EuroSail News #5412 - 8 September
In This Issue
• Youngest Skipper wins Stage 2 of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec
• Peter Peet maintains lead at Finn European Masters
• Raising the (performance) bar - Balance Catamarans
• Six Metre World Champions
• Moving Day at J/70 European Championship
• Sailing "World on Water" September 08.23
• 'New 18s' Turn 30
• Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup
• SSL Gold Cup
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Neo 570c
• • Ichi Ban 60
• • Dazcat 1295
• The Last Word: John C. Lilly
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Youngest Skipper wins Stage 2 of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec
Champagne time for Stage 2 winner Basile Bourgnon. Photo by Alexis Courcoux. Click on image to enlarge.
Under pressure from one of the title favourites, Corentin Horeau (Banque Populaire), the 21 year old youngest skipper on the race Basile Bourgnon (EDENRED) held his nerve in very light wind conditions this evening to win the very challenging second stage of the 54thLa Solitaire du Figaro Paprec crossing the finish line Roscoff on the Bay of Morlaix at 17:59:44hrs (French time).
Finishing on a near windless glassy sea - the only ripples made by the wakes of their Figaro Beneteau 3 one designs - Bourgnon's impressive victory, just 3 minutes and 24 seconds ahead of Horeau, was all down to the last gybe and layline to the finish line. The young skipper triumphed in a slow motion match race which had his rival progressively closing him down over the final nerve racking hours of what has been very tough 570 nautical miles leg from Kinsale where the 32 strong fleet started last Sunday afternoon.
The leg has been marked not only by numerous stop-starts and five different leaders including both Bourgnon and Horeau, but significant gains and losses in the strong tides of Irish Sea, the Celtic Sea and the Saint George's Channel. At the northernmost turn of the passage, Chicken Rock lighthouse just to the SW of the Isle of Man, Bourgnon was 21st at 37 miles behind the then leader, French rookie Hugo Dhallene (YC Saint Lunaire).
At 2000hrs French time the best positioned international skipper is David Paul (Sailingpoint.co/Just A Drop) in 20th with 15 miles to the finish line. Ireland's Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) is 23rd with 17 miles to sail - like all the sailors around them both were making less than one knot boat speed.
Stage 2 Kinsale to Bay of Morlaix 570 miles
1. Basile Bourgnon (EDENRED) finish time 17:59:44 (local time) elapsed time 4d 4h 19m 44s
2. Corentin Horeau (Banque Populaire) 18:03:08hrs 4d 4h 23m 08s
3. Lois Berrehar (Skipper MACIF 2022) 18:30:14hrs 4d 50m 14s
Leg three from Baie de Morlaaix to Piriac Sur Mer, the final leg, starts Sunday September 10.
Peter Peet maintains lead despite complex conditions at Finn European Masters
Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, will go into the final day of the 2023 Finn European Masters, at Campione del Garda, with a nine-point lead over Britain's John Greenwood, while Olof Lundqvist, from Sweden, moves up to third. Race wins on the third day went to Greenwood and France's Valarian Lebrun on what was another very hot day on Lake Garda, with the wind increasing during the day from 6 to 9 knots.
It was another extremely tricky day on the water with the Ora developing late and slowly. After a few delays the first start under black flag removed around 20 boats, but the wind was not fully established and there were a lot of new faces at the front. Maintaining anything like consistency here has been near on impossible, with pretty much all sailors picking up high points at some point.
Friday is the final day of the Finn European Masters with two more races scheduled.
Results after 6 races
1. GrM Peter Peet, NED, 30
2. GGM John Greenwood, NED, 39
3. GrM Olof Lundqvist, NED, 46
4. Mst Simon Bovay, NED, 51
5. Mst Roberto Strappati, NED, 56
6. GrM Bas De Waal, NED, 60
7. GrM Paul Mckenzie, NED, 68
8. GrM Peter Overup, NED, 72
9. Mst Valerian Lebrun, NED, 74
10. GrM Allen Burrell, NED, 75
Raising the (performance) bar - Balance Catamarans
Balance Catamarans is a fast-growing brand of comfortable ocean cruising cats, built to a strict ethos, that sail remarkably well. Here's how they achieve that elusive balance.
The stand-out performer in this year's Cape to Rio Race was the Balance 526 Norhi, which took line honours and finished more than 24 hours ahead of a close rival that was widely assumed to be faster. It was a remarkable result for a comfortable 16-metre cruising cat, not far off the pace of the 2014 winner, the VOR70 Maserati.
Norhi's win may have surprised some sailors in Europe, but not in the US where Balance Catamarans has won major awards and earned an excellent reputation, not least for performance. Nor was it a surprise in South Africa, where the boats are built and are widely known to have a first class pedigree.
Full article in the September issue of Seahorse
Jamie Hilton's Scoundrel and King Juan Carlos of Spain's Bribon are 2023 Six Metre World Champions
With zero wind forecast for the scheduled final day of racing at the Six Metre World Championship 2023 in Cowes, the Royal Yacht Squadron's Race Committee elected to run all three remaining races, races six to eight, on the penultimate day of the competition.
After a long, hot, and incredibly intense light airs three race day, Jamie Hilton's Scoundrel, sailing for the New York Yacht Club and crewed by Mike Marshall, Dave Hughes, Allan Terhune Jr and Addison Caproni, was declared 2023 Open Six Metre World Champion with a race to spare. The battle for second place in the Open Division came down a final race shoot-out between Violeta Alvarez' Stella of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Dieter Schoen's 2022 World Champion Momo, sailing for the Sailing Club of St Moritz, with Stella ultimately prevailing by a single point.
The Corinthian Division winners were Philippe Durr and Rainer Muller's Junior of the Club Nautique de Versoix in the Open Division, and Patrick Sandman's May Be VI of Finland's Nylandska Jaktklubben in the Classics.
Provisional Final Results Open Division
1. Scoundrel, USA123, Jamie Hilton - 1, 3, 7, 3, 2, 2, 2, (19/RTD) = 20
2. Stella, GBR112, Violeta Alvarez - 5, 2, 1, 4, 6, 3, 6, (6) = 27
3. Momo, SUI143, Dieter Schoen - (9), 5, 8, 2, 1, 1, 4, 7 = 28
4. Junior, SUI77, Philippe Durr and Rainer Muller - 6, 9, 4, 1,11, 4, 1, 9 = 34
5. GinkgoToo, SUI140, Jan Eckert - (14), 1, 6 12, 3, 5, 7, 2 = 36
Provisional Final Results Classic Division
1. Bribon, ESP16, His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain - 3, (12), 4, 1, 4, 1, 1, 4 = 18
2. Dix Aout, FRA111, Louis Heckly and Gery Trentesaux - 1, (14), 1, 4, 1, 6, 4, 7 = 24
3. Silvervingen, GBR31, Simon Williams - 7, 3, 7 , 3, 9, (16/UFD), 2, 3 = 34
4. Titia, ESP72, Mauricio Sanchez-Bella - 11, 1, 5, 7, 3, (16/UFD), 3, 5 = 35
5. May Be VI, FIN51, Patrick Sandman - 9, 7, 2, 6, 5, 5, (16/DSQ), 8 = 42
Moving Day at J/70 European Championship
Portland, UK: Challenging conditions tested the 48 teams Thursday at the J/70 European Championship hosted by Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy in Great Britain. Two races were completed (bringing in the discard) in winds beginning at 7-9 knots but decreasing throughout the day. Douglas Rastello's Good to Go (USA1046) notched scores of 7,6 and tossed an 11th from race one to move up to first place overall after five races at 18 points. Vasco Serpa's Solyd Sailing Team/Sailcascais (PRT1618) won the day with a 3,2 to become the leading European boat and second overall with 29 points. Gulboy Guryel's Denizcik (TUR442) and Charlie Thompson's Brutus II (GBR1572) are tied at 32 points for the next two positions. Pär Svärdsson's Happy Yachting (SWE1563) leads the 32-boat Corinthian Division.
Race Committee sent the fleet out 90 minutes early, after the prior day's insufficient winds. William Edwards' Sardonyx mastered the tricky breeze in the opening contest to take line honors, ahead of Max Clapp's Little J and Serpa's Solyd Sailing Team/Sailcascais. The RC had their hands full to keep up with 20 degree shifts on each leg, adjusting the course continually. Martin Dent's Jelvis took the next bullet, while Solyd Sailing Team/Sailcascais maintained their solid day, and Finley Dickinson's Jellyfish placed third. With reports of more consistent winds toward the inside course, the Committee moved the fleet, but Mother Nature did not cooperate, and competitors returned to shore for the day.
Fifteen nations are on hand: AUS, ESP, FRA, GBR, GER, IRL, MEX, MON, NED, POL, PRT, SUI, SWE, TUR, USA. Racing continues through Saturday.
Full results on Yachtscoring.com
Sailing "World on Water" September 08.23
Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of sailing in the last 7 days.
It seems that there may be a problem with the on-board systems on the AC 40's. Most teams have experienced uncontrolled nose dives. The latest was the American Magic and the French Challenge teams. These are top level crews. Remember these boats are to be sailed competitively by Womens and Youth teams. Basically both corinthian foiling teams. Let's hope nothing untoward happens. Now let's look at Sailing Illustrated's coverage of the Orient Express uncontrolled nose dive.
'New 18s' Turn 30 
With the 2023-24 Australian 18 Footers League season about to get underway with Race 1 of the annual Spring Championship on October 8, it's time to take a quick look at the success of the rules which changed the style of 18ft skiff racing thirty years ago.
When the Australian and international 18ft skiff fleets of the 1970s fell dramatically throughout the 1980s, the League administrators accepted the responsibility to take up the challenge of getting the local competition numbers back on track while keeping James J. Giltinan's dream of international expansion alive at the same time.
They saw the overall cost of competition, as well as the regular need to update equipment, was a major reason for the drop in local numbers and the demise of the burgeoning fleets in the UK and USA.
Records show that very few Sydney teams were capable of winning the world or Australian championships and no international team was competitive with the local Sydney teams on Sydney Harbour.
The first move to rationalise the cost of top level competition originally came from Julian Bethwaite, when he produced a competitive boat (B18), for a fraction of the cost of the skiffs of the 1980s, and won both the 1991 World Championship and Grand Prix Sailing circuit.
Bethwaite had shown that championship-winning results could be achieved at a far more cost-effective rate than the sums required in the 1980s-early 90s, and the new concept was the sport's way of the future.
Read more: 18footers.com/18-footer/news/new-18s-turn-30/
Youth Movement Leads Royal Vancouver Yacht Club's Return to the Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup
cThere was no worm waiting for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club team when they arrived at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court promptly at 9 am on Wednesday morning. Instead, the first team to check in for the eighth edition of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup got something much more valuable: a suite of new sails from North and the opportunity for three full days of additional practice. The premiere championship for Corinthian big boat sailors doesn't officially get underway until Saturday—with required practice sessions Sunday and Monday—and racing starts on Tuesday. But for the Royal Van crew, the majority of which have never sailed an IC37, the added time in the boat was well worth the extra effort required to arrive in Newport three days early and then fight off jet lag for an early start.
Wednesday was a fairly benign day on Narragansett Bay, aside from the stifling heat; good for going through the crew choreography and introducing the team to IC37 No. 1, which they will sail for the next 10 days.
Mandatory practice starts on Sunday, September 10, with the first race on Tuesday, September 12. A live race-by-race broadcast of the regatta will start on Wednesday, September 13. -- Stuart Streuli
SSL Gold Cup
The SSL Gold Cup, the 1st "Football World Cup" in sailing will be held at the stunning Island of Gran Canaria from the 10 of November and the 3rd of December 2023 in collaboration with the Real Federacion Canaria de Vela.
In Gran Canaria, 40 teams will compete in the SSL Gold Cup Finals, including the world's top 24 sailing nations in the SSL Ranking, plus 16 teams who came through the Qualifying Series, held from May to July 2022. Just as with the pinnacle event in football, each team will be wearing the colors of their nation and their emblems. Each team includes 11 athletes which means more than 400 sailors, counting amongst their crews' Olympic medalists and World Champions multiple inshore sailing classes.
The stunning venue in the Canary Islands enjoys superb winds, sunshine, and temperatures of around 20 degrees Celsius during that time, making it the ideal location to host the SSL Gold Cup.
Anfi del Mar is well practiced at hosting major international events, holding the highly regarded Anfi Challenge Mogan Gran Canaria triathlon in April. For international travellers, Gran Canaria Airport is only 33 minutes away and has regular flights to a huge number of major airports.
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