EuroSail News #5481 - 28 December
In This Issue
• Final mile decides Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours
• Caribbean Multihull Challenge Environment Award
• Nautical Books - Lot of 250 Brand New
• It's a Wow! - Rondal
• 12 Boat Designers Who Shaped Our World
• The oldest videos of 12 Metre class yachts sailing
• Plymouth Race Week 2024
• RS 30th Anniversary at HISC
• P Class Centenary
• Featured Charter: Mane et Nocte
• Featured Brokerage:
• • S&S Swan 65-001 'Peak'
• • 2008 KER 39 - Tiger 3
• • SY Lady 8
• No Friday Issue, back in the New Year
• The Last Word: H. L. Mencken
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Final mile decides Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours in favour of LawConnect
In what has been an epic race from start to finish, Christian Beck's LawConnect has lost her bridesmaid tag of the last three years to claim line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning, crossing the Castray Esplanade finish line in Hobart at 08.03.58am this morning in the time of 1 day 19 hours 03 minutes 58 seconds
The John Winning Jnr skippered Andoo Comanche held the upper hand for most of the 628 nautical mile race, but LawConnect was always there and overtook her at one point.
Early this morning there was little between the two and once again the Derwent sealed both boats fates, as a light, light breeze, teased and cajoled concentrating crews in an absolute thriller to the finish line.
Christian Beck's yacht finished well outside the race record of 1 day 9hrs 15min 24 sec, ironically set by the boat they beat today, which sailed as LDV Comanche to line honours victory in 2017 by her then owners, Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant.
It did not matter though.
Only 51 seconds separated LawConnect and Andoo Comanche at the end, in the second closest finish in the history of the race. The closest was in 1982 when Condor beat Apollo over the line by seven seconds.
Caribbean Multihull Challenge to Co-sponsor New Environment Award
To celebrate the success of its annual Race and Rally event, the Caribbean Multihull Challenge is teaming up with the 25-year-old TradeWinds Experience membership charter company and two important Caribbean environmental NGO's to create an award for a local Environmental Hero to be presented at a Press Conference on registration day for the regatta -- 31 January 2024.
The Sint Maarten Yacht Club and its annual CMC is going beyond simply running an exciting four-day racing and rallying event to add what Stephen Burzon - Volunteer Marketing and Operations Director - calls 'SOUL' - with a program to honor sustainability and the preservation of the marine environment of the entire Caribbean region. Burzon says.. "For 2024, the domino's simply fell into place with the joining together of the world-wide debut of TradeWinds' brand-new 59' TW6e Smart Electric Luxury Catamaran, the Caribbean Cetacean Society (CCS), and CLEAR Caribbean in a program to select what Owen Day of CLEAR calls a 'foot soldier' of environmental efforts in our local oceans as a 2024 honoree.
On 31 January at 1200 hours - TradeWinds will sponsor the award ceremony at a by invitation only Press Conference on the Sailing School Dock at the SMYC; as well as contribute a modest cash award to the to-be-named Hero. The Award will be presented by Tadzio Bervoets of the CCS along with Ricardo Flores of TradeWinds. It is hoped that various St Maarten government officials will be in attendance along with press from SXM, and several US, European, and Caribbean countries.
On Thursday 1 February, the 6th CMC will kick off the four-day racing event and the three nation cruising rally concluding on Sunday 4 February.
Enter the Caribbean Multihull Challenge on YachtScoring.com
CaribbeanMultihullChallenge.com
Nautical Books - Lot of 250 Brand New
FOR SALE: 250 books published by Fernhurst Books. All are paperback except a few copies of Logbooks that are bound in leather (see below for link to the complete list).
All are new old stock... never sold, opened or read. The remnants of my stock from when I was a sales agent in North America for Fernhurst Books in the 90s... and used hundreds in my sailing school.
Price for ALL 250 books is $750 USD and includes shipping and insurance to all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Shipping outside the USA not economically viable.
Great deal for a yacht club, sailing school or seller of nautical books.
See the complete list of Title, Author, ISBN and Quantity at eurosailnews.com/fernhurst-books-for-sale
Contact or call +1 703 801 8037.
It's a Wow! - Rondal
The design brief for the 65m ketch Aquarius II posed challenges for the rig and winch designers at Rondal - who delivered some creative solutions
The 65-metre Dykstra designed ketch Aquarius II will be one of the stand-out performance superyachts of her generation when launched next year. She is currently in build at the Royal Huisman shipyard in the Netherlands, with Rondal closely involved from conception to provide expertise in the design, engineering and fabrication of sailing systems and composite structures.
'The loads aboard Aquarius II are high and present some interesting challenges,' says Rondal's lead project engineer Edoardo Volpe. 'Yet Rondal's reputation is built on resolving challenges. We have already built three impressive 70m-plus rigs in recent years and we are currently preparing a rig for an 85m sloop, which will become one of the world's largest.
Full article in the January issue of Seahorse
12 Boat Designers Who Shaped Our World
It doesn't matter which dock you walk down. It could be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Port Townsend, Washington, Newport, Rhode Island, or anywhere in between. Every single boat on those docks - the styling cues, hull shapes, sheerlines - began as visions in the minds of boat designers.
Trying to decide which designers made the biggest impact during the 60 years Soundings has been published is like trying to decide which cruising ground is the best. They're all exceptional in their own ways, with the beauty being in the eye of the beholder. As we chose 12 designers from the past six decades, we aimed to include people who achieved not just excellence, but also legacy.
To come up with a dozen names we started with a list of over 50 designers. We know that some may disagree with this list or feel that someone was overlooked. So please let us know who you think should have been included by writing us at .
The list *(read more for bios...)
C. Raymond Hunt
Bob Dougherty
William Garden
Bruce King
Don Aronow
Doug Zurn
Rod Johnstone
Jack Hargrave
John H. Deknatel
Michael Peters
Ted Hood
Tom Fexas
The oldest videos of 12 Metre class yachts sailing
Our video archive is fully searchable, and linked to all the clubs and classes in our database. It is updated weekly with the latest videos of sailing, but here we delve into the past, and round-up everything that shows sailing in the 12 Metre class, since we have so many to choose from.
Our oldest videos are from the 1930s, and perhaps show a time when the 12 Metres attracted less publicity than the J Class, hence the majority of screen time is devoted to the latter. If you want to catch a quick glimpse of early 12 Metres in the UK, see Royal Harwich YC season opens in 1933 or Harwich Regatta 1934 but there is sadly not much detail to observe.
Better footage of the 12s is available in the video of Cowes Week 1937 below, which includes a quick glimpse at what well-dressed ladies of the time were wearing! -- Magnus Smith
3 Championships taking place during Plymouth Race Week 2024
Thursday 11th July will see the welcome return of Plymouth Race Week, 2024.
There will be 3 great events happening simultaneously during the 4-day regatta taking place over 3 racecourses in Plymouth Sound National Marine Park.
Racecourse A will see the IRC Southwest Championships. As with all racing over the week this is an open event which will run from committee boat starts and managed by the RWYC. Within the IRC class will be break-out results for RC1000 and RC900, 2 local initiatives which have seen some great racing over the past 2 years. Following a lunchtime briefing, IRC racing will begin on Thursday afternoon with 2 races. A maximum of 4 races on Friday and Saturday and finally 2 on Sunday.
Racecourse B will be from the Plym Yacht Club start line on the Mount Batten Breakwater and will host the SW YTC Southwest Championships. Race 1 will be the traditional 'Chris Moyse Pursuit Race', followed by round the cans racing on Saturday and Sunday.
Racecourse C will be south of the Breakwater and the venue for the J24 National Championships. A large entry is expected for this competitive One-Design class as their World Championships in 2025 are to be held here under the burgees of both the Saltash Sailing Club and the Plym Yacht Club.
rwyc.org/club-racing/plymouthraceweek/
RS 30th Anniversary At Hayling Island Sailing Club, 17-19 May 2024
We're celebrating 30 years of RS Sailing in the best way that we know how; a gathering of the RS family at a stunning location where old friends can reunite, new friends can be embraced and we commemorate the sport we love. Hosted by Hayling Island Sailing Club, this regatta promises to be our biggest party yet, with a host of activities, exciting racing and equally-matched socials off the water too.
The 30th Anniversary is a celebration of all classes within the RS family - it will be THE flagship multiclass event of 2024. Fleets invited to race include the RS100, RS200, RS300, RS400, RS500, RS600, RS700, RS800, 2000, RS Vareo, RS Aero, RS Feva, RS Tera, RS Venture, RS Elite and RS21. There will also be an RS Open adventure day for cruisers to participate in.
Full fleet racing will take place on Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th May for all fleets, with a Masters additional day on Friday 17th for the RS200, RS300, RS400, RS600, RS700, RS800 and RS Vareo. The RS21 class will also have race days on the 17th-19th. For the RS500, the event will include their Nationals over the 17th-19th.
As for the party? Saturday evening is the BIG celebration with good food and a live band to dance the night away. On Friday night, there will be a masters dinner and heritage sailors will also be invited along to celebrate the last 30 years too.
Entries will be open in January 2024 via RS Sailing Club.
P Class Centenary to be celebrated in January
T Howse in P404. Photo by Gary Smith. Click on image to enlarge.
Love them or hate them the P Class has been around for 100 years.
Designed by Harry Highet in 1920, the plans were presented to the Tauranga Yacht & Powerboat Club in January 1924 and were originally known as 'Taurangas'.
The uniquely New Zealand boat has evolved over the years from plank, gunter rigged, cotton sails, to the current Plywood and Fibreglass hulls, Carbon masts and foils, Dacron sails and aluminium booms.
The roll call of sailors of this class reads like a 'Who's Who' of NZ sailors and includes (but in no way limited to); Jimmy Gilpin, Robbie and Gary Denniston, John Moyes, Greg Palmer, Craig Gilbert, Dave Barnes, Peter Blake, Trevor Cox, Chris Dickson, Russel Coutts, Leslie Egnot, Jon Bilger, Barbara Kendall, Jo Aleh, Paul Snow-Hansen, Erica Dawson, Peter Burling, Jason and Thomas Saunders, Molly and Sam Meech, Blake McGlashan, Oli Stone, Bella Jenkins, Will Leech, William Mason and Nelsen Meacham.
The Coombes Johnston BMW 2024 Tanner and Tauranga Cups are being raced this year in Tauranga.
The 4th and 5th of January 2024 is the 80th Anniversary of the Tanner Cup with 21 entries.
This is one of only two interprovincial events still being sailed in NZ. The rules have changed to allow multiple entries for a Province, based on the number of entries in their respective trials. This has kept the event relevant and a special contest for the Class.
Featured Charter
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A 23.84m Lagoon Seventy 7 sailing catamaran, MANE ET NOCTE is available for year-round charters in the Seychelles with luxurious facilties and excellent sailing performance.
Charter Rates:
High season: 70 000 EUR / week + VAT + APA
Low season: 65 000 EUR / week + VAT + APA
(The charter rates quoted does not include the VAT and APA)
SUMMER destination: Indian Ocean
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WINTER destination: Indian Ocean
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Cabins: 4 | Guests: 10
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Featured Brokerage
S&S Swan 65-001 'Peak'. 700,000 EUR VAT Paid. Located in Marina di Scarlino, Italy.
Peak is hull number one of the iconic Swan 65’s designed by Sparkman & Stephens as the flagship boat for Nautor Swan in 1973. Only 41 boats were made in the series and due to the excellent construction and craftsmanship, most are still sailing today. The current owner’s have had Peak for over 20 ye
See listing details in Nautor Swan Brokerage
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2008 KER 39 - Tiger 3. POA.
Tiger 3 was the last of the very successful Ker 39 design, built. She was finished as a bespoke project by the owner with no expense spared and considered by many to be the finest example of the design
See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly
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SY LADY 8. 3,950,000 ex VAT EUR.
2008 built CNB 95 ‘Lady 8’ is new to the market having completed a very comprehensive refit at STP shipyard during Winter 2022/23.
Every conceivable system was checked, renewed or overhauled. The finished result is spectacular and includes a New Awlgrip hull paint (May23), all new navigation systems, mast re-wire, engine room and systems overhaul, completed 5yr class surveys and so much more. Lady 8 sleeps 8 guests in 4 very good sized guest cabins making her the ideal family yacht or commercial charter yacht. Viewing is highly recommended.
See listing details in Nautor Swan Brokerage
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Tel: +44 (0)7476 888639
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No Friday Issue, back in the New Year
Your humble narrator is taking the long weekend with family, some of whom had to work on Christmas (hospitals don't close for the holidays), others who volunteered to take the shifts for colleagues with small children. We're doing Second Christmas this weekend. Pretty good idea, that. Twice the eggnog and another round of wrapping paper and mimosas.
And a very Happy New Year for all those who follow the Gregorian calendar. Thank you for your readership, comments, letters and wildly offensive jokes in 2023. Back on Tuesday 2nd January...
The Last Word
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