In This Issue
• Aarhus Start for The Ocean Race
• Normandy Channel Race
• Cup Spy : Kiwis reveal second new wing foil
• Sailing World on Water
• Philippe Delamare: "It's a page I had to fill."
• Guillaume Verdier: 640 miles can be beaten...
• The big book of the Giraglia
• IDM of the J/70: inclusive top-class sport
• Day 276: Jeremy Bagshaw ETA Friday 9th, final GGR Finisher
• Featured Brokerage:
• • The Makara Series
• • Kinetic Catamarans - KC54
• • 1944 Luders 24 - Belle
• The Last Word: Ray Mungo

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Aarhus Start for The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race returned to full strength in Aarhus, Denmark as the VO65 fleet rejoined the race for the European legs.

On a beautiful Thursday afternoon - sunny skies, warm temperatures, light sea breeze - racing started with the stakes high for both fleets.

First off were the five VO65s returning to race in the second stage of the VO65 Sprint after a three month sabbatical. With two legs of racing left, the VO65 leaderboard is wide open and the stage to The Hague is an important opportunity to collect points. The ETA for the finish is 11 June.

As the afternoon turned to evening it would be the IMOCA fleet on point for an 18:15 start, with the race around the world still wide-open - 11th Hour Racing Team is in pole position, but only one point clear of Team Holcim-PRB. The early evening conditions were extremely light for the IMOCA start, with a new breeze just starting to fill in as the fleet finally left Aarhus behind.

The IMOCA fleet is racing towards the Kiel Fly-By, expected to attract over 100,000 visitors and 1,000 boats to the Kiel Fjord on Friday, with an ETA of mid-afternoon on 9 June, before pushing towards the finish in The Hague.

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Normandy Channel Race
Slugging it out in this 14th CIC Normandy Channel Race the fleet has reached south-west England and is heading back along the English Channel. On the approach to the Scilly Isles, the sailors had to go around the Sevon Stones TSS (Traffic Separation Scheme). Positioned more or less east on the racetrack according to the number and depth of counter-tacks, split the fleet in half with a passage to the north or south of this zone forbidden to the racers. The duos to the north initially had the advantage, as they were better positioned to round Land's End and benefited from a favourable current. The Class40s negotiated this passage to perfection and Alla Grande Pirelli (181) is still looking in great shape, along with Cafe Joyeux (176), IBSA (186) and Groupe SNEF (178), all four of them on a direct line and ideally placed to tackle the climb up to Ouistreham. Or are they...? Project Rescue Ocean (162) is currently leading the fleet on the southern charge, and the crew, made up of Axel Trehin and Nicolas Troussel no less, has its foot to the floor...

Once the end of Cornwall was in their wake, another strategic choice came into play for the skippers. Should they remain on the south coast of England and benefit from more manageable seas and less current, at the risk of having less breeze, before picking their way south again to get around the Casquets TSS. Such was the option chosen by seven competitors headed by the inimitable Italo-French duo of Ambrogio Beccaria / Kevin Bloch. Alternatively, should they adopt a more direct trajectory, immediately launching their way across the English Channel on the quest for more breeze but rougher seas. This is the strategy that a large part of the fleet has opted for, with Project Rescue Ocean (162) leading the charge and currently positioned at the top of the leader board. In every case, the next few hours of racing are set to be boisterous for all the protagonists as they make headway upwind in heavy seas and around 26-27 knots of NE'ly breeze, gusting to as much as 36 knots.

Race Tracker

Retirements:
Class40 Cafe Joyeux
Class40 Visit Valle d'Aosta
Class40 Groupe SNEF
Class40 Trim Control

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Cup Spy : Kiwis reveal second new wing foil
The Swiss continued two boat training in their AC40s, but without Ernesto Bertarelli co-helming today. Nevertheless there was plenty of spectator interest in their race practice session.

The Brits put in a solid day of speed sailing and testing on their test boat "T6".

The Kiwis revealed their second test wing, which is a move in a new direction - but maybe not so unusual given Emirates Team NZ's penchant for taking new design directions. The new foil is described as "asymmetric" in that the two halves of the wingfoil are different - the right hand half has up tip, the left hand side has "down tip". Whether the foil should be viewed as a single operating unit, or a foil of two halves is a matter for the team to know and others to find out.

Alinghi Red Bull Racing have a similar concept with the "tubercle" foil, which is also a "foil of two halves" with one half being a tubercle design, and the other half being a conventional minimum surface foil. On the Swiss foil we don't know the weights of the two halves - whether they weigh the same , or if more weight can be built into the tubercle - along with a couple of possible performance gains. If the tubercle concept is an improvement, and can absorb all or some of the weight contained in the foil bulb - reducing drag - then there is a further benefit from the Swiss design thinking.

The other point with the new Kiwi foil is that it is not flat, anhedral or dihedral - the only other foil that has gone into that twilight zone is the INEOS Britannia "W" foil, which was seen, but not used in the 2021 Prada Cup in Auckland, and was trotted out on T6, or the Brit's development boat, in Barcelona.

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

Sailing World on Water
More than 20 years after the historic meeting in New Zealand between the Amerigo Vespucci and Americas Cup boat, Luna Rossa, the "most beautiful ship in the world" and the team that will represent Italy at the 37th America's Cup have crossed their bows again.

We follow up to our report last week with the latest fly-past of the old and the new in sailing.

Takashi Okura's Sled team were top scoring boat over a testing day of shifting, light breezes on the Gulf of Follonica at the 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino Sailing Week. The 2021 circuit champions sailed to a first and a fourth place, whilst their nearest title rivals so far this week, Quantum Racing powered by American Magic, faltered with a tenth in the second contest – the result of being over the start line early.

Day 5 of the Dragon World Championships in Bodrim Turkey saw a false start on Race 6 due to a massive wind shift on course sp the race was restarted in a constant 7 knots of breeze. -- Geoff Waller

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Philippe Delamare: "It's a page I had to fill."
French sailor Philippe Delamare will be at the starting line of the first edition of the Global Solo Challenge, which begins in September in A Coruna, Spain. Although he readily admits he is not a "real competitor," his experience in the Southern Seas should not be underestimated when it comes to performance and, why not, even a good result.

Ten years is a long time. Ten years ago, I was only discovering the stories of Bernard Moitessier and the world of the sea, and Marco Nannini probably didn't imagine he would one day organise a round-the-world sailing event. Yet, ten years ago, Philippe Delamare was already considering taking the plunge to fulfil his dream of sailing solo around the world. "It's a page I had to fill, and I can't wait to start. For a project like this, you need a bit of recklessness, but above all, unshakable motivation."

Approaching 60, the Global Solo Challenge participant has already sailed most of the world's seas and experienced a thousand lives. "I've never done anything for more than 8 years," he confesses. Except for sailing, that is. After studying business and working for a large American company, he started his own business, and eight years later, he decided to embark on a 5-year round-the-world trip with his wife and daughter. Their journey took them from France to Australia, through the Amazon, Patagonia, Easter Island, and the Fiji archipelago on a 43-foot aluminium boat from the Prometa shipyard.

Upon returning to land, Philippe settled in Brisbane and started a new business with a friend. They spent another eight "absolutely fabulous" years, during which he continued sailing whenever possible, delivering boats for owners twice a year.

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Guillaume Verdier: 640 miles can be beaten...
It's hard to believe that a sailing boat can cover a total distance in 24 hours that would equate to travelling from Paris to Alicante in southern Spain, the home of The Ocean Race, but that is what Holcim-PRB has now done.

Racing in Leg 5 of The Ocean Race from Newport to Aarhus, Kevin Escoffier's new foiling IMOCA set a new outright monohull world record for sailing boats of any kind, with a distance in 24 hours of 640.91 nautical miles.

Holcim-PRB's designer, the French Naval architect Guillaume Verdier (who also designed Comanche alongside VPLP), said he was not surprised by the latest leap in distance sailed and said he has no doubt that even 640 miles can be bettered.

"Oh for sure, yeah, yeah," he said from his home in Brittany when asked if the new record can be beaten. "You mean in the state of where the boats are today? Oh yeah, for sure. The aerodynamics of these boats is pretty 'basic' to be honest. There is a lot that can be done to improve them and this will improve a lot, no doubt."

Verdier added that possible future changes to the IMOCA rule, that might release even more power, could yet produce even more dramatic results on the racecourse. "Under the rule that they are selling today, they will be able to go further," he said. "But if the rule evolved a little bit more, with more freedom - for example, allowing (foils) on the rudder that would allow full flying all the time. What we are seeing now is skimming, which is pretty good - it's only 26 knots..." -- Ed Gorman

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The big book of the Giraglia
The birthday of the Giraglia will also be celebrated with the official presentation of a volume recounting the history of the regatta from 1953 to the present. Between one regatta and another, the accounts of those who were on the start line, those who won and those who at least tried, and the protagonists on board the most important yachts, designed by those who, with their projects, have traced the evolution of yachting. In more than 400 pages we see the transformation of our sport and "cruising races" to the appearance of the first maxi yachts of the IOR era through to the very fast carbon super maxis out for records.

Published with the collaboration of the publisher Giunti, the support of the municipality of Genoa and the Istituto Idrografico of the Italian Navy, the volume of more than 400 pages will be available both in English and in Italian. Alongside the book and online databases being created with the classification of every single year. Thanks to a sophisticated search engine, targeted and in-depth research can be carried out.

We will celebrate the first copy on Sunday, June 11 at 5:30 PM in Saint-Tropez.

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IDM of the J/70: inclusive top-class sport
More than 50 teams from seven nations have registered for the International German Championship of the J/70 in the second part of Kiel Week (June 22-25). Among them are top crews with world champion reinforcement and five inclusive teams with cancer patients, visually impaired, and deaf athletes on board. Thus, the keelboat class once again proves to be a prime example of inclusive top sport.

"The scales are high, it's going to be a tough job," predicts last year's winner Carsten Kemmling. The Hamburg native would love to win Kiel Week once again with his quartet before probably turning his back on the J/70. "I'm going solo again," reveals the helmsman, who grew up in the ILCA, "and I'm already practicing in the Contender."

Kemmling sees the strongest competition in his clubmates from the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (NRV). Michael Grau, in particular, has a star-studded lineup with U.S. trimmer and J/80 World Champion Willim van Waay, as well as tactician and Sydney Hobart winner David Chapman. But also long-term rival Claas Lehmann with 470 ace Frederike Loewe on board is good for the podium. The J/70 and sailing scene is eagerly awaiting the performance of the two boats from the Halbtrocken sailing team of ORC European Champion Michael Berghorn (Kieler Yacht-Club).

Largely unknown is the potential of the late Korean entry of Changyun Kim's family crew. The Swiss Stefan Seger from the Regattaclub Oberhofen, who has already been in the Champions League final, is considered an insider tip among the foreign starters. In league racing, however, the rules are different. The Kiel Week with IDM is sailed according to the class rules. Engine, fire extinguisher and more are part of the mandatory equipment. Two crew members are allowed to sit upright on the ship's edge, but not hang outboard for weight trim. "This is to accommodate older owners and teams," explains Carsten Kemmling, with a corresponding influx. At the Corinthian World Cup of the amateurs after Whitsun in Riva on Lake Garda, 80 starting places were allocated within 20 minutes.

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Day 276: Jeremy Bagshaw ETA Friday 9th, final GGR Finisher
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After 23 days of continuous headwinds approaching Les Sables d'Olonne Jeremy Bagshaw (South Africa) in Chichester Class is on his final approach. ETA 1700 UTC on 1900 hours French time

Things were looking good onboard Olleanna last month on the 19th of May. After nine months at sea, Olleanna was 500 miles West of Cape Finisterre and 820 miles from Les Sables d'Olonnes, about a week away from finishing his circumnavigation after nearly 30000 miles and many adventures along the way. Jeremy had run out of coffee and sweets and was keen for a quick landing back to where he started! But then it all changed!

Alas, on that day at 1900 UTC, Jeremy called the GGR Race Office to report the failure of the stainless plate holding the forestay, meaning he no longer had a usable forestay. He was able to secure the reefing gear and removed the sail. The mast was not damaged, and all other standing rigging was fine including the outer forestay connected to the end of the bowsprit, the inner forestay and the two running backstays.

This meant he could only use his staysail on the inner forestay and the light genoa on the outer forestay, taking longer to complete the course. However, adding insult to injury, the wind soon veered East making it harder and longer for Oleanna to point towards Les Sables d'Olonne, instead pointing towards Ireland or Gijon in Spain, two places he visited prior to the GGR start in September 2022. Unbelievably this headwind has not veered for 23 days straight dragging that one week to go, into another 23 days! He tweeted "I'm trying to remember what wind & sea from aft of the beam feels like. It must be nice?"

Against tides, winds and overwhelming odds, Jeremy is planned to be in the channel of Les Sables d'Olonne tomorrow Friday 9th of June at 1900hrs local (UTC+2). Come and give him the hero's welcome he deserves!

2022 GGR entrants to date current positions:
1. Kirsten Neuschafer (39) / South Africa / Cape George 36 - "MINNEHAHA"
2. Abhilash Tomy (43) / India / Rustler 36 - "BAYANAT"
3. Michael Guggenberger (44) / Austria / Biscay 36 - "NURI"

2022 GGR Chichester Class:
1. Simon Curwen (63) / UK / Biscay 36 - "CLARA"
2. Jeremy Bagshaw (59) / South Africa / OE32 - "OLLEANNA"

2022 GGR Retired:
1. Edward Walentynowicz, (Canada), Rustler 36, Noah's Jest
2. Guy deBoer, (USA), Tashiba 36, Spirit
3. Mark Sinclair (Australia), Lello 34, Coconut
4. Pat Lawless, (Ireland), Saltram Saga 36, Green Rebel
5. Damien Guillou, (France), Rustler 36, PRB
6. Ertan Beskardes, (UK), Rustler 36, Lazy Otter
7. Tapio Lehtinen, (Finland), Gaia 36, Asteria
8. Arnaud Gaist, (France), Barbican 33 Mk 2, Hermes Phoning
9. Elliot Smith, (USA), Gale Force 34, Second Wind
10. Guy Waites (UK), Tradewind 35, Sagarmatha
11. Ian Herbert Jones (52) / UK / Tradewind 35 - "PUFFIN"

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