EuroSail News #4956 - 8 November
In This Issue
• Transat Jacques Vabre
• New Double 2021 Champions Sled
• Ocean Safety's new technology at METSTRADE
• Great start for hosts at Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series
• Mini Transat: Ever southwards
• Golden Goose
• GC32 game, set and match for Alinghi in Mar Menor
• 57th Congressional Cup: April 18-23, 2022
• Q&A Live Call with Joe Glanfield
• Featured Brokerage:
• • Cannonball M72 Custom Maxi Racer
• • "Dunkirk little ship" - Dawn
• • KELPIE - Alfred Mylne 57 FT Gaff Cutter 1903/2012
• The Last Word: Avi Loeb
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Transat Jacques Vabre
79 boats made up of four different classes set of on Sunday for the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre.
The four classes headed, first of all, to a turning mark before heading through the English channel.
The 5 Ultimes, 7 Ocean Fifty, 22 Imoca and 45 Class40s pointed their bows towards Etretat to round the first course mark before setting course towards the Atlantic. A long journey lies ahead; 7,500 miles for the largest and fastest class, the Ultimes. The IMOCA and Ocean Fiftys will sail around 6,000 miles with the Class 40s completing around 4,500 miles.
Top five Class 40 at 0500 French time
1. Nicolas Jossier / Alexis Loison, La Manche #EvidenceNautique, FRA, 4425.8 nm to finish
2. Axel Trehin / Frederic Denis, Project Rescue Ocean, FRA, 1.78 nm to leader
3. Luke Berry / Achille Nebout, Lamotte Module Creation, FRA, 1.99
4. Aurelien Ducroz / David Sineau, Crosscall, FRA, 2.25
5. Amelie Grassi / Marie Riou, La Boulangere Bio, FRA, 3.77
www.transatjacquesvabre.org/en/
New Double 2021 Champions Sled
Winning by the slimmest of margins Takashi Okura's TP52 Sled team were crowned 2021's 52 SUPER SERIES champions and Rolex TP52 World Champions Saturday in Palma, Mallorca. They join Azzurra and Quantum Racing as only the third crew to have won the circuit's top honours.
Holding a lead of one single point on both championships scoreboard,s the team which won two of this season's three regattas had a nervous wait ashore today until scheduled racing had to be finally cancelled because of gale force Mistral winds on the Bay of Palma.
Theirs is a popular victory for a hugely experience team which represents the New York Yacht Club but which is a potent, truly multicultural mix including veteran America's Cup winning New Zealanders such as Don Cowie, mainsheet trimmer and project manager, five times America's Cup winner Murray Jones as helmsman and NZ's youthful Finn Olympic ace and more recent Cup winner Josh Junior.
Their overall victory required them to overcome successive crew line-up changes imposed by travel restrictions. All of their core Japanese sailors had to miss the second regatta and substitutes found. Usual Australian ace Adam Beashel called tactics for the first regatta win in Puerto Portals in August but Italian Francesco Bruni then had to step in cold when Beashel could not travel for the second and third events.
Sadly the passionate owner-driver could not attend this season because of the health situation but his crew and the circuit paid a warm tribute for making sure Sled was on all the start lines this season, as they did to other owners such as the Plattner family's Phoenix which finished fourth.
ROLEX TP52 World Championship after 8 races:
1. Sled (7,2,5,1,6,1,7,1) 30 pts
2. Quantum Racing (4,5,3,4,5,7,1,2) 31 pts
3. Platoon (3,3,4,8,2,2,3,6) 31pts
4. Phoenix (1,1,6,7,3,3,6,5) 32 pts
5. Alegre (5,9,1,10,1,5,8,3) 42 pts
6. Bronenosec Gazprom (2,8,9,2,4,8,2,8) 43 pts
7. Interlodge (9,4,7,5,8,6,5,9) 53 pts
8. Provezza (10,7,2,9,9,4,9,4) 54 pts
9. Gladiator (8,10,8,3,10,9,4,7) 59 pts
10. Code Zero (6,6,10,6,7,10,10,dnf) 66 pts
Ocean Safety's new technology at METSTRADE
Ocean Safety will introduce their latest ground-breaking safety products at METSTRADE, Amsterdam from the 16-18th November.
Advances in technology have enabled Ocean Safety to enhance its Jon Buoy man overboard range, with the addition of a soft case option for its Jon Buoy Inflatable Rescue Sling and its Jon Buoy Inflatable Horseshoe.
Utilising the latest in design and innovation, whilst also meeting the needs of the market, the marine safety equipment specialist has developed a more compact, durable storage option, with a modern aesthetic, for its innovative lifesaving product range.
As well as presenting other key products from the full range of safety and survival equipment Ocean Safety will support its worldwide distributor network. The company's team of marine safety experts will be on hand to provide advice to yacht captains and naval architects on bespoke design and inventory layouts for installations on board superyachts, grand prix, leisure, and commercial vessels.
Visit Ocean Safety on Stand 03.310 at METSTRADE or visit our website www.oceansafety.com for further information.
Great start for hosts at Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series
With 15 nationalities and 40 teams, including the best Europeans, Act 1 of the 9th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series (4-7 November) set the tone for the season. With the J/70 World Championship in Monaco 14-22 October 2022, Act 1 of these international monthly regattas showcased the high level of this class.
Friday kicked off in style with a steady 15-18 knot easterly, sunshine and well-formed swell that saw memorable surfs under spinnaker (18 knots clocked by some). Three races were enough to reveal the level and challenges facing even the best teams, here to get to know the race area where the Worlds will be held. Monegasques also have everything to fight for as this Winter Series is a qualifier.
From day one, Monegasques showed their teeth like YCM's Ludovico Fassitelli and crew on Junda whowon the event after a nail-biting five races.
Even the best were too eager the first day resulting in a series of general recalls. The Americans on Good to Go made what proved to be a wise choice in staying back, as they topped the provisional ranking that evening. Next day those high spirited ones held back to turn the tide and jump a few places, the Spanish on Patakin in particular making a superb comeback from 12th to 2nd.
The Americans hung on to 3rd, with the Russians on Elf in 4th, followed by Loïc Pompee on Sailing Racing Team. It bodes well for this Monegasque, already 5th at the last European Championship. In the Corinthians William Twomey's Irish team on Wild Card were 1st, followed by Monegasque Cesare Gabasio (Tinnj70) then the Swiss on Jacqueline.
Next up is Act 2 (9-12 December) and Act 3 (3-6 February 2022), culminating in the 38th Primo Cup-Trophee Credit Suisse serving as the 4th and final Act (3-6 March 2022). Last chance to warm-up on location before the Worlds organised by YCM in partnership with FxPro (14-22 October 2022).
Mini Transat: Ever southwards
The fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef now boasts a lateral separation of nearly 600 miles. That is a colossal figure, which is also reflected in the gaps between the competitors. To the north, Antoine Bos (825 - Rhino) is sticking to his guns on a shorter, more direct route, around a hundred miles south of the great circle route, whilst at the opposite end of the racecourse, the vast majority of solo sailors, headed by Pierre Le Roy (1019 - TeamWork), are continuing to invest in the south and are currently making headway at the latitude of Guinea-Bissau. The challenge right now: to make a few extra umpteenths of a knot, which could make all the difference further down the racetrack.
But how low will they go? Such is the question on everyone's lips, but if we're to believe the latest routing, the answer may well lay as far as 11° north, a point which Pierre Le Roy should reach before too long. For now, the skipper from Lille, who has been heading the fleet since around 08:00 UTC yesterday morning, is still banking heavily on the south, his goal being to make the most of having more pressure.
A competitor worth monitoring closely is Tanguy Bouroullec (979 - Tollec PM/Pogo). The current leader in the overall prototype ranking, his performance is by far the steadiest on his southerly option out of the small group of four escapees in the first leg. For now, he's managing to post similar speeds, but it remains to be seen whether or not this will last. Will his 100 miles of lateral separation be beneficial or not?
Golden Goose
The Ocean Race, The Whitbread, The Volvo, The Whatever, is the very essence of what man's endeavour on the seas is all about. Back in the day it was everything. Nothing was bigger as it captured the world's attention whilst not having to try very hard. It's a different landscape today. Things have changed. Boats have got faster and more extreme. The human endeavour is in the single-handed and in monohulls that fly.
The Vendee Globe has eclipsed The Ocean Race at the pinnacle and there's any number of multihull attempts that have captured the headlines and the public's imagination but at its core, I could argue if I could be bothered, that it still has a place in the sport. I'd be kidding myself though. The IMOCA's will simply use it as a tuning run for the Vendee and as a useful sponsorship platform. Quite how many brand spanking new VO65's (sounds like a shampoo) will show up is anyone's guess.
If they do, then there's one heck of a race planned all centred and anchored around a brutal 30 day Southern Ocean leg from Cape Town to Brazil and missing out stops in China and Auckland.
But that Southern Ocean blast will be something that will have the pros animated. There will be many a crew down in Palma sailing the TP52s this week who will be very happy for the pay day if they can squeeze onto one of the entries. The market for pinnacle rail-meat in water-shifters keeps on getting harder so a few months of gainful employment and the chance to put a monster Southern Ocean leg on the CV is compelling whilst aligning with ocean causes, as all the boats will do, enhances the personal brand. Good for them.
I wish the race well and very much hope that a razzmatazz can be built around it - I hope that it's not hope against hope. It won't be easy in the current climate but with the IMOCA fleet absolutely on fire at the moment with new-builds and an announcement flow to die for around the Vendee Globe, they could well be the saviour of the format. -- a few excerpts from Magnus Wheatley's latest
The full editorial at rule69.blog
GC32 game, set and match for Alinghi in Mar Menor
Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi team today won both the GC32 Menor Mar Cup on Spain's Costa Calida as well as the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour title.
In this shortened season, Alinghi won three of the four events and narrowly missed out on defending its GC32 World Championship title due to a technical failure on the last leg of the last race. Alinghi also won the last season for the GC32 Racing Tour in 2019, their first season on the foiling catamaran circuit, coming straight from overall victory in the last season of the Extreme Sailing Series the year before.
General classification after 10 races - GC32 Mar Menor Cup (4th and last round of the annual championship)
1st - Alinghi: 20 points
2nd - Black Star Sailing Team: 27 points
3rd - Red Bull Sailing Team: 28 points
4th - Zoulou: 38 points
5th - Team Rockwool Racing: 42 points
6th - Argo: 55 points
2021 GC32 Racing Tour overall results after four regattas
1st - Alinghi: 5 points
2nd - Red Bull Sailing Team: 10 points
3rd - Black Star Sailing Team: 12 points
4th and 1st owner driver - Zoulou: 18 points
Dates Set For Long Beach Yacht Club's 57th Congressional Cup: April 18-23, 2022
Long Beach Yacht Club has announced the 2022 dates for the prestigious Congressional Cup and Ficker Cup regattas, according to Chair Lisa Meier.
Congressional Cup will commence Monday April 18, 2022 with one practice day, followed by five days of spirited world-class match racing. From April 19 to 23, eight elite invited competitors will battle for the Crimson Blazer, joined by the top two finalists from the Ficker Cup, which is slated for April 13 to 16.
LBYC announced the dates, riding a wave of glory from the 2021 event. After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Congressional Cup racing resumed in mid-September 2021 with rousing success. The regatta had an 'Endless Summer' theme and vibe and conditions complied; with sunny, breezy days ideal for sailing and balmy evenings for pool-side mingling.
In the 2021 Congressional Cup, Taylor Canfield (USA) bolted out of the gate to win 16 out of 18 races in the double round robins and advance to the semi finals, where he continued his domination of the event. Capturing his fifth Congressional Cup title made him the winningest skipper in history, as he donned the Crimson Blazer: yacht racing's equivalent to the The Masters' green jacket.
Mark your calendars for more Congressional Cup excitement April 18 to 23, 2022 - and stand by for updates at thecongressionalcup.com
This Thursday: Q&A Live Call with Joe Glanfield
Coached by Hamish Willcox, Joe Glanfield raced to two Olympic silver medals in the 470 class with his friend and helmsman Nick Rogers.
One of the smartest and most sought-after coaches in the worlds of SailGP and the Olympic circuit, Joe has coached Hannah Mills to two Olympic gold medals at the past two Games.
With the strong rapport that Hamish built up with Joe across the three Olympic campaigns that they did together, you can expect a really deep insight into why the concepts in Road To Gold work so effectively.
Join Road To Gold this Thursday for the live Q&A session with Joe. You'll be able to ask Joe your questions about putting together a winning campaign.
Join Zoom Meeting with Joe Glanfield
Meeting ID: 852 0290 0577
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WHEN?
The Q&A kicks off on Zoom at 1900 hours UK time Thursday evening 11 November/ 0800 hours NZ time on Friday morning 12 November.
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