EuroSail News #5382

In This Issue
• Caro wins the 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race
• Rolex Fastnet Race Class40 winners
• 16th Monaco Classic Week set to be a winner
• Cup Spy : American Magic exploit testing rule
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• On Board Allegra - Rolex Fastnet 2023
• WASZP European Games
• Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup
• INEOS Britannia take flight in Barcelona
• Featured Charter: Aragon - Maarten 72
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Oscar 2
• • Persico Fly 40
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300
• The Last Word: Lewis Carroll

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Caro wins the 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race
Max Klink's Botin 52 Caro has been crowned overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race. After being confirmed as winner of IRC Zero yesterday, no other boat still racing on the 695 nautical mile course can catch the Swiss boat for overall honours in the 50th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's offshore classic.

The fact that the opening 12 hours of the race were so bruising, with winds gusting close to 40 knots and boat-breaking seas off the south coast of England, made victory all the sweeter for Klink and his crew of professional sailors as they admired the great names that have gone before them, engraved on the base of the Fastnet Challenge Cup. "This is a legendary group of sailors who I have been fortunate to sail with for a few years now," said the Swiss owner, "but when we set out on this race I never expected that we could win. It's a dream come true, and all the more special that this is the 50th edition of such an iconic race.

The winning crew on Caro are: William Parker, Wade Morgan, Ryan Godfrey, Justin Ferris, Jono Swain, James Paterson, Harry Hall, Cian Guilfoyle, Andrew McCorquodale, Andy Green, Adrian Stead and owner Max Klink.

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Mini/Figarist youngsters are Rolex Fastnet Race Class40 worthy winners
While there was some serious 40ft competition and much new hardware in IRC Zero, some of the most impressive offshore racers of this size were competing in the Class40. Remarkably after 20 years of existence, boats still come from a variety of different designers and builders and it produces some of the tightest racing outside of the Rolex Fastnet Race's IRC fleet. While there was a clear leader to the Rock, the downwind passage to Bishop Rock levelled the playing field before negotiating a complex route east, the eventually winner only emerged as the fat-bowed offshore speedsters negotiated the Channel Islands and the final run into the Cherbourg finish.

After this intense contest it was eventually former Mini Transat winner Erwan Le Draoulec's Everial, a 2022 vintage Verdier-designed Pogo S4, that prevailed. The young crew of four (Le Draoulec, plus Julien Herey, Pep Costa and Robin Follin, with an average age between them of just 26) finished at 23:52:02 on Tuesday in an elapsed time of 3 days 10 hours 22 minutes 2 seconds. This bettered the record set in 2021 by Antoine Magré's Palanad 3 of 3 days 10 hours 27 minutes 25 seconds by a mere five minutes and 23 seconds.

They were followed at 00:02:53 this morning by Ambrogio Beccaria and Nicolas Andrieu on Alla Grande Pirelli and at 00:06:17 by Dékuple, raced by William Mathelin-Moreaux and another Italian, Pietro Luciani. However Alla Grande Pirelli was one of eight boats that had been called OCS at the start on Saturday (in addition to her was another Italian race favourite, IBSA, plus Edenred-Enjoy Racing 2; BT Blue Alternative Sailing; Zeiss-Weecycling and La Manche évidence nautique plus two boats that subsequently retired - TrimControl and The 3Bros). -- James Boyd

Race tracker

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16th Monaco Classic Week set to be a winner
Monaco Classic Week-La Belle Classe (13-16 September) organised by Yacht Club de Monaco looks set to be a winner. By invitation only, around 130 sailing and motor boats are expected alongside a 20-strong fleet of the clinker-built 12' Dinghy class; a fabulous line-up comprising 10 period motor-yachts, 50 vintage motorboats, including nigh-on 30 Rivas and three powerboats from the early 20th century, and 50 classic sailing yachts.

Among those joining YCM's flagship, the 15M IR Tuiga (1909), of note will be Maliclaire, a 35m topsail schooner (1909); the three-mast schooner Creole, built in 1927 by the Camper & Nicholsons yard; and Atlantic, a faithful replica of the eponymous three-mast schooner (1903), famous for setting the first Transatlantic Race record in 1905 that remained unbeaten for 75 years. In a reconstruction led by Ed Kastelain, with a deck length of 56m, masts soaring 45m supporting a 1,750m2 sail area she is the largest racing schooner ever to be rebuilt.

Unique in the way it combines motor and sail in homage to maritime heritage, this biennial meeting brings owners and crews out on the water for a range of contests, with social events in the evening in the time-honoured tradition of a certain 'Art de Vivre la Mer' so dear to YCM.

Races, manoeuvrability challenges, an elegance contest and more, there is plenty for the public and classic yacht fans to enjoy, with free access to quays, exhibitors' village and photography exhibition on Prince Rainier III who founded YCM, as the Principality celebrates the centenary of his birth.

The finale is a grand parade when participants gather off the Oceanographic Museum and file one behind the other towards Larvotto Beach.

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Cup Spy : American Magic exploit testing rule
Three America's Cup teams sailed using various strategies from two-boat racing testing in Barcelona, to a first sail in Barcelona, to a solo testing sail session in Cagliari. Emirates Team NZ are expected to be out on Tuesday.

American Magic used a legal exploitation of a provision of the rules which permit the teams, if they own two AC40 hulls, then they can switch the development parts and configurations using two hulls, instead of just one hull (which becomes an LEQ12). The provision allows more combinations of test gear to be evaluated - for example with one development wing foil being carried on different AC40s on different days. If the teams are testing with One Design sails, then the provision means that the boats can be calibrated on one tack, and then tested on the other tack where the two foils can be tested with all other factors being equal.

What happened in the Cup - July 24, 2023:

- INEOS Britannia have set up in their new base in Barcelona and went sailing today in their AC40.

- American Magic - sailed out their AC40 and LEQ12 out of Barcelona, they exploited a provision in the AC40 Class Rule 12 which allows development parts to be switched between AC40 hulls - which works the way of teams which own two or more AC40s. However the part cannot be modified between uses on boats.

- Luna Rossa - sailed their LEQ12 from Cagliari.

- Alinghi Red Bull Racing did not sail. The team are moving into their new permanent base, in Port Vell.

- Emirates Team New Zealand have shut down their sailing program until Tuesday.

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

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

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

A Drheam story
The Drheam-Cup is a class act from start to finish with interesting and testing courses designed for different types of boats - including a rapidly growing IRC fleet - and a festival atmosphere at both ends

He really was a Wizard
A courageous Carol Cronin takes on the challenge of sharing the life of Buddy Melges

Once is too often - Part I
Rich Du Moulin is one of the original pioneers of the Storm Trysail Club’s now well-established and internationally respected safety at sea programmes and seminars

Seahorse build table - Bora Bora
The R&D was hell. Brett Bakewell-White

RORC - Worth the effort
Jeremy Wilton

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On Board Allegra - Rolex Fastnet 2023
Paul Larsen is the world's fastest sailor. He's a multihull fanatic and a great story teller and his description of Allegra's Fastnet Race is well worth a listen. If you thought that charging around the 700 mile course on a 78ft luxury cruising cat would be a comfortable, stress free way to tick the Fastnet Race box, Paul puts you in the picture as to what it was really like.

The crew of Adrian Keller's Allegra completed the course in 2 days and 8 hours and 44 mins to win the MOCRA class but as Paul explains, it was far from easy. Paul Larsen tells Matt Sheahan what it was like.

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WASZP European Games
An incredible 5 days of WASZP action came to a head on the beautiful waters of Quiberon, with 4 races completed creating a 17 race series, it has to go down as one of the most spectacular foiling events in recent memory. Not only was it spectacular, but the nature of the one-design WASZP class created another incredible finish to a major championship, after 16 races and with 1 race to go, there were 8 sailors who were in contention for the overall championship. It all came down to the final race and the pressure was intense across the fleet, however, the coolness of the Norwegian talent factory product Markus Berthet produced one of the most stunning all the way victories under incredible pressure.

In second place overall Magnus Overbeck, sailed an incredibly consistent regatta having never been off the podium for the whole event, he went into the last race with a slender lead, however an 8th in the final race was enough to push him back to 2nd. However, it is another tick of approval for the development in the Scandinavian countries, with the young sailor coming from the Royal Danish Yacht Club WASZP program, which is linked to the Danish SailGP team. Magnus also took out the Youth Championship (O18-U21) and certainly showed that the future is extremely bright in Denmark.

In 3rd place, Ettore Botticini followed up his Slalom victory with a podium finish at the Europeans. Botticini is a class act and is never far away from the top of the leaderboard. Such was the incredible nature of the final day. Germany's Caspar Inglenstein, who had been in podium position all series, finished 8th overall, with several sailors jumping up the leaderboard to put themselves in contention. This was an incredible effort by the young German who was also the first Junior overall (U18), not many would of known about Caspar heading into the event, but they certainly know about him now!

Full results

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Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup in the 41st Copa del Rey MAPFRE
Since the Real Club Nautico de Palma included the women's class within the Copa del Rey MAPFRE in 2019, three teams have shared the three titles to date: Helena Alegre's "Federación Belear" in 2019, Nuria Sanchez's "Dorsia Coviran" in 2021 and María Bover's "Team Balearia" in the last edition 2022. In 2023, nine more teams will be joining the regatta to compete in the Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup each aiming to join the other great winners in the Mediterranean's premier regatta.

Among the eleven teams registered, the defenders of the title will be back to defend last year's victory. María Bover from the Balearic Islands will be leading "Team Balearia" after a triumphant result in 2022 with a total of four victories and four partial podiums. Very closely followed last year by "Dorsia Coviran," with Natalia Vía-Dufresne at the helm, both teams will return this year and are two clear favourites for the title.

On board the J80 One Design, the Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup fleet will dispute a maximum of 14 races over five days to decide the winners of the Real Club Nautico de Palma's premier event.

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INEOS Britannia take flight in Barcelona
INEOS Britannia has wrapped up its sailing operations in Palma and has moved to another jewel of the Spanish Mediterranean; Barcelona. The team's Barcelona base is already fully operational and, with equipment and people arriving daily over the past few weeks, the buzz and excitement has been building towards this moment; as the team took to the water at the venue for the 37th America's Cup.

The inaugural sailing day in Barcelona saw the team sail their one-design AC40 Class race boat 'Athena' with the focus on racing preparation for the up-and-coming Preliminary Regattas.

The countdown is now on to the start of racing, with the first event hosted by Vilanova i La Geltrú between 14-17th September 2023 which is just a few miles down the coast from Barcelona, followed by Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 29th November – 2nd December. Both these events will be raced in the smaller one design AC40 Class; meaning that any time spent training is crucial to sharpen the crew playbook.

Next to head out onto the waters of Barcelona will be the team's test and development boat 'T6'. This will commence the crucial, final block of testing ahead of the remaining design decisions for the AC75 Class race boat that will contest the America's Cup in 2024.

INEOS Britannia have already completed nine months of testing in "T6", the team's sixth test boat, built as an "LEQ12" (short for "Length Equivalent 12m") under the technical regulations for the 37th America's Cup.

T6 is a pure test platform, designed and built solely to conduct validation experiments for the physics models that the team use to simulate and predict sailboat performance. The accuracy of those physics models and the simulations will be the foundations for a fast AC75 design; the team's race boat that will be launched ahead of the competition in 2024.

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