In This Issue
• Mistral Arrives At The Swan Sardinia Challenge
• Close racing the order of the day at landmark Superyacht Cup Palma
• North Sails Performance
• Changes in the air and leaderboards
• Landsail Tyres J-Cup
• Ready to tackle the beast
• Irresistible wins - Pure Grenada
• "Big Ack" Is Back!
• Industry News
• Featured Brokerage:
• • NEEL 51 - Trimaran
• • J/133 - Jings
• • GOMETRA Alfred Mylne Bermudan Sloop
• The Last Word: John Lennon

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Mistral Arrives At The Swan Sardinia Challenge
Both the weather forecast and the racing schedule were right on time for the second day of racing at the Swan Sardinia Challenge, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda together with Nautor's Swan and ClubSwan Racing. Currently in the lead of this event's various Classes we see ClubSwan 50 Sparti; G-Spot and Vitamina are tied in the ClubSwan 36 Class; Koyré-Spirit of Nerina is in the lead of the ClubSwan 42s and Ulika is leading the Swan 45 Class.

Punctually at 12:00 CEST the Race Committee, headed by Principal Race Officer Arianne Mainemare, began starting procedures for the first of the day's three scheduled windward/leeward races. Thanks to a Mistral breeze at 12 knots that gradually built to 20 over the course of the day, conditions were perfect.

In the ClubSwan 50 Class the Russian team aboard Dmitri Rybolovlev's Sparti, with the Spanish gold medalist Fernando Echavarri as tactician, currently has a two-point lead over the second placed team, Marcus Brennecke's Hatari, who placed 4-2-1 in today's races. Leonardo Ferragamo's Cuordileone, after having placed first in the day's first race managed to bounce back from an over early, recovering positions to finish third in the second race. Earlybird, yesterday's winner, had to withdraw after breaking her bowsprit in a small collision with another boat.

The ClubSwan 36 Class seems to be gelling around a couple of teams: Andrea Lacorte's Vitamina and G-Spot, owned by Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio are tied for points in first place and both won a race each today.

In the Swan 45 Class two first places and a fourth have put Stefano Masi's Ulika, with tactician Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti, in the lead ahead of Lennard van Oeveren's Motions and Klaus Diederichs' Fever.

Racing is scheduled to begin Friday at 12:00 CEST in Mistral conditions similar to today's: between 14 and 20 knots.

www.yccs.it

Close racing the order of the day at landmark Superyacht Cup Palma
The frustrations of a challenging year were blown away Thursday as a solid sailing breeze kicked in to help celebrate the opening day of the 25th anniversary of Superyacht Cup Palma.

Near ideal conditions once again graced the Bay of Palma, delivering tight and exhilarating racing on a 23nm course to the nine-strong fleet of superyachts, their owners, captains and crews.

Umiko - at 24m the smallest superyacht in the fleet - was the first away on the Pantaenius Race Day course, followed by her Class A rivals Missy, Shamanna and Nilaya at two minute intervals.

In Class B the first two starters chose alternate routes to the first mark, with the majestic 46m Aquarius - the largest and heaviest yacht at SYC - opting to head west on her first leg, while Baiurdo VI headed for the left side of the racecourse having made a perfectly timed start. The SYC first-timer Ravenger was next up, hotly pursued by the 46m Ganesha, and Scorpione of London and her lime green shirted crew.

Missy was first around the first mark, the Pantaenius buoy, with Umiko and Shamanna jostling for position some 800m astern, and off towards the New Zealand buoy, the second of five marks. Eventually the 33m Missy would give ground on the water to her slightly larger rivals Shamanna and Nilaya, with the former narrowly taking line honours by less than 30 seconds on the opening day.

However, the sophisticated ORCsy handicap system flipped the leaderboard, giving Nilaya the opening race win by just 10 seconds - after more than two hours of racing - from Missy, Shamanna and Umiko.

Racing at Superyacht Cup Palma continues on Friday with New Zealand Race Day, named after SYC's long-standing Destination Partner.

For results, please go to: thesuperyachtcup.com

North Sails Performance
North Sails have launched their foul weather gear with a clear intention to disrupt the performance gear market. Go back sixty years and even Lowell North - the pioneering aerospace engineer who founded North Sails in 1957 - could not have foreseen the incredible progress, the sophistication of North Sails that now dominates the world's racing and cruising fleets.

This same rigorously innovative approach has now been applied to foul weather gear. Starting from scratch, albeit with a considerable depth of industry knowledge, has allowed unconstrained thinking that has resulted in the best possible combination of new materials and garment design.

Nigel Musto worked with North's talented team tasked with the sole the aim of creating the world's best marine clothing bar none. The result is four ranges of technically advanced clothing that are lightweight, hardwearing and offer unrivalled performance.

The GORE-TEX® Pro Ocean line offers the most breathable, waterproof and durable smocks and salopettes. Those who compete in the classic 600-mile offshore races or cruise serious distances will be well served by the GORE-TEX® Pro Offshore range.

Choices widen further in the GORE-TEX® Pro Inshore line, which includes smocks, a jacket and an innovative hybrid product that combines the best attributes of both, including a full front zip and an effective neck seal.

The GP Aero line prioritises stretch and lightweight for inshore high-performance racing. For this range the design team incorporated lessons learned from cycling and other high intensity sports.

Visit www.northsails.com/Performance now to view the full range.

Changes in the air and leaderboards
More lights breezes and sunshine saw changes across most leaderboards at the O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup at Kinsale leaving the outcome of the regatta in the balance at the halfway stage.

A second place and then a race win for Mike and Ritchie Evans' Snapshot bounced the Howth Yacht Club crew back into the lead of Division 1 under IRC. The J99 crew had an opening race win penalised on Wednesday and followed with an eighth place but their form is now being rewarded with a healthy points margin in the 14 strong class.

Conor Phelan's Jump Juice from the Royal Cork YC has taken over the lead in the largest fleet of the event thanks to a race win on the second day coming after a second place on Wednesday. The result displaces Bob Rendell's Samatom from Howth YC as class leader.

The Coastal course enjoyed a scenic tour de force beneath the cliffs of the Old Head Golf Links and close to the lighthouse to dodge the worst effects of the flooding tide. After rounding the Black Tom buoy in Courtmacsherry Bay, the course led back to the famous Sovereigns Rocks that gives the event its name.

Also enjoying a scenic coastal route, albeit of a shorter distance and close to Kinsale Harbour were the two White Sails fleets that have 19 boats between them.

Friday's forecast is for cooler and fresher conditions including more wind from the north and the prospect of further 'champagne sailing' conditions for the remainder of the event that concludes on Saturday.

sovereignscup.com

Landsail Tyres J-Cup
Racing at the Landsail Tyres J-Cup started today with two windward leeward races in the Eastern Solent. North Sails weather forecaster Chris Tibbs predicted a building south westerly, breeze and he was spot on. 50 J/Boat teams, racing in five different classes, enjoyed excellent sailing conditions for the first day of the regatta. Congratulations to today's race winners. Robin Stevenson J/92s Upstart, Jack Banks J/92 Nightjar, Paul Ward's J/70 Eat Sleep J Repeat, Martin Dent's J/70 Jelvis, Johnny Cooper's J/112E Jooped, David Richards' J/109 Jumping Jellyfish, Mike & Susie Yates' J/109 JAGO, and Chris Jones & Louise Makin's J/111 Journeymaker II.

Racing at the Landsail Tyres J-Cup continues tomorrow, Friday 25th June with three races scheduled for all classes.

Results Link

Read the full preview at. www.keyyachting.com/news/

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…

Irresistible wins - Pure Grenada
Once the secret gem of Caribbean sailing Grenada is now a major must-do regatta venue (but the beautiful gem never lost its sparkle)

Over the past 12 months Grenada has transformed from a 'perhaps one day' to a 'must go' destination in the Caribbean. Previously considered a backwater by some sailors looking to tour the most glamorous destinations in the Caribbean, Grenada moved firmly on to the map in March 2020, and looks set to stay as a long-term yachties' favourite.

As Covid-19 was sweeping across the globe, hundreds of yachts found themselves at sea with nowhere to go. Hurricane season would be coming soon, but with coronavirus sweeping through the USA and Florida in particular, sailors found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. They would have to look elsewhere for shelter and so many headed further south than usual, away from the hurricane zone and towards Grenada, 458 nautical miles off the coast of Venezuela.

Full article in the July issue of Seahorse

"Big Ack" Is Back!
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The word "Acrospire" describes the sprout of a grain seed, the beginning of a new plant. In the field, after the snow has melted and the moist soil is being warmed by the spring sun, the acrospire grows in a spiral from one end of the see. . hence its name of acro "spire"

However, in Victoria, Australia the word conjures up something different … a series of fast, beautiful and successful yachts all drawn by the legendary local designer Charlie Peel (except for the last one which was a 6 metre Fife) and owned by the brewer Joe White.

We spend a fair amount of column inches in this publication trying to persuade people to part with their hard-earned cash and pour it into a restoration to save this or that "worthy" boat. But here on Port Phillip, there is now an opportunity to own a a boat from the ACROSPIRE lineage without even getting your hands dirty. The immaculate ACROSPIRE IV is for sale and believe it or not the asking price is highly realistic!

Rating at 9.31 metres "Big Ack" as she was known was 54ft overall and carried 1200 sq ft of sail on her Gaff rig. First lowered into the Yarra River in November 1929, she was converted to her originally designed Marconi sail plan the following year.

She took line honours in the 1938 Bruny Island race from Hobart. Her record winning time of 14 hours and 13 seconds stood for almost 50 years, finally beaten by the maxi yacht SOVEREIGN.

What a great outcome it would be if she could regularly race on Port Phillip, her spiritual home, against her elder sister, providing pleasure not only for a new custodian and her crew, but for all those lucky enough to witness the sight.

ACROSPIRE IV is listed for sale by COVE YACHT SALES

Full article by Mark Chew (with a lot of beautiful photos) Southern Wooden Boat Sailing

Industry News
Brunswick Corporation has agreed to buy electronics group Navico for US $1.05 billion.

As a result of this acquisition, Brunswick will add the Lowrance, Simrad, B&G and C-MAP brands to its Advanced Systems Group (ASG).

For the 12 months ended May 31 2021, Navico's revenues were around US $470 million.

With the addition of the Navico, Brunswick expects its parts and accessories brands to have revenues in excess of US $2 billion.

Navico is currently based in Egersund, Norway, co-owned by Altor Fund IV and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

It manufactures multi-function displays, fish finders, autopilots, sonar, radar, and cartography and serves major powerboat and sailing markets - both recreational and commercial.

It is anticipated Navico's management team will remain in place. The deal is anticipated to be finalised during the second half of 2021.

www.boatingbusiness.com

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Sailing hardware company Allen Brothers has used 3D model technology to solve the problem of inconsistencies in masts for the Dragon keelboat.

Mast tapers are needed to get the best shape and performance from a sail. The process for creating them is straightforward but it is difficult to achieve a consistent result. Sailors and boat builders were noticing that the bend characteristics differed between each mast, meaning that, if one needed to be replaced, the tuning and set up measurements would no longer be valid.

Allen set about determining what was causing these slight variations, using its 3D CAD and machining expertise to produce a scan of the desired taper which could then be used to reverse-engineer a 3D model for repeated use.

Using the 3D CAD data the design team was able to manufacture a set of forming tools that repeated the profile of the taper. "We had surmised that the forming operation was going to be the most difficult operation to achieve and quickly realised we would need to somehow form the taper from top to bottom to allow us to control the sizes of the taper," said Tom Clayton, product designer at Allen.

The company says it has now perfected the technique, having produced 20 masts so far. "I believe we have certainly nailed the brief. The taper is identical across all the sections and looks much neater than the previous version," added Darren.

The masts are class legal and the technology can be scaled up or down for other classes of masts.

www.boatingbusiness.com

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In response to the strong demand for skilled workers across the expanding Australian marine industry, a new online industry careers centre called 'Marine Jobs' has been set up by the Marina Industries Association (MIA) in partnership with the Boating Industry Association (BIA) and Superyacht Australia.

Marine Jobs is an online 'career centre' designed to make it easier for employers to advertise vacancies and for people to find the right job for them in the marine industry. This new industry jobs platform provides a range of career resources, including information on apprenticeships and industry training, writing a resume and preparing for an interview.

The site enables employers to quickly and easily post opportunities to the Jobs Board in the same way they currently post opportunities on platforms such as SEEK. Job seekers can anonymously post their resume to the board while remaining in complete control over which employers they reveal their information to.

Marine Jobs is powered by a specialist jobs board provider which delivers such online recruitment solutions to over 3,000 industry associations world-wide. Marine Jobs can be accessed directly at www.marinejobs.org.au

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The Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium is the world's longest running technical forum dedicated to advancing the study of the art and science of sailing yacht design technology. Professional yacht designers and a wide variety of sailing enthusiasts travel from around the world to attend the CSYS Symposia to present papers and exchange ideas on sailing.

The next symposium scheduled for March of 2022. Designers from as far away as Australia and Japan will do what it takes to get here. By attending the symposium you have the opportunity to visit with old friends and make new acquaintances in the sailing world. Coffee breaks between presentation sessions overflow with enthusiastic sailing talk and provide a wonderful opportunity for authors and attendees to socialize.

Important Dates for CSYS24
11th July 2021
7th November 2021
23rd January 2022

Submission of abstracts.
Submission of manuscripts for review.
Submission of final manuscripts.
Abstracts should be less than 500 word and submitted electronically in PDF format.
Visit www.csysonline.com or email for more information.

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Doyle Sails announces partnership with marine conservation charity Live Ocean, coming on board as a major supporter. The global sail making business says there is an "obvious and very natural fit" between Doyle Sails and Live Ocean, with a shared commitment to excellence on the ocean.

Live Ocean was founded by sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke in 2019. It funds, supports and amplifies the messages of ambitious New Zealand scientists and innovators and also connects people to the ambition for a healthy ocean.

The message of ocean protection and restoration is now taken to the world stage through the New Zealand SailGP Team, which has Live Ocean as its Race for the Future charity partner. In December 2020, Doyle Sails announced their partnership with the New Zealand SailGP Team and also as the Official Sailmaker to SailGP.

www.doylesails.com

Featured Brokerage
LM46 Performance Cruiser. POA USD.

Presenting the LM46, a high-performance, bespoke sailing yacht that will reconnect you to what matters.

See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly

Contact
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84 Knox Street
Thomaston, Maine 04861
Tel (207) 354-6904
Fax (207) 354-8176

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J BOATS J/133 - Jings. £239,950 TAX PAID GBP. Located in Italy

"Jings" was launched for her first and only owner in 2011. Since then she has been continuously up-dated and well maintained. She benefits from a recent sail package by North Sails, B&G electronics, tuff luff, upgraded Vectron backstay with hydraulic remote and upgraded winches all round.

See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly

Contact
Sea Ventures (UK) Ltd
Swanwick Marina
Swanwick Shore Road
Swanwick
Hampshire SO31 1ZL
+44 (0)1489 565444

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1925 Alfred Mylne Bermudan Sloop 'Gometra'. 300000 EUR. Located in Italy

By the time a yacht is close to a century old it will have tales to tell, but few can match GOMETRA's life story, in particular as one of two British yachts that saved Norway's gold reserves during the Second World War as deck cargo to Canada.

See listing details in Seahorse's RaceboatsOnly

Contact
Sandeman Yacht Company
22 Market Street
Poole
BH15 1NF
http://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk

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The Last Word
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