EuroSail News #5398 - 21 August
In This Issue
• Final day of Allianz Sailing World Championships
• 75th Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix
• Stronger and smarter - Gurit
• Finn Lynch secures Irish Olympic regatta spot
• Caracole wins 5.5 Metre Swiss Open
• New York Yacht Club wins Grandmasters Team Race
• Hamilton Island Race Week
• Bournemouth Digital Poole Week
• Timothee Rossi Sweeps Chicago Grand Slam
• Featured Brokerage:
• • HH42 by Judel Vrolijk
• • Dark 'N' Stormy
• • JV43
• The Last Word: Winston Churchill
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Final day of Allianz Sailing World Championships
Hungary's Maria Erdi came through an exceptionally tight medal race to claim the final gold of the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague.
The 25-year-old went into the ILCA 6 medal race in third spot, but was able to step up in the medal race, finishing third, which was enough to clinch a maiden world title.
Earlier in the day, Matt Wearn (AUS) confirmed his own global crown in the ILCA 7, safely negotiating the medal race to add a world title to his Olympic gold won in Tokyo.
And it was the host nation, the Netherlands, who finished these Allianz Sailing World Championships as the most successful nation. Gold medals for Luuc van Opzeeland in the iQFOiL and Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken in the 49er, ensuring they retain the IOC President's Trophy for the best nation.
In addition to gold medals for Luuc van Opzeeland in the iQFOiL Men and Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken in the 49er, they also took silver in the 49erFX courtesy of Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz.
That saw them finish ahead of Israel who were second nation thanks to gold and silver in the iQFOiL Women, with Australia, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden all level in third.
75th Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix
Lawrie Smith's Alfie from Glandore YC, crewed by Richard Parslow, Goncalo Ribeiro and Ruairidh Scott, is 75th Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix 2023 Champion.
Pater Gilmour's YRED of the Japanese Yanmar Sailing Team takes second place overall and wins the new Britannia Trophy for the yacht with the best score without discard.
Defending champion Andy Beadsworth sailing Provezza Dragon completes the overall podium in third place.
Chris Grosscurth's Fit Chick from the Medway, crewed by Jono Brown and Emma York, wins the Corinthian all amateur Edinburgh Cup Trophy.
The fifth and final race of the 75th Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix sponsored by Clear Solutions was reminiscent of the great 12 Metre battles of the America's Cup, as two of the World's most talented sailors went head-to-head. Going into the race four-time World Match Racing Champion and America's Cup helm Peter Gilmour and Britain's Olympic Bronze Medallist, America's Cup helm and Whitbread Race veteran Lawrie Smith knew that, allowing for discard, they were on equal points, each counting two firsts and a second.
Smith was able to claim the favoured left hand mark forcing Gilmour into the stronger tide for longer and requiring him to make one more tack on the beat. As they came to the line Smith had regained the upper hand crossing just seconds ahead of Gilmour to claim his second Edinburgh Cup win. Crossing the line behind the leading pair came Andy Beadsworth's Turkish Provezza Dragon, securing him the final step on the podium.
The next major event for the British and International Dragon fleets is the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup, taking place in Torquay from 7 to 16 September. Fifty international teams are already entered and further information about the regatta can be found at dragongoldcup2023.com
The 2024 Edinburgh Cup will be held in Abersoch from 7-12 July and more information about this will be available from britishdragons.org
Stronger and smarter - Gurit
The Imoca class can be said to be in a period of transition. Rudder elevators are (still) prohibited so designers and teams have been putting maximum thought into achieving steady flight without a key control device normally deemed essential. Compromises explored in turn generate increased demands on the engineers to allow seemingly unnatural solutions to perform well. Jocelyn Blériot discussed some of these left-field challenges with the engineering team at Gurit including structural engineer Paolo Manganelli
As we were watching a small number of Imocas battling it out around the globe fully crewed for the first time, a new generation of 60s was being launched and put through its paces. To try to understand the latest thinking in structural design, and to evaluate how far the most recent boats had evolved from the previous generation, we spoke to Gurit's Paolo Manganelli, Yoan Stephant and Nicolas Poidevin. The firm has been involved in three of the most recent projects, in each case with a different set-up: directly contracted by Jérémie Beyou's Charal team, in collaboration with VPLP for Malizia, and coming in to doublecheck the work for Eric Bellion and Jean Le Cam's efforts. Three configurations, three different philosophies… and a host of new parameters to play with.
Full article in the September issue of Seahorse
Finn Lynch secures Irish Olympic regatta spot
Carlow sailor Finn Lynch has secured a place for Ireland at next year's Paris Olympic regatta following a tense final day at the Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague this afternoon.
Lynch went into the final day in 14th place by nation and needed two safe results to keep that place open.
He scored 19th out of 80 boats in Race 9 but then ended the regatta with a 38th in Race 10 and sailed ashore thinking he had failed.
Irish Sailing performance manager James O'Callaghan, along with his mother Grainne Adams, was waiting on the slip with the good news that Lynch had secured a 23rd finish overall and 15th by nation.
Lynch competed at the Rio 2016 Olympics as the youngest competitor in his class but missed out on a place for the Tokyo Games.
He has since won silver at World Championship level and is the number five ranked sailor in his event, the men's single-handed class.
Caracole wins 5.5 Metre Swiss Open
Caracole (SUI 214, Bernard HAISSLY, Daniel STAMPFLI, Nicolas BERTHOUD) has cleaned up in the 5.5 Metre fleet at Cercle de la voile de Grandson, on Lac de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Just two days after winning the Swiss Open, they also won the Joran Cup, counting only first and second places.
With the fleet looking forward to the Scandinavian Gold Cup and World Championship at the Yacht Club Costa Smerelda, in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, in just over a month's time, this week in Grandson was last opportunity for most of the fleet to race together. The fleet of 15 moderns from six nations all came to get in some practice and test gear ahead of the world titles. They were treated to four days of sublime weather and hot competition with the temperature past 30 degrees every day and winds from 5-10 knots. The organising club, Cercle de la voile de Grandson, were the perfect hosts and talks are already underway for a return.
Caracole rarely made a mistake in either event. In the Joran Cup, sailed over Saturday and Sunday they followed three second places on Saturday with two race wins on Sunday and wrapped it up with a race to spare. New Moon III (BAH 25, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) finally took second overall with an impressive 2,3,1 on Sunday, while Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek/Christof Wilke, Edward Wright) dropped from second to third. -- Robert Deaves
Top five - Joran Cup
1 Caracole (SUI 214, Bernard Haissly, Daniel Stampfli, Nicolas Berthoud) 8
2 New Moon III (BAH 25, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) 10
3 Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek/Christof Wilke, Edward Wright) 16
4 Ku-Ring-Gai III (AUS 66, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) 19
5 Ali-Baba SUI 224 (Flavio Marazzi, Julie Marazzi, Eline Marazzi) 22
New York Yacht Club wins Grandmasters Team Race
The New York Yacht Club team won the Grandmasters Team Race Sunday at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court.
The planning and the practice was evident as Phil Lotz's team went 16-2 during the three-day regatta and beat archrival Texas Corinthian Yacht Club - the two-time defending champion - both of the times the two teams squared off. TCYC finished second with 14 wins while Newport Harbor Yacht Club was third with 13.
A perfect run in the second round-robin set up a deciding match between New York Yacht Club Lotz and Texas Corinthian Yacht Club in the regatta's penultimate race. The race was run under the kilo flag, which means no spinnakers can be used.
While Texas Corinthian fell short of the three-peat, the little club on Galveston Bay did claim the Peter Wilson Trophy, which is awarded annually to the best scoring yacht club in a series of four grandmasters-level team racing. Newport Harbor Yacht Club finished second, losing a tiebreaker with TCYC, with New York Yacht Club third. -- Stuart Streuli / NYYC
Final Standings (Total Round-Robin Wins)
1. New York (N.Y.) Yacht Club - Lotz (16)
2. Texas Corinthian Yacht Club (Kemah, Texas) (14)
3. Newport Harbor Yacht Club (Newport Beach, Calif.) (13)
4. Southern Yacht Club (New Orleans) (11)
5. New York Yacht Club - Whipple (10)
6. Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club (10)
7. Storm Trysail Club (Larchmont, N.Y.) (5)
8. Annapolis (Md.) Yacht Club (4)
9. Gamla Stans Yacht Sallskap (Sweden) (4)
10. St. Francis Yacht Club (San Francisco) (3)
Hamilton Island Race Week
Hamilton Island Race Week is one of Australia's favourite yachting events and a firm fixture on the international sailing calendar. Competitors, family and friends come together to enjoy the convivial atmosphere and unique camaraderie of the event's on-water and off-water carnival. Every August, spectators and yachties from around the globe sail to Hamilton Island for Hamilton Island Race Week - Australia's largest offshore keelboat regatta.
Perfectly situated on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef, amongst Queensland's 74 Whitsunday Islands, Hamilton Island offers an experience like no other: glorious weather, azure waters, brilliant beaches, awe-inspiring coral reefs, fascinating flora and fauna, fine food and wines, and activities almost too numerous to mention. -- Geoff Waller
First days Skipper Briefing
Race Start
Bournemouth Digital Poole Week
Photo by David Harding / SailingScenes.com. Click on image for photo gallery.
Fickle and shifty northerlies have dominated Poole Week for the past two years, so it also made a welcome change to see the wind back in the south west. This allowed good long beats to be set from the Parkstone Platform for the fleets starting at the eastern end of the harbour. Because south westerlies are often steadier than some directions, it also made life less frustrating for the race team on Parkstone Yacht Club's brand-new committee boat in the harbour's Top Triangle. The new catamaran from Cheetah Marine only made the delivery trip from the Isle of Wight to Poole on Thursday and was pressed straight into action.
Another feature of south westerlies is that, even when they're forecast to be light or moderate, the sea-breeze effect on a warm summer's day can give the gradient breeze a significant boost. Monday saw a mean speed of 14-15 knots and gusts of up to 20, keeping everyone on their toes, catching a few unawares and giving some good planing reaches.
The XODs were led around in both races by John Tremlett, a visitor from Itchenor with an impressive track record including multiple wins in Cowes Week. Another visitor, Eric Williams from Lymington - no stranger to Poole Week - scored 4, 2 to lie second.
The handicap fleets were sailing from the platform too, featuring boats ranging from Fusions and ILCA 4s to several Merlin Rockets, an MRX, a couple of Contenders and an RS300. Contenders don't always find the downwind legs easy when up against two-handers with spinnakers, but David Evans showed just what a Contender can do on a screaming reach when the wind is at the right angle, putting some good distance between him and the pursuing fleet to win the first race from Steve and Ally Tyler in their Merlin Rocket. The order was reversed in the second race, both boats ending the day on three points.
It was a day that gave few people cause for complaint. As one of the Flying Fifteens put it, despite having encountered problems with a new spinnaker pole system, 'It was a nice breeze and a nice day out on the water'. -- David Harding
Provisional results on pooleweek.org
Timothee Rossi of France Sweeps Chicago Grand Slam
Sunday, August 20 wrapped up the Chicago Grand Slam hosted by Chicago Yacht Club, the first in the series of four World Sailing Grade 2 Match Racing regattas that comprise the USA Grand Slam Series earning the winner an invitation to Long Beach Yacht Club's Congressional Cup. All stops of the Grand Slam also earn skippers points on the World Match Racing Tour leaderboard.
Day Three left only the finals and petite finals to complete in a dying breeze and high temperatures in the forecast. The RC began the day postponing ashore seeing signs that a thermal lake breeze could fill in later in the day. Sailors, RC, and Umpires alike prepped their boats to be ready to mobilize quickly if conditions provided the opportunity before sheltering back in the clubhouse. After much anticipation and searching for sailable breeze up and down the lakefront, time ran out to be able to make it out to complete the finals even if the wind filled in, so the tough decision was made to abandon the Finals and Petites ended the regatta in the early afternoon with Rossi keeping his undefeated record winning first place in the regatta and 100 points towards the Grand Slam series scoring, Brady in second place securing 90 points in the Grand Slam, and Tapper in 3rd securing 80 points.
Though many were disappointed in not being able to complete the format and keep battling it out on Lake Michigan, all left satisfied with their two great days of racing and a little extra time. Some used the time to rest up for the Detroit Cup that starts racing Thursday, August 24th at Bayview Yacht Club. Others took the time to enjoy some of the many other attractions Chicago has to offer.
Full regatta results can be found on matchracingresults.com
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