In This Issue
• Rough Weather In The Furious Fifties
• Dalin is the IMOCA Globe Series Champion
• BSI Group Wishes You a Wonderful Christmas
• Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar
• New Antigua Wingfoil Championship
• Simon Forbes joins ORC team
• 12 Metre World Championship
• Cup Spy: Itay and USA back into training
• 33rd Annual Jamin J/22 Regatta Recap
• Featured Charter: Ikigai - 82ft JFA Sailing Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Solaris One 44
• • Bavaria C38
• • Premier JV74 Nyumba
• The Last Word: Hunter S. Thompson

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Rough Weather In The Furious Fifties For The Globe40 Fleet
Around 1,000 miles from Cape Horn, the GLOBE40 crews are having to contend with a succession of depressions, the latest one fuelling winds of up to 50 knots. Though the skippers aren't currently reporting any serious damage, the atmosphere is one of tension and concentration during this tricky phase, which is set to culminate with a passage around the legendary cape at the end of the week. Solidarity is everything for the sailors, who are competing both against one another and together in this extraordinary adventure. In first place today, the crew aboard MILAI Around The World has now crossed the latitude of 50 degrees South and with them the event joins the realms of the 'Furious Fifties'.

After negotiating the Chilean Gate, a deeper than forecast secondary depression rolled over the top of the fleet yesterday serving up an average of around 35 knots of breeze, gusting up to 50 knots. It was a tense moment for the GLOBE40 teams, who are now some 1,000 miles or so from Cape Horn, which they're set to reach on Friday 16 December.

The Chilean Gate: a key safety device
Some 1,500 nautical miles from the coast of Chile, this mark forms part of the event's safety device, as well as adhering to the spirit of the category 1 classification (rules for equipping sailboats according to their course - category 1 comes just after category 0, the latter equating to sailing with no limits). The gate is positioned in such a way as to prohibit the competitors bound for Cape Horn from dropping down to the more hostile southern latitudes. All the competitors have now negotiated this mark with some 37 hours separating the first and the last boats.

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Dalin is the IMOCA Globe Series Champion
Nathalie Mayance, President of Apivia, and Charlie Dalin, skipper of the IMOCA Apivia. Click on image to enlarge.

For the second season in a row Charlie Dalin, the skipper of Apivia, has become the IMOCAGlobe Series Champion, a remarkable achievement which confirms that he has been the most consistent performer in the Class in 2022.

Dalin followed up a stunning year in 2021, when he took line honours in the Vendee Globe, by winning each of the first three races in the calendar this year - the Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race, the Vendee Arctique-Les Sables d'Olonne and the Defi Azimut-Lorient Agglomeration 48 Hours - and then finished runner-up in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe.

In the season ranking that puts him 13 points clear at the top of the table with Jeremie Beyou, the Charal skipper, in second place and Thomas Ruyant, the skipper of LinkedOut and winner of the Route du Rhum, in third place, another 39 points back. In fourth place is Benjamin Dutreux after a consistent season on Guyot Evironnement-Water Family, one of five IMOCAs due to take the start of The Ocean Race in January.

Modest and self-effacing, 38-year-old Dalin, who is now awaiting his new IMOCA which is due to be delivered in late May or June, summed up another fantastic year which has seen his team put a boat on the water from their base at Port-La-Forêt that has performed almost flawlessly.

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BSI Group Wishes You a Wonderful Christmas
Merry Christmas to you, our customers, from all at BSI Rigging, GORI Propeller, Hundested Propeller, Jefa Steering, OYS, Moonlight and Easy. We thank you for sharing your waterborne adventures with us in 2022 and we look forward to many more in 2023.

We believe in helping you with small advances allowing you to achieve greater results. As sailors, we constantly seek greater efficiencies on the water, and as a manufacturer, we work hard to deliver on those. We are here to enhance your sailing time on the water, from having more robust steering systems to better standing rigging and more efficient propellers. Made for sailors by sailors.

"We know there are some challenging times ahead and we will continue to work closely with our dealers and agents to ensure prompt delivery. Please, if you have a regatta planned for next year, speak with your nearest service agent or dealer and order early." comments Morten Madsen, CEO for BSI Group. "Until then, Season's Greeting from us all and we wish you a prosperous 2023."

Information on the high-quality range of specialist marine equipment from the BSI Group of companies for sailing and motor yachts is available on our website. Here you will find your local service agent or dealer who can help you plan for next year.

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Wight Vodka Best Sailors Bar
Here's some nominated bars that include some very unusual locales (who'd have thought that a University bar would have such a view!)

* University of Wisconsin Madison Terrace

Words don't do it justice. Overlooking Lake Mendota, seats for over a hundred, any time the sun is out it is packed, just check the reviews. Best place to have a beer in the world. Social since 1928!

* Yacht Club Micalvi is an ex-navy supply ship docked at a local pier in Puerto Williams, Chile.

The Bar is filled with adventurers coming or goingoing to Antarctica or other points south along with a few boisterios Naval officers singing raunchy sea shanties. The Pisco Sours are the best in the world and go down much too easy. Adventure stories are shared around a crackling fire in the wood burning stove in the middle of a tilting grand room decorated with burgees, sailor caps and other memorbilia left by explorers that passed through Puerto Williams.

* Mahogany Shoals

The best Mudslide (liquid heroin) ever made at a dockside bar that can serve hundreds during Block Island Race Week without delay! It does not get much better than that, now does it?

* Waikiki Yacht Club

No walls - open air all year long. Great bar tenders, been there 25 years, know you and your drink. Watch boats docking a few feet away. Watch the Friday evening fireworks from your bar stool 52 times a year. Everything from skippers meetings and trophy presentations to wedding takes place here. Never a dull moment.

We're accepting messages and nominations until then end of the month... Then we all vote on the top ten selected bars...

Tell us stories about your favourite: eurosailnews.com/sailors-bars

New Antigua Wingfoil Championship
Antigua Sailing Week (ASW), in collaboration with the Caribbean Foiling Championship (CFC), is excited to announce the addition of a Wingfoil class to the 2023 event which takes place April 29 - May 5.

Starting on May 1, ASW will host the Antigua Wingfoil Championships. The Wingfoilers will compete using a separate start line and custom-tailored courses during the first half of ASW 2023. It will feature three consecutive days of racing, including two days on a fast-paced course in Falmouth Harbour and a long-distance downwinder along the island's south coast to coincide with the Lay Day activities on May 3. The prizegiving will take place at Pigeon Point Beach, adding even more excitement to that day's fun activities. ASW participants who are also Wingfoil enthusiasts should consider participating.

The Antigua Wingfoil Championship during Antigua Sailing Week is now open to interested wingfoilers at YachtScoring.com

Simon Forbes joins ORC team
Trieste, Italy: The Offshore Racing Congress(ORC) is pleased to announce that UK-based multihull expert Simon Forbes has joined the team at ORC to help manage the issuing of ORCmh (ORC MultiHull) certificates, a new product line for ORC. His appointment is effective immediately.

Jason Carroll's MOD 70 ARGO, one of over 100 performance and performance-luxury multihulls that have been issued MOCRA or ORCmh ratings and certificates.

Forbes brings four decades of expertise in an impressive range of skills in the Multihull world. After receiving his diploma in Yacht and Boat Design at Southampton in the early 1980's, he started his career in design and construction with Derek Kelsall in a wide variety of innovative performance-oriented multihulls.

Within a few years Forbes started putting these skills to work also at World Sailing in a variety of roles: Assistant Measurer, Technical Officer, Technical Manager, and Technical & Offshore Manager. While at World Sailing he supported the Keelboat, Centerboard Boat, Multihull, Measurement, Board Sailing, Offshore Special Regulation and Oceanic and Offshore Committee, as well as the International Regulations Commission.

Since 2000 Forbes has also been managing the Multihull Offshore Cruising and Racing Association (MOCRA) rating system, which is currently used around the world for numerous offshore races.

Another important element of Forbes' four decades of background is his insight gained from his own multihull experience: he has sailed on such high-profile boats as Alain Thebault's 60-foot foiling HYDROPTERE the 110-foot catamaran MAIDEN II with Brian Thompson, Loic Peyron's 110-foot catamaran INNOVATION EXPLORER and his 60-foot trimaran FUJICOLOR and Lalou Roucayrol's BANQUE POPULAIRE.

For more information on ORCmh

12 Metre World Championship Scheduled for Newport, Rhode Island in 2023
2019 12mR World Champion (Traditional Division) Columbia (US-16) will compete in the 2023 12mR World Championship set for next summer. Photo by Chris Tucker. Click on image to enlarge.

Next summer in Newport, R.I., an exciting schedule of competitive sailing will be punctuated by the 2023 12mR World Championship, an International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) event organized by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station (official home of ITMA's Americas 12mR fleet) in partnership with Organizing Authority Ida Lewis Yacht Club. With racing set to take place July 31-August 5, an international fleet of 12 Metres will converge on Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound much as they did in the years between 1958 and 1983 when many of these awe-inspiring sailboats competed here for a chance to become a contender in the renowned America's Cup and, more recently, when they vied for class titles at their 2019 12mR Worlds. (The most recent 12mR World Championship was held in 2021 in Helsinki, Finland.)

Leading up to the 2023 Worlds, the fleet will be busy racing a full schedule of regattas and practices out of Newport, including two class-sanctioned regattas, the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, June 9-11 and the Sail Newport Regatta, July 7-9 (serving as the 12 Metre Pre-Worlds). The fleet will be divided into four divisions - Modern, Traditional, Vintage, and "Spirit of Tradition" - and have healthy representation in each, including returning 2019 World Champions Columbia (US-16, Traditional Division) and Challenge XII (KA-10, Modern Division). Other teams expected to compete include American Eagle (US-21), Courageous (US-26), Defender (US-33), Enterprise (US-27), Freedom (US-30), Gleam (US-11), Intrepid (US-22), Nefertiti (US-19), Onawa (US-6), and Weatherly (US-17).

A base camp for the teams during the five days of Worlds competition will be established at the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS). The Organizing Authority is the Ida Lewis Yacht Club.

12mrworlds.com

Cup Spy: Itay and USA back into training
Luna Rossa sailed their LEQ12 on the Gulf of Cagliari, their first time out since their aborted training session four days ago.

American Magic sailed out of Pensacola also for the first time in four days.They stayed inside Pensacola Bay sailing a variety of legs and angles

INEOS Britannia stayed in the shed in Barcelona

Alinghi Red Bull Racing went into the shed in Barcelona on November 16, for upgrades and is yet to emerge

Emirates Team New Zealand are repairing their AC40/LEQ20 after a violent nosedive on November 21. There is no date announced when it will begin sailing.

A further decision on the issue of INEOS Britannia's Instrumentation Pole, was issued on December 5 by the Measurement Committee which supported their previous interpretation that the Pole was Mast Tube, and counted as one of their allowance of just one Mast Tube for their LEQ12.

Francesco Bruni (Luna Rossa helmsman) won the Masters Championship at the Int Moth Worlds in Argentina, and placed 6th overall in the Open fleet, winning the last two races.

Richard Gladwell's full article in Sail-World.com

33rd Annual Jamin J/22 Regatta Recap
This year's regatta was intense; both the competition and wind could only be described as fierce. We saw 20+ knots of breeze consistently with gusts up to 30 throughout the two days of racing, Friday December 2 and Saturday December 3, with a few early retirements and some incredible boat handling. Safety being the number one priority, we decided to move forward with racing with caution and after much deliberation, as the scores will reflect, crews and skippers decided for themselves what was safe.

With 11 boats registered, including 2 shipped from Cayman with the generous sponsorship of Seaboard Marine, it was a great couple days of racing. Without Seaboard Marine getting the boats from the Cayman Islands Sailing Club to the port in Montego Bay, the final results would have looked very different. The Jamaican Customs was instrumental in the clearance of the two Caymanian vessels, Yahoo #9 and Adjusted #13, skippered by Bruce Johnson and Mike Farrington, respectively. We look forward to their support in future years for the continued comradery and growth of the sport on both islands.

The Montego Bay Yacht Club, which has hosted this event since 1989, had 6 J/22s competing this year, including AWESOME! #0 skippered by Commodore and Jamin Chair, Spencer May, Nina #1 skippered by Stephen Dear, Zipper #2 skippered by Denise Taylor, Ayahso #4 skippered by the father/daughter combo of Michael and Emily Morse, Open Water #7 skippered by Andrew King, and Defender #10 skippered by Past Commodore and Chair of the Pineapple Cup Race, Nigel Knowles. Kingston's Royal Jamaica Yacht Club had two boats competing, Tsunami #3 skipped by Malcolm Hernould and PJ Gibson and Geronimo #11 skippered by Steven Cooke. Our defending champions from the Galveston Bay Cruising Association, Walter Caldwell, Karen Glass, Allie Cribbs and Brett Allred, had the use of Renegade #6 through the generosity of Past Commodore and Past Jamin Chair, Richard Hamilton.

We had a great showing this year and greatly look forward to hosting Jamin again in 2023. Tentative dates are November 30 - December 3rd. Please reach out to to be kept informed!

Final results, top three:
1. Adjusted, Mike Farrington, Cayman Islands YC, 9 points
2. Yahoo, Bruce Johnson, Cayman Islands YC, 12
3. Ayahso, Micheal Morse, Montego Bay YC, 25

www.mobayyachtclub.com

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IKIGAI was recently refitted and refurbished at Vitters Shipyard in what was effectively a complete rebuild. The spacious, modern and welcoming interior is fashioned from clear varnished teak. The large master cabin and two guest cabins are situated forward. Amidships are the spacious saloon and dining room. Behind the companionway you will find, to port, the brand new high-tech navigation station, the chart table and the crew cabin; and to starboard, the galley and crew mess. The transom opens to give access to the garage where the tender is stored. Sailing Ikigai is an absolute joy: sensational to helm, she is simply fantastic upwind.

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The Last Word
Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba... -- Hunter S. Thompson

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