In This Issue
• Rolex Giraglia line honours for 100ft maxi Arca SGR
• Offshore Team Germany hold their nerve to claim leg three IMOCA class victory in Genova
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Argo demolishes Bermuda-Plymouth record
• For The Record
• O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup
• RNZYS Grant Dalton Members Meeting
• The Shrinking Southern Ocean
• Melges World League - Argentario Rally
• Anthony Walker, GBR 48
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 70-002 Caveo
• • Blue Note - JPK 1080
• • Kinetic Catamarans - KC54
• The Last Word: Andy Weir

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Rolex Giraglia line honours for 100ft maxi Arca SGR
Since setting off from Sanremo, Italy at midday yesterday, a tough contest for maxi yacht line honours has been playing out in the Rolex Giraglia, the fourth event of the International Maxi Association's Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge.

Overnight, as crews clawed their way towards the Giraglia rock, the entire fleet was subject to a massive meteorological game of snakes and ladders with the wind fading to the west of northern Corsica.

The passage across to the Giraglia Rock was difficult with a shift from the northeast to east southeast initially failing to materialise. Instead the wind dropped allowing Magic Carpet Cubed to eat into the Trieste-based maxi's lead. Finally the expected shift arrived 25 miles short of the Rock which they eventually rounded at 0700 this morning, 15 minutes ahead of Magic Carpet Cubed. Bearing away around the Giraglia, Arca SGR saw the wind veer further to the southeast and building to 20-25 knots enabling the former 2003 Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours winner to reach speeds of 20-22 knots.

Extending her lead to eight or nine miles, Arca SGR's high speeds dwindled around 20 miles short of the Genoa finish line, when she put in a final hitch west to cover Magic Carpet Cubed. After the usual slow final miles to reach the Genoa finish line, Arco SGR arrived at 14:08:10 CEST, followed by Magic Carpet Cubed at 14:23:55. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association

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Offshore Team Germany hold their nerve to claim leg three IMOCA class victory in Genova
Offshore Team Germany - the non-foiling IMOCA 60 skippered by German Olympian Robert Stanjek - has pulled off a spectacular victory in the third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe.

After almost four days of racing since leaving Alicante, Spain on Sunday afternoon the German team arrived in Genova, Italy at 0936 UTC / 1136 CEST locally today, having taken full advantage of their yacht's superior light wind performance compared to the four other foil-equipped entries.

Stanjek and his crew - navigator Benjamin Dutreux (FRA), Annie Lush (GBR), Phillip Kasüske (GER), and onboard reporter Felix Diemer (GER) - made an early split away from the rest of the fleet when they headed north soon after leaving Alicante.

At the same time, the four foiling IMOCAs - Charlie Enright's 11th Hour Racing Team (USA), Louis Burton's Bureau Vallée (FRA), Nicolas Troussel's CORUM L'Épargne (FRA), and Thomas Ruyant's LinkedOut (FRA) -elected to stay closely grouped on a more south-easterly route over the first 48 hours.

Despite some slowdowns in the light and patchy winds around the Balearic Islands, Offshore Team Germany were mostly able to make steady progress along the 600-nautical mile (nm) / 1100-kilometre (km) course and at one point had opened up a close to 100nm/185km lead over the chasing pack.

The points awarded to the top three IMOCA finishers in this leg mean that each of Germany, LinkedOut and 11th Hour Racing Team will have an opportunity to win The Ocean Race Europe with the right result in the Coastal Race on Saturday.

Two boats remain racing and with significant separation between the pair, Bureau Vallée projects to finish in fourth place, with CORUM L'Epargne on track for fifth.

Real time positions and results can be found via the homepage at www.theoceanrace.com

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

Very fine
After stepping off the foredeck of his Volvo racer Jason Carrington soon established himself as one of the world's finest builders of high-tech racing yachts. James Boyd paid him a visit

Irresistible wins
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The heart of the matter
But where do we start, is the question often heard when a new sustainability initiative is discussed..

Not all sails are created equal
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Argo demolishes Bermuda-Plymouth record
In her first outing since the beginning of the pandemic, Jason Carroll's MOD70 trimaran Argo last week blew away the existing record for the passage between Bermuda and Plymouth, UK.

The previous record for this 2870 mile course eastbound across the North Atlantic was set in May 2016 by American Lloyd Thornburg's sistership, Phaedo 3 with a time of 5 days 11 hours 57 mintes. Argo's 4 days 19 hours and 30 minutes (measured, but still subject to ratification by the World Sailing Speed Record Council) was 16 hours 37 minutes or 14.4% faster. Her average speed for the direct course was 24.85 knots. In fact including several gybes, Argo sailed 3,347 miles through the water at an average speed just under 29 knots, making it one of the highest speed passage records ever set by a MOD70.

This was a rare occasion when owner Jason Carroll was not on board as he has newly become a father. Five years earlier Thompson had also skippered Phaedo. On this test attempt he was joined by Argo's Project Manager and crewman Chad Corning, Athens Tornado silver medallist Charlie Ogletree, British America's Cup sailors Pete Cumming and Alister Richardson and American Westy Barlow (part of Carroll's two time Melges 32 World Championship winning Argo crew).

This was a rare occasion when owner Jason Carroll was not on board as he has newly become a father. Five years earlier Thompson had also skippered Phaedo. On this test attempt he was joined by Argo's Project Manager and crewman Chad Corning, Athens Tornado silver medallist Charlie Ogletree, British America's Cup sailors Pete Cumming and Alister Richardson and American Westy Barlow (part of Carroll's two time Melges 32 World Championship winning Argo crew). -- James Boyd

For The Record
The WSSR Council announces the establishment of a new World Record:

Record: Bermuda to Plymouth
Yacht: Argo. MOD70
Name: Brian Thompson. GBR and a crew of 5.
Dates:.4th to the 9th |June 2021.
Start time: 21;53;50 UTC on the 4/06/21
Finish time: 17;23;14 UTC on the 9/06/21
Elapsed time: 4 days 19 hours 29 minutes and 24 seconds
Course length: 2870 NM
Average speed: 24.85 kts
Comments: Previous Record: Phaedo 3. Lloyd Thornburg USA.May 16. 5d 11h 57m 17s

John Reed
Secretary to the WSSR Council
sailspeedrecords.com

O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup
A fleet of 62 boats including some of the highest profile yachts in Ireland will be in action at Kinsale next week as the biennial O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup gets underway (Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th June 2021).

Denis and Annamarie Murphy's Nieulargo from the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven was the first entry received for the regatta and coincidentally won last weekend's 280-nautical mile Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race (D2D). Kinsale's own Conor Doyle on Freya, line honours winner into Kerry is also entered and both will compete in the Coastal division of next week's event.

Class One counts no fewer than ten J109's that will add an extra competitive edge to the biennial regatta with crews keen to get their season off to a good start.

Last weekend's D2D Race, the first competition of the year in Ireland has provided a particularly strong entry for the Coastal class at O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup, with many East coast boats now in southern waters and is a sign of continued resurgent interest in racing offshore.

Ashore, the clubhouse dinghy park will be used for outdoor hospitality with social distancing measures in place along with limits on attendance.

sovereignscup.com

RNZYS Grant Dalton Members Meeting
June 15.21 a meeting was held in the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron with Grant Dalton of ETNZ and the members of the club to discuss the funding and general details concerning the 37th defence of the Americas' Cup.

The Shrinking Southern Ocean
Anyone who thought the world had four oceans will now have to think again, after the National Geographic Society announced it would recognize a new Southern Ocean in Antarctica, bringing the global total to five.

The National Geographic, a non-profit scientific and educational organization whose mapping standards are referenced by many atlases and cartographers, said the Southern Ocean consists of the waters surrounding Antarctica, out to 60-degrees south latitude.

The US Board of Geographic Names, a federal body created in 1890 to establish and maintain "uniform geographic name usage" through the federal government, already recognizes the Southern ocean as occupying the same territory, but this is the first time the National Geographic has done so.

Attempts to ratify the boundaries and name of the Southern Ocean internationally have been thwarted.

For people like me who grew up reading stories of heroic adventures into the Southern Ocean, the definition of "more than 60 degrees south" is a little strange. Most of us would know the famous account of Miles and Beryl Smeeton's astounding trip starting in the Yarra River during the Melbourne Olympics and ending up with TZU HANG pitch poling west of Cape Horn not once but twice. Now we find out that they never actually sailed in the Southern Ocean.

The last two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race didn't go there. Knox-Johnston and SUHALI never made it. Neither did Moitessier and JOSHUA …. How disappointing! -- Mark Chew

southernwoodenboatsailing.com

Melges World League - Argentario Rally
Engines are warming up in Cala Galera for the Melges Argentario Rally, the second act of the international Melges World League circuit: the first ones to get to the water are the crews of the Melges 32 fleet, which today completed the first three regattas of the series with a well spread sea breeze blowing up to 12 knots, with excellent water management thanks to the joint organization of Melges Europe and the Circolo Nautico and Vela Argentario.

The team of former World Champions on Tavatuy set the pace of the races in the first day, leaving behind Wilma by Fritz Homann (4-2-1) and Pippa by Lasse Petterson (3-4-4) .

Tomorrow the action will get even more alive, with the start of the regattas also for a large Melges 20 fleet: to go into the water, for the first time in the 2021 season, there will be among the others the reigning World Champions onboard Brontolo by Filippo Pacinotti, the already European Champions of Russian Bogatyrs and the winners of the first stage of the Melges World League 2021 on Dario Levi's Fremito D'Arja and the already Corinthian European champions of Siderval, debuting in Cala Galera with the new name of Neodent.

Saturday will then be the real focal day of the event, when all the fleets involved in the Melges World League (Melges 14, Melges 20 and Melges 32) will get to the water at the same time, for a total of over forty boats representing eleven nations.

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Anthony Walker, GBR 48
Some very sad news from the Mengeham Rythe Finn Fleet - Anthony Walker passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 11th June, he was 72. Knowing he would want his son Matt and the rest of the Mengeham Finns to carry on sailing, the fleet fielded 13 boats to race the following Sunday to celebrate his life and honour Anthony's outstanding support of Chichester Harbour Finns.

Anthony started his Finn sailing in 1967/68 with a black and yellow Pearson, K-211. In the early 70's he started building Finns under the watchful eye of David Howlett, as did his elder brother - a very quick one later sailed by the late Glyn Charles.

Much of Anthony's early sailing was in the harbour which enabled the sailors to mix sailing and parties with ease, especially in the days when the Finn was raced in the Harbour 12 ft Week and Federation Week. He competed internationally, travelling to Hyéres regatta in 1971 with David Howlett and Alastair Currey and was a frequent competitor at the French Nationals, probably something to do with the good food and wine! He had a break from Finns whilst raising his family and sailed a Wayfarer to introduce Matthew to sailing.

Anthony came back to Finn racing in 2002 and introduced Matthew into them with the incentive of £25 for every time Matthew beat him. The accumulated debt is still outstanding!

Anthony was incredibly generous with the time and effort he gave to younger Finn sailors who needed kit, borrow a trailer or a bed for the night. A great benefactor of local sailing events through his company Bentley Walker - frequently sponsoring Federation Week and many open meetings on Hayling Island.

As Peter Barr has written "A lovely man and a great character and stalwart of the Finn class over many years. I know he will be well remembered." -- Graeme MacDonald.

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