EuroSail News #4913 - 7 September
In This Issue
• Out Of The Box, Restarting at Casquets
• Day for the tacticians - Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup gets underway
• New 2022 Harken Catalog: Flying off the Presses, Yet Already Here
• Overall ICRA Champion at Dun Laoghaire
• Two handed marks the spot - Aeolos Composites
• Gifford Wins US Grand Slam - Three-peat for RNZYS
• No wind, no race on the opening day of the Star World Championship
• Dragon Edinburgh Cup
• New J/70 European Champion Crowned in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Sailing World on Water
• Featured Charter: KALLIMA - Swan 82
• Featured Brokerage:
• • SY SOJANA
• • Swan 75-003 Jasbid W
• • JPK 10.30
• The Last Word: Buckminster Fuller
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Out Of The Box, Restarting at Casquets
Warm, hazy sunshine, light easterly winds and big crowds on the beaches, in the vibrant race village and the clifftops sent the third stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro on its way at midday Sunday from Fecamp with race leader Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) warning that he believes this complicated 624 miles long penultimate stage could be decisive.
The leg opens with a light winds reach the Channel to turn west at South Pullar just as the tide changes. The local sea breeze gave decent conditions to get away from the high, white cliffs which surround Fecamp and the NE'ly gradient wind appeared to have come in early to see the fleet racing north under Code Zero at 8.5 to 9 knots.
After spending most of the second afternoon at sea since leaving Fecamp yesterday shadow boxing with the 20 mile northerly perimeter of the Casquets Traffic Separation Scheme, the leaders on Stage 3 of La Solitaire were taking a much sharper southerly slant in search of the forecast stronger easterly breeze that is expected to roll back up to them from the French coast during the latter part of today, Monday.
All of the top skippers who spoke on the VHF today admitted their original strategy was to go south of this almost square exclusion zone that lies north east of Alderney, but it seems like no one was bold enough to break for the south on what was a not very appetising angle.
It was left to Tanguy Le Turqais (Queguiner - Innoveo), the young Catalan rookie Pep Costa (Cybele Vacances-Team Play To B) and Italian American Francesca Clapcich (Fearless - State Street Marathon Sailing) to lead a group of six round the south of the no go zone. They were making three knots faster than the leaders and pointing more directly towards Land's End, the next waypoint on the 624 miles course to Morlaix Bay via a mark off the southwesternmost tip of Wales.
Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) -winner of the first leg and second overall – has led since the turn at South Pullar mark at around 2230hrs last night. Race leader Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) was leading but chose not to make the early gybe at the mark which is to the east of the isle of Wight, and lost out to Macaire and others, lying fourth this afternoon at 1.2 miles.
Top five, leg 3
Last update: 06/09/2021 22:33:00
1. Xavier Macaire - GROUPE SNEF, 412.3 nm to finish
2. Pierre Leboucher - GUYOT environnement - Ruban Rose , 1.09 nm to leader
3. Tom Laperche - Bretagne - CMB Performance, 1.28
4. Pierre Quiroga - Skipper Macif 2019, 1.51
5. Alexis Loison - Region Normandie, 1.56
Top five overall
1. Pierre Quiroga - Skipper Macif 2019, 6j 10h 1mn 21sec total time
2. Xavier Macaire - GROUPE SNEF, 6j 11h 38mn
3. Tom Laperche - Bretagne - CMB Performance, 6j 11h 38mn
4. Gildas Mahe - Breizh Cola, 6j 12h 35mn 47sec
5. Alexis Loison - Region Normandie, 6j 12h 41mn 10sec
Day for the tacticians - Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup gets underway
Photo by Ingrid Abery, www.ingridabery.com. Click on image for photo gallery.
Owner-drivers and crews taking part in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup were eased gently into competition off Sardinia's Costa Smeralda today as they fought to make the most of variable sub-10 knot winds out of the northeast quadrant. The light start was appreciated as due to the pandemic this is the first time in two years that the three maxi classes (Mini Maxi 60-80ft; Maxi 80-100ft; Super Maxi 100+ft) have been able to race in their pinnacle event, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with maxi yachting's governing body, the International Maxi Association.
While the YCCS's courses are renowned for their usually strong prevailing northwesterlies that funnel down 'Bomb Alley' between the Costa Smeralda and its spectacular off-lying islands, today's northeasterly wind direction was unusual. The race committee led by Peter Craig therefore sent the fleet off to a weather mark offshore and then on an anticlockwise lap of La Maddalena and Caprera, culminating in a tactical beat up to the Monaci islands before heading south to the finish off Porto Cervo.
The Maxis were the first to get away with Wendy Schmidt's new Botin 85 Deep Blue nailing the start to perfection midline above Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones' Magic Carpet Cubed, with the 100ft Comanche, the highest rated across the fleets, close to the pin. In fact it was only on the run back from Monaci and the final short leg into the finish when the race was decided. Here, with boats coming in on different gybes, it was the Magic Carpet Cubed that beat both the mighty Comanche and George David's Rambler 88 on the water. However under IRC corrected this was only good enough to score the navy Wallycento second with Irvine Laidlaw's four time Maxi class winning Reichel Pugh 82 Highland Fling XI coming out on top. -- James Boyd / International Maxi Association
www.internationalmaxiassociation.com
New 2022 Harken Catalog: Flying off the Presses, Yet Already Here
Brand New Online Version Is Live Now
The 2022 Harken Catalog is printed and heading for a Harken retailer near you. Thick. Glossy. Pictures. Video. Juicy charts. 292 pages. For some of us, sliding that catalog into a bag of boat show literature is an annual fall ritual. There's no tool more effective for selecting the right Harken equipment to get faster.
One thing to keep in mind: The catalog comes off press this time each year. Harken doesn't stop making new stuff. So the day you get your brand new print version it's already slipping out of date.
We fixed that. There's a new Harken Catalog you can open right now. You'll find it at the bottom of the homepage of Harken.com. Or you can download 2022 right now. It gets updated all year long.
The online Harken Catalog looks just like the print catalog. You can flip pages. You can scan the codes and get to the video. You can call your foredeck guy and immediately get on the same page. It IS the Harken catalog. There are, however, two small differences:
1. It's always up to date.
2. It will never give you a paper cut.
Open Your Catalog: bit.ly/Harken2022Catalog
Greystones J/122 'Kaya' is Crowned Overall ICRA Champion at Dun Laoghaire
Photo by David Branigan, www.oceansport.ie. Click on image for photo gallery.
Greystones Sailing Club's Frank Whelan and the crew of Kaya emerged as overall winners of the annual Irish Cruiser Racing Association National Championships on Dublin Bay today (Sunday 5th September 2021).
Four straight class wins meant the final day wasn't needed for Whelan's team who won the Class Zero title as Afloat reports here plus the overall event win.
Prizes were presented at the National Yacht Club who hosted the 2021 event, its first staging in 25 months due to the pandemic.
80 crews entered from 17 clubs around Ireland to decide four titles under the IRC rating system.
The overall event win is calculated using an ICRA formula based on results, class size and performance rating.
The ICRA National Championships 2022 are scheduled to be sailed at Cork Week in July next year which will also mark the delayed festivities marking the 300th anniversary of the Royal Cork YC.
www.nyc.ie/2021/09/icra-nationals-2021/
Two handed marks the spot - Aeolos Composites
Two-time winner of the Silverrudder Hans Genthe explains his radical new doublehanded raceboat concept
Aeolos Yachts is addicted to scientific approaches. The base for our yacht design is market research and competitor analysis to understand the customer benefits. Aeolos does not design boats which suit everyone. We build boats which are perfect for a certain target group and which can be produced economically.'
The Aeolos P30 design
Hundreds of hours of optimisation result in a highly optimised shape. Our team tested various modifications of the hull with more rocker and/or more volume in the mid section with different fins and rudders. For all variations we checked the influence on the rating.
- Simple, reliable, lightv - Full carbon prepreg (hull, keel, rudder, mast, bowsprit)
- Quick to assemble (without a crane), easy to transport
- Single/doublehanded (OSR2) and inshore racing with six crew
- CE-Norm Category B (offshore), upgrade to Cat A is possible with additional equipment
- Length: 9.14m
- Beam: 2.91m
- Displacement: 1.55t empty but rigged boat without sails and motor
- Sailing displacement: 1.98t doublehanded, fully equipped for three days' sailing with 160kg crew
- Ballast ratio: more than 50 per cent (800kg)
- Draught: 2.3m to 0.5m
Full story in the September issue of Seahorse
Gifford Wins US Grand Slam - Three-peat for RNZYS
Photo by Lexi Pline, lexiplinephotography.com 
Alastair Gifford from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) has secured the win at the US Grand Slam by finishing third in the final event, The Thompson Cup, hosted by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, New York.
Gifford competed in all four events of the USA Grand Slam, winning the first two and finishing sixth and third in the last two. The four events include The Chicago Cup, The Detroit Cup, Oakcliff International and The Thompson Cup.
The overall winner of the Grand Slam Series gets an invitation to the Congressional Cup hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club next year. The Congressional Cup is known as the 'grandfather of match racing' and attracts the world's best match racers. Familiar names such as Johnie Berntsson (SWE), Taylor Canfield (USA), Scotty Dickson (USA/NZL), and Ian Williams (GBR) amongst many other top sailors have raced in the Congressional Cup.
Gifford's win follows Jordan Stevenson's win in 2019 with his Vento Racing team and Nick Egnot-Johnson's title claim in 2018 with his KNOTS Racing team. All three teams represented RNZYS and came from the club's Performance Programme (PP), making Gifford's win a three-peat for the Squadron as there was no series in 2020 due to COVID-19 forcing cancellations.
No wind, no race on the opening day of the Star World Championship
The morning of the first day of sailing of the 2021 Star World Championship in Kiel, Germany, didn't look promising. The usual chilly breeze blowing at the 1972 German Olympic venue didn't welcome the 83 teams on their way to the boats. Soon the postponement flag was hoisted and it stayed hanging on the notice pole until 2:00 pm, when also the A flag was hoisted, calling it off for the day. No race could be sailed on the opening of the regatta.
Race Director Mandus Freese is ready to have two races. The first start is scheduled for 11 am, however, the wind is looking light again, and could alter the plans.
2021worlds.starchampionships.org
Dragon Edinburgh Cup
Out in front from the first beat was Patrick Gifford's Basilisk 515 coming in from the Edinburgh side to lead around the first windward mark followed by Royal Forth Yacht Club local sailors Wiz Too, Richard Davies' Flotation and Badger.
Basilisk looked to be comfortably in the lead going through the first gate but it was the second beat and a move of the windward mark that saw some change in positions.
Gery Trentesaux's Bande a Part FRA 428 inched past Flotation, Badger and Basilisk to lead up to the second windward mark and through the final gate.
But it was not to be for the French team and it was Basilisk, the vintage Dragon sailed by experienced team Patrick Gifford, Geoff Butcher and Philip Catmur who sailed an excellent race to take line honours in race six.
Badger held on to their second place with Jerboa, Flotation and Bande a Part taking third, fourth and fifth place respectively.
A superb win for Basilisk securing the Corinthian title, helm Patrick Gifford said once ashore "We felt we were at the back end of the boats that were going fast all week. So it was very nice to be up there and beat them. It has been a good event, it is a great open space to race in."
Final top five
1. Badger - Tom Vernon, GBR, 9 points
2. Jerboa - Gavia Wilkinson-Cox, GBR, 11
3. Bluebottle - Graham Bailey, GBR, 15
4. Bande a Part - Gery Trentesaux, FRA, 17
5. Fei-Lin's Flirtation - Ron James, GBR, 22
www.britishdragons.org/edinburgh-cup/
New European Champion Crowned in Copenhagen, Denmark
It has been a European Championship blessed with exceptional weather and four days of world class racing in Copenhagen, Denmark. Seventeen nations competed for the title of European Champion, but there can only be one winner – and this time that winner came from Spain. José María Torcida Seghers sailed a stable Final Series with top-10 placements in all six races, claiming gold with 21 points, four points ahead of British Paul Ward who took second place. American Michael Goldfarb took third place with 43 points, just ahead of Denmark's Jens Christensen who looked to take home the third spot to his local club and host of the European Championship (Royal Danish Yachtclub). But the final race of the day ended badly for the Dane with a 34th place, missing the podium by just three points.
Top 5, Gold Fleet:v 1. José María Torcida Seghers, ESP, 21 points
2. Paul Ward, GBR, 25
3. Michael Goldfarb, USA, 43
4. Jens Christensen, DEN, 46
5. Victor Casas, SUI, 56
Spain also claimed first place among the Corinthians where Luis Bugallo Arriola on ESP 1283 took the title, with Germany's Ole Nietiedt in second and Great Britain's Charles Thompson in third.
Top 5, Corinthians:
1. Luis Bugallo Arriola, ESP, 63
2. Ole Nietiedt, GER, 66
3. Charles Thompson, GBR, 72
4. Juan Calvo Boronat, ESP, 79
5. Inna Balashova, RUS, 81
The best female skipper was three-times European Champion Claudia Rossi from Italy who finished 10th place overall. The best female team was Rikst Dijkstra from the Netherlands.
In the Silver fleet, Russia's Andrey Bratan took first place, with Germany's Jacob Ahlers and Sweden's Kasper Nordenram in second and third.
In the one-pro division, where one professional sailor is allowed onboard, Swiss Victor Casa claimed the first spot with 54 points, followed by Brazilian Renato Faria at 76 points, and in third place was Patrik Forsgren from Sweden with 86 points.
Sailing World on Water September 03.21
Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of Sailing in the last seven days.
Stage Two of the French Solo Race, la Solitaire du Figaro, known as "The Lonely One," finished at Fécamp, east of Le Havre this morning.
Three good races on the Bay of Palma yielded three different winners, in the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet at the 52 SUPER SERIES
For a second day in a row the wind abandoned the Wannsee in Berlin, Germany. Therefore the 2021, 5.5 Metre German Open, at the Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee , was decided by a single sailed race, the long distance race on Friday.
Following the success of Garda's most historical windsurfing race, the RRD ONE HOUR CLASSIC with more than 100 competitors, this event, the RRD ONE HOUR WING-FOIL EDITION, will be an opportunity for everyone to challenge, and experience a new unique race format on a wing-foil.
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