In This Issue
• Spectacular medal races decide Kiel Week titles
• Dream start for 8 international classes at Kiel Week
• Leaderboard starts to take shape at The Nations Trophy
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Team Holcim-PRB leading IMOCAs towards Med
• Sailing World on Water
• 50th Rolex Fastnet Race - how ocean racing came of age
• Conor O'Brien's Saoirse Departure Centenary
• Off to a great start at Superyacht Cup Palma
• Featured Brokerage:
• • ClubSwan 36-011 Blue Sease
• • Farr X2
• • Gunboat 80
• The Last Word: Samantha Bee

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Spectacular medal races decide Kiel Week titles
The Olympic classes section of Kiel Week were blessed with the best wind conditions of the regatta so far, winds of up to 18 knots and choppy seas produced spectacular Medal Races, a fitting finale after four days of very light winds on Wednesday (21 June). Germany won the Kiel Olympic class titles in the Women's Skiff, 470 Mixed Dinghy and the Men's iQ-Foil. Otherwise, the strong international entry shared the honours. Five different nations grabbed "gold" with Italy, France, Turkey, Denmark and Poland.

Kiel Week now moves on to the second phase which features eight international classes such as the Contender, ILCA 4, ILCA 6 open Flying Dutchman, Europe, the 29er Eurocup, J/24 and the J/70 International German Championships.

Podium positions:

49er
1. Lukasz Przybytek / Jacek Piasecki, POL, 41 points
2. Dominik Buksak / Szymon Wierzbicki, POL, 55
3. Benjamin Bildstein / David Hussl, AUT, 59

49er FX
1. Marla Bergmann / Hanna Wille, GER, 19
2. Maru Scheel / Freya Feilcke, GER, 20
3. Alexandra Stalder / Silvia Speri, ITA, 21

470
1. SImon Diesch / Anna Markfort, GER, 22
2. Theres Dahnke / Matti Cipra, GER, 24
3. Malte WEinkel / Anastsiya Winkel, GER, 28

NACRA 17
1. Margherita Porro / Stefano Dezulian, ITA, 14
2. Paul Kohlhoff / Alica Stuhlemmer, GER, 32
3. Justin Liu / Denise Lim, SGP, 39

Women's Windsurfer - iQFoil
1. Laerke Buhl-Hansen, DEN, 1
2. Theresa Marie Steinlein, GER, 3
3. Giovanna Prada, BRA, 5

Men's Windsurfer - iQFoil
1. Sebastian Koerdel, GER, 3
2. Taehoon Lee, KOR, 4
3. Juozas Bernotas, LUT, 3

Women's ILCA 6
1. Nazil Cagla Donertas, TUR, 34
2. Lilly May Niezabitowska, POL, 41
3. Evie Saunders, AUS 43

Men's ILCA 7
1. Boite Alexandre, FRA, 30
2. Alessio Spadoni, ITA, 45
3. Justin Barth, GER, 45

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Dream start for 8 international classes at Kiel Week
After the Olympic disciplines were completed Wednesday eight international boat classestook over the reigns on Kiel's regatta courses on Thursday (22 June). In light easterlywinds and sunshine, they all sailed three races each - the full planned programme.

The 165 strong 29er fleet is split into four flights for the qualifying stages for their Eurocupseries regatta. Two fleet leaders count two firsts and a discard. Ewa Lewandowska and hercrew Leon Sapijaszko from Poland have the same scoreline as Irish siblings Clementine andNathan van Steenberge. The 29er Eurocup overall silver medallists last year top their fleetafter two wins and a third today. Norway's Storm Kopperud and Philipp Forslund are thirdone point short due to a DPI after the first day.

The Spanish leaders of the Flying Dutchman class Fran Martinez and Pepe Ruiz share sixty years of service in the former Olympic high performance class.

They already made the long drive from Cadiz in the south of Spain worthwhile when they opened their first ever visit to Kiel with two wins and a seventh. Martinez is from Torreviejo on the Mediterranean and has raced the FD for 40 years and Ruiz from Cadiz on the Atlantic coast has 'only' 20 years crewing in the Flying Dutchman.

In the German J/70 championships three races were sailed for the 53 strong fleet. German 470 helm Malte Winkel racing this week in the one design keelboat with Theres Dahnk e lead after Day 1 counting a first and a second.

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Leaderboard starts to take shape at The Nations Trophy - Swan One Design
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

On the second day of racing at The Nations Trophy - Swan One Design, the Race Committee managed to get two more races in despite the light and shifty winds, bringing the fleet to a total of five races held, out of the maximum eight scheduled.

Today's conditions were characterised by the thermal breeze contrasting with the first signs of the incoming Mistral, and meant that the tacticians had a particularly demanding job in interpreting the wind shifts and drops and identifying areas of pressure in order to gain an advantage over their rivals. More generally, all the crews felt the tension in a situation where a small mistake could cost dearly.

Racing is scheduled to resume tomorrow, 23 June, at 12.00 noon with a coastal race. The weather forecast indicates the arrival of an intense Mistral.

Top three after 5 races:

ClubSwan 36
1. G SPOT - Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio, MON, 7.0
2. FRA MARTINA - Edoardo Pavesio, ITA, 12.0
3. CUORDILEONE - Edoardo Ferragamo, ITA, 13.0

ClubSwan 42
1. NADIR - Pedro Vaquer Comas, ESP, 10.0
2. MELA - Andrea Rossi, ITA, 11.0
3. SELENE - ALIFAX - Massimo De Campo, NED, 12.0

ClubSwan 50
1. HATARI - Marcus Brennecke, GER, 6.0
2. ULIKA - Andrea Masi, ITA, 14.0
3. CUORDILEONE - Leonardo Ferragamo, ITA, 16.0

Complete results on YachtScoring.com

Seahorse July 2023
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Team Holcim-PRB leading IMOCAs towards Med
It's been a profitable 24 hours for Poland's WindWhisper Racing Team who have escaped from the rest of the boats racing towards the Grand Finale in Genova and stretched out to a lead of over 150 nautical miles over their nearest pursuers in the VO65 fleet.

In the short term, however, the forecast isn't in their favour. The wind is expected to ease dramatically in the western Mediterranean over the course of today before shifting from the westerly that has pushed them into the Med, to an east-northeasterly that they'll need to fight to make progress toward Genova.

The calm patch will apply to the chasing boats as well, who may need to battle this transition along with unfavourable tidal current in the Strait of Gibraltar depending on when they arrive to the Strait. And a later arrival could mean tacking into a building headwind.

On the approach to Gibraltar, Team Holcim-PRB is leading the IMOCAs, but at 1200 UTC, was in danger of losing miles to Team Malizia, positioned further south and threatening to sail around the outside of both Holcim-PRB and Biotherm.

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Sailing World on Water
One of the oldest and most revered sailing events in the Mediterranean, the Rolex Giraglia and its co-founders and organizer the Yacht Club Italiano have been supported by Rolex since 1998.

This year's milestone 70th edition produced a number of compelling storylines. As overall winner of the offshore race Red Bandit from Germany showcased the talents and development of a crew formed predominantly of young sailors. The race's other main prize, line honours, went to the Australian maxi Black Jack, whose crew are campaigning in Europe after years of success in the southern hemisphere.

You buy a racing IMOCA, change it radically, leave it to the boatbuilding experts to execute then finally it's finished. This is your first look at it. Pip's reaction, is classic.

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50th Rolex Fastnet Race - how ocean racing came of age
In one month's time, on 22 July, yet another record-sized fleet will depart from Cowes to tackle the 50th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's premier event: the Rolex Fastnet Race. At present from across the globe 491 yachts of all shapes and sizes, ranging from 9m to 30m, are on the race's provisional entry list. This is 26% more than the previous record entry of 388 that participated in 2019's pre-COVID edition – the largest leap in entries in the event's recent history. Given this is more than twice that of any of the other classic international 600 mile offshore races, the Rolex Fastnet Race is soundly the biggest offshore yacht race in the world.

In 98 years, the Rolex Fastnet Race, boat design and the sport of ocean racing have together come an unimaginable way. The first Fastnet Race, originally called 'The Ocean Race' was held in 1925 on a course from the Solent, where the start was from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club in Ryde, before the boats exited the Solent to east, then headed to the Fastnet Rock, finishing in Plymouth. With the start moving to Cowes the following year, the race going biennial in 1931, gaining Bishop Rock as a turning mark, and, as a one-off, finishing back in Cowes in 1933, the course remained largely fixed until the fleet outgrew Plymouth and was moved to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in offshore racing-friendly France for the first time in 2021.

Rolex Fastnet Race history article in the 2023 RORC Year Book by James Boyd

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Conor O'Brien's Saoirse Departure Centenary Underlines Dun Laoghaire's Central Role
Photo credit: O'Brien family. Click on image to enlarge.

A hundred years ago next Tuesday, June 20th, Conor O'Brien (1880-1952) of Foynes took his departure with some fanfare aboard his 42ft Saoirse from the harbour her skipper preferred to call Dunleary, though most of its citizens saw it as Kingstown, and headed south. Saoirse had been designed in a first-time effort by her owner-skipper, and was newly built by Tom Moynihan in the Fisheries School in Baltimore.

When she returned exactly two years later, on Saturday, June 20th 1925, Saoirse had become the first "yacht" to circumnavigate the world south of the Great Capes of Good Hope and Cape Horn, running down her easting in the mighty westerlies of the Southern Ocean through the vast wastes of sea which, until then, had been solely the province of the much more substantial vessels of government-backed explorers, naval commanders, pirates, global traders, and rapacious whalers.

To a casual observer, Saoirse's yacht status would have seemed questionable. This was no glittering toy for the sport of the rich. On the contrary, her archaic rig and very traditional and largely un-decorated hull was loosely based on the lines of an 1860s Arklow fishing boat, whose looks and sea-keeping qualities O'Brien had come to admire.

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Off to a great start at Superyacht Cup Palma in shining conditions
Superyacht Cup Palma 2023 got underway today in typically excellent sailing conditions out on the Bay of Palma, with an 8 to 10 knot breeze under blue skies greeting the diverse fleet gathered for the 27th edition of Europe's longest running superyacht regatta.

With boat-to-boat rivalries throughout the two classes, the opening Pantaenius Race Day was the chance to put down an early marker and set a course to a possible class victory and even overall Superyacht Cup success.

Smart sailing and accurate tactical calls were the key to success, and on the day it was the SYC regular Velsheda and Rose, the Wally yacht returning for a second successive year, who claimed wins in Class A and B respectively.

Racing continues on Friday at Superyacht Cup Palma with the New Zealand Race Day, with daily prize-giving again on the RCNP Dock followed by the exclusive invitation-only Owners' Summer Barbecue at The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort. -- Daphne Morgan Barnicoat

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