EuroSail News #5289 - 15 March
In This Issue
• Repairs and racing along the ice limit
• Glorious Griffin Programme for 2023
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Dalin: Comanche's 618-mile record is within reach
• The Night Before the Southern Ocean Leg
• US Sailing has gone a bandwidth too far
• Breeze On In Pensacola
• Full Nine-Boat Fleet at SailGP New Zealand
• First Solo Maitre CoQ race now planned for Wednesday
• Dress rehearsal for Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca
• Featured Charter: Garcia 85 Sloop FANI
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Ker 40+ - "Elvis"
• • Neo 570c
• • Infiniti 52R
• The Last Word: H.G. Wells
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Repairs and racing along the ice limit
Following the distribution of points at the scoring gate on Sunday, teams are now consolidating their positions and working through job lists to keep the boats in racing condition.
On Monday evening, 11th Hour Racing Team revealed the latest challenge for their crew to overcome - a badly torn mainsail, along a load-bearing seam of the sail at the first reef point.
"We can't use the full main or the first reef because of the rip," explained Jack Bouttell moments after it happened. "It's quite hard to repair on board, nearly impossible I think, because of where it is in a structural part of the sail."
But given more time to assess and reflect, skipper Charlie Enright confirmed this team would attempt to do just that - make a repair and keep racing:
"We did just stop and take a look at the yacht and assess and we made the decision as a group to get the boat to Brazil for some TLC as we have a number of things hampering our performance at the moment.
"We talked about stopping, whether in New Zealand or Tasmania, but ultimately decided that we feel safe in proceeding. Given the weather ahead of us there will be some (competitive) opportunities but we're really racing ourselves right now. We'll see what the future brings..."
Glorious Griffin Programme for 2023
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is delighted to update on the latest news from the Griffin Fund. Confirming fantastic opportunities for under 30 sailors in 2023 for aspiring rookies and Griffin Graduates. The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Griffin Fund and its generous supporters, have exciting projects in place for the RORC Season's Points Championship and the Rolex Fastnet Race made possible by the generosity of RORC member Henry Bateson.
2023 RORC Season's Points Championship
Under-30 Sailors are invited to apply for the Griffin Initiative Induction programme organised by renowned sailing coach Bill Edgerton on Henry Bateson's Iceni 39 Andrasta.
Cowes UK - Two separate seven-day sessions are organised for two different crews, totalling 18 sailors under 30 years of age. The week-long sessions will revolve around racing Andrasta in the Cowes Dinard St Malo Race (start on 7th of July), and The Channel Race (start on 12th August). Financial, coaching and product support is very welcome for the Griffin Inductees.
2023 Rolex Fastnet Race
Cowes UK - Graduates from the 2022 Griffin Fund programme will race Henry Bateson's IC39 Andrasta in the 2023 Rolex Fastnet Race. Bill Edgerton's team will be composed of the Griffin inductees from last year. The mixed-gender team are in their 20s and will be putting the knowledge learnt from last year to the ultimate test in the world famous offshore race. Financial, coaching and product support is very welcome for the Griffin Graduates team on Andrasta.
Read more about the Griffin Fund
Seahorse April 2023
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
Rather a good start
New designers, a brand new boatyard and a brilliant skipper who is at last getting the recognition he deserves. Giuliano Luzzatto
A life on the ocean wave
Good to meet a world-class sailor who is just as interested in passing it on and bringing on the next generation. Will Oxley talks to Blue Robinson
Towards (ever) better data
The masthead is the most dynamically vigorous point on a sailing boat... without factoring that movement into your instruments all that wonderful masthead data will only ever be one part of the story
Clear as day
Ainhoa Sanchez
Two to tango
Those grumbling about the Sydney Hobart results again should put up or shut up. Rob Weiland
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Dalin: Comanche's 618-mile record is within an IMOCA's reach
The scintillating performance of the four IMOCAs flying over the Southern Ocean in the third leg of The Ocean Race, has made a lot of people sit up and take notice, not least the reigning IMOCA GLOBE SERIES champion Charlie Dalin.
The multiple race winner, and line honours finisher in the last Vendee Globe on board Apivia - who has been king of the IMOCA GLOBE SERIES castle for two seasons in succession - is heavily focused on his new Guillaume Verdier-designed IMOCA, named Macif and due to be launched in mid-June.
But like most of the skippers in the class he has been watching the videos from the "Big South" with interest, keeping a check on what is going on. Dalin is not surprised to see all the boats break the old 24-hour IMOCA distance record, or to see race leader Holcim-PRB establish a remarkable new mark of 595 nautical miles.
"It has been exciting and good to finally see the true potential of the large-foil IMOCAs with the 24-hour record beaten multiple times," Dalin told the Class this week. "That was something that I knew was achievable with Apivia. I always knew that these new boats could be fast, and I actually believe that the 600-nautical mile mark is achievable in the right conditions."
Dalin says the wind and sea conditions in the Southern Indian Ocean in the last few days have been perfect for record setting, but the record itself inevitably is getting harder to break.
The Night Before the Southern Ocean Leg
The night before with Charlie Enright, skipper of @11thhourracingteam83. The longest and toughest leg of @TheOceanRace starts tomorrow - the Southern Ocean. Known as the world's wildest and most remote expanse of open ocean, it encircles the Earth's southernmost continent, the ice-enshrined landmass of Antarctica. It's an adventure like no other, sailing three quarters of the way around the bottom of the world, in the most hostile conditions. Charlie tells us how he feels during this time, mentally preparing for the start, the sense of responsibility he has for his crew and the boat, and the emotional side of being away from his family for such a long time.
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US Sailing has gone a bandwidth too far
The US Sailing National Championships have a long history of bringing together its constituents to vie for titles in a wide variety of formats, and as the sport has evolved over the years, so have these events.
The US Sailing calendar culminates with the Championship of Champions, an invitation-only event which brings together the gamut of one design class champions for a competition in one type of boat to see who is the best of the best.
I am three-time competitor, one-time winner, and full-time enthusiast of this event. Class champions don't often meet, and while these winners all want to win, the event has a good vibe. Borrowed boats can do that, but there is a level of mutual respect not often found.
However, I was frustrated with US Sailing allowing skippers to hire pro crew to help their chances. I believed US Sailing should be promoting the Corinthian spirit of competition, plus it introduced a new and costly variable.
While the organization agreed with my position, now mandating that no skipper or crew may be paid to sail in this event, I am struggling with their decision to have the 2023 event sailed in Radio Controlled DragonFlite 95s.
While I should be thankful the choice wasn't e-sailing, and certainly no disrespect to the RC racing world, but could there be a platform that is less related to one design racing in the USA? Is this how US Sailing intends to save sailing?
Craig Leweck's full editorial in SailingScuttlebutt.com
Breeze On In Pensacola
The huge star-spangled banner was fully extended from the crane at the New York Yacht Club American Magic team base offering a fairly decent clue as to the wind strength out on Pensacola Bay. But, keen to get time in all conditions, the sailors stayed inshore for the flat water and were up and rocketing in double-quick time. Impressive to watch, American Magic was hitting speeds in the low 40 knot region downwind but there's something about the way they sail, the sheer technique, that oozes class and control. You never really see the Americans ragged. They did this in 'Patriot' too and it's the vast well of experience that they are drawing on that makes them such a thrilling force in this America's Cup cycle.
Tom Slingsby and Paul Goodison looked utterly in control whilst Lucas Calabrese and Michael Menninger had the flight control nailed. Did we see windward heel upwind? – Why yes of course we did, it's the American Magic trademark and they even sneaked a little bit in downwind. Fabulous sailing and the recon team even got a wave from Paul Goodison as the AC40 thundered past the RIB. Confidence seeps out of every pore in this team, and they are a delight to observe.
The day however came to an end after just one run – albeit a 31-minute run – as a big nosedive was caused by a rudder elevator issue and, if truth be told, it was a disappointment as the sailors were clearly having a ball as the breeze built into the upper bracket of 18-23 knots just after midday. For the record, and it's worth mentioning here: five tacks and one gybe were completed with a 100% foil-to-foil success rate, underlining the skill on display.
Full Nine-Boat Fleet at SailGP New Zealand
The full, nine-strong flying F50 fleet is set to compete on the waters of Whakaraupō, Lyttelton Harbour this weekend following an intense repair program.
It comes after a severe weather incident caused significant damage to the fleet's wing sails and the Canada F50 after the first day of racing in Sydney.
Since then, the SailGP Tech Team has been working flat out to repair the fleet in time for the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix in Christchurch this weekend.
The repair program was a joint effort by the SailGP Tech Team, which has been repairing the Canada F50 and wings on the ground in Lyttelton, and SailGP Technologies in Warkworth.
First Solo Maitre CoQ race now planned for Wednesday
As expected the weather conditions and more significantly the sea state with a swell greater than 5 meters off Les Sables d'Olonne, required Race Management of the 20th Solo Maitre CoQ to give up the idea of a short coastal course Tuesday.
There is positive news for Ireland's Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) and the 29 other solo competitors who have been forced to stay ashore now for two days.
The situation is expected to improve significantly by Wednesday and should allow the organization to launch the first contest, a coastal course of 15, 5 miles between Petite Barge and Port-Bourgenay.
The start of this race which has a coefficient of 1.5 is scheduled for 1100hrs.
The winds should be from the south-southeast blowing between 6 and 12 knots.
Then Thursday at midday is the start of the main 340 miles offshore between the Iles de Re, Yeu and Belle-Ile.
To follow Tom Dolan on this race
Dress rehearsal before the 52 Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca
The Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta fulfilled its primary objective by offering a large part of the Trofeo Princesa Sofia fleet the opportunity to measure themselves against their rivals in competition mode whilse and the Bay of Palma reaffirmed its reliability for hosting Olympic class regattas.
Over 350 sailors and more than 200 boats competed over the weekend in the Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta, an essential event in the preparation programme for some of the best Olympic class racers in the world. The popular training regatta prior to the Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca delivered for organisers and participants, who were able to test themselves at three weeks before the start of the first qualifying event for the Sailing World Cup 2023.
The champions of the Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta were the Germans Simon Diesch and Anna Markfort (470 Mixed), Paul Kohlhoff and Alica Stuhlemmer (Nacra 17); the French sailors Nicolas Goyard (iQFOiL Men), Lucas Rual and Emile Amoros (49er); the Belgians Isaura Maenhaut and Anouk Geurts (49er FX); and the British Emma Wilson in iQFOiL Women.
The complete results are available here.
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