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In This Issue
• Monaco Swan One Design
• Torrential Montenegro Conditions for 44Cup
• 21st Jersey Regatta
• Oman Air and Zoulou to compete on enlarged 2019 GC32 Racing Tour
• Great British Sailing Challenge: Weston Grand Slam
• Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
• Storage Tips for Your Yacht in the Tropics
• Giant IMOCA 60 turn-out for 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race
• Towards an Eco-friendly Regatta
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: R. U. Sirius

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Monaco Swan One Design
2019 Monaco Swan One Design opened today with a single race. The Yacht Club de Monaco Race Committee, led by Ariane Mainemare, managing the sole opportunity presented by today’s less than promising conditions. The racing proved close across the three classes. The top guns were: Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Skorpios in ClubSwan 50, Luis Senis’ Porron IX in Swan 45 and Lorenzo Mondo’s Far Star in ClubSwan 42. In The Nations Trophy standings, Italy leads from Switzerland and Russia.

A long wait looked in store as the crews gathered at their boats in front of the magnificent YCM clubhouse. The Race Committee were more optimistic than the outlook, taking to the water on time and not holding the teams onshore. The decision was rewarded with the breeze establishing itself sufficiently around midday. The first race was underway at 12.20, with the ClubSwan 50s setting off ahead of the combined Swan 45 and ClubSwan 42 fleet. The 5.7 nautical mile, four-leg course was raced in a maximum of 10-12 knots of easterly.

As part of The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League’s sustainability drive, during the Owner’s Dinner, hosted by investment firm, Banor Capital Ltd, and to be held at the Yacht Club de Monaco on Friday evening, an auction will be held in support of Marevivo. Items have been donated by a number of Nautor’s Swan’s friends and partners, including SEASE, Ferrari, the photographer Carlo Borlenghi, Salvatore Ferragamo, the stylist Marta Farre, Andy Bianchedi and Resort Baia Scarlino. All funds raised will go towards Marevivo’s activities in protecting the oceans.

Racing at the Monaco Swan One Design continues tomorrow, 11 April, with the first signal scheduled for 11.00 CEST.

www.yacht-club-monaco.mc

Torrential Montenegro Conditions for 44Cup
While the forecasts had looked glum and windless, the Bay of Kotor somehow allowed PRO Peter Reggio and the race committee successfully to lay on two races on the opening day of the 44Cup Porto Montenegro.

Having been delayed for an hour and a half tied up to the dock off the Regent Porto Montenegro hotel, several teams headed out into the lake-like bay, not expecting to race, but to practice on the winds ahead of a squall line. Ultimately this southwesterly breeze held, albeit backing severely, for one race before dying on the final run. An hour later, a solid southerly filled in just long enough for PRO Peter Reggio to pull the rabbit out of the hat again, despite the tops of the surrounding mountains being obscured by low cloud and the rain turning torrential.

After two races, the PRO sensed his luck was running out and sent the boats in. Despite the major shifts, the leaderboard is remarkably close after day one with Team CEEREF a mere point ahead of Team Nika with Peninsula Petroleum a further two astern.

Racing is due to start tomorrow for day two of the 44Cup Porto Montenegro at 1130.

44Cup Porto Montenegro results (After 2 races)
1. Team CEEREF, Igor Lah, SLO, 4 points
2. Team Nika - Vladimir Prosikhin, RUS, 5
3. Peninsula Petroleum - John Bassadone, GBR, 7
4. Team Aqua - Chris Bake, GBR, 10
5. Charisma - Nico Poons, MON, 10
6. Tavatuy Sailing Team - Pavel Kuznetsov, RUS, 11
7. Bronenosec - V. Liubomirov & K. Frolov, RUS, 14
8. Artemis Racing - Torbjorn Tornqvist, SWE, 14
9. Aleph Racing - Hugues Lepic, FRA, 15

www.44cup.org

21st Jersey Regatta
Scheduled for 6th to 8th September, this year sees the 21st edition of the renowned Jersey Regatta, the Island’s ‘flagship’ sailing event.

As ever, the Regatta is open to local and visiting boats, alike, with racing for sportsboat, cruiser/racer, Quarter Ton, dayboat, dinghy, sport catamaran and windsurfer classes. The 6th Spinlock IRC CI Regional Championship is included in the programme and will, undoubtedly, be a major attraction for the cruiser/racer fleet.

The Regatta gets under way on the Thursday evening with an ice-breaking reception and skippers’ briefing. A distance race for the sportsboat and cruiser/racer classes opens the programme on Friday whilst Saturday and Sunday feature back-to-back racing with boats competing over distance, round-the-cans and/or Olympic-type courses. The ‘small boat’ classes race separately over Olympic-type courses in the beautiful confines of St Aubin’s Bay. Trophies and prizes are awarded for each day and overall prizes are awarded for the best boats in each class.

Jersey Marinas will be providing complimentary berthing whilst Condor Ferries is offering discounted fares for those wishing to transport their boats to the Island for the event.

The closing date for entries is 29th August but why not take advantage of the attractively low entry fees that are made even more enticing with an ‘early bird’ fee for those entering no later than 12th August. The Notice of Race and entry form are available on the Regatta website, www.jerseyregatta.com.

For further information, please contact the Regatta office, info [AT] jerseyregatta [DOT] com, or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.

Oman Air and Zoulou to compete on enlarged 2019 GC32 Racing Tour
One of the oldest and most successful Extreme Sailing Series teams is set to be among the ten boats jockeying to win the GC32 Racing Tours’ 2019 season.

Team Oman Air supported by EFG Private Bank Monaco will compete on the five event GC32 Racing Tour with two new crewmen. Returning are the team’s British project manager, mainsail trimmer and tactician Peter Greenhalgh, together with Kiwi headsail trimmer Stewart Dodson and long standing crewman Nasser Al Mashari, in charge of board control. They are joined by Adam Piggott from the UK, who is foil trimmer having previously sailed on a variety of GC32 teams, including Pierre Casiraghi’s Malizia - Yacht Club de Monaco and Red Bull Sailing Team in 2017.

Recruited as helmsman is New Zealander Adam Minoprio. In 2000 Minoprio became the youngest ever Match Racing World Champion and he has since sailed two Volvo Ocean Races and been part of the Luna Rossa and Groupama Team France America’s Cup challenges.

But Minoprio is also one of the most experienced and successful GC32 helmsmen. He was steering when SAP Exteme Sailing Team won the Extreme Sailing Series in 2017 and finished third last year. The season before he had claimed several events on the GC32 Racing Tour standing in for Franck Cammas on NORAUTO, after a winter when the French America’s Cup team was training daily on GC32s. In fact Minoprio won the very first GC32 event back in May 2013.

Having come second in the GC32 Racing Tour’s owner-driver championship in 2018 and finish third on the overall podium, France’s Erik Maris returns with his Zoulou team. He has retained the same crew, once again led by America’s Cup veteran Thierry Fouchier and including several who were part of Franck Cammas’ last French challenge for the America’s Cup - Thomas le Breton, Bruno Mourniac from the French Youth AC crew and bowman and GC32 veteran, Nicolas Heintz.

2019 GC32 Racing Tour schedule
22.-26 May: GC32 Villasimius Cup / Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy
26-30 June: GC32 World Championship / Lagos, Portugal
31 July-4 August: 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE / Palma de Mallorca, Spain
11-15 September: GC32 Riva Cup / Riva del Garda, Italy
6-10 Nov: TBA

www.gc32racingtour.com

Great British Sailing Challenge: Weston Grand Slam
The Great British Sailing Challenge moves to the south coast of England for the Weston Grand Slam where boats as diverse as Toppers and foiling Nacra 20 Carbons are set to race each other...

As part of the Great British Sailing Challenge, there are some small changes to the setup of what has already proven a very popular and successful event over the years. As a preview to the average lap handicap racing on the Saturday and Sunday, on Good Friday there is a chance to race against the clock in the Rooster Time Trials. Using GPS trackers provided by SailRacer, the race course will be open between 12.00 and 15.00, where you will be timed over as many laps as you wish to race, with the winner decided on the best average lap, adjusted to dynamic handicap according to the wind conditions experienced. Rooster have provided some great prizes for the top 3 and winners across GBSC divisions, with class prizes for those with three or more boats competing.

For the Saturday and Sunday, there will be three back-to-back races per day with the racing run under the tried-and-tested Great Lakes handicap numbers. Competition at the front will be tough, with the likes of catamaran superstar Grant Piggott likely to be leading the charge. Other previous category winners at the Grand Slam in the dinghy classes are Steve and Sarah Cockerill who won in a 4000 a couple of years back but are likely to show up in their RS400, Andrew Rawson in the Laser and a host of Contender stars including the local legend Keith Paul. As well as the category winners, there will be an overall winner for the first time.

With Rooster Sailing providing the prizes for Good Friday, the local watersports specialist retailer Andark are sponsoring the prizes on the Saturday and Sunday.

GBSC Calendar - Remaining events in 2018 / 2019 series
Weston Grand Slam - 19-21 April 2019
Derwent Dambuster, Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club - 11 & 12 May 2019
Wilsonian River Challenge, Wilsonian Sailing Club - 1 & 2 June 2019
Bala Long Distance, Bala Sailing Club - 22 & 23 June 2019
Mountbatten Centre, Plymouth - 8 to 10 August 2019
Ullswater Ultimate, Ullswater Yacht Club - 17 & 18 August 2019
Grand Finals, Rutland Water Sailing Club - 28 & 29 September 2019

www.sailingchallenge.org

Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
An events management role has become vacant based at the sailing office at 60 Knightsbridge reporting to the Chief Sailing Officer, Richard Ambler.

The role is fast paced and varied managing sailing events both in Cowes and at Queen Mary reservoir and also at the Clubhouse in Knightsbridge. The candidate should have a background in event management and a knowledge and interest of sailing. Some weekend and evening work will be required for which time in lieu will be granted.

Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter with current salary to sailing [AT] royalthames [DOT] com

Storage Tips for Your Yacht in the Tropics
As summer approaches in the Caribbean, many sailors are looking for the answer to the age-old question of what to do with their boat in the hurricane season.

After the disasters of 2017, most sailors think they know what NOT to do with their boat. When compared to the time and depreciation cost of sailing to the US or Europe, it may become an option to store your boat within the Caribbean. There are lots of things to think about beforehand, and quite a few things you can do to your vessel to reduce the effects of summer storage in the tropics.

First thing is to check the coverage of your insurance company for the location you are considering.

Surprisingly enough, coverage is still available for named storms within the hurricane belt. If your current insurance policy does not cover you adequately, ask the boatyard or other cruisers, as there are companies that do insure year round in the tropics. Don’t forget that the definitions of the ‘hurricane belt’ and ‘hurricane season’ are somewhat defined by the insurance companies, and are no guarantee of safety or risk.

Six more tips from Glenn Harman at All At Sea: www.allatsea.net

Giant IMOCA 60 turn-out for 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race
One of the largest fleets of IMOCA 60s ever gathered is due to set off on the Rolex Fastnet Race on Saturday, 3rd August. 29 of the boats, best known for their use in the Vendee Globe singlehanded non-stop round the world race, will assemble on the Cowes start line of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's premier event to take part in the biennial voyage to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock - 26 competing in the IMOCA class, another three in the main IRC fleet.

This line-up is the third biggest in IMOCA history, after the 2016-17 and 2008-09 Vendee Globes, and is due to the Rolex Fastnet Race being a qualifier for the next Vendee Globe.

The IMOCA class is also now under the microscope internationally after its selection as one of the two classes for the next Ocean Race (ex-Volvo Ocean Race).

Eight new foilers are set to be on the start line of next year's Vendee Globe. Two are currently entered in the Rolex Fastnet Race - Jeremie Beyou's Charal, launched last year, and Sebastien Simon's Arkea-Paprec, a brand new design from Juan Kouyoumdjian, launching this June. Simon, winner of last year's La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, will be sailing with 2004-05 Vendee Globe winner Vincent Riou, who also won the Rolex Fastnet Race in 2015 aboard PRB. (PRB is also competing, but with new skipper Kevin Escoffier, who sailed Dongfeng Racing Team to victory in the last Volvo Ocean Race, alongside Jeremie Beyou).

Among the older foil-assisted boats are Bureau Vallee 2, formerly the 2016 Vendee Globe winner Banque Populaire, now skippered by Louis Burton. German skipper Boris Herrmann returns with Malizia (ex-Edmond de Rothschild), which he sailed to third place in the last Rolex Fastnet Race. Italian ex-Mini sailor Giancarlo Pedote has acquired the former St Michel Virbac previously campaigned by Jean-Pierre Dick and Yann Eliès.

Britain's Sam Davies is back on Initiatives Coeur (originally Michel Desjoyeaux's 2008-9 Vendee Globe winner Foncia), having taken over this campaign from Tanguy de Lamotte, with whom she claimed fourth place in the last Rolex Fastnet Race. This time Davies is sailing with Paul Meilhat, winner of last year's Route du Rhum and the last Rolex Fastnet Race.

Having sold their 2016-17 Vendee Globe winning IMOCA 60 to Louis Burton, Banque Populaire is back in the class having acquired the former MACIF/SMA, originally Francois Gabart's 2012-13 Vendee Globe winner. For their latest programme they have recruited 29-year-old Clarisse Cremer, following her second place in the 2017 Mini-Transat La Boulangère's Series class. On board for the Fastnet race with Cremer will be the team's principal skipper, 2016-17 Vendee Globe winner Armel le Cleac'h, as he awaits the launch of his new replacement Ultime maxi-trimaran.

Miranda Merron makes a welcome return to the IMOCA 60 after a long tenure in the Class40 with her latest Campagne de France - the former Temenos/Great American IV.

Other female skippers competing are Ireland's Joan Mulloy, on Mike Golding's former Gamesa, France's Alexia Barrier on 4myplanet and Franco-German skipper Isabelle Joschke on MACSF.

www.rolexfastnetrace.com

Towards an Eco-friendly Regatta
For its 10th edition and building upon the great work from the Collectivity of St. Barth with the Assises de l’Environnement (Environment Symposium), which took place on the island last December, the organizers of Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille are committed to make the event as clean, ethical and eco-friendly as possible.

Thanks to the support of the 11th Hour Racing organization, the Sailor for the Sea association and the Agence Territoriale de l’Environnement de Saint-Barthelemy, Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille has put in place various environmental actions. Moving towards zero plastic requires its use to be limited as far as possible, whilst favoring reusable or recyclable equipment. One example is that the event has replaced disposable cups with eco cups, eliminated drinking straws and plastic bags, and will exclusively use biodegradable materials.

In association with their partner Caisse d’Epargne CEPAC, the organizers of Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille are offering a series of conferences throughout the week for schoolchildren from the island’s primary schools, with 5 students from the ENS, the INSA and the OceaSciences association, who will be presenting their Exploragyr project, a year-long yacht-based scientific adventure with an ecological vocation.

In fact, their research focuses on microplastics. For now, no antidote has been found and the latter is concentrated at the heart of the gyre, a large circular marine current. Their aim is to provide crucial knowledge in the struggle to combat plastic pollution in the marine environment, as well as share it with the widest possible audience, and children in particular.

www.lesvoilesdesaintbarth.com/us

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In This Issue
• Charleston Race Week
• Monaco Swan One Design
• Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
• Antigua Sailing Week - Caribbean Role of Honour
• Hempel World Cup Series - Round 3
• Flat Earth Cruise Scheduled for 2020
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Sailing is helping the Caribbean after Hurricane Irma
• Sun sets on a long day at RS:X Europeans
• Should Sailors Be Certified?
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Paul Krassner

Charleston Race Week
Action in the 24th edition of Sperry Charleston Race Week gets underway on Friday with seven separate race cours being set on the Cooper River and out in the Atlantic Ocean. A new racing area located just south of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge has been created to accommodate the exciting M32 catamarans, which are making their debut at this iconic event.

There are eight of these spectacular high-performance multihulls competing here in Charleston and spectators watching from on land or water will marvel at the speeds they can achieve. Veteran professional Ian Williams, tactician for owner Rick DeVos aboard Rev, said the M32 can easily hit 25-30 knots downwind.

"They're amazing machines and the racing can get pretty intense," said Williams, who recently captured the Congressional Cup. "This race course is a bit more restricted than we're used to. We may have boundary marks, which will make the tactics a bit different this week."

Williams said the class utilizes the same type of course created for the America's Cup catamarans - a reaching start followed by windward-leeward action. A six-leg course can be completed in 20 minutes and that is why the M32 will often hold six races per day.

"It's a lot of action in a short span of time," Williams admitted.

Among the returning champions are the top two award winners from 2018. Skipper Peter Duncan and his Relative Obscurity team will be back to defend the Charleston Race Week Cup after capturing the highly-competitive J/70 class last year.

That prestigious perpetual trophy is presented for the best overall performance by a one-design entry. Winner of J/70 class, largest of the regatta with a whopping 56 entries, will certainly contend for the Charleston Race Week Cup as racing figures to be fierce. -- Bill Wagner

The Pursuit Class race starts at 930 Eastern Daylight Time, Offshore circle 5 at 1030, Inshore circles 1,2,3,4 at 11.

charlestonraceweek.com

Monaco Swan One Design
The second day of racing at the 2019 Monaco Swan One Design ended in disappointment for the competing crews, despite the best efforts of the Yacht Club de Monaco Race Committee; the sole race of the day abandoned just before the second windward mark. The YCM had kept everyone ashore while waiting for the breeze to fill in and a start was eventually organized at 14.45. Frustratingly, the stability of the already fragile wind deteriorated sufficiently during the race for the officials to call a halt and send the yachts home for the day. Racing is planned to resume tomorrow.

With no race today, the standings from the first day remain unchanged. Skorpios (RUS) leads ClubSwan 50, Porron IX (ESP) heads Swan 45 and Far Star the ClubSwan 42 division. Italy is top country in The Nations Trophy.

www.yacht-club-monaco.mc

Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
An events management role has become vacant based at the sailing office at 60 Knightsbridge reporting to the Chief Sailing Officer, Richard Ambler.

Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter with current salary to sailing [AT] royalthames [DOT] com

Antigua Sailing Week - Caribbean Role of Honour
Winning class at Antigua Sailing Week is worthy of proper celebration, but the biggest prize is the Lord Nelson Trophy which has been awarded 51 times since 1968. The regatta attracts teams from all over the world and this year teams from as far away as Siberia, Peru, Hong Kong, and South Australia will be competing in Antigua. Caribbean registered boats have won the overall prize more times than any other region by a landslide, lifting the Lord Nelson Trophy on 22 occasions from 1968 to 2018.

In 2019, the class winners from CSA Spinnaker Classes racing off Committee Boat A, along with the Multihull and Double-Handed Classes, who, for the first time will all be eligible for winning the Trophy. To determine the winning boat, a class weighting factor will be applied to their overall score which recognises the difficulty of achieving first place in a larger fleet.

The most successful Caribbean nation has been Puerto Rico winning the coveted silver bowl nine times. Cesar Berrios racing Enzian won the first regatta and retained the Trophy (1968-69). Tom Hill racing Titan has lifted the Trophy more times than anyone in the history of the regatta (1975, 1987, 1990, 2005). Sergio Sagramoso was the last Puerto Rican to triumph, racing Lazy Dog to overall victory (2017).

Teams from Antigua have won the Lord Nelson Trophy on five occasions. Jol Byerley won twice with Matchless and Sundance (1972-73), and Scott Ledbetter with Any Taxi (1995). In recent years, Jonty and Vicky Layfield racing Sleeper (2015), and Sir Hugh Bailey racing Gypsy/Ugo (2016), have both won for the host nation. Both the Layfields and Sir Hugh will be racing for glory again this year.

For the 52nd edition, 12 teams racing under the flag of Antigua & Barbuda will be racing, including Jules Mitchell's young crew, all products of Antigua's National Sailing Academy. Last year the team on NSA Spirit won class and are back, hungry to win in 2019! Over 40 young Antiguans in total will be racing this year on a variety of boats as part of the Youth to Keel Boat (Y2K) Programme.

Teams from the US Virgin Islands have won the Lord Nelson Trophy five times. Bob Thompson racing I'll Do (1971). John Foster racing Antidote won and retained the Trophy (1980-81). America's Cup winner Peter Holmberg has also done the double with Airbus and Blazin (1985-86).

Howard Palmer's Immigrant (1993) is the only Bajan boat to lift the Lord Nelson Trophy. Bajan TP52 Conviction will be racing again this year, chartered to Canadian Richard Reid, racing as Zingara/Conviction. The sole British Virgin Islands victory was scored by Robin Tattersall's Expression (1984). Paul Dieleman's Enerserve (1994) won for St.Maarten, and this year, Ben Jelic racing Jaguar, flying the colours of St. Maarten, has high hopes of emulating Dieleman's win 26 years ago.

For the 2019 edition of Antigua Sailing Week, other Caribbean teams racing include; Raphael and Raymond Magras' Maëlia CEPAC Antilles and Speedy Nemo respectively, representing St. Barths, Jean Michel Figueres racing Perseverare Diabolicum from Martinique, and James Gardner and Jerry Bethell's Indy-Loosha Sails from St.Lucia.

Entry for Antigua Sailing Week is still open, but please enter online by no later than Friday, April 19, 2019. Entries may be accepted after that time but will be charged an entry fee of US $15 per foot. -- Louay Habib

www.sailingweek.com

Hempel World Cup Series - Round 3
Genoa, Italy: From 14 to 21 April 2019, Genoa will host its first Hempel World Cup Series event and the third of the 2019 Series following events in Enoshima, Japan, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venue, and Miami USA.

Genoa is the penultimate stop of the 2019 Series with the event the last opportunity for sailors to book a spot at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France at the start of June.

In 2020, the event will act as the European continental qualification regatta for Tokyo 2020, marking its importance to the international sailing calendar.

Racing at Hempel World Cup Series Genoa will be held using the entire area of Fiera di Genova, the same venue that hosts the International Boat Show every year.

The sailing classes involved in the World cup series are the ones that competing in the olympics: Laser and Laser Radial
470 M and 470 W
49er and 49erFX
Finn
RS:X M and RS:X W
Nacra 17
2.4mR (Para World Sailing)
Men's and Women's Kiteboarding

wcsgenova.com/genova.aspx?lingua=0

From the "Should Be Forcibly Sterilized" Department: Flat Earth Cruise Scheduled for 2020
Organizers of an annual conference that brings together people who believe that the Earth is flat are planning a cruise to the purported edge of the planet. They're looking for the ice wall that holds back the oceans.

The journey will take place in 2020, the Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) recently announced on its website. The goal? To test so-called flat-Earthers' assertion that Earth is a flattened disk surrounded at its edge by a towering wall of ice.

Details about the event, including the dates, are forthcoming, according to the FEIC, which calls the cruise "the biggest, boldest adventure yet." However, it's worth noting that nautical maps and navigation technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS) work as they do because the Earth is … a globe.

www.livescience.com

flatearthconference.com

Seahorse May 2019
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

World news
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Everything in its place
Best known for the elegant and well-engineered equipment that is used on many of the world's fastest raceboats, UBI Maior's technology is also increasingly seen aboard the most stylish and innovative cruiser-racers

When life's (not) a drag
Put together everything that's been achieved to date and Future Fibres believe that the best of all worlds is now steadily drawing within reach

What's in a name?
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Sailing is helping the Caribbean after Hurricane Irma
Judy Petz fights back tears as she describes the damage wrought by Hurricane Irma on the British Virgin Islands, her home of 21 years. "There was no power, no water," she recalls, voice faltering. "Pretty much 90% of the country," had been severely impacted, she adds.

Irma struck in September 2017 and was one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin with maximum wind speeds of 185 mph. It killed five people in the BVI while a further 39 lost their lives in other nations throughout the Caribbean. Hurricane Maria followed shortly after, devastating Dominica, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Although Petz was in the US during Irma, she faced an agonizing wait to hear from her husband who remained at their property on the island of Tortola. Communications were knocked out by the storm meaning it was almost two days before she knew he had survived.

The thought of yachting, and staging the annual BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Week -- a large international event that marks one of the highlights of the tiny country's sailing season and for which Petz is the director -- seemed frivolous amidst the carnage.

Yet when Petz made it back to Tortola, a place she describes as "one of the most beautiful" on earth, she knew she had to help the battered islands return to some kind of normality as quickly as possible.

She committed to putting on the regatta to show that life continued on the BVI, not to mention attract visitors and offer a welcome fillip to the hard-hit tourism sector. With no power and significant damage to the host marina, however, such ambitions seemed unrealistic.

Yet in the space of six months, Petz and her team were able to attract 70 yachts and their crews some from as far afield as the UK and France. That feat was all the more remarkable considering much of the work was done on computers powered by solar batteries and the venue was prepared from near scratch.

"I keep telling people it was the miracle regatta because it happened over Easter," she says.

"It was really significant, at least to me to say, 'you know what, we will go on.' The sailing industry has a foundation here that even a category five hurricane can't destroy completely," Petz adds.

Full article in CNN: edition.cnn.com/2019/03/26/sport/

Sun sets on a long day at RS:X Europeans
For the 333 competitors sailing in the RS:X European and Youth European Championships, it was an epic day of waiting and more waiting as the wind toyed and teased the race officers and fleets. By the time the Women were coming ashore, the sun set providing a beautiful backdrop against the multicoloured fleet, it had been a massive ten hours of waiting, postponements and sore arms and legs for some fleets.

Palma, Mallorca again looked to test, but this time the race officers were the ones being tested with a fluctuating breeze that never really stabilized throughout the day. For the Youth Women and Youth Men, fortune favoured their course area a little more than the Senior course area. The Youth course was a little further offshore and benefitted from a more stable wind and allowed for all three races to be completed in good time - sailors coming ashore tired but with a good qualification series.

As the all important split at the end of today's racing, there was a flurry of protests at the end of racing and all results are provisional at the time of writing - the Jury working late into the night to make the right and fair decisions for the protests heard.

Full results

www.rsxclass.org/europeans2019/

Should Sailors Be Certified?
Other than attending a summer sailing program when I was 10 and 11, I have never been to a sailing school or taken courses for any sort of official certification. I think that's true of a lot of skippers of a certain age, many of whom are excellent sailors, competent skippers and safe boat owners. They, like me, learned from others while sailing as much as possible. But if we want to charter in European waters, many charter companies require an official certificate stating that we have passed a required course from a recognized sailing school and are therefore deemed competent to skipper a charter boat.

Charter and insurance companies in the US, Canada and the Caribbean do not require such an official certificate of competence. But many sailors who do charter and do buy insurance also have taken courses from sailing school certified by US Sailing and ASA. And, 42 states have some sort of mandatory boater education requirements and one, Alabama, requires boaters to obtain a license. Should these certificate holders get a break on insurance as young drivers do after taking a drivers' ed course? Should charter companies encourage or even insist that bareboat skippers hold a certificate of competence as commercial boat captains do whenever they run a boat for hire or carry passengers?

Boating safety and seamanship courses are great. But should they be required for those who want to skipper their own boats or take a bareboat out on charter? What do you think? Send your ideas and opinions to me at george [AT] bwsailing [DOT] com -- George Day, publisher of Blue Water Sailing

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In This Issue
• Spectacular Day on Charleston Harbor
• High Spirits Close Out Monaco Swan One Design
• Throw it out there - Nautor Swan
• Team CEEREF claims golden wheels at Porto Montenegro's conclusion
• As Popular As Ever, The Mini 6.50
• Sardhinha Cup
• Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
• Francis Joyon Ready To Explore Some New Horizons
• Camden Classics Cup
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Paul McCartney and John Lennon

Spectacular Day on Charleston Harbor
Sperry Charleston Race Week concluded in spectacular fashion with strong winds producing exciting action and several classes being decided during the last race.

VX One, J/88, Viper 640, Melges 24 and ORC C were the windward-leeward classes that went down to the wire. Winners for five of the six Pursuit Hybrid and Pursuit Race, which were unable to complete any racing on Saturday, were also determined on Sunday. Mike Bruno said following Friday’s racing that he’s been jinxed at Sperry Charleston Race Week, suffering problems that prevented podium finishes in 2018 and 2017. The Armonk, New York resident thought his bad luck would be extended when Wings was ruled on-course-side in Race 9 and had to restart.

However, there was a happy ending as Wings redeemed itself big-time in Race 10, which was held in 20-22 knot south-southwesterly winds with gusts approaching 30. Wings rounded the first weather mark in sixth then moved up a couple places by the downwind rounding. Bruno and crew turned it on from there, passing the remaining three boats to get the gun.

That victory in the final start of the three-day regatta gave Wings a two-point victory over Albondigas (Justin Scagnelli, West Nyack, NY), leading Bruno to breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Teamwork, a J/122 owned by Robin Team of Lexington, North Carolina, earned the Palmetto Trophy for the fifth time at Sperry Charleston Race Week. Jonathan Bartlett called tactics on Teamwork, which won all six races in ORC B class on the Hybrid Pursuit course.

Full results on Yachtscoring

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High Spirits Close Out Monaco Swan One Design
A sun-filled, blue-sky day at the Monaco Swan One Design, hosted by the Yacht Club de Monaco, failed to produce the wind the event so richly deserved at the close of a stop-start week. With no races undertaken, so yesterday’s class leaders became the regatta’s overall winners. Leonardo Ferragamo’s Italian entry, Cuordileone, won in ClubSwan 50, Luis Senis’ Spanish team on Porron IX took home the Swan 45 prize and Lorenzo Mondo’s Far Star from Italy carried top spot in ClubSwan 42. In the battle for The Nations Trophy, Cuordileone and Andrea Masi’s ClubSwan 50 Ulika combined to give victory to Italy.

The final prize giving remained the usual uplifting, celebratory affair for a Swan One Design event despite the number of races contested. 14 boats here, 24 entered for Scarlino and then the Rolex Giraglia, some 40 expected at the Copa del Rey and as many as 45 at The Nations Trophy in October.

Racing in The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League 2019 continues with the Scarlino Swan One Design from 30 April to 4 May.

For full results and more information about the 2019 Monaco Swan One Design, visit: www.yacht-club-monaco.mc

Throw it out there - Nautor Swan
That was the design philosophy that won the last America’s Cup and the exact same approach is driving Nautor’s Swan’s spectacular new Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed ClubSwan 36

What has 36ft, a reverse sheer like a narwhal’s back, a dreadnought bow and chamfered shoulders, nine-foot draught, whale fin rudders with frontedge tubercles, a five-degree raked and fully adjustable HR40 carbon mast, a transverse sliding C-foil that jabs out of its topsides like extendable fangs - and no accommodation whatsoever? The new ClubSwan 36 looks breathtakingly extreme.

Its vital stats - SA/D of around 50 and ballast ratio of 47 per cent - promise interesting performance. And that’s without counting the tonne or more of dynamic lift that the foil generates on a broad reach with 15° of heel. Hard on the wind and heeled a bit further, that same foil produces so much sideways force that you’re looking at negative leeway. Judging the right moment to tack, to lay a windward mark without overshooting it, requires you to recalibrate one of the basic instincts of sailing.

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

Team CEEREF claims golden wheels at Porto Montenegro's conclusion
The Bay of Tivat came good for the final day of the 44Cup Porto Montenegro with three races held and a most worthy winner in Igor Lah's Team CEEREF. The Slovenian team led this first event of the 2019 44 Cup from the outset. Today neither they nor Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika won a race, but showed impeccable consistency, both enjoying a trio of podium place results, elevating Team Nika from fourth to second overall.

Today's opening race got underway in light conditions, but eminently race-able by the nimble RC44s. In this Chris Bake's Team Aqua won the pin and then match raced Team CEEREF for the duration, ultimately finishing ten boatlengths ahead.

Team CEEREF's victory at the 44Cup Porto Montenegro was by seven points from second placed Team Nika, in turn two ahead of Team Aqua, with Peninsula Petroleum relegated to fourth after a disappointing final race. Incredibly even though Lah's team won the seasons in both 2016 and 2017 and came close last year, the 44Cup Porto Montenegro is their first event win since the World Championship in Sotogrande three years ago.

However Lah was most proud to have won with his son Tine on board. "I feel proud that he's sailed his first regatta and won it," he said. "We had great starts. Everything was in place like it should be, and the team work was okay, especially since we only had one day of practice. I was really surprised, because I had a feeling we weren't going to race at all and then we have got in nine races - Montenegro has been brilliant."

From Montenegro the RC44s head up the Adriatic to Rovinj, Croatia for their second event of the season, the Adris 44Cup over 29 May to 2 June.

44Cup Porto Montenegro results (After 9 races)
1. Team CEEREF, Igor Lah, SLO, 27
2. Team Nika, Vladimir Prosikhin, RUS, 34
3. Team Aqua, Chris Bake, GBR, 36
4. Peninsula Petroleum, John Bassadone, GBR, 38
5. Tavatuy Sailing Team, Pavel Kuznetsov, RUS, 46
6. Bronenosec Sailing Team, V. Liubomirov & K. Frolov, RUS, 50
7. Aleph Racing, Hugues Lepic, FRA, 54
8. Artemis Racing, Torbjörn Törnqvist, SWE, 59
9. Charisma, Nico Poons, MON, 63

www.44cup.org

As Popular As Ever, The Mini 6.50
After the first races of the year which were sailed in the Mediterranean, this Friday the Mini 6.50 season started on the French Atlantic coast with the start of the Plastimo Lorient Mini. It appears that interest peaks in odd numbered years when the MiniTransat La Boulangère takes place, and 2019 is no exception to that pattern. Tip & Shaft takes stock as the 2019 season starts.

Record participations have already been seen in the first Mediterranean races - the Arcipelago and Italian Grand Prix in particular - and now races in the Atlantic are showing the same upwards spike. "When a Mini-Transat goes well as it did in 2017 when there is good weather and racing all the way, everyone wants to do the next race. The waiting lists are shorter after Mini race upwind across the Bay of Biscay ", smiles Denis Hugues, race director of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère.

The race across the Atlantic currently has more than 100 applicants for the 84 places, 42 sailors who have met the qualification criteria to date (1,000 miles solo on a defined non racing course and 1,500 miles in a race, of which at least 500 must be solo). Hence there is a race to record the necessary miles which started at the beginning of this year, partly contributing to the big entries on the Med.

The trend is also reflected in the development of the training centers. Now in addition to those which have been running for several years - La Rochelle, Lorient, Concarneau, La Grande Motte - others are also seeing significant growth. "The program in Barcelona has developed a lot, as well as that of La Turballe. The latter attracts Mini sailors from Nantes", confirms the president of the Mini class, Sébastien Pebelier. A new training group has just been created in Ouistreham.

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Sardhinha Cup: Excellent Final Leg Fifth Place for Dolan and Foxall on Smurfit Kappa
After minor frustrations marred the first two legs of the Sardinha Cup, Ireland's Tom Dolan and Damian Foxall on Smurfit Kappa finished the first offshore series for the new Figaro Benetau 3 class on a high note, securing an excellent fifth place on the 280 nautical miles third and final stage. They finished in 14th place overall.

"That is more like the result we felt we were capable of. On the first two legs we were sailing fast and generally going in the right direction. But this was a leg when most things went right." smiled Foxall on the dock this morning in Saint-Gilles Croix-De-Vie on the French Vendée coast, the host port of the event and 'home' to boatbuilders Beneteau.

After their 13th place in the shorter, opening Vendée Warm Up leg, then 20th on the first long offshore stage and their fifth on this leg - which was shortened this morning from the scheduled 320 miles to 280 miles - the Smurfit Kappa pair finish 13th overall

From a 'mediocre' start from Saint-Gilles-Crox-De-Vie on Thursday afternoon, the flying Irish duo hit their stride in breezes to 20 knots and proved fast on the 130 nautical miles downwind to a turning mark off Arcachon, south of Bordeaux. They were well inside the top ten of the 32 boat fleet at the southernmost turn.

Yesterday, Friday, Dolan and Foxall gained places on the ensuing upwind stage when there was little wind and the key was working the wind shift created as the sea breeze came in close to the land.

Foxall moves on to his next major project now. Asked if his experience with the new Figaro and his ebullient compatriot Dolan might tempt him to return to the Figaro in which he cut his solo and short-handed teeth some 20 years ago, Foxall said: "I suppose it is 'never say never', but for sure it is great, great racing. It felt very familiar and it was nice to be in that comfort zone."

Won overall by three times La Solitaire champion Yann Eliès sailing with French-based British co-skipper Samantha Davies, the Sardinha Cup has been a useful first event for the fleet and for Dolan who now starts his solo training looking towards the season's pinnacle, June's La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro.

Final top five:
1. Saint Michel - Yann Elies / Samantha Davies, FRA, 21 points
2. Bretagne CMB Performance - Lois Berrehar / Thomas Rouxel, FRA, 34
3. Groupe SNEF - Xavier Macaire / Achille Nebout, FRA, 35
4. Groupe Royer Secours Populaire - Anthony Marchand / Paul Meilhat, FRA, 39
5. Leyton - Arthur Le Vaillant / Pascal Bidegorry, FRA, 46

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Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
An events management role has become vacant based at the sailing office at 60 Knightsbridge reporting to the Chief Sailing Officer, Richard Ambler.

Francis Joyon Ready To Explore Some New Horizons
After his incredible victory in the 2018 Route du Rhum, this year, Francis Joyon will be tackling some very different challenges, most of which are brand new. After a tour in the Mediterranean in the spring, he will begin his 2019-2020 IDEC SPORT ASIAN TOUR with a programme including two famous records (The Mauritius record between Port-Louis in Brittany and Mauritius and the Clipper Route between Hong Kong and London), as well as four new courses in the China Sea for which he will set the reference time with a crew. His faithful trimaran, IDEC SPORT underwent a major refit during the winter with this in mind to ensure her reliability. The maxi-trimaran was relaunched on Friday 5th April in Vannes before heading back to her home port of La Trinite-sur-Mer. We met up with the record-breaker aboard his boat…

IDEC SPORT was relaunched last week. What was done during the winter refit?

“The Route du Rhum was tough on the boat, which suffered in terms of her structure, particularly the daggerboard housing. We got the Multiplast yard involved to get everything back in shape. There was quite a lot of work to do on the electronics, changing all the cables on the boat and the nets. The aim was to ensure IDEC SPORT was as reliable as possible, as we have around 25 or 30 thousand miles to cover in the year ahead.”

You will be taking part in an ambitious campaign of records, called the IDEC SPORT ASIAN TOUR. It will begin with the Mauritius record, a solo record you know well, as you started it ten years ago. The time to beat is 26 days, 4 hours and 13 minutes…

“Yes, on a course between Port Louis and Port Louis (Lorient and Mauritius). The good season is in mid-October and the time frame is relatively short. With that timing, we hope to round the Cape of Good Hope without getting nasty weather and reach Mauritius before the cyclones. In 2009, I had to go a long way south of the Cape of Good Hope, as further north there were strong headwinds. I hope to sail a more favourable, shorter course this time. I still hold the solo record. There have been several attempts to improve on it, in particular, Lionel Lemonchois, but he capsized, although he was ahead of my reference time.”

After Mauritius, you will move to crewed sailing. What records will you be tackling in the China Sea?

“We are launching four new ocean records. The first will take us from Mauritius to Singapore. Then from Singapore, we will go to Vietnam. The following two records will be from Vietnam/Shanghai and Shanghai/Hong Kong. I have already sailed on those seas, but have never had a stopover there. It is going to be fun with the crew discovering places we don’t know. There are going to be some discoveries and adventures.”

www.idecsport-sailing.com

Camden Classics Cup
Sign-ups are streaming in for the fourth annual Camden Classics Cup, July 25-27th.Currently there are 43 on the Scratch Sheet.

The 2019 NOR, Crew Waiver and rules for the Yacht Club Challenge are all updated and posted.

We'd like to give a big shout-out to Stephens Waring Yacht Design. Thanks to their generous support, dockage is included in your registration (while it lasts and it won't). Last year, the docks were full and Saturday night's dance party sold out, so don't delay in registering. As an additional bonus, we're offering an early bird discount through June 1st.

Check the Scratch Sheet and Register Today to join the action.

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In This Issue
• Hempel World Cup Series Genoa
• SSL Gold Cup: The Football World Cup...In Sailing
• Yacht Racing Forum 2019
• Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association 2019 Series
• Inaugural Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race
• FSE Robline becomes Robline
• 10th Edition Of Les Voiles De St. Barth Richard Mille Is Underway
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Germans off to the perfect start as Hempel World Cup Series Genoa opens
Germany's Tim Fischer and Fabian Graf got off to a perfect start in the Men's Skiff - 49er as the first ever Hempel World Cup Series event in Italy commenced in Genoa with racing in the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17.

In a split 65-boat 49er pack, the Germans won both of the day's races in the blue fleet and were the standout performers across the three Olympic events on the water. Meanwhile, in the yellow fleet, New Zealand's Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie picked up a race win and a second to occupy the second podium spot in the early stages of the event.

Sweden's Julia Gross and Hanna Klinga lead after two races in the Women's Skiff - 49erFX and in the Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17, Ben Saxton and Nicola Boniface (GBR) and Italy's Lorenzo Bressani and Cecilia Zorzi share top spot with a win apiece.

Following racing, World Sailing President Kim Andersen joined the Mayor of Genoa, President of FIV and other local officials in the famous Piazza De Ferrari to officially open the event.

Sweden's Gross and Klinga top the 49erFX leaderboard on four points after a third and a first in the blue fleet. Fellow blue fleet racers, Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (BRA), sailed their way to a second and a sixth which positions them in second. Helene Naess and Marie Rønningen (NOR) took the remaining blue fleet race win.

Wins in the yellow fleet went to Stephanie Roble and Margaret Shea (USA) and Tanja Frank and Lorena Abicht (AUT).

In the Nacra 17, the yellow fleet completed two races with one in the blue. Saxton and Boniface took the blue fleet win and Bressani and Zorzi the first yellow. The second yellow fleet race will apply once the blue race is completed on Tuesday. The race win in the second yellow fleet went to Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders (NZL).

The qualifying series in the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 continues on Tuesday at 11:00. The Men's and Women's 470, Laser, Laser Radial and the Finn will also start their opening series. -- Daniel Smith - World Sailing

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SSL Gold Cup: The Football World Cup...In Sailing
A new era in competitive sailing dawned today with the official launch of the Star Sailors League Gold Cup. This will see each nation's top sailing athletes team together into a single crew and then race against one another aboard high performance 47 foot long one design monohulls to establish 'the world's best sailing nation'. Boats are supplied to ensure that, as in the Olympics, it is the sailors who make the difference and not the boats. The SSL Gold Cup also aims to create household names of each nation's top sailing heroes on the basis that sports fans are more likely to support their national teams than the club teams in their country

Designated by the sport's governing body, World Sailing, as a 'Special Event', the SSL Gold Cup is the ultimate event conceived by some of international sailing's most accomplished athletes and the Star Sailors League (SSL), the organisation that created the SSL Ranking, the SSL Grand Slams and the annual SSL Finals. The SSL Gold Cup is set to occur biennially, taking place for the first time in Switzerland during September and October 2021.

The best sailors in the world compete for significant prize money in Star Sailors League events. These have attracted top world champions and America's Cup sailors, plus over 70 Olympians, with 17 gold medals, 16 silver medals and 18 bronze medals between them. These athletes will form the core of their national teams competing in the SSL Gold Cup.

The SSL Gold Cup is open to any nations of the 144 Member National Authorities recognised by World Sailing. As the chances for developed sailing nations will be significantly better than for emerging nations, the format has been designed to boost the chances for emerging nations. To achieve this, the SSL divides the world into three zones: Europe, Africa-Americas, Oceania-Asia. This is then reflected in the number of entries from each - so at each stage of the qualifying rounds the fresh influx of entries will comprise 50% from Europe and 25% each from Africa-Americas and Oceania-Asia.

The first group of nations has been revealed today:

Brazil - Represented By Robert Scheidt
Canada - Represented By Richard Clarke (C)
Croatia - Represented By Igor Marenic On Behalf Of Sime Fantela (C)
Estonia - Represented By Tonu Toniste (C), Tommas Toniste And Andrus Poksi
Germany - Represented By Frithjof Kleen (C), Jochen Schumann, Philipp Buhl
Great Britain - Represented By Matthew Cornwell On Behalf Of Ian Williams (C)
Greece - Represented By Sofia Bekatorou (C), Michail Pateniotis
Hungary - Represented By Zsombor Berecz (C)
Italy - Represented By Vasco Vascotto (C) And Francesco Bruni
The Netherlands - Represented By Roy Heiner (C)
Norway - Represented By Eivind Melleby (C)
Poland - Represented By Mateusz Kusznierewicz (C)
Portugal - Represented By Joao Rodrigues (C) And Afonso Dominguez
Slovenia - Represented By Vasilij Zbogar (C)
Spain - Represented By Roberto Bermudez On Behalf Of Luis Doreste (C)
Sweden - Represented By Freddy Loof (C)
Switzerland - Represented By Eric Monnin (C)
Turkey - Represented By Alican Keynar (C)
United States Of America - Represented By Paul Cayard (C)

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High expectations for Yacht Racing Forum 2019 - November 25-26 - Bilbao (ESP)
The 12th edition of the Forum will once again provide a unique opportunity to network, debate the future of the sport and make business.

The event promises to be fantastic again, with a quality programme that will be revealed after Easter, top speakers and a social programme that we can look forward to.

Shirley Robertson, Andy Rice, Dobbs Davis and Luca Rizzotti will lead the conferences and presentations.

A very beautiful exhibition space, bright and airy, will highlight the exhibitors' stands and provide top level hospitality standards to our delegates.

The Forum is the only conference in the world that brings together all the actors of our sport: designers and builders, sailmakers, technical suppliers but also sponsors, marketing managers, sailors, yacht clubs, regatta organisers etc.

The conference venue, located near Bilbao's famous Guggenheim Museum, also offers great tourist opportunities and will allow Forum delegates to discover a region of the world with great potential for the maritime and yacht racing industry.

Registrations are open (with an early bird discount) : www.yachtracingforum.com

Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association 2019 Series
We have a full and exciting schedule of races in the ISORA 2019 Series with a total of 16 races which will include the two Coastal Series, Night Races and, of course, our traditional Offshore Races. The series has been designed to combine with many top-class regattas and the classics races in the Irish Sea catchment area.

The 2019 series starts with the Viking Marine Coastal Races in Ireland and the Global Display Coastal Race in Wales, both on Saturday 27th April. The coastal race weekend wil be follwed by the by the first Offshore race on 4th May from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead where a warm welcome is awaiting us.

We have again this year teamed up with other races in the Irish Sea and arranged the racing so that deliveries are minimised. This includes the Classics Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race (D2D) and the 100th edition of the Liverpool to Douglas Midnight Race.

The Royal Dee Yacht Club, in conjunction with ISORA are running the RDYC Irish Sea Offshore Championship again this year as part of the VDLR. This includes the Race from IOM (Race 9) and the four coastal races in the VDLR.

ISORA has also been working with ICRA to set up a good programme of day offshore races that will be exciting. Quite a lot of effort and planning has been made to offer boats that are more interested in offshore day racing a quality programme of demanding day races. More Information about the ICRA Championships (7th - 9th July) here.

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Inaugural Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race
The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's inaugural Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race will start this week in Hong Kong's iconic Victoria Harbour. The Club has introduced staggered starts for the race with three of the smaller yachts will heading off on Tuesday 16 April and the rest of the fleet setting off on Wednesday 17 April. The sequence acts predominantly as a safety factor; with the bigger boats coming up behind the smaller fleet for support should they get into any trouble and the added feature is having all the boats converge as they head into the finish in Puerto Galera, Philippines.

To prepare for the event, competitors go through a stringent preparation period, during which all participants are scrutineered to ensure that they satisfy the World Sailing Category 1 Offshore Sailing Regulations (with RORC prescriptions). 15 local and overseas yachts including entries from Philippines and Singapore will participate including Fred Kinmonth's and Nick Burns' GTS 43 Mandrake III, winner of the 2018 Rolex China Sea Race.

The race will have a similar, yet more southern track to the Rolex China Sea Race which traditionally starts in the cooler climate of Hong Kong, then after a bumpy first night, competitors are greeted by clear skies and a full moon as they reach towards the Philippines. As the fleet approaches the northern coast of the Philippines, tactics become supremely important as boats do their utmost to keep moving in the light air that is often found off the coast with the ever present Luzon Hole.

The current forecast is showing a variety of conditions in the various weather models with Wednesday looking like the most stable day with crossing the South China Sea proving more challenging as the race progresses.

The Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race 2019 will start at 1120hrs (HKT) on Tuesday 16 April (HKPN Divisions) and Wednesday 17 April (IRC Racer 0, IRC Racer 1, IRC Racer 2, IRC Premier Cruising). Armchair enthusiasts can follow the action by checking the Yellowbrick trackers which update twice an hour.

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FSE Robline becomes Robline
For those who did not realize it yet, there is a new brand name at the market - Robline. Having its heritage in the 1990s where company TEUFELBERGER acquired FSE, the German yachting brand, and the yachting line segment of Roblon, the Danish rope manufacturer. Together they became FSE Robline back in the days.

To not stop moving forward TEUFELBERGER decided to give this brand a new appealing look - Robline features now the colours monsun grey and cucuum instead of red and blue. Why? Because we want to be forerunners and stand out from the crowd!

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10th Edition Of Les Voiles De St. Barth Richard Mille Is Underway
Picture-perfect conditions greeted the fleets to kickstart the 10th anniversary edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille as the nine classes raced around the west side of St. Barth on racecourses ranging from 24 - 36 nautical miles in 15 - 20 knots of breeze.

In CSA 1, Kuka3 (Cookson 50), leads the fleet of seven, followed by Pata Negra in 2nd, and Triple Lindy, the second Cookson 50 of the fleet, in 3rd.

CSA 5: Credit Mutuel - SGS begins 2019 event in the same form they finished the 2018 edition - sitting in first. Team Island Water World, the smallest boat in the regatta, is in 2nd, and Maelia Caisse d'Epargne Cepac Antilles is in 3rd.

Currently in 4th, the J105 Sunbelt Realty Jenk team hails from Caracou and Bonaire, and is thrilled to be racing at Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille for the first time.

Om CSA 3, John Vincent, skipper of the chartered TP42 Phan is sailing with his long-time crews that he races with between California on a J111 and Florida on his Aerodyne 38.

Across the eight-boat fleet in CSA 4 is Holding Pattern (ST 37), Liquid (J122), El Ocaso (J122), followed by Touch2Play Racing (Reflex 38) in first through fourth, respectively.

In the three-boat fleet of Maxi 1, currently Sorcha sits in 1st, and is skippered this year by Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille 2019's ambassador, Pierre Casiraghi. SHK Scallywag, the Dowell 100 is in 2nd, followed by Ambersail 2 in 3rd.

Miles Seddon, navigator for SHK Scallywag, was pleased with their first day out. "What a nice day - we had great wind, a few small squalls came through which made it a bit gusty and shifty," he said. "It was a really nice course, and a really good effort."

In Maxi 2, the Swan 80 Selene owned by Wendy Schmidt, sits in 1st, followed by Windfall and Sojana.

lesvoilesdestbarthrichardmille.com

Industry News
Edinburgh Marina, Scotland's new waterside destination development, has been granted a marine works licence by Marine Scotland. The licence paves the way for the construction of a new 373-berth marina located less than 2.5 miles from Edinburgh city centre in Granton's Western Harbour. Once complete, it will provide 24/7 access to the sea at all states of tide.

The new Edinburgh Marina has been specifically designed to surpass the Yacht Harbour Association's 5 Gold Anchor rating, complete with a purpose-built clubhouse with brasserie restaurant and bar, and a chandlery. There will also be a fully serviced boatyard and dry-stack operation.

The clubhouse has recently been granted detailed planning permission for its relocation adjacent to Edinburgh Marina's new Hyatt Regency Spa and Conference Hotel. Yacht owners and visitors will be able to benefit from onboard food and drink, concierge services, as well as access to the hotel spa and gym.

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Doyle Sails is proud to announce another impressive name from global sailing has joined their team. Effective immediately Andrew Lechte has joined the Doyle Sails Design Department working alongside Richard Bouzaid, Director of Design, and the rest of the company's expert designers based at the Doyle Sails Headquarters in New Zealand.

Sail design and software development around new and existing sailing technologies has always been at the core of the Doyle Sails operation. Now, the company's central design team has been furthered strengthened with the appointment of Andrew Lechte and his invaluable experience.

Over his long career, working as a sail designer for North Sails on some of their highest profile projects, Lechte's name will be deservedly familiar to many in the sailing industry. Coupled with his work as a sail designer, Lechte has led the logistics on several Olympic, Volvo Ocean Race and America's Cup campaigns. Currently, Lechte is the Technical Advisor for Australia Sailing, collecting performance data on Olympic class yachts and advising on technical projects

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The long running saga of the Greek Cruising tax, known as the TEPAI, was due for implementation on 2 April 2019 following the first attempt to introduce it in 2014. However, the Cruising Association (CA) reports that there has at last been a breakthrough regarding the TEPAI, with the Greeks agreeing to delay this new tax until 2nd May.

They have also published important concessions, namely: Yachts hauled out of the water are automatically deemed "Out of Use" - in their description, "Not in Greek Waters". There is no need to file your ship's papers when hauled out. This will remove a significant issue.

Note: Yachts "Out of Use" but still in the water are required to file their ship's papers with Customs (Transit Log) or Port Police (DEKPA).

Initially, you can back-pay tax if you "willingly" go and pay it, if you are found to be unpaid - and will therefore avoid a fine. Christopher Robb of the CA, who has worked tirelessly to get some concessions from the Greek government, comments, "There are still further issues needing clarification, but the main issues of initial fines has been passed. We still expect that there may be queues at the Port Police at the end of each month, but much of the pressure has been lifted from them." -- Peta Stuart-Hunt

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The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has announced that Grahame Robb Associates (GRA) has been appointed to deliver a bespoke leadership development programme, specially designed to hone the leadership and team development skills of its professional Skippers and Mates ahead of the twelfth race edition.

Winchester based Grahame Robb Associates are experts in providing people and organisational development training programmes on a global scale. They have over 30 years' experience supporting corporate organisations and sports teams with practical, results-focused programmes that produce better leaders, and more effective teams. They deliver strategic leadership development, high performing team training and assist behaviour and culture change initiatives.

The Clipper Race is not only one of the planet's most extreme endurance events, but also one of its toughest leadership challenges. Racing a 70 foot yacht around the globe, whilst taking on Mother Nature's harshest environments for almost a year, is not a job for the faint hearted. Add in a non-professional multinational crew of varied, age, backgrounds, cultures and experience levels to the mix and Skippers and Mates need to be outstanding instructors, exceptional motivators, and strong role models.

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A 252-berth extension to Waikawa Marina on New Zealand's South Island has received approval from the Port Marlborough Board.

The marina already has 600 berths from 8m-20m (26ft-67ft). The marina extension, to the north-west of the existing marina, will provide an additional 252 berths ranging from 10m-25m (33ft-82ft), some of which will cater to multihulls.

The growing waiting lists for both Picton and Waikawa marinas supported the Port's decision to extend, with both marinas having operated at capacity for several years.

Testing of the engineering design concept has been thorough and has included physical modelling of options at the Queensland Government Hydraulics Laboratory.

Other specific considerations include future sea-level rise, coastal processes, water quality and marine ecology including a Kaimoana management plan; and effects on landscape, visual amenity and natural character.

Detailed design of the marina will reflect the style of the newer areas of Picton Marina (near the launching ramp) and will include a public amenity area at the northern end, where aesthetic design has been assisted by Te Ātiawa.

At this stage, the first few berths are expected to be available by early 2021, ahead of the America's Cup.

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* From Alexander Meller

Regarding "From the "Should Be Forcibly Sterilized" Department: Flat Earth Cruise Scheduled for 2020"

My prediction is that during the voyage they will announce that they were unable to go far enough to find the wall of ice, but hope to return in a couple of years (pending new funding) for a new search, so as to go further and find the wall.

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The Last Word
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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In This Issue
• Hempel World Cup Series Genoa
• Soak Racing wins Round One - J/70 UK Grand Slam Series
• Harken® Fly Blocks: Strength Beyond Mass
• Kezenoy-Am Cup 2019
• Solent Sunbeam May weekend
• Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
• Patterns and Protests
• AC World Series Schedule Slips to 2020
• International 14 Century Cup
• The sailing scientist conquering the waves
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Bill Bryson

Hempel World Cup Series Genoa
Norway’s Hermann Tomasgaard and Croatia’s Tonci Stipanovic picked up the first Laser wins on the second day of racing at Hempel World Cup Series Genoa.

Tomasgaard, winner at Hempel World Cup Series Miami, and Stipanovic, Rio 2016 silver medallist, took hard earned yellow and blue fleet victories respectively in the 111-boat Laser pack.

The Italian city was hit with a light 5-6 knot wind on the second day of competition which meant that the split Laser fleet could only complete one race apiece.

Across the eight Olympic events, that features 676 registered sailors from 58 nations, only the 49erFX blue fleet were able to complete a race alongside the Lasers. Denmark’s Ida Marie Baad Nielsen and Marie Thusgaard Olsen claimed the victory. The result has not yet been applied to the overall leaderboard as the 49erFX yellow fleetneed to complete their third race of the series.

Competitors in the Men’s and Women’s 470, 49er, Finn and Nacra 17 remained ashore all day and did not race. The Laser Radial fleet briefly took to the water but conditions were not deemed appropriate.

Racing is scheduled to resume for the 49er, 49erFX, Laser and Nacra 17 at 11:00 on Wednesday 17 April. The remaining fleets all have an additional race scheduled as they aim to catch up on races missed on Tuesday. -- Daniel Smith - World Sailing

www.wcsgenova.com

Results: sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

Soak Racing wins Round One - J/70 UK Grand Slam Series
Warsash Spring Championships 13-14 April - Ian Wilson & Marshall King's Soak Racing started the J/70 UK Grand Slam Series in style, winning the opening round of the nine-regatta Grand Slam Series. Soak Racing scored five bullets out of eight races over the two days, including a hatrick on the last day. Second was Doug Struth's DSP, who scored two races wins, as well as two second places. Paul Ward's Eat, Sleep. J, Repeat was third, just one point ahead of Phil Rees racing Bryn. Ten teams made the top five over the course of the weekend.

Conditions varied dramatically over the two days, with medium wind on the first day, followed by a full on foam up of 20 knots plus on the second day. Air and sea temperature was also a factor, as mid-April is about as cold as the water gets in the Solent, added to a bitter easterly breeze, it was a weekend for wrapping up and keeping warm.

Final top five
1. Marshall King, Soak Racing, IRL, 8 points
2. Doug Struth, D S P, GBR, 16
3. Paul Ward, Eat, Sleep, J, Repeat, GBR, 25
4. Philip Rees, Bryn, GBR, 26
5. Calascione Ripard, Calypso, MLT, 34

www.j-70.co.uk

Harken® Fly Blocks: Strength Beyond Mass
Harken® Fly blocks were specifically developed for use with today's small diameter low-stretch line. They have incredible working loads for their small size and weight. Fly blocks give sailors the power they need and are increasingly found on foiling dinghies, catamarans, sportboats and suspended in cascade-rigged systems offshore. Their weight savings alone promises an instant uptick in racing performance. Harken Fly blocks offer the strength and efficiency of larger blocks, but are much smaller because new high-tech lines allow for smaller aero profiles.

"Fly Blocks offer the strength previously found only in larger blocks in a much smaller package," said Matt Schmidt, engineering leader of the project. "Taken together, it means increased potential performance."

Fly Blocks are available in 18 mm, 29 mm, and 40 mm sizes. The 18 mm blocks feature an integrated stainless steel inner race and rivet, and stainless steel ball bearings and composite fiber-reinforced sideplates. The 29 mm and 40 mm blocks feature a one-piece titanium sheave that doubles as the outer bearing race for their stainless steel ball bearings. The inner race is stainless. Sideplates are fiber-reinforced composite.

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Kezenoy-Am Cup 2019
The Sailing Federation of the Chechen Republic is honoured to invite you to attend our international regatta, the Kezenoy-Am Cup 2019. The event is to be held on the highest lake in Russia, Kezenoy-Am, with a backdrop of the Caucasus.

Russia will host an international sailing event at the height of 1,870 metres above sea level from 23-28 July 2019.

This regatta will welcome guests and professional crews from all over the world. The Kezenoy-Am Cup 2019 is organized by the Ministry of Tourism, the Chechen Republic and the Chechen Sailing Federation.

The regatta will be sailed on the SB20 sailboats, a modern one-design keelboat, with crew no more than four people. About 24 crews will participate in the regatta. The venue is the unique and beautiful Lake Kezenoy-Am, located in northern part of Caucasus Mountains.

Four racing days and a variety of shore activities are organized for the international participants and guests. The cultural programme includes excursions, national dance shows and an introduction to the history and culture of Chechnya.

Luca Babini (ITA), who is a qualified international umpire with outstanding experience in the America's Cup and 2012 Olympic Games, has been invited to judge the races as the head of the international jury.

All interested participants or delegates who require an entry visa into Russia to attend this regatta, will be assisted by the organizing committee. We can provide an official invitation to the regatta on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism of the Chechen Republic.

Organizing Authority provides boat charter, accommodation, meals, transfers, sightseeing tours and entertainment program for 450 Euro (per team). Prize money fund is 16,000 EUR

More details of the Kezenoy-Am Cup 2019 and entry are available at the Sailing Federation website

To apply for the regatta, please complete the entry form on our website - www.chyf.ru/en/join/

The origins of the Solent Sunbeam May weekend event regattas - the Chisholm Weekend and the Chittagong Cup
As one would expect from a fleet of classic yachts dating back to 1922/23, some of the origins and names of the regattas, cups and events are steeped in history. We take a look at the busy May events for the Solent branch of this very active fleet which sails from Itchenor Sailing Club, on Chichester Harbour.

The 4th and 5th of May 2019 will see an enthusiastic gathering of the Sunbeam fleet taking part in the Chisholm Weekend, which comprises intensive back-to-back races on Chichester Harbour, competing for the Chisholm Weekend Trophy. The event is always well-attended as it is the first weekend of two-day racing for this popular classic keelboat, but what is the origin of the name of this event?

The weekend racing event is named after Sir Henry Chisholm, who was a passionate and enthusiastic sailor in the fleet during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Sir Henry bought Sunbeam V24 Fay in 1957 from a boatyard in Bosham and restored her to racing class condition. He became Class Captain of the Solent Sunbeam fleet in 1964 and held the post for 11 years during which he became a hugely important figure in the revival of the class and the restoration of many of the historic boats we see racing today.

The Chisholm Weekend commemorates the enthusiastic leadership that Sir Henry brought to the class which saw its complete reorganisation and revitalisation. During his Captaincy, Henry rescued many of the fleet from oblivion, finding hulls in obscure locations and 'encouraging' a significant number of new owners and regular racers into the class. It's a fitting tribute to this important character that the first weekend of racing is named after him!

At the end of the month, the class will get together for an open series of racing with the winner receiving the Chittagong Cup. The origins of this event date back to the early 1990's when the then Class Captain, Kirk Webster, presented the cup to the fleet. Kirk had acquired the silverware from another owner, Kenneth Bailey, whose father had been given the trophy to mark his retirement from the Chittagong Railway in Bangladesh! So, although not originally connected with sailing, the name has become synonymous with this active and hugely competitive classic fleet of keelboats!

The Solent Sunbeam Chisholm Weekend will take place on 4th & 5th May 2019, and the Chittagong Cup 25th & 26th May 2019, both from Itchenor Sailing Club.

More information on the class and events can be found at www.solentsunbeam.co.uk

Royal Thames YC sailing office vacancy
An events management role has become vacant based at the sailing office at 60 Knightsbridge reporting to the Chief Sailing Officer, Richard Ambler.

Patterns and Protests
Day Two delivered a Caribbean-perfect easterly 15-17 knots for the 10th edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille for the 1,000+ sailors to complete one distance race between 21 - 34 miles dependent upon their class. While too early to place any bets, patterns are forming across seven of the nine classes with consistent 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishes. But as a Maxi collision and a Multhull pre-start protest demonstrated, no lead is safe. Here is today's recap from Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille.

Protests Impact Maxi 2 & Multihull IMRR Classes
Only 40 minutes into Tuesday's race, Selene (Swan 80) and Caro (Botin 65) in the Maxi 2 class called in their retirements after a port - starboard incident that caused damage to both boats.

"It was great conditions and racing out there today," said Tom Burnham, a trimmer on board Selene. "We were with a large group of boats doing a lot of close maneuvers, and in one of them we were on starboard when Caro tacked to port, they attempted to duck but unfortunately hit us on our back-end port side."

Burnham, who is also the coach for the new United States SailGP Team, confirmed they will not be racing tomorrow, as the team needs to further assess the damage. The team is hopeful they can return to finish the regatta later this week. The regatta's signature "day off" mid-regatta on Thursday may help give the team an extra day to make repairs and return to racing for Friday and Saturday.

After placing second yesterday and first today, Windfall, who is last year's winner, now sits first overall in the Maxi 2 class, followed by Sojana.

Alexia Barrier, sailing on board Sojana said the competition is very close between the two boats. "It's impressive to see how Windfall has progressed in recent years; but we on Sojana are fighting a good battle and we know there are no room for mistakes, especially in the maneuvers. We must keep improving if we want to finish ahead of them this week."

In Multihull IMRR, Hallucine skippered by Regis Guillemot and yesterday's leader, ended today disqualified for a pre-start altercation with Arawak - Team Spellbound by Ian Martin, which dropped Guillemot to 4th place overall. Martin is now hoping to capitalize on the opportunity, but will have to overcome Guyader Gastronomie, Rayon Vert and Olmix, who currently sit in the top three spot.

In Multihull ORCmh, Greg Slynstad's Fujin, Stephen Cucchiaro's Flow, and R-SIX began staking claim on the podium with repeat 1 - 2- 3 place finishes today.

www.lesvoilesdestbarthrichardmille.com/us

AC World Series Schedule Slips to 2020
Top America's Cup commentator, Peter Montgomery recently met with Emirates Team New Zealand COO, Kevin Shoebridge on New Zealand's Radio Sport programme, presented by Jason Pine, where they discussed the current state of America's Cup preparation.

With the first AC75 now not expected on the water until the end of July, the opening event in Cagliari, Sardinia, has shifted back from October 2019 to late April 2020.

This schedule allows the Kiwi team a much longer build-up in New Zealand before they have to ship to Europe in early 2020. Also allowing them to get on with their second boat, which is going to be our actual race boat, while they have the first AC75 available for comparison.

Note that the teams are able to launch a second AC75 after February 15, 2020, which is now some two months before the start of the first ACWS regatta in Europe, thus gaining valuable training/development time on two boats, a considerable advantage over those teams going with a one boat programme.

The AC World Series programme now looks like; after Cagliari in April there will be a second event in Europe in June, then one in the USA in late August and then a new, fourth event back in Auckland in October 2020.

www.sailweb.co.uk

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International 14 Century Cup
The Century Cup is an International 14 race held at Itchenor Sailing Club with a twist. Both the helm and crew must have a combined age of over 100.

The history of this race goes back to 1961 when Norman Moore and Captain Charles Currey donated the Century Tankard with the deed of gift saying that both helm and crew must have a combined age of over 100. There have been 27 races for the century cup with the oldest pairing winners Alan Laflin & Eric Arens from San Francisco having a combined age of 135. The oldest sailor to win the trophy was Robin Nott at 73.

The event has a handicap system which gives points to sailors with spare years over and above the 100 required to enter. There is also handicapping to enable classic and vintage 14s to compete against the latest generation of boats. It's a great opportunity for older boats and older sailors to compete on a level playing field as well as meeting up with old friends for a party afterwards.

This event brings together everything that we know and love about the I14 class, mixing the fastest boats with a history that goes back years.

www.sail-world.com

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The sailing scientist conquering the waves
There was something extraordinary about Sally Garrett's victory in the New Zealand women's keelboat championships last weekend, writes Suzanne McFadden of Lockeroom.

To start with, the nucleus of her crew were old friends from the Royal Akarana Yacht Club who'd first raced together in 1999. And this was their first national title.

But what few of her competitors knew was that Garrett, the crew's skipper - and a scientist who studies waves in the Southern Ocean - was hurting whenever the winds rose out on the Waitemata Harbour.

Her pain stemmed from an accident a month earlier, when Garrett was halfway into her voyage racing around New Zealand. She was just off Stewart Island when her boat slewed onto its side in a 'Chinese gybe'.

Her left arm was flung backwards in the accident - the elbow hyper-extended, and her biceps tendon partially tore off the bone.

But Garrett, 42, kept on sailing with her race partner Rob Croft, and became the only woman to complete the Two-handed Round New Zealand race twice. (In fact, she's the only woman to have ever finished the race, full stop).

The injury flared up again on the final day of the three-day national women's keelboat regatta, when she was steering a 10m Farr MRX boat in gusty winds. But again, Garrett quietly carried on.

In winning, Garrett's crew are invited to sail against male crews in the NZ open keelboat championships at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, later this month.

www.yachtingnz.org.nz

* From Malcolm McKeag:

I share Alexander Meller's view that our Flat Earther fleet will not find the wall of ice no matter how far they go but would strongly advise them not to return in despair. If they press on and go far enough they will end up back where they started anyway.

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The Last Word
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. -- Bill Bryson

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In This Issue
• Antigua Classics: Ready About
• Weston Grand Slam Set For Champagne Sailing At Easter
• 21st Jersey Regatta
• Another light day causes delays and cancellations at Genoa World Cup Series
• Classic Yacht Racing Guidelines
• Bluewater Weekend: 22-23 June 2019, Lymington UK
• Safety Preparation for the Mini Transat
• Skipper Line-Up Announced for WMRT World Championship Final
• Tall Ships Youth Trust New Flagship Appeal
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Alan Watts

Antigua Classics: Ready About
The 2019 fleet is in, representing thirteen nations with oceans of blue water between them. Every boat making its way to the contest has a story, some of which we've yet to hear.

The stunning Herreshoff ketch, Arrluuk, has been sailing her family of four around the Caribbean for the past 14 months. 49' Spirit of Tradition sloop, Blackfish traveled from the US on the deck of a ship. 70' converted fishing ketchVendia limped in from Grenada with a broken gaff, currently being repaired, and 115' staysail schooner Eros culminates a charter season at this action packed week

72' Fife ketch Eilean returns to her former home after cruising Jamaica, Cancun and Cuba. Upon completion of a stunning refit at the Fife yard in Italy, she stole the ACYR show in 2012 with infamous guests Duran Duran aboard. 59' Henry Gruber yawl Peter von Seestermuehe, a biennial contender since 1995, crossed the pond from Germany for a trade wind winter.

Thursday begins with the judging of the Concours d' Elégance followed by the Single-Handed Race. Prize Giving ceremonies for both contests are celebrated with the Dark and Stormy giveaway. For those with musical talent, a sense of humour, or a locker full of theatre costumes, don't miss the Sea Shanty Contest and the chance for singing stardom. -- Jan Hein

www.antiguaclassics.com

Weston Grand Slam Set For Champagne Sailing At Easter
Online entry closes on Thursday evening for the Weston Grand Slam, the Great British Sailing Challenge event which takes place this Easter weekend. The forecast looks glorious, with sunny, moderate breezes in store for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Already a host of different craft have lined up for the three-day event, ranging in scope from the RS Aero and D-Zero to the Nacra Carbon 20 high-speed catamaran.

There is flexibility within the event for classes to run their own favoured format, and the Hadron singlehanders have opted for a one-day open meeting taking place on the Saturday only.

For the Saturday and Sunday, there will be three back-to-back races per day with the racing run under the tried-and-tested Great Lakes handicap numbers.

Camping will be free to visiting competitors who are welcome to camp and park their cars and boats in the large field adjacent to the club, overlooking Southampton Water. The camping field will be open from Friday morning until Sunday evening. The bar will be open during the day and on Friday and Saturday evenings. The galley will be open for breakfast, lunches and snacks. And everyone is welcome to attend the evening meal on Saturday night. Tickets can be booked and paid for (cash only) at registration.

For a great weekend's sailing over Easter, come and sail at the Weston Grand Slam. Online entry is open at www.sailingchallenge.org

21st Jersey Regatta
Scheduled for 6th to 8th September, this year sees the 21st edition of the renowned Jersey Regatta, the Island's 'flagship' sailing event.

The Regatta gets under way on the Thursday evening with an ice-breaking reception and skippers' briefing. A distance race for the sportsboat and cruiser/racer classes opens the programme on Friday whilst Saturday and Sunday feature back-to-back racing with boats competing over distance, round-the-cans and/or Olympic-type courses. The 'small boat' classes race separately over Olympic-type courses in the beautiful confines of St Aubin's Bay. Trophies and prizes are awarded for each day and overall prizes are awarded for the best boats in each class.

Jersey Marinas will be providing complimentary berthing whilst Condor Ferries is offering discounted fares for those wishing to transport their boats to the Island for the event.

The closing date for entries is 29th August but why not take advantage of the attractively low entry fees that are made even more enticing with an 'early bird' fee for those entering no later than 12th August. The Notice of Race and entry form are available on the Regatta website, jerseyregatta.com

For further information, please contact the Regatta office, info [AT] jerseyregatta [DOT] com, or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.

Another light day causes delays and cancellations at Genoa World Cup Series
Another poor day weather-wise at the Hempel World Cup Series - Round 3, with race officials forced to cancel all racing in the Laser and for the 470s, which are yet to race, while the Laser Radial sailors started their campaign with just one race and the 49er Blue fleet also got one race in.

In the 49er skiff Blue fleet, where one of two scheduled races was held, Australian Sailing Squad members David and Lachy Gilmour came away with a second place. They are provisionally in third overall. The three remaining Australian 49er teams are in the Yellow fleet; their races were cancelled, so are one race behind the Blue fleet.

"We were pretty lucky to get a race in; the breeze was just above the limit of too light. It was around 3-4 knots," Lachy said. "As we were finishing, it went to custard and that was the end of the day for us.

"It was another day of waiting for breeze. Unfortunately when it came, it didn't hang in. We'll have to go out again tomorrow to get to the qualifying four races stage. The Yellow fleet will have to try for two races. It is a bit frustrating - but it is what it is - everyone is in same position.

"At the front of the fleet where we were, you were getting more breeze than the guys at the back, so we felt like we were in 4 knots, they probably sailed in 2 knots. It wasn't that shifty, it was more pressure dominated today. If you sailed into a dead spot, you got penalised for it. We managed to pick our way through the course avoiding the glassy spots," he said.

"We were pretty happy with how we sailed. The boat felt good and we had superior boat speed," he ended.

In the Laser Radial fleet, the Squad is represented by West Australian athlete Elyse Ainsworth, who sailed in the Yellow fleet today. After a delay, she was away in a 4-knot breeze and came in 15th overall. Officials started a second race for the Blue fleet, but were forced to abandon it as the breeze petered out.

There was no racing for the 49erFX class. The Yellow fleet is still to have a third race to catch up with the Blue fleet.

Once again, and as forecast, conditions were too light to start racing at the appointed times. The 49ers, Laser Radials and 470s left the beach for the racetrack shortly after midday, as race officials were hopeful winds would lift over the 3 to 4 knots range. However, they were forced to hoist the AP flag for many classes before allowing some to race.

Racing at the Hempel World Cup Series - Round 3, Genoa, continues Thursday local time and closes on Sunday 21 April with the final Medal Races. -- Di Pearson for Australian Sailing, www.australiansailingteam.com.au

Full results:

www.wcsgenova.com

Classic Yacht Racing Guidelines
One of the great features of classic yacht racing is the diversity of events and sailing venues. The event can have different philosophies and traditions, but the organizers and the owners all share a common interest in fair racing and increasing participation. The CYOA Technical Committee has long believed that a common set of regulations that event organizers could use while also maintaining the unique character of their events was needed, and with an eye toward consistency, simplification and fairness, they worked together to draft a set of guidelines for the management of classic yacht regattas.

Event organizers can use these guidelines in total, or they can omit components that may not work for a particular event. While the use of the CRF MkII rating rule doesn't require the application of the guidelines, we hope that they will help foster better racing and a better owner experience.

Download the 2019 Classic Yacht Racing Guidelines

Bluewater Weekend: 22-23 June 2019, Lymington UK
Rally organisers World Cruising Club, best known for the annual ARC - Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, have joined together once again with leading offshore yacht broker Berthon International, to host a weekend of conversation about bluewater cruising at Berthon's Lymington UK base in June 2019. This popular weekend is designed to encourage visitors think about all aspects of living their bluewater dream, providing the opportunity to view a wide range of offshore cruising boats and meet experts in refits, sails, communications and boat equipment, all whist mixing and chatting with experienced offshore cruisers in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

The two day event is free to attend, but prospective bluewater sailors will need to pre-register. During the weekend, a selection of fine examples of bluewater boats will be open for viewing, hosted by experienced offshore skippers, many of whom have sailed the ARC or around the world. Mix, mingle and chat about bluewater sailing is the aim of the weekend.

Balancing out the dockside chat will be a series of seminar presentations and discussions about how to embark on your bluewater dream. For those in the market, Berthon's brokerage team will share the story of a boat purchase and refit, drawing on their years of experience guiding purchasers through the process.

For those setting sail with the ARC in 2019 or beyond, a briefing session is also included on the seminar line up. The session will cover rally specific information including the route, ports, and programme, led by World Cruising Club with previous ARC sailors on hand to share their own experiences. Members of the ARC Safety Team and equipment specialists Ocean Safety will highlight key equipment considerations for offshore voyages including liferafts, lifejackets, EPIRBs and other items needed for crossing oceans with the ARC.

The annual Bluewater Weekend is hosted at the Berthon Marina, Lymington over the weekend of 22 and 23 June. Visitors can attend for either or both days and admittance is free. For those wanting to make the most of a delightful weekend in Lymington, there is an optional Sailing Supper on the Saturday evening at Lymington Town Sailing Club a short walk from the marina.

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged as capacity is limited. For more information and to register, please visit www.worldcruising.com/training or contact World Cruising Club on mail [AT] worldcruising [DOT] com

Safety Preparation for the Mini Transat
Six months from now might seem a world away, but it's never long enough to prepare for an epic trans-ocean yacht race especially when the yachts in question are the diminutive Mini 6.50ms and each skipper is alone at sea. The Mini Transat, which starts on 22nd September, is the culmination of the annual Mini circuit, 4050 nautical miles, in two legs, the first from La Rochelle to Gran Canaria and then onwards to Martinique in the French West Indies.

Ocean Safety has just specified their safety inventory for the class, with the delivery of a comprehensive kit to the first up to 100 Mini 6.50 skippers that are preparing to be on the start line. Alistair Hackett of Ocean Safety comments "Safety preparation, for what is the smallest ocean racing yacht in the world, is of paramount importance."

The intrepid men and women competing in the race must meet the exacting Cat One Offshore Special Regulations, which include the mandatory carrying of a marine radio transceiver, first aid kit, SOLAS/ISO liferaft and a host of other equipment. Ocean Safety has already supplied a wide range of products including radio equipment, the Kru Sport 170ADV advanced lifejacket, man overboard retrieval systems, fire-fighting equipment and much more.

While not an exclusive supplier to the race the company's decades of race safety planning, equipment provisioning and training puts Ocean Safety out in the lead in terms of expertise for ocean-going fleets.

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Skipper Line-Up Announced for WMRT World Championship Final
The World Match Racing Tour has announced the skipper line-up for the 2018-2019 WMRT Championship Final from 3-7 July in Marstrand, Sweden hosted by the GKSS Match Cup Sweden. The list of world class sailors features three former match racing world champions including defending champion Torvar Mirsky (AUS), six-time world champion Ian Williams (GBR) and 2016 world champion Phil Robertson (NZL).

The 2018-2019 WMRT Championship Final will conclude the extended 2018 WMRT season as announced last month. The winner of the event will be crowned 2018-2019 Match Racing World Champion as sanctioned by World Sailing, and will have their name engraved on to the WMRT Championship Trophy made by Royal Jewellers Garrard & Co.

Eleven of the top twelve teams from the WMRT leaderboard have accepted invitations to the Championship Final including French multihull maestro Yann Guichard and his Spindrift Racing team. After finishing on the podium at the 2017 WMRT Finals in Shenzhen China, the team have their sights firmly set on a win in Marstrand.

Confirmed skippers for the WMRT Championship Final are as follows;

Nicklas Dackhammer (SWE) Essiq Racing Team
Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar
Yann Guichard (FRA) Spindrift Racing
Harry Price (AUS) Down Under Racing
Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team
Mans Holmberg (SWE) Holmberg Match Racing Team
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team
Markus Edegran (USA) Team Torrent
Phil Robertson (NZL) China One Ningbo
Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) Sailing Team NL
Daniel Bj0rnholt (DEN) Youth Vikings Denmark
To be announced

wmrt.com

Tall Ships Youth Trust New Flagship Appeal
The Tall Ships Youth Trust has launched an appeal to raise funds for a new flagship to help the next generation learn valuable life skills.

The charity hopes to raise £5m for a new 24-berth schooner-type vessel which it will use to give disabled and disadvantaged young people physically and mentally challenging sail training adventures.

Five million pounds will enable the charity to buy a vessel on the open market, re-engineer the internal layout to take groups of young people and buy the equipment needed to ensure she meets Maritime and Coastguard Agency standards.

All donations are welcome with £20 allowing the purchase of a safety harness and £1000 providing a full medical kit. Commercial sponsorship opportunities include naming the ship or a voyage, sponsoring a berth and having the company logo worn by staff, supporters and voyagers together with a mention on the charity's website.

Former director of BAE Systems, Sir Richard Olver, is giving his backing to the charity's latest endeavour. "I want as many young people as possible to have an opportunity to sail with us, particularly those who have had a tough start in life," he said. "In a world that can exclude young people, sailing as part of a Tall Ships Crew makes for an inclusive and truly empowering few days."

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www.tallships.org/appeal/the-new-flagship-appeal

* From Philippe Serenon
Past President UNCL during the Areva Challenge

Although I agree with the fact that our sport, like all others, needs to improve its marketing for a better visibility and attractiveness, for several past editions, the America's Cup got it wrong in trying to adapt too much to the constraints of TV, at expense of its authenticity.

The America's Cup has built part of his legend on secrecy: When Australia II took away the AC from America, it was because their famous winged keel was hidden before taking the boat out of the water after races. Talking a couple of years later at Paris Boat Show with Ben Lexcen, he had told me that the true innovation was rather in the rigging than in the keel which was more of a lure, a bait.

This why I think that , considering the incredible amount of innovation of the AC75 including new ways of sailing, organizing ACWS ahead of the Cup itself is a big big mistake: Not only time flies and being ready in January 21 is a challenge in its own right but it kills the tension that media would convey to the public should he be invited to discover the boats only when in Auckland for the Cup. Even for sponsors, if the Cup is a success, then it makes sense to do the ACWS after its legend is built. It is a bit like inviting the public in a theatre to see the decor and costumes prior to the actual play...

At least each syndicate can train separately (look at the media success of the Mule), hiding what it wants until meeting other boats at the first race in Auckland. And it would give work to spies!

The general public does not really care if boats hit 40 or 45 knots, what interests is the battle between 2 boats. Let's not be biased by our internal technically orientated judgements. Rod Davis says it better than I do in the last Seahorse Magazine.

* From Frank Newton ( Sorebones)

re: Flat Earthers

We must not assume that these intrepid sailors intend to go round the globe East to West or West to East. They may decide to go North to South or South to North . On finding a wall of ice they will assume their case proven .

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The Last Word
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. -- Alan Watts

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In This Issue
• Single-Handed Race and Sea Shanties
• RS:X European & Youth European Championships and Open Trophy
• Playing smart in the money markets
• Hat-trick puts Dutch 49erFX team in pole position at Hempel World Cup Series
• Etchells Southern Area Championship
• Hidden Horsepower - Harken
• Hamble Classics Regatta 20-22 September 2019 hosted by the RAF Yacht Club
• 5 teams granted boats after 2019 RLYC Etchells Class Youth Trials
• Regates Royales Cannes
• Luigi Lang
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Julian Beck

Single-Handed Race and Sea Shanties
The Twentieth edition of the Single-Handed Race took place on the eve of Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, sponsored by LOCMAN. Four days of full fleet racing at Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta will start tomorrow April 19.

Eleven stunning examples of classic yachts took part in a stand-alone race lasting just over one hour along the dramatic south coast of Antigua. With moderate trade wind conditions of 14-16 knots, and a relatively smooth sea state, perfect conditions prevailed for the almost unique phenomenon of racing classic yachts single-handed.

Race Officer Tim Wall set a short course with a reaching start, inside Falmouth Harbour, followed by a short beat to a mark just off English Harbour, then a longer downwind leg to Turtle Bay, a beat back to Falmouth Harbour and a reaching finish. Skippers raced solo without the use of auto-pilot, but were allowed an observer on board, who could not participate in sailing.

Don Ward's Dykstra 44 Willpower took line honours in the Spirit of Tradition Class but after time correction was third. Tanner Jones racing the 1963 Jack Holt 28' sloop Rita was second, and the winner was Geoffrey Pidduck's 1989 Six Metre Biwi Magic, sailed by Tony Sayer.

Juerg Zimmermann's 1969 yawl Lazy Leg, designed by Bill Tripp, took line honours for the Small Classics but was second after time correction. The 1986 Burgess 42' sloop Morgaine, skippered by Guido Schotman, was third. Guido was resplendent in a Caribbean style suit at the prize giving, and was enjoying the night with his crew.

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RS:X European & Youth European Championships and Open Trophy
Medal race day at the RS:X Europeans and Youth Europeans turned into a blast around Palma bay as Mallorca turned it on to end the championships in epic fashion. For the 333 competitors taking part in the final race of the event, it was a short postponement ashore before a perfect 12-15 knots filled in for the medal races. As the breeze built, the race officers decided to use the reaching start courses which allowed the competitors to blast off the start to the first mark - a spectacular sight to watch as the top ten sailors hit the line at full planning speed!

Lilian de Geus from the Netherlands is European Champion as she had a spectacular climax in the medal race with a win and also takes the open title from Yunxiu Lu from China. Emma Wilson from Great Britain was second European after France's Charlene Picon capsized at the start and failed to recover during the race. Picon finished 9th in the race and ends the regatta fourth overall and third European.

De Geus is now both the World and European Champion and after her disappointment from Rio 2016, she has her eyes firmly on Tokyo.

The Youth women Under 17 title went to Manon Pianazza (France) as she finished strongly to end her regatta with a 4th place in medal race. Pianazza just edged out Sharon Kantor (Israel) who finishes second in the Under 17 fleet.

In the Youth Men title race, it was Frenhman Fabien Pianazza who took the title by just a single point from Italy's Nicolo Renna. -- Bas Edmonds

Open and Mens Europeans top three
1. Kiran Badloe, NED, 38 points
2. Dorian Van Rijsselberge, NED, 49
3. Thomas Goyard, FRA, 66

Mens U21
1. Yoav Cohen, ISR, 99
2. Luca Di Tomassi, ITA, 136
3. Andy Brown, GBR, 137

Open Womens
1. Lillian De Geus, NED, 39
2. Yunxiu Lu, CHN, 42
3. Emma Wilson, GBR, 46

Womens Europeans
1. Lillian De Geus, NED, 39
2. Emma Wilson, GBR, 46
3. Charline Picon, FRA, 53.2

Womens U21
1. Emma Wilson, GBR, 46
2. Katy Spychakov, ISR, 83
3. Noy Drihan, ISR, 93

www.rsxclass.org/events/europeans/

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Hat-trick puts Dutch 49erFX team in pole position at Hempel World Cup Series
Odile van Aanholt and Marieke Jongens (NED) snapped up a hat trick of race wins in the 49erFX to propel themselves into pole position at the Hempel World Cup Series event in Genoa, Italy.

Hitting the top of the 49-boat 49erFX fleet holds special relevance for van Aanholt and Jongens as the event is the first of two qualification events for Dutch qualification to Tokyo 2020 in the 49erFX, so the stakes are high. Four other Dutch teams are currently competing and sit in ninth, 18th and 36th.

Genoa was alive and kicking on Thursday for the fourth day of competition after fleeting winds the days prior dented progress in the racing schedule.

A 5-7 knot western breeze ensured that every fleet, minus the Laser Radial, managed to complete at least one race as the organisers work hard to catch up on races lost the days prior.

Van Aanholt and Jongens' fleet, the yellow, completed three races in the 49erFX whereas the blue completed two. The 49erFX fleet now has five complete races which has brought the qualification process to a close, enabling gold and silver fleet racing on Friday.

Hempel World Cup Series Genoa is an important event for many teams with internal Tokyo 2020 qualification battles heating up but for Van Aanholt and Jongens, their perfect day has gone a long way in giving them an early initiative.

Racing starts at the earlier time of 10:00 local time on Friday as the Race Committee look to capitalise on a stronger breeze forecast early in the morning. -- Daniel Smith - World Sailing

Results are available here - sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

Etchells Southern Area Championship
On the weekend of the 13th and 14th April, the Cowes Etchells fleet competed in the Royal Thames Yacht Club's Southern Area Championships, an excellently run and closely fought over regatta. The race committee perfectly took advantage of the conditions, with an average wind range of 17-24 knots, getting in 3 intense windward leeward courses per day.

Of the 11 boats in the fleet, 3 were youth teams following on from the 2019 Royal London Yacht Club's Etchells Youth Academy trials. William Bedford's Royal London team, having won a race, were the first youth team, followed by Robby Boyd's Royal Lymington team and Ollie Grogono's Royal Thames team. A further 4 Etchells were crewed by sailors that have previously been involved in the youth programme. Indeed of the 38 competitors on the water, 27 were from our youth academy either sailing a youth boat or crewing for owners. Only one boat had no youths.

With the competition for the event title going down to the very last day, congratulations go out to the winner, Hamish Calder in Exabyte, and runner up David Franks in Strait Dealer. Meanwhile, Charlie Manzoni performed excellently in Ice, emerging first Corinthian. Perhaps the greatest performance, however, was that of the Greig City academy and their sailing without an onboard coach.

Next up is the Royal London Yacht Club's Spring series regatta on the 27 and 28th April, where two more youth boats - representing the Royal Dart and Oxford University - will be joining the action.

etchellsukfleet.co.uk

Hidden Horsepower - Harken
Once the exclusive preserve of the mega yachts the benefits of captive winch technology are now becoming available to (us) mere mortals...

Out of sight and out of mind perhaps, but a new generation of captive reel winches is evidence of a hidden revolution below decks. Market leaders Harken have raised the bar in this field with an electrically powered range that is proving popular aboard boats that you might never expect to have them.

But while big boats have driven much of the development in this area, this new wave of modern winch design, along with the application of new technology, is feeding development in other areas of the sport. The new range of innovative winches has provided a catalyst for change elsewhere. Harken has recently supplied several electric captive winches for boats in the 55- 80ft range, a marked departure from conventional thinking where the weight, size and power requirements of a hydraulically driven system would generally point towards larger boats.

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

Hamble Classics Regatta 20-22 September 2019 hosted by the RAF Yacht Club
Big Classic Friday featuring IRC Zero Class including Spirit Yachts Sponsored by OneSails

This year's Hamble Classics Regatta (September 20-22) has 'Big Classic Friday' added to the weekend programme and welcomes OneSails, the international sailmaking group with UK lofts at Hamble Point Marina and Suffolk Yacht Harbour, as the Race Day Sponsor.

Big Classic Friday offers racing for larger Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts, with separate class starts for 'IRC Zero' including Spirit Yachts rating 1.050 and above, pre-1971 yachts of length on deck 15 metres and above, and International Rule yachts, to include the 8-Metre class and above. There will be separate prizes for Friday's racing and overall prizes for the regatta.

Commenting on behalf of OneSails GBR, Peter Kay, principal at the Hamble Point Marina loft remarked: "I am delighted to have OneSails involved with the Hamble Classics Regatta as is John Parker at the OneSails loft at Suffolk Yacht Harbour. John has a strong connection with Ipswich based Spirit Yachts and together we supply a wide range of racing and cruising sails to classic yachts of all types". https://www.onesails.com

On behalf of Hamble Classics, Event Director Jonty Sherwill commented: "I am very pleased to welcome Peter, John and the OneSails brand to the Hamble Classics and also grateful to Sean McMillan of Spirit Yachts for asking for more Spirit racing! I think Friday 20th September promises to be a spectacular occasion and our aim is to build this regatta day for future years to attract other big classic yachts with an alternative venue to the Med' for some late season racing.

The current entry list, event programme, NoR and online entry are at: rafyc.org.uk/hamble-classics-regatta/

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5 teams granted boats after 2019 RLYC Etchells Class Youth Trials
Following 4 open training camps run during February and March 2019, the Royal London Yacht Club ran the trials regatta on the weekend of March 30/31

Saturday's conditions were difficult allowing only 2 races. However, Sunday was near to perfect with 15 to 17 knots of breeze and sunshine, enabling race officer Jong Long and his team to run a further 5 windward/leeward races

Deserving winners of the regatta were the The Royal Lymington Yacht Club team, led by Robby Boyd (bow/jib trim), Hattie Rogers (helm), Max Crowe (mainsheet/tactics), and Henry Collison (spinnaker trim/ navigation). Max and Hattie are racing Etchells for the first time, whilst both Robby and Henry sailed last year in some events with a youth team

A superb second in the series was the Greig City Academy team 2 albeit with an owner's representative on board.

This year, the Academy has granted 5 boats. Teams will not only get the use of a fully-funded Etchells for this year's Cowes racing season, but will also be funded to compete in the Etchells Class Nationals, Europeans and Lendy Cowes Week 2019 The successful teams are:

1. Royal Lymington Yacht Club
2. Greig City Academy
3. Royal Thames Yacht Club
4. The Royal Dart Yacht Club
5. Oxford University Yacht Club

The dates for the 2020 camps and trials will be announced shortly. We welcome sailors from sailing/yacht clubs, associations and individual team entries.

Sailors need to be between the ages of 18 and 25 (25 or under on January 1st 2020)

Applications should be made to David Bedford: Bedfordd [AT] hotmail [DOT] co [DOT] uk Any questions, please contact David by email or 0780 8400008

Regates Royales Cannes
The notice of race for Regates Royales Cannes has been published .

Excitingly , there is a Class for Classic One Tonners

The Classic One Tonners will race under ORC .

We will be there with the Doug Peterson iconic one tonner "Ganbare" , following succesful racing in the Mediterranean Classic Series .

www.regatesroyales.com/en/

Luigi Lang
It is with great regret that I write to inform you of the recent passing of Dr. Luigi Lang.

Luigi was a valued friend and long-time supporter of the International Twelve Metre Class. In addition to Luigi's many other activities, for the last 20-years he has served as Class Vice President for the Southern Europe 12 Metre Fleet.

Luigi was one of those involved in the founding AIVE, the Italian Classic Yacht Association and in developing the CIM Rule used for handicap racing of classic yachts in the Mediterranean.

Based in Genoa, Italy, Luigi was a meticulous historian, researcher, and author, having co-authored the definitive history of the Twelve Metre Class The Twelve Metre Yacht published in 2001 in both English and Italian (Dodici Metri), and re- published in an expanded edition in 2010.

I was fortunate enough to meet Luigi in 2000 at the YC de Monaco during a classic yacht symposium, and we became good friends. We pooled the information we each had collected about 12 Metres over the years. More recently, Luigi gave much of his research collection to ITMA to help keep our history a public record.

Luigi was also involved in the Prada Challenge for Classic Yachts which was part of the America's Cup Jubilee in 2001, and was the principal organizer of the Twelve Metre World Championship held in Barcelona in 2014 sponsored by Puig.

On behalf of the Class we have extended our deep sympathies to his family and his myriad of friends. We will miss his friendship, experience, and sage advice. -- Wm. HJ. Dyer Jones, President, International Twelve Metre Class

www.12mrclass.com/news/view/262-id.209715379.html

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The Last Word
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction. -- Julian Beck

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In This Issue
• Brazil clinch two golds syat Hempel World Cup Series Genoa
• Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
• Not just a pretty face - Sailmon
• Premature summer - 1, Easter Challenge - 0
• Italian sailors dominate the Open Skiff EuroChallenge in Palermo
• Quirk and Needham Take 2019 505 Euro Cup Cannes Title
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Speed Reading: Managing Your Risks
• Advisory Statement Regarding Training Boats
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Marc Maron

Brazil clinch two golds syat Hempel World Cup Series Genoa
Brazil snapped up two gold medals on the final day of the Hempel World Cup Series event in Genoa, Italy with Hungarian, Danish and Kiwi sailors claiming the remaining gold medals.

Fernanda Oliveira and Ana Luiza Barbachan clinched the Women's 470 title for Brazil with their compatriot Jorge Zarif snapping up the Finn honours.

The overnight leaders in the Laser and Laser Radial were overthrown as Hungary's Jonatan Vadnai and Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom conquered. New Zealand's Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox also dislodged the overnight leaders in the Men's 470 to seal their first World Cup title together.

Genoa was hit with light winds all week long and Sunday's action was no different. The wind was up and down for much of the day and although there were some delays, a veering north westerly 5-9 knot breeze ensured all five Medal Races were completed.

Hempel World Cup Series Genoa was the final round ahead of the Final. Marseille, France will host sailors for the Hempel World Cup Series Final from 1 to 8 June 2019.

Final top three

Laser
1. Jonatan Vadnai, HUN, 50
2. Pavlos Kontides, CYP, 50
3. Andrew Lewis, TTO, 54

Laser Radial
1. Anne-Marie Rindom, DEN, 19
2. Dongshuang Zhang, CHN, 22
3. Maud Jayet, SUI, 26

Finn
1. Jorge Zarif, BRA, 30
2. Alex Muscat, ESP, 34
3. Joan Cardona Mendez, ESP, 40

470 Men
1. Paul Snow-Hansen, NZL, 56
2. Zangjun Xu / Chao Wang, CHN, 57
3. Killian Wagen / Gregoire Siegwart, SUI, 61

470 Women
1. Fernanda Oliveira / Ana Luiza Barbachan, BRA, 14
2. Mengxi Wei / Haiyan Gao, CHN, 45
3. Benedetta di Salle / Alessandra Dubbini, ITA, 46

49er
1. David Gilmour / Lachy Gilmour, AUS, 64
2. Isaac McHardie / William McKenzie, NZL, 68
3. Peter Burling / Blair Tuke, NZL, 74

49erFX
1. Odile van Aanhnolt / Maneke Jongens, NED, 43
2. Carlotta Omari / Matilda DiStefano, ITA, 47
3. Stephanie Roble / Margaret Shea, USA, 53

Nacra 17
1. Iker Martinez de Lizarduy / Olga Maslivets, ESP, 23
2. Ben Saxton / Nicola Boniface, GBR, 24
3. Santiago Lange / Cecilia Carranza Saroli, ARG, 30

Full results: sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

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Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
Race Three - The Kenny Coombs Memorial Cannon Race

Antigua, West Indies: Race Day Three of Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, sponsored by LOCMAN, was the Cannon Course, a memorial to the 'father of Classics' Kenny Coombs, who was in the heart and soul of the hundreds of sailors taking part in a great exhibition of classic yachts racing. Whilst the 23nm race was simplistic in its two long reaching legs, it was an ideal display of the true grandness of classic yachts in their element, flying in the ocean spray, saluting competitors at every opportunity. The 141' racing schooner Colombia, in all her splendour, took fleet line honours in an elapsed time of 2 hours 29 minutes and 30 seconds. After the race, the fleet took part in the Parade of Sail. The UNESCO World Heritage site, Nelson's Dockyard, and Antigua Slipway, was packed with well-wishers, cheering on the spectacular fleet, as they passed the hostelries along the restored Georgian dockyard.

In the Traditional Class, the sloops; Genesis, Sweetheart and New Moon, have been enjoying close racing and fits and giggles ashore, along with Mark Wibberley's ketch Vendia. The jolly crew of Vendia, a 1943 converted Danish fishing boat, threw a dock party after racing today with the Carib Beer flowing for all and sundry. Alexis Andrews' Genesis built by Alwyn Enoe, won today's race by just 43 seconds from Sweetheart, which was built by Zepharin McLaren, and is skippered by Charles Morgan. 'Sloopville' is situated right outside Skulduggery Cafe in Falmouth Yacht Club Marina, where the apres-racing banter is loud and cheerful, especially so today, as Genesis and Sweetheart go into the last race dead-level on points.

Petrana is one of three yachts undefeated at Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta; Jonty & Vicki Layfield's 1972 S&S Swan 48 Sleeper, and the Frary family, racing their 58' ketch Aarluuk, make up the trio. A special mention should go to the 1936 41' Rasmussen sloop Seefalke II, skippered by Oliver Greensmith, which showed great seamanship in yesterday's race by standing by Paloma VI after a collision. Antigua and Barbuda Search and Rescue (ABSAR) also attended the scene, and whilst Paloma VI was damaged, the team returned to Falmouth with no reported injuries on board. After receiving redress, put forward by the Race Committee, Seefalke II won class in Race Two. Carlo Falcone's 1938 79' Alfred Mylne yawl Mariella won the race today, setting up a winner takes all last race.

There were two windward leeward races for the Dragon Class today, both races were won by the Antigua Yacht Club team, skippered by Rocco Falcone, opening up a seven point advantage on the leaderboard. Just two points separate three teams fighting for the podium; Gluca Perego's YC Cortina team is second, Phil Hopton's AYC team is third, and Freddie Mills' St.Thomas YC team is fourth.

In the Spirit of Tradition Class, the Spirit 64.5 Chloe Giselle, owned by Chloe and Mike Hough, won their second race, to lead the class going into the final encounter. The couple come from Lymington, UK, and are members of several renowned yacht clubs including; the Royal Lymington and Lymington Town SC, the Royal Yacht Squadron, Royal Cornwall YC, and the Royal Armoured Corps YC.

Tomorrow, Monday 22 April, will be the final race of the 32nd edition of Antigua Classic Regatta on the Windward Course. Eight classes remain undecided going into the last race, which will be followed by the Prize Giving on the lawn of the Antigua Yacht Club.

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Sailmon’s innovative product lines look great and are based on the latest processors, displays and networking methods. And with its adaptable platforms and infrastructure, Sailmon is able to continuously innovate in developing new products and solutions. Its advanced technology, which originated aboard superyachts and Grand Prix racing yachts, is now accessible to all sailors with the Element Ink display, the newest member in the Sailmon family.

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Premature summer - 1, Easter Challenge - 0
In one of those aberrations that occasionally afflicts our weather-dependent sport, beautiful summery conditions and record temperatures blessed the Solent but sadly permitted the race committee to hold no racing for the entire three day duration of the RORC Easter Challenge.

"Normally Easter is a pretty tough event with a huge variety of conditions, but to have this high pressure system sitting over us just doesn't work for sailing," observed Eddie Warden Owen, who, aside from being CEO of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, has been putting his skills as an ex-America's Cup coach to good use at this event that traditionally doubles as the club's UK season opener and as its unique coaching regatta. "The race management team has tried to be patient and do the best they can, but despite the cold water temperature and the hot temperature on the land, the northeasterly gradient has stopped any sea breeze from developing. So it is unfortunate - disappointing for everyone."

Principal Race Officer Tim Hancock said that having no racing across the duration of a three day sailing event was a career first for him: "There is a big high pressure system over the UK and everything is very stable. Today there was a haze around the whole Solent and although it was warm there wasn't enough heat to burn everything off - just some very localised breezes. And it is not just the Solent - all along the south coast it's like this. At least we've done some practice starts."

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Italian sailors dominate the Open Skiff EuroChallenge in Palermo
The first round of the O'pen Skiff EuroChallenge has just drawn to its conclusion on the beautiful island of Sicily, in Palermo

65 entrants made the long journey to Palermo for the first round of the O'pen Skiff EuroChallenge 2019 odyssey

After two days of light to moderate conditions, and hard work, day three blew in some serious wind, enough for the race committee to call a halt after 9 rounds of racing and announce the results of this first round of the EuroChallenge.

So, big congratulations to Salvatore Mancino, Federico Quaranta and Domenico Pio Schiano Di Scioarro, the 1-2-3 of the U13 opening round. And to Manuel de Felice, Alessandro Guernieri and Lorenzo Mancino, the 1-2-3 of the U17 category.

You can keep up to date with the EuroChallenge results and rankings at the EuroChallenge website at: eurochallenge2019.openskiff.org

Full results: eurochallenge2019.openskiff.org/palermo/results

Quirk and Needham Take 2019 505 Euro Cup Cannes Title
The team of Michael Quirk (AUS) and Tim Needham (GB) have won the 2019 505 Euro Cup Cannes, the first leg of the Euro Cup series.

Sailed at Yacht Club de Cannes, the final day of the Euro Cup Cannes was cancelled due to too much breeze, but the participants enjoyed some really tight competition throughout the regatta.

In what has become one of the highlights on the annual 505 calendar, the Euro Cup is a four-event series that takes place across France, Italy, Germany and the UK. There is a winner determined at each event as well as an overall series winner based on cumulative scores from three of the four regattas.

Overall top five
1. Michael Quirk & Tim Needham (AUS)
2. Howard Hamlin & Jeff Nelson (USA)
3. Ian Pinnell & Russ Clark (GB)
4. Wolfgang Hunger & Holger Jess (GER)
5. Phillippe Boite & Mathieu Fontaine (FRA)

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Seahorse May 2019
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

When life's (not) a drag
Put together everything that's been achieved to date and Future Fibres believe that the best of all worlds is now steadily drawing within reach

What's in a name?
Where will the next great offshore racing dynasties materialise from? Rob Weiland

The new frontier
Not so much a sport that is going in different directions as one that will soon benefit from some quite different approaches. Ken Read

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Speed Reading: Managing Your Risks
Maximizing Your Chances To Make Gains

J/22 World Champion and North Sails Expert Zeke Horowitz explains how you can maximize your chances to gain through smart boat positioning on the racecourse. Sailboat racing is all about controlling what we can - boat speed, boat handling, preparation, and decision-making. But we can't control everything. So we need to think about ways to manage risk so we can rely on good speed and conservative tactics. In this article, we'll review strategies you can apply to your position decisions to ensure your boat is in the right place to make gains while avoiding big losses.

Pre Start: "It's all about the homework"
Get out early to sail most of the first beat and figure out if there are any trends in terms of where the velocity is, how often the wind is shifting, current differences, wave differences, etc. Take note of the range of compass numbers on both tacks so you'll know right away if you're lifted or headed. Then, check the starting line. Is there a line sight? Is there a favored end based on compass bearings compared to wind direction?

Now you can relate this info to what you learned sailing upwind and decide on an overall strategy. Is there a persistent shift? Is there a side to race to based on current? Is it oscillating? With all of this info, decide which area of the line to start so you can be ready to make gains right off the line.

If there is a favored end of the line or side of the racecourse, it's important to start near that end. But if the wind is oscillating, start in an area so you can sail on the lifted tack off the start, regardless of the favored end. If you know the wind is oscillating and in a left phase during the start sequence, the pin will be favored. But since the next shift will be a right phase, it's probably better to start near the middle or even boat end, because you will have an easier time tacking right away to get on the port lift, and you'll be closer to the next shift than most competitors. Maybe a few boats that make a risky start at the pin look advantaged early, but you are on the lift, in less traffic and headed towards the next shift, which will be a righty. Now you're in a position to gain right away.

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Advisory Statement Regarding Training Boats
North American Laser Class members may hear soon of Laser Performance's introduction of their Laser 'Club Edition' training boat.

LP describes it as a training boat which does not bear the World Sailing Building Plaque or a Class Approved Sail Button. This of course is fine for people to purchase and use as a training boat, but we feel it is important to clarify that these boats are not Class legal based on the Fundamental Rule within the Laser Class Rules. These boats will be ineligible to compete in any ILCA / North American Laser Class Association sanctioned event. Broadly speaking (but not exclusively) this means the boat can not be used in any regattas listed on the Laser.org website.

While the North American Laser Class Association would like all Laser racing to be conducted strictly in accordance with the Class Rules, we do not consider that we should dictate to sailing clubs throughout North America over their adoption. However, we want to make them aware that they would be open to potential protest by competing sailors in the same way as a sailor using any non-compliant gear.

Note that Laser Performance has also made the statement that the Club Edition boat is "based exactly on the same Race Laser specifications". The International Laser Class Association has no way of verifying this statement, as our Class technical officers have not been allowed to inspect the LP manufacturing facility/boats in quite some time to ensure that one-design integrity is being maintained.

This advisory statement is made solely to alert sailors wishing to compete in North American Laser Class events, that the Laser Performance 'Club Edition' is being marketed as a training boat and not as an ILCA approved racing boat.

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The Last Word
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In This Issue
• Winners Announced at Antigua Classics
• Falmouth Puts On Spectacular Display For Sir Robin
• Playing smart in the money markets
• Snell's K1 Sweeps The Weston Grand Slam
• 53rd annual Governor's Cup
• 2018 Handicap Rating Rules Report
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille: A Perfect 10
• Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Douglas Adams

Winners Announced at Antigua Classics
The final race for the 32nd edition of Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, sponsored by LOCMAN, was held off the stunning south coast of Antigua in relatively moderate conditions of 15 knots south of east. Whilst the breeze had eased from the previous three days of racing, the intensity of the competition was at a crescendo, eight of the classes were decided on the very last race.

In the Classic Schooner Class, Gonzalo Botin's 54' schooner Severine won the last race to take class honours. The 141' schooner Columbia, owned by Brian D'Isernia was runner up, and Tom Gallant's 47' schooner Avenger was third.

"Severine was built in 1993 and she is a replica of a 1927 two-masted gaff schooner designed by Alden," commented Gonzalo, a member of the famous Botin family from Santander, Spain. "I saw her for the first time in 2003, before I competed in the Mini-Transit, and I loved her from first sight. She is a lovely little schooner, really beautiful. This is the first time Severine has raced at 'Classics, it is a lovely regatta, full of tradition, and we have loved coming here and racing with the other beautiful yachts.

In the Historic Class, Jonty & Vicki Layfield's 1972 S&S Swan 48 Sleeper, finished the regatta off in style, winning the last race, to remain undefeated in four races. There was a three-way tie for second place! Geoffrey Pidduck's 1907 Six Metre Biwi Magic, took the runner up spot on countback from Tommy Paterson's Yachting World Diamond Rita, skippered by Tanner Jones. Markus Bocks' 1972 S&S Swan 48 Montana was out of luck, finishing just off the podium.

There were two more windward leeward races for the Dragon Class today, Rocco Falcone's Antigua young Yacht Club team won the first race to clinch the regatta win. Phil Hopton's team, also representing the AYC, won the last race, to win a close battle for second in the regatta. Gluca Perego's team representing YC Cortina, scored a 3-5 today to take third for the six-race series.

The Vintage Schooner Class was decided by countback, Richard West's 1928 50' schooner Charm III won the last race, to win from Gerald Rainer's 1926 53' Herreshoff schooner Mary Rose. Cameron Riddell's 1939 115' schooner Eros was third.

The Vintage Other Sail Plan Class went to the wire, Mathew Barker's 1929 65' Alfred Mylne sloop The Blue Peter, won today's race. However, the class winner for the regatta, by a single point was the 1936 41' Rasmussen sloop Seefalke II, skippered by Oliver Greensmith. Carlo Falcone's 1938 79' Alfred Mylne yawl Mariella was runner up for the regatta, and The Blue Peter was third. -- Louay Habib

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Falmouth Puts On Spectacular Display For Sir Robin
A truly impressive flotilla of vessels, including Royal Navy warship HMS Mersey, and over one hundred supporting yachts of all shapes and sizes, joined Sir Robin, and Suhaili in Falmouth Harbour to recreate the historic moment he returned home 50 years ago to scenes of national jubilation, and changed the future of ocean racing forever.

After he stepped back on shore at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club in the precise location he took his first steps back on land after 312 days at sea in 1969, Sir Robin said: "Today has just felt like a fantastic display for my sport. I looked around out there and was so proud to see so many people out enjoying the day with me, celebrating something that happened 50 years ago. I feel truly honoured."

He added: "My pleasure comes from watching others getting to enjoy my sport. Sailing on the oceans, is the way I enjoy it, and as long as I can, I will go on persuading others to try it because once you have, you will understand and be captivated by it like I was."

As the clock struck 1525 - the precise time he crossed the finish line those fifty years previously - the warship and all the yachts sounded their horns in salute to the man who not only inspired the nation but also the world, and changed the face of ocean exploration for ever more.

Among the many supporters turning out to help re-create Sir Robin's moment were family members, friends, colleagues and sailing comrades from across the decades, as well as local well-wishers who were there to see him return in 1969.

Commenting on the appearance of the Royal Navy today, Sir Robin, said: "My huge gratitude to the crew of HMS Mersey for taking the time to join us here today, I feel very grateful for their support.

"I love the Navy. I joined when I was 16 and I think it is one of the greatest careers open to a young person these days. More people should want to join. It's a brilliant life and a brilliant service. I learned my trade as a Merchant Navy officer and that's really what gave me the skills and the confidence to go out and sail around the world. Without the Navy, I would never have done what I did."

There was another boat that Sir Robin was keen to make part of the day, as he explains: "I invited Lively Lady to come and join us. She also went around the world around the same time as me, though made a couple of stops. I was lucky enough to know Alec Rose, her Skipper. He was a lovely man, and I was proud to have his boat with me. His team have done a phenomenal restoration job on her and she is part of our culture, our history. She is run by volunteers and they are doing an important job but they do need our support."

Whilst many people got to join Sir Robin and the celebrations in Falmouth, many more from around the world have been sending in their well-wishes from afar, detailing how their lives have been changed by Sir Robin's achievements.

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Snell's K1 Sweeps The Weston Grand Slam
Andrew Snell's K1 keelboat won the Weston Grand Slam convincingly on a tropical and light airs Easter weekend in Southampton Water. With 48 entries, this was the first tidal event in the Great British Sailing Challenge calendar and an opportunity for monohull dinghies, multihulls and small keelboats all to compete against each other. At times, all boat types had a sniff of the front of the fleet but the dying breeze ultimately suited the momentum of Snell's K1.

The main event over Saturday and Sunday was preceded by the Rooster Time Trials on Good Friday. A bit like the qualifying session of a Formula One grand prix, the aim is to clock the fastest time (under handicap) around the course. There was a window between 12pm and 3pm, with many of the fast boats waiting ashore in the belief that the final hour would bring a good sea breeze, whilst the slow boats headed out early. In the end the breeze died as the sea and land breeze battled it out, meaning the fastest laps recorded early on. It was a local Enterprise that benefited from the lighter breezes, with Christopher and Kayleigh Spencer winning the Rooster Time Trials

As for the massed fleet, race one took place in the best breeze of Saturday, as the occasional gust wafted across the course at about 10 knots. Race one was won on corrected time by Ralph and Sophie Singleton in their RS800 ahead of John Tuckwell's Nacra Carbon 20 from Bala. Just six handicap seconds behind the foiling catamaran was Snell's singlehanded keelboat with the Formula 18s of Grant Piggott/ Simon Farren and Simon Northrop/ Caleb Cooper in fifth and sixth.

With the wind beginning to die for Race 2, the fast catamarans struggled to match their handicap performance of the earlier heat, although Tuckwell still managed fourth on corrected time. Snell's K1 was really coming into its won, dominating the race while Steve and Sarah Cockerill finished 2nd in their RS400 ahead of Val Millward's Challenger trimaran.

Race 3 was even more of a drifter which again gave Snell the victory, this time ahead of Rich Vincent's RS Aero 9 and Dave Barker's Hadron H2.

The sailors enjoyed some great evening hospitality at Weston Sailing Club and hoped for some more close racing on Sunday. However, the wind didn't show up and so the scores from Saturday would stand, with three races not permitting a discard. Snell became the winner ahead of the Cockerills' RS400 and a Europe sailed by Emma Pearson. Overall results are here

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53rd annual Governor's Cup
Newport Beach, CA: The Selection Committee for Balboa Yacht Club's Governor's Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship, presented by Disc Sports and Spine Center, today named ten skippers and a first alternate to compete in this year's 53rd Annual "GovCup". Based on the April World Sailing Open (non-age limited) match racing rankings of the invited skippers, the Club may again seek an upgrade from World Sailing to Grade 1 status, as was granted for the 2018 Governor's Cup.

This year's RNZYS skippers include 2017 and 2018 runner-up Leonard Takahashi, as well as Nick Egnot-Johnson, a rising match racing star with a win in the 2018 U.S. "Grand Slam" series and a 5th place finish in his first Congressional Cup last month. They will be joined by Jordan Stevenson, winner of Australia's Harken youth match racing event and a podium finisher in two other major events in Australia and New Zealand.

United States skippers include Jack Parkin (Riverside YC / Stanford Sailing Team), a former U.S. Youth Match Racing Champion who finished just out of the semi-finals in his first GovCup last year, and Wade Waddell (American YC / Boston College Sailing Team) winner of the 2018 U.S. Intercollegiate Match Racing Championships. Frank Dair, (California YC), who won Australia's Musto Youth MR Championship and was a podium finisher at the Harken series last in 2018 was also selected.

There will be at least one additional USA skipper named at the conclusion of the U.S. Youth Match Racing Championship for the Rose Cup hosted by San Diego YC in late June.

The 53rd Annual Governor's Cup, presented by Disc Sports and Spine Center, will be held July 15-20, 2019.

www.balboayachtclub.com/govcup

2018 Handicap Rating Rules Report
A two-year look at handicap racing rules and VPP scoring

Ratings based on velocity prediction programs are gaining advocates across North America. Here are the numbers.

The total number of boats with rating certificates derived from measurements and a velocity prediction program is on the rise in North America. As our end-of-year survey proved, the market is moving, and the team at the Offshore Racing Association (ORA) is encouraging that move.

Note that for the purposes of this survey, we have included the single-number rating rule, IRC, which is not a VPP-based rule but in many areas competes for market share with current VPP-based rules. Note also that the ORA owns and manages three VPP-based rules—Offshore Racing Rule (ORR), ORR-Ez, and ORR-Mh (multihull).

Reviewing the published 2018 data from the groups managing the IRC, ORCi, and ORC Club, as well as the ORR and ORR-Ez, shows that 1,543 certificates were issued to boats in North America last year. This is an increase of about 400 compared to 2017, a 35-percent lift, and is the result of growth in three of the five rules surveyed. -- John Horton, Executive Director, Offshore Racing Assn.

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Seahorse May 2019
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Tsunami of talent
Non-Figaristes, beware... come the 2020 Vendee Globe there is a whole flood of fresh but extremely battle-hardened Figaro talent joining you all on match day. Nicolas Troussel talks to Jocelyn Bleriot

Hidden horsepower
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To fly or not to fly...
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Lean (and hungry)
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Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille: A Perfect 10
The 10th edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille delivered a perfect '10' across all categories: great breeze and challenging race courses, shoreside fun, and even three perfect scorelines within the nine classes racing: Peter Harrison's Sorcha (Maxi 1), Andy Berdon's Summer Story (CSA 2) and Sergio Sagramoso's Lazy Dog (CSA 3).

One of three classes to set the standard, Peter Harrison's Sorcha led the Maxi 1 class the entire way, followed by SHK Scallywag, the Dowell 100 skippered by David Witt; and Ambersail, Saulius Pajarskas' Volvo 65.

Not only did Sorcha win the class, they also bring home the Richard Mille Maxi Cup and win the coveted Richard Mille RM 60-01 watch*.

"It was great having Peter and Pierre alternate driving," said Andy Clark, Sorcha boat captain referring to Pierre Casiraghi, Monaco royalty and this year's Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille ambassador who joined the Sorcha team for the week as co-skipper.

Clark admitted the team was really looking forward to racing against the new Bella Mente to gauge the season. "But unfortunately, they had an issue with their mast and had to withdraw before racing began which was a real shame. Now we will wait until September to line up against them."

The 2020 Les Voiles de St. Barth Richard Mille is planned for April 12 - 18, 2020.

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Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race
Sailing across the Limit Point Line (where the course had been shortened) at 18h 28m 36s last night, Fred Kinmonth's and Nick Burns' GTS 43 Mandrake III took the IRC Overall win in the inaugural Hong Kong to Puerto Galera Yacht Race with an elapsed time of 103h 08m 36s.

This will be their second win in a row in a Hong Kong to Philippines race having won IRC Overall in the 2018 Rolex China Sea Race. As planned before the start, this was Fred's last offshore race and he remarked on arrival, "How do I feel about my last offshore? It's like a whole lifetime has passed before my eyes. All I can look forward to is slippers, a pipe, a warm fire, retirement and that rosy glow of knowing one's done their best!"

With the IRC 0 Division finishing in Puerto Galera and the IRC Overall being calculated from the Limit Point Line, two unprecedented results have occurred with Antipodes winning the IRC 0 Division with a corrected time of 133h 16m 52s over Standard Insurance Centennial's 134h 35m 41s and Standard Insurance Centennial coming second in IRC Overall with a corrected time of 123h 09m 11s ahead of Antipodes' 124h 42m 13s.

As mentioned before, second in IRC Overall, Line Honours win and race record went to Ernesto Echauz's R/P 75 Standard Insurance Centennial from the Philippines.

Winner of the HKPN division went to Michael Ashbrook's Jeanneau 469 Sitka followed by Dean Chisholm's Hanse 40 Darling.

The only yacht which continues to race is Chin Yew Seah's A40 Rc Avant Garde, however with the 1800hrs cut off time tonight it seems highly unlikely they will get to the finish with the current conditions.

Full provisional results are available at www.hkpuertogalerarace.com/results

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2007 TP52 - ROCKALL. 375000 EUR. Located in Hamburg, Germany.

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X-Treme 32/ RP32.

The X-treme 32 / RP32 is a flat-out racer that delivers the thrill of a high-performance design as well as the ability to capture podium positions. Diab’s lightweight core material Divincycell HM is a key ingredient.

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The Last Word
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In This Issue
• Canfield Completes Line-Up For World Match Racing Tour Final
• Libby Greenhalgh: "Even Now, I Find It Incredibly Hard That We Didn't Find John"
• 21st Jersey Regatta
• Star Western Hemisphere Championship
• Top Ten Beach Bars in the Bahamas
• Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
• The X Factor In Kinsale
• Marion Bermuda Race Book: A Voyage of Discovery
• WASZP Easter Spectacular
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Richard Daley

Canfield Completes Line-Up For World Match Racing Tour Final
Former Match Racing World Champion and co-founder of the 'Stars & Stripes Team USA' America's Cup team, Taylor Canfield, has been confirmed as the twelfth and final skipper for the World Match Racing Tour championship final in Marstrand, Sweden from 3-7 July. Canfield joins a world class line-up of eleven other professional match racing skippers including defending world Champion Torvar Mirsky (AUS), Mirsky Racing Team, and six-time world champion Ian Williams (GBR), Team GAC Pindar.

29yr old Canfield, from St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, has become a formidable name on the professional match racing circuit. A former Match Racing World Champion in 2013, he is a four-time winner of the crimson blazer at Long Beach Yacht Club's Congressional Cup, two-time winner of the Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermuda, and has won numerous other events on the World Match Racing Tour since his Tour debut in 2011.

In December last year, Canfield was announced as helmsman for the 'Stars & Stripes USA' America's Cup team under the flag of the Long Beach Yacht Club, CA. The team was confirmed as the 5th challenger for the 36th America's Cup in Auckland, New Zealand.

The five-day WMRT Championship Final takes place 3-7 July in Marstrand, Sweden hosted by GKSS Match Cup Sweden. The teams will race on identical M32 carbon fibre multihulls providing close-action racing in front of the tens of thousands of spectators that flock to the picturesque island of Marstrand each year for the event.

Confirmed skippers for the WMRT Championship Final:
Nicklas Dackhammer (SWE) Essiq Racing Team
Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar
Yann Guichard (FRA) Spindrift Racing
Harry Price (AUS) Down Under Racing
Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team
Mans Holmberg (SWE) Holmberg Match Racing Team
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team
Markus Edegran (USA) Team Torrent
Phil Robertson (NZL) China One Ningbo
Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) Sailing Team NL
Daniel Bjornholt (DEN) Youth Vikings Denmark Taylor Canfield (ISV)

www.wmrt.com

Libby Greenhalgh: "Even Now, I Find It Incredibly Hard That We Didn't Find John"
Two times Volvo Ocean Race navigator Libby Greenhalgh admits she is still in consolidation mode, looking for projects, after a mentally tough race on Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag. She joined the team in Melbourne as a replacement, stepping on board for Leg 4 which they went on to win. She admits she struggles daily trying to come to terms with the loss of John Fisher just over one year ago, but she is quietly determined to move her career on to new levels. A director with the Magenta Project, spun off the Team SCA campaign, now a globally renowned initiative which is doing fantastic work to accelerate the opportunities for women in sailing at all levels. Most recently she was navigator on the Rolex Sydney Hobart all women Ocean Respect alongside many of her Volvo Ocean Race contemporaries. Tip & Shaft caught up with Libby.

Looking back now at your Volvo Races how do you reflect on your performance and that of the different teams?
Well the second race was really one of two halves. It was a very different way to SCA. I felt I came late into SCA, and then very obviously came very very late into Scallywag. Let us just say it was pretty interesting meeting the team the day before and stepping on the boat to be offshore immediately for 20 days. Now when I look back at the races and what I know, even with an SCA and even more with this one I would really struggle to join a programme in the role, or step in at all that late. I think it is a big ask when you are working with a team. It's quite full-on. But, never say never…..When I stepped on we were by no means were we on the speed, so we had to do something different I guess to get results. And it was great to see our first two legs pretty positive and when we were with the teams we could hang with them and at moments we were probably fast-ish. But then I think ultimately after losing John, it was a different game, and a difficult game psychologically for a lot of the team. Meantime everyone probably learned lots from that leg that we didn't. The latter end of the race, others were really moving forwards and getting faster and faster, we weren't. We were kind of staying where we were at. And that punished us - we were slow relatively. It was hard to keep pace with people.

Such a situation, being slow, is especially tough on the navigator?
There is increased pressure on the role. They ask what are we going to do and you've got a choice. Even with SCA we were slow, we were 0.3 of a knot slower on the first leg, 0.1 and then maybe by the end we could match most angles, but we still knew we were incredibly slow under the A3. We knew the moment we put that sail up it was going to be painful for us. I mean I knew that, but whether the rest of the team really fathomed that…….. I think that is the thing, when you are 0.1 of a knot slower it doesn't sound a lot but it is over days that is fricking miles. And then as soon as you are a few miles behind, that is it. You are into something different.

Full interview in Tip & Shaft

21st Jersey Regatta
Scheduled for 6th to 8th September, this year sees the 21st edition of the renowned Jersey Regatta, the Island's 'flagship' sailing event.

Jersey Marinas will be providing complimentary berthing whilst Condor Ferries is offering discounted fares for those wishing to transport their boats to the Island for the event.

For further information, please contact the Regatta office, info [AT] jerseyregatta [DOT] com, or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.

Star Western Hemisphere Championship
Sailors and spectators can enjoy the view of the International Star Class Western Hemisphere Championship from Wednesday, May 22 through Saturday, May 25. Nearly 30 Stars are headed to San Diego in less than a month and will be making their way southeast of Point Loma for a four-day series of ocean races.

Since 1934, Star sailors have been competing to earn their colored stars. Last year, first place in the Western Hemisphere Championship went to Skipper Lars Grael and Crew Samuel Goncalves from Brazil, sailed in Miami, FL. This year, the entry list is flush with several local San Diego sailors looking to fight for the silver Star.

There's a rich history of Star sailing local to Southern California and this regatta will have the pleasure of seeing several big names appear on the scoresheet. Mark Reynolds, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, is one of the many excited to get out on the water. "I've sailed in this regatta at least 25 times. I'm not sailing that much these days, but with the regatta at the SDYC, I figured it would be a good chance to get in the boat with Hal Haenel [Olympic crew] again," Reynolds began.

Although it may seem like there's a bias, home-town advantage, the regatta isn't always a SoCal shoe-in. "Even though the San Diego Star fleet can be argued to be the best in the world over the history of the class, I think it took almost 50 years for a local to win the Star Worlds when it was held here," explained Reynolds.

Some of the other prominent Star sailors participating in next month's event include:
Mark Reynolds: Star World Champion (2x) & Olympian (4x)
Brian Ledbetter: Olympian
Paul Cayard: Star World Champion & Olympian
Carl Buchan: Star World Champion & Olympian
Eric Doyle: Star World Champion

starclass.org

Top Ten Beach Bars in the Bahamas
There are hundreds of bars and restaurants throughout the Bahamas that serve up amazing eats along with a side of great vibes. But there's only a handful that are perched on the edge of some of our favorite beaches. We've come up with this Top Ten list based on ambience and food, but first and foremost, for their ocean views from the deck or dining spaces. These locations all have a great beaching where you can go for a refreshing dip or take a walk in some powder soft sand after your meal.

Typically these establishments will have a nice mix of locals, seasonal homeowners, boaters and tourists. There are many more that range from lean-to's to high-end cuisine, but most of the ones on our list are somewhere in between, serving up a laid-back flip-flop vibe, great music and ice cold beers.

So here they are in no particular order…the Top 10 Best Beach Bars in the Bahamas.

1. Chat 'N' Chill, Stocking Island, Exumas
2. Sip Sip, Harbour Island
3. Tippy's, Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera
4. Sandbar Bar & Grill, Spanish Wells
5. Tiny's Hurricane Hole, Long Island
6. Nipper's, Great Guana Cay, Abaco
7. Pete's Pub, Little Harbour, Abaco
8. Nirvana, Love Beach, New Providence
9. Banana Bay, Fortune Beach, Grand Bahama
10. On Da Beach, Elbow Cay, Abaco

Details, and photos to make you smile (and regret being stuck in the office today...):
www.outislandlifebahamas.com

Seahorse Sailor Of The Month

Last month's winner:

Stacey Jackson (AUS)
'She can outsail most guys blindfold' - Pete Sherwood; 'She's a warrior!' - Jean Wright; 'Tough, tenacious, humble' - Alex Nolan; 'Stacey, 'cause she is gold!' - Jeanine Drummond; 'The Mob has spoken!' - Linda Lindquist; 'An outstanding leader, I am a fan' - Blue Robinson; 'For so many reasons… go Stacey!' - Mandy McLean; 'She smashed it, talk's easy but Stacey gets on and does it' - Harry Spedding; 'You forgot to add she's the nicest person in the Moth park' - Nick Deussen; 'Stacey is a star, a great sailor and a beautiful person' - Joshua Alexander; 'And her drive to clean up the oceans is relentless!' - Sharyn Wright.

This month's nominees:

Brandon Linton (USA)
Not for building the mighty Comanche with his boatbuilding partner Tim Hacket, nor for all the other fast machines he has put on the water over the years, this nomination is for leading the team that took a McConaghy 38 one design and pared it back to just the hull shell before then rebuilding it as a half-scale working AC75 with all the systems operating and the boat up and foiling reliably within days of first getting wet. Go, the American Magic!

Marie Riou (FRA)
As all-round sailors go there are few who cover the bases as well as the French four-time Nacra 17 world champion and also the current Volvo champion with Charles Caudrelier on Dongfeng. After switching the body back into athletic mode from muscular 'configuration' for the Volvo, Riou and Besson were back in Olympic action at the Princesa Sofia. As for other Volvo returnees Burling and Tuke, it was not an easy first regatta but watch for the rate of improvement

Seahorse Sailor of the Month is sponsored by Musto, Harken McLube & Dubarry. Who needs silverware, our prizes are usable!

Cast your vote, submit comments, even suggest a candidate for next month at seahorsemagazine.com/sailor-of-the-month/vote-for-sailor-of-the-month

View past winners of Sailor of the Month

The X Factor In Kinsale
Preparations for championship sailing are are well under way in Kinsale for the O'Leary Life Sovereigns Cup 26th to 29th June.

With almost 70 entries the O'Leary Life Sovereigns Cup definitely has the X factor , Conor Doyles XP 50 Freya, George Sisk's XP 44 WOW and Robert Rendell's Samatom XC45 are all competing in the Coastal Fleet.

In the IRC fleet you have D-Tox , Dux and Alpacha, all very competitive boats plus Dux is a previous Winner of the Sovereigns Cup. Add in the J109's and a strong half ton fleet you can be guaranteed that there will be close quarter racing.

With the 1720 European Championships and the Dragon Irirsh National Championship taking place out on the sportsboat course and the White Sail Fleet on their own course the waters between the Old Head and the Sovereign Islands will provide quite a spectacle of sailing.

Early Bird 2 Closing date is April 26th
Regatta Director - Bobby Nash, regattadirector [AT] sovereignscup [DOT] com

www.sovereignscup.com

Marion Bermuda Race Book: A Voyage of Discovery
From its dramatic front cover painting by renowned artist Willard Bond to the back cover ad reminding readers of those Gosling Dark 'n Stormy cocktails waiting in Bermuda this June, the new 2019 Marion Bermuda Race Book is a 110 page tribute to sailors, to the sea and to a race bringing all participants and volunteers on a Voyage of Discovery. There are shared stories of experiences from many of the 22 races spanning 42 years.

Click here - Marion Bermuda 2019 - to download your copy and catch the feeling of Marion Bermuda, a great ocean race. Or read it online at that link.

The 2019 race is the 22nd Marion Bermuda Race and the 42nd year for the 645-mile open ocean challenge for cruiser type yachts.

The first Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race in 1977 saw 104 starters cross the line. Over the forty-two years since that first race the race has evolved into a true offshore challenge for cruising yachts, amateur, family and youth sailors. Special prizes abound to emphasis celestial navigation, short handed sailing, family crews and regional competition. The race is handicapped under the ORR rating system to assure the fairest scoring available for ocean racing yachts.

The race starts on June 14.

marionbermuda.org

WASZP Easter Spectacular
What a fantastic Easter it was to kick off what will be a monumental 2019 European season! 22 WASZPs competed in the season opener at Univela Campione, the WASZP was the largest fleet out of the A-class and Moth which is a fantastic achievement in itself.

The event started with a clinic hosted by the best WASZP sailors in the world, current WASZP Games champion Rory Hunter from GBR and Alexander Hogheim from Norway led the way working with the 20+ sailors with everyone showing fantastic improvement across the week.

It was a real festival of sailing at Lake Garda with around 2,000 Optimists and 300 Lasers also sailing events around the Lake. However, on the 'rest day' WASZP introduced a large number of opti & laser sailors to the world of foiling. The WASZP is leading the way with opening up the foiling world to youth and grass roots sailors alike.

The 6.9m rig is perfect for young kids coming out of Optimists and the ability to cross train between a WASZP and other traditional youth pathway classes is evident in many countries. However the WASZP is now establishing itself as both a youth pathway class through the 6.9m rig and also a destination class on the 8.2m rig for many sailors who want to embrace the WASZP lifestyle and event circuit that is on offer.

The European season is now well under way with events in the UK, Norway, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Netherlands and Germany starting the European season with a bang and leading into the 2019 European Championships. This event is expecting over 100 boats between the 15-20th July at Fraglia Vela Malcesine, with a huge focus on lifestyle, tight racing and new and exciting formats.

2019 WASZP European Championship Entry

Foiling Easter Results: foilingeaster.com/results/

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Opportunity to purchase one of the revered Volvo Ocean 65.

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1894 G L Watson 36 FT Cutter. 300,000 EUR, Located in United Kingdom.

PEGGY BAWN is quite simply the best behaved yacht anyone had the pleasure to sail.

Long gone are his huge America’s Cup challengers and “Big Class” racing yachts, and only two of the fleet of palatial steam yachts – the superyachts of their day – from his Glasgow drawing boards are known to survive, in fabulous condition although barely recognisable from their original appearance.

It is left to PEGGY BAWN to carry the flame for Watson’s groundbreaking mid-1890s work in setting the standard for moderation in sailing yacht design, work that has never been challenged – only endorsed by those who followed his lead through the 20th century, especially Olin J. Stephens, who was a self-confessed Watson fan.

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United Kingdom

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Cookson Blakewell White RIO 100 2,450.000 USD. Located in California.

RIO 100 is for sale for a fraction of her build costs. Stunning success's the last few years include two barn doors in the transpac race, the race record in the Pac cup ( beating the 143 foot MARI CHA's record) race record to Puerta Vallarta, th elist goes on and on

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The Last Word
The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder. -- Mayor Richard Daley, 1968 Chicago

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In This Issue
• A New Jules Verne Trophy Attempt For Spindrift Racing
• Record maxi fleet for 2019 Regata dei Tre Golfi and Rolex Capri Sailing Week
• Make Your Splice Right with Marlow’s NEW Splicing Tutorials
• Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta: Grande Dame of the Concours d' Elegance
• Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta
• OSTAR and TWOSTAR in 2020
• North Sails offers Offshore Performance Seminar in San Diego
• Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta
• Notice Of Race Issued For Transpac Tahiti Race 2020
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: Donald Rumsfeld

A New Jules Verne Trophy Attempt For Spindrift Racing
At the conclusion of the team's 2018/19 promising record attempt in terms of performance, Spindrift 2, which was fully optimised in 2018, remains at the heart of the team's sports season.

Currently undergoing a complete analysis of her structure, while two new rudders are constructed, the black and gold trimaran is expected to return to the water this summer and start a new period of offshore training with her crew for another attempt at racing around the world, against the clock. The stand-by period for a Jules Verne Trophy start will be shortened to two months (October and November), so that the team can meet its other racing calendar commitments. The team will join the new TF35 Lemanic circuit in November and this will be followed by a continued programme.

After 13 magnificent years racing on the waters of Lake Geneva, Ladycat will retire from racing after this summer's iconic Bol d'Or Mirabaud. Her skipper, Dona Bertarelli, has been at the helm for the three victories in twelve years at this prestigious event, as well as many successes and podium finishes.

Not long ago 'flying' boats were perceived as the future of sailing - today they are a reality. The new kid on the block is the TF35, a very powerful, flying catamaran that has already attracted a number of visionary boat owners who will be competing in a five-event circuit on Lake Geneva and in Europe. Spindrift will be part of this circuit and will launch its new boat soon.

"In the first instance, I'm looking forward to a third attempt at the round the world record with Spindrift 2. Because of the sports and technical program for the TF35, we are a little more limited on the stand-by window. However, I hope that the weather will be with us and that we will have the opportunity to do the attempt again and try to beat the existing record. We will then focus on the TF35, the new boat in the Spindrift fleet. These carbon fibre 'dragonflies' can take off from just seven knots of wind and reach up to three times the speed of the wind! It's going to be very exciting and we are really looking forward to doing our first tacks on Lake Geneva," concludes Yann Guichard.

www.spindrift-racing.com

Record maxi fleet for 2019 Regata dei Tre Golfi and Rolex Capri Sailing Week
At least 27 maxi yachts will take to the Bay of Naples and its surrounding waters over 10-18 May for Rolex Capri Sailing Week. Maxi yachts this year representing such a significant percentage of the 150 boat fleet is partly due to the efforts of the International Maxi Yacht Association working in collaboration with Rolex Capri Sailing Week's triumvirate of organisers - the Circolo del Remo and Vela Italia, the Yacht Club Capri and the Yacht Club Italiano.

Rolex Capri Sailing Week sets sail on Friday 10 May with its famous prologue offshore race, the Regata dei Tre Golfi. Approximately 150 miles long, this starts from Naples and crosses the gulfs of Naples, Salerno and Gaeta. It then doubles back south, to the Li Galli islands turning mark off the Sorrento Peninsula before returning to finish line off Capri's Marina Grande. The unique aspect of Regata dei Tre Golfi is its midnight start off Naples' Castel dell'Ovo, following a traditional dinner at the CRV Italia's clubhouse in Santa Lucia Marina.

First held in 1954, the Regata dei Tre Golfi is the second oldest event in the Italian sailing calendar after Rolex Giraglia and celebrates its 65th edition in 2019. It also is the second of five events in the International Maxi Association's Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, that started with last October's Rolex Middle Sea Race and will conclude with August's Palermo-Montecarlo.

While Alex Schaerer's Maxi 72 Caol Ila R is due to return to defend her Regata dei Tre Golfi title, leading on the water this year will be American Jim Swartz' maxZ86 Vesper. Swartz has a long history in maxi boats first with his Swan 60 and then an STP65, both named Moneypenny. He has since campaigned a TP52 for many years before returning to maxis last year, chartering Mike Slade's Leopard for the Rolex Giraglia. This season he is campaigning Vesper, the former Morning Glory, originally built for Hasso Plattner.

Also competing will be Márton Józsa's Reichel Pugh 66 Wild Joe, sailing one of her first regattas since being recently fitted with a Dynamic Stability Systems lateral foil to increase her righting moment and performance.

12 maxis are currently entered in the Regata dei Tre Golfi, but their number will increase to 27 for the subsequent inshore and coastal races (including a much anticipated race around Capri) at Rolex Capri Sailing Week, over 15-18 May. This partly due to the additional entries from Mylius Yachts, competing for their annual Mylius Cup.

The line-up includes a particularly strong fleet of 60 footers, notably International Maxi Association President Benoît de Froidmont's Wally 60 Wallyño, Peter Dubens' Frers 60 Spectre, the all-conquering Mills Vismara 62 Supernikka of Roberto Lacorte, plus a trio of Swan 65s including Marietta Strasoldo's Lunz Am Meer. Then there are larger boats including the Baltic 78 Lupa of the Sea, multiple Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup class winner Riccardo de Michele's Vallicelli 80 H2O and the Spanish Swan 80 Plis Play.

For the first time in 2019, Rolex Capri Sailing Week's inshore and coastal races will form part of the International Maxi Association's new Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge. This new championship also includes Rolex Giraglia inshores, Copa del Rey MAPFRE, Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and finally Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. -- James Boyd

www.internationalmaxiassociation.com

www.rolexcaprisailingweek.com

Make Your Splice Right with Marlow’s NEW Splicing Tutorials launching this sailing season
Did you know that a well spliced rope will typically retain 90% of its strength?

Marlow Ropes is well-known for providing helpful education resources and advice for sailors, and this year, the leading rope manufacturer is pleased to launch a new and improved on-line collection of splicing tutorials.

From the advanced D2 (Dyneema) Eye Splice to the intermediate Excel Taper and beginner level Continuous Loop control line splice; Marlow will guide you step-by-step through a range of 11 splices, suitable for all types of sailor and for all abilities, allowing you to improve and master your seamanship skills to get your rigging ready for the start of the season.

With over 150 years of combined splicing knowledge and experience, splicing is integral to Marlow’s product and service, with their splicing service available to trade and commercial customers for bespoke rope assemblies, slings and strops across the industrial, vehicle and working-at-height industries. In the marine industry, Marlow works with leading rigging professionals and consults many of the world’s leading race teams (including the British, US and European sailing teams amongst others).

The full splicing collection will be released over the start of the summer. To view the first three films in the series, click here. For hands-on splicing demonstrations and advice, find Marlow at boat shows and events across the UK & Europe, or enquire about attending one of their UK nationwide Rope-Shows at a sailing club near you.

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Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta: Grande Dame of the Concours d' Elegance
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Overall winner of the Concours d'Elegance was the stunning Herreshoff design ketch Arrluuk. A faithful replica 1939 Bounty and a kindred spirit to last year's overall winner, 72' Ticonderoga, she was built in 1997 by Legendary Yachts.

Owners Steve and Tricia Frary, daughter Elizabeth 13, and son Nathan 11, have been cruising the Caribbean for the past fourteen months with the BVI and Bahamas on their horizon. Judges found it hard to believe that a family of four live aboard and cruise this magnificent yacht which brought about their unanimous vote for Overall Prize as well as first in Classic Class, Privately-maintained.

Taking home top awards was the icing on the cake. Arrluuk also earned a special limited edition LOCMAN watch for first in Classics Class as well as a Barrel of Rum and an inspiration to join the Regatta sometime in Arrluuk's long future. -- Jan Hein

* The 2019 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta fittingly came to a close after Tuesday's Gig Racing and Cream Teas at the Admiral's Inn in English Harbour. Wind off the south coast was awol but it blew sweet and steady in Nelson's Dockyard, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Joining the mini Regatta for the first time were the Ponzi Class sailboats, the brainchild of Robbie Fabre. Rumour has it he built one for a swimming pool then schemed friends to grow the fleet. Six were in attendance, providing a crayon box of color with rig combinations from a designer's wildest dream. Performance wise, the fleet did well despite the need to paddle during tacking and some random sinking manoeuvres. -- Jan Hein

www.antiguaclassics.com

Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta
The 12th edition of the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) with title sponsor Loro Piana, is scheduled to take place in Porto Cervo from the 3rd to the 8th of June, 2019 and is set to be more competitive than ever with 24 superyachts already pre-enrolled. Owners who wish to join the fleet, including simply for the Rendez-vous aspect without competing, have to register until the 2nd of May.

The 2019 edition of the Regatta will feature two important novelties: an extended duration, with an extra day to hold a cancelled racing if that happens, and the fact that multihulls of over 50 feet can now participate. With three multihulls already enrolled, Ad Maiora, Dragon and R-Six, they will race in their own category alongside any other multihull vessels that may register.

The largest yacht enrolled so far is Q, built by Alloy Yachts to a design by Ed Dubois and measuring 51.7 metres. Just two metres behind her, a 49.8-metre Perini Navi Silencio, returns to the Costa Smeralda after winning in its class at the Perini Navi Cup in 2018. Another returning winner is the 39.6-metre Baltic 130' My Song, owned by YCCS member Pier Luigi Loro Piana which won the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta last year and was recently declared Boat of the Year at the Italian Sailling Federation's Sailor of the Year awards.

The Southern Wind Rendezvous and Trophy returns to Porto Cervo for its 14th edition with a fleet of 10 boats currently pre-enrolled. Kiboko Tres will be making her debut in June. The yacht represents the second unit of the new 32-metre model, launched in October 2018 and now in the Mediterranean after completing the transatlantic journey from Cape Town where she was built.

The SW-RP90 All Smoke, designed by Reichel/Pugh and Nauta Design, will also make its regatta debut. The current holder of the trophy, the SW102 Seawave will fight to retain the title, while the SW82 Grande Orazio owned by YCCS member Massimiliano Florio, will compete on a level playing field with her sister ship Ammonite, returning from the Southeast Asia for the occasion.

yachtharbour.com

www.yccs.it

OSTAR and TWOSTAR in 2020
With the start of the next Original Single Handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) and Two Handed Transatlantic Race (TWOSTAR) just a year away, entries and enquiries are flooding in. With the scheduled start in Plymouth UK in May 2020 alongside the TRANSAT, this promises to be a very special event with both corinthian and professional racers gathering together to mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of single handed oceanic racing. Initiated in 1960 by Blonde Hasler and the Royal Western Yacht Club of England who remain the race organising authority, the first race saw just 5 boats compete. This race was won by Sir Francis Chichester with the second race being won by the legendary Eric Taberly. Entries swelled to 125 boats in 1976 before the professional element of the race split to form the TRANSAT in 2004. The Corinthian element continued to race every four years in the OSTAR with the RWYC.

Today the OSTAR (now run together with its twohanded sister TWOSTAR), has received entries from the USA, UK, Poland, Switzerland. Some are first timers eager to fulfil a life long ambition to race the north Atlantic, while others are either those that have a desire to better their previous times or some that see the race as a pathway to prove themselves for a career ahead in professional short handed yacht racing.

The RWYC welcomes applicants for entry to the 2020 OSTAR TWOSTAR. Entry Forms, the Notice Of Race and further details are available on the websites at rwyc.org/ostar/ and rwyc.org/twostar/ or by email: ostar [AT] rwyc [DOT] org or twostar [AT] rwyc [DOT] org

North Sails offers Offshore Performance Seminar in San Diego
When racing offshore, sailors have to be prepared for anything and everything, and when the ocean tosses up a new challenge, it's what you have done to prepare that will be essential.

So on Thursday, May 16th from 6 - 9 PM North Sails San Diego will host an Offshore Performance Seminar, featuring two-time Volvo-race skipper Charlie Enright and veteran offshore and America's Cup navigator Peter Isler.

Topics covered in the seminar include:
- Sail Selection
- Weather & Routing
- Squall Management
- Watch Systems
- Food & Gear
- Safety
- Maneuvers
- Communication

RSVP for this free event and join us to talk directly with the experts and hear what they do to prepare for offshore adventures, such as the upcoming 50th edition Transpac and any of its qualification races and passages.

North Sails San Diego is located at 4630 Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109.

Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta
The 2018 Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta was a record breaking year for entries with 198 boats and around 1,000 crew racing off Yarmouth in the Western Solent. This year, the 12th edition of the regatta is predicted to attract similar numbers and Champagne Taittinger and the Royal Solent Yacht Club are joined for the first time by Isle of Wight-based, independent financial planners, Rouse Limited as supporting sponsor of this increasingly popular regatta.

Over the regatta weekend from Friday 26th-Sunday 28th July, the majority of classes will have two races on Saturday with one race on Sunday started from committee boat lines off the Island and Mainland shores. The range of classes competing in the 2019 Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta is famously diverse with a yachting design timeline reaching back over 100 years including SB20; Contessa 32; Folkboat; Gaffers; four IRC Divisions; IRC Classic Cruiser; IRC Swan; J24; J80; J109; two RYA NHC Classes; Sigma 38; X One Design (XOD) and Yarmouth One Design (YOD).

The event's status as the South Coast's most popular yacht club regatta has meant that early registration for this year's event is strongly recommended. Anne Kyle, Commodore of the Royal Solent explains: 'We aim to welcome as many boats as we can and usually fill Yarmouth Harbour to capacity,' says the Commodore. 'There was spectacular racing last year and it was a real pleasure to see so many satisfied sailors having such a great time on the water, and the town of Yarmouth buzzing with activity,' she continues. 'Given the increasing popularity of this regatta, any new or returning competitors would be wise to register early to avoid disappointment.'

The deadline for entries to the 2019 Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta is 22nd July 2019, but the Early Bird Discount remains until 13th June 2019.

Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta 2019 Notice of Race

www.royalsolent.org

Notice Of Race Issued For Transpac Tahiti Race 2020
Even though still over a year away, excitement is building for the 16th edition of the Transpac Tahiti Race 2020 starting on 28 May 2020. Already five entries representing a broad range of boat types have signed on to compete in the 3570-mile voyage from Los Angeles to Papeete, first sailed in 1925.

With this strong initial interest, organizers from the Transpacific Yacht Club have issued a Notice of Race that invites seaworthy Monohulls of any length over 30 feet and offshore Multihulls of any size to apply for an invitation to compete. The Notice of Race is posted on the Yacht Scoring website as well as Pre-Registration can be found at

For scoring Transpacific YC will be using the ORR ocean racing rule with a custom wind matrix to handicap the boats.

The first entry in this cycle of the race, last run in 2012, is Matt Brooks's 53-foot S&S-designed ketch DORADE. This classic ocean racing yacht launched in 1930 was one of the most successful of the era, winning the 1930 Transatlantic Race, the 1932 Newport-Bermuda Race, and the 1936 Transpac race from LA to Honolulu.

Under Brooks's recent ownership, the boat has been updated and restored, and is ocean racing again in many of the same races, even finding similar success as 80 years ago: in 2013 she once again took the overall King Kalakaua Trophy in the Transpac.

The DORADE team is well-organized, with Brooks already naming his sailing team for the race, many from the successful 2013 Transpac win: he will be joined by Matt Wachowicz, Kevin Miller, Eric Chowanski, John Hayes, Mike Giles, and Steve Branaugh.

The other current entries include another team with multiple Transpac wins, Roy Disney's PYEWACKET, with the latest version being his Andrews 70 from San Diego. And in the same genre of fast light offshore greyhounds is Damon Guizot's LA-based Reichel/Pugh 77 ZEPHYRUS. These two would be the current first-to-finish favorites on this course.

Benoit Parnaudeau's Class 40 NACIRA is currently the only Tahiti-based entry, and Bill Boyd's Morgan 38.2 DAD'S DREAM from Long Beach is doing the race representing Hawaii YC.

www.transpac-tahiti.com

Featured Brokerage
2007 Open 50 JOYEUX. 295,000 EUR. Located in Brittany, France

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2000 Swan 56 - "Akarana". 525000 GBP. Located in Cowes, UK.

AKARANA has the preferred arrangement with a master cabin forward, two cabins aft with upper and lower berths, and a proper fore-peak forward. A new T-keel was installed in 2012 reducing the draft, improving the balance while maintaining the exceptional sailing performance. New Teak deck in 2014.

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1977 Nautor Swan 47. 170,000 EUR. Located in Salerno, Italy.

An evergreen classic, designed by S&S and built as only Nautor can, GRAMPUS II offers sparkling sailing together with build quality that is never to be repeated. Perfect for serious cruising, these yachts also shine in the Regatta circuit and are rare to the brokerage market.

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GRABAU INTERNATIONAL
Lead broker - Michele Antonini
Tel: +39 333 74 89 281
Email: michele [AT] grabauinternational [DOT] com

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The Last Word
We do know, of certain knowledge, that Osama Bin laden is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead. -- Donald Rumsfeld

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In This Issue
• New Name for the Laser
• Newport to Ensenada Race
• Immaculate pedigree - Evolution Sails
• SailGP: Brits open their account on San Francisco Bay
• Irish Youth Sailors Medal at RYA Youth Nationals 2019
• Melges 20 World League
• Met Office issues wind and rain warnings
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Industry News
• Featured Brokerage
• The Last Word: U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

New Name for the Laser
The International Laser Class Association (ILCA) has announced that, beginning today, all new, class-approved boats will be sold and raced under the "ILCA Dinghy" name. This change will have no impact on existing ILCA-authorized boats and equipment, which will be able to race alongside ILCA Dinghies in all class sanctioned events.

This action follows the move by the ILCA last month to terminate longtime builder of the class dinghy, LaserPerformance (LP), which the ILCA said had breached the terms of the Laser Construction Manual Agreement, which seeks to ensure the identical nature of all Laser class boats, regardless of where they are built.

The ILCA needed to change the boat name as LP held the rights to the Laser Trademark.

The boat has been the Olympic equipment used for the One Person Dinghy event since the Atlanta 1996 Games, and while its use will continue through to the Tokyo 2020 Games, no decision has yet been made on equipment for the events at the Paris 2024 Games.

Usher pointed out that the name change will apply to all three rig sizes allowed by the ILCA Class Rules (Standard, Radial and 4.7 rigs) and the new class-legal sails for each rig will carry the updated ILCA logo.

Eric Faust, ILCA's Executive Secretary, said his team is close to issuing a formal application form to help narrow down the large number of prospective new builders he's heard from since the class's March announcement.

"After recent discussions with World Sailing leadership, we're assured that we have their full support with this changeover, especially since we now have the opportunity to comply fully with World Sailing's fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing requirements for Olympic equipment," said Faust.

"We've already had serious interest from well-funded and highly respected builders who are committed to building to the exacting one-design standards of our construction manual and the ILCA Rules."

Prior to the termination, the ILCA had three approved builders with specific territories:

- Performance Sailcraft Japan (PSJ) for Japan, North Korea, and South Korea.
- Performance Sailcraft Australia (PSA) for Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, and New Caledonia.
- LaserPerformance (LP) for Europe, Central America, South America, North America, Far East and Asia (excluding Japan, North Korea, and South Korea), Middle East, Africa, Russia, and all other territories not covered by other builders.

From Scuttlebutt:
www.sailingscuttlebutt.com

FAQ from ILCA:
www.laserinternational.org

Newport to Ensenada Race
Sailing enthusiasts are converging on Newport Beach in final preparation for Friday's 72nd Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race. Slips are filling, mooring balls are being grabbed and racers and guests will mix and mingle at the pre-race party this evening. At yesterday's Yachtsman's Luncheon, one attendee reported sailing the race 43 times. Speaker Keith Magnusson, of Ullman sails, said the race is a great opportunity to put cell phones down, to get away from daily distractions and do a little star gazing. But the race is. On.

Class breaks include ULBD or non-ULDB boats to create more competitive classes.

A trio of races will hit the start line off the Balboa Pier. In addition to the classic N2E, racers on the N2SD course will be San Diego bound and N2DP is the sprint course to Dana Point.

A drone, capturing live footage of the start will air with commentary on the race's official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/NewportToEnsenada starting about 10:30 a.m

LOOK FOR: Alive, a Reichel Pugh 66 is making its race debut. Formerly Stark Raving Mad, this boat has the lowest rating at –147. Remember, the current record-holder for fastest elapsed time in a monohull belongs to Aszhou, a R/P 63. These Australian-built boats are fast. Conversely, Sir Tuffy, a 38-Alberg, has a rating of +235. Handicap wise, that's like giving Sir Tuffy a 14-hour head start.

nosa.org

Immaculate pedigree - Evolution Sails
Ten years and seven international sail lofts later, Evolution Sails is no longer such a small story...

In the last decade Evolution Sails has grown from a small go-it-alone loft in New Zealand to an internationallyrecognised brand with an expanding network of franchise lofts in major markets, a proprietary membrane plant supplying an extensive list of independent lofts and a healthy stronghold in its target market.

‘It has been a phenomenal ride,’ says founder and owner Rodney Keenan, who began sailmaking in 1991 with Lidgard Sails and then worked with Doyle and Qantum.

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

SailGP: Brits open their account on San Francisco Bay
Great Britain SailGP are the second team to sail their F50 on San Francisco Bay ahead of the second round of the SailGP series which gets underway in less than ten days.

All teams are working out of the SailGP base - the old sea plane base in Alemada which was used by Sweden's Artemis Racing in the 2013 America's Cup regatta.

Earlier the Rome Kirby led US SailGP team, were the first to launch.

After the first Round in Sydney, the Great Britain SailGP put in several hours training and learning on the Artemis Technologies simulator at Heathrow, London.

www.sail-world.com

Irish Youth Sailors Medal at RYA Youth Nationals 2019
The RYA were issuing invitations to visiting sailors for the 2019 event in Weymouth so it gave the opportunity for a few Irish boats to compete at the premier British Youth Sailing event of the year writes Thomas Chaix

The RYA Youth Nationals 2019 produced seven days of great competition on the water of Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour.

The Irish contingent was composed by eight 29er partnerships (showing once more that the fastest growing class in Ireland is also keen to show its competitiveness against the well established UK class), two 420 partnerships, three Laser radials and two laser 4.7s. For the 29ers and the 420s, the event was also part of the trials process to earn selection into the Youth Worlds 2019 Irish team.

afloat.ie/sail/

Full results: www.rya.org.uk

Melges 20 World League
After the seasonal debut of the Melges 32 fleet, Italy and Villasimius will be again the hosts of the inaugural act of the European division of the 2019 Melges 20 World League.

Four out of fifteen Melges 20 World League events have already been competed worldwide (including the World Championship of Miami, won by the Italian crew of Stig by Alessandro Rombelli), but it's time to start racing also in Europe.

The challenge now shifts to the Mediterranean, for an edition that promises to be one of the most spectacular and uncertain of all times, with the very high technical rate due to the presence of titled crews, all with the same and only objective.

With plenty of World and European Champions getting on the water, drawing up predictions on who's going to win an event has never been so difficult so far: racing will start on Friday 26 April, for three consecutive days of regattas, on the spectacular race course of Villasimius.

On the starting line we will find the reigning World Champion Stig and the winner of the 2018 Melges World League, the Russian Nika of Vladimir Prosikhin. The presence of the winner of the European series and vice-champion of the 2018 Worlds Brontolo of the Italian Filippo Pacinotti is confirmed, as well as that of of the multi-awarded (Melges World League winner and Melges 20 European Champion) Russian Bogatyrs of Igor Rytov, and Fremito d'Arja (winner of the Gold Cup in 2012 and constantly at the top of the Class).

The list of candidates for the first stage and for the European circuit victory is wide and includes also the names, in example, of Raya by Matteo Marenghi Vaselli and Synergy by Valentin Zavadnikov (both bearing the colors of the Yacht Club de Monaco), as well as those of the Giannattasio family with father (Luigi) and son (Pierluigi) who will try to bring Boogie and Mendieta respectively to the top positions in the rankings. Another "family-duel" will be the one between Pietro Loro Piana (at the helm of Gone Squatching) and Franco Loro Piana (with Sease).

The Melges 20 World League European Division will see the fleet engaged over the next six months in six events: after Villasimius, the sailors will move to Puntaldia (24 - 26 May), to reach then Marina di Scarlino (24 - 26 June), Riva del Garda (12 - 14 July) and Malcesine, location of the double event with the Russian Open (7-8 September) and with the Melges 20 European Championship 2019 (10-14 September)

melges20.com

Met Office issues wind and rain warnings
he sunny weather that people across the UK enjoyed during the Easter Bank Holiday is about to come to an abrupt end as Storm Hannah pummels the country.

Weather forecasters have warned of gusts of up to 80mph and low temperatures "more like January" this weekend.

The low-pressure weather system, which was named by Met Eireann on Thursday, is expected to bring strong winds to Ireland and southern parts of the UK from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning.

The Irish weather service has issued a status orange advisory for Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick, warning of the weather "becoming stormy on Friday evening and overnight as Storm Hannah moves in", bringing gusts of 110-130km/h.

The warning is due to start at 4pm on Friday and expire at 5am on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the Met Office has moved to issue a yellow warning for winds in southern Wales, as well parts of the south and south-west of England, warning of gusts up to 70mph on coasts.

The warning is due to last from 9pm on Friday until 3pm on Saturday, with forecasters predicting "a risk of disruption to travel".

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

Seahorse May 2019
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

(Truly) something else
Certain special boats can float quietly under the radar (see here page 57). We doubt this one will stay silent for long. Paul Bieker and Andres Suar

Throw it out there
That was the design philosophy that won the last America's Cup and the exact same approach is driving Nautor's Swan's spectacular new Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed ClubSwan 36

Immaculate pedigree
Ten years and seven international sail lofts later, Evolution Sails is no longer such a small story...

The new norm - Part I
Renaud Banuls tells the story of the birth of a new attitude to offshore multihull design

Paul Cayard - crash pad to launch pad
Or from the South Pole to South Beach

RORC news - Digital takeover
Eddie Warden-Owen

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Industry News
The Finnish boating industry is forecasting a buoyant summer with boat registrations rocketing by more than 40 per cent over the previous year, while exhibitors sign up to the Helsinki Boat-Afloat Show at a record rate. "Spring has kicked off on a great note," says Jarkko Pajusalo, managing director of the Finnish Marine Industries Federation Finnboat, visibly pleased about the development. "The early onset of spring and last year's splendid boating season are two underlying factors enabling the success. Although consumer confidence has deteriorated from the peak level of 2018, it nevertheless remains high, and also the current extended period of economic growth has bolstered the boating industry outlook in Finland," Pajusalo explains.

Organisers expect this year's Boat-Afloat to feature almost 300 boats and the number of exhibitors to exceed 150

One indicator of the boating industry's favourable trend is the popularity of the Helsinki Boat-Afloat Show, a culmination of the Finnish boating season. By Easter, more than one hundred businesses had signed up for this year's show, compared with 47 the same time a year ago.

www.ibinews.com

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Extensive use of solar power and hydroponics add to eco crendentials of new 640-berth Port St. George

Renderings of what will be the largest marina in The Bahamas, Port St. George have just been released along with more details about the 640-berth marina. Located just minutes from Stella Maris International Airport, Port St. George will accommodate vessels up to 100 feet in length and will provide enhanced storm protection due to the size, enabling vessels to dock year-round, a rare advantage in this region. The marina will also offer a full range of services including customs, immigration, boat cleaning and repair facilities, fuel, supplies and chandlery. It will form the hub of a complex that will include 276 luxury condominiums, 82 townhouses, five single-family homes and five branded residences, all of which will be positioned at most a few hundred yards from the waterfront. There will also be a 50-room five-star hotel, a 40-room inn and a wide variety of retail shops, restaurants and bars and a yacht club. Construction of the development is slated to begin this year, and expected to last four to five years.

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The GAC Group's sailing logistics specialist GAC Pindar has been appointed the official shipping and logistics provider for the GC32 Racing Tour 2019 season which kicks off in Italy at the end of next month.

2019 is the sixth year of the GC32 Racing Tour. It features fast GC32 catamarans allowing regular sailors, both pros and keen amateurs, to experience competitive sailing at speeds of 30+ knots at venues across Southern Europe. This year's GC32 Racing Tour five-venue circuit is stronger than ever, following its consolidation with the GC32 teams from the Extreme Sailing Series. At least ten teams will compete in some of the best sailing venues in Italy, Spain and Portugal.

GAC Pindar is charged with handling the transportation of yachts, equipment and other cargo for the events and will draw on its wealth of experience with its previous involvement moving the infrastructure for the GC32 Racing Tour since 2015, as well as for the Volvo Ocean Race and other high profile sailing events.

Headquartered in the UK sailing hub of Southampton, GAC Pindar is a division of GAC Services (UK) Ltd and part of the GAC Group.

www.gac.com

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A+T Instruments have stand RR10 (close to the bar) in the Refit & Repair area of Palma Superyacht Show with our technical team on hand to discuss your upgrade or new system.

If you would like tickets, a specific appointment at our stand or onboard your yacht please contact our office or call the onsite mobile +44 (0)7860 181277.

For those who don't know, the Palma Superyacht Show (Saturday 27th April to Wednesday 1st May) is well worth visiting. It is one of the largest sailing superyacht shows worldwide and a real hub of influential equipment and service companies.

www.aandtinstruments.com
www.palmasuperyachtshow.com

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An inaugural Seafood Festival is being held at Hythe Marina Village on 8th June 2019. With a wide range of local produce and live music the event is certain to become a firm favourite in the local calendar.

As well as fishy favourites like fish and chips and seafood pizza, visitors will enjoy the delights of companies selling local produce such as fudge, ice cream, cakes, gin and wine. In addition to all these tasty morsels will be Classics on the Quay, a collection of over 100 amazing classic and supercars. A Griffon Hovercraft will also be landing in Hythe on the day.

MDL prides itself on its marinas' interactions with local communities.

"We really do enjoy these types of events," says Kerry Marriott, Head of Operations. "Many of our marinas hold exciting days for members and the community. We're particularly excited about the Seafood Festival and can't wait to taste all the stunning goodies on offer."

The Seafood Festival runs from 9am-5pm, on 8 June 2019. More information is available from www.lovehytheandwaterside.co.uk/, www.facebook.com/hythemarinavillage/ and twitter.com/MDLHytheMarina

Featured Brokerage
2013 Infiniti 36GT - Skazka. 175,000 EUR. Located in Southampton, UK.

Perfect for adrenaline junkies. Superbly finished. Very little used.XT

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2002 Swan 45-007 'Eala of Rhu'. 295,000 VAT Paid EUR. Located in Barcelona, Spain.

Swan 45 EALA of RHU is an excellent example of this hugely successful one design fleet, built as a Two Cabin version with twin heads and a large sail locker accessed from the cockpit.

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Contact
Nautor's Swan Brokerage - Jerome Mainemare
brokerage [AT] nautorswan [DOT] com
Tel. +377 97 97 95 07
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1982 Pocock One Tonner. 19,500 GBP Located in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Greased Lighting is a racing One Tonner. If you're wanting to get into racing or you're an old hand wanting to keep your skills well oiled, Greased Lightning is the yacht for you.

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The Last Word
If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence. -- 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, US v Moylan, 1969

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In This Issue
• Rum Runners at Antigua Sailing Week
• Peters & May Round Antigua Race
• First European Leg of the 2019 Melges 20 World League
• Everything in it’s right place - UBI Maior
• SNIM 2019: an undisputed success!
• Hong Kong claims Nations Cup Victory
• World Sailing Show
• Dragon Lady steals the show in final race of Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series
• Paris 2024: World Sailing wants to stop 'Arms Race' in Offshore Keelboat
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Swan 105 RS Child of Lir
• • Farr 51 'Bob'
• • Maxi 86 'Windquest'
• The Last Word: Ronnie Lane

Rum Runners at Antigua Sailing Week
Brilliant sunshine, solid trade winds and Caribbean surf made for the perfect start for the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week. The cocktail of heaven-sent conditions was very apt for English Harbour Rum Race Day. The six CSA racing classes were on the Windward Course enjoying some epic downwind legs straight off the front of the brochure!

Ker 46 Lady Mariposa won today's race in CSA 2. British Lombard 46 Pata Negra, skippered by Adrian Fisk was second, and Vittorio Biscarini's Italian Mylius 15E25 Ars Una was third.

Sir Peter Harrison's Farr 115 Sojana, holder of the Lord Nelson Trophy, started their campaign with a win in CSA 1. Fully powered-up, the British supermaxi completed the 20-nautical mile course in under two hours. TP52 Zingara (Conviction) with Canadian Richard Reid at the helm, was second. Lithuanian Volvo 65 Ambersail, skippered by Simonas Steponavicius was third.

In CSA 3, Ondeck Antigua's Farr 65 Spirit of Juno, skippered by Arran Chapman won today's race and celebrated loud and proud at the English Harbour Rum Race Day prize giving! Adrian Lee's Irish Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II was just 20 seconds behind Spirit of Juno after over two hours of racing. Mark Jagger's British Bordeaux 60 Theia of London, skippered by James Richman was third.

In CSA 4, British Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster won today's hotly contested race by just 16 seconds on corrected time from Pamala Baldwin's Antiguan J/122 Liquid. Diego Aguirre's J/122 Team Inka from Peru, was third by just 18 seconds from the Canadian Reflex 38 Touch2Play Racing, skippered by Rob Butler.

CSA 6 produced the closest race of the day, with Jules Mitchell's young Antiguan team racing 1720 NSA Spirit to victory by just 7 seconds from Raymond Magras and Patrick Bernier's St.Barths' team racing Dufour 34 Speedy Nemo. Tough luck for Raymond Magras who was celebrating his birthday on the stage with his team. Raphael Magras racing x-34 Maelia CEPAC Antilles, also from St.Barths was third, and led the chant of Happy Birthday!

Racing continues at Antigua Sailing Week on Monday 29 April, with Fever-Tree Race Day 2. -- Trish Jenkins

www.sailingweek.com

Peters & May Round Antigua Race
The Bajan TP52 Zingara (Conviction), chartered by Canadian Richard Reid, won the Peters & May Round Antigua Race in dramatic style. The team including Olympian and Volvo Ocean Race winner Richard Clarke, took Line Honours and the Peters & May Trophy for the overall win, after a tangle with the 100ft SHK Scallywag right at the start. Second overall was Pamala Baldwin's J/122 Liquid, with a young team skippered by Jules White. Ker 46 Lady Mariposa, skippered by two-time Olympic Gold Medallist Jesper Bank, was third.

The Peters & May Round Antigua Race is the spectacular prequel to Antigua Sailing Week. The five-day regatta with a full cast of entries will start on Sunday 28 April. Thirty three yachts entered the 53-mile race around Antigua, with high drama right from the get-go. The Dovell 100 SHK Scallywag tore their enormous mainsail after a tangle with TP52 Zingara (Conviction). The magnificent 115ft Farr ketch Sojana was noticeably absent after fouling their propeller before the start.

Pamala Baldwin's J/122 Liquid, skippered by Jules White, put in a great performance, scoring second overall and winning CSA 2 ahead of two well sailed teams; Ross Applebey's Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster and Bernie Evan-Wong's RP37 Taz.

In CSA 1, Zingara (Conviction) was the winner, with Lady Mariposa, a newcomer to Antigua Sailing Week, in second place. On Deck's Farr 65 Spirit of Juno, skippered by Arran Chapman was third; a great start to the defence of their class win at last year's Antigua Sailing Week.

In CSA 3, Michael and Chloe Hough's Spirit 64.5 Chloe Giselle, class winner at last week's Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta was the winner, ahead of Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II, skippered by Adrian Lee who has won class several times at Antigua Sailing Week with his former yacht, a Cookson 50. Mark Jagger's Bordeaux 60 Theia of London, skippered by James Richmond, was third.

In the Double-Handed Class, Philip Asche's Swan 44 Freebird was the winner, racing with Ronald Canizares, representing the New York Yacht Club

Full Results for the Peters & May Round Antigua Race

First European Leg of the 2019 Melges 20 World League
Villasimius, Cagliari, Italy: Igor Rytov, at the helm of Russian Bogatyrs, is the winner of the first leg of the long European season of the Melges 20 World League, confirming himself as one of the top teams in the fleet.

Igor Rytov is not new to these results as he has always been, with great continuity, at the top of the Class in which he won the title of Melges World League Champion and European Champion in 2017. With today's victory Rytov does nothing but add a new success to his long and great collection.

The placement on the top step of the podium for the Russian team has matured all through the weekend and in the extreme and spectacular conditions of yesterday in which Rytov took the lead with a perfect performance.

In today's only regatta, Russian Bogatyrs was able to control the opponents, keeping them at a safe distance scoring an excellent second place in the race that saw the success of the Argentinian Boogie by Pierluigi Giannattasio (with Giulio Desiderato on tactics).

The spotlight of the Melges 20 World League is now moving on Asia, Japan, where the sixth round of the 2019 international circuit will be held (in Akya from 18 to 19 May) while Europe will return to be the protagonist from 24 to 26 May with the appointment of Puntaldia, North-Eastern Sardinia.

Final top five:
1. Russian Bogatyrs, RUS, Igor Rytov, 11 points
2. Boogie, ARG, Pierluigi GIannattasio, 16
3. Brontolo Racing, ITA, Filippo Pacinotti, 25
4. Pirogovo Sailing, RUS, Alexandr Ezhkov, 27
5. Fremitod'Arja, ITA, Dario Levi, 28

Full results on YachtScoring.com

Everything in it’s right place - UBI Maior
Best known for the elegant and well-engineered equipment that is used on many of the world’s fastest raceboats, UBI Maior’s technology is also increasingly seen aboard the most stylish and innovative cruiser-racers

When the builders at Vismara were approached to use their well-honed skills in crafting a beautiful new luxury performance yacht designed by Axel De Beaufort/Guillame Verdier, they needed to be assured their suppliers to the project met their own high standards. They chose UBI Maior as the supplier for most components of the deck hardware and sail-handling systems.

The vision for this new 69-footer called Nacira 69 was one not yet attempted in this genre: take the best elements of the Imoca 60 class yachts and adapt them for shorthanded luxury racing and cruising. Built in pre-preg carbon with a deck-stepped mast placed well aft towards the longitudinal centre of the yacht, Nacira has a more open interior for cruising along with the very latest in offshore performance design from the creators of many Imoca 60s as well as larger ocean greyhounds such as Comanche.

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SNIM 2019: an undisputed success!
The 54th International Nautical Week of the Mediterranean (SNIM) organized by the Societe Nautique de Marseille gathered 139 boats including 98 crews in IRC, others in monotypes, 1000 sailors, a record participation for 4 days of intense and windy regattas in Marseille, future venue of the 2024 Olympic Games. This is a significant growth with many young sailors joining !

Two major points should be highlighted: the unusual weather and the strong and very competitive Russian contingent.

Blocked between a Nordic high pressure ridge covering Europe which gave a superb weather for the Spi Ouest and an African depression moving north, Sailors had 4 days of warm Easterly wind, very shifty and gusty from 0 to 30 knots within minutes! It included holes of wind at some marks, redistributing cards all along the races. Tacticians have never been so useful but lots of them got serious headaches!

The offshore race was quite windy in choppy waters out of the bay towards the islands of La Ciotat or Les Embiez depending of the class. The overall winner has been Bogatyr, the JPK 10.80 of Igor Rytov who also won the IRC 3 class despite a very strong opposition of Chenapan helmed by Dimitri Deruelle, in charge of the upcoming Sail GP event in Marseille.

In IRC 2, Adrenaline crewed by Russians as well won by one point after the very last race against Sloughi, the First 40 of the Riva family from Palavas which had already won brilliantly the Massilia Cup 2 weeks ago.

IRC 1 went to Imagine, a Sydney 43, Confluence Sopra (GP42) following and Tonnerre de Glen completing the box. This very well-known boat will be participating to major British races including the Round the Island Race and major RORC races, IRC nationals, Cowes Dinard, the Channel Race and the Fastnet.

Finally in IRC 0, Team Visions Future made it ahead of Alizee, both of them training for the TP 52 season.

Special mention for the Solo and Duo sailors who had to face these difficult and windy conditions and some serious boat injuries. Ultimately, the local beer brewery, La Cagole, will use its bar benefits to plant 1 000 trees in close by hills ravaged by fires, highlighting the contribution of SNIM to reduce its CO2 impact. -- Philippe Serenon

Full results: lanautique.com/regate/snim-2019/

Hong Kong claims Nations Cup Victory
Monty Python's favorite nationality: the Belgians. Photo by Guy Nowell. Click on image for photo gallery.

Sailing today was just about as good as we ever get in the harbour” said Irishman Mick McCool who sailed aboard Jamie McWilliam’s Etchells, Finnegan’s Wake, the sole Irish entry into the 2019 Nations’ Cup. Added McCool, It would mean an awful lot to have the Irish flag behind the bar” but Ireland just missed out, coming in second behind Hong Kong.

By all accounts, everyone enjoyed the day’s racing out in the harbour. Over 60 sailing crews representing 17 nations namely Hong Kong, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Sweden, Turkey, New Zealand, Scotland, Germany, USA, Ireland, Belgium, France, Italy and Japan competed in the Harbour. Besides winning a trophy, the winning nation’s bragging rights includes the right to have their nation’s flag in the Club’s Main Bar for a year.

First held in 2011, the Nations’ Cup is different from the Club’s usual sailing races with crews formed along the lines of their nation of origin or allegiance - or just simply dressing up in anything they like.

Race Officer Inge Strompf-Jepsen set a course that was “easy to handle for teams that are not used to sailing together, one that was interesting enough without being too long and one that could be shortened if necessary.” Strompf-Jepsen said “the weather conditions were pretty good; perfect almost. We had 10 to 15kts of breeze and it was all good despite the finishing mark being dragged away from us.”

There were all sorts of costumes out on the race track today. One boat carried Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un and Barack Obama lookalikes along with their bodyguards whilst another team representing France sailed in yellow vests. Still others dressed up as mahjong pieces. Best dressed boat award went to Helios.

Another nod to politics came from Nick Atkinson who had an English flag and an EU flag strapped to his Flying Fifteen Uffa Fox Ache. Said Atkinson, “we went as Brexit basically” and when asked how he thought he fared in today’s racing he quipped "really badly actually, much like Brexit; we couldn't decide which way to go to save our lives".

In the end Hong Kong was crowned top nation for the first time in the history of the Nations’ Cup. In second place was Ireland followed in third by England. Then came Belgium, Australia and New Zealand rounding off the top six. Best Dressed Crew was Hong Kong’s Karina and Best Dressed Boat was Helios.

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World Sailing Show
It has taken two years to create and has required absolute secrecy throughout. As Thomas Coville’s new 32m trimaran was rolled out into the open we got to see why his team had been so tight lipped about their new beast of a boat. This is an Ultime like no other.

We also take a look at another high performance multihull, but this one is for cruising. The Eagle 53 was inspired by the America’s Cup and designed to fly.

A new plan for the road to the America’s Cup is laid out as this year’s opening event is postponed.

How a sailing club in San Diego with an unorthodox approach to racing is grabbing the support of a new generation of young sailors.

Plus, alternative ways to get your kicks on foils.

- Coville’s secret revealed: The new Sodebo
- The Un-Regatta
- The Eagle has launched
- A new route to the America’s Cup
- Alternative foiling for fun

Dragon Lady steals the show in final race of Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series
Henrietta McRae steered her Dragon keelboat, ‘Dragon Lady’, to two wins from three races at the Brighton Ladies Skippers Series (BLiSS) today - it was the final race of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series (PPWCS) held on Port Phillip.

Hosted by the Royal Brighton Yacht Club, the day consisted of three windward/leeward races of two laps each, starting from 10am on a cold and wet Melbourne day, with gusty 25 knot winds kick-starting the day. It was a challenging day for the crews in the 24-boat fleet.

McRae, a member of the host club, was thrilled to learn she had won the day overall, with wins in the opening and closing races and a 12th in Race 2.

The BLiSS brought the 2019 PPWCS to an end. RBYC will also host the official prize giving for the series and the Nautilus Range Series, in which some PPWCS sailors have also been competing, on Friday 24 May. -- Di Pearson

Full results: www.topyacht.net.au

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Paris 2024: World Sailing wants to stop 'Arms Race' in Offshore Keelboat
World Sailing's Board has made another "Urgent" submission to be considered at the Mid-Year Council meeting to facilitate the inclusion of the new Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat in the 2024 Olympic Sailing Regatta in Marseille.

It used the same process to bring in a Submission at the Annual Conference in late 2018, to say that the "Mixed One Person Dinghy" event that it had selected at its May 2018 Meeting was six months later not considered to be viable, and instead should be replaced by a new event - the Mixed Two-Person Offshore Keelboat.

The proposed Regulation change establishes a system where World Sailing's Council will prescribe a list of different classes that it says will meet the key criteria for the Event, and may be used at later dates for qualification for the Event. The Class List must be announced by December 2019.

Four years later, by December 2023, the Submission says the Council shall select the class to be used for the new Mixed Two Person Offshore Event at the 2024 Olympic Regatta.

The process has been introduced by World Sailing to head off what it prophesies will be an "Arms Race" for the Offshore keelboat event.

There is nothing in the submission which specifies why the world body has only just realised that an "Arms Race" will develop, or indeed what one would look like in this context. The information was known at the time of the Offshore Keelboat event being selected in November 2018. Nothing has changed.

Full story by Richard Gladwell in Sail-World.com:

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The Last Word
I can be in a crowded football stadium, completely alone. -- Ronnie Lane

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In This Issue
• Champions warm to task in Hyeres heat
• Cervantes Trophy Race Preview
• 21st Jersey Regatta
• Dolan Ready to Go Solo
• Alinghi: Evolution and continuity in the 2019 season
• FSE Robline becomes Robline
• Bangor Town Regatta 2020
• Dennis Conner's America's Cup reality check
• Everything in it’s right place - UBI Maior
• 2019 Junior Olympic Regatta in Pensacola
• Featured Brokerage:
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• The Last Word: Sam Kinison

Champions warm to task in Hyeres heat
The first day of the 51st Semaine Olympique Francaise in Hyeres saw the kind of conditions that the French Riviera specialises in: endless sun, testing breeze and diamonds dancing on the water. With the wind shifting from the northerly in the morning to almost southerly by the afternoon the best was required of the 197 sailors representing 49 nations - and the best prospered.

Programme (subject to change): Monday, April 29 to Wednesday, May 1: qualifying phase (one to three rounds per day) Thursday May 2 to Saturday May 4: final phase (one to three rounds per day) Saturday, May 4: Medal Races (30-minute round for the top ten in each series in which points count double) Saturday May 4: Award ceremony and closing ceremony.

Top three

Laser
1. Sam Meech, NZL, 2 points
2. Tom Burton, AUS, 7
3. Matthew Wearn, AUS, 8

Laser Radial Women
1. Maria Erdi, HUN, 5
2. Caroline Rosmo, NOR, 5
3. Jacinta Ainsworth, AUS, 12

RS:X Men
1. Mengfan Gao, CHN, 2
2. Mattia Camboni, ITA, 3
3. Radoslaw Furmanski, POL, 6

RS:X Women
1. Peina Chen, CHN, 2
2. Charline Picon, FRA, 4
3. Bryony Shaw, GBR, 7

Full results

More information on : evenements.ffvoile.fr/sof2019gbr.aspx

Cervantes Trophy Race Preview
115 yachts have entered the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Cervantes Trophy Race, with more than 600 sailors registered to take part. The race from the Solent to Le Havre will start from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line on Saturday 4th May at 0900 BST.

Spectators can watch the spectacle from the Cowes Parade and The Green, and also follow the progress of the fleet via the RORC website. Competitors will receive a warm welcome at Société des Regates du Havre, founded in 1838, it is the oldest yacht club in continental Europe.

The opening European fixture of the 2019 RORC Season's Points Championship, is the third race of the world's largest offshore racing championship, with in excess of 600 yachts expected to take part over the course of the season. The majority of the teams racing are Corinthian sailors, who will be taking on some top professional teams during the series. More often than not, the championship is won by an amateur team.

Teams will be racing for the Cervantes Trophy for the best corrected time under IRC. Gilles Fournier and Corinne Migraine's J/133 Pintia will be attempting to win the Cervantes Trophy for the fourth year in a row. The race to Le Havre is a special one for Pintia, Gilles has been a member of the Société des Regates du Havre for over 60 years.

Racing alongside Pintia in IRC 2 will be Thomas Kneen's JPK 11.80 Sunrise as scratch boat. Richard Neocleous' Oceanis 55 Julia has the longest water-line length for the class, and will be hoping for powerful reaching conditions. Four Beneteau First 40s will have a close battle; Susan Glenny's Olympia's Tigress, Sailing Logic's Dusty P and Lancelot II, as well as Ronan Banim's Galahad Of Cowes.

Over 60 yachts, the majority of the huge fleet, will be racing in IRC Three and IRC Four, 36 teams will be racing in IRC Two-Handed. Richard Palmer's Jangada returns to action, after a leading the main series overall for most of the 2018 season, before a rigging failure in the very last race, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Jangada is one of nine JPK yachts taking part in the Cervantes Trophy Race, including 2016 champion Louis-Marie Dussere's Raging-bee2. The 2017 champion, Rob Craigie's Bellino, sailed by Deb Fish & Will Taylor, is one of five Sunfast 3600 yachts racing.

Hot favourite for Monohull Line Honours will be the Volvo 70 Telefonica Black, skippered by Lance Shepherd, skipper of Liverpool 2018 in the 2017-18 Clipper Round the World Race. Catherine Pourre's Class40 Earendil, winner of the class for the 2019 RORC Caribbean 600 will be racing in the Class40 Division. Last year's Multihull champion, Seacart 30 Buzz, skippered by Ross Hobson, will be returning to action. Windward Sailing's CM60 Venomous, sailed by Fastnet veteran Derek Saunders, and Dutch Ker 46 Van Uden (NED), skippered by Volvo Ocean Race veteran Gerd-jan Poortman, will be racing in IRC Zero. In IRC One, Ed Fishwick's newly acquired FAST40+ Redshift is the scratch boat and expected to have a close battle with 2018 class winner, Ed Broadway's Hooligan VII.

www.rorc.org

21st Jersey Regatta
Scheduled for 6th to 8th September, this year sees the 21st edition of the renowned Jersey Regatta, the Island's 'flagship' sailing event.

Jersey Marinas will be providing complimentary berthing whilst Condor Ferries is offering discounted fares for those wishing to transport their boats to the Island for the event.

For further information, please contact the Regatta office, info [AT] jerseyregatta [DOT] com, or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.

Dolan Ready to Go Solo
After an excellent 14th overall and fifth in the final leg, when sailing with Damian Foxall in the doublehanded Sardinha Cup, Ireland's Tom Dolan is now ready to fly solo on his Smurfit Kappa as he takes on this week's Solo Maître Coq.

The first solo event for the Figaro Beneteau 3 starts Monday and has attracted a truly stellar cast, the fleet growing from the 34 which raced in the Sardinha Cup to 44 boats which have assembled in Les Sables d'Olonne for a series which comprises two days of 30-40 mile inshore races Monday, Tuesday followed by an offshore of around 400 naurtical miles which starts Thursday.

Among the big names of the French solo ocean racing scene, two times winner of the Vendèe Globe and three times winner of La Solitaire Michel Desjoyeaux joins the fleet for the first time to pitch himself up against Jérémie Beyou and Yann Eliès - both are also three times La Solitaire overall winners - and past La Solitaire victors such as Armel Le Cléac'h, Yoanne Richomme and legendary Route du Rhum winner Loick Peyron.

The weather forecasts suggest a week of light to moderate winds are in prospect. Dolan, who is from County Meath, is open minded, "I'll take what comes, certainly when it was light in the Sardinha Cup we seemed to have speed which is good but this will be much more about manouevres than out and out speed, so it is going to be interesting. We have done a few days of training, manouvres, manouvres, manouvres and I seemed to get on OK. I think I am quite good from the years in the Mini class. But for sure my weakness is getting off the start line. I am learning to stick to a routine and improve my timing to the line, but there is some way to go. It takes time and practice."

This first solo race in the Figaro Beneteau 3 will be a chance to refine and improve techniques ahead of June's La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro.

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Alinghi: Evolution and continuity in the 2019 season
25 years after its first multi-hull took to the lake, Alinghi is launching its 2019 sporting season on Lake Geneva. Meet us at the Société Nautique de Genève from May 3rd to May 5th for the first of the seven events of the final D35 Trophy, in which seven teams will take part.

Pierre-Yves Jorand, Team director: "The D35 fleet has reduced in size for this last championship, but to see the diligence of the boats in pre-season training, I think that the battle on the water will be intense and that each race will be hard-fought. Nothing more is needed to motivate the team less than a week from our first race!"

It is the final D35 Trophy because, after 16 years of good and loyal service, the Décision 35 will, at the end of the season, pass the torch to the brand new TF35. This 35-foot catamaran equipped with "T" foils (hence its name) will become, from 2020, the backbone of the one-design championship that has run from 2004 to 2019 with the D35.

Before this transition, the teams will, together, be focused upon testing, developing and debugging the very first TF35, which is currently under construction and which should pull its first edges on Lake Geneva this summer. This is how Alinghi will use its free time between each event in 2019, participating actively in the development of this new racing machine.

After a number of successful appearances in recent years, Bryan Mettraux officially joins the core, permanent team, an appointment that meets the requirements of a packed annual calendar, the specifications of foil racing and, as ever, the team's commitment to young Swiss sailing talents.

Sailors
Ernesto Bertarelli (SUI) - Helmsman and skipper - D35 & GC32
Arnaud Psarofaghis (SUI) - Co-helm and co-skipper (GC32) and mainsail trimmer (D35)
Nicolas Charbonnier (FRA) - Tactician - D35 & GC32
Bryan Mettraux (SUI) - Headsail trimmer - D35 & GC32
Timothé Lapauw (FRA) - Floater and foil trimmer - GC32
Coraline Jonet (FRA) - Floater - D35
Yves Detrey (SUI) - Bowman - D35 & GC32
Nils Frei (SUI) - Coach and spare crew - D35 & GC32

Technical team
Joao Cabecadas (POR) / David Nikles (SUI) / Claudy Dewarrat (SUI)

Team director
Pierre-Yves Jorand (SUI)

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Bangor Town Regatta 2020
Bangor Town Regatta is Northern Ireland's premier keel boat regatta, set on the shores of Belfast Lough the event offers excellent yacht racing for numerous classes of yacht.

Following on from the successful event in 2018, the Bangor Town Regatta events team has begun the process of building upon the previous event.

Royal Ulster Yacht Club will be the host club in 2020, offering a superb location and backdrop for both competitors and spectators alike to follow the event on and off the water.

The event will take place over four days from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th June, providing a total of 9 races over this time period.

Quay Marinas who operate Bangor Marina will be supporting the event within their marina complex with the added attraction of shore side facilities in and around the marina.

Ards & North Down Borough Council is offering its support to this event, with competitors being able to access their website via Bangor Town Regatta Website to book accommodation and all amenities that the town of Bangor has to offer.

On behalf of the Bangor Town Regatta events team and Royal Ulster Yacht Club, I would like to welcome you all to Bangor and wish you happy and successful sailing.

Gavin Watson, Chairman, Bangor Town Regatta 2020

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Dennis Conner's America's Cup reality check
America's Cup great Dennis Conner doubts Malta and the Netherlands will make it to the start line in Auckland with their ambitious challenges.

Malta Altus and DutchSail, along with Stars & Stripes from California, are the three late entries who have been accepted but now face a race against time for funding and construction.

Conner fears it's too much, too late especially with the 2021 event taking on the radical new 75-foot foiling monohull design.

"The best sailor in the world can't win the America's Cup without a boat, so show me the money,

"After the money comes, the people, the technology, the lawyers ... I can't tell you how many regattas have been influenced by the lawyers. A lot of knowledge and a lot of wasted time has gone into the event without knowing the rules and it has bitten people."

The three late entries have walked a legal tightrope to stay involved. It's now a question of can they be truly viable.

Conner described the Stars & Stripes syndicate which he has given his famous team name to, as "a very enthusiastic group of folks, they are trying hard and they can make it to the dance as well".

But he doesn't see anyone else joining the heavyweight challenges of Luna Rossa, American Magic, and Team INEOS UK.

Duncan Johnstone's full article: www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

2019 Junior Olympic Regatta in Pensacola
Youth sailors from all across the country are invited to the Pensacola Yacht Club (PYC) starting June 28 for the 2019 USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival presented by BBVA Compass. Sailing is scheduled for June 29-30 with registration, clinics and practice Friday June 28. Registration is now open through Regatta Network.

PYC has accepted the US Sailing invitation for the club to host the 2020 US Sailing Youth National Championship next June. So, the 2019 JO in Pensacola will be bigger and better than ever. The 2019 event will offer practice on the 2020 Youth National Championship courses.

PYC will now offer racing in three Olympic performance development classes… the 29ers, Nacra15 and the Techno 293 windsurfer in addition to the traditional Opti Class (and green fleet), the 420 and the Laser classes. Five boats or more will constitute a class for the newcomers.

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The Last Word
The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG! -- Sam Kinison

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In This Issue
• Antigua Irie - Reggae in the Park Race Day
• Scarlino Swan One Design
• Playing smart in the money markets
• SailGP in San Francisco
• Snipe European Masters - Record Entries
• Civitavecchia rules the Hyeres waves
• Five giant schooners to compete at inaugural Capri Classica
• What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
• Every generation has its legends
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Brokerage:
• • ODIN - Swan 115
• • Baltic Yachts 50
• • Classic 6m 'ABU'
• The Last Word: Bill Hicks

Antigua Irie - Reggae in the Park Race Day
20 knots of trades powered up the action on Reggae in the Park Race Day at Antigua Sailing Week. Over a thousand people from 21 nations enjoyed the spectacular conditions on the south coast of Antigua. Two races were held for most classes - the CSA Racing Classes were launched today with a full on foam-up on the Windward Course. The Bareboat Classes and Club Class raced short, sharp, windward-leeward courses off Rendezvous Bay.

In three Bareboat Classes, sponsored by Dream Yacht Charter, 26 teams from Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the USA are competing at Antigua Sailing Week. Competition at the top is intense. After five races, Alexander Pfeiffer's KH+P Bavastro is leading Bareboat 1 by a single point.

In Bareboat 3, Hans Steidle's KH+P Barbuda is leading the class, with Michael Cannon and Neil Harvey's KHS&S Contractors from Florida, who have been the overall bareboat champions for the last two years, in second place. However, with a discard kicking in for the next race, there is virtually nothing between the two teams.

In Bareboat 2, Peter Zauner's Tintoret leads the class. The Bavarian team was runner-up last year and will be hoping for victory in the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week. Tintoret is having a great battle with Jakob Oetiker's Swiss team racing KH+P Botero and Nicholas Jordan's Ananda.

Today it was the turn of the Double-Handed Class for some bay watching. Their courses included a downwind slide round to the west coast of Antigua and a blustery beat back to the finish. Philip Asche's American Swan 44 Freebird won the race.

The Multihulls had a spectacular course southeast of Antigua, including a long beat east along the rugged coastline, followed by a succession of blast reaches in full offshore conditions. Robert Szustkowski's HH66 R-SIX won the race.

After a memorable day racing at Antigua Sailing Week, sailors will join thousands of revellers for the big party night. The UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nelson's Dockyard has been transformed into a mind-blowing open air concert theatre. Reggae in the Park is a big-time celebration for the 10th edition of the legendary concert. Nelson's Dockyard will be alive with headline artist Christopher Martin, performing alongside Junior Kelly. After the big night, what better way to recover than Lay Day at Pigeon Beach tomorrow Wednesday 1st May. -- Trish Jenkins

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Scarlino Swan One Design
An impressive fleet of 24 yachts from 12 nations crewed by more than 280 sailors will contest the second round of The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League 2019.

The splendid Marina di Scarlino, nestled on the Tuscan coastline, will host competition with racing starting tomorrow, Wednesday 1 May, and concluding on Saturday 4 May. Across three One Design classes - ClubSwan 50, Swan 45 and ClubSwan 42 - racing at the Scarlino Swan One Design promises to be intense and is bolstered by an increase of ten yachts compared to the season opener held in Monaco in early April.

On and off the water, the event celebrates a number of significant occasions such as the official commencement of Nautor's Swan's sustainable regatta initiative, Friday's worldwide premiere of the ClubSwan 36 and several opportunities for the Swan family to participate in joyful social occasions, notably the Owners' Dinner partnered by Banor.

Starting tomorrow - first warning signal at 12:00 local time - the Scarlino Swan One Design regatta comprises four days of inshore, windward-leeward competition. The prize giving will be held after the final race on 4 May. Races will be overseen by Ariane Mainemare, Principal Race Officer of The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League 2019.

The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League comprises four events for the committed one design sailor within the Swan fraternity:

Monaco Swan One Design, Yacht Club de Monaco, 8 - 13 April, Monaco
Scarlino Swan One Design, 30 April - 4 May, Scarlino
Rolex Giraglia Inshore Races, Yacht Club Italiano, 9-11 June, Saint-Tropez
38th Copa del Rey Mapfre, Real Club Nautico de Palma, 27 July - 3 August, Palma de Mallorca

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SailGP in San Francisco
San Francisco SailGP will take place on Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5, 2019, on a city front racecourse, with the Race Village located on the Marina Yacht Club Peninsula. Races will run from 12:30-2 p.m.*, with opportunities for the public to watch from both the water and the shore. Tickets are available here

National teams for the United States, Australia, China, France, Great Britain and Japan will compete in a total of five short-format races, culminating with the top two teams facing off in a match race finale to determine the overall event winner on Sunday afternoon.

After getting close in training, the magic 50 knot (60 mph) number remained elusive, and it was more a case of bringing the crews and boats home safely at the end of the day.

The Australia SailGP Team was the fastest boat on the racecourse, reaching a top speed of 47 knots.

"I never really cared too much about being the first team to hit 50 knots," said Australia SailGP Team helm Tom Slingsby. "But now it's a pretty frustrating being so close and not having done it yet. We definitely want to be the first team to do this."

If the race preview today is any indication toward this weekend's showdown, fans are in for some of the most thrilling racing the Bay has ever seen.

For one team there was a heart stopping moment that nearly ended their championship chances, when the red hulls of the China team came crashing down from the foils, in what helm Phil Robertson called, "the scariest moment I have ever had on a yacht."

Robertson continued, "We went into a bear away, the conditions were fairly fresh, the boat speed built, and I just didn't get enough rake off in the moment. The boat literally leapt out of the water, nose-dived and we destroyed most of the wing."

During the practice racing, the Japan and Great Britain SailGP teams squared off, showing impressive boat-handling and finesse on the water, ultimately dominating on the course.

sailgp.com/races/san-francisco/event-overview/

Snipe European Masters - Record Entries
The 59th edition of the Grand Snipe Valencia Trophy just ended last Sunday at the Real Club Náutico de Valencia, and the Spanish Club is already preparing to host the 2019 European Snipe Master Championship, which will take place from tomorrow, May 1st to the 4th. The regatta will bring together almost 100 skippers aged 45 and older from 11 different countries, and they will compete waters of Valencia for three very intense days.

One of the requirements to participate in the Master category is the age of the skippers, which must be over 45 years, while the sum of the ages of the both team members on the boat must always be more than 80 years. Thus, depending on their age, the sailors will compete in three categories: Apprentice Master (skipper under 55), Master (skipper under 65), Grand Master (skipper under 75) and Legend Master (skipper of 75 more than).

Tomorrow, May 1st, will be dedicated to registration and measurements, the tests at sea will start on Thursday, May 2nd, with a total of 6 races scheduled between Thursday and Saturday, when the winners will be crowned.

The current Master World Champions, Damián Borrás and Jordi Triay, of CM Mahón, are already in Valencia, where last Sunday they were second in the Grand Valencia Trophy. They will undoubtedly be one of the favorite teams to win, but they must take into account the American couple Ernesto Rodríguez and Kathleen Tocke, who, although they cannot qualify for the European title, will be tough to beat.

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Civitavecchia rules the Hyeres waves
There may be some early celebrations in the Italian city of Civitavecchia tonight after their local duo won all three of the races in the men's RS:X on the second day of the 51st Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres.

Daniele Benedetti followed the magnificent first day of his compatriot, Mattia Camboni, by winning the first two races comfotably before Camboni won the third to open up an already significant gap as the overall leader.

"Yes, just one city won today," Camboni said. "I'm always competing with him (Benedetti). We're always together, we live in the same city and the same building close to Rome on the sea in Civitavecchia."

Almost perfect stable racing conditions graced the second day and the big names made it count. If Monday was about staying calm while waiting for the wind, Tuesday was about knowing how to capitalise.

The forecast filled in overnight and the sailors were greeted with easterlies of up to 12 knots as the morning wore into lunchtime.

RS:X Men
Poland's Piotr Myszka, fourth at 2016 Rio Olympics, splits the Italians at top of the leaderboard, but Camboni has no significant discard yet after not finishing out of the top three in six races. He leads by 17 points already.

RS:X Women
In what could almost be an Olympic fleet, Charline Picon, France's 2016 Olympic Champion, took the overall lead with a second consistent day, wining the first race and following it with two fourths.

Laser Radial
The experienced Finnish sailor, Tuula Tenkanen won both races to jump into the overall lead, beating her friend, training partner and flatmate in Hyeres, Argentina's Lucia Falasca into second. And the even more experienced, Paige Railey, America's 2005 world champion and 2006 World Sailor of the Year, continued to bounce back strongly after a UFD (disqualification for being over the startline) in the first race yesterday. She won the second race and finished third and seventh today to move into third overall.

Laser
The Laser fleet were the last to finish and they were the only ones affected by the wind dropping with both fleets having their second races abandoned. That promises a big Wednesday as they will try to fit in three races tomorrow to catch up before splitting in to gold and silver fleets. There were no significant changes in the leaderboard, with the four Australians still sitting behind the overnight leader, Sam Meech, New Zealand's bronze medallist in the Laser at the Rio 2016 Olympics. But Meech, who won both his races on Monday, could only manage a ninth place and has a higher discard now than his pursuers. Britain's Nick Thompson, the 2015 and 2016 world champion, won that race and was frustrated in second as he was lying second when it was abandoned.

Racing continues through Saturday May 4.

Full results: evenements.ffvoile.fr/sof2019gbr/results.aspx

Five giant schooners to compete at inaugural Capri Classica
Orianda – 1937 85ft Dahlstrom staysail schooner. Click on image for photo gallery.

Magnificent historic sailing craft are due gather on the Bay of Naples on 7th May 2019 for four days of competition that will celebrate yachting from its golden era.

Created by the International Schooner Association in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, the first edition of Capri Classica is exclusively for classic schooners. Unlike other classic sailing events, it will play to the strengths of these giant maritime Stradivarii as well as celebrating the skills required of their crews and captains to race them.

Capri Classica is organised by the Circolo Remo e Vela Italia (CRVI), the Yacht Club of Capri (YCC), the International Schooner Association (ISA); with the cooperation and support of the International Maxi Association (IMA) and Associazione Italiana Vele d'Epoca (AIVE), in cooperation with Porto Turistico di Capri (PTC).

The competitors

Elena of London - 2009 replica of the 180ft 1910 Nathanael Herreshoff design Elena
Mariette of 1915 -138ft 1915 Nathanael Herreshoff schooner
Naema - 128ft built in 2012, inspired by the 1938 Alfred Mylne design Panda
Orianda -85ft 1937 Dahlstrom staysail schooner
Puritan -126ft 1930 Alden gaff schooner

Single races will be held each day on courses which will be schooner-friendly, given that these yachts all herald from an era when the principle was famously "gentlemen don't go to windward". With this in mind, the PRO will be able to choose from a variety of courses according to the wind direction and strength. If there is adequate wind, these are likely to be 30-40 miles long for example across the Bay of Naples to Ischia or Naples or around to the south of the Sorrento Peninsula and back to a finish line off Capri's Marina Grande. "They won't be windward-leewards," states Pandolfi.

While Capri Classica is being hosted in Marina Grande, it will conclude in Marina Piccola on Capri's south side. On Saturday 11th May the event will conclude with a pursuit race where the finish line will be off the Faraglioni rocks. Seeing the five schooners arriving in unison by Capri's famous trio of weather beaten stacks will be a photographer's dream.

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Seahorse May 2019
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine

Hidden horsepower
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To fly or not to fly...
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Lean (and hungry)
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Every generation has its legends
The Finn class remains focussed and committed to ensure the Finn is re-selected for the Olympics in 2024. It rejects the assertion that the Finn has had its time and should be retired. The relevancy of the Finn to the Olympics has more support now than perhaps ever before.

Since the much criticised decisions last year removing the Finn from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games it has become widely apparent that there will be no option for the heavyweight sailors in the Olympic programme after Tokyo 2020, despite what was said at the time.

This decision also ignores a policy decision approved by the World Sailing Council and Board at the 2017 Annual Conference requiring that the 2024 events: "Ensure that men and women of different physiques have an opportunity to compete" and "Include both universal events and events that showcase the innovation of sailing and demonstrate the diversity of the sport."

These policy decisions were included in Regulation 23.1.2 (d), which says that Olympic Events and Equipment: "be attractive and accessible to young athletes from all continents, and of different size and weight, with a clear pathway from World Sailing Youth to Olympic Events and Equipment", and Regulation 23.1.2 (e), which says: "maximise the participation of the world's best sailors and showcase the diversity of the sport".

Both policies have been ignored for the expediency of a different agenda, and have led to discrimination against male athletes above 85 kg.

There should now be a way to get Finn sailors back into Olympic sailing, not just the current sailors, but also the large, tall and heavy youth of the future who no longer have a 'clear pathway' through the Olympic programme.

That pathway is now broken and needs to be fixed.

A submission in November 2019 achieving a 75 per cent approval of Council can overturn the decisions made in November 2018 and put the Finn back in its proper place. The Finn class calls on MNAs around the world to make and support submissions that will put the Finn back into the Olympic programme.

The historical, cultural, technical and athletic influence that the Finn has brought to the Olympics for 68 years cannot be ignored and rejected.

Globally, the sport of sailing should be providing equal opportunities for sailors of all physiques to be able to compete in the Olympic Games. At the moment a large number of athletes are being discriminated against and excluded, which is contrary to World Sailing policy and IOC guidelines.

Now is the time to put that right, before it is too late.

Full report: finnclass.org

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The Last Word
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. -- Bill Hicks

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In This Issue
• Bermuda 1000 Race: 17 solo sailors lining up
• Race for line honours - Rolex Fastnet 'double' long overdue
• SailGP Racing Series Heads to San Francisco
• Flying Fifteen Subaru World Championships
• Dragon European Cup
• When life’s (not) a drag - Future Fibres
• Solo Maitre Coq
• Compelling Start To Action In Scarlino
• Cyril Dardashti: "The Combination Of Charles And Franck Will Be The Solution"
• Letters to the Editor
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• The Last Word: Sam Ervin

Bermuda 1000 Race: 17 solo sailors lining up
It is in a week from now on Wednesday 8th May that the Bermuda 1000 race will start from Douarnenez (Brittany). It is the first event in the 2019 IMOCA Globe Series and the only solo race of the season. Seventeen sailors representing six nationalities are expected to take part, including three women and seven solo sailing rookies. They will be facing 2000 miles of racing back to Brest, via the emblematic Fastnet lighthouse and the Azores. We take a look today at the line-up.

As in all of the events in the IMOCA class, the Bermuda 1000 Race will be bringing together a large and eclectic fleet with sailors competing on boats launched between 1998 (Alexia Barrier) and 2015 (Fabrice Amedeo and Giancarlo Pedote). While there are huge differences in terms of the technology, we shall also see skippers coming from a wide range of backgrounds with different experiences and various goals.

Seven solo rookies
Among the seventeen registered, seven will be taking part in their first solo IMOCA race. Sebastien Simon (Arkea Paprec) will be racing once again on the former PRB. He has just spent 35 days aboard her and sailed twice across the Atlantic: firstly between Cadiz and San Salvador (Columbus Route) sailing double-handed with Vincent Riou, and then secondly, between Miami and Port-la-Foret sailing alone. Also competing on a foiling IMOCA, the Italian, Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian Group) has been sailing for two months on his new boat and will be taking advantage of this new 2000-mile race to boost his confidence and see how he measures up against his rivals.

Three other rookies will be setting sail aboard IMOCAs built for the 2008-2009 Vendee Globe: Miranda Merron (Campagne de France), Maxime Sorel (V and B-Sailing Together) and Clement Giraud (Envol). By competing in the Bermuda 1000 Race, they will learn a lot and will certainly enjoy the competitive aspect too, even if their prime goal is to finish the race and grab some precious miles to be selected for the 2020 Vendee Globe. Also discovering his boat, the Belgian skipper, Denis Van Weynbergh (Eyesea.be) will be taking part with the same aims aboard Nandor Fa’s former IMOCA. The countdown has begun too for British sailor, Pip Hare, who has been able to sail on her IMOCA (the legendary Superbigou), but is counting more on the wealth of experience she has acquired sailing solo on other types of boat over the years.

The 17 skippers registered for the Bermuda 1000 Race:
Fabrice Amedeo (Newrest-Art & Fenetres)
Alexia Barrier (4myplanet)
Yannick Bestaven (Maitre CoQ)
Arnaud Boissieres (La Mie Caline-Artipole)
Manuel Cousin (Groupe Setin)
Sam Davies (Initiatives Coeur)
Clement Giraud (Envol)
Pip Hare (Superbigou)
Boris Herrmann (Malizia Yacht Club de Monaco)
Ari Huusela (Ariel 2)
Stephane Le Diraison (Time For Oceans)
Miranda Merron (Campagne de France)
Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian Group)
Damien Seguin (Groupe Apicil)
Sebastien Simon (Arkea-Paprec)
Maxime Sorel (V and B-Sailing Together)
Denis Van Weynbergh (Eyesea.be)

The programme for the Bermuda 1000 Race:
- Monday 6th May: Course to be announced
- Tuesday 7th May, 1730hrs (Douarnenez): Race briefing
- Wednesday 8th May, 1300hrs (Douarnenez): Start of the Bermuda 1000 Race
- Wednesday 15th May (Brest): First competitors expected to finish
- Saturday 18th May, 1800hrs (Brest): Prize-giving ceremony

www.bermudes1000race.com

Race for line honours - Rolex Fastnet 'double' long overdue
While the main kudos in the Rolex Fastnet Race comes from class wins or ultimately the Fastnet Challenge Cup for the overall IRC winner, who will simply be first home to Plymouth often turns into an engaging, heavyweight bout.

Among the monohull contenders this year, in one corner is the Hong Kong newcomer - Seng Huang Lee's 100ft Scallywag, skippered by Australian David Witt with a crew featuring many of the sailors from their Volvo Ocean Race campaign. In the other is George David's familiar Juan K-designed Rambler 88, a boat that has been tweaked to within an inch of its life by its fastidious crew including many former Alinghi/Team New Zealand America's Cup heroes.

For Scallywag, the Rolex Fastnet Race will be one of the pinnacles amid a major trophy hunting season that kicks off in the Caribbean at the Antigua Sailing Week and follows with the Antigua Bermuda Race, and then the historic Transatlantic Race 2019 from Newport, RI to Cowes via the Lizard. Post Fastnet Scallywag heads for the Med.

Part of Scallywag has enjoyed previous success in the Rolex Fastnet Race - her foredeck and some of her frames come from Charles St Clair Brown and Bill Buckley's Maximus, line honours winner in 2005. However otherwise she was launched brand new for the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart as Ragamuffin 100 for Australian sailing legend Syd Fischer, who contributed to her design with Witt and naval architect Andy Dovell.

According to Witt, Scallywag, with a beam of 5.8m, falls between the slender multiple Hobart winner Wild Oats XI (5.1m beam) and the powerful Comanche (8m beam), the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race line honours victor. "We are the lightest 100 footer with the most sail area," says Witt. The boat has a keel that cants to +/- 45deg, twin daggerboards and starts the season with a new boom.

Recent races conditions haven't favoured big boats on handicap. In 2003 Charles Dunstone came close to claiming 'the double' (ie line and handicap honours) with his Reichel Pugh 76 Nokia but was beaten across the line by Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo 1. The last boat to score the 'double' was Ludde Ingvall and his maxi Nicorette in 1995.

Even rarer are the 'triples' ie line and handicap honours plus the race record. Wild Oats XI managed it twice (2005 and 2012) in the Rolex Sydney Hobart and George David and Rambler have also enjoyed it in other races, notably the Rolex Middle Sea Race in 2007 (with a record that still stands), the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland Race and in last year's RORC Caribbean 600. "This has to be the goal for us in this year's Rolex Fastnet although - as always - the weather needs to cooperate," states David. "Big breeze should give us the edge against Scallywag and conversely lighter breeze won't."

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SailGP Racing Series Heads to San Francisco
We at Harken® love new ideas and new technology. That’s why are excited to be able to watch the next SailGP event in U.S. waters, to be held 4-5 May.

SailGP’s spectacular racing series is coming to San Francisco Bay, which is known for its strong sea breezes and tidal flows. Six national teams will compete in the series’ identical, supercharged 50-foot F50 foiling catamarans capable of breaking the 50-knot speed barrier.

More than 26,000 spectators attended the first-ever SailGP event in Sydney in February, which saw each of the teams earn podium finishes at least once. The Australia SailGP Team sits atop the rankings, with Japan nipping at the Aussies’ heels. The U.S. SailGP Team is looking to move up the leaderboard on home waters in San Francisco.

Following the San Francisco grand prix, SailGP heads to New York (21-22 June) and Cowes, England (10-11 August), before the Marseille, France, final (20-22 September). The season will conclude with a $1 million winner-takes-all match race to determine the overall champion.

We’re excited that there’s Harken equipment on the boats, but we’re more excited about what SailGP means for the sport of sailing. Sydney SailGP highlights.

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Flying Fifteen Subaru World Championships
With the Subaru Flying Fifteen World Championships combined with an International event and the Championships of Ireland September promises to be a fantastic festival of sailing on Dublin Bay hosted by the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire.

Preparations are well under way and all countries have completed their qualification series with the closing date for those qualified and early entries to the event of 30th April. There are also a number of places available in the Pre Worlds which is the Championship of Ireland, for crews to enter the World Championships. The event takes place 50 years after the first Flying Fifteens raced in Dublin Bay.

Joining the expected good number of local boats crews from as far away as New Zealand, Australia and Canada as well as our closer neighbours from Spain, France and the UK. are all preparing to make their way to Ireland for the event. These include current World Champion Steve Goacher & Tim Harper (UK), European Champions from Lake Garda Hamish McKay & and Andrew Lawson (UK) along with the National Champions of most countries including Dave Gorman & Chris Doorly from the host club.

April 30th also sees the official launch of the event at the National Yacht Club with the main title sponsor Subaru along with a number of other sponsors that will all help make it a successful championships. -- Jonny Fullerton

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Cascais welcomes International Dragon Fleet for second leg of 2019 Dragon European Cup
Cascais, Portugal: The 24th HM King Juan Carlos Regatta, to be hosted by the Clube Naval de Cascais from 1 to 4 May 2019, will see the leading International Dragon crews come together for the second leg of the four regatta 2019 Dragon European Cup series.

After a stunning opening event in Cannes in April, the fleet moves on to Portugal’s Atlantic Coast for what promises to be another hotly contested regatta. Cascais offers spectacular open ocean racing with big waves and strong breezes. The top players from the Cannes event have made the trip to Cascais and with crews from Portugal, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Russia, Monaco, the United Kingdom and the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club all taking part it will truly be an international affair.

Portugal’s Pedro Rebelo de Andrade currently leads the series having taken victory in Cannes and goes into this regatta with home waters advantage. For Britain’s Grant Gordon Cascais is also familiar territory and having had to settle for third place in Cannes, following the abandonment of a race he was leading and a black flag in the penultimate race, he will be very much hoping to avoid incident and climb the rankings. Also hoping to move up the leader board are Switzerland’s Hugo Stenbeck and Russia’s Dmitry Samokhin, who finished fifth and sixth respectively in Cannes.

Eight windward leeward races are scheduled over the four days with courses set in either Cascais Bay or the Guia race area, depending on weather conditions.

The 2019 Dragon European Cup circuit comprises four regattas plus a Grand Final. The four regattas are the Dragon Grand Prix Cannes (2-5 April), the 24th HM King Juan Carlos Regatta, Cascais (1-4 May), the Dragon Grand Prix Germany, Kuhlungsborn (3-6 July) and the Dragon Grand Prix Spain, Palma de Mallorca (11-14 November). The Grand Final takes place in Palma on 15 and 16 November. To qualify for the Final, teams must compete in three of the four regattas including the Grand Prix Spain. Twenty teams will qualify for the final and there will be a quota for Non-Corinthian and Corinthian sailors based on the proportion of non-Corinthian/Corinthian teams participating in all four qualifying events.

Daily news reports, videos and images will be available from www.intdragon.net. Further information about the 24th HM King Juan Carlos Regatta can be found at www.cncascais.com

When life’s (not) a drag - Future Fibres
Put together everything that’s been achieved to date and Future Fibres believe that the best of all worlds is now steadily drawing within reach

When carbon fibre standing rigging became a viable option for raceboat spar packages, most of us got very excited. This was the last frontier to pursue in raceboat technology where steel could finally be eliminated and huge gains in performance could be realised quickly from the many kilos of weight saved aloft in the spar system. Stability would go up, pitch gyradius down, and the boats equipped with this new technology would be measurably faster as a result. Enter Future Fibres.

While most of the features of this new technology were positive, there were a few downsides. These included the complicated details of attachment to the boat and spar, replacement options when a new section may be needed, transport logistics from the fabrication facility to the commissioning site, potential damage from impacts to the rigging, and the larger diameter of carbon rigging that creates additional windage in the spar system compared with steel rod rigging.

Future Fibres addressed some of these issues in its ECsix product, which consists of small carbon strands bound together in a unidirectional bundle that gives both flexibility for easy transport when coiled and multidirectional strength since the loads are distributed among the strands. In addition, this design can more readily absorb impact energy by deflecting when hit compared with a solid carbon rod. ECsix can lose 25 per cent of its carbon strands but still keep the spar upright and to date it has had zero failures.x

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

Solo Maitre Coq
For Irish solo racer Tom Dolan a low stress May day, today, is a time for recovery after two days of inshore racing in the Solo Maitre Coq and time for homework and preparation for the 400 nautical mile long offshore race which starts Thursday.

Dolan, sailing Smurfit Kappa, finished in sixth place in yesterday’s second inshore race of the series, from the 47 strong fleet of Figaro Beneteau 3s. Aggregated to a disappointing 31st in a topsy turvy light wind opener on Monday, the French based soloist from County Meath lies 19th overall as the contemplates the first solo long offshore for the new class. He is the top placed non-French skipper on the standings today but has Loick Peyron breathing down his neck in 20th and 2016 La Solitaire winner Yoann Richomme in 21st

The inshore courses have been more of a test of close quarters manoeuvres and sail handling, sail hoists and drops, multiple tacks and gybes and predicting the angles of the next leg - so choosing the fastest sail combination. Sailing solo this is much harder than during the first event for the new class, the Sardinha Cup, which was sailed two up.

The inshore races carry a points coefficient of 1.5 but the points bounty on the offshore race is 4 and so Dolan will make good use of his time today to make sure he has a full understanding of the likely weather situation around the course which is due to finish back in Les Sables d’Olonne on Saturday.

Top five after two inshore races:
1. St. Michel, Yann Elies, 13.5 points
2. Action Contre La Faim, Benjamin Schwartz, 18
3. Region Normandie, Alexis Loison, 18
4. Groupe SNEF, Xavier Macaire, 24
5. 57, Adrian Hardy, 28.5

Standings after two inshores www.solomaitrecoq.com/classement-2019

Compelling Start To Action In Scarlino
Following three intense and approximately hour-long races for the 24-strong fleet across the three Classes – ClubSwan 50, Swan 45 and ClubSwan 42 – eight crews were able to savour victories: OneGroup (Germany), Ulika (Italy) and Mathilde (Switzerland) in ClubSwan 50; Blue Nights (Finland), Porron IX (Spain) and Motions (Netherlands) in Swan 45 and Far Star (Italy) and Fantaghiro’ (Italy, two race wins) in ClubSwan 42.

On top of the respective leaderboards after the first day of competition are: Earlybird (Germany, ClubSwan 50), Porron IX (Swan 45) and Fantaghiro’ (ClubSwan 42).

The first two races were played out under a consistent 11-12-knot breeze with the menacing rain shower developing over the Tuscan hills sparing the race course. The third race was impacted by lighter, shiftier breezes with the finish line for the Swan 45 and ClubSwan 42 fleets brought forward to the second upwind mark.

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Cyril Dardashti: "The Combination Of Charles And Franck Will Be The Solution"
On Thursday the Gitana Team put an end to dockside speculation and announced that it is not one but two skippers who now succeed Sébastien Josse. They are both Volvo Ocean Race winners, Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier. They will share the skipper role on the Ultime Maxi Edmond de Rothschild. General manager, Cyril Dardashti talks to Tip & Shaft about their choices.

Before we talk about Franck and Charles let's go back to the departure of Sébastien Josse. Really there was no explanation of ‘why?’, can you give us some background now?

This is not a subject on which I want to go into now. Let us say we wrote a great story for eight years together with Seb. Then we had differences on how we saw things. It's like a marriage in some ways. In the beginning, everything is hunky dory but over the passage of time views are not necessarily the same. That's what happened and that made managing the team difficult, hence the parting of the ways.

Was the abandonment on the Route du Rhum a factor?

Absolutely not. What happened we all take shared responsibility. We knew that the boat was young and that it was likely to have problems because of that.

This separation is not the first for the Gitana team, which might have a gained a reputation as a "consumer" of skippers when we compare it some teams like Sodebo, Macif or Actual who have the same for many years, why is that?

A few things: first, I do not know if we can say that having a skipper for eight years means that we are "consumers", ours is already a good, long story. There was a period about ten years ago when things were a bit unstable so maybe we are still saddled with that reputation as a hangover for that period. But we are different compared to with Sodebo for example, our operation is different: on the one side we have a skipper who found and services a sponsor and he leads the project, on the other, Gitana, a stable which gives the ‘wheel’ to a driver. We see it as how it is done especially in F1. In F1, nobody draws that conclusions when they drivers stay one or two years in a stable.

Now let's talk about the announcement made on Thursday: did you really contact anyone to succeed Sébastien?

Nobody ! When we announced our separation, the idea was to see what was out there in terms of candidates wanting to come forward themselves to be part of the history of Gitana and so go ahead and contact us. We were pleasantly surprised by the number of candidates and their level of motivation. We have the image of a closed, maybe insular team which is not quite true but we were happy to see that there was a real enthusiasm out there to join our project.

How was the choice made?

We had a number of criteria that I am not going to detail here. But for a start there were candidates who did not immediately feel able to go solo on this machine. For our project, we could not wait one or two years to train a skipper. When we were Archimedean (ie non foiling), it was possible to go from an Imoca to a large trimaran, but now there is a huge divide.

Does this mean that you had a short-list? How many were on it?\

Yes, four skippers.

So bearing in mind what you have just said, in addition to Franck and Charles, we can reckon that the others were Pascal Bidégorry and Thomas Rouxel?

You can say that, but I am not going to name any one, because we have the greatest respect for all the people we saw and we do not want to generate ill feeling

Full interview in Tip & Shaft

* From Alan Veenstra:

Removing the Finn and the Star from Olympic Sailing are not just mistakes; they are egregious travesties. These two platforms are ageless in their ability to produce the world’s most successful sailors. Yes, they both perform best from heavier crew weight, but that should not be a disqualifier. In America we see dozens of both genders with more than enough weight every day. It is merely a matter of getting them into competitive sailing.

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In This Issue
• Antigua Sailing Week: Spirited Youth - KPMG Y2K Race Day 4
• Regional racing at its best with Spinlock IRC
• Harken Tech Team on Duty at 2019 PalmaVela Regatta
• European Snipe Master Championship
• Perth Lasers beam in "Classic Hyeres"
• Day Two of HM King Juan Carlos Trophy 2019 in Cascais
• Open Letter to World Sailing from OK Dinghy Class
• Launchings
• Letters to the Editor
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • Abromowitz Sharp & Associates Brokerage
• The Last Word: Arthur C. Clarke

Antigua Sailing Week: Spirited Youth - KPMG Y2K Race Day 4
Big breeze and huge Caribbean surf spiced up the action for KPMG Y2K (Youth to Keelboat) Race Day, the penultimate day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week. Y2K is all about getting young Antiguan sailors into the yachting industry. Aptly two youth teams showed tremendous camaraderie and quick thinking in the face of adversity. The dismasted NSA Valiant gave their rudder to replace the broken one on NSA Spirit, keeping the young National Sailing Academy (NSA) team in with a chance of lifting the Lord Nelson Trophy. NSA Spirit is one of several teams still in contention for the overall win at the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week.

Two races were held for most classes with the CSA Racing fleet starting off Rendezvous Bay. The big boat class and the multihulls enjoyed one long race to the west coast of Antigua. The Bareboat Classes had two technical windward leeward races off Windward Beach. The Double-Handed and Club Classes had one long race offshore, tasting full-on ocean conditions.

Robert Szustkowski's Polish HH66 R-SIX is unbeaten in the Multihull Class and thoroughly enjoying Antigua Sailing Week. "The courses have been great, we have raced around the windward and leeward coasts and plenty of short technical legs on the south coast. Today was just spectacular racing. Even though R-SIX has a full interior, we were flying a hull in over 20 knots of amazing conditions, it just doesn't get better than that," smiled Szustkowski.

In CSA 1, Sir Peter Harrison's British superyacht Sojana continued their impressive form racking up two bullets today.

In CSA 2, Ker 46 Lady Mariposa, skippered by Dane Jesper Bank, scored another brace of bullets today to take a commanding lead in the class and challenge for a first Lord Nelson Trophy win

In CSA 3, Adrian Lee's Irish Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II secured the class win today having score two bullets and are a contender for the Lord Nelson Trophy.

In CSA 4, Ross Applebey's British Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster won both races but had to come back from a bad hoist in Race 6 which saw their red spinnaker ending up in the water. In arguably the most competitive class,

In CSA 5, Sir Richard Matthews' British ST37 Holding Pattern won the first race of the day by less than a minute.

In CSA 6, octogenarian Geoffrey Pidduck competing in his 50th Antigua Sailing Week had a stellar day racing his modified Antiguan Six Metre Biwi Magic, winning Race 6 and coming runner-up in Race 7.

In the Double-Handed Class, Henry Rourke racing Open 40 Raucous with Freddie Mills scored his first win at Antigua Sailing Week.

Racing at the 52nd edition Antigua Sailing Week will come to a conclusion tomorrow, Friday 3rd of May with Antigua & Barbuda Tourism Race Day 5.

Results at YachtScoring.com

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Regional racing at its best with Spinlock IRC
Spinlock are well established as sponsors of IRC and continue their support of the annual IRC Championships around the UK and Channel Islands.

Competitors can enjoy great racing and social programmes while keeping their eye on the achievement of IRC Champion status and exciting Spinlock prizes. James Hall, Spinlock Sales and Marketing Manager, is enthusiastic about continuing support of the IRC Championships:

"Spinlock are pleased to support the 2019 IRC Championships and continue to encourage competitive IRC racing around the regions. We are thrilled to provide a trophy, £250 Spinlock Voucher, a VITO lifejacket and a Deck Pack for the winners at each of this season's Championships."

Ten IRC Championships are held all around the British coast from Scotland to the Channel Islands as well as a specific event for two-handed crews, providing a large variety of venues, racing conditions and social events to be enjoyed both on and off the water. While most events are held over a weekend, some are spread over several weeks or incorporate separate events. The Solent Championship consists of four events organised by separate clubs, while RORC's Two-Handed National Championship comprises both inshore and offshore racing and the Inshore Championship on Lake Windermere runs through the winter. 2019 also sees the return of the GBR IRC National Championship organised by RORC from Cowes, after a break last year when RORC organised the IRC European Championship.

Scottish Series is also a major event for the RC35 class which was developed for close racing within a tight IRC rating band, and along with the Welsh National IRC Championship is part of the Celtic Cup incorporating events in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Two of the first clubs to use the RORC Rating Office's Advocate Scheme to successfully start using IRC for their club racing in are hosting IRC Championships this year - the Southern Championship at Weymouth Sailing Club, and the South West Championship which includes the Royal Dart YC as organisers. Reflecting increasing participation in two-handed racing, the Two-Handed Championship returns in September, organised by RORC Cowes.

The 2019 GBR IRC Championships programme is as follows:
Solent - 4 events (May-Sept)
Scottish - Scottish Series (May)
Southern - Weymouth & Portland (May)
National - RORC Cowes (July)
East Coast - Ramsgate Week (July)
Welsh National - Cardigan Bay (August)
South West - Dartmouth (August)
Two-Handed - Cowes (September)
Channel Islands - Jersey (September)
Inland - Windermere (November-March)

Harken Tech Team on Duty at 2019 PalmaVela Regatta
The Harken Tech Team will keep the fleets race-ready and flying during the 2019 edition of the PalmaVela Regatta in Palma, Spain. The regatta service will be available on site from Wednesday, May 8, through Sunday morning, May 12. The Tech Team will have emergency spare parts on hand for repairs. Sailors can contact the Tech Team via email, techservice [AT] harken [DOT] it, or via the phone number posted at the race office.

The Harken Tech Team will also be present on the listed dates at these summer 2019 events:

Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week, Mahón, Menorca (May 20-25)
Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, Porto Cervo, Italy (June 3-8)
Puerto Sherry 52 Super Series Royal Cup, Cadiz, Spain (June 17-22)
Superyacht Cup, Palma, Spain (June 19-22)
Cascais 52 Super Series Sailing Week, Cascais, Portugal (July 15-20)
Copa del Rey Regatta, Palma, Spain (July 27-August 3)
Rolex TP52 World Championship 2019, Puerto Portals, Spain (August 24-29)
Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Porto Cervo, Italy (September 1-7)
Porto Cervo 52 Super Series Sailing Week, Sardinia, Italy (September 23-28)

Harken At The Front.

European Snipe Master Championship
The first day of the Snipe European Masters Championship was on today at the Real Club Nautico de Valencia, the 91 teams completed two technical windward-leeward races with a light 5 to 7 knots southeast to northeast wind, as the typical Valencian sea breeze didn't show up today on the race course.

The huge fleet, with sailors representing 11 countries, was split into yellow and blue groups, and the scores have then been combined at the end of the day to offer a joint provisional classification. The fundamental requirement in this competition is the age of the skipper, which must be over 45, with the sum of the ages of both team members 80 years or over.

The level of the competitors is really high, and after day one there's a tie on the top spot of the ranking; two teams won both races in their own fleet: Alejandro Fresneda and Javier Lopez, Club de Mar de Almería (ESP), and the Portuguese Tiago Roquette and Dries Crombe. The Valencian José Luis Maldonado and Alexandre Tinoco occupy the provisional third place with a third and a second, also claiming a provisional spot on the podium of the Apprentice Master category, the ones for skippers between 45 and 54 years of age.

Jose Palacio and Francisco Palacio (ESP) are the provisional leaders in the Grand Master, the category in which the skippers must be over 65 to participate, they're eighth in the overall standings; while the most senior category, the Legend Masters, with skipper older than 75, it's led by José Pérez Morales and Jorge Juan Soriano (ESP) who are 52nd overall.

Sailing will continue tomorrow and on Saturday May 4th, with two additional races per day.

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Perth Lasers beam in "Classic Hyeres"
If the RS:X men's fleet has been all about the Italian city of Civitavecchia so far in the 51st Semaine Olympique Francaise, Wednesday's solid 15-knot easterlies - "Classic Hyeres conditions" as many of the sailors called them - were all about Perth in the Laser.

Both Laser fleets had Down Under dominance again and two Perth natives won five of the six races. Matthew Wearn had the rare satisfaction of a perfect day, winning all three races from the front in his half of the fleet, to take the overall lead. Meanwhile, his younger rival and training partner, Luke Elliott, won the first two races in the other fleet, before finishing second to New Zealand's Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist and the overnight leader, Sam Meech.

Laser
After six races, the Laser fleet will now divide into gold and silver fleets with five more races over the next two days before the medal race on Saturday. At the moment the forecast is for lighter breeze tomorrow before really big westerlies on Friday and Saturday.

The top 10 and even beyond all look competitive and will fancy their chances of moving up, but realistically the winner is only likely to come from the top five. The four Australians, including the Rio 2016 Olympic champion in fourth overall, and Meech all have fairly clean sheets - important with only discard allowed.

Laser Radial
Maria Erdi, the 21-year-old Hungarian, is showing why she is coming force by winning the second of the two races today to keep the pressure on her more experienced rivals. With five races left Erdi trails overall leader, Finland's Tuula Tenkanen, by just four points and has the better discard. Tankenen won the first race but in the second was passed by Erdi on the second upwind. Erdi also chased down America's Paige Railey on the final downwind.

RS:X women
China's Yunxiu Lu moved to the top of the leaderboard with a near faultless day, finishing second in the first race before winning the next two. That moved her past her teammate Peina Chen - China's silver medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and the woman who just beat Chen, France's 2016 Olympic Champion Charline Picon. Picon is just two points behind Lu, after finishing 3rd, 4th and 4th.

RS:X men
It was another great day for Civitavecchia, as Daniele Benedetti moved into second place overall behind Mattia Camboni, the man he shares an apparment block with in the Italian ciy. France's Thomas Goyard, fresh from his bronze in the European Championships in Palma at the beginning of April, had his best day so far to move into third, just three points behind Benedetti. So consistent has Camboni been that he has a formidable lead of 18 points, with his ninth-placed finish yesterday his discard.

Programme (subject to change):
Monday, April 29 to Wednesday, May 1: qualifying phase (one to three rounds per day)
Thursday May 2 to Saturday May 4: final phase (one to three rounds per day)
Saturday, May 4: Medal Races (30-minute round for the top ten in each series in which points count double)
Saturday May 4: Award ceremony and closing ceremony.

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Day Two of HM King Juan Carlos Trophy 2019 in Cascais
Cascais, Portugal - After the strong winds and drama of the opening day, day two of the Dragon HM King Juan Carlos Trophy, being hosted by the Clube Naval de Cascais from 1 to 4 May, brought a welcome change of pace with light to moderate breezes and plenty of hot sunshine. Races three and four of the eight race series, brought some surprise results and a significant shake up on the leader board.

Just prior to the start of racing all attention was on the recovery of Peter Gilmour's Team Yanmar JPN56 following her sinking after yesterday's race. Excellent work by the club staff, Pedro Andrade of 8th Dimension Racing and a professional dive team saw her rapidly recovered. Fortunately the boat had come off virtually unscathed and Gilmour has confirmed that they will be back with the fleet tomorrow.

Out on the race course Cascais continued to offer superbly challenging sailing for this top flight Dragon fleet, with lots of shifts and some tricky wave patterns to contend with.

Two further races are schedule for Friday with the start time revised from 11.00 to 13.00 to again allow for the anticipated early afternoon arrival of the sea breeze. The regatta continues until Saturday 4 May with a total of eight races programmed.

Provisional Top Five After Four Races

Grant Gordon - GBR820 - (12), 1, 3, 7 = 11
Anatoly Loginov - RUS27 - (20), 3, 7, 3 = 13
Jens Rathsack - MON2 - (11), 6, 2, 6 = 14
Pedro Rebelo de Andrade - POR84 - 5, (8), 6, 4 = 15
Hugo Stenbeck - SUI311 - 2, (23), 12, 1 = 16

Full results

Open Letter to World Sailing from OK Dinghy Class
I am writing in my capacity as President OKDIA, the International OK Dinghy Class Association, to express our dissatisfaction at the process and decisions taken by World Sailing last year to remove the Finn from the 2024 Olympics.

The International OK Dinghy Class celebrated its 60th anniversary year in 2017 and continues to grow in popularity around the world. Traditionally the class had been used as an intermediate step for singlehanded sailors prior to campaigning a Finn towards Olympic selection. More recently the class has seen former Finn sailors, and sailors from many other classes, choose the OK Dinghy as their racing dinghy of choice due to the one design nature of the class, the sophistication and availability of equipment, the world standard of racing including annually held World, European and regional championships and of course the social character of the class.

The 2019 International OK Dinghy World Championship was held in February in Auckland, New Zealand with over 100 boats competing. The event was narrowly won by former Olympian and Finn sailor Dan Slater, from Olympic Gold Medalist and former Finn sailor Freddy Loof, with 17 year old World Youth Champion Josh Armit finishing third. While we are rightly proud of the OK Dinghy, equally we feel that the increasing popularity of the class benefits world sailing generally as an avenue for promoting our wonderful sport across many countries.

The Annual General Meeting of OKDIA was held in Auckland in conjunction with the World Championship in February 2019. At that meeting, the Australian Representative informed the meeting that the AUS association had written to Australian Sailing expressing disappointment regarding the decision of World Sailing to drop the event intended for the Finn class from the Olympics in 2024 in favour of a 2 person mixed keelboat. There was general consent within the room for OKDIA to express its dissatisfaction and unhappiness at the general direction of World Sailing, in particular the recent Olympic class decisions, which have and will affect many within the class and the options and pathways for singlehanded dinghy sailing in general. The meeting agreed that OKDIA should write to World Sailing and represent the views of the OKDIA member countries that reflect these views.

I have personally sailed the OK Dinghy for almost 40 years since I was 16 years of age and am still enjoying sailing with and competing against both new and old friends from many countries. I have also recently joined the Finn Masters and have similarly enjoyed the level of competition mixed with great friendship. Like most sailors I have also had my fair share of offshore keelboat sailing as part of my lifelong involvement in the sport. With this experience I can personally echo the sentiments and concern of OK Dinghy sailors at the strategic direction of World Sailing, or it seems lack of it, and dismay at the decisions being taken. In my view this demonstrates a lack of leadership, both in honouring the past and building a shared vision for the future.

On behalf of the OK Dinghy Class I implore you and all at World Sailing to act in the best interests of the future of sailing and the people you represent.

Mark Jackson, President, OKDIA

Launchings
The 96-year-old Solent Sunbeam class welcomed a brand new yacht to its fleet last week with the launching of V70 Minty which took place at Itchenor, the base for this historic and much-admired classic keel-boat fleet.

Minty's hull was built on the Isle of Wight by Mark Downer's AM Structures, a GRP and composites specialist who has built all nine of the new GRP yachts. Minty was fitted out by wooden boat specialists Haines Boatyard based at Itchenor.

Harriet and Simon Patterson are the proud new owners of Minty, which sports a glacial-green hull. They are keen sailors with children who are very active junior members of Itchenor Sailing Club. Now their children are sailing so much they wanted to get back on the water themselves.

Following Minty's launch the Fleet now on the water and racing this season grows to 27, with the new GRP hulled yachts and the original wooden versions, dating back 96 years to 1923, racing side by side on an equal basis.

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Friday, 3 May 2019 in Scarlino, Italy marks the worldwide premiere of the breathtakingly innovative ClubSwan 36. Combining the inspirational design flair of Argentinean Juan Kouyoumdjian with the peerless heritage and production skills of Nautor's Swan, the ClubSwan 36, comprising innovations from BMW and Torqeedo, is the latest step in the long and successful design evolution of one of the marine world's most celebrated marques.

It is 52 years since the first ever Swan, also a 36, made its debut in 1967. It, too, was groundbreaking in its day. The launch of the prototype ClubSwan 36 tomorrow at the Marina di Scarlino, during the second leg of The Nations Trophy Mediterranean League 2019, confirms that the enthusiasm and belief in innovation that led to the original 36 remain central pillars of Nautor's boatbuilding philosophy.

At the official unveiling, hosted at the Club Nautico Scarlino tomorrow at 17:30, the key features of this remarkable craft will be revealed publicly for the first time.

Photos from the launch, as well as technical specifications, will be distributed in a press release on Saturday 4 May.

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After weeks of extensive sea trials, Power of 2, the third unit of Southern Wind's SW105 miniseries and first with the new 'Deck Saloon' configuration, is ready to leave on her maiden voyage from Cape Town to the North Sea.

The third hull in the SW105 mini-series designed by Farr Yacht Design and Nauta Design, was commissioned by a keen sailor who was looking to step up from a smaller yacht, to a larger one for faster sailing and exploring remote locations in comfort and safety. Power of 2's twin rudder system combined with the lifting keel (3-5m) allows access to remote shallow ports and anchorages. With the keel down this configuration provides excellent upwind light air performance. Jim Schmicker, vice president of Farr Yacht Design explains: "Twin rudder arrangement works very well with the 3m shallow draft as the rudder blades only extend 2m below the waterline". He continues: "The interior and keel tower configuration permit a generous addition of 2m resulting in a keel down draft of 5m for excellent performance, stability and comfort. The sail plan and sail design have been tailored to the righting moment generated by the keel and the versatile 105 hull shape."

Power of 2's fixed bowsprit with an integrated anchor arm makes for easy anchoring and her clean deck layout with efficiently engineered systems makes for easy sailing in any sea and wind condition.The deck has been cleared of technical clutter where possible, pushing jib sheets and runner retrievers below the side decks. Raising and trimming the mainsail has become simplified with two captive winches controlling the sheet and halyard, all interlinked with the furling boom via a state of the art PLC system that can also be managed by remote control.SW105#03 is built with a 'Deck Saloon' configuration. This idea was briefed by the owner and designed by Nauta Design and Southern Wind Shipyard. The coachroof coamings are intended to protect the guest cockpit, at the same time creating aesthetically pleasing lines. In the words of Massimo Gino from Nauta Design:"SW105#03 is the culmination of 20 years' experience we have gained working with Southern Wind. When an owner decides to reduce the width of the saloon to get a 360' view, it is down to the designers to provide the maximum effect while maintaining a sporty exterior look and feel, that is pleasing and yet, at the same time, slightly aggressive. This look and feel needs to be created without additional height at the front of the cockpit, which would reduce the all-round vision and also detract from the sporty lines."

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Italia Yachts recently launched its new 11.98 in Venice at the historical Compagnia della Vela yacht club. The boat is the first in the Bellissima series which is aimed at recreational owners and complements its Fuoriserie series designed with sports racers in mind.

Italia Yachts told IBI that the new 12m comes with the creature comforts and styling one might expect from a much larger yacht. The interior is the work of Arbore and Partners - Mirko Arbore made is reputation as a designer of high-end villa interiors, so a move to medium-sized sailboats marks a change of direction and makes itself evident in the homely feel of the boat's interior.

Italia Yachts is currently building around 20 boats a year, but the plan is to up that to around 35-40 boats annually. Key to growth will be expansion in the US where is is growing its dealer network. It has sales offices in Annapolis, Fort Lauderdale, Santa Barbara and Newport. A new logo that incorporated the Lion of Venice, it's wing mimicking a sail, is part of the new drive by the builder to raise its brand profile.

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The Herreshoff S-Class is highly regarded as one of the most beautiful one-designs ever. It's an instantly recognizable classic with it's spoon bow, Herreshoff cabin trunk, and sharply curved mast carrying a large marconi mainsail and 5/8ths self-tending jib. The S-Class is incredibly fun to sail in all conditions. In light air the tall rig will power an S-Class right by any modern boat and in heavy air the high ballast ratio keeps the boat stable. The deep cockpit remains comfortable while the bendy mast automatically depowers the main by spilling air. Such is the reason that after a century, more than half of the original 96 S-Class boats are still sailing and racing.

Papoose was one the first contracted Herreshoff S-Class in late 1919 and was given the 3rd hull number (#831) when launched in March of 1920. Papoose's earliest years were spent racing in Marblehead with owners John Silsbee Lawrence and Livingston Davis. In 1924 Papoose joined the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club fleet. Nearly 40 years later in 1963 Papoose joined the Narragansett Bay fleet which has been homeport for over 55 years.

Papoose's restoration:

In 2011/12 Papoose underwent an extensive, detailed, and documented keel-up restoration in Bristol, Rhode Island. Papoose has been maintained in as-new condition since. Ensuring Papoose is ready to take on another century of sailing and racing.

* From Guy Nowell, Editor, Sail-World Asia: re: Scallwag, Fastnet.

"In order to win, first you have to finish." It is to be hoped that Scallywag does not embarrass her Hong Kong flag as much as she did on the start line in Antigua.

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In This Issue
• Sojana Retains the Lord Nelson Trophy
• Australia wins U.S. debut of SailGP
• Grant Gordon Claims 24th HM King Juan Carlos Trophy 2019 in Cascais
• A Game of contrasts - Van Isle Race
• Redshift Wins Cervantes Trophy
• Farr 40 Struntje Light Wins Overall Yachting Cup Title
• Solo Maitre Coq
• Picon confirms golden comeback year in Hyeres
• Alejandro Fresneda and Javier Lopez are the 2019 Snipe European Masters Champions
• Letters to the Editor
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Sojana Retains the Lord Nelson Trophy
The 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week will be remembered for a cocktail of superb sailing, thrilling racing and a great party atmosphere ashore. Teams from 21 different countries from all over the world chose Antigua Sailing Week as their destination. The trade winds blew for all six days of racing; mixed in with tropical heat and a rollercoaster ride of Caribbean swell, Antigua delivered world class sailing. Racing was incredibly close with the majority of the classes enjoying thrilling competition.

New marks introduced provided the opportunity for longer coastal courses, allowing the boats to stretch their legs and take in the beautiful west and rugged east coasts of Antigua. The introduction of new top and bottom marks on the Windward Course allowed for better windward-leeward race tracks, testing the technical abilities of the international fleet.

Sir Peter Harrison's Farr 115 Sojana was the overall winner of Antigua Sailing Week, retaining the coveted Lord Nelson Trophy. It has been 20 years since Larry Ellison's Sayonara achieved the last successful defence.

Sojana was the best boat racing in CSA Overall, winning the Corum Cup, second overall in CSA winning the Peter Deeth Trophy was Scarlet Oyster, and third overall winning the Catamaran Marina Cup was Lady Mariposa. The Bareboat Overall Champion, winning the Dream Yacht Charter Trophy, and a voucher for one week's bareboat charter from Antigua Sailing Week 2020, was Hans Steidle's KH+P Barbuda.

Sojana was the winner of CSA 1, scoring six race wins. Lithuanian Volvo 65 Ambersail2, skippered by Simonas Steponavicius won the last race to take runner up. With Jean-Pierre Dick's French JP54 The Kid in third.

In CSA 2, Ker 46 Lady Mariposa, skippered by Jesper Bank, scored six bullets to lift the English Harbour Rum Trophy. Lombard 46 Pata Negra, skippered by Adrian Fisk's Itchenor SC team won the last race to claim second, a point ahead of Jeremy Thorp's British GP42 Phan.

In CSA 3, Adrian Lee's Irish Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II scored five bullets and was also declared Best Swan at Antigua Sailing Week. Mark Jagger's CNB 60 Theia of London was second, and OnDeck Antigua's Farr 65 Spirit of Juno was third.

In CSA 4 Ross Applebey's British Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster won arguably the most competitive CSA Class, lifting the Sanhall Trademarks Trophy and the Hinckley Cup for best racing charter yacht. Pamala Baldwin's Antiguan J122 Liquid was second and also the winner of the CSA Travellers' Trophy. Andy Middleton's British First 47.7 EH01 was third in class.

CSA 5 featured close racing with races won or lost by seconds. Jonty and Vicki Layfield's Antiguan J/11s Sleeper battled to a class win, lifting the Governor General's Cup.

The 53rd edition of Antigua Sailing Week will take place on April 25th - May 1st, 2020. -- Louay Habib

Full Results

www.sailingweek.com

Australia wins U.S. debut of SailGP
Thousands of spectators waved their favorite teams’ colors from the packed Marina Yacht Club Peninsula Race Village as they witnessed the Australia SailGP Team repeat as champions with victory over Japan, to win the U.S. debut of SailGP.

After two full days of thrilling racing at San Francisco SailGP, the Australia SailGP Team, helmed by Olympic gold medalist Tom Slingsby, took the top honor. Proving the ultimate come-back kids after struggling in training and a disappointing day of racing on Saturday, they defeated the Japanese team in the final match race to win the event and go two points up in the overall season rankings and a step closer to the $1 million prize.

After dominating the opening day, winning all three races in an impressive showing, Outteridge’s team couldn’t hold off Slingsby’s charge. Despite a close battle in the final match race, Outteridge later noted that a software issue meant that they were ‘sailing blind’ around the race course.

With two wins out of two, the Australian team takes top spot on the overall Season 1 leaderboard, with just two points separating the top two teams going into the next event in New York, June 21-22.

Taking its first SailGP race win, Great Britain was one of the standout performers of the weekend, finishing third overall and maintaining the same position on the overall leaderboard.

Results

SailGP Season 1 // Leaderboard
1st // Australia // 93pts
2nd // Japan // 91pts
3rd // Great Britain // 79pts
4th // United States // 68pts
5th // France // 61pts
6th // China // 60pts

San Francisco SailGP // Overall
1st // Australia // 47pts
2nd // Japan // 46pts
3rd // Great Britain // 43pts
4th // United States // 37pts
5th // France // 28pts
6th // China // 27pts

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Grant Gordon Claims 24th HM King Juan Carlos Trophy 2019 in Cascais
The 24th King Juan Carlos Trophy, the second leg of the International Dragon European Cup Series 2019, came to a nail biting conclusion in Cascais with a two race showdown of epic proportions. Going into the day just three points separated the top five boats and the air of anticipation as they left the dock was palpable. Anatoly Loginov (RUS27) led the regatta overnight with 25 points, Jens Rathsack (MON2) had 26 points, Hugo Stenbeck (SUI311) and Dmitriy Samokhin (RUS76) were each on 27 points, Grant Gordon (GBR820) 28, Pedro Rebelo de Andrade (POR 84) 30 and Pieter Heerema (NED412) 31 points.

Initially the fleet was held ashore awaiting the sea breeze, putting the Race Committee under pressure to achieve two races before the 14.00 last warning signal. Fortunately clear blue skies and hot sun brought the wind in early and at 11.30 the first race was underway in 10 knots and building. For only the second time in the series the fleet got a clean start at the first time of asking and Heerema rapidly put his stamp on the race to win comfortably. Behind him Gordon held off the pack for second place with Stenbeck third, Samokhin fourth and Loginov fifth.

The week's top Corinthian performers were Miguel Magalhaes (POR56) and his team of Jorge Pinheiro de Melo and Jose Magalhaes, who gave some of the pros a good run for their money. The fight for second and third place in the Corinthian Division came down to a single point with second place ultimately going to Guy Gelis (BEL88), who narrowly beat Manuel Rocha (POR47).

Overall Top Five
1. Grant Gordon, GBR820, 31
2. Hugo Stenbeck, SUI311, 33
3. Pieter Heerema, NED412, 37
4. Dmitry Samokhin, RUS76, 38
5. Jens Rathsack, MON2, 39

Full results www.cncascais.com

A Game of contrasts - Van Isle Race
Two classic races in the Pacific northwest that between them offer virtually every experience that the sport of offshore racing can deliver

The great oceans of this planet invite us to sail great ocean races, with most having long and storied histories. In the Atlantic these include the Transatlantic, the Newport- Bermuda, the Route du Rhum and the Cape Town-Rio Race, among others. In the Pacific there are several, including the Transpac, Pacific Cup, the LA-Tahiti Race and various races to Mexico. Most of these are biennial and start or end in the southern half of North America. Yet there two other great offshore races in the Pacific that start (and one ends) in the northern half of this continent: the Vic-Maui Race and the Van Isle 360.

These are two very different races yet they both celebrate a rich heritage of Canadian yachting in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. The Van Isle 360 is the younger of the two, in its 20th year this year, and has a fascinating format that is driving its growing popularity. Rather than being a point-to-point ocean race, this race is actually a tour and has its roots in a clever idea developed in 1986 among some adventure-seeking multihull sailors who planned to race around Vancouver Island in eight legs. That event had a title sponsor, an entry fee of $1,000 and encouragement for teams to find sponsors to support them on this odyssey. The problem was that Corinthian attitudes prevalent in the hierarchies of the sport in this era were not yet ready to support sponsored sailing, so the event died despite having a respectable count of 25 entries.

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

Redshift Wins Cervantes Trophy
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Cervantes Trophy Race provided a challenging start to the European season for the RORC Season's Points Championship. A bitter northerly wind, with squalls gusting over 30 knots, produced a challenging race for the impressive fleet of 108 boats. Starting from the Squadron Line, the fleet headed east out of the Solent passing No Man's Land Fort and into the open waters of the English Channel. After passing south of the Nab Channel, the fleet headed east, blast reaching to Owers, followed by an upwind leg to Littlehampton Outfall. Cracking sheets and hoisting downwind sails, the fleet headed south for a 77 mile dead-run across the English Channel. An energy sapping upwind leg of over 20 miles, from Cussy Buoy to the A5 Buoy, further tested the fleet, before a downwind section to the finish.

Ed Fishwick's maiden offshore race in British FAST40+ Redshift winning the 2019 RORC Cervantes Trophy Race. With a top class crew including Hannah Diamond and Dave Swete from the Volvo Ocean Race, along with Figaro skipper Nick Cherry. Redshift completed the 160nm course in just under 15 hours taking Line Honours and the overall win after IRC time correction. Lars & Birgitta Elfverson's Swedish Ker 40 Keronimo was second overall. Dutch Ker 46 Van Uden, skippered by Gerd-Jan Poortman, was third.

33 teams started the race in IRC Two-Handed, and two thirds of the fleet completed a tough test of shorthanded boat handling and tenacity. Louis-Marie Dussere's French JPK 10.80 Raging-bee² took class line honours in just under 20 hours, and was the winner after IRC time correction. Deb Fish & Will Taylor racing Sun Fast 3600 Bellino was second in class, and Julien Lebas' French A31 Gaya was third.

In IRC Zero,Van Uden was the class winner, Windward Sailing's British CM60 Venomous, sailed by Derek Saunders was second, and Lance Shepherd's Volvo 70 Telefonica Black third. In IRC One Redshift, and Keronimo took the top two places, Mark Emerson's British A13 Phosphorus II was third.

In IRC Two, Thomas Kneen's British JPK 11.80 took Line Honours for the class, and after time correction won the class, also placing fourth overall. In IRC Three, Raging-bee² was the class winner. Peter Butters' British JPK 10.10 Joy, sailed by Dave Butters, was third.

In the Multihull Class, two teams racing 30-something footers completed a tough challenge. Joel Malardel's French Normanni 34 Tancrede took Line Honours and the win after time correction. 2018 Multihull champion, Ross Hobson's Seacart 30 Buzz, was second.

RORC Transatlantic and RORC Caribbean 600 Champion, Catherine Pourre's Eärendil, was the winner in the Class40 Division, beating Christophe Coatnoan's Partouche.

The fourth race of the 2019 RORC Season's Points Championship is the Myth of Malham Race, starting from the RYS Line on Saturday 25 May (0800 BST). The 256nm course mirrors the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race, as far as the Eddystone Lighthouse, followed by a return leg to a Solent finish. A substantial international fleet is expected.

Results and standings in the points championship

www.rorc.org

Farr 40 Struntje Light Wins Overall Yachting Cup Title
San Diego, CA (May 5, There were plenty of high-fives, handshakes and celebratory cheers back on the docks after the final day of the San Diego Yacht Club’s Yachting Cup. Congratulations were exchanged and camaraderie was shared, but one class stood out this weekend and made its mark on the 2019 Yachting Cup. The Farr 40 class, fielding an international fleet of seven for their season opener, made the most of three ideal Pacific ocean sailing days at SDYC’s premier multi-fleet regatta.

Wolfgang Schaefer, owner of Struntje Light, dominated over eight races this weekend, earning him and his crew the title of Overall Yachting Cup winners.

Tim Fuller, Yachting Cup Chair, congratulated the Overall Yachting Cup winner for their outstanding performance. “In the eight races over three days, Struntje Light showed their worth in a large, competitive class. They truly dominated the course,” Fuller commented.

Struntje Light took the most bullets on the scoresheet in the Farr 40 class with five first place finishes. When they weren’t taking first, they were not far behind in second or third place. The boat started off the weekend with two bullets and a second on the first day, two bullets and a third on the second day, and one bullet and a third on the final day.

Rick Goebel’s Insanity took second place in the class by three points

Full results of all classes: yachtingcup.com/results

Solo Maitre Coq
Tired, slightly disappointed but nonetheless armed with a number of valuable lessons which he will take forward to next month’s La Solitaire URO Le Figaro, Ireland’s Tom Dolan finished 28th into Les Sables d’Olonne on Smurfit Kappa yesterday afternoon (Saturday) at the end of the 380 nautical miles offshore race, so completing the Solo Maitre Coq in 24th position overall.

Dolan, from County Meath, finishes almost exactly mid fleet after the three races - two short inshores and the longer offshore which started on Thursday afternoon and took the 47 strong fleet south to the Ile de Re off La Rochelle, north to Belle ile to the NW of Nantes and back to finish in Les Sables d’Olonne.

A mediocre start, which left him towards the back of the white hot fleet of France’s top solo racers at the first turning mark, left Dolan with a mountain to climb. Although he pulled up more than 20 places over the ensuing legs, and spent 24 hours racing side-by-side with three times La Solitaire winner Yann Elies a final finish in the top 20 eluded Dolan.

Final top ten
1. Group SNEF, Xavier Macaire, 40 points
2. Queguiner, Tanguy Le Turquais, 42
3. Avec Vous Sur La Solitaire, Morgan Lagraviere , 42.5
4. Action Contre La Faim, Benjamin Schwartz, 50
5. Banque Populaire, Armel Le Cleac'h, 62.5
6. 57, Adrien Hardy, 72.5
7. Skipper Macif 2017, Martin Le Pape, 85
8. Le Hub By Oc Sport, Yoann Richomme, 85
9. Teamwork, Justine Mettraux, 87
10. Skipper Macif 2019, Pierre Quiroga, 88.5

tomdolanracing.com

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Picon confirms golden comeback year in Hyeres
France’s Charline Picon, the Rio 2016 Olympic Champion, made sure it was a golden finish for the hosts, winning the women’s RS:X windsurfing to close the 51st edition of the Semaine Olympique Francaise.

There could not have been a better concluding day as the Medal Races played out in perfect Côte d’Azur conditions with a golden sun, clear skies and 15-knot westerlies.

Leading by 14 points overnight, Picon finished the medal race today in third and confirm her expected victory.

Italy’s Mattia Camboni and Australia’s Matthew Wearn had already won the men’s RS:X and Laser respectively on Friday. But there was a shock in the first medal race of the day as Hungary’s rising star Maria Erdi, leading the Laser Radial by nine points overnight, finished last in the medal race having been outmanoeuvred by Finland’s Tuula Tenkanen, who took gold.

The 197 sailors from 49 nations have been tested to their limits in all different conditions over an a long racing schedule (12 for the Lasers and 16 for the RS:X, only the RS:X women lost one race because the Mistral was blowing too hard on Friday evening).

Women’s RS:X
Gold - Charline Picon (France) - 49 points
Silver - Peina Chen (China) - 59
Bronze - Yunxiu Lu (China) - 79

Men’s RS:X
Gold - Mattia Camboni (Italy) - 57
Silver - Thomas Goyard (France) - 87
Bronze - Piotr Myszka (Poland) - 90

Laser Radial
Gold - Tuula Tenkanen (Finland) - 59
Silver - Maria Erdi (Hungary) - 62
Bronze - Emma Plasschaert (Belgium) - 84

Laser
Gold - Matthew Wearn (Australia) - 16
Silver - Sam Meech (New Zealand) - 49
Bronze - Tom Burton (Australia) - 55

Full results: evenements.ffvoile.fr/sof2019gbr/results.aspx

Alejandro Fresneda and Javier Lopez are the 2019 Snipe European Masters Champions
After three days of competition at sea and much entertainment ashore, the curtains closed tonight on the Snipe Master European Championship at the Real Club Nautico de Valencia, after three days of great racing that gathered some of the most outstanding teams in the class in the Master category.

With an impeccable score sheet, that left them on top of the rankings at all times, the duo from Almeria Alejandro Fresneda and Javier Lopez won the overall trophy, followed by the Portuguese Tiago Roquette and Dries Crombe and with the third place for Jose Luis Maldonado and Alexandre Tinocco, from the RCN Valencia.

The requirement to take part at the Master championship is for the skipper to be older than 45 years and that the sum of the ages of both crew members is always 80 years or more. In addition to the absolute title, the regatta has prizes for the Apprentice Master categories, with skipper between 45 and 54, Master, 55 - 64, Grand Master, 65 -74 and Legend Master, over 75 years of age.

The sailors of the Club Maritimo de Mahon, Fernando Rita and Juan Magro have managed to get the win off their club mates Damian Borras and Jordi Triay, claiming the title of Master Champions and fourth overall. Borras and Triay are runners-up Master and fifth in general, and the Italians Alberto Schiaffino and Giuseppe Prosperi take the bronze in the Master category and 12th overall.

The Grand Master category champions are Jose Palacio and Francisco Palacio of the Real Club Astur de Regatas, 11th overall. The second position in this category is occupied by Jorn Haga of RCN Motril, sailing with Esperanza Pereza from Cartagena, and with the Italians Roberto Tozzi and Giuseppe Borelli completing the podium.

The winners in the most senior category of the championship, the Legend Master, are Jose Perez and Jorge Juan Soriano, of the CN Los Nietos, followed by the Portuguese duo formed by Daniel Fins and Cristina Domingos and with the third place for the Belgians Andre and Eric Callot.

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In This Issue
• Antigua Bermuda Race
• Argo Group Gold Cup
• B&G Zeus³ 9 chartplotter with world basemap
• D35 Trophy opener: Alinghi returns to victory
• Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead: Race 3 - ISORA Offshore Series
• Full house - Sevenstar Yacht Transport
• Limerick's Ketch Ilen to Be Put in Focus With "Salmons Wake" Voyage to Greenland
• 80 Seconds with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
• A Legendary Yacht with a great Cause has Registered for the North Sea Regatta
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Antigua Bermuda Race
The third edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race organised by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week will start on Wednesday 8 May 1200 (AST). The 935 nautical-mile ocean race has attracted a diverse fleet of yachts from the 100ft carbon flyer SHK Scallywag, to the 1938 Classic Mariella - and just about everything in between. The common denominator is the need to sail north after the finish of the Caribbean season.

The Antigua Bermuda Race gives purpose to the need to go north, offering safety in numbers with satellite tracking and the added attraction of two fabulous parties in Nelson's Dockyard Antigua and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. The rich diversity of the travels of the competing yachts is astounding.

The 100ft Supermaxi SHK Scallywag (HKG) is the hot favourite for Line Honours. Skippered by David Witt, the team will be representing the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and will sail on to Newport, Rhode Island, USA for the forthcoming Transatlantic Race 2019. Given the right conditions, SHK Scallywag is very capable of beating the race record set last year by Stephen Murray, Jr. (USA) Volvo 70 Warrior (2 days, 18 hours, 32 minutes and 48 seconds).

The Antigua Bermuda Race is part of the Atlantic Ocean Race Series. Three teams will pick up valuable points prior to the start of the Transatlantic Race 2019: SHK Scallywag, Pata Negra (GBR), and Hermes II (CAN).

Lombard 46 Pata Negra, skippered by Andy Lis, will be competing for the second year. Following last year's race, owner Giles Redpath skippered the boat to an overall win in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race.

Pogo 12.50 Hermes, co-skippered by Morgen Watson & Meg Reilly has competed in all previous editions of the Antigua Bermuda Race. They have been in the Caribbean since November, racing at numerous regattas. Between them, co-skippers Morgen Watson (CAN) and Meg Reilly (USA), have sailed 180,000 nautical miles offshore, including 19 Atlantic crossings!

Tracking: yb.tl/a2b2019

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Argo Group Gold Cup
Hamilton, Bermuda: Racing for the 69th Argo Group Gold Cup is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning, May 7, at 1000 hours on Hamilton Harbour, just off the docks of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.

The first match on the schedule pits grizzled veteran Johnie Berntsson of Sweden, a two-time winner of the King Edward VII Gold Cup, against first-time participant Kelsey Durham, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club representative.

Other matches in the first flight include Maxime Mesnil of France (sailing his first Argo Group Gold Cup) racing Chris Poole of the U.S., Ettore Botticini (the reigning Youth Match Racing World Champion) of Italy racing Eric Monnin (the World No. 1-ranked match racer) of Switzerland and Australian Torvar Mirsky (the reigning Open match racing world champion), against Lucy Macgregor (the reigning Women's match racing world champion) of the U.K.

Pauline Courtois (Women's No. 1-ranked skipper) of France makes her Argo Group Gold Cup debut in the third flight of matches when she takes on Nicklas Dackhammar of Sweden in Match 3. Harry Price of Australia, another first-time entrant, makes his debut one match later, against Mirsky.

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D35 Trophy opener: Alinghi returns to victory
After nine rounds sailed in a rather strong wind (La Bise so strong that it grounded the crews on Sunday), Alinghi, Zen Too and Ylliam-Comptoir Immobilier took the spots on the podium of this opening Grand Prix organised by the Société Nautique de Genève.

Yves Detrey, Bowman: "The team has had a good recovery period and our good form in training has been confirmed in these regattas. "In order not to repeat the mistakes of the end of last season, we worked on the fundamentals and found a certain calmness on board. We did things simply, though as a team we still have to find some things to click to operate as one given the arrival of Bryan on board. "But we are on the up and will do everything to make it last!"

Two incidents, almost unnoticed, but what happened?

"One was due to a composite piece that was starting to get tired. The boats are old now. We've been racing for quite a few years and it was a weekend with strong wind. Suddenly we lost two sets of mainsail and jib settings. It was necessary to find a solution during the race, to finish it, which is what we managed to do. Then to find a more secure fix in the break between two heats.

"The next day, a block broke under stress. There was no apparent or obvious wear and so it is difficult to predict. But it's part of the game. Fortunately we managed to tinker again during the round, without losing too much ground."

The seven teams in the 16th D35 Trophy will next be lining-up on the Nyon-side of the Lake from 17 to 19 May for the Realstone Grand Prix.

Full results: d35trophy.com/classements/

Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead: Race 3 - ISORA Offshore Series
The first offshore race of the ISORA Offshore Championship 2019 took place on the 4th May with a starting time of 08.00. 19 boats from the entry list of 20 came to the start line in Dun Laoghaire.

The course was decided early by the Racing Committee due to the long term forecast of northerly winds. The forecast promised gusty and cold conditions in the Irish Sea. With Races 1 & 2 blown out due to Storm Hannah on the previous week, the fleet needed some "comfort racing" conditions. It was decided that the race would be from the start, direct to the finish in Holyhead harbour leaving South Burford to Port - approximately 55 miles.

The weather forecast for Race 3 was predicting northerly 15-20 knots however the winds picked up in the afternoon and veered more north-easterly.

As the fleet crossed the Irish Sea, Andrew Hall's "Jackknife" led the way followed closely by Chris Power-Smith's "Aurelia", Brendan Coughlan's "YoYo" and Paul O'Higgins "Rockabill VI". The lead position on IRC changed constantly during the race amongst these four lead boats. However, it was "Rockabill VI" ability to fly a Code 0 for the last hour and a half of the race that got them over the line to take the race Overall and Class 0.

Class 1 was won by Nige Ingram's "Jetstream" and Class 2 was won by Irish Offshore Sailing's boat "Desert Star". They also took the two handed prize.

Yellowbrick Tracking: www.isora.org

Full results

Full house - Sevenstar Yacht Transport
Very rarely... given the capacity of Sevenstar's fleet to ship even the very largest yachts to the world's premier regattas

The allure of bucket list races and regattas around the world and the strong interest in participation has prompted a revolution in yacht transport. 'It's quite amazing how we have been able to modernise what has been a traditional industrial sector to adapt to the unique demands for safe and effective transport of fragile items like racing yachts,' says Wouter Verbraak, head of racing logistics at Sevenstar.

Decades ago most boats were delivered from one region to another, with the length and difficulty of the voyage often constraining the choices of which races were within reach. Deliveries were often epic adventures for the delivery crews, but they could also be very time-consuming and often prone to delays and damage.

Those that did choose to travel by ship often had difficulties: poor handling of the boat and spars often caused damage, while inefficient paperwork handling and bureaucracy would also cause delays.

Now, however, efficiencies within the top segment of the shipping industry have not only helped global commerce, but yacht transport as well.

Full article in the May issue of Seahorse

Limerick's Ketch Ilen to Be Put in Focus With "Salmons Wake" Voyage to Greenland
On a gentle day early in 2019 in Limerick, Ilen is finally able to set her complete new suit of fore-and-aft sails. Photo: Gary MacMahon. Click on image to enlarge.

The historic ketch Ilen of Limerick puts to sea again from her home port this weekend at the beginning of a complex 2019 sailing programme which will see the restored ship voyage in July towards southwest Greenland writes W M Nixon. She'll be following in the wake of the migratory salmon which have journeyed since time immemorial between the Shannon and Greenland's only salmon river, the Kapisillit at the head of a fjord at Nuuk, Greenland's capital and Ilen's primary destination.

Ireland's last surviving sailing trading ketch, the 1926-built 56ft Ilen was originally designed by global circumnavigator Conor O'Brien to be the inter-island freight and ferry vessel in the Falkland Islands, and he sailed her out there after she'd been built by Tom Moynihan and his men at the Fishery Schools in Baltimore. When Ilen was retired from active service in the islands in the 1990s, Conor O'Brien enthusiast Gary Mac Mahon of Limerick set about trying to bring her home for restoration.

In November 1997 he achieved his first goal when Ilen was finally lifted off a ship in Dublin Docks. After wintering in the city's Grand Canal basin, she sailed for the first time in many years in Dublin Bay in May 1998, and soon made the passage to West Cork for the Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival and the Glandore Classics Regatta.

However, it was obvious that a huge project of restoration work was required to make the ship compliant with survey requirements for regular sea-going, and for several years she was virtually moth-balled. But in time a programme was devised - the Ilen Project - whereby the main hull restoration would be undertaken by master shipwright Liam Hegarty at Oldcourt Boatyard on the Ilen River above Baltimore in West Cork, while 180-kilometres away in Limerick, Gary Mac Mahon and the Ilen Network established an international project, the Ilen Boat-Building School, which made many of the detailed items such as the hatches and deckhouses, and the spars and rigging came out of this extensive Limerick workshop as well.

This ambitious Salmons Wake Voyage will take over Ilen's 2019 programme at the end of June. But meanwhile, the first part of the 2019 season involves Ilen interacting with the Sailing Into Wellness movement, with a series of short voyages along Ireland's south and east coasts. -- WM Nixon

Full article in Afloat

80 Seconds with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
To celebrate the 80th birthday of their Brand Ambassador, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, MS Amlin has created a series of twelve videos titled "80 Seconds with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston", presented by the legendary Dee Caffari.

Each episode will delve into the mind of Sir Robin to discover his thoughts on topics including the lure of the sea, the future of sailing and how it has been impacted by the changing environment. Whilst sailing aboard Suhaili with his talented peer and friend Dee Caffari, they were able to capture conversations and special moments which allow them to bring you a unique insight into one of the world's most famous sailors. Watch the trailer and first two episodes on their YouTube Channel now.

A Legendary Yacht with a great Cause has Registered for the North Sea Regatta
A legendary sailing yacht, the Flyer, and a legendary sailing race, the Rolex Fastnet, will meet for the first time this year and will also have the pleasure to see this team compete in the North Sea Regatta. A team of sailing enthusiasts will participate in the Rolex Fastnet Race with the Flyer, the sailing yacht with which Conny van Rietschoten won the Whitbread Round the World in 1978.

The purpose of the race; pleasure, achievement, enthusiasm for offshore sailing and a tribute to the Flyer, which has nevertheless played a leading role in one of the highlights in Dutch sailing history.

The aim of the Flyer's First Fastnet campaign is to draw attention to SKOV. This foundation is committed to allowing children with cancer to enjoy a carefree holiday. At many of the camps, these children can enjoy various water sport options. Donations for this foundation can be made at Flyer-SKOV

To follow the Flyer's First Fastnet campaign go to www.flyersfirstfastnet.com or follow us on social media under flyersfirstfastnet.

Correction
There was a an error in the RORC Cervantes race report in Monday's issue.
In the multihulls Buzz took line honours finishing just under 2 hours ahead of Tancrede who won the class on handicap

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In This Issue
• Price is right in shifty conditions at Argo Group Gold Cup
• RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup Back for 17th Edition
• FSE Robline becomes Robline
• RORC Vice Admiral's Cup: Round One 2019 FAST40+ Race Circuit
• The start of the Bermuda 1000 Race Douarnenez - Brest shifted to Thursday 17h
• 21st Jersey Regatta
• Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race
• Idyllic Opening to J/24 European Championship
• Whitstable Bay Endurance and Forts Race (18/19 May)
• Struggling Dutch reaffirm commitment to America's Cup
• Featured Brokerage:
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• • Arksen 85
• The Last Word: Alan Watts

Price is right in shifty conditions at Argo Group Gold Cup
An active first day of racing at the 69th Argo Group Gold Cup saw 36 matches completed across nine flights of racing and led to a first-timer holding the Day 1 lead.

Harry Price of Australia, the 23-year-old debutante who was the 2017 Youth match racing world champion, leads the regatta with 5 points from six races. He stands tied with grizzled veteran Ian Williams of the U.K., the 42-year-old six-time match racing world champion, but beat Williams head-to-head in Flight 6 to hold the tiebreak advantage.

"I'm really impressed with Harry," said Williams, who won the Argo Group Gold Cup in 2006 when Price was 11 years old. "The boats are difficult and there's a lot to get your head around. So good on him."

"Bermuda gave us an interesting day," said Price. "It was quite shifty and with the windward mark being tucked underneath the buildings, that made it anyone's race. We struggled to win the pre-starts but managed to get off the line even. Then we sailed our own race and did well to pick the shifts and get the lead."

Racing resumes tomorrow at 1000 hours with 30 matches scheduled to complete the round robin. The Bermuda Weather Service is forecasting winds from the northeast at 8 to 12 knots, meaning another head-scratching day for everyone involved. -- Sean McNeill

Preliminary Round Robin Standings
1. Harry Price (23, Sydney, Australia) - 5 points
2. Ian Williams (42, Lymington, England, U.K.) - 5
3. Chris Poole (30, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., USA) - 4.33
4. Johnie Berntsson (48, Stennungsund, Sweden) - 4
5. Torvar Mirsky (32, Sydney, Australia) - 4
6. Eric Monnin (43, Immensee, Switzerland) - 3
7. Maxime Mesnil (30, Le Havre, France) - 3
8. Nicklas Dackhammar (SWE) - 2
9. Lucy Macgregor (32, Poole, England, U.K.) - 2
10. Ettore Botticini (23, Porto Santo Stefano, Italy) - 1.67
11. Pauline Courtois (30, Brest, France) - 1
12. Kelsey Durham (25, Smiths, Bermuda) - 0

argogroupgoldcup.com/results/2019-results

RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup Back for 17th Edition
Hamilton, Bermuda: The RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup returns for the 17th year of forging friendships and testing seamanship for youth sailors around the world.

The goal of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club organizers and sponsor RenaissanceRe was to create a world class youth regatta in Bermuda to give local sailors the opportunity to race against some of the best in the world on their home waters alongside the world's best match racers sailing the Argo Group Gold Cup.

The entry criteria mirrors that of the Olympics where only one entry per nation is permitted to race, making the RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup more select than even the Optimist World Championship.

Due to this format the young sailors make new friendships that might not otherwise happen when travelling with a team of compatriots.

This year Kelsey Durham is representing the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in the Argo Group Gold Cup as the 2019 Bermuda National Match Racing champion. And Emily Nagel, also a past Junior Gold Cup competitor, will crew for Chris Poole.

"As far as I know, there's no other Optimist regatta or even youth regatta like this in the world," Cooper continued. "We owe huge thanks to our sponsor, RenaissanceRe, who has supported the regatta from Day 1. Without their support, we wouldn't be able to bring the world together on our tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean."

This year's RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup features a total of 34 sailors, including 20 Bermudians and 14 international sailors from five different continents. More than 30 percent of the fleet is female, a trend that began last year, and there are four first-time entries from the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Israel and Peru.

Racing for the RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup begins tomorrow on Great Sound and runs through Saturday. The final race is scheduled for Hamilton Harbour on Saturday afternoon.

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RORC Vice Admiral's Cup: Round One 2019 FAST40+ Race Circuit
After an highly successful training regatta, the gloves are off for Round One of the FAST40+ Race Circuit with eight FAST40+ teams expected in the combat zone for the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 2019 Vice Admiral's Cup. 2019 FAST40+ Class Race Circuit kicks off Friday 10th - Sunday 12th May. Eight races are scheduled in the Solent on fast and furious windward leeward courses, and round the cans style races.

Niklas Zennstrom's Carkeek designed FAST40+ Rán will be the boat to beat, having joined the class last year and winning the 2018 FAST40+ Race Circuit. Rán's Tim Powell has confirmed the crew squad, which continues to feature young talented amateurs, eager to learn the dark arts from world class sailors. The core of the team have been racing together for many years in the 52 Super Series and on the Maxi72 Circuit; Niklas Zennstrom on helm, Tim Powell on main, Justin Slattery in the Pit, and Steve Hayles on Runners. Double 470 World Champion Nic Asher will be racing as tactician.

2017 FAST40+ Race Circuit Champion skipper Peter Morton will be racing CF40+ Girls on Film with his Cowes based team. The Girls on Film Boat Captain Nick Butt, confirms that Team Ineos' Ben Cornish will be racing, as an early season stand in for World Match Racing Champion Gerry Mitchell. Multiple world champion Will Beavis will be joining the team, sharing roles with round the world sailor Jason Carrington. Chris Dorey joins the team on the sharp end of Girls on Film.

Mike Bartholomew's South African flagged Tokoloshe II has been campaigning his GP42 since 2016, David Bartholomew is the Boat Captain and occasional helm. Scotland's Steve Cowie racing GP42 Zephyr will be taking part in his fourth FAST40+ Race Circuit, as will James Neville's South Coast of England team, racing Ino XXX.

Last year, impressive debutants Olivia & Niall Dowling, will be racing in the 2019 FAST40+ Race Circuit with their Ker40+ renamed as Arabella. Kiwi Jared Henderson will be sailing Arabella, bringing experience from two around-the-world races, four America's cups, and the 52 Super Series.

The RORC Vice Admiral's Cup is Round One of the 2019 FAST40+ Race Circuit. The six regatta 2019 FAST40+ Race Circuit promises thrilling high speed action for the owner-driver class. A total of 50 races are scheduled with six discards available for the total points score for the season.

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The start of the Bermuda 1000 Race Douarnenez - Brest shifted to Thursday 17h
Initially scheduled Wednesday, May 8 at 13h, the departure of Bermuda 1000 Race Douarnenez-Brest will finally be given the next day at 17h. This decision of the race management, validated by the organizers, is dictated by the difficult weather conditions announced Wednesday. Listed in the IMOCA Globe Series calendar in 2019 and selective for the Vendée Globe 2020, the event will offer a 2000-mile course between Douarnenez and Brest with passages to the Fastnet (Irish Sea) and off the Azores lighthouse. The race should last about a week.

"An active low pressure system arrives on the tip of Brittany and in the Bay of Biscay Wednesday. Most of the depression will affect the Vendée and we will be a little less affected by the strong winds in Douarnenez. The main problem is that the sea will be very formed, "says Jacques Caraës. " The idea is to shift the departure so that the loners rush behind the passage front. The state of the sea improved and the swell will rise from 6-7 meters to 3-4 meters from Thursday evening. We want to make runners leave in more serene conditions. The Bermuda 1000 Race Douarnenez-Brest is the inaugural race of the season in IMOCA, some boats have been released very recently and for seven sailors it will be the very first event alone in IMOCA."

www.bermudes1000race.com

21st Jersey Regatta
Scheduled for 6th to 8th September, this year sees the 21st edition of the renowned Jersey Regatta, the Island's 'flagship' sailing event.

Jersey Marinas will be providing complimentary berthing whilst Condor Ferries is offering discounted fares for those wishing to transport their boats to the Island for the event.

For further information, please contact the Regatta office, info [AT] jerseyregatta [DOT] com, or call 00 44 (0)1534 732229.

Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race
The inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race is drawing interest from a multitude of boat owners and the TP52 owner group is backing the concept with two entered and more planning to be part of the first ever 530 nautical mile challenge starting at 11am on August 2, 2019 from Morton Bay and finishing off the beautiful Whitsunday island which has a strong tradition of welcoming sailors.

Barry Cuneo's Queensland TP52 Envy Scooters can expect a heavy-weight class contest from the south in the form of Matt Allen's pedigree Ichi Ban and Matt Donald and Chris Townsend's Gweilo, now in its second year of bluewater campaigning and marching towards this year's 75th anniversary Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Ichi Ban dismasted during the recent Brisbane Gladstone Race, but this won't slow Allen's campaign of major east coast events down. The offshore rig will be deployed so the team remain on track for the opening event of the northern circuit, the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race starting July 27 from Sydney Harbour.

For the co-owners of the TP52 Gweilo, the distance is attractive given their main goal this year is the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Bluewater Series, including the 75th Hobart race. "Last year we did the Brisbane to Keppel and now we have the option of the longer race, hopefully with a good fleet of TP52s making it even more exciting," Donald said. "We began our 2018 season in April-May, so nine months capped off with the Hobart race. A year on and we've cemented the majority of the crew plus added Wade Morgan as skipper and Billy Merrington as tactician, which holds us in better stead to be more competitive."

Distance-wise, the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron's latest initiative is the second longest Australian bluewater race behind the Rolex Sydney Hobart at 628 nautical miles. So far the entry list represents three states – NSW, Victoria and Queensland – plus overseas. And unless another big multihull appears out of Asia, Karl Kwok's MOD70 Beau Geste (HKG) will be unmatched when the time comes to set the multihull record for the debut bluewater event.

Early bird entry for the Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race closes May 31 and the standard entry fee will apply until 1700hrs on July 19. Thereafter a late fee may apply. -- Lisa Ratcliff

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Idyllic Opening to J/24 European Championship
Patras, Greece: Thirty J/24s vied in three races in winds of 15-25 knots to open to 2019 J/24 European Championship, hosted by the Sailing Club of Patras in Greece. Four different nations comprise the top four: Stefan Karsunke's Schwere Jungs of Germany (5 points), Ignazio Bonanno's La Superba of Italy (8 points), Miklos Rauschenberger's El Nino of Hungary and Anthimos Nikolaidis' Evniki of Greece (17 points).

Bonanno's La Superba opened the Championship successfully as the breeze started in the mid-teens. Karsunke's Schwere Jungs and Rauschenberger's El Nino followed. Nikolaidis' Evniki won race two when the winds began piping up, and both Karsunke and Bonanno kept their claim at the front end of the fleet. Karsunke capped a nearly perfect day with a bullet, ahead of Panagiotis Kampouridis' JMania and Alexandros Tagaropoulos' Hellenic Police in Tuesday's last contest.

Racing continues through Friday. Complete results may be found at j24europeans2019.gr, and photos are available on the International J/24 Class Facebook page.

Whitstable Bay Endurance and Forts Race (18/19 May)
Over the last 24 years, this long-distance race has evolved into a well-balanced test of sailing and racing skills, attracting top national helms as well as experienced club racers and international entries. Now part of the Allen Endurance Series, the Forts Race has been opened to a wider range of boats and sailors, including catamarans and monohulls.

Laid out in hub and spoke format, with each leg returning through a gate near the club, the full course (fast cats) covers up to 85 kilometres in estuary, coastal and open sea conditions, and provides racing at all points of sailing. The Whitstable Bay Endurance and Forts Race Weekend is open to all dinghies and sports catamarans with a PY rating of 1270 and lower.

Entry information on SailRacer: enter.sailracer.org

Struggling Dutch reaffirm commitment to America's Cup
The DutchSail syndicate have reaffirmed their commitment to the America's Cup despite time and funding being huge enemies in their hopes to make Auckland 2021.

The Netherlands team are one of three late entries along with Stars & Stripes from the United States and Malta Altus that are trying to bolster the challenging fleet to six.

They desperately need to start the build of their 75-foot foiling monohull or risk not being able to sail the first world series event in Italy next April, a prerequisite to contesting the America's Cup in New Zealand.

Skipper Simeon Tienpont and managing director Eelco Blok say progress is being made in the crucial finance department that has included crowd funding and they have found widespread support for their dream across the respected marine industry in their homeland.

The Dutch say they have received a handful of firm corporate commitments and "discussions with a main sponsor are promising".

Tienpont is adamant the bold challenge must go ahead to lay a foundation for the future.

"Now is the chance for the Netherlands to get a Dutch challenger on the water for the first time in history. The design of the AC75 and the technical specifications are right for the Dutch maritime and aviation industry," he said. -- Duncan Johnstone in Stuff.Co.Nz

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