EuroSail News #5414 - 12 September
In This Issue
• ORC Double Handed Worlds Long distance race
• Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup
• BSI, Jefa Steering and GORI Propeller return to Cannes
• Poole Claims Victory At Oakcliff And Grand Slam Title
• Clifden-based Ketch Teddy Partially Dismasted
• Clipper Race arrives in Puerto Sherry
• Cora wins RORC IRC Double-Handed Nationals
• Eighth Edition of Corinthian Sailing Classic
• OK Dinghy European Championship
• Featured Charter: Tiga Belas - 81ft Sailing Yacht
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Mylius 76 FD
• • Ichi Ban 60
• • YYachts Y7
• The Last Word: Archilochus
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Light air start to 2023 ORC Double Handed Worlds Long distance race
Barcelona, Spain: After a 40-minute delay awaiting a sailable easterly breeze, today race managers from Real Club Nautico Barcelona (RCNB) got all three classes off on their Long distance race at the 2023 ORC Double Handed World Championship.
After the light air upwind start in the easterly, the fleet enjoyed a breeze that increased throughout the afternoon to 12-13 knots from the south, propelling all downwind towards their respective turning marks.
On-board trackers in the eStela system use the mobile phone network to show the entry's real-time positions on the course. 17 entries in Class A and 21 entries in Class B are racing on a 180-mile course that tracks northeast along the Catalan coast to the Medes Islands, leaving them to starboard, then east to the ODAS Begur beacon, then returning on reciprocal legs to finish close to the start location.
t 2330 CET Fernando Julio and Retegui Bernardeau's DK 46 #URBANIA appears to be leading Class A having rounded the Medes Islands and are close to rounding the ODAS Begur beacon with a narrow lead over Ines Rodriguez and Jorge Arnal's (ESP) IMS 50 DUENDE 50.
At the same time in Class B Jonathan McKee and Peter Isler (USA) racing their SunFast 3300 RED RUBY are in the lead on the same leg, with a narrow lead over Joel Brosa and Jaume Mumbru's (ESP) XP-38 XPRESS.
Incident Filled Day Two At The Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup
The second day of racing at the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2023 in Torquay brought an intensely fought second race and more than a few dramatic incidents.
Just as the race was about to get underway a call came over the VHF to announce that one of the competitors had fallen overboard by the pin mark. The Race Committee immediately announced a short postponement and tasked RIBs to assist. Fortunately, the competitor was rapidly back in his boat, a towel and some dry clothes were found, and they went on to race.
As soon as the man overboard was resolved the race committee went back into action. With a slight current pushing the boats over the line, it took three attempts to get the fleet away, the third under black flag. Caught out by that black flag were GBR192 Graham Bailey and GBR831 Gavia Wilkinson-Cox, who headed home for a leisurely lunch.
For the rest of the fleet, a two and a half mile beat across the mouth of Torbay in a very shifty and variable south westerly lay ahead of them. At the weather mark it was SUI313 Dirk Oldenburg that led the pack, closely followed by POR90 Michael Zankel, GER1221 Jan Wortman, SWE800 Jan Secher, GRB820 Grant Gordon, GBR815 Lawrie Smith, GBR682 Eric Williams, GER62 Stephan Link and TUR12 Andy Beadsworth.
Provisional Top Five After Two Races
1st - Lawrie Smith, GBR815, Alfie - 1, 1 = 2
2nd - Wolf Waschkuhn, SUI318, 1quick1 - 4, 4 = 8
3rd - Xavier Vanneste, BEL82, Herbie - 5, 8 = 13
4th - Peter Gilmour, JPN56, YRed - 3, 12 = 15
5th - Grant Gordon, GBR820, Louise Racing - 12, 6 = 18
BSI, Jefa Steering and GORI Propeller return to Cannes
BSI, GORI Propeller and Jefa Steering look forward to seeing you at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2023 in Booth SAIL147.
In fact, as suppliers of yacht rigging, hatches, portlights, deck hardware, steering systems, propulsion systems, folding propellers, hydraulics, thrusters and through-hull instrument deployment hoists our knowledgeable team is on hand to help when it comes to the specialist marine equipment onboard your yacht.
For a low resistance folding propeller with effective manoeuvrability and patented single and overdrive technologies talk with Lars Østergaard and Chloe Le Roux. They are on hand to talk through the GORI Propeller 2, 3 and 4 blade folding propeller options that are used extensively around the world.
Robbie Sargent of BSI and OYS will be available to help with your standing rigging needs, whether you need rod, wire, or Kevlar solutions. Service and maintenance are vital, and our extensive service programme is supported worldwide through a network of certified centres and technicians.
Stig Jenson of Jefa Steering can assist with your steering, twin rudder and autopilot systems. We are the largest producer of autopilot drive units in the world. Jefa products use less power than other brands and are supported worldwide direct the factory.
With [almost] everything you need for your yacht on one stand. Please come to booth SAIL147; our experts are looking forward to meeting you at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2023.
You will also find representatives from the BSI Group at Southampton International Boat show from the 15th to 24th September in addition to Hundested Propeller and Ocean Marine Systems (OMS) exhibiting at the Monaco Yacht Show on stand DS9 from the 27th to 30th September. We hope to see you at one of these upcoming shows to help you prepare your boat for next season.
Poole Claims Victory At Oakcliff And Grand Slam Title
World number 1 ranked match racer, Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing defeated New Zealand's Gavin Brady and his True Blue Racing team this weekend to claim victory at the Oakcliff International, stage 12 of the 2023 World Match Racing Tour hosted by Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, NY. Winning the event, Poole also secured the 2023 US Match Racing Grand Slam title accumulating the highest points from four US match racing events in Chicago, Detroit and two events in Oyster Bay.
In the first-to-two points final, Brady secured the first race win but was over the start line (OCS) in the following two races giving Poole and crew the window to get ahead and close out score 2-1. Poole's Riptide Racing crew included Mal Parker, Joachim Aschenbrenner, Ryan Wilmot and Bradley McLaughlin. The 2023 Oakcliff International had teams representing USA, Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and South Africa vying for $10,000 in Prize Grants.
Dave Hood/ DH3 Racing representing Long Beach Yacht Club finished 3rd over USA's Pearson Potts.
Poole's win at Oakcliff on the back of last week's win at the Thompson Cup has put him on top of the World Match Racing Tour leaderboard with 104 points counting his best four results from the 2023 championship series so far, and with just two more events in Estonia and Bermuda before the WMRT Final in Shenzhen China from 2-7 December.
The top eleven skippers on the WMRT leader-board after the penultimate event in Bermuda will qualify for the WMRT Final in China, the winner of which will be crowned 2023 Match Racing World Champion and receive a share of the USD200,000 prize purse.
2023 Oakcliff International final results;
1. Chris Poole/ Riptide Racing (USA)
(Joachim Aschenbrenner, Bradley McLaughlin, Ryan Wilmot, Mal Parker)
2. Gavin Brady (NZL)
(Chris Cowan, Ed Davidson, Alistair Gifford, David Swete)
3. Dave Hood (USA)
(Chris Steele, David Gilmore, Steve Natvig, John Colburn)
4. Pearson Potts (USA)
(James Barry, Rachel Perry, Peter Bailey, Sarah Stephan, Abby Preston)
5. Rocco Attili (ITA)
(Gianluca Perasole, Giulio Tamburini, Ludovico Mori, Andres Guerra)
6. Cormac Murphy (USA)
(John Brendel, Max South, Alfonso Garcia Bringas, Robbie Upton)
7. Nicole Breault (USA)
(Lionel Crear, Hugh Dougherty, John Horsch, Nick Dorn)
8. Max Paul (AUS)
(Zac Quinlan, Aiden Mansley, Brooke Wilson, Tiana Wittey, Megan Thomson)
9. Dylan Scott (CAN)
(Siri Schantz, Liam Toward, Sam Gevert, Brian Rebec, Madeline Singer)
10. Michaela Robinson (RSA)
(Ethan Johnson, Allie Shand, Luke Galvin, Chris Dundon)
Clifden-based Ketch Teddy Partially Dismasted In Arctic Storm
The 39ft Danish-built ketch Teddy is a familiar sight in the heart of the Connacht coast, snugly berthed along the tidal quayside at Clifden in Connemara. And when she's not there, we can usually be sure that owner-skipper Nick Kats - a specialist nutritionist who voyages extensively despite being very significantly hearing-impaired - is in high latitudes, on an Arctic cruise to Iceland, Jan Mayen or Greenland.
As usual at the conclusion of such ventures, Teddy was expected back in Clifden around September 15th. So in anticipation of this - and while waiting to see if our prediction of sea breezes finally brought life today (Saturday) to the ICRA Nats at Howth - we fired off a signal to Teddy's skipper to hear the latest word on progress.
The mind-blowing response engendered visions of sea states and weather conditions just about as far as you can get from a calm Indian summer's day on the Fingal coast. In fact, we're still processing it, and we reckon it speaks very eloquently for itself if we simply re-post it in its raw form as it came from Nick, for it's something which leaves any thoughtful sailor temporarily at a loss for words:
Two Complete Knockdowns...
Read WM Nixon's full report in Afloat magazine
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race arrives in Puerto Sherry, Spain after first race of circumnavigation
Race 1 of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has finished with Perseverance taking the win of the first race of the circumnavigation. After the epic Race Start from Portsmouth, UK on 3 September and the fleet bound for Puerto Sherry, the conditions have made for an interesting competition with plenty of tactical racing required from the eleven teams during this race to Spain.
The 2023-24 edition got underway from Portsmouth, UK last weekend, and the fleet has now sailed the first 1000+nautical miles of this epic adventure in a testing first race.
The results of the first race of the 2023-24 edition are as follows:
Taking first place in Race 1 is Perseverance
Second place goes to Yacht Club Punta del Este
And third place goes to UNICEF
The teams continue to arrive in Puerto Sherry over the next 24 hours.
Divided into eight legs, and 14 individual races, the 2023-24 edition will take the following route:
Leg 1 - Portsmouth, UK - Puerto Sherry, Spain - Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Leg 2 - Punta Del Este, Uruguay - Cape Town, South Africa
Leg 3 - Cape Town, South Africa - Fremantle, Australia
Leg 4 - Fremantle, Australia - Newcastle, Australia - Airlie Beach, Australia
Leg 5 - Airlie Beach, Australia - Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam - Zhuhai, China
Leg 6 - Zhuhai, China - Qingdao, China - Seattle, USA
Leg 7 - Seattle, USA - Panama Canal, Washington, DC, USA
Leg 8 - Washington, DC, USA - Oban, Scotland - Portsmouth, UK
Cora wins RORC IRC Double-Handed Nationals
Race 2 - RORC IRC Double-Handed Nationals
Start 08 September RYS Line - around marks- Solent finish
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with the Royal Yacht Squadron
It's been quite a year for Tim Goodhew & Kelvin Matthews racing Sun Fast 3200 Cora. Following on from winning IRC Two-Handed and IRC Three for the 2023 RORC Season's Points Championship, Cora has become the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 2023 IRC Double-Handed National Champions.
Cora won the Salcombe Gin Castle Rock Race at the beginning of the month and scored a double-win on Saturday 09 September in the final race. Cora took Line Honours and the win after IRC time correction for Race Two. Last year's championship winner, Mike Yates' J/109 JAGO, racing with Will Holland, was second to Cora by narrow margins in both races. Rob Craigie's Sun Fast 3600 Bellino was third for the championship. In Race Two, Kathy Claydon's Arcona 370 Arcsine, racing with Phil Kirk, finished third after IRC time correction.
The next race organised by RORC will be the 15th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, the 3000-mile race across the Atlantic starts from Marina Lanzarote on 7th January. -- Louay Habib/RORC
Dual Defending Champions Prepare for Eighth Edition of Corinthian Sailing Classic
Newport, RI: Of the many illustrious clubs from around the world that have competed in the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the premiere fleet regatta for Corinthian crews, two have most consistently demonstrated the slick boatspeed and smooth crew handling that are the hallmarks of winning one-design crews: Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans and Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (above) of Australia. One of the two has placed first and/or second in the past three editions, dating to 2017.
The two teams' run of success began six years ago, when Southern Yacht Club posted a 12-point victory over Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for its first victory in the prestigious regatta. Two years later, in 2019, it was Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's turn to win its first Invitational Cup, posting a four-point victory that went down to the final day of racing, while Southern Yacht Club placed fifth.
Yearning to defend their historic title—Royal Sydney was the first team from the Southern Hemisphere to win the coveted trophy—in 2021, helmsman Guido Belgiorno-Nettis and crew were "very disappointed" when they were denied the opportunity due to travel restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, Southern Yacht Club, helmed by 2004 Olympic Silver medalist (Tornado) John Lovell, posted a 10-point victory for its second title in three editions.
The first race is scheduled for 1100 on Tuesday, September 12. A live race-by-race broadcast of the regatta will start on Wednesday, September 13. -- Stuart Streuli, NYYC
nyyc.org/2023-rolex-nyyc-invitational-cup
OK Dinghy European Championship
The 2023 OK Dinghy European Championship at Circolo Vela Arco began Monday with four races in 10-15 knots of hot southerly breeze that gave everyone a challenge. The race wins went to Jens Eckardt of Denmark and Britain's Matt Howard in the yellow group, while Britain's Charlie Cumbley and Germany's Jan Kurfeld won the blue fleet group races.
After a short delay on the water the Ora filled in slowly and built to provide an awesome day of sailing. Germany's Andre Budzien led yellow fleet for both races for a while but was scored UFD in the opening race and was then passed by Howard in the second.
In the blue fleet, it was a battle between Kurfeld, Cumbley and Denmark's Bo Petersen and France's Valerian Lebrun. While Cumbley got the better off them in the opening race, Kurfeld slipped past in the second to take the win.
Three races are scheduled for Tuesday before the fleet splits in gold and silver groups for the final two days.
It was a momentous day for the class with more than 100 OK Dinghies sailing on Lake Garda for the first ever – it was a sight to behold.
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