In This Issue
Tour Voile: A Different Challenge in Barneville-Carteret
Italy’s Tito/Banti Continue Dominance In Nacra 17 Cat
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
Stan Honey on the AAR Bermuda to Hamburg Race
The teak dilemma: scarcer, pricier, less available
Hong Kong to Hainan Race 2018
Spindrift at Match Race Sweden
Andre Budzien takes narrow lead at OK Dinghy worlds
130 Yacht RORC Armada set for St.Malo
Letters to the Editor
Featured Brokerage
The Last Word: George Whitman
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Tour Voile: A Different Challenge in Barneville-Carteret
In its 40 year history the Tour Voile in its different guises has started from Dunkirk - as it did last Friday - no fewer than 32 times. It has been to Dieppe 28 times. But this is just the second time that the annual French classic will be hosted by Barneville-Carteret. There is some considerable anticipation as the 26 Tour Voile teams arrived today to set up overlooking the long sandy beaches which are the reason that the area is such a popular seaside resort, with the waters warmed by the Gulf Stream.
Barneville-Carteret lies some 35kms SSW of Cherbourg-Octeville, on the west side of the peninsula. There is a ferry service runs from the port of Carteret to Jersey in the Channel Islands.
The Tour Voile here complements the Tour des Ports de La Manche, an open annual multiclass regatta series which links Granville, Barneville-Carteret, Jersey, Dielette, Cherbourg and Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue. It attracts more than 100 yachts which makes it Normandy’s biggest race series.
It promises to be an exciting and challenging venue with strong tidal currents in play which will make the Coastal Race along the Côte des Isles especially interesting. The range of the tide tomorrow is 7.1m and a tidal coefficient of 96 in the morning and 99 in the afternoon.
At the top the Tour standings Beijaflore are showing strong form, arriving here with a lead of nine points after winning both events in Dieppe. #sailingarabia are 19 points behind.
Act Three:
Thu 12/07 | Act 3 | Barneville-Carteret Coastal Raid
Fri 13/07 | Act 3 | Barneville-Carteret Nautical Stadium
Top Three Overall Rankings
1. Beijaflore - 245 pts
2. Lorina Limonade Golfe du Morbihan - 145 pts
3. #SailingArabia by OmanSail - 226 pts
Top Three Youth Rankings
1. Team Reseau IXIO - 225 pts
2. Team France Jeune - 224 pts
3. Lorina Mojito Golfe du Morbihan - 221 pts
Top Three Classement Amateurs
1. Dunkerque Voile - 193 pts
2. Homkia - NIL - Les Sables d’Olonne - 185 pts
3. Toulon Provence Mediterranee - 159 pts
Italy’s Tito/Banti Continue Dominance In Nacra 17 Cat
Despite a long onshore delay and shifty and unstable conditions on the water today as the Finals began in the 2018 49er and Nacra 17 European Championship. With the fleets split by their ranking into gold and silver fleets, the top twenty-seven Nacra 17 crews and top twenty-five 49erFX teams hit the water under an angry grey sky in around 10 knots of Northerly breeze.
For Spanish 49erFX sailors Carla and Marta Munte, the racing was well worth the wait in their first ever European championship. The former 29er world champions (2014, 29er) have been quietly stalking the leaders in the class all week, but today’s breakout performance, combined with inconsistent finishes from some top competitors, meant not just the lead for the Munte sisters, but an 8 point gap back to overnight leaders Helene Naess and Marie Roningen. That’s the biggest lead we’ve seen in the FX all week.
No 49er racing could be conducted as PRO David Campbell James sent the 49er fleet home almost immediately after they arrived at the race area due to the approaching storm.
Results After Day 4 Fleet Racing
Nacra 17 Top 5 - Full Results
1. Ruggero Tita, Caterina Banti, NZL, 6
2. Gemma Jones, Jason Saunders, GBR, 18
3. Fernando Echavarri, Tara Pacheco, ESP, 25
4. Ben Saxton, Nikki Bonniface, ITA, 33
5. John Gimson, Anna Burne, USA, 42
49erFX Top 5 - Full Results
1. Carla Munte, Marta Munte, NOR, 39
2. Helene Naess, Marie Ronningen, GBR, 47
3. Sophie Weguelin, Sophie Ainsworth, ESP, 48
4. Julie Gross, Hanna Klinga, USA, 58
5. Stephanie Roble, Margaret Shea, DEN, 66
49er Top 5 - Full Results
1. Lukasz Przybytek, Pawel Kolodzinski, POL, 30
2. Diego Botín, Iago Marra, ESP, 31
3. Yago Lange, Klaus Lange, ARG, 40
4. Justus Schmidt, Max Boeme, GER, 41
5. Dylan Fletcher-Scott, Stuart Bithell, GBR, 43
The 2018 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 European Championship, at Volvo Sailing Day Gdynia, is from July 8 - 13. Follow all the action via http://49er.org - http://nacra17.org
Seahorse July 2018
What's in the Latest Edition Of Seahorse Magazine
The game of drones
Emirates Team New Zealand's magic ingredient. Nick Bowers and Rob Kothe
A busy year
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A foot in both camps
When not fettling their fleet of classic boats one famous New Zealand yard is restoring Whitbread maxis and building superyachts. Ivor Wilkins
Update
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Stan Honey on the AAR Bermuda to Hamburg Race
Audio interview in English with Jean-Luc Nelias, navigator for Eric de Turckheim's Nivelt-Muratet 54 Teasing Machine, just 48 hours before the start of the AAR Bermuda to Hamburg Race.
Jean-Luc Nelias has won the last two TJVs with Sodebo, and was the navigator for Groupama, winner of the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race. -- Louay Habib
The teak dilemma: scarcer, pricier, less available
Its appeal endures. But tougher logging rules hike prices. If superyacht owners were n’t so picky, “we can sell teak at half the price,” says veteran teak merchant Cees Boogaerdt. And builders would not face delivery problems.
Royal Boogaerdt Group has been supplying exotic wood species to yacht builders across Europe for 40 years. They account for up to 20% of its turnover. Its Royal Deck unit has, since its founding in 2004, has laid the equivalent of 7 or 8 football fields in teak decks. CEO Cees Boogaerdt knows the market inside out.
Superyacht owners, he says, want high-quality teak for it looks good. And it retains a yacht’s value. But proving teak’s legality has become tricky. “I agree you can only import legal wood,” says Boogaerdt. “But how can you be 100% sure? Dutch authorities checked us out once and found 1 document missing. Importing teak involves much red tape to show a tree’s provenance. But that’s not always water-tight.”
He opposes illegal imports (“bad for business”) and uses a ‘chain of custody’ to show his teak comes from sustainably managed forests. “We have gone into woods ourselves, repeatedly, to locate numbered stumps of cultivated trunks that lie in storage, replete with all documents,” says Boogaerdt. “Everything was OK. Illegal harvest? How illegal? In the Netherlands they just say Myanmar authorities are corrupt.”
For superyacht decks, a trunk is cut into 4 quarts from which planks are made. The grain must be perfectly straight as builders want long, even pieces. The lower section of an 80-year-old tree can look good. But at 5 or 6 meters, you’ll see where branches used to be. There’s a dark line and a slightly curved grain. “Buyers don’t want that, although it is good wood,” says Boogaerdt. “And they demand good color, without variations. But after 2 months at sea, a teak deck has evenly weathered into gray,” says Boogaerdt. “We can sell teak at half the price if buyers adjust their esthetic demands.”
Boogaerdt has long looked for a teak alternative.
The best he has found: laminated Fineline teak from Thailand. It costs €13,000 to €14.000 per cubic meter “and it is real teak. Flawless and with a straight grain. We tested it out on a boat in Italy 6 years ago. It still looks good, is environmentally sustainable and not more expensive than normal teak.”
Hong Kong to Hainan Race 2018
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club has released the Notice of Race and opened online entry for the 2018 Hong Kong to Hainan Race which will start on 18 October.
The Race takes competitors on a 390nm historically downwind passage to Sanya, on the southern China island of Hainan. Sanya, known as the “Hawaii of the East” is a great finish location for a holiday or as a transit point for yachts intending to continue on to other sailing events around the Asia-Pacific region. The event has been sanctioned as a recognised qualifier for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2018.
2018 will mark the 11th edition of the race which was established in 1997. The Hong Kong to Hainan Race is the only Category 1 offshore race to finish in the People's Republic of China.
The Race has been held biennially since 2012 and the current race record of 23h 31m 52s was set in 2016 by Seng Huang Lee’s 100ft Super Maxi, Scallywag. With the event being open to both monohulls and multihull, the 2018 race record will be closely watched. The race record has been broken in the last three editions, including in 2014 by Karl Kwok’s Team Beau Geste and in 2012 by Sam Chan’s FreeFire.
The start line will be in front of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Kellett Island Clubhouse with the start signal sounding at 1120hrs.
The race is organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in cooperation with the Bureau of Culture, Broadcast & TV, Publication and Sports of the Sanya Municipal Government, with the finish hosted by Serenity Marina in Sanya, Hainan.
Line Honours Winners
Boat Owner / Skipper / Year
Scallywag - Seng Huang Lee / David Witt - 2016
Team Beau Geste - Karl Kwok - 2014
Freefire - Sam Chan - 2012
Jelik - Frank Pong - 2003
Jelik - Frank Pong - 2002
Jelik - Frank Pong - 2001
Ffree Fire - Sam Chan - 2000
Beau Geste - Karl Kwok - 1999
Jelik - Frank Pong - 1998
Ffree Fire - Sam Chan / Russ Parker - 1997
Winners on Corrected Time
Boat - Owner / Skipper - Year
Black Baza - Anthony Root - 2016
Island Fling - Paul Winkelmann - 2014
Freefire - Sam Chan - 2012
Ffree Fire - Sam Chan - 2003
Jelik - Frank Pong - 2002
Stella - Fred Kinmonth - 2001
Ffree Fire - Sam Chan - 2000
Australia Challenge - Ray Roberts - 1999
Hi Fidelity - Neil Pryde - 1998
Zephyr - Mann Gee Ng - 1997
Spindrift at Match Race Sweden
Get a unique insight into Yann, Christophe, Francois, Matthieu, Coco, Marc, Edouard and Charlie’s week in Sweden for the first event of the World Match Racing Tour season.
Edouard’s camera gives us an unedited glimpse of life with Spindrift racing as they prepare for their victory!
M32 Spindrift Team:
Yann Guichard (skipper)
Christophe Espagnon (mainsail)
François Morvan (trimmer)
Matthieu Salomon (bow)
Constance Lecointre (logistic)
Marc Bouet (coach)
Edouard Elias (mediaman)
Charlie Tate (fitness)
Andre Budzien takes narrow lead at OK Dinghy worlds
The 2018 OK Dinghy World Championship in Warnemunde, Germany continued Wednesday with two more races sailed in an unstable 8-12 knots, and damp conditions. Former world champion Andre Budzien, from Germany took a one point lead at the top from Fredrik Loof and Jan Kurfeld. Each won a race in their groups, while Jim Hunt took the other group win.
It was always looking like the wettest day of the week, though the much forecast strong winds failed to materialise. In the end it was mildly damp on the water with more rain before and after racing than during. After brilliant conditions on Tuesday, this was another side of Baltic weather, grey and wet.
Racing in the opening series is scheduled to conclude on Thursday with two more races starting at 12.00. On Friday and Saturday four more races are scheduled for the Final series.
Results after four races
1. Andre Budzien, GER, 6
2. Fredrik Loof, SWE, 7
3. Jan Kurfeld, GER, 7
4. Bo Petersen, DEN, 11
5. Charlie Cumbley, GBR, 13
6. Jim Hunt, GBR, 15
7. Thomas Hansson-Mild, SWE, 18
8. Lars Johan Brodtkorb, NOR, 22
9. Tomasz Gaj, POL, 24
10. Sonke Behrens, GER, 24
130 Yacht RORC Armada set for St.Malo
130 yachts with nearly one thousand sailors competing, will be racing to St. Malo with the Royal Ocean Racing Club this weekend, arriving in the historic French port for massive celebrations. The Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race is one of the oldest races in the RORC calendar, with the overall winner under IRC receiving the magnificent 1906 King Edward VII Cup. The weekend celebrations will also feature a magnificent firework display for the French National Day on Saturday July 14th, and the FIFA World Cup Final on Sunday 15th July between France and England or Croatia.
Eleven Class40s from England and France will be racing, including 2017 RORC Season's Points Champion, Halvard Mabire & Miranda Merron's Campagne de France and last year's race winner, Marc Lepesqueux's Sensation. Tony Lawson's British entry Concise 8, skippered by Jack Trigger, class winner of this year's Myth of Malham, will also be in contention. Many of the Class40 teams will be taking part in their final race before the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race including Gery Atkins Colombre XL, Peter Harding & Sam Goodchild's Phor-ty, and Sandrine Pelletier's Oman Sail.
In IRC One, a dozen yachts will be vying for the IRC class win and overall honours.
In IRC Two, the leader for the season, the Army Sailing Association X-41 British Soldier, will be in action for their penultimate race before the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race.
79 yachts will be racing in IRC Three and Four including 34 teams racing Two-Handed, forming the lion-share of the impressive fleet racing in the Cowes-Dinard-St.Malo Race.
IRC Four forms the largest class in the 2018 Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race. 47 teams have entered including last year's runner up Marc Noel's China Girl and third place Cooper & England's Longue Pierre. Class leader for the 2018 season, Noel Racine's Foggy Dew, is a past winner of the race. Multihulls entered for the race include Simon Baker's Hissy Fit, Phillippe Damour's Red-avel, and Francois Corre's Friends & Lovers.
The start of the Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race will be an impressive sight, the fleet will be in the starting area along Cowes Green and Cowes Parade from 0900 on Friday 13 July. To follow the progress of the race, all teams in AIS range can be tracked via the YB Tracker player
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