Its outstanding performance ensures enjoyment and safety and allowed it to earn the distinction as the European Yacht of the Year 2017

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The Last Word
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? -- Dr. Seuss

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