EuroSail News #4826 - 28 April
In This Issue
• Dutch treat at RS:X World Championships
• Global Solo Challenge - two possible new groups including Open 50s
• Nemesis™
• The Merry Month of May
• Cowes to Stage Uffa Fox 2022 Regatta
• Never knowingly overtaken - Outremer
• Online Exhibition Reveals Unique Currach Building Video & Archive
• President's Cup
• Industry News
• Featured Charter: SW105 Wolfhound
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Germania V - Abeking & Rasmussen Yawl
• • Pilot Classic 55
• • Outremer 45 - New Boat
• The Last Word: Thomas Jefferson
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Dutch treat at RS:X World Championships
Netherlands swept the 2021 RS:X World Championships as Kiran Badloe and Lilian De Geus took the titles during the five day event on April 23-27 in Cadiz, Spain. With 42 male and 28 female competitors, day one brought gusts of 44+ knots that ultimately cancelled racing but the rest of the event carried on amid upper end conditions. The top North American were Pedro Pascual Suitt (USA) in 23rd and Farrah Hall (USA) in 17th.
Top ten, men
1. Kiran Badloe, NED, 22
2. Mattia Camboni, ITA, 46
3. Vyron Kokkalanis, GRE, 56
4. Piotr Myszka, POL, 60
5. Yoav Cohen, ISR, 61
6. Tom Reuveny, ISR, 68
7. Pierre Le Coq, FRA, 72
8. Tom Squires, GBR, 85
9. Thomas Goyard, FRA, 90
10. Yoav Omer, ISR, 98
Top ten, women
1. Lilian De Geus, NED, 29
2. Katy Spychakov, ISR, 36
3. Charline Picon, FRA, 36
4. Emma Wilson, GBR, 45
5. Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, POL, 46
6. Marta Maggetti, ITA, 55
7. Maja Dziarnowska Dziarnowska, POL, 76
8. Patricia Freitas, BRA, 80
9. Laerke Buhl-Hansen, DEN, 81
10. Giorgia Speciale, ITA, 86
Global Solo Challenge - two possible new groups including Open 50s
As the list of enquiries received about the Global Solo Challenge 2023 tops 220 sailors (of which more than 150 already own a boat) organisers need to ensure the event remains fair, even in light of a potentially diverse fleet at the start.
17 skipper have already confirmed their entries. At the lower and slower end of the scale, we have now received 10 enquiries from 32 footers, the minimum length allowed by the Notice of Event.
At the upper end of the scale, 4 Open 50s of the former IMOCA 50 Class have made provisional enquiries. These boats are within the maximum allowed length by the Event of 55ft, however, their expected performance and circumnavigation time is out of the scale currently envisaged by the entry criteria.
The Global Solo Challenge, with its unique format of staggered starts, is set to be a sailing re-enactment of the tale of the tortoise and the hare. Slow boats depart first chased by the faster boats which set off later. Once at sea there are no classes and the first boat home wins.
The expected circumnavigation time for each boat determines the departure group. This requires complex simulations and comparisons with available reference times to keep the event fair.
There are only a handful of events that today accept an Open 50 as an entry. Examples are the Rhum Class of the Route du Rhum or the OSTAR. There aren't any around the world events open to these boats.
It is in keep with the spirit of the Global Solo Challenge to offer a departure for these boats, even more so if there are no other similar events they can attend.
Several simulations confirm that an up to date Open 50, with canting keel, weather routeing and modern sails allowed, should expect to complete the circumnavigation in about 115-120 days from La Coruña.
To keep the event fair these boats should set off approximately 3 weeks after an average first/second generation Class40 such as that sailed by Guo Chuan in 2013 (Akilaria RC2) when setting a reference time of 137 for a solo non stop circumnavigation on a 40ft boat. The course from La Coruña is slightly longer than that sailed by Guo Chuan and would therefore add a few days to the expected circumnavigation time for a similar boat.
Nemesis™
This new generation of intelligent sailing display offers unparalleled visibility, with complete customisation or easy to use multi-function templates and automatic dashboards based on your angle of sail. Nemesis Displays allow you to define what data you see, when and how you see it, no matter what conditions, providing an intuitive link between your trusted instrument network and the real world. This all in one customisable display can be mounted in either Landscape or in Portrait and is designed for use on the mast or in the cockpit to display all the sailing data you need, as you need it.
Choose from a wide choice of pre set dashboards or use the simple drag & drop editor for complete customisation. Nemesis offers a wide choice of graphical gauges such as Sailsteer™, WindPlots, key digital speed, depth, angle data, tank levels, IP Camera, Views, histograms and much more.
The Merry Month of May
RORC Two-Handed Offshore Race and Spring Series Race 3
After a year and a half of disruptions to offshore racing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Royal Ocean Racing Club is delighted to confirm an overnight race for Two-Handed teams starting on May 1st.
The combined entry list for May 1st has a fleet of 48 yachts, including all the top Two-Handed boats from the inshore RORC Spring Series. The three-race series came to a dramatic conclusion on April 17th. James Harayda racing Sun Fast 3300 Gentoo with Dee Caffari, was just one second ahead of Kelvin Rawlings, racing Sun Fast 3300 Aries with Stuart Childerley. The result in the last race gave Gentoo victory in the series by a single point from Aries. Rob Craigie's Sun Fast 3600 Bellino racing with Deb Fish was third.
For crewed entries, the RORC Spring Series will come to a conclusion this weekend. Two teams are tied for first place going into the deciding race. Ed Bell's JPK 1180 Dawn Treader and RORC Commodore James Neville, racing HH42 Ino XXX, have equal points. Michael O'Donnell's J/121 Darkwood is just two points behind the leaders, whilst Rob Bottomley's MAT 12 Sailplane 3 is five points off pole-position.
The RORC fleet are scheduled to start racing from the Squadron Line Cowes from 10:00 BST on Saturday 1st May. For online entry and more information: www.rorc.org
Dee Caffari shares her thoughts about the takeaways from the RORC Spring Series and the return to offshore action. -- Louay Habib
Cowes to Stage Uffa Fox 2022 Regatta
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Uffa Fox, one of the most highly regarded naval architects and enthusiast of all aspects of sailing, the Royal London Yacht Club, together with the Cowes Classic Boat Museum, and supported by the Atalanta Owners Association and the Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club, are holding a series of exciting events in Cowes from 18th-21st August 2022.
To celebrate the life of a man so ahead of his time, a regatta will be held for all the Uffa crafts – a once in a lifetime opportunity for owners of Uffa designed boats.
The Classic Boat Museum will be organising a series of events including seminars and an exhibition of Uffa's various dinghies.
The Uffa Fox celebrations will be followed by the Flying Fifteen European championships organised by the Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club from the 20th to 26th August 2022.
It is appropriate that the Royal London Yacht Club should be chosen to organise the sailing as Uffa was a stalwart of the RLYC and, as Chairman of the Sailing Committee, was instrumental in the resurgence of sailing after the Second World War.
Racing will be for 100% Uffa Fox designed dinghies, keelboats and classic boats, with some classes' racing areas along the shore to attract spectators.
Along with various off-the-water tours and activities, evening social events have also been planned for participants, their families and Uffa enthusiasts.
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Never knowingly overtaken - Outremer
The new VPLP-designed Outremer 55 is not going to be an easy boat to stay in front of
A brand new model from Outremer is a major event in the multihull world due to the French ocean cruising cat brand's well-earned reputation for all-round excellence. And it's been a very long time since the last one. An elongated, performance-optimised version of the stalwart Outremer 45 was launched five years ago as the 4X, and promptly won a clutch of awards, but the Outremer 55 is the first totally new boat added to the range in almost 10 years. Hull number one was launched and seatrialed in the Mediterranean shortly before Christmas and first impressions quite strongly suggest that once again, they've nailed it.
Full article in the May issue of Seahorse
Online Exhibition Reveals Unique Currach Building Video & Archive
The currach, with its primitive design of wooden frame and waterproof skin, is the best known of all the Irish boats. By the mid-twentieth century this once common boat was noticeably disappearing from our shores, and rarer still were the currach builders who held a knowledge passed down from generation to generation. In 1968, the National Museum of Ireland recognised the threat to the traditional currach and given the Museum's role in preserving heritage objects for the benefit of the Irish people, began the process of having one commissioned for the national collection.
When asked by the then Director of the National Museum of Ireland, Dr AT Lucas, the renowned Irish folklorist Ciaráin Bairéad identified Michael Conneely for the job - a carpenter and farmer who learned the craft from his own father, who was mostly self-taught. Michael Conneely was best known locally as Mikey, but he was also known as Mac Johnny Tom Andie (son of Johnny Tom Andie), Mikey an t-siúinéira (Mikey of the carpenter, as his father was a carpenter) and he signed his name Michael Conneely (John). He made currachs for people on the other two Aran Islands as well as the mainland and had the craft well-honed.
The finished 19 and a half feet, three-man currach complete with mast and sail, over two hundred photographs and video footage documenting the build, along with details logged in the NMI team's notes and correspondence, have left us with a significant and complete record of the vanishing skill of traditional Irish currach building.
The unique footage, following Michael Conneely carefully and craftfully through the step-by-step building process, is now available to view on the National Museum of Ireland's website for the first time in an online exhibition called Making a currach - Michael Conneely.
President's Cup
Upcoming sailors from the British Keelboat Academy were able to put their lockdown learning into practise on the water competing in the President's Cup at Queen Mary SC.
The inter-club one day fleet racing event is run by the Royal Thames YC for teams under the age of 37 and this is the second year that the British Keelboat Academy has taken part.
Having been unable to get afloat over winter, the event in J/80-s on Saturday 17th April 2021 provided an ideal opportunity for some of the BKA's sailors to kick start their season, with coaching support from professional sailor Mary Rook.
With a shifty medium light breeze on Queen Mary Reservoir, claiming first overall was the Royal Thames YC team of Scott Wallis, Emma Baker, Matthew Wallis and Tarra Gill-Taylor, counting an impressive four bullets and a second from the six-race series.
The full results can be found here
Industry News
Three years ago, the sailcloth manufacturer Dimension-Polyant, founded in 1966 on the Lower Rhine, began to renew its external image, initially focusing on its roots in sailing. The associated advertising campaign emphasised the company's innovation and market leadership in sailcloth. DP is taking its 55th birthday as an occasion to introduce a new logo and set its sights on new markets. In the future, the company will also fly the flag outside of sailing, in the field of technical textiles. Graduate engineer and managing director Uwe Stein explains: "A sailcloth is a highly complex technical fabric that can also be used for applications outside sailing. Our many years of research and the development of the best and most durable sailcloth have led to the fact that on the one hand we can respond very individually to customer needs and develop almost customised solutions with the customers. On the other hand, we can offer our high-tech sailcloth for use in other industries, such as the outdoor industry or even the healthcare." In order to grow in these markets, a new corporate logo and brand architecture will be introduced on 30 April 2021.
The new corporate logo was designed by the "nesseins design studio" in cooperation with "Hoeppner Sport- und Markenkommunikation". It shows the complexity of the products and only refers in a very abstract way to the origin in sailing. The distinctive corporate colours blue and green are retained and stand for the two corporate divisions "Sailing" and "Technical" as well as for clean products and responsibility towards the environment. On the website there is an superodinate division, which is divided into Sailing and Technical on the second level. "This division reflects our new self-image as a provider of innovative solutions," Stein summarises.
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With the easing of lockdown on 12th April, the RYA Training Centre at Hamble River Sailing Club was able to offer RYA courses for children over the Easter holiday period. To be covid compliant, groups of six were the order of the day and all theory had to be undertaken outside as well as the practical work afloat. Colour coded bibs and helmets helped to keep the Level 1 & 2 students in the right place at the right time.
Chief Instructor Harry Ives and his team of Instructors had good experience of running courses with these numbers and restrictions from last summer's successful programme. Harry has been with the Training Centre for seven years now, as a DI and an SI. After two years as second in command he stepped up to CI this spring, making the transition as seamless as possible.
The Centre, now in its 16th year, runs a range of RYA courses. This Easter saw 20 students on Stage 1&2 courses. Another 10 took Stage 3 and there were 6 on the Spinnaker Course and 15 on an Improvers Course. Courses for the May holiday, 31st May to 4th June, are already selling out. RYA Stage 1&2 and RYA Stage 4 are completely full. There are some spaces left on the RYA Stage 3 and the Improver Course so anyone wishing to join in should go now to: hrsc.org.uk/booking/type/rya-training
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After 45 years of dedicated yacht maintenance, Hamble Yacht Services Refit and Repair (HYSRR) has merged with the Ancasta Group's commissioning and aftersales team, to create Ancasta Yacht Services (AYS), an all-encompassing yacht repair, service and support business.
Expanding upon Ancasta's comprehensive aftersales, commissioning and spare parts services, the merging of HYSRR's skilled refit and repair workforce with Ancasta's proficient operations team makes it even easier for owners to manage and care for their boats.
Ancasta now has the ability to seamlessly support new and existing clients throughout the lifecycle of their boat ownership. Not only can a boat be purchased and sold under the Ancasta brand, but it can now also be maintained, repaired and upgraded via Ancasta Yacht Services.
Ancasta Yacht Services will operate from its extensive facilities located at Port Hamble, which include under cover workshops accommodating yachts up to 26 metres, a fully equipped engineering workshop, wood shop, laminating shop as well as a large joinery shop. Onsite boatyard facilities provide two travels hoists lifting up to 80 tonnes in weight and 33.5m in length, dry boat storage, a large mast crane, expert riggers and marina berthing on-site.
Ancasta Yacht Service's Hamble workshop can accommodate major refit and repair works for local vessels and any boats able to travel. Mobile teams are also available to carry out smaller jobs at marinas between Chichester and Lymington.
Ancasta's worldwide aftersales warranty and servicing will continue for leading yacht manufacturers including Beneteau, Lagoon, CNB, McConaghy, Bluegame and Prestige Motor Yachts.
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The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee (BROC) has named Cruising World and Sailing World as Official Media Sponsors for the 2022 edition of the Newport Bermuda Race.
The magazines will design and produce the official Bermuda Race program, publicize the race through their print and digital channels, and support sponsorship sales efforts. Together, Cruising World and Sailing World reach the largest audience of passionate sailors in the world–over a million a month-through their magazines, websites, e-newsletters and social media channels.
First run in 1906, the Newport Bermuda Race is co-organized by the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. It is managed by the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee, a joint working group.
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Scania (Great Britain) has appointed James Armstrong as its new MD.
James succeeds Martin Hay who leaves the business at the end of June.
James is currently MD of Scania Central Europe Region overseeing operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and was formerly MD for Scania in South East Asia, and services director for Scania (Great Britain) Ltd.
James will officially take up his new post on July 1 2021.
Featured Charter
SW105 Wolfhound. 75000 p/w plus expenses and applicable taxes EUR. Located in France.
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Featured Brokerage
1955 GERMANIA V - Abeking & Rasmussen Yawl. Located in Spain
The name GERMANIA stands out among the most famous of German sailing yachts – part of the fame deriving from the importance of their owners; the Krupp family. GERMANIA V is a wonderful by-product of her era – a yawl designed for ocean racing but with ample accommodation for cruising.
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Sandeman Yacht Company
22 Market Street
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BH15 1NF
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PILOT CLASSIC 55. 895,000 EUR.
Yachting World in their November 2017 test report of the PC 55 said ‘She sails well and looks even better’ and ‘the combination of a classic-inspired and a lightweight shell with modern appendages looks quite irresistible’.
With 2 hulls completed they have proven to be wonderful cruising yachts with great performance, easily handled by a couple but able to accommodate 6 in comfort
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Mark Speirs
+44 7818 119 656
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Outremer 45 - New Boat. POA EUR.
The Outremer shipyard took up the challenge to create a new Outremer 45 that would meet and surpass the success of its earlier version. The new design won the challenge!
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