In This Issue
• Flying French Find Golden Finish To Hyeres Medal Races
• Three new ORC European Champions
• Royal Thames Yacht Club: Position Open
• Back in the Groove - Axxess Marine Y2K Race Day
• Swan Croatia Challenge
• Racing on the Edge
• Pintia celebrate in Le Havre
• Lively Conditions For Return Of Santa Maria Cup
• The Ocean Race Newport
• Featured Charter: 32m Custom Sailing Yacht - IRELANDA
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• • Kinetic Catamarans - KC62
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• The Last Word: Gordon Lightfoot

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Flying French Find Golden Finish To Hyeres Medal Races
France topped the national medal table after foiling to three golds on the last day of the 54th Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères - TPM. There were thrillers across the fleet 8-10 knots easterlies that grew and filled in as the day went on. The medals were spread through the nations with France winning three golds and Spain and Britain all winning two of the ten Olympic classes.

The battle between nations was more than matched by the intense battle within each country as the sailors aim to claim the single national place in each fleet for the Olympics Games. In the Ilca 7 that national excellence, success and rivalry was condensed onto the podium with Elliot Hanson overturning the overnight lead of compatriot and rival Michael Beckett.

Podium positions:

49er
1. ESP - Diego Bottin & Florian Trittel - 78
2. AUS - Jim Colley and Shaun Connor - 87
3. POL - Mikolaj Staniul & Jakub Sztorch - 90

49er FX
1. NED - Odile van Aanholt & Annette Duetz - 50
2. ITA - Jana Germani & Giorgia Bertuzzi - 102
3. BRA - Martine Grael & Kahena Kunze - 112

Nacra 17
1. GBR - John Gimson & Anna Burnett - 32
2. ARG - Mateo Majdalini & Eugenia Bosco - 70
3. ITA - Gianlugi Ugolini & Maria Giubilei - 77

Formula Kite Women
1. FRA - Lauriane Nolot
2. USA - Daniella Moroz
3. FRA - Jessie Kampman

Formula Kite Men
1. FRA - Axel Mazella
2. SGP - Maximilian Maeder
3. GBR - Connor Bainbridge

470
1. ESP - Jordi Xammar- Hernandez & Nora Brugman - 53
2. AUT - Lara Vadlau & Lukas Mahr - 61
3. GER - Malte Winkel & Anastasiya Winkel - 64

ILCA 7
1. GBR - Elliot Hanson - 36
2. GBR - Michael Beckett - 37
3. CYP - Pavlos Kontides - 43

ILCA 6
1. CAN - Sarah Douglas - 74
2. DEN - Anne-Marie Rindom - 75
3. AUS - Casey Imeneo - 83

IQFoil Women
1. CZE - Barbora Svikova
2. JPN - Rina Niijima
3. DEN - Laerke Buhl-Hansen

IQFoil Men
1. FRA - Fabien Pianazza
2. TUR - Onur Cavit Biriz
3. BRA - Mateus Isaac

Full results

sof.ffvoile.fr

Three new ORC European Champions
Ta'Xbiex, Malta: The new ORC European champions in each class sailed well all week, but their overall victories were not guaranteed when they left the dock this morning. The compression of points in the standings after yesterday's non-discardable light-air Coastal Race and the possibility that if the wind filled to be stronger and more stable they might have had to race twice today introduced many possible scenarios that would threaten any lead in the standings.

Yet this did not happen for two of the newly crowned champions. Karl Kwok's (HKG) TP 52 BEAU GESTE won the ORC World Championship twice - in 2018 in The Hague and last year in Porto Cervo, and with all bullets on their scoreline seemed assured of winning their first ORC European Class A crown...until yesterday's Coastal race when they finished well down the ranks in 7th place and their nearest rival - Claudio Terrieri's (ITA) Swan 45 BLUE SKY - won the race, compressing their lead into a two-point margin. Worse yet, BLUE SKY had a 4th pla

Top 3 teams after 7 races sailed (1 inshore race discard):

Class A
1. Karl Kwok (HKG) TP 52 Beau Geste 1-(1)-1-1-1-7-1 12 pts
2. Claudio Terrieri (ITA) Swan 45 Swan 45 Blue Sky 2-2-2-3-(4)-1-2 12 pts
3. Maya and Christoph Podesta (MLT) mod First 45 Elusive II 3-(4.5)-3-2-3-3-3 17 pts

Class B
1. Renzo Grottesi (ITA) Club Swan 42 Be Wild 2-(5)-1-2-3-6-2 16 pts
2. Aivar Tuulberg (EST) Swan 42 Katariina II 3-4-2-1-2-8-(5) 20 pts
3. Marcin Sutkowski (POL) Grand Soleil 44 P Windshisper 44 1-1-(4)-4-1-13-1 21 pts

Class C
1. Ott Kikkas (EST) Italia 11.98 Sugar 3 2-1-1-1-(2)-2-1 8 pts
2. Vicenzo De Blasio (ITA) Italia 11.98 Scugnizza 1-2-2-5-(7)-1-2 13 pts
3. Jakoubek Zdenek (CZE) M37 Hebre V 3-(4)-3-3-1-4-4 18 pts

Complete race results are posted at orceuro2023.com/results

Royal Thames Yacht Club: Position Open
Background: The Royal Thames is a thriving club of over 1,500 members with a very strong cadre of younger members. The Club has a strong reputation for running first class competitive events and for fielding teams that compete in fleet, team and match racing. It hosts the Cumberland Cup (the oldest sailing trophy in the world) for international team racers, the Carmela Cup (UK national team racing championships) the British American Cup (team racing UK vs USA) and we host from time to time other prestigious international sailing events such as the Global Team race regatta.

The Club has an enviable record in achievements overseas such as the only overseas team to have won the New York Invitational Cup (international fleet racing), has won the BA Cup vs the US (at QMSC) and is regarded as the strongest team racing club in Europe. The Club also runs racing events that attractive to our members owned yachts open to external entries.

Position Title: Director of Racing.

Overview: the RTYC Director of Racing's primary duty is to organise regattas and special events for RTYC both at Queen Mary Reservoir in a new fleet of 12 Sonars and support boats and in the Solent supported by our own dedicated committee boat and mark laying RIB. Solent race events include both our own fleet of 6 J/70s (plus 6 owned by RYS) and on the water and social events for other fleets of yachts both for RTYC members and for non members. The position is supported by a full time office assistant and 3 bosuns (2 at QMSC and 1 in Cowes and reports to the Chief Sailing Officer, Richard Ambler with a dotted line responsibility to the Chief Executive, Vanessa Clifford, the Rear Commodore Sailing, Jon Redding and the Captain of Racing, Christine Shrimpton.

The coordination of the resources that underpin our events, such as the volunteer race team, the umpire team as required, the bosuns and all the resources at the event and the running of the event itself is the primary role of the job holder.

The Club also organises participation in overseas events for which the coordination of the teams will be required.

The position is partly office based in Knightsbridge, partly based at home and, during events, in Cowes and Queen Mary. Willingness to work weekends in lieu of weekdays as required is essential.

Experience and Skills:
- Race management. Demonstrated experience in race management including acting as PRO for race events
- Rules of Sailing. Familiarity with competitive sailing including the rules and on the water support operations
- IT skills. Fluency in basic computer systems
- Running events. Demonstrated ability to run events and coordinate the numerous inputs including volunteer race teams
- Qualifications. Desirable to be Power Boat Level II

Send your CV to Richard Amlber at the Royal Thames YC:

Back in the Groove - Axxess Marine Y2K Race Day
Antigua: The second day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week was blessed with fabulous sailing conditions. The trade winds were in, gusting up to 17 knots from the east. With over a metre of ocean swell and an air temperature in the high twenties centigrade, it was a marvellous day to be out racing at the Caribbean's most famous regatta.

Multiple races were held for all classes, with the CSA Racing boats off Rendezvous Bay. Racing along the stunning South Coast of Antigua, land effects and local knowledge came into play. The Bareboat and Club Classes started off Windward Beach, stretching their legs offshore on long windward leeward courses in the ocean swell. On Axxess Marine Y2K Race Day, two new classes were introduced to Antigua Sailing Week. The RS Elite Class raced off Windward Beach along with the Wingfoil Class competing in the inaugural Antiguan Wingfoil Championship.

This is the 2nd year that Axxess Marine has generously supported the Y2K program. Their commitment to the development of youth sailing, will hopefully produce future gatekeepers of the local yachting industry. -- Louay Habib

Results from the Axxess Marine Y2K Race Day 2 on YachtScoring.com

Swan Croatia Challenge
The Swan Croatia Challenge launched the ClubSwan Racing season in sensational style this week with a range of wind and weather conditions delivering exceptional racing for the 10-strong fleet of one design ClubSwan 36s.

Based at the ACI marina in the historic and atmospheric Croatian port of Split, the race teams were first greeted with a classic 'Bora' wind - a strong North-Easterly breeze - on the Adriatic Sea, which soon dropped to provide ideal race conditions, which returned again on the second day.

By contrast, the penultimate day of the first regatta of The Nations League 2023 produced a slight breeze requiring the crews to showcase their light wind racing skills and tactical know-how. A lack of wind on the final day on Saturday curtailed further racing.

However, Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's G Spot had already demonstrated she is one of the boats to beat this season, with the Monaco-flagged ClubSwan 36 taking victory in all five races held.

That said, Edoardo Ferragamo's Cuordileone (ITA), Edoardo and Vanni Pavesio's Fra Martina (ITA), Nikolai P. Burkart's Goddess (GER), Lorenzo Mondo's Farstar (ITA), Haakon Lorentzen's Mamao (BRA) and Richard Thompson's Black Seal (GGY) had all claimed at least one podium finish during the regatta, leaving two of the top-three spots up for grabs all the way to the final race.

The ClubSwan 36 racers will gather again next month for the Swan Sardinia Challenge - May 16-20 - when they will be joined by two more of the Swan One Design family, the ClubSwan 50 and ClubSwan 42 classes.

Race tracker

Results on YachtScoring.com

The Nations League 2023:

April 25-29: Swan Croatia Challenge Split (CRO) | (CS36)
May 16-20: Swan Sardinia Challenge Sardinia (ITA) | (CS50, CS36, CS42)
June 20-24: The Nations Trophy Sardinia (ITA) | (CS50, CS36, CS42)
July 31 - August 5: Copa Del Rey Mallorca (ESP) | (CS50, CS42)
September 12-16: Clubswan 50 Challenge Mallorca (ESP) | (CS50)
September 12-16: Clubswan 36 Challenge Sardinia (ITA) | (CS36)
October 10-14: Swan One Design Worlds Tuscany (ITA) | (CS50, CS36, CS42, S45)

nautorswan.com/clubswan-racing/

Racing on the Edge
Today the final episode for Season 3 of SailGP's fly-on-the-wall docuseries, Racing on the Edge, is released. Called 'The Deal Maker' it looks at the intriguing dynamics in the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team as it prepares to try and take the final spot in the Mubadala Season 3 Grand Final in San Francisco. Led and owned by the most decorated Olympic sailor of all time, Sir Ben Ainslie, the team has failed to win an event all season yet still sits just outside the all-important top 3 on the Season 3 leaderboard. It will battle with Quentin Delapierre's plucky France team - who have surprised the fleet to win two events this season - for the final season decider spot.

Pintia celebrate in Le Havre
The overall winner of the RORC Cervantes Trophy Race after IRC time correction was Gilles Fournier & Corinne Migraine's J/133 Pintia (FRA) from the Societe des Regates du Havre. This was the fourth occasion that the French team has won the impressive Cervantes Trophy.

88 boats started the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Cervantes Trophy Race from the RYS Line Cowes with 86 teams completing the race to Le Havre. Janet Grosvenor was the Race Officer for the start in Cowes and reported that after a 30 minute delay, requested by ABP Southampton for a large cargo ship, the fleet got clear away. The pin end was favourite in a light easterly to north easterly breeze.

The De Graaf family racing Ker 43 Baraka GP (NED) took line honours for the race, won IRC Zero and was second overall. Third overall was Lawrence Herbert's J/133 Corazon (FRA).

Full results

The 2023 RORC Season's Points Championship continues on Saturday 13th May with the De Guingand Bowl Race starting from Cowes around marks. 72 boats racing under IRC, Class40 and MOCRA are already entered. -- Louay Habib

rorc.org

Lively Conditions For Return Of Santa Maria Cup
Annapolis, USA: A fresh breeze greeted the opening race day of the 22nd Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Santa Maria Cup today, the second stage of the 2023 Women's World Match Racing Tour from 30 April - 4 May. The event features ten of the best all-women match racing teams from six countries including USA, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Starting the first of two round robin qualifying stages, teams had to battle shifty conditions and gusts over 20 knots on the race course which was set directly in front of Eastport Yacht Club, host of the event.

Top seeds Nicole Breault (USA)/Vela Racing and Anna Ostling (SWE)/ Wings Sailing top the leader board at five wins each after seven races.

2023 marks the long-awaited return of the Santa Maria Cup after a 10-year break. Past competitors of the event series include Olympic sailors, Rolex Yachtswomen of the Year, and other international stars of women's sailing. Some of the American past winners are JJ Isler, Dawn Riley, Betsy Alison, Cory Sertl, Liz Baylis, Sally Barkow, and Anna Tunnicliffe. The Santa Maria Cup relocated to Annapolis in 1993 when Eastport Yacht Club (EYC) became the organizing authority.

Live results

santamariacup.org

The Ocean Race Newport
The Ocean Race Newport Stopover will offer something for everyone in the way of awe and entertainment during the nine-day stopover, May 13-21, at the Ocean Live Park race village and center of activity at Fort Adams State Park.

For the third consecutive edition of the race first run in 1973-'74, Newport is hosting the only North American stopover. The leg to Newport began on April 23, in Itajaí, Brazil, and the first finishers are expected in Narragansett Bay, May 10-12. Upon finishing, the fleet will berth at Sail Newport's North Pier at Fort Adams State Park.

Ocean Live Park officially opens Saturday, May 13, at 11:00 a.m.

For more information and full entertainment schedule, visit The Ocean Race Newport

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