UKLA Publishes a very smart Yearbook 2021 celebrating 50 years of the ILCA and the Laser. Articles by Tim Law, Alan Davis, Wendy Fitzpatrick, Jon Emmett and Steve Cockerill, Chris Gowers interviewed by Mark Lyttle and loads more…
Monthly archives for March, 2021
Damien Guillou & PRB enter Golden Globe Race 2022
Friday
Mar 19
2021
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Mar 19
2021
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At 38, the Breton will live alone at sea for more than 200 days for a round the world nonstop, without assistance and without modern means of communication, the Golden Globe Race…
Change of dates entices the best
Friday
Mar 19
2021
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Mar 19
2021
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A new superyacht, a TP52 that is the benchmark in yachting and a multihull that will be difficult to beat, along with their equally high-profile owners, are among the classy field taking part in the RPAYC Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race…
A Delivery Aboard Rio 100
Friday
Mar 19
2021
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Mar 19
2021
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How do you get offshore experience when you can’t get a crew invite for a race? Seeking out boats that need a delivery crew provides a chance to gain skill without the pressure of competition. Who knows… you might even get a once-in-a-lifetime offshore delivery aboard a supermaxi racing yacht. Here’s a report by Ronnie Simpson for Cruising World:
It was 0300, and I was on the helm of one of the fastest monohull racing yachts on Earth; the Bakewell-White-designed supermaxi racing yacht Rio 100. With a reef in the main, a small jib set and a large reaching gennaker unfurled, we were romping along at sustained speeds in the high teens with bursts well into the 20s. I was decked out in the latest, greatest foul-weather gear from Musto and “talking story” with a Volvo Ocean Race veteran serving as my watch captain. Pinching myself to be in this place in time, we were fully sending it across the Pacific on what was quite easily the fastest boat I’ve ever sailed on a long bluewater passage…
A multimillion-dollar, all-carbon-fiber racing yacht that has set numerous course records on the West Coast and from there to Hawaii, Rio wasn’t exactly the waterborne equivalent to a Formula One car, but she was damn close….
For the rest of the story from Scuttlebutt Sailing News CLICK HERE!
we’re keen!
Friday
Mar 19
2021
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Mar 19
2021
Posted by XS Editor
With new solo and shorthanded round-the-world races being proposed one after another, it’s only fitting that yet another entity would try to enter the increasingly overcrowded fray. As the Barcelona World Race, BOC Challenge, Around Alone, Velux 5 Oceans, Class 40 Global Ocean Race and others have all gone the way of the dinosaur, it would seemingly make sense to take the largest fleet of shorthanded round-the-world capable boats ever created and give them a venue with which to race around the globe, no…
America’s Cup: Reading the tea leaves
Friday
Mar 19
2021
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Mar 19
2021
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Jack Griffin, who closely follows America’s Cup activity with his CupExperience publication, senses a new plan for the next edition. With the Royal Yacht Squadron Racing (GBR), represented by INEOS TEAM UK as the Challenger of Record for AC37, Griffin shares what he is hearing. There have been rumors of these two teams holding an America’s Cup with no other challengers in the UK next year. This would be good for everyone, including all the teams who expect to challenge for a Match in 2024. Here’s how it could work. The announcements would go something like this:
• There will be a multi-challenger AC in 2024 in a venue to be announced.
• It will be sailed in AC75’s, with some improvements described in a new version of the AC75 Class Rule.
• The Constructed in Country requirement will be relatively easy to meet, a bit like the rule for the AC50’s in 2017. New challengers from any country will be able to buy and compete in any of the existing AC75’s, and build a new one.
• There will be an AC Match in 2022 on the Solent, under mutual consent, between INEOS Team UK and Team New Zealand.
• The loser of the 2022 match will immediately present a challenge for the following, multi-challenger match, in the expectation of being the CoR for the 2024 match.
• A term sheet for the protocol for 2024 will be released in the coming weeks, allowing prospective challengers to know the conditions.
• Around the 2022 event will be wonderful hospitality opportunities for prospective challengers to entertain and woo sponsors and major donors.
• The new version of the AC75 Class Rule, to be used in 2024, will be available by the end of 2021.
• A design package will be available to prospective challengers.
• A design symposium will be held during the 2022 event, to help 2024 challengers come up to speed.
I hope this is relatively on target. It would be a masterstroke…
For the rest of the story from Scuttlebutt Sailing News CLICK HERE!
It’s Official – INEOS Team UK Challenger of Record
Friday
Mar 19
2021
Posted by XS Editor
Mar 19
2021
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INEOS Team UK and Royal Yacht Squadron Racing have confirmed that the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, on behalf of the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand, accepted their Notice of Challenge for the 37th America’s Cup (AC37) and have become the Challenger of Record for AC37…
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