In This Issue
• All still open at Cascais SB20 World Championship 2021
• Classics racing again in Monaco
• A most ribust pedigree - Doyle Sails
• Congressional Cup
• Two Irish Teams for NYYC Invitational
• Figaro: International Rookies' Report
• Golden Globe Race
• Who Is Knud Reimers?
• British Keelboat Academy opens doors for next intake
• Featured Brokerage:
• • V&B MAYENNE Imoca 60
• • AEOLOS P30
• • NEEL 47 - Trimaran
• Back on Tuesday
• The Last Word: Groucho Marx

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All still open at Cascais SB20 World Championship 2021
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Three races scheduled, three races completed on the penultimate day of the Cascais SB20 World Championship 2021. The Guia Race area was thus once again dominated by the fierce dispute between the more than sixty SB20 class boats participating in this World Championship organized by the Cascais Naval Club, and which decorated this area of Cascais coast in a very special way. The first start signal was given around noon, and today conditions were even more favourable for sailing, as the clear sky and mild temperature were combined with the favourable wind, which blew from the northwest quadrant, with an intensity ranging between 10-14 knots delivering champagne sailing conditions.

When there is only one day to the end of the event, nothing is yet fully decided, although, at the top of the league table, and in particular as far as the future World Champion is concerned, favouritism leans more and more towards the Open Bar. The crew of Clube Naval de Cascais, led by Henrique Haddad, with Mário Trindade, Leonardo Lombardi and Pedro Caldas, continues to add good performances, including bullets, and thus cement their leadership, extending the advantage to its pursuers thanks to the combination of two decisive factors: an enviable regularity and the achievement of top results.

Friday, September 3rd, in its final day of competition. The Cascais Naval Club plans to carry out two races, so that the twelve initially planned can be completed in full, and the first start signal scheduled for 12:00.

Full results

Classics racing again in Monaco
With a slightly modified format due to the global health situation, the 15th Monaco Classic Week-La Belle Classe expects around 100 sailing and motorboats to descend on the Yacht Club de Monaco's marina, 8-12 September, bringing all the pageantry and colour of a bygone era to the quays.

Around 30 sailing yachts (gaff and Marconi rigs) will blend in with the sleek lines of classy schooners, including Orion of the Seas (1910) making her return to this biennial event having been there at the start in 1994, and Puritan (1930), winner of the 2019 Monaco Classic Week Trophy. Also present will be Manitou (1937), chosen by J.F. Kennedy to be the Presidential Yacht.

Tuiga (1909), the YCM's flagship is looking forward to racing again with The Lady Anne (1912) and Mariska (1908), all three are in the gaff cutter 15M IR class. Other Fife designs include Moonbeam III (1903), Silhouette (1910), Rainbow III (1927), Hallowe'en (1926) and Viola (1908), winner of the 2017 Monaco Classic Week Trophy. A fleet of 12' Dinghy class entries are also racing, while 30+ motorboats (Rivas and Chris Craft) will be being put through their paces with regularity and elegance contests. Among the period motor-yachts are Lady Herta (1935) and the steam-yacht SS Delphine (1921) celebrating her 100th anniversary this year.

Other highlights include the chefs and elegance competitions, a Grand Finale parade, and awarding of the coveted La Belle Classe Restoration Prize, after every boat has been inspected by a jury of experts during the week, chaired by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.

A most robust pedigree - Doyle Sails
It began with laying down one Kevlar thread at a time using a converted ballpoint pen... today things are a little different

Twenty years ago, in an old-school Auckland sail loft, Doyle Sails' Richard Bouzaid began experimenting with a new way of building sails utilising an adapted ballpoint pen to direct single fibres onto a substrate in line with the predicted loads.

In many respects this was typical of what New Zealanders refer to as a number eight wire approach to innovation. Number eight wire is what sheep farmers use to fence their paddocks; the idiom relates to the combination of ingenuity and self-reliance an isolated island nation had to develop in order to flourish.

'We could only lay one Kevlar fibre at a time through an adapted ballpoint pen,' Bouzaid recalls. 'It was a very typical Kiwi way of doing things.

Full story in the September issue of Seahorse

Roster Revised: Schedule Stands. Congressional Cup is a 'go' for Sept. 14 - 19, 2021
Long Beach, California: "We're T-minus two-weeks and counting!" announced Long Beach Yacht Club (LBYC) Congressional Cup Chairman Chris Macy, as the September 14 to 19, 2021 event approaches. Despite last-minute roster changes and protocol requirements, Macy revealed, "There's a definite buzz at the Club: you can feel the energy building and the excitement, that after two and one half years – this is really happening!"

What's happening is the 56th Congressional Cup: the most exciting, top-notch yacht racing to take place on America's shores this year. The 'grandfather of match racing' Congressional Cup was founded in 1965 by LBYC, where organizers revolutionized the game of match racing with on-the-water umpiring. The only Grade One Match Race in the US and a championship event on the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), the regatta is raced on a fleet of identical 37-foot Catalina keelboats, which guarantees an even platform and thrilling competition.

Last-minute snags have defending champion Ian Williams (GBR) withdrawing, in addition to Phil Robertson (NZL) and Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL). Taking their places will be Chris Poole (USA) - right off a win in the Oakcliff International Regatta - and Dustin Durant (USA), a three-time Congressional Cup veteran and LBYC representative. Final berths will be filled by Ficker Cup's top trio of finishers.

Matches begin Wednesday Sept. 15 following team registration, weigh-ins and a welcoming celebration Sept. 14. Then the fun begins: five days of racing starting at 11:30AM directly off Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier. The format includes a Double Round Robin followed by semi-finals and petite finals, with finals on Sunday Sept. 19.

In addition, Saturday afternoon the umpires, competitors and VIPS will team up onboard the Catalina 37s for a 'Race to the Bar.' A fleet race on Sunday, with cash prizes, will offer a sweet consolation to competitors who do not make the finals.

But First, Ficker Cup

The Ficker Cup is a noteworthy Grade Two match racing event in its own right, and also serves as a qualifier for the Congressional Cup. Following a similar format, racing will run Friday Sept. 10 through Sunday Sept. 12 in the waters off Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier beginning at 11:30AM daily.

Competition will be heated as racers vie for the Ficker Cup trophy and the podium placements which will get them entree to the Congressional Cup. For complete information and results on Ficker Cup visit www.lbyc.org

thecongressionalcup.com

www.wmrt.com

Howth Joins Royal Cork to Provide Two Irish Crews in New York Yacht Club Invitational Next Week
Although it has only been running for seven years, the New York Yacht Club's annual inter-club Invitational Event at Newport, Rhode Island has become one of the hottest tickets in international sailing. And since they moved the boat type up to the Mark Mills-designed Melges ILC37 (she's like a big sister of the new Mills-designed Cape 31 that we'll see in Ireland next year), the level of Corinthian competition has become stratospheric, and invitations to clubs are like gold dust.

For this year's staging from September 11th to 18th, ten nations and 19 clubs are involved, and the Irish challenge has been boosted with a Howth Yacht Club team now in the mix, along with the highly-fancied Royal Cork squad in which the name of O'Leary figures significantly. There's a family element with the Howth team too, as Michael and Darren Wright are at the core of it, but with talents such as Laura Dillon on the strength and dinghy ace Rocco Wright in back-up, it is a squad of all the talents, the full line-up being Darren Wright, Rick deNeve, Sam O'Byrne, Michael Wright, Laura Dillon, Brian Turvey, Luke Malcolm, Karena Knaggs and Rocco Wright.

As for the teams, they speak for themselves:

New York Yacht Club (USA)
Eastern Yacht Club (USA)
Howth Yacht Club (Ireland)
Itchenor Sailing Club (UK)
San Francisco Yacht Club (USA)
Noroton Yacht Club (USA)
Nyländska Jaktklubben (Finland)
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (Bermuda)
Yacht Club Argentino (Argentina)
American Yacht Club (USA)
Royal Canadian Yacht Club (Canada)
Royal Cork Yacht Club (Ireland)
Royal Swedish Yacht Club (Sweden)
Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (Italy)
Royal Thames Yacht Club (UK)
Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (Canada)
San Diego Yacht Club (USA)
Southern Yacht Club (USA)
Yacht Club Italiano (Italy)

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nyyc.org/2021-rolex-nyyc-invitational-cup

La Solitaire du Figaro: International Rookies' Mid-Term Report
There are four international rookies among the 11 sailors who are taking on La Solitaire du Figaro for the first time, racing for the Classement Beneteau des Bizuths. As well as all originating from different countries all of them have different sailing backgrounds and cultures.

Thirty-three-year-old Italian-American Francesca Clapcich (Fearless-State Street Marathon Sailing) was an Olympic sailor who went to two Olympic Games and was 49er FX World Champion in 2015 before she raced the last Volvo Ocean Race with Dee Caffari and Nicolas Lunven on Turn the Tide on Plastic. She only took up short handed sailing two years ago when she and Rhode Islander Jesse Fielding paired up to the campaign for the proposed mixed doubles offshore Olympic discipline. They have trained together extensively at home on the Figaro Beneteau 3 but only managed a couple of months of training in France before the start of this race.

Fielding, 34, came through the Morning Light offshore training programme but has gone on to race most of the blue water fully crewed classics but is new to solo sailing.

England's 26-year-old David Paul (Just a drop) graduated through mid-level dinghy racing to compete on the RORC crewed races out of the Solent with some success. His smart move has been transitioning to learning his solo racing in a French programme with the Team Vendee Formation out of Les Sables d'Olonne.

Pep Costa, 22, from the seaside resort of Casteldellels, just west of Barcelona is a successful Mini sailor from the Catalan capital's FNOB project. He started in the Figaro Beneteau 3 in March but immediately did the Transat en Double with Will Harris and so has maximised his miles before solo training. He is the best placed if the international rookies so far after finishing 19th on the second leg.

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365 days before the return of the round-the-world ocean Golden Globe Race to Les Sables-d'Olonne
The third edition of the round-the-world yacht Golden Globe Race will set off from Les Sables-d'Olonne on 4th September 2022. The announcement was made at a press conference on Thursday morning, with 26 skippers of 11 different nationalities already set to participate. The race is the only non-stop round-the-world yacht race without technical assistance and without GPS, using the same equipment as the first race in 1968.

In 2018, the return of the Golden Globe Race, which started in Les Sables-d'Olonne, marked the 50th anniversary of this iconic race. It was in 1968 and 1969 that the Golden Globe Challenge took place, the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world race in history. Robin Knox-Johnston's victory and Bernard Moitessier's incredible adventure inspired generations of sailors, convinced that the sea could be an incredible playground for dreams and self-sacrifice.

While the race will retain its core ethos, several new features will enable all those who are curious to experience the adventure more closely. Thus, five points of passage have been established so that the skippers can transmit photos and videos of their adventure. In addition, there will be weekly interviews with the media as well as a monthly Facebook live, during which the public will be able to talk directly to the sailors. Finally, a virtual regatta will allow all those who want to, to experience the race in their own setting, throughout the skippers' circumnavigation. The public will be able to meet the participating skippers after more than 200 days at sea from 20 August 2022, with the opening of the village before the start, a fortnight later.

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Who Is Knud Reimers?
Knud Reimers on an International 5m. Photo Oscar Norberg 1937. Click on image to enlarge.

Most sailors know Knud Reimers' Tumlaren, sailed in Australia since 1937. It's just one in a folio of successful designs over six decades. Here's a look at Reimers and his boats.

There was a terrific response from the Tumlaren community to the Southern Wooden Boat Sailing interview last week - YVONNE, A SMALL SYNDICATE HANDS ON RESTORATION, SWS 12th August. Martin Olsen in Denmark kindly put us in touch with Teodor Reimers, the grandson of Knud Reimers. Barbara Joyce, Selim Nurminen's daughter, added a few personal notes to the story and 80 years young instagramer Joan Doiron, sent signals from Vancouver Island. Joan is the daughter of Al Rae, the champion Tumlaren sailor in the 1940's and 50's at the Queen City YC in Toronto.

Knud H Reimers

Knud Hjelmberg Reimers was born in Aarhus Denmark in 1906 and educated as a shipwright in Germany. He started at Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel building large sailing and motor yachts then attended technical college while apprenticed to Abeking & Rasmussen in Bremen. In 1930 he found his first studio job in Stockholm with the Finnish architect and yacht designer GUSTAF ESTLANDER at SWS 5th March 2020. Estlander was an established designer of fast and radical 20 and 30 square metre Skargardskryssare (Skerry Cruisers). In 1931 aged 25, Reimers took over the studio when Estlander died suddenly.

The office of Knud H Reimers, Naval Architect & Yacht Broker was underway. To anchor the finances, he was able to quickly sell six 22m skerry cruisers to the Detroit YC. The important Reimers yachts like the Tumlaren and Bacchant, were designed in this first decade. His open and inventive approach would constantly rework and refine these earlier successes throughout a career of 60 years. This ensured his yachts were competitive and contemporary as rules, materials and client requirements changed. Many of these yachts are still sailing in Australia.

Full story in Southern Woodenboat Sailing

British Keelboat Academy opens doors for next intake
Applications are now open for the British Keelboat Academy's next intake of young sailors.

The British Keelboat Academy (BKA) supports sailors aged between 18 and 24 to develop the skills they need to race keelboats at a national level.

No previous keelboat experience is necessary and applications for the BKA's 2021/22 cohort are welcome from young racing sailors across the sport.

Those applying for the British Keelboat Academy must be available, if invited, to attend a selection weekend at Port Solent, 13/14th November. Those demonstrating a strong desire to learn coupled with a strong work ethic and the ability to work well within a team will be among a group of around 60 sailors who will make up the 2021/2 British Keelboat Academy.

Subsequent training weekends will include: Online Theory, 18/19 December; Spinnaker Handling, London, 29/30 January; Inshore Yacht Training, Solent, 5/6 March; J/70 Training, Cowes, 9/10 April. A separate offshore training module will also be available.

The cost of the selection weekend will be £85 and the BKA squad fee is £315. Applicants should be aged between 18 and 24 years on 13/11/2021 although exceptions can be made on a case by case basis.

Further information is available here at

The deadline for applying is Sunday 26th September 2021 at 23.59.

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