In This Issue
• Making the turn
• Adrian Kuttel Wins Cape2Rio Race
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Rally Ho! CMC V Cruising Rally to Anguilla
• Fujin Crushes Dash Around Saba in CMC V
• Quietly Accepting Ireland's Sensible Place in the Sailing World
• 18ft Skiffs Club Championship, Race 13
• Camden Classics Cup
• First Women's And Youth America's Cup Invitations Issued
• Featured Charter: Wally 83 Sailing Yacht WALLY ONE
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Alfred Mylne Glen-Coats Gaff Sloop - DUET
• • Neo 570c
• • The Bavaria C57
• The Last Word: Van Morrison

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Making the turn
Day 11 onboard Team Malizia. Preparing the weather buoy. Rosalin Kuiper and Will Harris. Click on image to enlarge.

It was near midnight UTC on Saturday night when boats in The Ocean Race fleet started to make their first significant move to the east towards Cape Town.

Within an hour, all five teams had gybed to the east and pointed their bows towards Africa.

It's a very close race now with 11th Hour Racing, Team Holcim-PRB, Biotherm and Team Malizia within 25 miles of the lead and spread across about 35 miles from north to south.

More gybes to the south are expected over the coming hours and days as the teams zig zag south and east to navigate around a high pressure system with light winds.

The outlier is GUYOT environnement - Team Europe who made their move over 160 miles to the north, once again looking to cut the corner on their rivals.

The teams have also been deploying drifter buoys that will gather and transmit data to help the scientific community studying climate impacts on the ocean and aiding with weather forecasting. This is an area of the Atlantic Ocean that isn't well-serviced by commercial shipping, so this is a meaningful contribution from the race teams.

The ETA for Cape Town is now 12 February.

Leg Two Rankings at 1200 UTC - 5 February 2023
1. 11th Hour Racing Team, distance to finish, 2378.3 miles
2. Team Holcim-PRB, distance to lead, 9.7 miles
3. Biotherm, distance to lead, 15.2 miles
4. Team Malizia, distance to lead, 26.3 miles
5. GUYOT environnement - Team Europe, distance to lead, 82.0 miles

theoceanrace.com

Adrian Kuttel Sailing On Atalanta, Wins 50th Anniversary Of The Cape2Rio Race
The 50th anniversary of the Cape2Rio race concluded with some incredible victories and sadly three retirements.There was a party atmosphere in Rio de Janeiro as the winners were announced at a colourful prize giving on Thursday evening.

Single-handed sailor Adrian Kuttel won the overall race on handicap with a corrected time of 21 days 18hrs 59min and 37sec to cover the 3300 nautical miles. Ray Of Light finished second on handicap in a time of 24days 3hrs 20min 37sec, with Alexforbes ArchAngel in third, with a corrected time of 24 days 5hrs 51min 59sec.

Line honours in the multihull category went to Norhi, skippered by Larry Folsom, which finished in 18 days 20hrs 42min and 37sec. The monohull category was a hotly contested affair with line honours going to Michael Kavenagh's Ray Of Light, which just managed to pip Adrian Kuttel's Atalanta by 61 minutes, finishing in 21days 14hrs 11min and 47sec. It was a magnificent performance from Kuttel, who not only was the only single-handed sailor in the race, but also led the monohull fleet for most of the race despite rupturing his bicep on day two.

Sadly, three boats were forced to retire from the race. DHL Me2Me skippered by Richard Sissons suffered damage to the upper and lower rudder bearings on day three and were forced to retire and head for the closest port being St Helena. The Indian Navy entrant, Tarini skippered by Atool Sinha, managed to avert a major steering gear failure early on in the race, but damage to their rigging saw them also diverting to St Helena and retirement.

For Ard Mathews The Impossible Machine became the impossible dream as the boat experienced rigging issues. With repairs not possible the team sensibly headed for St Helena, thus becoming the third boat to retire from the race. Once repairs were done they decided to continue the journey and are heading for Brazil in high spirits.

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Seahorse February 2023
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

World News
Record breakers all... Glenn Ashby gets his dry lake, Yoann Richomme keeps it all in one piece, as does Thomas Ruyant, Ocean 50s upside down (again), Marcelo Botin is just happy to be working close to home again, Mister 18-footer is pretty handy with his Maxi too. Plus time to get the USA offshore again? Dobbs Davis, Patrice Carpentier, Ivor Wilkins, Blue Robinson, Carlos Pich

Rod Davis - Not for the faint-hearted
Who'd be an Olympic selector... in fact, who'd ever want to put their name to the process at all?

IRC - Finessing the product
An eye to development, cost and safety. And the existing fleet. Jason Smithwick

Sailor of the Month
Champion racer vs champion match racer

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Rally Ho! CMC V Cruising Rally to Anguilla
Simpson Bay, St Maarten: It's a tale of two separate events, with different vibes and energy, happening concurrently in this fifth edition of the Caribbean Multihull Challenge. In our parallel universes, on one hand, CMC V is what it's always been: A showcase of competitive racing prowess from a wide variety of slick catamarans and trimarans. This year, CMC V has also introduced and welcomed a whole new fleet of cruising sailors in a dedicated rally where the whole idea is fine sailing, great parties and making new friends.

And the latter was definitely on display today when the dozen yachts representing the CMC Multihull Rally field set sail from Anse Marcel on St. Maartin's French side for a windy crossing of the Anguilla Channel and on to an anchorage on Anguilla's Road Bay, where live music and libations awaited at the aptly named Lit Lounge.

It's no secret to anyone who has attended any of the world's best sailboat shows in the last decade that multihulls are easily the fastest growing segment of the sailing sector of the marine industry. For the CMC Rally, a wide range of brands and models are on the water, led by a half-dozen Balance Catamarans, the sleek daggerboard-equipped performance cats produced in South Africa, which has become one of the leading producers of cruising catamarans. France, of course, is the other main player, and the CMC is well represented with French boats from Lagoon, Outremer, Nautitech and Neel Trimarans. Like the sailors themselves, and the three separate island nations they'll visit over the course of the event, the CMC Rally is an international affair.

In the second act of what has become the CMC's Triple Crown of offshore races, Fujin dominated CSA 1 in the Caribbean 60 Mile Multihull Sprint sponsored by FKG Rigging, a circumnavigation of St. Barth's, in the blistering elapsed time of 4h, 15m, 20s.

The CSA 2 class has become a match-race duel between a pair of superbly sailed trimarans, the classic Newick-designed Tryst, skippered by Arthur Banting, and what is easily the most improved competitor from last year's regatta, Marcos Sirata's Corsair 37, Honey Badger. In today's wildest finish, Honey Badger was leading on elapsed time in the 27-mile around-the-island race but cut the last mark and made for the finish line. The crew soon realized its mistake and turned around to honor the last mark, but in the mean-time Tryst went ahead and crossed the line first, and also saved their time on corrected time to win the class.

Also today, CSA 3 and the Diam 24 one-design class had repeat winners from day one in their respective classes, with Georges Coutu's Leopard 50, La Novia, and Pierre Altier's Cry Baby once again topping their competition. -- Herb McCormick

caribbeanmultihullchallenge.com

Fujin Crushes Dash Around Saba in CMC V
In the inaugural running of the Around Saba Dash, a 52-mile power reach from Simpson Bay, around the nearby Dutch island of Saba and back, Greg Slyngstad's 53-foot Fujin pulled a serious horizon job on the CSA 1 fleet, besting the half-dozen rivals in its class in merciless fashion with a time of 3h, 21m, 35s. Fujin's closest competitor, the Gunboat 60 Cui Bono, was almost an hour in arrears on elapsed time. And Fujin also was CSA 1 overall winner on corrected time, with Anthony McVeigh's well-sailed 53-foot 2 2 Tango placing second by a mere minute and Aussie Guy Chester's Crowther-designed trimaran Oceans Tribute rounding out the podium with a third.

There was initial confusion on the starting line, when both Fujin and Cui Bono mistakenly believed the 10-minute starting sequence was 5 minutes, and both took off before realizing their error and returning late for the actual start. (Cui Bono later lodged a protest that was dismissed.) Principal race officer Rein Korteknie also gave competitors the option to round Saba from either direction. "We went downwind, and left the island to starboard, with a couple of other boats," said Slyngstad, who also said the top wind speed his crew experienced was about 22 knots, and Fujin's boat speed topped off at around 25 knots.

Meanwhile, Korteknie sent the five boats that constituted the CSA 2 and CSA 3 classes on a 29-mile course upwind along the south shore of the island, then up St. Maarten's eastern flank and around the island of Tintamarre before returning to the finish line in Simpson Bay. The winners of the respective divisions were another pair of veteran competitors, Arthur Banting in the Newick tri Tryst in CSA 2 and George Coutu's Leopard 50, La Novia, in CSA 3.

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The America's Cup and Quietly Accepting Ireland's Sensible Place in the Sailing World
Be careful what you wish for - it might just come to happen. This was the feeling that emerged in much of the rest of Ireland's sailing community a year or so back, when "America's Cup Venue Mania" was taking over in Cork. Anyone Irish who questioned the wisdom, true cost and longterm benefit of hoping to accommodate a supra-national yet somehow ephemeral event, a happening renowned for the complete and utter self-interest of its main players, was accused (mostly by a select group of Cork folk) of being unpatriotic.

For sure, "little New Zealand" made itself the focus of world sailing attention way above its weight during its years of closest direct contact with the actual AC contest on the water. But now that the circus has for the time being moved on to Barcelona, a recent gloomy account of the abandoned feeling on the Auckland waterfront had emerged.

The reporter moseyed around some of the former focal scenes of the America's Cup action, and despite it being the height of the New Zealand summer, suggested that longterm facilities viability, with profitable alternative uses emerging after the Cup has left town, has proven to be largely a pipe dream. "A maritime Xanadu" may be over-stating it, but you get the drift...

...The fact is that, had Cork Harbour been selected, it would have been the furthest venue from the Equator of any America's Cup location ever. And if we remove the initial race round the Isle of Wight in 1851 from the listing, Cork Harbour becomes a total high latitude outlier when set up against other previous locations, with their much higher ambient temperatures and reliable sunshine time.

There a lot of commentary between those elipses-- read WM Nixon's full editorial in Afloat magazine:

afloat.ie/blogs/

18ft Skiffs Club Championship, Race 13
Burrawang-Young Henrys was with the leading group on the first lap of the course. Click on image for photo gallery.

With just two more championship races to be sailed before the 73rd JJ Giltinan World 18ft Skiff Championship is held on Sydney Harbour, today's Burrawang Village Hotel-sponsored Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship took on more importance than ever.

In a 10-12 knot Easterly breeze, the Rag & Famish Hotel team of Harry Price, Josh McKnight and Michael Kennedy won the start and sailed a perfect race to record an all the way 45s win over the 18-boat fleet.

It was a timely return to form for the young Rag & Famish Hotel team, who has not had the best of fortune over the past couple of months, and has added even more interest at the top of the fleet in the upcoming Giltinan Championship.

Smeg's Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Tom Anderson continue to improve with each race and grabbed second place, 15s ahead of a fast-finishing Andoo (John Winning Jr, Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton).

Former Australian champion James Dorron, skippering Lazarus, as a replacement for Marcus Ashley-Jones, finished fourth, ahead of Finport Finance (Keagan York) and Yandoo (John Winning).

With two more races still to be sailed in the championship, Andoo leads with a total of 27 points, followed by Smeg on 38, Lazarus on 49, Yandoo 50, Shaw and Partners Financial Services (Jim Colley) 66 and today's winner Rag & Famish Hotel on 72.

Next week the Australian 18 Footers League will stage the next heat of the Club Championship, on Sunday, February 12. -- Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

18footers.com

Camden Classics Cup
Registration opens on February 11th for the 7th Annual Camden Classics Cup, held July 27-29, 2023. Get excited for two days of great racing on Penobscot Bay, festive parties, along with the annual Youth Regatta and the Parade of Sail around Camden Harbor.

The post-race parties on the harbor are going to be even better this year. Expect to enjoy plenty of socializing, dining and music at the Lyman-Morse facility in the heart of Camden harbor. Last year's events sold out early, so remember to buy tickets for your crew!

Many thanks again this year to Stephens Waring Yacht Design, our dockage sponsor. Dockage will be included with your registration on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to vintage and classic vessels.

We would like to thank our sponsors! Take a look at the list from 2022 below. Interested in sponsoring? Please email us at

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First Women's And Youth America's Cup Invitations Issued
The Women's & Youth America's Cup Regattas are two of the major highlights of AC37 in Barcelona, shining an intense spotlight on the next generation of America's Cup sailors. It is the ultimate showcase for tomorrow's household names and superstars of the sailing world's most storied prize and with the Notice of Race having been published back on the 1st November 2022, formal invitations to yacht clubs around the world are being sent out from 1st February 2023 onwards.

To date, expressions of interest have been strong with yacht clubs from some thirteen different countries enquiring, some with established pools of Women's and Youth talent, others with start up teams looking to step up into the big time in one or both of the events.

With the six confirmed teams competing in the America's Cup sealing the first six places in the Women's & Youth events, the organisers have offered six remaining places in each event. Initial invitations are being sent to three teams that have registered interest for both regattas with strong and experienced challenges: Those entries are the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club of Canada with AC40 Team Canada as their team; a joint entry from the Royal Netherlands Yacht Club and the Royal Maas Yacht Club of the Netherlands with their team DutchSail ; and the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona of Spain, the host country of AC37, with Sail Team BCN.

That will leave three slots in the Youth America's Cup and three in the Women's America's Cup and further invitations will be issued once an analysis of the remaining Expressions of Interest is complete.

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