EuroSail News #5411 - 7 September

In This Issue
• Gaston Morvan leads to Land's End
• Svea and Spirit of Lorina lead Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
• Svea's winning streak extended
• Sailmaker and Canvas Fabricator vacancy
• Peter Peet takes lead at Finn European Masters
• Historic Whitbread Veteran 50th Anniversary Reunion
• Day Three of the Six Metre Worlds
• Remembering A Friend
• Happy 90th Halsey C. Herreshoff!
• Featured Charter: Dwinger
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Ker 40+ - "Elvis"
• • Maximizer. Farr 72’ Sloop
• • Botin TP 52
• The Last Word: Jimmy Buffett

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Gaston Morvan leads to Land's End
A bold move to the east to work the rugged Welsh coast, saw Gaston Morvan(Region Bretagne-CMB Performance) make a gain of nearly a dozen miles between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, allowing the talented young French skipper to get his La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec back on track, leading Stage 2 towards Land's End this Wednesday evening.

With the fleet leaders racing south in a modest E'ly wind funneling in to the narrow gap at the TSS Seven Stones offshore of Land's End Morvan has a lead of just over four nautical miles with 125 miles of the stage from Kinsale to Roscoff still to race.

Eleventh on the first leg from Caen to Kinsale, finishing 17 minutes behind stage winner Tom Dolan Morvan admitted today he is in good shape, happy to be in the match. Reflecting that he did not take enough of a risk on Stage 1, Morvan was the first to break to the Welsh coast last night where he found more consistent breeze and less tide than his rivals who all but halted in the middle of the Saint George's Channel.

Also making good gains on the strength of the same move has been Corentin Horeau (Banque Populaire) who was down in the teens, like Morvan with a deficit of more than ten miles on the erstwhile leader Alexis Loison (Groupe Reel). Horeau is back up to fifth at a little over five miles behind Morvan. And the young French rookie who crossed the finish line first into Kinsale but was penalized 30 minutes for a class rules infringement, Benoit Tuduri (Capso en Cavale) is fourth.

Ireland's Tom Dolan, stage 1 winner on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan has dropped to 16th, 16 miled behind Morvan.

Ranking / Tracker

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Svea and Spirit of Lorina remain unbeaten at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
Photo by Max Ranchi, www.maxranchi.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

For day three of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, the wind on the Costa Smeralda was still from the north but marginally lighter (12-16 knots) than Tuesday. The sea was flatter, albeit with the occasional large, left-over waves ready to drench any unwary crew.

With the wind due to lighten in the afternoon, start times were advanced by an hour and a 26 mile course was set for Maxi C, anti-clockwise around La Maddalena. The remaining classes sailed a similar 30 mile lap, rounding Spargi too. The Js raced two further windward-leewards.

At just over the half way stage of the event some are already looking invincible at the top of their classes; others less so.

In Maxi B, the former Maxi 72s now have a tie at the top after four races, including two windward-leewards. After finishing close to yesterday's winner George Sakellaris' Proteus, Hap Fauth's Bella Mente finally prevailed today.

Claus-Peter Offen's y3k secured her second victory in the Super Maxi class, this time by one minute from Marco Vogele's 111ft Inoui. The brand new 101 footer leads overall by just one point from Inoui, which has finished second in every race.

The Maxi Multihull class was back up to three. Irvine Laidlaw's brand new Gunboat 80 Highland Fling 18 returned to the race course guns blazing, the red catamaran scoring her first ever bullet, albeit by just 14 seconds from Adrian Keller's 84ft catamaran Allegra, which still leads the new class with a near perfect scoreline.

Thursday is layday at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup with racing set to resume with a lighter forecast on Friday and Saturday. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

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Svea's winning streak extended
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.

As the J Class returned to windward leeward courses at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo today, two further race wins for the Swedish flagged Svea means the team are well set to collect the top award for the three-boat class at Saturday's prizegiving at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda.

Racing in a sparkling 12-16kts of NNE'ly breeze with a bumpy sea state, the well drilled Velsheda crew did make Svea work especially hard for their second win of the day, but the team led by tactician Bouwe Bekking still remain unbeaten after five races, all of them sailed in great conditions.

With an expectation that the breeze would diminish in the afternoon, racing was brought forwards an hour to capitalize on the perfect winds. And while Svea again won the day, the other honours were shared between Velsheda and Topaz.

After a bitterly disappointing Tuesday when they tore two spinnakers in succession on the same awkward downwind, Topaz bounced back to a much better day. Notably they won both starts with strong positioning and pin sharp timing.

Race 4
1. Svea, corrected time 1h15m51s
2. Topaz 1h17m02s
3. Velsheda 1h18m04s

Race 5
1. Svea 1h08m21s
2. Velsheda 1h08m42s
3. Topaz 1h09m21s

Overall Standings after 5 races
1. Svea 5pts
2. Velsheda 12pts
3. Topaz 14pts

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Sailmaker and Canvas Fabricator vacancy
Ullman Sails St. Maarten is a full-service loft on the island of St. Maarten (Dutch side) in the Caribbean, offering services that include sail repairs & alterations, new sails & all types of canvas products.

We are currently looking for a qualified sail maker and canvas fabricator for our upcoming season from November 2023 to June 2024.

The applicant would be responsible for all types of sail repairs & alterations, removing & re-installing sails. The fitting of new sails & U-Stack covers. Experience in canvas work would be a plus.

The successful applicant must-

1) Be a qualified Sailmaker/Canvas Fabricator capable of high-quality repairs & alterations to all types of sails, ranging from board sails to superyachts.
2) To be able to work independently or as part of a team
3) Possess a positive attitude.
4) Ideally be active in racing /cruising.

Employment would be full time for the above dates with the possibility of a longer contract.

Please send resume to -
Rob Gilders
Ullman Sails St. Maarten

Tel. +1 721 544 5231

Peter Peet takes lead at Finn European Masters
Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, is the new leader at the 2023 Finn European Masters at Campione del Garda after two more extremely difficult but fun races on Wednesday. Britain's John Greenwood moves up to second after winning the second race while Simon Bovey, from Switzerland, is now third.

It was a very hot day on Lake Garda with a shifty 8-9 knots filling in after a short postponement ashore and some different tactics in play during the day.

After some starting practice, the fleet finally got away and similar to Tuesday, most of the fleet headed to the cliffs. However, many also overstood allowing those who got the laylines right to make some gains. Italy's Roberto Benamati was one of those and rounded third, took the lead on the run and led round to take the gun. Britain's Lawrence Crispin sailed a great race to cross second with Peter Overup, from Sweden, in third. -- Robert Deaves

Top ten after four races
1. GrM Peter Peet, NED, 27
2. GGM John Greenwood, GBR, 38
3. Mst Simon Bovay, SUI, 41
4. Mst Roberto Strappati, ITA, 52
5. GrM Lawrence Crispin, GBR, 54
6. Mst Tibor Pallay, HUN, 60
7. GrM Paul Mckenzie, AUS, 60
8. GrM Olof Lundqvist, SWE, 61
9. GGM Roberto Benamati, ITA, 69
10. GrM Peter Overup, SWE, 69

Master (40-49), Grand Master (50-59), Grand Grand Master (60-69), Legend (70 - 79) and Super Legend (80 and above).

Full results

finnworldmaster.com/events/campione-2023

Historic Whitbread Veteran 50th Anniversary Reunion
Barry Pickthall and Sir Chay Blyth catching up on old times. Credit: Aida Valceanu / OGR2023. Click on image to enlarge.

The largest gathering of Whitbread Veterans in sailing history. 83 veterans celebrate their 50th Anniversary at the iconic OGR Whitbread Reunion. Crew from 38 Yachts including Sayula II, Adventure, Heath's Condor and British Soldier among the guests all receive the official 50th Anniversary OGR- Whitbread gold coin!

Translated 9 IT (09) welcomed Clare Francis and crew of ADC Accutrac onboard to relive their 1977 Whitbread Race.

Veterans visit the seven former Whitbread yachts entered in the McIntyre Ocean Globe including Maiden UK (03), Pen Duick VI FR (14) and Whitbread winner L'Esprit d'Équipe FR (85).

Tracy Edwards MBE celebrates her birthday in style with Maiden Crew and fellow Whitbread Veterans

Sailing history was made yesterday with 83 Whitbread veterans, representing 38 Whitbread boats, reliving their memories and telling their stories at the OGR 50th Anniversary reunion held in MDL Race Village, Ocean Village Southampton. It was a highly emotional evening as the veterans caught up with 'old' sailing friends, and former rivals, in the company of the crews preparing to sail around the world in the McIntyre Ocean Globe (OGR), a race in the spirit of the original Whitbread Round the World Race from 1973.

The evening was compared by Barry Pickthall, aka Mr Whitbread, the former yachting correspondent for The Times newspaper who has covered every Whitbread race. He welcomed OGR race patron, Sir Chay Blyth, who skippered Great Britain II in the first Whitbread. Chay was delighted to be in the company of so many veteran

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Light airs and just one race on Day Three of the Six Metre Worlds
Conditions were extremely light on the third day of the International Six Metre World Championship in Cowes. With strong spring tides to consider the Royal Yacht Squadron Race Committee knew they had just a narrow window of opportunity to run a race during the slack water period. They postponed the race for an hour initially, but then called the teams out to the race area to await wind. Fortunately, their patience paid off and five to seven knots filled in from the south-east for just long enough to allow a single two lap race for both divisions to be completed.

With the breeze coming down the course in variable bands it was a tough day for the sailors despite the relatively benign (by Solent standards) current, which fortunately was against the boats upwind increasing the apparent wind and helping them to make progress over it. The late summer sun continued to shine and once again the fleet made a spectacular sight spread out against the Hillhead shore.

In the Open Division, race victory went to Dieter Scho

In the Classic Division the French were showing plenty of flair as reigning World Champion Dix Aout, with Gery Trentesaux at the helm, took her third race win of the series. Dix Aout's owner Louis Heckly is instead sailing Fun this week and followed Dix Aout across the line for second, their best result of the regatta so far. Mauricio Sanchez-Bella's Titia finished third and His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain's Bribon, being helmed by Ross McDonald, fourth.

Provisional Top Five Open Division after five races
1. Scoundrel, USA123, Jamie Hilton - 1, 3, 7, 3, 2 = 16
2. Stella, GBR112, Violeta Alvarez - 5, 2, 1, 4, 6 = 18
3. Momo, SUI143, Dieter Schoen - 9, 5, 8, 2, 1 - 25
4. Battlecry, GBR89, Jeremy Thorp - 8, 4, 3, 5, 5 = 25
5. Junior, SUI77, Philippe Durr and Rainer Muller - 6, 9, 4, 1, 11 = 31

Provisional Top Five Classic Division
1. Dix Aout, FRA111, Louis Heckly and Gery Trentesaux - 1, 14, 1, 4, 1 = 21
2. Bribon, ESP16, His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain - 3, 12, 4, 1, 4 = 24
3. Titia, ESP72, Mauricio Sanchez-Bella - 11, 1, 5, 7, 3 = 27
4. May Be VI, FIN51, Patrick Sandman - 9, 7, 2, 6, 5 = 29
5. Silvervingen, GBR31, Simon Williams - 7, 3, 7 , 3, 9 = 29

Full results on YachtScoring.com

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Remembering A Friend
Who could argue with anyone classifying Buddy Melges as the greatest American and perhaps the greatest sailor, of all time? Count Peter Harken in that group. We mourn the passing of a legend.

In this video, Peter reflects on time he spent with Buddy and a bit about his incredible significance in our sport.

Harken at the Front

Happy 90th birthday to sailing legend and Museum founder, Halsey C. Herreshoff!
As we celebrate this milestone, we're reminded of the enduring spirit of curiosity, creativity, and love for the water that the Herreshoff Legacy embodies.

To celebrate, we'd like to re-share this video featuring Halsey from the Herreshoff One Design Jubilee Celebration at NYYC Harbor Court in 2021: "Captain Nat Herreshoff's Enduring Legacy" by our good friend Gary Jobson.

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