EuroSail News #4772 - 9 February

In This Issue
• Boris Herrmann is the IMOCA Globe Series 2018-2021 champion
• Skipper Alex Thomson returns home onboard HUGO BOSS
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Australian Sailing launches Performance Pathways Futures Program
• Giles Scott talks America's Cup, Olympic Gold Medals and calling tactics at 50 knots.
• Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania takes out first SAILING Champions League
• Join Oakcliff for Meteorology 102 with Chelsea Carlson
• What happened? What's next?
• U.S. SAILGP Team Unveils Strategic Roster Pickups
• The Market For IMOCAs Is Active
• Featured Charter: Andrasta - i39-OS
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Jeanneau Sun Fast 3600
• • MAT 1180 - "Datacom"
• • FarEast 28R - NEW BOAT
• The Last Word: Albert Einstein

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Boris Herrmann is the IMOCA Globe Series 2018-2021 champion
With the arrival of Jeremie Beyou this weekend in Les Sables d'Olonne, the IMOCA Class can now confirm the winner and the top-10 of the 2018-21 IMOCA Globe Series Championship*.

The German skipper Boris Herrmann, who finished in fifth place in the Vendee Globe on Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco, is the new IMOCA Globe Series champion, after a remarkably consistent campaign by his Team Malizia over the last three years.

The championship is calculated by accumulating the scores of skippers and their teams in the major IMOCA Class races, among them the Vendee Globe, the Route du Rhum, the Transat Jacques Vabre, the Bermudes 1000 and the Vendee Arctique.

Herrmann, aged 39 from Hamburg but now based in Lorient, entered all of those races and completed every one. He came out at the head of the championship with Vendee Globe winner Yannick Bestaven (Maitre CoQ IV) second, and Vendee Globe runner-up and line honours winner Charlie Dalin (APIVIA) third.

The German skipper, who is among the very best ambassadors for the IMOCA Class, said the plan for his team going back to 2018 was to aim for the Vendee Globe and to try to put together a competitive entry. That meant doing all the races leading up to the round-the-world race and he said he is delighted to emerge at the end of it as the new champion.

Top 10 of the IMOCA Globe Series 2018-21 (more about the ranking to come according to the next arrivals of the Vendee Globe) :

1 - Boris Herrmann (GER) - Seaexplorer-YC of Monaco - 526 points
2 - Yannick Bestaven (FRA) - Maître CoQ IV - 517 points
3 - Charlie Dalin (FRA) - APIVIA - 512 points
4 - Thomas Ruyant (FRA) - LinkedOut - 460 points
5 - Jeremie Beyou (FRA) - Charal - 422 points
6 - Damien Seguin (FRA) – Groupe APICIL - 417 points
7 - Louis Burton (FRA) - Bureau Vallee 2 - 415 points
8 - Giancarlo Pedote (ITA) - Prysmian group - 404 points
9 - Clarisse Cremer (FRA) - Banque Populaire X - 370 points
10 - Jean Le Cam (FRA) - Yes We Cam! - 368 points

See the rest of the rankings here : www.imoca.org/en/standings

Skipper Alex Thomson returns home onboard HUGO BOSS
Alex Thomson and his crew today arrived back to their home base of Gosport, England having sailed close to 8,000nm from Cape Town onboard the HUGO BOSS boat.

After departing from Cape Town last month - following his retirement from the Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race - the British skipper and his crew of three spent close to four weeks at sea, delivering the IMOCA racing yacht safely back to port.

The British ocean racing team will now undertake a routine service of the yacht on the UK's south coast before announcing their plans for 2021 and beyond.

"It's great to be back home. 8,000 miles - I've learned an awful lot, as we always do when we go sailing and I'm looking forward to looking back at that data and doing some analysis" said Thomson.

"For me now, I'll go home and spend some time with my family. HUGO BOSS will come out of the water and go into a service, which shouldn't take long. No major issues to report, apart from a bit of a tidy up of the repair I've done and then we'll be back in the water very soon.

"I know a lot of you have been asking what's next for me and the team. Well, there's a lot to think about. There are a lot of opportunities and I'll be sitting down with my team over the next few weeks to talk about it. So as soon as I know…you'll know!"

www.alexthomsonracing.com

Seahorse February 2021
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

World news
Miracle in the south, foils good cassettes bad, Beyou’s lonely odyssey, and Sam’s inspirational one, the hidden speed of Yannick Bestaven, how Team NZ built three AC75s... campaigning through uncertainty. Plus the beautiful Kevin Burnham, Glenn Ashby, Steve Benjamin, Lisa Darmanin, Dan Bernasconi, Ivor Wilkins, Patrice Carpentier, Dobbs Davis, Blue Robinson

Neck on the line
Who’d volunteer to be an America’s Cup pundit, especially among the tense, dark swamps of AC75 design? Dave Hollom, obviously

The finest meals will always require the best ingredients
How Hexcel and SF Composites combined their considerable forces to make the already magnificent Gunboat 68 even better

Divide et Impera
Computational fluid dynamics, so easily quoted so rarely understood. Manuel Fluck

Sailor of the Month
Two ‘works in progress’ but they’ve done enough

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Australian Sailing launches Performance Pathways Futures Program
Australian Sailing has taken a step towards securing the next generation of sailing champions with the launch of the Performance Pathway Futures Program.

The purpose of this new nationally-led program is to identify and develop high potential sailors, currently transitioning between Pathways and Olympic classes, aiming to earn their place within the Australian Sailing Squad. Australian Sailing is seeking the best and brightest athletes and coaches in Australia to apply for their place within the program. The program will consist of a series of national camps integrating quality high performance coaching and targeted performance support services aligned to the athlete's individual performance plans.

All selected athletes and coaches will join together for a team building camp in Runaway Bay, QLD in late April, 2021. The purpose of the camp is to induct the athletes and coaches within the Performance Pathways system and commence the process of accelerating athlete development. The camp will also set the standards, culture and expectations in a collaborative environment.

The Futures program will encompass the Laser Std, Laser Radial, Windfoil, Mixed Kite Foil, Mixed 470 and an aggregated Fast Boat (FX/49er/Nacra) classes. The program will be run over 4 - 5 technical camps at various locations across Australia with the Fast Boat having additional training blocks primarily located at Lake Macquarie, NSW.

For more information on the Performance Pathway, please visit the Australian Sailing Team website.

Giles Scott talks America's Cup, Olympic Gold Medals and calling tactics at 50 knots.
This month's edition of Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast sees the double Olympic gold medallist talking to one of the current stars of the 36th America's Cup, as she chats with British INEOS TEAM UK tactician, Olympic Gold medallist and multiple world champion in the Finn Class, Giles Scott.

At just thirty four years old, Scott is already sailing in his third Cup Challenger Series campaign, and has become a pivotal part of Sir Ben Ainslie's afterguard. During racing, discussions between the pair on board the British boat 'Britannia' are available for all to hear on the live broadcasts of the event, and reveal an understanding and relationship that spans over two decades.

In the first part of this two part podcast, Scott discusses his early days of sailing, and how a move to the Finn Class saw him campaigning with Ainslie in the build up to the 2008 Olympics in China. Three years later, at just twenty four, Scott was a dominant force in the Finn, but describes the bitter disappointment of missing out on a London 2012, as Ainslie took the British Finn spot in their home Olympic Games. It was a set back that would forge within Scott an even greater resolve. By Rio his domination of the Finn Class was absolute, and his relief at finally clinching the Olympic gold medal was there for all to see as he sailed to victory in Brazil with a day of racing to spare...:

This edition of the podcast is in two parts and is available to listen to via the podcast page of Shirley's own website, at www.shirleyrobertson.com/podcast or via most popular podcast outlets, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast and aCast. The podcast is produced and written by Tim Butt - for further enquires, please contact

Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania takes out first SAILING Champions League
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) has emerged victorious at the first event of the 2021 SAILING Champions League - Asia Pacific season with an exciting win in the SCL - AP: Southern Qualifier hosted by the Mornington Yacht Club at the weekend.

Helmed by Sam King with crew Chloe Fisher, Alice Buchanan and Charlie Zeeman, the RYCT team sailed consistently all weekend, however saved their best until last to prevail in the six-team finals series against some tough competition.

It was the second year in a row an RYCT team has taken out the Southern Qualifier with Oliver Burnell successful in Geelong last January.

The finals series was set up so the first two races would see the last boat to finish being eliminated - and from then it was the first of the final four boats to register two race wins that would take out the event.

The RYCT win wasn't without its challenges though with the Sandringham Yacht Club team led by James Sly finishing in second place and quite nearly taking the win off the Tasmanians in the finals, having also won a race.

In third place was Harrison Sly and his team, also representing Sandringham, while Laura Harding and her Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron team finished in fourth.

The top four teams of the event have now qualified for the SCL Asia Pacific Final, which will be held in Sydney in April, while the next event is the Northern Qualifier for QLD, NSW, ACT and NT clubs, which will be hosted by the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club on March 20-21.

For full results head to sailing-championsleague.asia and to see all the media output (photos and video) from the event head to the SCL Asia Pacific Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SCLAsiaPacific

Join Oakcliff for Meteorology 102 with Chelsea Carlson
Thursday, February 11, 6:30 to 8pm ET

Join us for an in-depth look at puffs & lulls and learn how to connect the dots for the win. Meteorology expert Chelsea Carlson of Sea-Tactics will teach us how to understand and predict wind shifts using practical examples covering:

Causes and indicators for changes in the wind
The anatomy of puffs & lulls, including "thermals" and clouds
Understand puff patterns on the race course
Main types of wind shifts and their accompanying racing strategies

Tickets are $20. If you can't attend live, you will receive a recording of the workshop emailed to you afterwards.

Chelsea is a degreed meteorologist and lifelong sailor who has 'tied the knot' between the science of weather and the strategy of sailboat racing. She's the meteorologist for the US Sailing Team and has a variety of racing experience from one design dinghies to navigating keelboats offshore.

This virtual workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to truly understand the race course on a scientific level.

What happened? What's next?
America's Cup reality hit home as the knock out stage of the Challenger series, the Prada Cup got underway. At the end of the semi-final one team would be packing their bags. So, here's how the first knock out phase panned out.

Plus, in the absence of any clear consensus as to who has the upper hand going forward, American Magic crew member Paul Goodison gives his predictions.

U.S. SAILGP Team Unveils Strategic Roster Pickups
The United States SailGP Team unveiled details regarding its athlete roster today, beginning with the announcement that it has acquired Andrew Campbell, Cooper Dressler and Alex Sinclair.

U.S. SailGP Team helm Jimmy Spithill wasted no time in making the pickups, with all three athletes fresh off a three-year campaign with America's Cup challenger American Magic, which exited the competition just over one week ago.

The U.S. team will further build out its roster in the coming weeks with the aim of benefiting the sport long-term by creating a competitive and inclusive environment.

Spithill said: "Our goal is to create a roster that is both competitive and represents the sport's future. A big part of that is changing the top-end of the sport to create opportunities for female athletes and we've already started to identify several talented women who could complete our roster. In addition to those conversations, we're excited to also announce that this week we'll launch an open process for female athletes to apply to join the team."

Details of the application process will be announced this Thursday, February 11 via the U.S. SailGP Team's Facebook and Instagram channels.

sailgp.com

The Market For IMOCAa Is Active
Although the ninth Vendee Globe is not yet finished many teams and skippers are already busy preparing for the next edition. Between new build projects and the already active second-hand market, Tip & Shaft takes stock.

The success of the 2020 Vendee Globe breaking records in terms of participation, audience and sporting intensity has an immediate knock on effect, straight away boosting the demand for boats with a view towards the tenth edition in 2024.

"Before we used to see the post-Vendee Globe year come with a bit of trepidation but no longer is that the case today," confirms Yann Dollo, deputy general manager of the CDK shipyard. "The period is clearly more active than four years ago, we already had requests for quotes before the finish and we feel that these are serious projects".

At Multiplast, Yann Penfornis agrees: "Four months ago, the prospects for 2021 frightened me a lot, today the signs are much more positive."

As for new boats, according to Antoine Mermod, president of the Imoca class, there are "three declarations for construction". These are the two Verdier designs being built for The Ocean Race, 11th Hour Racing (to be launched in July) and Switchback, whose construction at Carrington Boats was interrupted due to a lack of sponsor, but which is about to resume: "We are currently under negotiation but the boat is not yet sold. We also have the carbon female moulds available so hoping to build a sistership," comments Jason Carrington, indicating that that he also hopes to build a sistership from the same moulds.

The third build already in progress is a L'Occitane sistership, which Michel de Franssu, owner of the Black Pepper shipyard who built Armel Tripon's boat, confirmed: "We're going to put the first carbon layers in the moulds within a fortnight for a launch at the end of 2021. She is for sale and the buyer will not be able to take part in the Transat Jacques Vabre, but they will have a year to optimise and prep for The Ocean Race or the Route du Rhum. The price is between 5.5 and 6.5 million euros excluding tax, depending on the equipment."

From Tip & Shaft

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