EuroSail News #5407 - 1 September

In This Issue
• Rookie Tuduri wins Figaro Stage 1
• Tom Dolan clinches career best stage finish
• When upscaling works - Southern Wind
• Bosphorus Cup 2023: Modern race in an ancient city
• 8 Metre World Championship
• Cup Spy August 30: Lift Off !
• 2nd Edition of the Globe40
• Sailing World on Water
• Ocean Globe - 9 Days To Go
• Featured Brokerage:
• • OSCAR 2
• • MC75 Multihull
• • HH42 by Judel Vrolijk
• The Last Word: Robert A. Heinlein

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Rookie Tuduri wins Figaro Stage 1
Photo by Alexis Courcoux. Click on image to enlarge.

French rookie Benoit Tuduri (CAPSO - En Cavale) made a dream start to his Figaro class offshore racing career when he took victory on the 610 miles Stage 1 of the 54th La Solitaire du Figaro, finishing into Kinsale, Ireland at 07:02:25hrs local time this morning

Tuduri, 29, races and trains with the tiny Team Vendée Formation out of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and despite this being his first year on La Solitare du Figaro, maintains the Vendée group's impressive recent record of Stage 1 wins, Xavier Macaire - who helps coach Tuduri - won the first stage in 2020 and 2021. The elapsed time for Tuduri is 3 days 19 hours 00 minutes. It makes it the second year in a row that the Stage 1 has been won by a rookie following Davy Beaudart's triumph into Port La Foret last June.

Julie Simon, like Tuduri a first-timer on the race, takes the third step on the podium, some 21 minutes after the winner and three minutes after the 'Flying Irishman' as 36 year old Dolan is known in France where he lives. Simon, 26, mixes her sail racing with a full time job and is a native of La Baule on the Loire Atlantic coast. She comes to La Solitaire after three seasons in the Mini 650 class. She, like Dolan and Tuduri, all of the top five stayed to the right, closer to the rhumb line. Best of the main peloton is Basile Bourgnon (Edenred) who finished sixth, 14 minutes and 28 seconds after Dolan.

Rankings and race tracker

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Irish sailor Tom Dolan clinches career best stage finish as La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec
Photo by Alexis Courcoux. Click on image to enlarge.

Just on cue, Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan delivered his career best stage finish today when, under the added pressure of being the 'homecoming favourite' he took second place on the 610 nautical miles La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec first leg from Caen into drizzly Kinsale this morning.

The result on the first step of the three-stage 1850 miles race to Piriac sur Mer on the French Atlantic coast, sets up Dolan for the rest of the event with a useful cushion - around 14 minutes - over what can be considered his normal rivals.

A key strategic move when the 32 strong fleet passed through the Scilly isles early yesterday gave Dolan the stage lead on the climb up to the Fastnet Rock which he rounded in the small hours of this morning in fourth place.

Whilst Tuduri and Simon, first and third to round, were seeing the iconic ocean racing milestone for their first ever time, the sailor who grew up in County Meath Dolan thinks he has been out to the rock around 30 times, mostly when he worked as a sailing instructor out of Baltimore.

But the Irish skipper admits the extra mental pressure of his own and other peoples' expectations of coming to Ireland weighed very heavily on him as well as last month having had a disappointing Solo Concarneau Guy Cotten - the de facto dress rehearsal before the 'big one'.

tomdolanracing.com

When upscaling works - Southern Wind
Southern Wind Shipyard has been developing and evolving its own innovative construction techniques over the last 20 years, with 42 boats built (and counting) since the turn of the millennium…

What happens when the forensically detailed weight study for a grand prix racing yacht is scaled up and applied with equal rigour to a 100ft superyacht? You get a spreadsheet with more than 900 rows and 140 columns, with about 2,700 cells of live data that update in real time as the boat is designed, engineered and built, fitted out and rigged. Most superyacht builders don't actually go to that level of detail in weight calculations, but at Southern Wind Shipyard they do.

In the last 20 years, Southern Wind has built many more composite sailing yachts in the 100ft (30m) size bracket than anyone else. With 42 boats launched since the turn of the millennium, all between 27m and 35m LOA, and every small detail from each of these projects meticulously logged, it all adds up to a vast quantity of data and a huge amount of boatbuilding experience.

Full article in the September issue of Seahorse

Bosphorus Cup 2023: Modern race in an ancient city
Photo by Pedro Martinez / Studio Martinez. Click on image to enlarge.

In the maritime world, there are several renowned stretches of water - the Solent, the Straits of Dover, Gibraltar, Bass, Le Maire, Hormuz, Messina, to name a few. But none have held so much significance for so long as the Bosphorus. This 17 long by 0.4-1.8 mile wide corridor of water holds huge strategic importance being the sole exit of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, via the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. But among the world's famous straits, none has a city of a size and with the immense history of Istanbul straddling it. Over the last 2500 years this great city has been known as Byzantium, Constantinople and up until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 was Turkey's capital. Geographically it represents the physical meeting of Europe and Asia, west and east, and for millenia it has been a melting pot for differing cultures, customs and religions.

Thanks to all these attributes, plus its numerous landmarks many visible from the race area, the Bosphorus Cup is one of the most remarkable fixtures in the yachting calendar.

Based out of Setur Kalamış Fenerbahçe Marina, this year's 22nd edition will have its usual four day format, taking place over 21-24 September. Event organiser Orhan Gorbon anticipates around 80 yachts will be on the start line. These will be divided into IRC classes, which represent the majority, plus others for ORC, sportsboat and cruising.

The top three boats in each class will receive an award, while the perpetual Bosphoris Cup Grand Overall Trophy will go to the best scoring yacht with an IRC Endorsed certificate in IRC 0, 1 or 2. Other trophies will be awarded to the top Sportsboat and ORC finishers. -- James Boyd

Results

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8 Metre World Championship
With two more valid races, after 6 regattas, the Swiss team of Yquem II solidifies their lead in the provisional rankings

On the scoreboard, the Swiss yacht Yquem II skippered by Jean Fabre continues its pursuit, interpreting the racecourse effectively. Today, it secured second place in the first race and clinched victory in the second. Following closely is the other modern yacht, Conquistador, owned by Austrian Werner Deuring, who has been trading the top position in the rankings with Yquem II. In contrast to Yquem, Conquistador won the first race and secured second place in the last event today.

While for the modern yachts, it's a contest between Yquem II and Conquistador, among the classic boats, the rankings continue to bring satisfaction to Bona, the 1934 Baglietto, firmly maintaining the third position. This is partly due to near-perfect races (today they discarded a fourth-place finish in the last race as their worst result). Ahead of Bona is Vision (1930) skippered by Paolo Manzoni, with Tommaso Chieffi as tactician, defending their fourth position, closely trailed by Carron II, a Swiss yacht from 1935, helmed by Angelo Mazzarella, in fifth place.

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Cup Spy August 30: Lift Off ! Tough seaway tests Cup teams
American Magic leaps clear of the water - A nosedive followed. Photo by Paul Todd/America's Cup. Click on image to enlarge.

Barcelona was hit by a couple of squalls/fronts between midnight and 0600hrs with first a southerly breeze averaging over 30kts for an hour, gusting over 40kts, before swinging East and averaging 20-23kts gusting 25kts for a couple of hours. While the winds abated to a 10kt average gusting 15kts from the SSE, there was a very challenging sea state of over 1metre when the four or five teams started sailing.

What happened in the Cup - August 30 2023:

- Alinghi Red Bull Racing sailed two AC40's both in one design mode with the Barker/Robertson co-helmed boat pitched against the Psarofaghis/Bachelin. Their session consisted of a series of races, with the outcomes contained in the AC37 Joint Recon Program report.

- INEOS Britannia - again pitched T6 against their AC40 OD. They unfortunately dived off a wave and blew the corner out of a J2 jib.

- American Magic sailed two AC40OD's with Tom Slingsby and Lucas Calabrese co-helming one AC40, with Paul Goodison and Harry Melges co-helming the other. The US team also hit a few good seas, but apparently suffer no significant damage.

- Emirates Team New Zealand sailed, but there is no report or images available.

- Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli did not sail their LEQ12 out of Sardinia, and apparently did not sail their AC40 OD out of Barcelona

- Orient Express Racing Team - no report

Read Richard Gladwell's commentary in Sail-World.com

2nd Edition of the Globe40
After playing host to the debut edition of the GLOBE40 in the form of a prologue in June 2022 and the race finish in March 2023, LORIENT AGGLOMÉRATION is renewing its allegiance to the event in the same format for the second edition in 2025/ 2026. As such, central to Europe's offshore racing scene, the 5-port town is marking its commitment to the development of this original new round the world event, which blends competition and a journey of discovery of regions far and wide.

Today also sees the publication of the Notice of Race, which completes the pre-race document published in May, and registration is open. With 2 years to go till the start, the setting for the 6-leg course is steadily taking shape and the skippers of ten or so projects have already expressed a serious interest in taking part.

Following on from the Pre-Notice of Race published on 2 May 2023, the Notice of Race issued today drives the point home with regards the event's fundamentals: a double-handed Class40 race, the opportunity to switch one or both crew members at every stopover under certain circumstances, a course geared around World Sailing category 1 race rules, a more extensive list of safety equipment designed for a round the world race without any major transformation of the boats, a points ranking with coefficients allocated to legs according to difficulty, plus technical assistance arranged by the organiser to support the teams.

The feedback from the 1st edition has also prompted some developments: within the overall ranking, those teams who have sailed all or the maximum number of legs will be favoured over the points amassed, a 'precise' ranking will be implemented to enhance the status of the different generations of boats and a minimum stoppage time of 24 hours in the event of a pit-stop has been removed to avoid any compromise between safety and competition.

globe40.com

Sailing World on Water Sept 01.23 Team Australia AC, 52 Super Series Barcelona, Solitude Figaro 3
Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of sailing in the last 7 days.

Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of sailing in the last 7 days:

- The Team Australia Challenge campaign was confirmed in April 2023 by the organiser's of the 37th America's Cup as one of 12 national Youth and Women's competing nations.

- The Challenge campaign is underway to deliver two national teams to the start line in Barcelona.

- The Qualifying series group races will be staged in identical AC 40 foiling yachts, during September and October 2024. The Women's finals race will be broadcast globally as part of the 37th America's Cup telecast.

This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, September 01, 2023. -- Geoff Waller

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Final safety checks, parties then OFF! for McIntyre Ocean Globe entrants- 9 Days To Go!!
This fully-crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race, marks the 50th anniversary of the original event. At 13:00 hr, 10th September, the yachts will set sail from the Royal Yacht Squadron start line, Cowes, UK, to circumnavigate the globe, using no computers, satellites or GPS navigation aids or high-tech materials and use Cassette tapes for music. For eight months, they'll take on the world's toughest oceans powered only by humans - all in the name of adventure, sailing like it's 1973!

Ensuring the yachts are up to the momentous challenge of the three great Capes, Africa's Cape of Good Hope, Australia's Cape Leeuwin, and South America's notorious Cape Horn means inspecting every lifejacket, counting fire extinguishers, opening 'grab bags' and testing navigation lights - and that's the easy bit!

Every yacht is subject to a forensically-detailed safety inspection - which must be passed before receiving the coveted 'Green Card' required to take part in the race.

oceangloberace.com

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