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Kurt Arrigo Wins Yacht Racing Image Of The Year Award
"The weather had been bad all day, but the sun suddenly came out for a short while. We were leaving the area but I asked the pilot of the helicopter to fly back briefly over the leading boat; that's when I took this photograph. I am absolutely thrilled to receive such a prestigious award. It is a great honour for me" said Arrigo. The final choice was made by five members of the Jury. Shirley Robertson,double Olympic Gold medallist, said that "the quality of this years' finalists really is extraordinarily high; each photograph tells a story of an exceptional year in our sport. I loved them all". According to Christian Fevrier, a legend of yacht racing photography, "the reflection at twilights in the hull was interesting. But the importance of the crew creates a second point of interest. It's a great shot, that would have been impossible to do twenty years ago with the films of very low speed we used then." -- Bernard Schopfer Yacht Racing Image of the Year 2012 - the five finalists:
1. Kurt Arrigo, winner of the Yacht Racing Image of the Year 2012 www.yachtracingimageoftheyear.com
UON SB20 World Championships at Hamilton Island
Up to three races have been scheduled daily through to the deciding day, Thursday December 20. Monday 17th is a planned layday, designed to give competitors, particularly the Europeans who have come from their winter, a well-earned break from the comparative sauna-like conditions and the relentless trophy hunt. Contenders include current SB20 European champions, Russian Oleg Zherebtsov and his helm Rodion Luka (Raketa), and former class world champions Geoff Carveth (WKD) and Jerry Hill (sportsboatworld.com), both UK based. Australia's hopes are riding on a number of proven and hungry countrymen, including Victoria's Chris Dare (Flirtatious), Tasmania's Nick Rogers (Karabos) and Hamilton Island's CEO Glenn Bourke (Club Marine), who fared well in last weekend's non-pointscore pre-worlds "We sailed really well on Saturday to win three of the four races then on Sunday Rodion pulled out his big guns and started playing hardball, he was very impressive," said Bourke, who has teamed up with Andrew York on the main and Mooloolaba's Greg Macallansmith on the bow. Bourke believes that since last year's UK worlds the calibre of the SB20 fleet has lifted. "The top four or five are sailing incredibly in really well-prepared boats. It's going to be pretty tough". Over 35 years of sailing, Nick Rogers has won seven international regattas and 24 Australian championships. Of the 42 SB20 crews, three will be skippered by women including Russian Olympic 470 and Yngling sailor, Anna Basalkina, Great Britain's Sarah Allen (Sailboat Deliveries), part of the winning crew at the 2008 world title, and Australia's Paris Stowell and her crew of West Australian Aboriginal high school girls on Squalo Bianco. Countries represented include: Australia, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Italy, France, Russia, Ukraine, Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. Results will be available daily at worlds2012.lasersb3.com and www.hamiltonisland.com.au/sb20-worlds-2012/
Baby Oats Rolls Rivals In Solas Big Boat Challenge
On a day the biggest and most expensive yachts in the country come out to play ahead of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart, it was a smaller and older one crewed by a group of mates that raced off with the main honours. While Mark Richards and his team claimed line honours on the 100-footer Wild Oats XI, it was the smaller Wild Oats X, nicknamed "Baby Oats", that raced away with the coveted overall victory. It was an unexpected win for the 66-footer. It had only been decided six days ago that Wild Oats X would compete and it was raced round a 14 nautical mile course by a group of men who usually confine their sailing to the much smaller but definitely wetter 18-foot skiffs. Access all Areas. $1 for the first 28 days. Only $2.95 a week thereafter. Learn more. "We threw it together with 14 of our mates and sailed together for 30 minutes yesterday," said America's Cup sailor Troy Tindall, who skippered the nine-year-old yacht alongside his father-in-law Sandy Oatley. From the Herald Sun: www.heraldsun.com.au Event site: www.cyca.com.au/racing/solas-big-boat-challenge/ Full results: www.cyca.com.au/results/
Marlow At The London Boat Show
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ISAF World Rankings
Top three by class:
Men's 470
Women's 470
Laser
Laser Radial
49erFX
49er
Finn
Men's RS:X
Women's RS:X The Nacra17 is set to be introduced into the ISAF Sailing World Cup for the first time throughout the 2012-2013 series and will appear on the rankings following each regatta.
Events included in these final rankings for 2012: Complete rankings at www.sailing.org/rankings
Musket Cove Named as Destination for RNZYS Ocean Race
The race, which commences on 1 June 2013, will start off Westhaven Marina in Auckland, New Zealand, and finish at the Musket Cove Island Resort & Marina in Fiji. The race is 1,150 miles long, and includes a cruising rally that will start when the conditions are right, in the week prior to the race start. Musket Cove was selected because it is the gateway to Fiji's cruising waters, it offers the convenience of a well equipped marina, and it is a beautiful location that can be combined with a holiday. A Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, and Expression of Interest form is available on the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron website, www.rnzys.org.nz , or by calling Melanie Benton on 09 360 3800. The race is supported by Manson Anchors and Pindar. -- Zoe Hawkins
Ben Ainslie Criticises ISAF's Lack Of Consistency
"How can windsurfers be told to go and buy kitesurfs one day, only to be reinstated two months later. In addition, a Class shouldn't be selected for just one Olympic cycle; it is wrong. Those are examples that make our sport look weak. The problem lies in the decision process." The sport of sailing is changing fast, and debates at the forum focusing on yacht clubs and venues were a good illustration of the evolution the sport is going through. Debates on the use of social media, and the new broadcast technologies used by the America's Cup also highlighted the changes the sport is going through. "Francois Gabart, who leads the Vendee Globe, is only 29 years old and he sends three times more media than all his competitors", observed Mark Turner, Executive Chairman, OC Sport. "It doesn't stop him from being competitive. The others will have to learn!" -- Gerald New in Sail-Web:
Sailing Legends - The Story of the World's Greatest Ocean Race
The Whitbread Round the World Race - now the Volvo Ocean Race - spans 40 years, ten races and more than 300,000 miles across the most inhospitable seas. From gentlemanly competition in yachts designed more for graceful living than screaming around Cape Horn, the race has progressed to purpose built craft with few creature comforts, crewed by fanatical, professionals. Millions have been spent, legends created and six men have died. No one takes the race lightly and no one tells the story better than journalists, Bob Fisher and Barry Pickthall who have been there for every race from the first in 1973. They mark the anecdotes, highlight all the major stories, and provide biographies of sailing's greatest names from the first handicap and line honour winners, Ramon Carlin and Sir Chay Blyth, to double winner Conny van Rietschoten, French legend Eric Tabarly, those great New Zealand rivals Sir Peter Blake and Grant Dalton, through to the latter day Volvo race winners. They also detail the awesome advances in design and construction that make today's yachts formidably tough, surfing greyhounds capable of hitting 40knots + and sustaining 600 mile daily runs. The book also lists every crewmember to have taken part. 176 pages. 128 colour pictures and illustrations.
By Bob Fisher and Barry Pickthall - Endeavour Books Order online: www.southatlanticpublishing.com/sl_intro.htm
Olympic Sailor Andrew Lewis Set To Sail From Tobago To Trinidad
The 23 year old sailor is staging what he calls the Wind Energy Challenge, attempting to create history as the first person to make the journey in a 14 ft Laser Sail boat. Lewis sets sail from Pigeon Point, Tobago at around 9:30 and will be trailed by a team from the Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard. He will navigate his way across the waters in hopes of reaching the shores of Maracas Bay at around 2:30pm. The entire distance is estimated to be about 50 miles. Lewis added, "One of my main objectives is to increase the profile of sailing in Trinidad and Tobago. I believe that events such as this one will help in doing so." www.facebook.com/pages/Andrew-Lewis/
Weymouth And Portland to Host 2016 Vintage Yachting Games
Held every four years, it is expected to attract more than 650 athletes, competing in up to 14 classes. Rudy den Outer, Chairman of Vintage Yachting Games, said WPNSA had been chosen "due to excellent predicted sailing conditions during the summer and the experienced experts of the race committee". He said: "The Vintage yachting classes are very much looking forward to celebrating over 90 years of Olympic sailing experience at the same location of the latest Olympic sailing event." The event features all the former Olympic sailing classes after their discontinuation in the Games. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-20694840
Why Regulate?
The opinion came from the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) during a lecture to a UK university, and began acknowledging that the maritime environment is a risky place and that, last year, 112 people died in maritime accidents within the UK search and rescue region. Sir Alan Massey, Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), has apparently been discussing the role of the Agency in ensuring effective rules, regulations and behaviours are in place to keep lives, ships and the maritime environment as safe as possible. In a speech to the RNLI's Annual Lecture at the University of Southampton last night, Sir Alan said: 'We know there has to be a balance between being governed by strict rules on the one hand and being steered by good practice, rational standards and common sense on the other. The trick is to get that balance right.' For those sailing in UK waters, HM Coastguard's Voluntary Safety Identification Scheme - CG66 - is free to register and is a useful safeguard. In an emergency, the Coastguard will have vital information on you and your boat. More information can be found on their website: www.dft.gov.uk/mca/ -- Joanne Rawlings in Sail-World.com: www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?nid=104567
Jang-Yeon Moon
A lifelong sailor and Korean Sailing Federation Training Director and Regional Race Officer, Jang-Yeon passed away after a sudden heart attack. Jang-Yeon's work with ISAF began in 1997 when he was appointed an International Judge. Three years later he became involved the Regional Games Committee where he sat until 2004. Jang-Yeon was instrumental in bringing the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships to Busan, Korea in 2005 and brought his experience from the 2002 Asian Games Sailing Competition, where he served as regatta coordinator, to another successful edition of the Youth Worlds. Four years after the 2005 ISAF Youth Worlds Jang-Yeon was back on the Regional Games Committee where he sat until recently at the 2012 ISAF Annual Conference in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. ISAF extends our sincere sympathy and condolences to his wife, son and daughter. www.sailing.org/news/33696.php
Letters To The Editor -
* From Mike O'Hagan: re: World Yacht Racing Forum. So most of the first day's discussion revolved around sponsorship. So where does yachting come in this forum? Second, third or anywhere? It is good to see the priority that this forum holds in first place. At least we all know now what the Forum stands for. I will follow with interest to see if any of the 3,452,754 non-sponsored yacht owners/racing crews receive a look in. Regards from a non-sponsored ex- foredeck hand.
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It is with great sadness ISAF reports that Jang-Yeon Moon (KOR), a former ISAF Council Member and International Judge, has died.
