In This Issue
• J/70 World Championship Thrilling Day Two
• Transat Jacques Vabre - Ultims at sea
• Transat Jacques Vabre - Considering the restart
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Caribbean Multihull Challenge Race & Rally
• Mini Transat: The trade winds, finally!
• 18ft Skiffs 2023-24 Spring Championship
• Bids for new format World Sailing Championships
• 69F Sailing Unveils 2024 Calendar
• Featured Charter: Felci 71 Performance Yacht LA VIDELLE
• Featured Brokerage:
• • iMOCA Globe
• • The Makara Series
• • Sun Fast 30 One Design
• The Last Word: Marcus Aurelius

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J/70 World Championship Thrilling Day Two
St. Petersburg, Florida USA: Two-time J/70 World Champion Peter Duncan's Relative Obscurity (USA) ascended to the top of the leaderboard at the J/70 World Championship on Wednesday, with four races completed in the series. Including crew Victor Diaz-de-Leon, Scott Norris and Willem Van Waay, the team went 4,2 on the day to tally 25 points and the advantage upon day two of five for the Championship at St. Petersburg Yacht Club in Florida. Laura Grondin's Dark Energy (USA) kept strong at 31 points, staying two ahead of Luis Albert's Patakin (ESP) in third overall. Lee Sackett and Dave Kerr's 1516 (USA) moved atop the 28-boat Corinthian Division, and Tim Ryan's Vamos (AUS) kept the advantage in the 14-boat One-Pro Division.

A cold front passed through Tampa Bay overnight, bringing a fresh breeze of 12-14 knots but continued blue skies and temperatures in the 70s. Ryan's Vamos (AUS) started their strong day with a bullet in Race Three, also including Bruce Golison's Midlife Crisis (USA) and Albert's Patakin (ESP) in the top group. Ralph Rosa's Mindset (BRA) reveled in his second victory of the Championship in Wednesday's second race, while Duncan's Relative Obscurity (USA) continued his move up the podium. Haroldo Solberg's OceanPact (BRA) placed third.

Racing continues through Saturday.

Full results on Yachtscoring.com

Transat Jacques Vabre - Ultims at sea
The tricky ridge of high pressure is holding up the three leading ULTIM boats to the north of Porto Santo. SVR Lazartigue has seen her lead melt away and can even see Maxi Edmond de Rothschild and Banque Populaire XI, who at 0700hrs UTC this morning were only 2 and 9 miles behind her and were still faster. Sodebo Ultim 3, with Actual Ultim 3 in her wake, had a good night with a bit of wind blowing still, allowing them to make up some of their losses. Will their position off to the East allow them to deal more easily with the ridge of high pressure, which will be the main feature for the five ULTIMs throughout the day?

Everyone agreed that they were going to have to wait all day and maybe part of the night, before picking up a steady NE'ly wind and getting the speeds of the 32m trimarans back up to what we expect from them. They are going to have to remain alert, but no one is complaining about this short break after the wild 48 hours after the start.

This evening or later tonight, once the ULTIMs have found some wind, they will pick up speed and will be following a 'gull wing' trajectory to get to the Equator. The next course mark after Porto Santo will be the islands of SaoPaolo & Sao Pedro, lost in the South Atlantic, some 500 miles off the Horn of Brazil.

The trade winds are in place from the latitude of the Canaries and their routing indicates that they should reach the Intertropical Convergence Zone on 4th November.

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Transat Jacques Vabre - Considering a restart
At a press meeting this lunchtime, Francis Le Goff, the Race Director and Gildas Gautier, co-director of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre, ran through the various scenarios for the start for the boats currently on hold in Le Havre and Lorient.

"We have just finished our latest look at the weather. There is no apparent break in the weather before Monday, which would allow the two classes of boats moored up in Lorient to set off. That does not mean that they will definitely be going on Monday. For the IMOCAs, a possible start on Sunday is still being studied. Conditions remain rough with lots of wind and heavy seas. We shall be working with the class to see how we can plan this in quieter conditions. It is not impossible that if the start does take place, a way-point may be planned to prevent the boats taking a northerly route, which would be very exposed. That is also the case for the Class40 and Ocean Fifty fleets."

That is how Francis Le Goff summarised the possibilities for a new start for the IMOCA, Class40 and Ocean Fifty boats, to enable them to join the ULTIMs currently at sea. Differences in weather forecasts depending on the models for the end of the week lead everyone to be very cautious

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Seahorse November 2023
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Ideas to reality
Super simple and super efficient, the ACCWing holds great promise for a wide range of watercraft. There have been many attempts at popularising wing sails but few are as simple or efficient as this design. The ACCWing system consists of a fixed, free standing carbon mast around which a soft wingsail rotates.

A question of balance
Patrice Carpentier counts the many lives of offshore champion Corinne Migraine

Update
When it's good it's good, but when it's not it's bad (very bad), on top in Porto Cervo (finally) plus solid steel... Santi Lange. Jack Griffin, Terry Hutchinson, Carlos Pich

My 'favourite' topic
When is a sheet not a sheet? Rob Weiland

Sailor of the Month
And a definite flavour of persistence this month

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6th Annual Caribbean Multihull Challenge Race & Rally Grows Again!
The CMC reaches out to all multihulls - cruising and racing - to join in what is becoming a must-do multihull Regatta and Festival complete with flat out racing for CSA classes, destination time trials for cruising multihulls, and a sweet laid-back rally encompassing international overnights at Dutch St. Maarten, French St. Martin, and St. Barth's. As the CMC continues to develop, it is expanding to also include a larger one-design fleet of French built, VPLP designed Diam 24's racing in their own class.

Thanks for this goes to Pierre Altier, the Diam agent for the Caribbean whose efforts have resulted in at least nine Diam's in the coming fray…and perhaps more. Beginning with only four a few years ago, Pierre's enthusiasm for this French-built VPLP designed open trimaran is bound to result in more Diam 24's sailing not only in St Maarten; but in Guadaloupe and the BVI's where fleets are already forming.

After the successful introduction of the Cruising Rally in 2023, the CMC is innovating again. This time with a parade start Time Trial competition for cruising multihulls who have a CSA rating; but who do not want to experience normal racing starts in favor of a timed event from point A to point B which for each of the four days is a rally overnight destination.

Early registration indicates a racing and rally fleet in excess of the 32 entered in 2023. Highlighted is the return of Todd Slyngstat's HH66 Nemo who was absent in 2023. New this year is an Alibi 65 Surprise, a Thailand built cat featuring a hybrid electric drive.

Caribbean Multihull Challenge Race & Rally. February 1-4, 2024.

Info - CaribbeanMultihullChallenge.com

Enter at YachtScoring.com

Mini Transat: The trade winds, finally!
As expected, the trade winds are returning to the Atlantic. The first to reach them in the middle of last night, the supporters of the southern route flirted with an average of twelve knots for a while before slowing down slightly in the morning. However, they remain the fastest in the fleet in this 24th La Boulangère Mini Transat this Wednesday, and should therefore make up a large part of their gap in the coming hours. According to the latest routings, they could in fact halve their gap between now and the obligatory waypoint on the current points leaders who remain the "northerners". "Northerners" who are not yet all benefiting from the famous northeast winds but who are nevertheless progressing directly towards the next mark on the course.

As they begin their fifth day at sea as part of stage 2 - Air Caraibes, almost all of the competitors in La Boulangère Mini Transat are now sailing downwind, propelled by the trade winds that they were so impatiently awaiting. The latter have in fact begun to recover on the route to the Antilles. The first to have recovered them, the southerners have clearly accelerated the pace since yesterday evening, after having, it must be said, slowed down since their departure from La Palma. For a handful of hours, they actually posted double-digit speeds, like Marie Gendron (1050 - Léa Nature) flashing at an average of 11.8 knots at the 6:30 a.m. reading.

Stage 2 at 0300h FR, 2 November

Top five, Proto
1. Actual, Jacques Delcroix, FRA, 2066 nm to finish
2. Ashika II, Uros Krasevac, SLO, 4.1 nm to leader
3. Celeris Informatique, Victor Matieu, FRA, 12.9
4. Osons Ici et Maintenant, Hubert Marechal, FRA, 15.5
5. Marc SA, Mael Crochet, FRA, 17.5

Top five, series
1. race=care, Luca Rosetti, ITA, 2086 nm to finish
2. Clochette, Peter Cools, BEL, 8.1 nm to leader
3. SPC, Gregoire Hue, FRA, 11.4
4. Les Optiministes - Secours Populaire 17, FRA, 11.8
5. Audilab, Philippe Berquin, FRA, 16.7

Race Tracker

18ft Skiffs 2023-24 Spring Championship
The new Sixt skiff in action during Race 1. Photo by SailMedia. Click on image for photo gallery.

The 2023-24 Australian 18 Footers League's Spring Championship has produced some close, exciting racing in each of the four races sailed so far and the outcome is far from definite as only five points separate the top four boats with two more races still to be sailed on the 3-buoys Sydney Harbour courses.

Race 5 will be sailed next Sunday (November 5) and the final race on November 19.

There is no discard allowed in the series and podium finishers are penalised for the following race, so teams presently just outside the top group are also well poised to take the championship title.

Following a top class performance against some of the more experienced teams in the fleet, The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines crew of Jacob Marks, Alex Marinelli and Matt Doyle have edged away, by just one point, from the defending champion Yandoo team of John 'Woody' Winning, Fang Warren and Josh Porebski.

The young Oak Double Bay crew's third placing in last Sunday's race has come with a penalty of one minutes for next Sunday's race which adds more pressure on the up-until-now unflappable form.

The leading teams on points, after the first four races of the Spring Championship, are:

19 The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines, Jacob Marks, Alex Marinelli, Matt Doyle
20 Yandoo, John Winning, Fang Warren, Josh Porebski
21 Balmain, Henry Larkings, Fynn Sprott, Flynn Twomey
24 Fisher & Paykel, Jordan Girdis, Josh Feldmann, Jacob Broome
29 Shaw and Partners Financial Services, Emma Rankin, Cam McDonald, Tom Quigley
30 Smeg, Nathan McNamara, Jed Cruikshank, Jack Taylor

Watch the racing live on the 18 skiff youtube channel

Frank Quealey - Australian 18 Footers League Ltd.

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World Sailing invites bids for new format World Sailing Championships
World Sailing is inviting bids to host the next World Sailing Championships, hot on the heels of the outstanding success of the 2023 edition in The Hague.

The seventh World Sailing Championships - to be held between the Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games - will now bring a new opportunity for potential event hosts to bid for a split event.

In a move aimed at opening up the World Sailing Championships to more Member National Authorities and more cities/regions, potential hosts can bid for one of two sessions of the event.

Further details on hosting the seventh Sailing World Championships can be obtained by downloading the bid document from the World Sailing website or by emailing .

The deadline for expressions of interest to host the seventh Sailing World Championships is 30 November, 2023 with final bids required by 30 March, 2024. A final decision will be made by the World Sailing Board in May 2024.

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69F Sailing Unveils 2024 Calendar
69F Sailing has announced its much-anticipated 2024 calendar, featuring a lineup of races at the 69F circuits, both in Europe and in the USA. This season's calendar promises to elevate the excitement and competitiveness with an array of racing events tailored to various age groups and genders

69F Club Super Series USA
Miami Race One: 8-10 December (2023)
Miami Race Two: 12-14 January
Miami Race Three: 23-25 February
Miami Race Four: 15-17 March

69F Cup Europe
Malcesine: 23-28 April
Torbole: 21-26 May
Acquafresca: 23-28 July
Malcesine: 17-22 September

69F Youth Foiling Gold Cup
Miami ACT 1: 21-26 January
Torbole ACT 2: 13-19 May
Malcesine ACT 3 Foiling Week: 17-23 June
Acquafresca ACT 4: 15-21 July
Barcelona/Other Location Grand Final: October/November

69F Women Foiling Gold Cup
Malcesine: 2-5 May
Malcesine: 26-29 September
Barcelona/Other Location Grand Final: October/November

69F Junior Foiling Gold Cup
Malcesine: 27-30 June

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