In This Issue
• Antigua to Bermuda: The Winners are in
• Transat Paprec
• Maxi European Championship offshore race
• GUYOT environnement - Team Europe in Halifax
• The Inside Report - OnCourse Ep25
• Cup Spy
• Christopher Pratt Interview
• Youth Foiling Gold Cup Act 2
• Pro Sailing Tour 2023
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Ker 40+ - "Elvis"
• • Neo 570c
• • Infiniti 52R
• The Last Word: Edward Witten

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Antigua to Bermuda: The Winners are in
Tod Slyngstad's HH 66 catamaran Nemo was the first to finish crossing the line off St George's at 15:06 AST Saturday. Stefan Jentzsch's Botin 56 Black Pearl followed at 20:53 wining First Place in IRC and CSA.

Jentzsch reported it was a busy, interesting race with a great variety of conditions from blast reaching in beautiful trade wind conditions to torrential rain in the front they passed through Thursday night. The navigator was kept busy anticipating the future wind directions. The challenge of keeping up and for a time passing the catamaran Nemo added to the fun.

Rye finished at 1642 AST Sunday. Their standing in CSA Cruising remains up in the air awaiting the performance of Bella J and Life of Reilly.

The fourth edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race started from Antigua May 9th. The 935nm oceanic race is managed by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week, and supported by the Bermuda Tourism Authority and Goslings Rum. The race is designed to suit a wide range of yachts and crew, with memorable parties both in Antigua and Bermuda.-- Les Crane

antiguabermuda.com

Transat Paprec
As the leading trio sail south west this Sunday afternoon, two weeks exactly since the Concarneau start of the Transat Paprec mixed tow handed race to Saint Barth's, they are crossing in front of fourth placed Guillaume Pirouelle and Sophie Faguet (Region Normandie) who are about 17 miles astern.

Making speeds of eight to nine knots top three duos have just over 900 miles to sail to the finish line off Gustavia, Saint Barths where they are now predicted to finish between 0800hrs and 1200hrs local time on Friday.

Just as they led into the first night of racing two weeks ago Lois Berrehar and Charlotte Yven (Skipper MACIF) top the 11 boat fleet and they have done since early Saturday morning. But their margin is a slender 1.2 nautical miles over Corentin Horeau and Pauline Courtois (Mutuelle Bleue) while third placed Gaston Morvan and Anne-Claire Le Berre (Region Bretagne-CMB Performance) are only 5.5 nms behind.

Increasingly this is looking like these three might form the podium come next Friday morning in Saint Barth's There are options for fourth placed Pirouelle and Faguet but these will be small scale, about chaining together little gains as the breezes get lighter and shiftier as they get near the French West Indies.

Top five at 1700hrs BST Sunday May 2023
1. Skipper MACIF (Lois Berrehar/Charlotte Yven) 907 miles to the finish
2. Mutuellle Bleue (Corentin Horeau/Pauline Courtois) + 1.3 miles
3. Region Bretagne CMB Performance (Gaston Morvan/Anne Claire le Berre) + 3.4 miles
4. Region Normandie (Guillaume Pirouelle/Sophie Faguet) + 36.3.4 nms
5. Cap Ingelec (Camille Bertel/Pierre Leboucher) +51.8 nms

transatpaprec.com

North Star wins second IMA Maxi European Championship offshore race
Peter Dubens' North Star won the Regata dei Tre Golfi maxi class for a second consecutive year under IRC corrected time, sailing with minimum crew thanks to her powered winches. Photo by ROLEX / Studio Borlenghi. Click on image to enlarge.

With the 26 strong maxi fleet sub-divided into three classes, the remainder of the Regata dei Tre Golfi maxi fleet arrived throughout the course of yesterday afternoon. Giuseppe Puttini's Swan 65 ketch Shirlaf was last home at 17:45CEST. Due to the slower boats experiencing shutdowns around the race's southerly turning mark of Li Galli and gusty rain squalls as they approached the finish line off Massa Lubrense, to the west of Sorrento, the offshore race of this second International Maxi Association Maxi European Championship, has proved to be a big boat affair.

For a second consecutive year Peter Dubens' former Maxi 72 North Star has won the race's maxi division, by just over seven minutes under IRC corrected time from the race's line honours winner and new record holder, Sir Peter Ogden's Maxi 77 Jethou.

Supported by Rolex as Official Timepiece and Loro Piana, the 150 mile race from Naples to Sorrento, via Ponza in the north and the Li Galli islands in the south, was organised by the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (CRVI) in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, the body officially tasked by World Sailing to administer and develop maxi yacht racing internationally.

While the superbly sailed former Maxi 72s occupied four of the top five spaces on the overall IRC maxi leaderboard for the Regata dei Tre Golfi, holding third was Riccardo de Michele's serial Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup class winning Vallicelli 78 H20, topping the combined Maxi 4-5 class.

Monday) is the first of four days of inshore racing for the IMA Maxi European Championship. For this the maxi fleet will comprise 22 yachts ranging in size from numerous 60 footers such as Wallyno to the longest Shockwave 3.

While the Regata dei Tre Golfi was the second event in the 2022-23 IMA Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, tomorrow's inshore races will be the second of the IMA's equivalent Inshore Challenge, which began with PalmaVela last weekend. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

Full results

tregolfisailingweek.com

internationalmaxiassociation.com

GUYOT environnement - Team Europe arrives in Halifax, will transport to Europe
GUYOT envrionnement - Team Europe arrived in Halifax on Saturday and the team is preparing to be shipped back to Europe as soon as possible with a goal of rejoining the race.

On 9 May, at around 2.30 a.m., the yacht had lost its mast in a heavy storm and rough seas, forcing it to abandon the fourth leg of The Ocean Race 600 nautical miles from the finish port of Newport/USA. A cargo ship stopped its journey and transferred about 150 litres of diesel to the yacht via canister. So it was possible to reach Halifax after four and a half days at a speed of three to four knots.

After the craning out, an examination of the hull followed and then a plan can be made if and how a re-entry into the race is possible. In any case, a transport by cargo ship of the yacht to Europe is necessary.

theoceanrace.com

The Inside Report - OnCourse Ep25
We take a close look at the big three; the America's Cup, The Ocean Race and SailGP.

The Cup world is starting to get very real for the Challengers and the Defender alike where managing an AC40 and preparing for the first preliminary event later this year while at the same time testing and refining design concepts aboard an LEQ12 test boat to feed into the final design of their AC75 Cup boats, is putting the pressure on. Matt Sheahan takes a close look at what the teams have been up to over the last few months and how their preparations compare.

In The Ocean Race the tables have been turned after the runaway leaders lost their rig in Leg 4. Plus we take a look at that Southern Ocean leg and how the leg to Newport USA shaped up.

SailGP Season 3 came to a close in San Francisco with the $1million final, but there was plenty of action before that. We take a look at how the final three events panned out.

Plus, we talk to French design guru Philippe Briand about the innovative Jeanneau Yachts 55.

planetsail.co.uk

Cup Spy
American Magic last sailed off Pensacola on May 10, and is now packing to transit to their new permanent base in Barcelona.

Luna Rossa last sailed from Cagliari, in their recently launched AC40-OD on May 9. They have sailed for three days in the AC-40OD, with some commissioning issues to be resolved.

Emirates Team New Zealand sailed for the first time since since April 28. A storm-battered Auckland has been under weather warning for two weeks - most of which has eventuated with impossible sailing conditions. Suffice to say the weather has punched a hole in the Kiwis test program for the week. Their last sailing day is expected to be on Monday and then the AC40 and AC75 will be transited to Barcelona, to begin sailing in July.

INEOS Britannia was the only other AC team to sail - for the fourth successive day in their LEQ12 test boat T6. The Brits had a good day, with their new wing. The Brits returned some impressive foiling tack/gybe statistics - something for which they were not noted in the early days of their test program in T6.

Alinghi Red Bull Racing did not sail their AC75, but did sail yesterday, May 11 in their AC40OD.

No further news from the Orient Express Team (formerly K-Challenge), save for their announcement during the week that they had started their Youth and Womens crew selection process.

Richard Gladwell's full report in Sail-World.com

Christopher Pratt: "We Absolutely Wanted Our Own Sports Project"
After taking second place aboard Malizia of the fourth leg of The Ocean Race on Wednesday evening into Newport Rhode Island, Christopher Pratt managed to then make the first stage of the Pro Sailing Tour on Wind of Trust this Friday in La Seyne-sur-Mer of the. The boat was formerly Gilles Lamire's and Pratt is the new skipper. Tip & Shaft reached him early Friday morning during his connection at Paris CDG airport in between his flights from the United States and to Marseille. The sailor from Marseille took the time to talk about his busy times.

You have just come off the fourth leg of The Ocean Race was that on your program for a long time ?
No, not at all, the proposition came to me at the end of March to replace Boris (Herrmann) in terms of numbers as he wanted to take a break on this stage. For me, it was a little tight in terms of timing, but it really was hard to turn down such an opportunity. Especially since when I was following the race, I said to myself that if there was a team that I'd like to be with it would be Malizia!

How did you find this stage on which you took second place, after an intense duel with 11th Hour Racing Team ?
It's true that the intensity was really crazy. I think there were 17 changes of leader between them and us over the last fortnight of the race. And the atmosphere on board was really awesome. I knew Nico (Lunven) a bit, we have the same background training, the same approaches in terms of strategy, he is a very calm person, so I was not worried. I didn't know Will (Harris) and Rosie (Rosalin Kuiper). I had just met Will in passing in the Figaro, he really surprised me with his maturity, he is an Imoca skipper who is already very complete for his relatively young age.

So, The Ocean Race, is it over for you?
Normally yes. We're still talking. I have a really busy schedule, what, between the Pro Sailing Tour and the preparation for the next Transat Jacques Vabre with Maxime (Sorel), so I don't think it will happen, sadly, because I would be really have liked to stay until the end, I really, really liked The Ocean Race experience as a whole and Malizia in particular.

Full interview in Tip & Shaft

Youth Foiling Gold Cup Act 2 - The End Of The Qualifying Series
The qualifying phase of the Youth Foiling Gold- ACT 2, hosted in the French waters of La Grande Motte, ended today on a day marked by stormy weather that offered strong winds for the first four of the eight races contested, and then dropped for the remaining four.

The Youth Foiling Gold Cup is proceeding at full speed, in four days all twenty-four scheduled regattas were sailed and the conditions never failed to meet the expectations of the 12 participating teams, all under-25 as per YFGC regulations.

Starting tomorrow they will be divided into two fleets, based on tonight's rankings. Leading the Gold Fleet we find the home team Groupe Atlantic, after a close battle with teams LunaRossa-Piranha (ITA) and Antigua Rum Runners, at the moment, in second and third position respectively.

The six teams in Gold Fleet will give their best to win the ticket to the YFGC Grand Finale in Barcelona in November, destined for the best two crews in each event, in the Silver one they will compete for the best place in the rankings and it will represent a great opportunity to train and get in the best possible way to the next event, in Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy, in August, where they will have a chance to get their hands on the other two tickets up for grabs.

1. Groupe Atlantic Sailing Team (FRA), 59 pts
2. Luna Rossa - Piranha (ITA), 55.5
3. Rum Runners (Antigua), 55.5
4. Team France Jeune (FRA), 48
5. Team JAJO - DutchSail (NED), 45
6. Luna Rossa - Swordfish (ITA), 42
7. Clean Sailors Youth Racing Team, 41
8. Normandy Inshore Program, 30.5
9. Volaire, 23.5
10. Enzedder Racing, 23
11. HRM Racing Youth Team, 23
12. BYC - Foiling Team , 8.5

Full ranking

Pro Sailing Tour 2023 is off to a flying start
The 2023 edition of the Pro Sailing Tour got off to a flying start as a quintet of high-performance foiling trimarans were launched from La Seyne-sur-Mer in southeastern France on what promised to be a frenetic first leg across the Mediterranean to Bonifacio in Corsica.

The start marked the beginning of three weeks of high-intensity competition which will take the five experienced race teams on to Alghero in Sardinia following the Bonifacio leg, and then on the long 'Final Rush' of around 2,000 miles through the western Mediterranean and the Gibraltar Straits, and across the Bay of Biscay to the finish at Brest in Brittany.

Each of the race teams will be aiming to follow in the victorious wakes of 2021 Pro Sailing Tour winner Britain's Sam Goodchild, and last year's table topper Quentin Vlamynck, the French skipper the youngest ever in the Ocean Fifty trimaran class.

Leading the charge are likely to be two great regulars of the multihull and Ocean Fifty class, Erwan Le Roux on Koesio and Thibaut Vauchel-Camus racing Solidaires En Peloton - ARSEP. Neither of the two French skippers hide their ambition to put their name in the headlines of the 2023 Pro Sailing Tours.

The fleet is expected in Bonifacio on the morning of Sunday 14 May, with an inshore coastal race on May 16 before the restart to Sardinia at 2pm on May 17.

The 'Final Rush' to Brest will start from Alghero at 11am on May 21.

prosailingtour.com

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The Last Word
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