In This Issue
• Normandy Channel Race: Fleet passes Land's End
• The Admiral's Cup Returns
• (Much) more than just a supplier - Rondal
• 12 Metre Class at 169th Annual Regatta
• Inside 11th Hour Racing Team - SiFi interview
• Women's 2v2 Team Race
• Starting Our Countdown!
• 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar Race
• J/70 Corinthian World Cup
• The Sailing Squad at Bol d'Or
• Featured Charter: 'Crusade' - 64' Classic Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • OQS Ocean Explorer 60
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• • HH44 - NEW BOAT
• The Last Word: Neal Cassady

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Normandy Channel Race: Fleet passes Land's End
Virtually all the CIC Normandy Channel Race fleet has now reached Land's End. After a tactical passage along the south coast of England, Groupe SNEF's strategic decision to hunt down more breeze offshore before heading back to the coast to benefit from a favourable current has paid dividends. Xavier Macaire and Pierre Leboucher were the first to round the westernmost tip of England at 14:25 UTC and launch onto the climb up the Celtic Sea.

Tonight, those competing in this 2023 edition will have another sizeable chunk of racetrack to negotiate in their climb up to Tuskar Rock. Depending on their strategies, it could be a pretty much direct course on a reach with shifty breeze in terms of intensity, but the crews will have to constantly adapt their trim. The first half of the night is set to involve light airs and around 6-7 knots of boat speed until 01:00 UTC on Tuesday morning, before the pace picks up considerably with the arrival of a meatier NE'ly wind from Saint George's Channel. And so begins another life-size chess game in the Celtic Sea. -- Sirius Events

Top five standings June 6 03h15 France
1. Alla grande Pirelli - Ambrogio Beccaria / Kevin Bloch
2. Project Rescue Ocean - Axel Trehin / Nicolas Troussel
3. Cafe Joyeux - Nicolas d'Estais / Leo Debiesse
4. Credit Mutuel - Ian Lipinski / Antoine Carpentier
5. La Manche Evidence Nautique - Nicolas Jossier / Alexis Loison

normandy-race.com/en/

The Admiral's Cup Returns
The Admiral's Cup is back for 2025 and will be held biennially thereafter by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Established in 1957, The Admiral's Cup is honoured throughout the world of sailing as the unofficial world cup for offshore racing. Teams from Great Britain have been the most successful, winning the trophy on nine occasions. Germany has won four times, USA and Australia three times each, with Australia being the holders of this prized trophy. Victories have been achieved for France, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

The 2025 Admiral's Cup will be organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club from Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. Racing will consist of a combination of inshore and offshore racing. Teams will comprise of two boats representing a Yacht Club or Country.

Provisional Dates:
Thursday 17 July - Registration / Measurement
Friday 18 July - Registration / Measurement
Saturday 19 July - Inshore Races
Sunday 20 July - Inshore Races
Monday 21 July - Inshore Races
Tuesday 22 July - Spare Day
Wednesday 23 July - Short Offshore Race
Thursday 24 July - Short Offshore Race / Admiral's Cup Dinner
Friday 25 July - Lay Day
Saturday 26 July - Rolex Fastnet Race
Friday 1 August - Prizegiving

Director of the RORC Rating Office, Jason Smithwick commented on the type of boats that will be eligible for the 2025 Admiral's Cup.

"IRC produces the most exciting and high performance rating system boats in the world and the Admiral's Cup is a great opportunity to showcase our fleet," commented Smithwick.

"The Admiral's Cup Class IRC rating band and length range have been carefully selected to allow as many boat types to be eligible, while maintaining a compact group for each class in terms of performance and also size constraints for racing in the Solent and adjacent waters. The rating bands are purposely aimed to produce close racing so boats experience similar conditions throughout the wide range of races in the Admiral's Cup.

"For Admiral's Cup Class 1 there are the bigger boats with a length above 44ft, (13.41m) up to 56ft (17.20m), this range encompasses boats like the Cookson 50 and ubiquitous highly competitive IRC 52/TP 52 fleet as examples. The modest sized boats in Admiral's Cup Class 2 ranges in length from 36ft (11.00m) up to 44ft (13.40m) and has many boat options with comparatively high performance, such as the MAT 1180, J/125, GP42, and Ker 46."

The Royal Ocean Racing Club will be writing to all the major yacht clubs around the globe, inviting them to enter a team for this world-renowned event, as well as inviting expressions of interest from proposed Admiral's Cup teams before the Pre-Notice of Race. This will be issued on 19th July 2023, which will be two years to the day before the first race starts for the 2025 Admiral's Cup.

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(Much) more than just a supplier - Rondal
Rondal played a pivotal role throughout the design and engineering loops of the Nilaya project as well as building the deckhouse, cockpit, keel trunk, rig, sailing systems and more

Who do you call when you have a groundbreaking new concept for a superyacht that requires a performance rig, integrated sailing system and a wide range of carbon components? For the 47-metre (154ft) Reichel/Pugh-Nauta sloop Nilaya, the choice of a partner with the required expertise in design, engineering and fabrication of hitech sailing systems and marine carbon composites was obvious. It was a job for Rondal.

Constructed at the Royal Huisman shipyard in The Netherlands - the first yacht produced with their innovative new Featherlight methodology - and due for delivery to her owners around the time this issue of Seahorse went to press, the new Nilaya is by a clear margin the lightest-displacement aluminium sailing superyacht ever built. Her polars suggest that she'll be quite capable of challenging carbon composite superyachts in bucket regattas, even though she is primarily conceived as a longdistance cruiser.

Main picture: a new design from Rondal, the spreaders on Nilaya's mast are curved to allow a larger genoa which in turn permits closer sheeting angles

Full article in the June issue of Seahorse

12 Metre Class Prepared to Throw Around its Weight at 169th Annual Regatta
Newport, R.I.: By weight, the 12 Metre Modern class might be the biggest one-design fleet at the 169th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, which kicks off this Friday off Newport, R.I. While just four boats are expected to race in this edition of North America's oldest annual regatta, they pack quite a punch on the scale, coming in at somewhere around 30 to 35 tons apiece. For reference, the five-year-old IC37 design, of which 14 are racing in the Annual Regatta, weighs roughly one-tenth as much.

And then there's the metaphorical impact a competitive fleet of 12-Metre yachts can have on a regatta. While the America's Cup has moved on to foiling monohulls capable of 50 knots, the 12 Metres (above, racing in the 2019 Annual Regatta) remain one of the most recognizable representations of sailing's greatest competition, particularly in Newport where former Cup competitors can be found doing sunset cruises, harbor tours and casual races most days of the summer. Each 12 Metre built since in the last 70 years carries an indelible connection to the America's Cup.

The Annual Regatta is just the start of a momentous two months for the 12 Metre class. The class will hold its pre-worlds during the Newport Regatta in early July and the 2023 12 Metre World Championship will take place off Newport July 30 to August 5. Upwards of 10 boats, spanning the 100-plus-year history of the class, are expected to compete in the world championship.

The 2023 regatta season is the busiest in the history of the New York Yacht Club with 17 regattas scheduled from late April through early October. -- Stuart Streuli

nyyc.org/169th-annual-regatta

Inside 11th Hour Racing Team - SiFi interview
After a difficult gear breaking start to The Ocean Race two consecutive leg wins for 11th Hour Racing Team has put Charlie Enright's team in the overall lead, albeit by just one point with two legs to go. Their blast across the Atlantic on Leg 5 was an impressive one. Navigator and veteran round the world racer Simon 'SiFi' Fisher talks to Matt Sheahan about what it was like and how the team is handling the race that they have spent years preparing for.

planetsail.co.uk

Women's 2v2 Team Race
After 45 races in conditions that ranged from very windy to very, very windy, four of the 10 teams competing in the New York Yacht Club's third annual Women's 2v2 Team Race were tied for first place with 7 points apiece. And perhaps that's appropriate. Given the dire forecast heading into the weekend, the fact that any races were held at all is a victory for the 86 sailors and two dozen race officials and umpires involved in the regatta. The racing was competitive, and without any major breakdowns, collisions or injuries, a testament to the skill of the sailors and the faith of the race officials that the competitors would be able to handle conditions that approached gale force and kept multiple other fleets off the water.

While the racing was physically demanding all weekend, Abigayle Konys, team captain for the Bristol Yacht Club squad, said the key to surviving Saturday, in particular, was all between the ears.

"You have to go into it with a good attitude, or it's just not going to be your day," said Konys. "No. 1 is making sure we're communicating and keeping up that energy. That's the only way you can approach a day like that and if you can do that and keep your boats moving in the right direction that's going to be the best thing you can do." -- Stuart Streuli

Overall Results
1. Bristol (R.I.) Yacht Club, 7 wins - 2 losses
2. Team Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association, Annapolis, Md., 7-2
3. Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club, 7-2
4. Newport Harbor Yacht Club, Newport Beach, Calif. 7-2
5. Chicago Yacht Club, 5-4
6. New York Yacht Club, 4-5
7. Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass., 4-5
8. Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass. 3-6
9. Annapolis (Md.) Yacht Club, 1-8
10. American Yacht Club, Rye, N.Y., 0-9

nyyc.org

Starting Our Countdown!
Ta da! The month of June is here! Sailstice is in 23 days - so begins our final countdown.

Whether it's an individual, public, or demonstration event, there's a lot of summer sailing planned already. Plan ahead and login now to get started!

Let us know if you plan to join any events - you can post that you'll be joining a friend's event in case you're not quite up to planning your own. There really is a way for everyone to participate regardless of what or where you sail!

summersailstice.com/my-plan

151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar Race and The Only Foiling Offshore Yacht, "Flying Nikka".
An especially light 14th edition of the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar saw the course from Livorno to Punta Ala via the Giraglia rock shortened to 124 miles, while prior to the start crews focussed on lightening their yachts; heavy weather sails were offloaded along with anything extraneous on board, with, in some cases, crew numbers also reduced. Out on the race course competitors enjoyed the warmth of an early summer offshore race and a magnificent sunset on Thursday night but otherwise had to maintain strict concentration in order to hunt out every available zephyr in the otherwise weak fickle conditions. -- Geoff Waller

boatson.tv

J/70 Corinthian World Cup
Riva Del Garda Italy: Unusual conditions for Lake Garda have dictated the fate of the last two days of the J/70 Corinthian World Cup which, after the six races held in the first two days, comes to an end with a "double" no-race due to lack of wind. At the end of the series of six races, also considering the discard of the worst result, the winner of the first J/70 Corinthian World Cup in history is Gianfranco Noè's White Hawk.

The crew of the Italian owner, already the Corinthian World Champion in Porto Cervo 2017, put the seal on the title thanks also to a scoreline which, out of six races, counts two bullets, a second and a third place.

On the podium in second place is Irrational Exuberance from Estonia of Tonu Toniste, 11 points behind White Hawk, while the bronze medal goes to the Australian crew of Celestial, led by Sam Haynes. The top five is completed by Let It Be by the Spanish Marcelo Baltzer Foucher and Three Musketeers from Brazil, led by Alberto Guarischi.

Sofia Giondi won the "First Women Helm" trophy, and Moore DRN received the award for the best Under 25 crew. The crews of Mr Henri (winners in the Mixed Plus Division), Happyyachting.com (for their success in the Garmin Cup) and White Hawk again for the Alphazer EnergyStart Trophy were also awarded.

Information and rankings from the J/70 Corinthian World Cup 2023 are available at j70.it/en/corinthian-world-cup-2023/

The Sailing Squad at Bol d'Or
Embodying the values that are dear to the Mirabaud Group, the Sailing Squad is back and with one goal in mind: winning the Bol d'Or Mirabaud. The first episode of season 3 will be released on Monday, June 5. Discover what awaits Anja von Allmen, Eilidh McIntyre, Silvia Mas, and their coach Shirley Robertson as they meet and train to join Christian Wahl's Double You Team. Find out more about the team and the project on Mirabaud's dedicated page:

This mini-series is produced by Mirabaud in partnership with Hublot, Forward WIP, Societe Nautique de Geneve, Verbier Tourisme, and the hotel InterContinental Geneve.

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The Last Word
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