In This Issue
• Two bullets for Diego Negri and Frithjof Kleen at the Star Worlds
• Fourth Day of Racing at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
• Quiroga In Command After Second Consecutive Figaro Stage Win
• A Lunch For Legends
• TF35 Scarlino Trophy
• Zdenek Gebhart maintains lead at Finn Masters on Balaton
• Glimpse Of Protocol For The Next America's Cup
• 6th Rey Juan Carlos I El Corte Ingles Master Regatta
• Sailing World on Water - September 10.21
• Featured Brokerage:
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• The Last Word: Gerald Barzan

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Two bullets for Diego Negri and Frithjof Kleen at the Star Worlds
It was a lovely summer day in Kiel this morning, and some great conditions awaited the 83 teams on the racecourse for some fantastic racing with 8 to 15 knots of steady easterly breeze. The splendid weather was letting everyone forget about how tough the competition is at the Star World Championship, but with the first starting procedures and a few notable black flags the attention level was right back up.

Reigning World and European champions, respectively Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL) with Bruno Prada (BRA) and Enrico Chieffi with Nando Colaninno (ITA), were caught over the line early and with the U flag in place they were only advised at the top mark. Same fate for yesterday's winners Hans Spitzauer and Christian Nehammer (AUT). So there goes their throw-out - when five races are reached - and they'll have to sail more conservatively from now on.

And conservative is the way Diego Negri (ITA) and Frithjof Kleen (GER) sailed today, always going for top speed without taking any useless risks. And that is how the Italian/German duo won both of today's races, with perfect starts, and superb race management.

Two more races are scheduled for tomorrow starting at 11:00 with very light forecast, to leave the last one for Saturday, September 11th.

Top five after three races
1. Diego Negri / Frithjof Kleen, ITA, 6 points
2. Tonci Stipanovic / Tudor Bilic, CRO, 15
3. Xavier Rohart / Ante Sitic, FRA, 27
4. Marin Misura / Tonko Barac, CRO, 29
5. Hubert Merkelbach / Kilian Weise, GER, 29

Full results

2021worlds.starchampionships.org

Fourth Day of Racing at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
Porto Cervo, Italy: Day four of racing at the 31st Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Rolex and the International Maxi Association.

The Race Committee's decision to move the rest day to tomorrow proved to be the right one, as all divisions were able to race in perfect conditions, with an east-southeast wind of 15 to 18 knots, ideal for coaxing top performances from these maxi yachts.

First off the starting line were the yachts of the Maxi division, for whom the Race Committee designed a course of approximately 34 miles, which, after a 3-mile technical upwind leg, brought the fleet south to round the islands of Mortorio and Soffi, before heading back upwind to the Bisce Pass and rounding the La Maddalena and Caprera islands clockwise, with an upwind finish at the Monaci islet. Next up were the Supermaxi and Mini Maxi 2, 3 and 4 divisions, with a course of approximately 30 miles, differing from the Maxi's course at the Secca Tre Monti shallows, where the fleet turned up to Monaci and returned to Porto Cervo. The Mini Maxi 1 fleet completed two windward-leeward races, with crews busy on manoeuvres and tacticians equally busy interpreting the shifts in the breeze.

The 115-foot Supermaxi Shamanna was first in real time in her division, but as always the battle between the two J Class yachts came down to seconds, and the pair crossed the line almost simultaneously after 30 miles of racing. This time it was Topaz to come out on top in compensated time, helmed by Peter Holmberg and with Francesco de Angelis calling tactics, interrupting Velsheda's winning streak by just 16 seconds, Geist took third place and Shamanna fourth. Velsheda continues to lead the overall provisional classification ahead of Topaz and Geist.

The 31st Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will conclude on Saturday 11th, with coastal races scheduled for all divisions.

Full results

internationalmaxiassociation.com

Quiroga In Command After Second Consecutive Figaro Stage Win
When he crossed the finish line off Roscoff Thursday morning at 11:59:54hrs (local time) to win the 624 miles Stage 3, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) added his second back to back stage win and extended his time cushion at the top of the General Classification to 1 hour 53 minutes and 44 seconds which he will carry into Sunday's epic 685 miles finale to the Fastnet Rock.

Quiroga's win today may not have been as conclusive as his Stage 2 success when he dominated the 490 miles technical, coastal leg round the rocky, tidal Breton coast from Lorient to Fecamp, twice breaking from the head of the pack and both times extending. On a leg full of compressions and re-starts which started last Sunday from Fecamp with a reach across the Channel and took the 34 boats fleet around Land's End, Lundy Island off the north Devon coast and to the SW tip of Wales, Quiroga seemed able to always find the speed and guile to build, rebuild and retain a winning margin.

Increasingly Quiroga, who has finished second and then first twice, is showing the hallmarks of the champion of this long, hard edition. Were he to triumph overall next Thursday or Friday - his 29th birthday falling during the leg - he would become the first Mediterranean skipper to break the Breton monopoly on the La Solitaire du Figaro title since Kito de Pavant won in 2002.

Britain's Alan Roberts (Seacat Services) held out well to take his well-earned third, a first ever podium finish on a stage in his eight years racing on La Solitaire du Figaro. He showed remarkable tenacity as well as a notable speed edge down the long reach from the Welsh coast turning mark to the English Channel which saw him sail through the fleet from 28th to fourth. Roberts best ever leg finish before this was a fifth on the first stage Le Havre to Saint-Brieuc. Under pressure into the finish line, the English skipper held off Stage 1 winner Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) to take third, only 14 minutes behind Quiroga and six minutes and two seconds after Loison.

British skipper David Paul who was 33rd behind Clapcich in 32nd had to contend with food poisoning for the first 30 hours of the race.

But all of their travails paled into insignificance compared to the fate of young French rookie Charlotte Yvan of the Team Vendee Formation who was on course for fourth or fifth and top rookie which she touched rocks within a mile of the finish. On a fast-falling tide, having sailed over 620 miles over 4 days and 16 hours she had to be helped and so had to retire from the Stage within sight of the finish line.

lasolitaire.com/en/

A Lunch For Legends
Photo by John Roberson. Click on image for photo gallery.

They came, they saw, they sort of remembered! Yes, they remembered each other and many good times in the past and they remembered how to get to Cowes for the Auscrew 50th Anniversary lunch. Some of the other memories were a bit blurry, probably more due to the excesses back then, than the sharpness of the mind today.

How many salty sailing stories can be told in one session? Well that depends on how long the lunch is and how many legends are telling the stories.

If you have a lunch that lasts from midday to 10:30pm and about fifty legends of yesteryear, there's scope for a serious amount story telling, not to mention bullshit, some of the stories undoubtedly apocryphal, but all highly amusing.

This was the fiftieth anniversary Auscrew lunch in Cowes, Saturday 4th September. The line up of former Admiral's Cup sailors was dazzling, names like George Stead, Pat Lilley, John Irving, Peter Nicholson…….. the list goes on. Of course there were the ringleaders of this gathering, Peter Doran and Roger Motson and some very distinguished guests.

Sadly there were absent friends, some due to travel restrictions and others who have crossed the bar - a glass, well several glasses, were raised in their honour.

All those present were full of praise for the two organisers and very sentimental about the amateur Admiral's Cup era in the sixties and seventies. No gathering of such legends from "back then" would have been complete without the fabled Admiral's Cup itself, and the Royal Ocean Racing Club were good enough to allow it to make the journey to Cowes under the guardianship of Janet Grosvenor who was also a guest of honour at the lunch.

Ben Bradley, the former manager of Spencer's Rigging, venue for several Auscrew parties in the seventies talked fondly of his friendships with Aussie legends Peter Shipway and Peter Kurts. He was on Britain's winning Admiral's Cup team in 1977, but sailed as local knowledge expert with three Australian Admiral's Cup teams for the inshore races.

Paul Antrobus, who was a regular on Ron Amey's Noryema commented, "This gathering here just brings memories back of those great days when the Admiral's Cup was the one to win and we did it. This re-union brings it all back and makes it all worthwhile."

One of the few who made it from overseas was Bermudian Francis Carter who organised Auscrew parties at the end of the Newport - Bermuda Races.

Peter Nicholson of Quailo fame summed up the mood of the day well, "Fantastic, I sat opposite Pat Jackson, crew boss on Quailo. We reminisced madly about Bermuda races together, Sydney Hobarts races together, Admiral's Cups together. Where we made mistakes, the wrong tack, we could have won that race if we'd only tacked at the right moment. It's been a wonderful day, great fun."

Ben Bradley also told the story of how the key to the Hobart Town Hall came to be an exhibit in the Sir Max Aitken Museum in Cowes, and how 200 guests were locked inside until a locksmith could be found, because at the time this was the only key.

John Irving, who was involved in many Admiral's Cup campaigns on various boats described the gathering as, "blissful, totally blissful. To see all these old faces and all these people still alive which is extraordinary, all looking younger than they should do."

It is a day that will be remembered by all present for the bonhomie and for the fact that we can still party like we did 50 years ago - almost. -- John Roberson

TF35 Scarlino Trophy
The opening day of the TF35 Scarlino Trophy delivered everything the fleet had hoped for their first experience racing away from Lake Geneva: a steady 8-12-knot breeze and flat water under brilliant sunshine.

Coming into the second half of the season the points are close across the overall championship standing. With a single point between leading boat Realteam Sailing and second-placed Alinghi, the rivalry was reignited on this opening day.

Race one Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi was on fire; they claimed the opening race with a comfortable ten boat-length lead after winning the start and making the most of the favourable left.

Zoulou had the strongest start of the fleet in race two, hitting the line perfectly - at speed and on foils as the horn sounded. On the backfoot, Realteam Sailing matched Alinghi's speed on the first lap and then pulled it back in the second beat to take the win.

Results after three races
1. Realteam Sailing 2 1 1 - 4v 2. Alinghi 1 2 2 - 5
3. Spindrift 4 4 3 - 11
4. Team SAILFEVER 5 3 4 - 12
5. Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier 3 6 6 - 15
6. Zen TOO 7 5 5 - 17
7. Zoulou 6 8DNF 8DNS - 22

tf35.org

Zdenek Gebhart maintains lead at Finn Masters on Balaton
Zdenek Gebhart, from the Czech Republic, continues to lead the Finn European Masters at the Tihanyi Hajós Egylet in Tihany, Hungary after two more races on Thursday. Akos Lukats, from Hungary, is up to second while Taras Harvrysh, from Ukraine, won the final race to move up to third. The first race was won by an exuberant Botond Berecz on home waters.

The conditions were as challenging as Day 1 with nothing staying the same for more than one leg. Race 3 was sailed in a shifty easterly with the course set south of the Tihany peninsula. The fleet split almost evenly across the race area but those on the left made the best of the first beat.

Lukats was the early leader and seemed to have it sown up, but on the second upwind Berecz closed the gap and then passed him downwind to take a very popular win for the home crowd.

Results after 4 races
1. Zdenek Gebhart, CZE, 12
2. Akos Lukats, HUN, 15
3. Taras Havrysh, UKR, 27
4. Bas De Waal, NED, 36
5. Ors Nemeth, HUN, 36
6. Cees Scheurwater, NED, 43
7. Alexey Zhivotovskiy, RYF, 48
8. Felipe Silva, POR, 51
9. Vasiliy Kravchenko, RYF, 51
10. Zsigmond Kantor, HUN, 65

Full results

2021finnmastersec.org

Glimpse Of Protocol For The Next America's Cup
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) and Defender Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) along with the Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd (RYSL) and Challenger of Record INEOS Team UK today announce exciting initiatives to be included as part of the Protocol for the 37th America's Cup due to be published November 17th.

With the AC75 remaining as the centrepiece of the dramatic America's Cup racing for at least the next two editions, a new class of boat, the one design AC40 foiling monohull, is being introduced as a new multipurpose class which will help expand pathways into the main event.

The AC40 will be a dynamic, powerful, and super-fast scaled down version of the AC75 that will see it reach similar speeds to its big sister at times. The intention is for the new class to be the catalyst to accelerate participation in the America's Cup from the global talent pool of female and youth foiling sailors via separate AC37 Women's and Youth America's Cup regattas as part of the overall 37th America's Cup event schedule at the Host Venue.

Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton explains the detail behind the class and the regattas, "All of the competing teams must purchase at least one AC40 which will be used in the Preliminary Regattas, and then made available for the respective and independent Women's and Youth regattas to be held at the venue of the AC37 Match."

"The yacht clubs of competing AC teams must enter both the Women's and Youth events, however entries will also be open to other countries and yacht clubs.

We would certainly anticipate an entry from the Host country if in fact they do not have an America's Cup team".

Furthermore, once the teams AC40's are delivered by the end of 2022 and early 2023 our hope is that private owners will purchase their own AC40's as we start to build an exciting and accessible class for the future."

Over recent months The Defender and Challenger of Record have been working to agree the Protocol for the next America's Cup which is due to be published on November 17th. The detailed document takes mutual agreement between both parties in creating the rules and parameters of the next event that all teams must accept as a condition of their entry into AC37. Both parties can confirm the next event will be a multi challenger event and not be a one on one event that has been speculated.

www.americascup.com

6th Rey Juan Carlos I El Corte Ingles Master Regatta
Three days of competition and six races will decide the new winner of the Rey Juan Carlos I El Corte Ingles Master Regatta. The 6-Metre fleet, divided into the Classics and Open divisions, are counting down the hours to being on the water for the start of the big event, which will decide the new Spanish Championship title for the class. 31 teams from eleven nationalities will be lining up on the start line; the most international edition to date, and a vital event for the teams looking ahead to the Xacobeo 6mR Europeans coming next week. On Saturday, students from the National Centre for Adapted Sailing will also be competing.

On Thursday, Sanxenxo saw the last day of boat measurements, completion of registrations and the finishing touches to RCNS installations. However, Friday is the day, where the Race Committee will be sounding the first start gun on the Ria de Pontevedra for the teams disputing the title in the two 6-Metre divisions. Depending on conditions, the six programmed windward-leeward races, may be situated in the Ria with the start line close to the club, or opposite the Island of Ons. Currently the forecast promises three days of light winds that will mean the fleet giving their all in the fight for the national title.

www.regatareyjuancarlos.com

Sailing World on Water - September 10.21
Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of Sailing in the last seven days.

As we've seen, the weather in Porto Cervo, prior to the start of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, was anything but perfect. Super-sailor Bouwe Becking showed us, via his Instagram post.

When the action in the 31st Maxi Yacht ROLEX Cup started, the weather was perfect for the huge fleet. It was five days of competition for yachts over 60 feet. All the superstars were there, both the boats, and the crews,

Lake Garda was the venue for the Moth Worlds, and those who were not in Sardinia were there. Aussie Tom Slingsby led the huge fleet of moths buzzing around the course.

The 139th Kiel Week, commenced last week and the Ilca 4 class started with two races in light winds.

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