Scuttlebutt Europe #2679 - 18 September
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Eric Mergenthaler (Mexico City, Mexico), chief executive with Active International Mexico, is no stranger to competing at the elite level having represented Mexico in the Finn class at three consecutive Olympic Games ('84, '88, '92). Three years of involvement in the Farr 40 class have led him to compete in the world championship for the first time this week. "The experience in Chicago has been fantastic," he said before the start of the first race aboard Flojito y Cooperando. "The venue, the atmosphere, the organization has been really good. Our goal is to finish in the top 50% of the fleet. It is an extremely competitive fleet, so if we finish 10 or above that would be a very good result for us." As he was leaving the dock, defending champion Guido Belgiorno-Nettis of Sydney, Australia, was feeling prepared and quite ready to go racing aboard Transfusion. Noting that there were seven top boats who could easily take the prize, Belgiorno-Nettis predicted an interesting week of sailing. His win of the first race of the series, followed by a fourth-place finish propelled Transfusion to the top of the overall standings. Along with Transfusion, three other boats were all very impressive in their consistency: Enfant Terrible with finishes of 3-3; Flash Gordon 6 with 2-6; and Charisma with a 4-5. Racing resumes Tuesday, September 18, at 11:00 a.m. and continues through Thursday, September 20, 2012. 2012 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship Top Ten Results Quantum Loop Solutions J/24 World Championship In the day's first race, Olcese's Scaramoush claimed the top spot, followed by Santa Cruz's Bruschetta and Matias Pereira's Luca from Argentina (the winning boat from the 2011 World Championship). In Race 2, Peter Bream's Team Tarheel of the USA crossed the finish line first, but suffered a 20% penalty. Vernon Robert's Joyita of Chile trailed him, and Ignazio Bonanno's La Superba was third. La Superba appeared to have finished second in Race 1, however they suffered a disqualification. Conditions on Lake Ontario started at 4-6 knots and got as high as 10 knots for a short time in Race 2, then subsided. The conditions then turned very unstable so the Race Committee was not able to complete a third race. Racing continues through Friday, and 10 total races are planned. Live updates will be available all week at www.2012j24worlds.com Tornado World Championships
Sunday saw the opening ceremony followed by one practice race for the fleet before the kick off of the World Championships on Monday. The conditions were perfect for the race with 15 knots of breeze across the race course. It was Team Windrush, Brett Burvill and Ryan Duffield from Australia who came out on top. After coming 3rd in the Worlds last year they're hoping they can hold onto their good form for the rest of the week. Competition is tough this year with many top sailors, familiar faces old and new. Monday morning came and it was time for the Championships to kick off, two races were scheduled with a 1pm CET start time. A lovely 12 knots of wind for the sailors to contend against on their first official day. Tomorrow another two races are scheduled, you can follow the latest news through Facebook www.facebook.com/tornadoclass or Twitter www.twitter.com/tornadoclass Top five results: 1. Iordanis Paschalidis and Kostas Trigonis - Greece Complete results The Health and Future of Match Racing VSail.info: Let's start with the obvious question. What is the Match Racing Association and what are its goals? Brian Billings: The Match Racing Association (MRA) was formed back in 1986 by a group of like-minded clubs that were running match racing events and the concept was to give a venue for the then America's Cup skippers who wanted to continue sailing in a professional way in between America's Cup events. Obviously, back then, there was no way for them to make money and make a living out of sailing, except once every four years. So, we formed the MRA which was there to assist existing skippers who were part of an America's Cup program or sailors that wanted to be that kind of skipper. So, we were running events in various parts of the globe, at the time there were events in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, California and Bermuda. We would organize the events and get sponsors so that we could provide prize money, enabling the skippers to go from event to event and actually earn not a living necessarily, although it turned out to be that way for some people like Russell Coutts and Peter Gilmour... ...The MRA is part owner of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour and we formed the Tour as a more formal association of major match racing events that were part of the MRA. We wanted to find a title sponsor of that Tour and that was when Swedish Match came onboard. They were a very successful and excellent partner to work with. Unfortunately, because of the European Union regulations regarding tobacco-related products and sponsoring of sports events, Swedish Match had to give up their title sponsorship. Full interview on VSail www.vsail.info Brewin Dolphin Dragon Gold Cup
The second run was to be the deciding point of the race. The race committee had signaled a change of course and the new leeward mark was a single port rounding buoy instead of the more usual gate. On the finish line Mueller crossed with a huge lead, Hoj-Jensen took second, Braslavetz third and Good fourth. Mueller clearly felt that Smith had done enough to win and he peeled off back to harbour apparently happy with his race but resigned to second place. However, the race was far from over and everyone was carefully counting off boats as they came to the finish. Smith did his very best and claimed a number of places, but ultimately he just ran out of runway and finished in twenty-second place giving Mueller the Brewin Dolphin Dragon Gold Cup 2012 by a single point. Mueller was blissfully unaware of his victory until the media team motored up and confirmed that he had taken the trophy for the second time. The 2013 Dragon Gold Cup will be held in Douarnenez, Brittany, France from 16-24 August and further information about this event is available from www.intdragon.org Top ten final results: 1. Sinewave, Tommy Mueller / Vincent Hoesch / Michael Lipp, GER, 52 points Complete results at www.dragongoldcup2012.com EUROSAF Match Racing Women's European Championship Silvia Roca and her crew of sisters Fatima Reyes and Lucia Reyes, eventually won the final to become European Champions, in a closely fought series against Julie Bossard and her crew of Pauline Chalaux and Pauline Courtois. Each team won alternate races in the first to three points final, making the fifth race the championship decider. The 2013 EUROSAF Match Racing, Women's European Championship takes place in Gdynia, Poland from 17th to 21st July. The Notice of Race will be published in due course. Top six: Real Club Maritimo de Santander website: 2013 J-Cup Driven by MIQ Logistics - Dates Announced The annual regatta is exclusively for racing yachts of the J-Boats brand and all J-Boats models are eligible to compete. In 2012, the smallest boats taking part in the event were a fleet of J/80 Sportsboats, a number of which race regularly in the Port of Plymouth. The largest boat on the water was the J/133 which measures in at just over thirteen metres. The event returns to Plymouth for the first time in six years, where the host club will again be the Royal Western Yacht Club. The Club did a superb job of ensuring the 2007 racing ran smoothly, and a team of over forty local volunteers and helpers were drafted in to guarantee a tremendous event for the four hundred plus sailors. Three days of racing are planned for 2013, with live music and entertainment for the competitors. The event culminates in a huge gala dinner and prize-giving ceremony on the final Saturday night. MDL Marinas and Royal Western Yacht Club are delighted to welcome the 2013 J-Cup Driven by MIQ Logistics back to Plymouth. Key Yachting would like to thank the main event sponsor of the J-Cup 2013, MIQ Logistics, who also sponsored the 2012 regatta. Shackleton Endurance Exhibition - 'Triumph Against All Odds' Among those attending the launch of Shackleton Endurance Exhibition in the Dun Laoghaire Harbour ferry Terminal, were the Hon. Alexandra Shackleton, the only grand-daughter of the Kildare-born explorer, ambassadors from the UK, Australia and Canada, officials from the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, in which the exhibition is an initiative within the harbour's masterplan. The exhibition relives the Irish-born explorer's story and his 28 men, where the rescue mission from the abandoning of the exploration Ship Endurance, in the "terrible beauty" of the White Continent, is only today, rightly seen as perhaps the most remarkable in exploration history which is told through wall texts, diary excerpts and photographs taken by the expedition's photographer Frank Hurley. A full size exact replica of the James Caird, the Lifeboat that proved so critical to the rescue mission is on display. The exhibition was originally curated in the American Museum of Natural History, New York in 2000 and has since toured extensively in America, Ireland, Spain and the UK. The current exhibition is held in association with the Royal Geographical Society (and IBG). For further information visit www.shackletonexhibition.com YCCS Adopts International Super Yacht Rule The International Super Yacht Rule, developed from the former "Bucket Rule", was specifically designed for the superyacht arena to cope with widely disparate fleets that can see a 180-foot classic ketch sailing alongside a 100-foot contemporary cruiser. The rule takes into account the characteristics of each individual boat and calculates a handicap rating which allows yachts with varying sailing speeds to race together on a level playing field. One unique feature of the rule is that it can be tailored to venues and organizers based on the courses and the needs of the competing fleet. The Loro Piana Superyacht regattas join a long list of superyacht events in both the Caribbean and the Mediterranean that use the International Super Yacht Rule. The implementation of the new handicap system aims to provide close racing in fleets of superyachts with widely differing designs, dimensions and technical characteristics. It will also ensure that cruising oriented yachts participating in the Loro Piana Superyacht regattas in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean will be subject to the same handicap system on both sides of the Atlantic. During the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta in Porto Cervo the Performance division, which consists of racing oriented boats of 80 feet and above, will use the ORCi rule which is better suited to more homogenous groups of yachts. www.loropianasuperyachtregatta.com Course Racing World Ranking and Qualification System From September 19, the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) will manage all ranking system for the Olympic Events, and therefore the IKA ranking system previously used will cease to apply. ISAF will publish a press release on that day with detailed explanations on the new ranking system. The ranking principle however remains unchanged: every riders best 5 scores from events in the past 12 months are combined into the overall score. Unfortunately, as a new Olympic event, the ranking for kite racing will start with 0 points on September 19, and the first points for the new world ranking can be collected on the following events (points to be finally confirmed by ISAF): - European Championships, La Baule (France), September 26-30: 100 points Note: for the group assignments at the 2012 European and World Championships, the current IKA world rankings will be used. The new world ranking system will also be used as qualification system for the 2013 major events. Complete information at www.internationalkiteboarding.org Featured Brokerage Swedish elegance at its best. With the new improved hull, keel en rudder design the new 391 was a good improvement on the already succesful 390 model. The gained sailperformance and the known Swedish craftsmanship makes the Najad 391 a very good sailing yacht for longer stays onboard as well as safe an reliable platform for long distance cruising. Brokerage through De Valk Yacht Brokers: www.yachtworld.com/devalkyb/ Complete listing details and seller contact information at uk.yachtworld.com The Last Word |
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