In This Issue
• Final push for the Horn
• Rosalin Kuiper Suffers Head Injury on Malizia
• Ultimate plaything - North Sails
• St. Thomas International Regatta
• Call for nominations to the 2023 Cape Horn Hall of Fame
• Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
• Dinghy Cruising And The Backpack
• J/70 Midwinter Championship
• 'The Restless Wind' A 1950's Voyaging Film
• World Sailing Trust launches Project Juno
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 42 - Loco
• • Seaquest SQ46
• • L30 One Design
• The Last Word: Winston Churchill

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Final push for the Horn
After 48 hours of building wind and seas, with gusts over 40 knots and waves approaching 7 metres, conditions are starting to moderate on Sunday with the IMOCA fleet turning south to squeeze between Cape Horn and the ice exclusion zone.

The wind is in the 18-22 knot range and the waves are 5 metres and decreasing. That's still plenty of motion on an IMOCA, making movement on board difficult, but slightly better than over the past day.

And there is now a good chance the passage of Cape Horn could be quite light and tricky in very changeable conditions.

No matter the conditions, and whether this is a first passage or a fifth or sixth, Cape Horn remains an iconic milestone in the career of an sailor.

On the race course on Sunday the fleet is diving south. Starting the day at 52-degrees south latitude, they'll need to find 56-degrees south to make it around the Horn on Monday.

11th Hour Racing Team is trailing the fleet and furthest west, while the leader, Team Malizia is the most easterly boat, 200 nautical miles closer to South America.

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Rosalin Kuiper Suffers Head Injury on Malizia in Heay Seas at Cape Horn
Team Malizia's Rosalin Kuiper suffers a head injury near Cape Horn - she is conscious, stable and recovering.

At around 0900 UTC on 26th March Rosalin Kuiper suffered a head injury after she fell from her bunk when the boat turned and slammed unexpectedly in heavy sea conditions. Rosalin was off watch and sleeping when the boat wiped out due to a large wave off the South American coast near to Cape Horn. When this happened Rosalin was thrown from her bunk and hit her head just above her right eyebrow.

Ultimate plaything - North Sails
At first no-one believed the AC75 concept could ever possibly work. Barely three years later and the smaller AC40 offspring of those as-it-turned-out spectacularly successful AC75s are available to all (well sort of...)

When the original concept for the new America's Cup class was announced after Emirates Team New Zealand won in Bermuda, few could believe what they were looking at. A 75ft monohull with no keel, flying on a hydrofoil to leeward and a single T-foil rudder was difficult to imagine. But as we now know, the concept not only works; it is developing fast. North Sails' designer Burns Fallow has been with Team New Zealand since 1993 where he and his team have both witnessed and been responsible for some of the biggest changes in the sail package.

Understandably, for sailors and spectators much of the focus has been on the foils, yet the last Cup revealed that the sailplan was also an area where huge progress was being made. And while development for the next generation of AC75 continues, the AC40 is taking some of the advanced technology beyond the rarefied Cup world and into the wider grand prix sailing arena.

Full article in the April issue of Seahorse

St. Thomas International Regatta
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Smart starts. Minimal mistakes. Fast finishes. These are among the successful strategies of class winners at the 49th St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR). Nearly 50 yachts, racing in CSA handicap and one-design classes, spanning from 24- to 70-foot vessels, and with skippers and crews hailing from the Caribbean, USA, Europe, and Australia, raced around the natural markers of islands, cays, and rocks in 12-15 knots of East-Southeast breeze. Perfect conditions, professionally set racecourses, and parties ashore each evening proved why STIR is known as the 'Crown Jewel' of Caribbean Yacht Racing.

Class Winners & Podium Placers
Privateer, the USA's Ron O'Hanley's Cookson 50, finished first over the USA's Jim Madden's Carkeek 47, Stark Raving Mad IX, by a mere two points.

In Spinnaker Racing 1, the USVI's Peter Corr's Summit 40, Blitz, topped the class from day one to the end. The USA's Jon Desmond's Mills 41, Final Final, was second.

In Racer Cruiser 3, the Dominican Republic's Joan Rodriguez's Beneteau First 40.7, Lady M, stretched its lead with a third and final day of first-place finishes. Puerto Rico's Jerome O'Neill's J/39, Crystal, came in second.

A first likely in the two-decade-plus history of the One-Design IC24 Class at STIR, St. Thomas' USVI two-time Olympic Laser sailor, Cy Thompson on Bill T, posted a double-digit 18-point lead to win. St. Croix, USVI's Scott Stanton's Big Island, held and soundly scored second.

In other awards, the USA's David McDonough and his crew aboard the J/42, Trinity IV, earned the inaugural presentation of the perpetual Arthur J. Wullschleger Happy Days and Never Better Award. Wullschleger, nicknamed Tuna, was a veteran International Sailing Judge with events from the America's Cup to STIR under his belt. As a longtime STIR judge, Wullschleger was known for his toasts to 'Happy Days' and saying in response to inquiries about his well-being 'Never Better'. As the trophy is inscribed, it will be 'presented to the yacht the demonstrates the highest level of positive attitude, enthusiasm, and comradery on both the racecourse and ashore.'

Full results on Yachtscoring.com

Call for nominations to the 2023 Cape Horn Hall of Fame
Yannick Moreau, the Mayor of Les Sables d'Olonne; Ashley Manton, Chairman of IACH; Jean-Luc van den Heede, Vice President of IACH. Photo by Tim Bishop/PPL. Click on image to enlarge.

The International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) is calling for nominations to be included in the 2023 Cape Horn Hall of Fame to join the names of 28 famous sailors inaugurated last year at a ceremony held in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, the home of solo sailing.

The Cape Horn Hall of Fame nomination form can be downloaded from the IACH web site here. Submissions close on April 30, 2023. The induction ceremony for the 2023 Cape Horn Hall of Fame is planned take place in Les Sables d'Olonne in September.

Names already honoured on the IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame

Willem Schouten (1567-1625), Netherlands
Jacob Le Maire (1585-1616), Belgium
Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865), England
Capt. Vern Verner Björkfelt (1900-1982), Finland
Capt. Thomas Carter (T.C) Fearon (1813 - 1869), USA
Capt. Adolph Hauth, Allemagne
Capt. Louis Allaire (1880-1949), France
Alan Villiers (1903-1982), Australia
Vito Dumas (1900-1965), Argentina
Marcel Bardiaux (1910-1958), France
Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972), England
Sir Alec Rose (1908-1991), England
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (1939-), England
Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994), France
Sir Chay Blyth (1940-), Scotland
Ramon Carlin (1923-2016), Mexico
Éric Tabarly (1931-1998), France
Cornelis van Rietschoten (1926-2013), Netherlands
Dame Naomi James (1949-), New Zealand
Kay Cottee (1954-), Australia
Jon Sanders (1939-), Australia
Philippe Jeantot (1952-), France
Titouan Lamazou (1955-), France
Sir Peter Blake (1948-2001), New Zealand
Dilip Donde (1967-), India
Stan Honey (1955-), America
Dee Caffari (1973-), England
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede (1945-), France

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Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
This month's nominees:

Will Harris (GBR)
The Ocean Race organisers are making up for the small fleet with punchy investment into onboard stories… and it is paying off. With modern drone skills, transmission bandwidth and improved (coached) comms from those onboard, some real personalities are being created. Will Harris’s composites efforts at the top of the swaying spar of Malizia, closely helped by Rosalin Kuiper, achieved a complex repair that would be hard enough to execute well in the workshop

Quentin Delapierre (FRA)
He came, he saw, he grabbed the handlebars of the French SailGP team and after settling into his new role he started to wipe the floor with the competition. The former Nacra 17 and Tour de France champion had big boots to fill replacing Billy Beeson, yet now he's fully up to speed he has won two of the last three rounds of the latest SailGP series. At the sharp end Messrs Slingsby and Burling have a new rival - coming from an unexpected place

March's winner:
Grzegorz Baranowski (POL)
Huge vote for our Polish friend, largely female: 'THE BEST!!!' - Malgorzata Zawadka; 'The greatest!' - Lidia Kowal; 'The absolute best!' - Alicja As; plus Magda, Maria, Monika, Joanna, Katarzyna, Karolina, Danuta and 200 more of your female admirers. Bravely stepping into the breach: 'We raced together on MK Cafe (we won the Adm Cup 97 and more) - Mr Roman Paszke; 'I raced with Grzegorz for more than 15 years, great sportsman' - Thomas Jungblut.

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Dinghy Cruising And The Backpack
In 1968 a former British Royal Marine, named Colin Fletcher, wrote and published a book about backpacking in the Grand Canyon.

That Book, Titled The Man Who Walked Through Time, Described Fletcher's Experiences, Observations And Thoughts When, In 1963, He Walked The Entire Length Of That Portion Of The Grand Canyon Contained Within The 1963 Boundaries Of The Grand Canyon National Park. He Was The First Person To Accomplish This Feat, "All In One Go."

The Man Who Walked Through Time, along with his later book, The Complete Walker, earned Colin Fletcher the title of "spiritual godfather" of the wilderness backpacking movement—which is still very much with us, alive and well, today.

I have fond memories of reading Fletcher's book and those memories re-surfaced when I decided to write about dinghy cruising, due to the many similarities shared between dinghy cruising and backpacking—not the least of which is the awareness of and the meaningful connection with, the Natural World.

We all pretty much understand the meaning of "a backpack," also known as "a rucksack" and, in England as "a Bergen."

But what, exactly, is "a dinghy"?

The full article in Southern Woodenboat Sailling

Brian Keane's Savasana Victorious at J/70 Midwinter Championship
Miami, Florida, USA: The J/70 Midwinter Championship in Miami, FL proved to be a roller coaster ride for the full nine-race series. The top finishers kept changing, and even the more consistent teams all had a couple double-digit scores or penalties. The team who outlasted the others and therefore crowned 2023 Midwinter Champion is: Savasana, led by Brian Keane, with crew Thomas Barrows, Conner Harding and Ron Weed. Three more idyllic races went in the books Sunday on Biscayne Bay. Keane, locked in a three-way tie for third heading into the final day, controlled their own destiny by racking up a 5,2,1 to close with 47 net points. Bryce Kalow's Superior 2 compiled a steady series for second place with 55 points. Charlie Thompson and Thomas Mallindine on Brutus III won two races and were always in the hunt, ending in third place with 68 points.

Topping the all-amateur division: team Dime with Andrew Loe, Mallory Loe, Spencer Kunath and Chris Roberts. In the runner-up position is Zachary Segal's USA 1154, followed by Henry Filter's Wild Child. The Eker group from Turkey prevailed in the One-Pro Division with Ahmet Eker, Burak Zengin, Doga Aribas and Ates Cinar. Convergence secured the Mixed+ Division with an all-female team of Ava Wilson, Giulia Conti, Sarah Stone, Megan Gimple and Annie Longo.

Top Five Overall:
1. Savasana, Brian Keane, USA, 47
2. Superior 2, Bryce Kalow, USA, 55
3. Brutus III, Charlie Thompson/Thomas Mallindine, UK, 68
4. Midlife Crisis, Bruce Golison, USA, 69
5. Black Mamba, Fernando Perez Ontiveros, MEX, 76

Full results on Yachtscoring.com

'The Restless Wind' A 1950's Voyaging Film
[Southern Woodenboat Sailing] found a link to another film: "The Restless Wind" A British couple sailing a Vertue half way around the world in the late 50's. (Better narration and music too )

So we checked out the Video and what a beauty it is. The 'after the event' narration gives it a charm and self-awareness not present in the SANDEFJORD film and the creators family connection to the story makes it emotionally touching in a very understated English way. And it's only 40 minutes long...and leaves you wanting more!

southernwoodenboatsailing.com

World Sailing Trust launches Project Juno
World Sailing Trust has today published an initial set of recommendations and considerations to support better maternity policies in sailing. Project Juno brings together six initial recommendations to look to set the sport of sailing on a more inclusive course when it comes to women who wish to become mothers and remain in their chosen fields.

"Following our publication of the Women in Sailing Strategic Review in 2019 and subsequent research into participation and the governance of the sport, we are well-placed to understand the challenges that face athletes and others who wish to become mothers," comments Dee Caffari MBE, Chair of World Sailing Trust.

"The pace of change regarding attitudes to mothers in sailing has been slow. When Clarisse Crémer confirmed on social media that she had been let go by her sponsor, Banque Populaire, there was uproar. But one does not need to dig too deep to find similar stories that. Olympians Theresa Zabell and Shirley Robertson both fell foul of the 'system' not being sufficiently flexible or accommodating of pregnant and new mothers, and there are doubtless many more."

"Project Juno looks at the four primary areas that athletes, teams, organisations, and stakeholders should consider when looking at how to best support mothers and fathers. Through them, we also call on our sport to remove the 'mother blinkers' and accept that it will only be the best it can be only by being diverse and inclusive," she concludes.

Read the full report here

Featured Brokerage
2007 Swan 42 - Loco. 220000 USD. Located in Phuket, Thailand.

A great example of this timeless Club Swan 42 design. LOCO has been sailing in Asia since new and has more recently been IRC optimized, whilst retaining the boats inherent ORCi friendliness, One Design potential and cruising ability. A good honest boat and fantastically well priced.

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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.

This listing is for a brand new catamaran, currently under construction. Launching in 12/2021. Commission, Sea Trial, Delivery 1/2023.

The images and renderings used in this listing are for representation purposes only.

For full details please go to... seaquestcatamarans.com/sq46/

Contact

UAE: +971 5 8511 3400
USA: +1 312 772 0948
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L30 One Design. POA EUR.

The L30 boat concept was developed by Rodion Luka – Olympic medalist (2004), Worlds Champion (2005) in 49er Class and Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 participant. Rodion has a 35 years’ experience in One Design racing, being a European and Worlds medalist in Laser Radial, JOD35, SB20 and 49er as well as well experience in Platu25, Melges24, J70 and RC44. He joined up together with Andrej Justin, designer of RC44 to make outstanding boat which combines good all round offshore performance, easy logistic, strict one design and is affordable for wide range of sailors all around the World with the price ready to race around 100k euro.

See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly

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