In This Issue
• Team Wings Victorious at Santa Maria Cup
• Bermuda Gold Cup Scheduled For October
• Royal Thames Yacht Club: Position Open
• Platoon top boat for the day, Interlodge still lead
• PalmaVela gets underway
• The Ocean Race Europe will take place in 2025
• One Global Tomes Cup 2023
• Guyader Bermudes 1000 kicks off IMOCA season
• Entry Open For British Classic Week
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Carkeek 46
• • JV43
• • Oyster 885 'Karibu'
• The Last Word: Richard Feynman
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Team Wings Victorious at Santa Maria Cup
Sweden's Team WINGS won the all-women Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Santa Maria Cup today in Annapolis, the second stage of the 2023 Women's World Match Racing Tour. Skippered by Anna Ostling with Annika Carlunger, Anna Holmdahl White and Linnéa Wennergren, the Swedes defeated New Zealand's Celia Willison and Edge Women's Match team 3-0 in the finals and in a turnaround from last week's event in San Francisco.
The route to the podium was no easy task for the Swedish team today. They started the day trailing New Zealand's Megan Thomson/ 2.0 Racing 0-2 in their semi-final pairing and needing three straight wins against Thomson to secure a spot to the final.
After winning the first two races of the day in shifty conditions which have challenged the teams all week, Ostling and crew were able to work the shifts close to the shore and complete their come-back over Thomson 3-2. First challenge of the day complete, now to the final.
Despite multiple lead changes keeping the spectators on shore guessing on who had the lead, the WINGS team were first to score. Feeling confident from their earlier semis match, they were able to win the next two races and clinch the Santa Maria Cup final 3-0 over Willison. Mission accomplished for Ostling.
Final Standings at Santa Maria Cup:
1. SWE - Anna Ostling, Linnéa Wennergren, Annika Carlunger, Anna Holmdahl White
2. NZL - Celia Willison, Charlotte Porter, Alison Kent, Serena Woodall
3. USA - Nicole Breault, Dana Riley Hayes, Maggie Bacon, Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer
4. NZL - Megan Thomson, Anna Merchant, Maeve White, Lisa Dartnall
5. USA - Bridget Groble, Morgan Collins, Katherine Klempen, Samantha Foulston
6. AUS - Brooke Wilson, Tiana Wittey, Emily Keg, Gemma Burns
7. USA - Janel Zarkowsky, Rose Edwards, Meaghan MacRae, Abigail Preston
8. USA - Allie Blecher, Alicia Blumenthal, Beka Schiff, Katja Sertl
9. GBR - Sophie Otter, Hatty Ward, Amy Sparks, Hebe Henning
10. DEN - Kristine Mauritzen, Katrine Munch Ejlev, Christina Andersen, Emilie Nordby Lauritzen
71st Edition Of Bermuda Gold Cup Scheduled For October
Skipper Taylor Canfield (second from right) and his STARS + STRIPES Team USA at the 2020 Bermuda Gold Cup. Photo by Charles Anderson. Click on image to enlarge.
Hamilton, Bermuda: The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is delighted to announce the 71st edition of the Bermuda Gold Cup match racing tournament, scheduled Oct. 2-7 on Hamilton Harbour, just off the docks of the 178-year-old club.
The Bermuda Gold Cup was last held in Oct. 2020, when it was also the Open Match Racing World Championship. In that final, Taylor Canfield's (Miami, Florida) STARS + STRIPES Team USA defeated Ian Williams (Lymington, England) and crew in an aggressive match filled with penalties to capture his third Bermuda Gold Cup and second Open Match Racing World Championship. Both skippers are in the preliminary entrant list for this year's regatta, a world championship event of the World Match Racing Tour.
The regatta will be sailed in the 33-foot International One-Design (IOD) sloop, a 1936 design with long bow and stern overhangs and a keel-hung rudder. The format for the regatta will consist of a round robin, repechage, quarterfinal, semifinal, petite final and final rounds.
Preliminary Entrant List
Johnie Berntsson (Stenungsund, Sweden)
Ted Blowers (Great Britain)
Jeppe Borch (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Taylor Canfield (Miami, Florida)
Pauline Courtois (Brest, France)
Nick Egnot-Johnson (New Zealand)
Peter Holz (Chicago, Illinois)
Dave Hood (Long Beach, California)
Eric Monnin (Immensee, Switzerland)
Chris Poole (Cold Spring Harbor, New York)
Harry Price (Sydney, Australia)
Ian Williams (Lymington, England)
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:
Platoon top boat for the day, Interlodge still lead
After modest opening days on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, two of the 52 Super Series top teams showed a marked return to form as the southerly breezes picked up on the second day of the 52 Super Series Saint-Tropez Sailing Week.
Harm Muller Spreer's German flagged Platoon team - podium finishers for the last five years and two times World Champions - had an inauspicious start to their season Wednesday, but they bounced back from a 16pts first day to be top scoring boat today.
They won the first race comfortably and then showed considerable resolve, talent and speed when they fought back from being shut out at the start gun, having to circle round and start last, to take third place.
52 Super Series Saint-Tropez Sailing Week after four races:
1 Interlodge, USA (Austin and Gwen Fragomen) 1,1,6,8 16 pts.
2 Provezza, TUR (Ergin Imre) 2,5,4,6 17 pts.
3 Alegre, GBR (Andy Soriano) 4,4,7,4 19 pts.
4 Platoon, GER (Harm Muller-Spreer) 7,9,1,3 20 pts.
5 Gladiator, GBR (Tony Langley) 5,3,3,11 22 pts.
6 Quantum Racing powered American Magic, USA (Doug DeVos) 6,8,8,1 23 pts.
7 Paprec, FRA (Jean Luc Petithuguenin) 11,6,2,7 26 pts.
8 Sled, USA (Takashi Okura) 8,7,9,2 26 pts.
9 Văyu, THA (fam. Whitcraft) 10,2,5,10 27 pts.
10 Alpha+, HKG (Shawn and Tina Kang) 3,11,10,5 29 pts.
11 Phoenix, RSA (Hasso and Tina Plattner) 9,10,11,9 39 pts.
PalmaVela gets underway with day for the fastest and slowest maxis
The Bay of Palma laid on perfect conditions for the opening day of racing at the Real Club Náutico de Palma's PalmaVela, the opening event of the International Maxi Association's 2023 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge.
The nine maxis racing here are divided into two classes. Today the faster yachts in the Maxi A class sailed a 33 mile coastal course exiting the Bay of Palma to the southeast in a southerly sea breeze which peaked at around 14 knots. The classic and modern classic yachts in Maxi B sailed a similar but shorter course of 27 miles. Both set sail on time with the first warning signal at 1300 local time.
Among the faster maxis, David M. Leuschen and new co-owner Chris Flowers' Wallycento Galateia, the highest IRC rated yacht competing, managed to win the pin with her principle rival, Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones' Magic Carpet Cubed, tight to weather of her.
In Maxi B the results were surprising with the exceptional classic maxi Stormvogel winning by 4 minutes 29 seconds under IRC corrected time from Guillaume de Montalier's Truly Classic 90 Atalante, despite being Stormvogel being 62 years old, 48 years older than Atalante.
Racing continues for the maxis for the next three days on a mix of coastal and windward-leeward courses. On the race course tomorrow they will be joined by ten more classes competing at PalmaVela. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association
internationalmaxiassociation.com
The Ocean Race Europe will take place in 2025
As the current edition of The Ocean Race heads back into the northern hemisphere, race organisers are already looking ahead to the next major event in the 10 year planning cycle - The Ocean Race Europe 2025.
The IMOCA class - featuring the most advanced foiling offshore race boats - will compete in The Ocean Race Europe, crewed by the best men and women in the sport racing alongside each other on each boat, as in the current race. The sporting calendar will include offshore legs between the host cities, as well as in port racing and pro/am guest sailing experiences.
European cities along the coastline are invited to express an interest in hosting the event and in particular to demonstrate how they would partner with The Ocean Race Europe to showcase projects and approaches towards the protection and restoration of the ocean and inland waters.
A list of technical requirements to host The Ocean Race Europe is available and the selection of successful cities will be based on fulfilment of this as well as the overall vision and concept for the event.
Interested cities should contact for more information.
One Global Tomes Cup 2023
Hong Kong: The final constituent event of the Top Dog Trophy Series, the One Global Tomes Cup, was held on 29 April in an easterly breeze of 4 to 5kts. 61 boats turned out to compete to be crowned the most successful boat of the season.
In this pursuit-style race, the Pandora fleet set off first at 1400hrs, followed by other faster classes with staggered start times to chase down the front runners before the projected target finish time of 1630hrs. Race Officer Gareth Williams set a start line just off Hung Hom and sent the fleet off for two and a half laps between Tai Koo Shing and Hung Hom before finishing at Kai Tak. The wind held and slightly built up during the start sequence before the rain arrived towards the end of the race.
A valiant effort was made by Pandoras Windfall and Solstice as they led until the third rounding of the windward mark at Tai Koo Shing. Impala, Impala 1, chased steadily behind, eventually overtaking both Pandoras on the final upwind leg taking the finish gun at 16:36:23, followed by Pandora Windfall in 2nd place and Solstice in 3rd.
The win not only guaranteed that Mike Burrell lifted the Tomes Cup, but it also ensured Impala 1's name will be engraved on the Top Dog Trophy for the second time, followed by Henry Wong's Footloose in 2nd place and Chair Kui Wang' on Solstice in 3rd place.
Guyader Bermudes 1000 kicks off IMOCA season
It's going to be action-packed, with five races scheduled - including the two-handed Transat Jacques Vabre and the solo Retour à La Base - and it will be a season when the pecking order for the next Vendée Globe will be established among new boats and re-fitted older ones.
Welcome to what promises to be a compelling 2023 IMOCA GLOBE SERIES Championship, which kicks off this weekend with the Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race, which starts from Brest on Sunday and finishes there four days later, the first of four double-handed contests which features a high quality entry of 13 boats.
Antoine Mermod, the president of the IMOCA Class, is looking forward to a classic year, as IMOCA continues to flourish in solo, double-handed and fully-crewed ocean racing in a season that also includes the climax of The Ocean Race, the Rolex Fastnet Race and the Défi Azimut-Lorient Agglomération.
In addition to the new boats, the Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race fleet includes some of the most talented newcomers to the class in older machinery, among them Benjamin Ferré (with Pierre Le Roy) on Monnoyeur-Duo for a Job and Guirec Soudée (with Corentin Douguet) on Freelance.com. But Mermod believes the veteran Jérémie Beyou, sailing with Franck Cammas on the Sam Manuard-designed Charal, is going to be hard to beat in a 2022 IMOCA that is already race proven.
guyaderbermudes1000race.com/en
Entry Open For British Classic Week
Organised by the British Classic Yacht Club, the UK's leading classic yacht regatta will take place in Cowes from 15th - 22nd July 2023
Criteria for entry to the regatta is IRC classic yachts of 24ft and over or modern classic, Spirit of Tradition yachts of either wood or steel construction. The regatta also welcomes gaff-rigged yachts to race under the latest OGA ratings.
This year, British Classic Week will host a 6Metre class comprising national and international entries keen for racing practice ahead of the 6Metre Worlds taking place in the Solent in September.
Cruising yachts and classic motor boats are also invited to join in to watch the racing, explore local waters, and enjoy the social scene.
Sailors will take on a six-race series of varied courses, including round-the-cans races and the 30nm Nab Tower Race that takes in the iconic Horse Sand and No Mans Land Forts. Race management organised by the Royal Yacht Squadron will see beautifully maintained classic yachts battle it out against the historic, picturesque backdrop of the Isle of Wight.
Entry is now open, go to britishclassicweek.co.uk
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