EuroSail News #4863

In This Issue
• Peter Burling and Blair Tuke on prospect of America's Cup moving offshore
• Valencia among the venues candidate to host the 37th America's Cup
• The New Harken MKIV Ocean Furler. We Asked Cruisers What They Wanted. And We Built That.
• Highlights of the Global Sport of Sailing in the last 7 days
• Ready to tackle the beast
• Swan Sardinia Challenge
• Nimble is good - A&T Instruments
• Full crew on an IMOCA60 - Annie Lush explains
• M32 Summer Season Starts in Newport
• Gorka Rozas from Ortuella, Basque Country, Spain, 23rd entry in the GSC
• Featured Charter: TS5 - Addictive Sailing
• Featured Brokerage:
• • SY Sojana
• • Outremer 45 - New Boat
• • Gunboat 68
• The Last Word: Abbie Hoffman

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Peter Burling and Blair Tuke on prospect of America's Cup moving offshore
Peter Burling says while Team New Zealand's sailors would love to defend the America's Cup on home waters again, the "commercial realities" of the event have forced the team's leadership to look offshore for a host venue.

Team New Zealand confirmed it had concluded exclusive discussions with the New Zealand Government and Auckland Council over a second defence in the City of Sails, and would now be opening the opportunity to all bids.

The New Zealand Government offered $99m in support of the team and the event, which did not meet the expectations of Team New Zealand leadership.

"Everyone would love to compete here if we could, but obviously there are commercial realities of the event," Burling said. "You've got to feel for the people involved in the event; they've got to be able to make things work and that's what they're doing."

The decision to take the Cup offshore was not received well by local fans of the event, particularly given the sum turned down.

www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/

Valencia among the venues candidate to host the 37th America's Cup
Valencia's successful history in hosting the America's Cup (2007 and 2010, with the 2007 event arguably one of the most successful America's Cup ever), its existing, ready-for-use, tailored infrastructures made positioning Valencia's as potential host for the next event obvious.

The process of obtaining the exclusive rights to candidate Valencia as host for the next America's Cup has been carried out by Francesco de Leo and Niccolo Porzio di Camporotondo (Kaufman & Partners/H2O Riders Science & Management) and Carlos de Beltran (Real Club Nautico de Valencia). In early 2021, documentation was presented to position Valencia as a possible venue for the next event in the chance Auckland was not confirmed. The New Zealand Government and Emirates Team New Zealand (winner of the 36th America's Cup) had a 90 days negotiation period to agree on this confirmation. The group agreed it was inappropriate to raise this initiative with local, regional, and central authorities before the termination of these negotiations. These negotiations have expired today.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Spain is looking to stimulate the economic recovery by promoting its brand, Marca España, to reactivate the critical sectors as tourism (teams and families alone injected €100+ million in the economy during the 2007 edition). Furthermore, hosting the oldest trophy in sports for the third time will help accelerate this recovery, bring a top event to Spain, and make Valencia the European America's Cup hub.

Nevertheless, while the working group recognizes this opportunity, it understands the dynamics of the current financial realities. For this reason, the objective is to initially secure private funding, able to underwrite the costs of the event, and then aligning the project with the Next Generation Recovery Funds.

www.sail-world.comp

The New Harken MKIV Ocean Furler. We Asked Cruisers What They Wanted. And We Built That.
We spend a bit of time every year asking sailors and our professional rigging customers for feedback on their most (and least) favorite Harken products. Lately it's been oddly predictable: our Mark Four (MKIV) line of headsail furlers rank at or near the very top of their lists. Why? They tell us MKIV has proven to be durable, reliable and easy to use for sailors who use a furler and take it off for racing. It's also straightforward for riggers to install.

This assessment drove our decision to start with the technology of that MKIV and develop a new line of furlers for cruisers. This might not sound like a logical leap requiring quantum advances in brainpower. Hmmm. It always looks so obvious at the end.

Our new MKIV Ocean furling line is built and featured especially for cruising applications. It's smooth-rolling, to make every furl a little less physical, and bulletproof to stand and deliver for years. It's designed especially for intuitive assembly and retrofit. The Ocean furler offers Harken's most robust capability. We add the features cruising sailors have been requesting, remove things they want offloaded and offer MKIV Ocean at a less racy price.

Learn more: www.harken.com/MKIVOcean

Highlights of the Global Sport of Sailing in the last 7 days
The pandemic and sponsorship changes has had the Volvo Race reduced from "around the world", to coastal Europe this year, and back to its original format in 2022-23.

To boost the interest, the foiling Vondee Globe, Imoca 60 boats have been included to the VO65 fleet. It's interesting to see the differences in the yachts so far in this race. As it's in the med, in light winds, the VO65's are winning, but in big winds, at sea, the difference may go the other way.

In this week's show as the Ocean Race fleets get close to the finish, we have two in-depth reports on the last 36 hours.

It's good to see Bouw-e, Nico, and Simeon thrashing their V O 65's round for another circuit. They must be used to the dunking by now.

Full marks to the Ocean Race for the opening Drone footage. It shows Sailing in a spectacular way.

Ready to tackle the beast
Welcome to episode 2 of The Sailing Squad.

Some of the worlds' best youth sailors, coached by double Olympic champion Shirley Robertson, have two days to get to know each other, master their racing boat, discover a new - and very challenging - playground.

With many surprises along their way. And under the eye of our cameras…

Swan Sardinia Challenge
Preparations are under way to welcome 35 Swan one-design yachts to the season's second major regatta in the splendid surroundings of Porto Cervo. The Swan Sardinia Challenge will see entries in all four Swan one-design classes take to the water for more closely competitive racing from 22-26 June.

This event marks the real launch of racing for the full spectrum of current Swan one designs – an event that is exciting as much interest with race fans as it is with the crews themselves. Organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the event is taking place under strictly defined Covid standards to ensure the safety of crews, owners and staff.

Leading the fleet is the ClubSwan 50, which will field 13 boats in Sardinia. Five Swan 45s will start, including last year's world champion, Lennard van Overen's Motions. He will be battling it out with the 2019 world champion and podium finisher at the recent ORC Europeans, Klaus Diederichs in Fever.

An impressive fleet of six ClubSwan 42s has registered to race in Porto Cervo. Among the notable entries is the Romanian owner-helmsperson Natalia Brailoiu, who is one of the growing number of female owners on the Swan one-design circuit.

The fleet of foil-assisted CS36s is joined by an enterprising German charter entry, YCCS Commodore Michael Illbruck in Pinta. It brings the class to 11 yachts and, with every CS36 in the Tuscany races achieving at least one podium finish, all the boats are in with a chance. Andrea Lacorte's Vitamina and Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's G-Spot will continue their tussle for top spot.

Besides striving for individual glory in the Swan 45, ClubSwan 36, 42 and 50 classes, owners and their teams will have an eye on the overall rankings for The Nations League

nautorswan.com

Nimble is good - A&T Instruments
Many sectors in the marine industry fall prey to corporate consolidation, where ownership is more interested in volume sales than excellence and a relentless pursuit of innovation. A+T Instruments bucks this trend by being dynamic and privately owned and thus completely connected to the challenges and desires its customers face when either fitting or refitting their electronics. With decades of experience in the hardware and software of marine instruments, founders Richard Tinley and Hugh Agnew have grown A+T rapidly to become formidable players in the instrument market with a very simple vision: create the best performing and toughest instruments ever made for large yachts, raceboats and classics.

Acceptance of this vision has been rapid – an example is the popularity of the new A+T Big Format Display (BFD) that is the largest in the market. It's also the toughest: unlike earlier generations of these units in the marketplace, A+T made a good idea better by thoroughly improving on the design so that it could operate not only in the splash zone but be fully immersed and handle temperatures that would kill other large colour displays. This is not just a laboratory claim: every BFD shipped is tested for 24 hours under one metre of water and has to survive being in an oven at 70°C. One production A+T BFD unit has been kept underwater since METS 2019, with trouble-free continuous operation ever since!

Full article in the July issue of Seahorse

Full crew on an IMOCA60 - Annie Lush explains
Since the IMOCA60s were announced as being one of the two classes for the Ocean Race in 2022 there has been plenty of speculation about how a breed of boats designed to be sailed single handed would work when sailed by a full crew. How much harder could they be pressed, how much faster would they go and would these notoriously fragile machines be able to stand up to a new level of intensity?

The Ocean Race Europe not only delivered some of the answers, but sparked a new round of debate when an older, non-foiling boat, Offshore Team Germany led the new foiling machines around the course. Annie Lush was one of the crew and her views are especially interesting given her background. She is an experienced Olympic sailor as well as having twice raced around the world on a fully crewed VO65. She explains how she sees the differences between the two worlds and how many of the top sailors are only just starting to get to grips with a new style of offshore sailing.

It's new territory for all.

www.planetsail.org

M32 Summer Season Starts in Newport
This summer the M32 fleet is coming together in Newport for a packed schedule throughout the summer. The Midtown Cup consists of four events about a month apart starting this weekend. The last event in September also counts as the M32 Class North American Championship. In addition mane teams will race for the M32 coastal Cup, a series of distance races introduced which will include already established and popular distance races in the area such as Around Martha's Vineyard Race, Sail for Pride and the newly introduced Surf Club Cup.

Full schedule at m32world.com/calendar/

Gorka Rozas from Ortuella, Basque Country, Spain, 23rd entry in the GSC
Gorka Rozas from Ortuella in the Basque Country, Spain, is the 23rd entry in the Global Solo Challenge. He sails a Northwind 40, an emblematic boat in Spanish yachting, produced by the Angus Pimrose shipyard. The same boat that had two of the people who taught him everything he knows, Unai Basurko and José Luis de Ugarte.

Tell us about your boat or the boat you would like to have.
The Northwind 40 is an emblematic model of Spanish yachting, it left the Angus Pimrose shipyard in the year 74, the ninth of the first 12 built.

Designed for the Admirals Cup and winner of the Fasnet with Bruce Banks in its category.

Do you intend to link this personal challenge with a social message?.
We plan to involve schools in the Basque Country to follow the event in the classrooms and thus learn a sense of responsibility towards the oceans from a young age.

globalsolochallenge.com/gorka-rozas-spain/

Featured Charter
TS5 - Addictive Sailing

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UK and France 2021
Caribbean - Spring 2022

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Call: +44 2392 161272
Email:
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Featured Brokerage
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115' (35m) Sojana is now for sale and offered in exceptional condition for the 2021 sailing season. Maintained fastidiously this Farr designed performance carbon ketch has excellent accommodation for 6-8 guests. If you have a passion for sailing this yacht offers you a perfect blend of exhilarating cruising, fast ocean passage making and regatta winning pedigree

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Outremer 45 - New Boat. POA EUR.

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