EuroSail News #5299 - 30 March
In This Issue
• Northern progress for The Ocean Race fleet
• The Two-Handed Revolution
• Personal service personal commitment - Sevenstar Yacht Transport
• Help for JC a San Diego boat worker
• Afloat.ie's W M Nixon Receive Fastnet Trophy
• BVI Spring Regatta: Scrub Island Invitational
• Road To Gold
• Launchings
• Featured Charter: Class 40
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Stella Polare Starkel Star 60
• • Pogo 12.50 Hermes
• • YYACHTS Y8
• The Last Word: Stephen Hawking
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Northern progress for The Ocean Race fleet
"This was a spectacular rounding of Cape Horn because there was so much snow... It was absolutely beautiful. Huge snow squalls coming through," said Sam Davies on Biotherm.
"It's a great goal post to get through but as we gybed close to Cape Horn we lost all of our wind instruments and the computer. At the same time there was that massive snow squall so we didn't have a lot of time to celebrate..."
The team is going old school with the electronics damage, tying 'woolies' on the shrouds to show the wind angle.
"A couple of weeks ago it wasn't certain we'd make it this far," said 11th Hour Racing Team skipper Charlie Enright, speaking about what getting to Cape Horn meant to him.
"This is a big milestone in the journey of circumnavigating the planet. I'm very proud of our squad and the work that's been put in... It feels good... And now it's back to work and 2000 miles to go!"
* The Ocean Race has passed Cape Horn in benign weather conditions. The fleet has stretched out with the first two boats breaking away from the other two and the distance is over 250 nautical miles. GUYOT Entertainment is approaching Itagai and is currently close to docking.
Team Malizia, who were contemplating a return to Cape Town after mast damage in the first days of leg 3, and who approached Cape Horn today nursing an injured crew member, have overcome all these obstacles and more to lead The Ocean Race fleet past the iconic landmark.
Boris Herrmann, skipper of Team Malizia, commented on this, his fifth passing of the landmark: "Cape Horn holds many memories for me, and crossing this line in first almost means more than winning the leg, not in terms of points but in terms of what it means. I am proud of the team and this boat! The boat has really proved itself in the Southern Ocean and shown how tough she is." -- boatsontv.com
The Two-Handed Revolution
Offshore yacht racing's greatest evolution recently has been the rise of doublehanding. No better demonstration of this is there than the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 50th Rolex Fastnet Race, which sets sail from Cowes bound for Cherbourg on 22 July: Of the present record-sized IRC fleet (currently exceeding 400 entries) more than one quarter will be racing in the IRC Two-Handed class for the Brunskill Trophy and excludes the 22 IMOCAs, also racing doublehanded (albeit with a media crewman too). This has come a long way since the 20 boats that raced in the class when it was introduced in 2005.
This year the doublehanders are mostly competing in IRC Two or IRC Three, but the longest outside of the IMOCAs is the Verdier-designed JP54 Notre Mediterranée-Ville de Nice raced by Jean-Pierre Dick and Fabien Biron. Dick is a famous four-time Vendée Globe competitor, having finished just off the podium in both the 2012-13 and 2016-17 races. However his track-record is second to none racing doublehanded having twice won the Vendée Globe's doublehanded equivalent, the Barcelona World Race and the doublehanded IMOCA class four times in the Transat Jacques Vabre over 2003-2017.
This year Dick's principle competitive objective is the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race, aboard his boat which is effectively a scaled-down IMOCA, fitted out with a stylish, but otherwise minimal interior.
The 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race starts from Cowes, Isle of Wight on Saturday 22nd July.
Personal service personal commitment - Sevenstar Yacht Transport
Whatever the precious cargo you are shipping between regattas or simply around the world, having a single point of contact taking care of every aspect of the delivery makes for a better night's sleep
Shipping raceboats between events makes a lot of sense, whatever the size of the yacht. In particular, wear and tear is eliminated so you can expect the boat, sails and equipment to arrive in the same condition in which it left. It's also possible to ship the yacht's container or a trailer with equipment and spares, either at the same time or ahead of the boat.
Dutch company Sevenstar is arguably the biggest name in the field globally and has more than 120 of its own ships used for both scheduled and one-off sailings. The former includes a monthly schedule from northern Europe to the Baltimore region in the USA, plus three sailings a year from northern Europe to the Caribbean via Southampton, as well as return sailings from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean.
Full article in the April issue of Seahorse
Help for JC a San Diego boat worker
My name is John Craig, most of you know me as JC, I have been a part of the waterfront and yachting community of San Diego for 40 years. I have participated on the performance teams of 4 different Americas Cups, including Team New Zealand, Il Moro de Venencia, Tag Huer, and Le Defi France. I have run Southern California boat programs such as Swiftsure, WarPath, Bad Pak, and most recently Blue Blazes to great success. I am now in my 70's and have come upon some difficult times. The pandemic changed my ability to work while minimizing my exposure. Staying safe and healthy depleted my savings. When Covid finally abated, what was painful but workable rheumatoid arthritis in my wrists and hands had progressed to the point of being debilitating. My hands and wrists are at a point where I cannot even drive a car without extreme pain, making working on boats with my hands to be a near impossibility.
I understand times are hard for everyone and I never thought I would find myself in this position as I am hard worker, but find myself unable to use my hands. I am also open to any opportunities to use my life long knowledge of electronics, navigation, calibration, boat prep and all things race boat in a consulting capacity as I still have all the knowledge just not the physical ability to do it on my own. Deciding to do this was a difficult decision as I am a proud person but my situation is dire so now I need to reach out to all of you. I have always tried to be there for those needing advice or a sounding board for ideas on projects they were working on and now I need your help. Anything you can spare will literally keep a roof over my head.
Please join your humble narrator is helping JC.
Afloat.ie's W M Nixon Receive Fastnet Trophy
Still winging it. Afloat.ie's W M Nixon with the Fastnet Trophy at the ICC's Annual Dinner in Sligo on Saturday night. Photo credit: PSDN. Click on image to enlarge.
The 1929-founded Irish Cruising Club occasionally brings its members and their boats together for Cruises-in-Company and Rallies in home waters and abroad. Yet although there's an AGM in Dublin early in the year, and specialist Sub-Committees meet from time to time to work on key activities such as the up-dating of the publicly-sold Sailing Directions for the Irish coast, the reality is that much of the club's activities consist of boats on their own, on solitary voyaging near and far in the time-honoured manner of classic cruising.
In a prodigious yet seemingly effortless team effort very ably led by ICC Commodore David Beattie and his wife Aoife, everything went with exemplary smoothness. But while there were many activities on offer, the highlight has to have been an extended and very hospitable visit to nearby Lissadell House. It may be known to most for its associations with W B Yeats and Constance Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth), but is equally well-known to cruising people as the home of Henry Gore-Booth, who was so enthusiastic about High Latitude cruising that he spent seventeen summers in the latter half of the 19th Century cruising the Arctic in the ketch Kara, which had been built very much to his personal concepts and specifications.
After seeing the inspiring and very detailed model of Kara in Lissadell, it was back to more everyday cruising under sail with the Saturday night dinner, which - after fraternal greetings exchanged between the great and the good of the distinguishd cruising clubs - was concluded with the presentation of the occasionally-awarded Fastnet Trophy for special services and achievement in cruising and sailing. It went to Afloat.ie's W M Nixon, who has somehow managed to survive sixty-three years of writing about sailing, and sixty years of membership of the Irish Cruising Club, without yet being found out.
BVI Spring Regatta: Scrub Island Invitational turns on another great party
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.
Tortola, BVI: Another day of perfect racing conditions for day 2 of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival, with the 6th Annual Scrub Island Invitational, an 11 NM race to a spectacular finish off Scrub Island. Five racing divisions set off outside Nanny Cay at 10am, with an easterly breeze of 15 knots.
Today's winners are: CSA Racing Division: Pata Negra, Lombard 46, chartered and skippered by Dr. Laura Schlessinger (Calif., USA). Performance Multihull: Coco de Mer, Gunboat 66, owned and skippered by Angus Ball (Portsmouth, UK). Cruising/Performance Cruising: Jenk, J/105, owned and skippered by Remco van Dortmondt (Curacao). Bareboat: Team Merlin, Moorings 45, skippered by Charlie Garrard (Mass., USA). Cruising Multihull: La Novia, Leopard 50, owned and skippered by Georges Coutu (Dominican Republic).
Jenk has raced the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival just one time previously and the team thoroughly enjoyed scoring a win today. The group of friends are from Curacao and Bonaire, where they sail together as often as they can, although rarely do they get an opportunity to sail in as bigger fleet as they did today, noted main trimmer Marinus Woedemom. The crew sailed Jenk from Curacao to St Maarten for the Heineken Regatta and will sail the boat back to Curacao after BVI Spring Regatta.
Thursday is a lay day for competitors and racing resumes on Friday with day 1 of the BVI Spring Regatta.
Full Results for the Scrub Island Invitational on YachtScoring.com
Racing (CSA - 12 Boats)
1. Pata Negra, Dr Laura Schlessinger , USA - 1 ; 1
2. McFly on El Ocaso, Tony Mack , GBR - 2 ; 2
3. Wavewalker, Woody CULLEN , USA - 3 ; 3
Performance Multihull (CSA - 5 Boats)
1. Coco de Mer, Angus Ball , United Kingdom - 1 ; 1
2. Mach Schnell, Kent Haeger , United States - 2 ; 2
3. Nemo, Todd Slyngstad , USA - 3 ; 3
Cruising / Performance Cruising (CSA - 8 Boats)
1. Jenk, Remco van Dortmondt , CW - 1 ; 1
2. Libertas, Walter Keenan , USA - 2 ; 2
3. Paroma, Luis Balzac , United States - 3 ; 3
Bareboat (CSA - 16 Boats)
1. Team Merlin - Sea's the Daze, Charlie Garrard , United States - 1 ; 1
2. Papillon, Andrew Friedman , United States - 2 ; 2
3. Team Cape Fear - Pelican Pat, Bob Cowen , United States - 3 ; 3
Cruising Multihull (CSA - 4 Boats)
1. La Novia, Georges Coutu , DOM - 1 ; 1
2. Little Wing, Ron Boehm , USA - 2 ; 2
3. Team It Just Doesn't Matter - Mango Tango, Tim O'Connor , USA - 3 ; 3
Road To Gold
Thursday, 30 March, 1800 hours UTC: Q&A Call with Will Ryan, 2020 470 Olympic Champion
TOPIC - How diversifying across a range of sailing makes you a better racer
Five world championship titles, silver and gold medals at two successive Olympics, Will Ryan achieved pretty much everything imaginable in the 470. Now that his hugely successful Olympic partnership with fellow Australian, Mat Belcher, is at an end, Will is in huge demand across a range of different boat types.
Get online with Road To Gold for a free Zoom call and a 60-minute Q&A session with Will, and learn how to apply his hard-earned experience to your own sailing ventures.
Road To Gold Q&A calls are free to join live, and offer a rare opportunity to speak directly with some of the best sailors in the world. If you've got questions about training, teamwork, attitude, technical challenges, anything related to making your boat or board go faster, join these calls live. Road To Gold's Andy Rice and Hamish Willcox will be fielding live questions throughout each 60-minute session.
Join Zoom Meeting with Will Ryan
Meeting ID: 875 1409 1999Dr Laura Schlessinger Passcode: 943912
Make sure you're signed up to the Road To Gold Facebook Group to get further info on the call.
To subscribe to Live Coaching Calls roadtogold.net/p/calls
Launchings
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Today's hull turning of Royal Huisman project 408, Aquarius II, in Vollenhove
"...to achieve the required increase in interior spaces and taking into account a mast height of 64m / 210ft, led us to an overall length of 61m / 200ft with a plumb bow, bowsprit, submarine anchors, lifting keel and a main mast of 64m / 210ft. This was starting to look like it ticked all the boxes.
However a final check with the port authority in Panama informed us they were no longer entertaining a heeled-state transit under the bridge. Oooops !!!
In further consultation, the owner re-stated that he wanted no compromise to the sailing performance and therefore we should make no concessions for Panamax. He also reiterated his preference for a spoon bow on similar lines to AQI. No longer constrained by mast height, and with a spoon bow and no bowsprit, we pushed the length out to 65m / 213ft..." Godfrey Cray
Godfrey Cray is the owner's project manager on his third Royal Huisman build after 58m / 190ft Ngoni, 56m / 184ft Aquarius and now 65m / 212ft Aquarius II.
Aquarius II | Royal Huisman project 408 | type: Performance Ketch | length: 65m / 212ft | owners' project manager: Godfrey Cray | naval architecture + exterior styling: Dykstra Naval Architects | interior design: Mark Whiteley Design | construction: Alustar® aluminum | rig + handling: Rondal carbon rig + Integrated Sailing System |
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Following the launch of the SW96 Nyumba, Massimo Gino of Nauta Design explores in more detail the yacht's design that was specially tailored to meet the client's wishes in line with Southern Wind Shipyard's 'Smart Custom' philosophy.
"Although this is the fourth hull in the SW96 series, Nyumba is uniquely special," begins Massimo Gino, co-founder of Nauta Design in Milan and longtime design partner of Southern Wind. "Not only she is Southern Wind's first yacht with hybrid electric propulsion engineered with BAE Systems to be compliant with IMO Tier III regulations. The sleek and simple lines of her GT deck configuration represent an important evolution of the GT deck concept we first introduced on the SW105 Taniwha."
The expert owner wanted a fast and efficient cruising yacht to sail around the world with a short crew that could also take part in superyacht regattas. His preference was for a sleek, dynamic profile and uncluttered deck layout with the deck equipment ergonomically positioned for ease of use, as well as guest safety and comfort. This led to several aesthetic and practical innovations.
The low-slung, carbon composite coachroof is key to the yacht's racy lines and minimalist profile. Subtly integrated into the teak decking, the coamings protecting the guest cockpit are an elegant design feature that also serve as a covered conduit for the sheets from the winches as they pass forward – a stylish detail that also keeps the guest area clear of running rigging (the sheets re-emerge from the forepart of the coachroof).
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Take a tour of the custom C. Raymond Hunt-designed 41-foot dayboat while it receives finishing touches. Hear from the captain of S/Y ABIDE. Take a look at the new teak decking aboard the 60-foot Little Harbor MAGIC. See what's on the five-axis 3D waterjet cutting machine this month.
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Panamax sloop Nilaya reached another milestone with her departure from her construction hall at the builder's Vollenhove facility in preparation for the installation of her towering rig in Amsterdam. This highly anticipated superyacht is the first to utilize Royal Huisman's new Featherlight design and production method. Continuous weight monitoring throughout the build of Project 405 aka Reichel / Pugh - Nauta 154, confirms the Dutch builder has achieved its goal of slicing 11% of the weight of its typical advanced aluminum cruising yachts. Most importantly, it has reduced weight without sacrificing stiffness or cutting corners on quality for this high-performance cruiser. The shipyard's revolutionary Featherlight method for this 46.8m / 154-foot sailing machine is not a single process or construction technique, but a holistic light weight approach combining various weight-saving solutions.
The Featherlight process makes use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), a design methodology rooted in spacecraft technology. FEA modeling enabled selecting various construction materials and varied Alustar aluminum plate thicknesses and frame spacing to maximize hull stiffness while minimizing total displacement. With engineering and weight management brought in-house, the approach was comprehensive, extending to lighting, insulation, and all mechanical systems. The interior, too, benefited from careful weight analysis. All interior structural members utilize lightweight foam coring. This innovative approach narrows the displacement gap between aluminum and carbon composite yachts. Comfortable, robust characteristics of an aluminum yacht are now a viable option for owners seeking true sailing performance.
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Sailing is effortless with the Signature Series thirty-eight, thanks to its long waterline, modern bulb keel, and sleek spade rudder. The boat's modern carbon mast and boom, combined with its simple sloop rig design, deliver exceptional sailability and performance. The self-tacking jib makes short-tacking a breeze, allowing sailors to focus on steering instead of adjusting sails.
All lines are conveniently led below deck for ease and safety, and the boat can be equipped with push-button sailing functions for those who want even more control.
The cockpit layout of the Signature Series thirty-eight allows for separate lounging and sailing areas. The flush "side-to" boarding platform provides easy access, and the simple hinge detail allows a small section of the hull to fold down, making it easy to step up to the deck from the dock or dinghy. The interior of the boat is spacious and accommodating, offering everything needed for daysailing or weekending.
The Signature Series thirty-eight by Stephens Waring Design combines the timeless beauty of classic sailboat design with the performance and convenience of modern technology. Whether you're a seasoned sailor or a weekend adventurer, this boat is sure to provide an enjoyable and memorable sailing experience.
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2012 Pogo 12.50 Hermes. 295,000 USD. Located in NYC, USA.
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