In This Issue
• Double bullet day for Vesper at IMA Maxi Europeans
• Transat Paprec title going down to the wire
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• SailGP brings racing to the City of Angels
• Genuine Irish Women Sailors Just Get On With It
• Cup Spy: Te Rehutai
• 50 Boats for RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
• NZYS Mastercard Youth Training & Performance Programmes
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: VOR65 Ambersail 2
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 48-203 'Mia'
• • Volvo 70 - TELEFONICA BLACK
• • YYachts Y7
• The Last Word: Will Rogers

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Double bullet day for Vesper at IMA Maxi Europeans
After one offshore and two days of coastal racing, today the fleet competing out of Sorrento, Italy for the International Maxi Association's Maxi European Championship were sent off on two windward-leeward courses on the Bay of Naples along the north coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula. Once again conditions were difficult with much cloud activity as well as the occasional monsoon-grade downpour, causing crews to rechristen the race's otherwise magnificent host port 'Torrento'. The rain and clouds once again made for a shifty race course combined with a large swell running, the result of strong winds blowing for the last 24 hours offshore. Today was generally the windiest to date with 15 knots for the first race dropping to 10 for the second.

With substantial points to be gained today going into tomorrow's grand finale coastal race, crews were contemplating their score-lines now they can discard their worst result (excluding the Regata dei Tre Golfi offshore).

After not racing yesterday, today Jim Swartz's Maxi 72 Vesper bounced back with a vengeance and, in a commanding consistent performance, won both races under IRC corrected time. -- James Boyd

Full results

tregolfisailingweek.com

internationalmaxiassociation.com

Transat Paprec title going down to the wire
The 1994, second edition of the two-handed race across the Atlantic which is now the Transat Paprec was famously won by French sailing legends Jean Le Cam and Roland Jourdain by just 63 seconds. After 20 days and 20 hours of racing between Lorient and Saint Barthelemy, Le Cam and Jourdain pipped Bertrand de Broc and Marc Guillemot by the tiniest of margins.

This Transat Paprec, the first to be raced in 'mixed doubles' format, looks set to deliver a truly nail biting finale which, if it does not see as close a finish between first and second as 1994, this edition , the second edition ever to be raced in Figaro BENETEAU 3 one designs is shaping up to have the closest finish yet between the top five.

With less than 350 miles to go of the 3890 mile course, there is still nothing between the top three. And after 17 and a half days of racing, the top trio are still mostly within visual sight of each other in the same way they might be during a training day race in Brittany.

Erwan Tabarly sums up, "It's a real speed race. You also have to negotiate squalls and clouds well and keep trimming your boat properly. Two days before the finish no one really has any kind of lead. The mindset comes into it too. Wanting too much to control or watch too closely what others are doing, you can forget to just take the best route. You have to stay true to your plan, go your own way without giving in to the others. Even if they don't stay stuck in light winds around the island, the boats are very close and you can be overtaken during the passage round of the island, it has happened before. You can stay stuck for a few minutes by going around the tip at Colombier. It never lasts long but it can be enough to get passed by a boat. Victory can be won there. It's less tricky then, going down to the line."

Top five at 1700hrs BST WEDNESDAY 17 May 2023
1. Mutuellle Bleue (Corentin Horeau/Pauline Courtois) 353.2 nautical miles to finish
2. Skipper MACIF (Lois Berrehar/Charlotte Yven) + 0.9 miles
3. Region Bretagne CMB Performance (Gaston Morvan/Anne Claire le Berre) +1.4 miles
4. Region Normandie (Guillaume Pirouelle/Sophie Faguet) + 10.2 miles
5. Cap Ingelec (Camille Bertel/Pierre Leboucher) + 12.9 miles

transatpaprec.com

Seahorse June 2023
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

World News
Against the odds... La Grande Route, a one-design and mixed-gender Transat, Kiwi Olympic sailing back on the up escalator again, a breeding ground for 5.5 Metres, two Spithills on a roll and USA heads to sea. Ivor Wilkins, Dobbs Davis, Blue Robinson, Patrice Carpentier, Manfred Ramspacher, Dave Hollom, Magnus Wheatley, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Christian Dumard

Easily overlooked
Simon Tonks looks at what is fast becoming one of the most challenging and potentially most costly campaign ticket items

Rod Davis - Don't whine
... do something. Make sailing fun again and within a few years all the problems will be solved

Sailor of the Month
According to you guys, it gets harder every month

Update
There's never been an America's Cup like this one, Ineos go for a back-to-the-future check-in, a new design pairing takes over at Spi Ouest and looking back at the remarkable life of Syd Fischer. Terry Hutchinson, Jack Griffin, Patrice Carpentier, Sam Manuard, Didier Gaudoux, Bernard Nivelt

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SailGP brings the most exciting racing on water to the City of Angels
SailGP, one of the fastest-growing sports properties on the planet, has announced that tickets for the newest stop in its global championship, the Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix, are now on sale.

The City of Angels welcomes the nine national teams, including the United States, to its sun-soaked shores, July 22-23, 2023 . Los Angeles is the second event on the 12-stop global tour, which will follow the Season 4 kick-off in Chicago, the Rolex United States Sail Grand Prix, June 16-17.

The nine teams, including sailing legend Jimmy Spithill's home team, and defending champions Australia, will race identical F50 hydrofoiling catamarans, capable of highway speeds exceeding 60 mph. Fans will have a front-row seat to the close-to-shore action taking place on the Outer Harbor racecourse at the Port of Los Angeles, Berth 46.

Tickets for the grandstand and for Bring Your Own Boat (access within 50 meters from the action) are available.

SailGP.com/LosAngeles

Genuine Irish Women Sailors Just Get On With It, Without Making A Fuss And Seeking Patronising Support
Whatever you may think about the historic gun-running by Erskine & Molly Childers' Asgard into Howth on July 26th 1914, there's no denying the fact that this was one of the most significant interactions of sailing as a sport with Irish national life in its most all-embracing form. Indeed, there is perhaps only one other sailing-related happening which has totally lodged itself so enduringly in the national consciousness, and that is the August 2016 arrival of Annalise Murphy into the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire with her sailing Silver Medal, won at the Rio Olympics. It was an occasion of purest shared joy which chimed perfectly with the sense of a country finally emerging from the economic recession of 2009-2012.

That velvet summer night of nationally-shared Dun Laoghaire celebration simply took it for granted that it was a woman sailor who had made all this possible. Yet in drawing any comparisons with the singular events of 102 years earlier, so much is under consideration that it is easy to overlook another key fact. It was a woman sailor who helmed Asgard throughout the tricky manoeuvre which brought the ketch and her important cargo safely alongside Howth's East Pier to affect the course of history.

Another gem from WM Nixon, the full article in Afloat magazine

Cup Spy: Te Rehutai signs off ETNZ's AC75 Auckland based development program
What happened in the Cup - May 15, 2023:

American Magic has ceased sailing pending a move to Barcelona with their AC75 and AC-40. Media reports in New Zealand have it that American Magic has sought dispensation from the Arbitration Panel to not be required to compete in the Preliminary Regatta in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Protocol governing the 37th America's Cup provides in 10.2(a) a competitor is not obliged to compete if they have "reasonable and genuine safety concerns of the Competitor." This is a matter for the Arbitration Panel to decide, otherwise there is a standard points deduction to be applied.

Luna Rossa sailed from Cagliari, in their AC-40 One Design

Emirates Team New Zealand sailed for the final time in Auckland in their AC75, the 2021 America's Cup winner, which has been running a test and development program for 19 days starting on March 20, 2023.

INEOS Britannia sailed from Mallorca in their LEQ12 test and development boat "T6"

Alinghi Red Bull Racing did not sail.

No further news from the Orient Express Team (formerly K-Challenge).

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

50 Boats for RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
RORC Vice Admiral's Cup
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club
19-21 May 2023
Cowes, IOW

The 2023 RORC Vice Admiral's Cup will feature fifty boats racing with the Royal Ocean Racing Club. The Cape 31, J/111 and J/109 Classes will race under one-design rules with the HP30+ and Quarter Tonner Classes racing under the IRC Rating Rule. Three days of action are scheduled with multiple races per day on windward leeward courses and tight round the cans racing. Weather forecasts are predicting superb conditions for Saturday and Sunday for the regatta.

Over 300 sailors are expected for the RORC Vice Admiral's Cup with corinthian sailors rubbing shoulders with top professionals. The Vice Admiral's Cup has always featured a full social programme. The RORC Cowes Clubhouse will be regatta central for fun filled evening entertainment, especially the Prize Giving, held at the RORC Clubhouse on Sunday 21 May.

This year is the third Vice Admiral's Cup featuring the Cape 31 Class and with 25 entries it will be the biggest collection of Cape 31s in the history of the class. Last year's winner, Michael Bartholomew's Tokoloshe 4 returns to defend the title with son David on the tiller. -- Louay Habib/RORC

rorc.org

RNZYS Mastercard Youth Training And Performance Programmes
Emirates Team New Zealand is directly investing in the future of New Zealand's world class sailing talent by purchasing a renewed fleet of ten Elliott 7's yachts for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's Mastercard Youth Training Programme (YTP) and Performance Programmes which have long been globally regarded as world leading Youth Training for performance keel boat sailors.

The RNZYS Mastercard Youth Training scheme is now in its 36th year, starting in 1987 and has had over 1200 sailors graduate through the programme in this time. It has produced a long list of some of the world's top sailors, most recently the likes of Nick Egnot-Johnson 2022 Open Match Racing World Champion,and Celia Willison second in the 2022 Women's Match Racing World Championship, who are among many graduates carving a successful path on the international stage.

The investment by Emirates Team New Zealand is a continuation of its support of the development of youth sailing with its representative yacht club over the years.

Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton explained the importance of supporting the RNZYS Mastercard Youth Training programme. "This programme is one of the cornerstones of the development of New Zealand sailing talent, it is the pathway from teenage enthusiasts to high performance sailors in New Zealand, and around the world. And it has been this way for many years. So, we are happy to be able to continue to support it by refreshing the fleet of Elliott 7's, the legacy of which will go well beyond the physical boats themselves."

emiratesteamnz.com

Industry News
The High Performance Yacht Design Committee are planning for the next Conference in March 2024.

The HPYD committee are in the process of planning dates for the HPYD8 conference in Auckland, New Zealand. These will coincide with the SailGP Auckland event 23rd-24th March 2024. So now the world is opening up again, save the date for a visit to Auckland.

The conference will be both physical for those who can attend, and online for those who can't. As well as the technical sessions, it will feature an industry presentation session and a public lecture.

We are now taking expressions of interest for papers. Click here if you would like to present a paper or visit hpyd.org.nz/ and click on the Expressions of Interest button.

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The Ocean Race is proud to partner with Charles Heidsieck, named today as the official champagne of The Ocean Race, the world's premier offshore sailing race and the toughest test of a team in sport.

The partnership marks a reunion between two iconic brands - Charles Heidsieck, a luxury champagne that has just honoured the 200 year bicentennial of the birth of its founder, and The Ocean Race, heading into its 50th anniversary jubilee celebrations.

Since December 2015, Charles Heidsieck vineyards boast the "Sustainable Viticulture" label with "HVE" (High Environmental Value). Protection of the environment, respect for biodiversity and sustainable vineyard management are central to their operations and at the the core of their daily work.

"We are excited to have Charles Heidsieck as our official champagne," said Richard Brisius, Race Chairman of The Ocean Race. "We share an appreciation for achieving the extraordinary and driving change towards a healthier, sustainable planet. We look forward to celebrating with Charles Heidsieck champagne at the finish line of each leg of the race and honouring the overall winner of The Ocean Race at the Grand Finale in Genova, Italy."

Leg 5 of The Ocean Race, from Newport, Rhode Island in the USA to Aarhus in Denmark starts on Sunday 21st May. The race continues from Aarhus to The Hague (via a Kiel 'fly-by'); before the Grand Finale in Genova, Italy at the end of June.

theoceanrace.com

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International maritime charity Sailors' Society is offering limited places on the ultimate trekking challenge that is helping to support the world's 1.89 million seafarers.

Sponsored by Swire Shipping, Sailors' Society's Kilimanjaro Trek will take adventurous fundraisers on a seven-day 69km challenge through dense tropical rainforest and African moorland before conquering Uhuru Peak, the highest point on the magnificent Kilimanjaro - Africa's highest mountain, standing at a massive 5,895m.

The event is available to the first 35 people who sign up at https://www.sailors-society.org/events/kilimanjaro-2023.

The Sailors' Society Kilimanjaro Trek takes place between October 11 and October 19 2023 and the package includes accommodation and meals, qualified guides and a dedicated high-altitude medic.

Participants are asked to raise a minimum of £4,999 which will go towards the Society's 24/7 support for seafarers and their families and the charity's pioneering Wellness at Sea programme.

Participants are asked to raise a minimum of £4,999 which will go towards the Society’s 24/7 support for seafarers and their families and the charity’s pioneering Wellness at Sea programme.

For more information go to sailors-society.org/events/kilimanjaro-2023

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Oman Sail's pioneering programme, SailFree, has won gold for the Best Sports Event CSR Initiative category at the prestigious Middle East Sports Industry Awards 2023 (SPIA). Launched in 2019 and delivered in partnership with bp Oman and the Oman Paralympic Association, SailFree is the first programme of its kind in the region and has introduced over 500 people with disabilities to the sport and provided a positive model to follow for an inclusive society.

The programme has proven that sailing can have a long-term positive impact on the lives of people with disabilities.

In 2022, SailFree won its first gold medal and helped to bring the first exclusively Para Sailing event to Oman at the RS Venture Connect World Championship at Barceló Mussanah Resort in 2022.

Following the award ceremony held at the Atlantis, The Palm Hotel in Dubai, Dr Khamis Al Jabri, Oman Sail CEO, said, "This is an incredible achievement for all of Oman and shows the potential for a fully inclusive society. Oman Sail, along with the support of our partners bp Oman and the Oman Paralympic Association, has shown that sport can break barriers and help people with disabilities to overcome obstacles. We are very proud to win this award and show the positive impact that SailFree has had. The programme proves that there is a bright future in Oman for Para Sport, and within the community as part of our national development goals as we help to create opportunities for all."

omansail.com

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The Y7 was created in collaboration with US designer Bill Tripp, considered one of the world's best naval architects. Our goal was to combine comfortable sailing performance with competitive sailing performance, even on the regatta course.

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