In This Issue
• Cowes Week - Day 6 Round Up
• 41st Copa del Rey MAPFRE
• A Drheam story - Drheam Cup
• All-Female Team at 44Cup Cowes
• Sailing World on Water Aug 04.23
• Looe Lugger Regatta
• Team Barnabas - Father & son
• International 14 Prince of Wales Cup
• Statement On Nexba Findings
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Botin TP 52
• • JV43
• • J Boats J/121
• The Last Word: Keith Richards

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Cowes Week - Day 6 Round Up
Having lost two days of racing because of high winds this week, it was a relief that today's penultimate day of Cowes Week produced slightly less bracing conditions that allowed all fleets to enjoy a good, solid day's racing on the Solent in generally light north-north-westerly winds. Although the menacing winds from yesterday had blown through, competitors faced a different style of challenge today - strong tides - which resulted in a mix of general and individual recalls across many starts.

Given the fact that two races were lost this week there was also a new level of challenge that came into play today with competitors now having to count all races sailed, rather than discarding their worst score. In many cases just a couple of points separate positions.

The Royal Yacht Squadron outer start line produced another sight to behold today with three of the biggest classes (IRC 0, IRC1, and the Cape 31) kicking off proceedings. There was all to play for in IRC 0 with Ian Atkins' GP42 Dark n Stormy having a four-point advantage over Tony Langley's TP52 Gladiator going into today's race. However, Gladiator had her day today with a race win while Dark n Stormy took fifth. This now puts them on equal points going into the final race tomorrow.

cowesweek.co.uk

Bigger breeze means a new challenge at 41st Copa del Rey MAPFRE
The blustery breeze unexpectedly broke the mast of the highly fancied DK46 Estrella Damm before racing had even started but it placed a much higher premium on tight, controlled boat handling especially in manoeuvres and mark roundings.

In the ClubSwan 50 Class last year's champions Hatari hit their stride at just the right time winning both races for the very competitive, closely match fleet while Enis Ersu's Xai Vision were twice runners up to rise to second overall five points behind Marcus Brennecke's leaders. Italy's Vitamina lie third, otherwise breaking up Germany's stranglehold on the top five positions.

In the ClubSwan 42s it is Pedro Vaquez's Nadir which now top the leaderboard, overhauling Pez De Abril. Despite building a lead of over ten points on the Preliminary series, that was reduced to just one point. Finishing seventh on the first Finals race dropped them behind Nadir which won both races today.

In Majorica ORC Class 1 Javier Sanz and Christian Plump's Palibex - Elena Nova hold a four points lead landing a 2.2 today. The French team on the bright green Ker 46 Daguet 3 Corum won the first race and took third in the second, revelling in the stronger breeze. Frederic Puzin and his crews have raced all the premier offshore races such as the Caribbean 600, the Rolex Sydney Hobart, the Rolex Giraglia and the Rolex Middle Sea race and are back in Palma five years after he first raced here in a Mylius 50 Daguet 2, finishing 12th.

Results. Day 4
(Position/Boat/Skipper/Qualifying Series/Final Series Results/Point)

Majorica ORC 1
1. Palibex-Elena Nova, Christian Plump/Javier Sanz, 1+2+1=4
2. Daguet3-Corum, Frederic Puzin, 4+1+3=8
3. Aifos, el Rey Don Felipe, 3+3+4=10

Majorica ORC 2
1. Teatro del Soho Caixabank, Daniel Cuevas, 1+1+1=3
2. Seabery Dralion, Basilio Marquinez, 2+2+3=7
3. Reve de Vie, Angelo Galeati, 3+3+4=10

Majorica ORC 3
1. Scugnizza Ca N´Eduardo, Enzo de Blasio, 1+1+1=3
2. Laplaza Assessors, Carles Rodriguez, 2+2+3=7
3. Tanit IV - Medilevel, Ignacio Campos, 3+5+8=16

Majorica ORC 4
1. Just The Job, Scott Beattie, 1+1+2=4
2. Lassal, Gonzalo Calvo, 3+2+1=6
3. Mestral Fast, Jaume Morell, 4+3+3=10

ClubSwan 50
1. Hatari, Marcus Brennecke, 4+1+1=6
2. Xai Vision, Enis Ersu, 7+2+2=11
3. Vitamina, Andrea Lacorte, 2+3+6=11

ClubSwan 42
1. Nadir, Pedro Vaquer, 3+1+1=5
2. Pez de Abril, Jose Maria Meseguer, 1+7+2=10
3. Selene-Alifax, Massimo de Campo, 2+3+6=11

Mallorca Sotheby´s Women´s Cup
1. Team RCNP Balearia, Maria Bover, 4+1+2+1=8
2. Dorsia Coviran, Nuria Sanchez, 2+2+1+3=8
3. Etnia Barcelona - Zona Norte, Eva Gonzalez, 3+3+4+2=12

Herbalife J70
1. Usana - Les Roches, Luis Bugallo, 2+2+1+1=6
2. Patakin, Luis Albert Solana, 1+1+2+2=6
3. Let it Be, Sergio Pendola, 3+5+4+4=16

regatacopadelrey.com

A Drheam story - Drheam Cup
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

Few offshore races rise to prominence as quickly as the Drheam-Cup, which is now a key feature of the French offshore racing calendar. The fourth edition notched up 134 entries in 2022, with IRC classes representing 50 per cent of the fleet. The event organisers are now looking to the next level, with an enthusiasm to grow the IRC classes further.

As well as top-class competition on interesting and testing courses, competitors benefit from the buzz festival atmosphere in the start and finish ports associated with any large French event that includes all the important offshore classes: IRC, Figaro 3s, Class40s, Ocean Fiftys, Multi 2000s, Open Large Monohull, Imoca 60s and Ultime trimarans.

Full article in the August issue of Seahorse

All-Female Team To Complete At Next Week's 44Cup Cowes
Having rewritten the RC44 Class Rule so that teams this season can race with at least one female on board, so the 44Cup is going a step further for next week's 44Cup Cowes. The nine teams competing will include the 'black boat', which is regularly lent out to those looking to join the circuit or local teams, like Oman Sail. She will be campaigned by well-known Cowes skipper Louise Morton and an all-female team.

Although new to the high performance RC44 one design, Morton is far from new to racing with an all-female crew and has enjoyed much success 'beating up the boys'. Most significantly, against stiff competition, including her vastly experienced husband Peter, she has won, not once but three times, the highly prestigious Quarter Ton Cup. She is also a four time winner of the Women's Open Keelboat Championship. Otherwise her sailing has been extensive from transatlantic and Fastnet Races and numerous RORC seasons, to 30+ Cowes Weeks and inshore regattas from the St Barths Bucket, Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Sardinia, to the Rolex China Sea Race and Phuket King's Cup. Most recently she has taken to yacht racing in the 5.5mR keelboat class.

With former Olympian Lucy Macgregor as tactician, Louise will be migrating her regular crew across to the new boat, although she has had to expand this. The Bullet crew will comprise Lucy Macgregor, her capable sisters Kate and Nicky; Annie Lush on mainsheet; Dutch Ocean Race sailor Laura van Veen; Annabel Vose; Midge Watkins; Mary Rook and Abby Childerley. While with the new rule for 2023, RC44s now typically sail with nine, all-female teams can sail with 10 and their combined crew weight can be 760kg compared to 730kg.

rc44.com

Sailing World on Water Aug 04.23
Cowes Week 2023 got off to a thrilling start on Day One with sparkling sunshine, and winds gusting well over 20kts from the southwest.

It was the Cape 31 Class, the relatively new and extremely popular, 24-strong international one-design fleet, that stole the show with a spectacular downwind start off the Royal Yacht Squadron line out to the east. Against a strong ebbing tide, the fleet shot off under spinnaker towards Stokes Bay with half the fleet heading for the northern-most shore and the other half to the south in an effort to cheat the tide, before enjoying some close, exciting racing on the eastern Solent.

This is your weekly global Sailing highlights show, The World on Water. August 04, 2023. -- Geoff Waller

boatson.tv

Looe Lugger Regatta
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After a Covid-enforced absence of four years a fleet of old wooden-built fishing boats has made a successful return to its spiritual home in Looe.

Entries may have been slightly down for the Cornish Lugger Association's latest regatta, partly due to the event being held earlier in the sailing season than usual (because of the tides), but the visiting skippers seemed delighted to have their biennial reunion back on the calendar.

Regatta Chairman Jeff Penhaligon thanked race officer Brian Bowdler for setting two days of testing courses in light winds and his wife, Karen, who provided the competitors' buffet suppers.

Looe Sailing Club members manned the licensed bar and there were three nights of live entertainment at the West Looe Quayside Centre, known locally as Mally's Shed after the late Looe Harbour Commissioner who instigated its development.

Regatta founder Paul Greenwood, who stood down after the 30th anniversary event in 1999, attended each night of the 2023 edition with his wife Maggie, and presented the trophies.

He recalled how the regatta had grown from the first rather modest meeting of 35 years ago when, with founder vice-chairman Mike Darlington's help, the duo endeavoured to shine a light on the Cornish Luggers, their role in the fishing industry and their heritage.

Once there were hundreds of these wooden boats, fishing under lug sails out of Cornish ports, but by 1989 only the Guide Me and Barnabas remained. -- John Collings

cornishluggers.co.uk

Team Barnabas - Father & son, champions together
1997 Giltinan World champion, Omega Smeg-2UE. Click on image for photo gallery.

For the past 45 years in Australia, the name Barnabas has been at, or near, the top of 18ft skiff championship point scores and has produced a total of eleven World, six Australian and five international 18 footer victories for Trevor Barnabas, and his son Trent.

Trevor and Trent were only the second father and son to both win the Giltinan World Championship, since it was first sailed in 1938.

Don Barnett (1967) and his son Phil became the first in 1987 when Phil won the first of his three championships. Trevor and Trent Barnabas became the first, and only, father and son to win the championship as part of the same crew, in 1997.

It all began in the 1979-80 season when Trevor joined the 18s ranks with the support of the Bonds clothing company and raced the first of five Chesty Bond skiffs until the end of the 1987-88 season.

Prior to his entry into the 18s, Trevor sailed at the Manly 16ft skiff club where he dominated the 16 footer class and won three consecutive Australian Championships, from 1976-77 to 1978-79 inclusive. In the 1978-79 season, his Buckle Toyota-sponsored team was undefeated.

Unfortunately for Trevor, his entry into the 18s coincided with the incredible run of victories for the legendary Iain Murray-led Color 7 team between 1978 and 1982, inclusive.

Following the retirement of the Color 7 team at the end of the 1981-82 season, the three skippers (Barnabas, Peter Sorensen and Rob Brown) who had spent so many seasons in the wake of Murray, and his Color 7 team, began a no-holds-barred competition to take over the sport's top spot.

After winning the 2021 Giltinan world Championship in 2021, Trent decided to retire from racing the 18s and his son Zac took over in the bow of Smeg, which finished sixth at the 2022 JJs.

Other sporting commitments have prevented Zac from continuing his 18s career, for the moment, but hopefully he will come back at some time in the near future to keep the Barnabas name alive in the 18 footer class. -- Frank Quealey, Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

18footers.com/18-footer/news/team-barnabas/

International 14 Prince of Wales Cup
The legendary Price of Wales Cup, first raced in 1927 has had its fair share of memorable races. Every sailor in the fleet has a story from an iconic P.O.W of the past and it's safe to say the 2023 iteration of the race lived up to the high standards.

The unusually long nature of the P.O.W race brings a different set of challenges to what the I14 fleet usually faces; with an approximately 2.5 nautical mile course and six laps it's fair to say this race is more of a marathon compared to any other dinghy race.

Pre-race tensions are high, as the crews battle through any nerves they have and go through their pre start routine. The race course was was located in Bracklesham Bay and as the starting gun sounded the fleet got off the line in what was a light 7-10 knots and a relatively flat sea state.

The fleet split with the leaders at the windward mark coming in from the right hand side of the course. Tightly packed, the fleet headed down wind with every position being fought hard for.

Full report and results in Sail-World.com

gbr.international14.org

Statement On Nexba Findings
Nexba, a newly commissioned Farr X2 racing yacht, made an offshore qualifying passage with two experienced crew when the keel catastrophically failed and the boat quickly inverted. After 14 hours of clinging to the upturned hull, the two crew were safely rescued.

Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) formed a Review Working Party to investigate and provide an account of the circumstances relating to the capsize of Nexba and the sailors' survival.

The *report, attached, is now publicly available and aims to contribute to safety in sailing and the sailing industry. It includes lessons learned by those involved in the incident as a direct contribution to improved safety of the wider sailing community. It aligns with World Sailing's 'Guidelines for Independent Incident Reviews and Reporting' and is supported by Australian Sailing.

RPAYC acknowledges the thorough and detailed work that the volunteer Review Working Party of Chris Links (marine shipwright and professional sailor), Jan Scholten (30 years of industry experience in sail making and rigging and short-handed offshore sailor) and Anne Simpson (Senior Engineer in ship certification, member of Australian Sailing's National Safety Committee and keen sailor), have done.

On behalf of the Club, I would like to thank and appreciate the group's work, recognising the tremendous amount of experience they brought.

Robert McClelland, Commodore
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club

Australian Sailing President, Alistair Murray AM, commented on the report:
"Australian Sailing would like to commend the team at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club for their review into the Nexba incident.

"The report is thorough and was professionally prepared and we would like to thank both the Club and the members of the Review Working Party for their diligent work.

"There are findings in this report that will have an impact on safety in sailing and may indeed save a life one day."

*The report is also available at the RPAYC website: www.rpayc.com.au under 'Latest Club News' and will also be available on the Australian Sailing Major Incident Reports page Major Incident Reports | Australian Sailing - Resources at: sailingresources.org.au

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