EuroSail News #5229 - 12 December

In This Issue
• World Land Speed Record Broken
• Victory For Team Nika In Oman
• The Science of Sailing
• Monegasques dominate at home in Winter Series
• 18ft Skiffs NSW Championship, Race 3
• 50th Rolex Fastnet Race
• Sporty - YYachts
• Sailing World on Water
• Tributes To Ron Packer At RFBYC
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 82-010 Grey Goose
• • Open 60 Le Cigare Rouge
• • RM 890+
• The Last Word: Unknown

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222.4Km/H: Wind Powered World Land Speed Record Broken
Lake Gairdner: Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed 'Horonuku', their wind powered land speed world record craft, faster than any previous records.

'Horonuku' named by Ngati Whatua OrAkei meaning 'gliding swiftly across the land' did exactly that and was clocked at 222.4km/h in 22 knots of windspeed on Lake Gairdner in South Australia.

Pilot Glenn Ashby was clearly happy with the run, but also tempered with the knowledge that Horonuku can go much faster. "The team and I are obviously buzzing to have sailed Horonuku at a speed faster than anyone has ever before - powered only by the wind. But in saying that we know Horonuku has a lot more speed in it when we get more wind and better conditions." Said Ashby.

Now the team has passed the previous record speed and is confident that with more wind Horonuku has the ability go even faster, the team will take a break and await a perfect forecast to have another run.

In the absence of any more breeze in the foreseeable future and Christmas just around the corner that is likely to come in 2023.

www.emiratesteamnz.com

Victory For Team Nika In Oman, But Charisma Dominates The 44Cup Season
On the concluding day of the 2022 44Cup's final event, the 44Cup Oman, PRO Maria Torrijo defied the odds and was able to stage three races. As is usual with this fleet of high performance owner-driver one designs, the results were close going into the final day with Team Aqua, Team Nika and Aleph Racing separated by just one point for the lead. But today's results would not only have a bearing on the event scoreline, but on those overall for the season.

Despite the race course being moved further out to sea light winds combined with cumulus clouds made for massive race winning/losing shifts across the course. Tornjorn Tornqvist's Artemis Racing read these to perfection in the first race, winning by the largest margin of the week, with Christian Zuerrer's Black Star Sailing Team second, her best result of the event. After this race still just two points separated the lead trio, a third place for Team Nika putting her back on top.

With the sun getting low in the sky, the third race was held as the gradient breeze was establishing. Once again Artemis Racing was in winning form, tactician Andy Horton having a sixth sense about the shifts. With the Swedes comfortably out in front, one third of the way down the final run on board fourth placed Charisma tactician Hamish Pepper made the call to gybe, and out to the right found better pressure and a favourable shift, enabling her to take the final race win.

This was a fitting season's conclusion for Charisma which won three events back-to-back, including the class' World Championship in Portoroz in October. Here off Muscat's Al Mouj Marina today she was best scoring boat, elevating her from fifth place to the bottom spot of the 44Cup Oman podium. It was also enough to secure Charisma the 2022 44Cup title by seven points.

Charisma won the 44Cup in 2018 but this year's victory was definitive.

44Cup Oman Results:
(After 10 races)
1. Team Nika, 31
2. Artemis Racing, 34
3. Charisma, 38
4. Aleph Racing, 41
5. Team Aqua, 42
6. Black Star Sailing Team, 58
7. Peninsula Racing, 60
8. Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860, 61
9. Team Asyad Shipping, 87

Penalty points shown in brackets.

44Cup Overall Ranking:
(After five events with 1 discard)
1. Charisma, 6
2. Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860, 13
3. Team Nika, 13
4. Team Aqua, 15
5. Artemis Racing, 15
6. Aleph Racing, 18
7. Peninsula Racing, 25
8. Black Star Sailing Team, 30

44Cup.org

The Science of Sailing
Ever wondered about the maximum speed attainable under sail, by the additional drag in shallow water, or the increase in speed in following seas?

Since handing over the daily running of the "Van Oosanen" group of companies, Peter van Oossanen has committed himself to the writing of a series of books on his favorite subject: "The Science of Sailing".

The first 4 volumes have been completed and can be ordered from

50% OFF -- Students enrolled in a yacht design, naval architecture, or similar course are entitled to a 50% discount (25 Euros instead of 50 per volume, excluding the cost of shipping).

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Monegasques dominate at home in Winter Series
Final day of racing at Act II of the 10th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series, organised by Yacht Club de Monaco, ended in style with a clean sweep for the locals on this circuit. Determined to make it a full house, they kept the visiting teams out of the top five thanks to their consistency, speed and technique in breezes up to 10 knots.

The almost 30-strong international fleet completed four races in variable conditions over the weekend, with YCM teams gradually widening the gap between them and the visiting competition.

Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio (G-Spot) consolidated his results from the previous day, winning three of the four races to take 1st place ahead of Pierrik Devic (Leonteq), current J/70 World Vice-Champion, with Ludovico Fassitelli (Junda) completing the podium.

Act III of this series of monthly regattas from November to March is on 2-5 February 2022 before the grand finale of Act IV which coincides with the 39th Primo Cup - Credit Suisse (2-5 March 2023), a big winter meeting for one designs.

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18ft Skiffs NSW Championship, Race 3
SMEG catching up. Click on image for photo gallery.

The Yandoo team of John Winning Sr., Fang Warren and Josh Porebski closed the gap to Andoo (John Winning Jr., Matt Stenta and Sam Newton) in the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship with a amazing exhibition in the North East wind conditions which prevailed for Race 3 of the series on Sydney Harbour today.

After overtaking Shaw and Partners Financial Services (Jim Colley, Shaun Connor and Tom Quigley) on the final time around the top mark, Andoo made their way into second place but could not catch Yandoo, finishing just 45 seconds behind the leaders.

Third place went to Shaw and Partners Financial Services, who finished a further 1m1s behind Andoo.

Balmain Slake (Henry Larkins) had their best race of the season finishing in fourth place, ahead of Lazarus Captial Partners (Marcus-Ashley Jones), Rag & Famish (Harry Price), Smeg (Michael Coxon) and Burrawang-Young Henrys (Simon Nearn).

Andoo still heads the series points table on 4 points, followed by Yandoo on 9 points, Smeg on 15 points, Rag & Famish on 19 points and Shaw and Partner Financial Services on 21 points.

Yandoo leads the season point score with a total of 54 points, followed by The Royal Oak Double Bay 4 Pines on 57 points and Smeg on third with 62 points.

We will be back on the 15th of January 2023, with race 4 of the NSW Championships. -- Media Team, Australian 18 Footers League

www.18footers.com

50th Rolex Fastnet Race - one month until vital registration opens
1200 UTC 11th January 2023: this time should be double underlined in the calendar of those wishing to enter next year's Rolex Fastnet Race, as it will be the moment when registration officially opens for the 50th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's flagship event. Just like Glastonbury tickets when they go on sale, registration opening prior to recent editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race have seen available places snapped up within just a few minutes.

In the last pre-pandemic edition of the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race in 2019, the entry capacity was reached in just four minutes and 37 seconds - 13 seconds outside the record time set two years earlier.

With next year's edition of the world's largest offshore yacht race marking a special anniversary, demand is expected to be higher than ever, with more than 450 expected on the start line, ranging from maxi monohulls and multis to 30ft club racers and cruisers and everything in between.

Entries are available on a 'first come-first served' basis and any late comers beyond the RORC's limit will be placed on a waiting list. -- James Boyd/RORC

www.rolexfastnetrace.com

Sporty - YYachts
...one word that perfectly sums up YYachts' new 90-footer. However to that you must then add blindingly stylish both inside and out and supremely comfortable in every respect

When Michael Schmidt was looking for a large yacht for himself a few years ago, he couldn't find any format on the market - either new or used - that even came close to meeting his rather high demands. It had to be 80 feet, easy to handle, with no vulnerable components and, of course, look as good as possible. Most people in this position would explain their ideas to a designer and commission a shipyard to build this single solution. But Schmidt - ex-Admiral's Cup winner, ex-head of one of the world's largest production boatyards and, in general, one of the most creative minds the German sailing scene has ever produced - would not be Schmidt if he did not generate a business idea from it. And so he built the 80-foot-long Cool Breeze - as a start-up, so-to-speak, and initially with a fairly manageable team.

The fact that this, with a design by Lorenzo Argento (exterior) and David Chipperfield (interior), was very well received by potential customers was not entirely surprising.

Full article in the December issue of Seahorse

Sailing World on Water
Glassy seas, but an ominous sky greeted the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team out today deep in the Gulf of Cagliari - the Golfu de Casteddu in local Sardinian- and with a forecast for the wind to increase significantly but some debate and conflict over quite how much and when, it was a tricky day for the team's meteorologists. It was even harder actually on the water as the team docked out from their quite astonishingly well-appointed base in the Port of Cagliari at midday having spent the morning waiting for the wind.

This is the Sailing World on Water for December 09, 2022. Highlights of the sport, globally, in the last seven days.

It was a welcome sight to see Sir Ben Ainslie leading from the front today out in a very placid and peaceful, if somewhat chilly Palma Mallorca and bringing to this America's Cup cycle a new acronym that is straight out of Formula 1 (we presume). In interview, Ainslie repeatedly referred to the 'HMI' - the Human Machine Interface - that crossover point where technology must relent to the human touch and vice versa.

www.boatson.tv

Tributes To Ron Packer At RFBYC
About 800 people gathered at Perth, Australia's, Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club to celebrate the life of and pay tribute to one of its favourite sons and former commodore, Ron Packer, who succumbed to a long fight against cancer.

Ron was one of sailing's "rock star" navigators in the golden era of sailing back in the sixties and seventies. He sailed his first Sydney to Hobart in '68 on Neil McAllister's Starfire, spending most of the race pumping, because they had sprung a plank or two. This did not put him off and he did several more Hobarts on the family boat Hotspur, before, on a newer family boat Rampage they won the '75 Hobart, the first and only Western Australian boat ever to achieve this.

He sailed his first Fastnet Race on Alan Bond's Apollo in 1971, guiding them to second place. Then in '73 he was on Bondy's Apollo II as part of the Australian Admiral's Cup team, which finished second.

Still with Alan Bond's sailing programme he was navigator on Southern Cross for the '74 America's Cup.

Although claiming to have given up offshore racing, he was persuaded back by his brother Chris to join the crew of the Australian Admiral's Cup team boat Police Car in '79. They survived the dramatic Fastnet race, despite being rolled twice on the way back from the rock, finishing fourth and helping Australia win the prestigious Admiral's Cup.

Away from sailing Ron was called up by the Australian Army and put through training to serve in Vietnam, but fortunately the war ended before he was deployed. However, while working in London as a lawyer he joined Honourable Artillery Company as part of the British Army Reserve.

When he returned home to Perth he joined the family property business and remained an active sailor in the Etchells, Flying Fifteen and Dragon classes at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. With wife Phillipa, also a competitive sailor, they had three daughters of whom he was immensely proud, and who all spoke about him with affection and humour at the wake.

Ron was a Life Patron of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. -- John Roberson

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