Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers League’s Club Championship produced an amazing finish when the current national champion Tech2 team, Jack Macartney, Lewis Brake and Luke Parkinson, grabbed victory just metres from the finish line…
Monthly archives for October, 2021
San Diego Yacht Club wins Lipton Cup
Sunday
Oct 31
2021
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Oct 31
2021
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San Diego, CA (October 30, 2021) – The 2021 Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup is once again in the hands of the home team as San Diego Yacht Club dominated the 12-boat field. After sailing only nine of twelve planned races due to light winds in South San Diego Bay, SDYC finished with 4 bullets, 4 seconds, and a fifth.
“It’s all about teamwork,” said skipper Tyler Sinks of Lucy Wallace, Nick Kaschak, Nevin Snow, Erik Shampain, Max Hutcheson, and Jake La Dow. La Dow and Hutcheson have sailed with Sinks in five consecutive Lipton Cups, Nevin Snow sailed with the team in 2018, Nick Kaschak is back after a 3-year hiatus, and Erik Shampain is one of the most winningest Lipton Cup sailors of all time…
Mini Transat EuroChef Leg 2 Day 3
Sunday
Oct 31
2021
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Oct 31
2021
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This Sunday, whilst making headway offshore of the coast fringing the Western Sahara, the fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef has scattered every which way.
Mini Transat EuroChef Leg 2 Day 2
Saturday
Oct 30
2021
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Oct 30
2021
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After setting sail mid-afternoon yesterday from Santa Cruz de La Palma bound for Saint-François, those competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have had some tricky opening miles.
Final stage starts for 23rd Mini Transat
Saturday
Oct 30
2021
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Oct 30
2021
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(October 29, 2021) – Not surprisingly, it is in all light winds (between 4 and 5 knots winds northeast) for the start of the second stage of the 23th edition of the Mini Transat Eurochef today off Santa Cruz de La Palma of the Canary Islands. Right from the start, the tone was set for solo sailors who will have to show patience and opportunism over the next 24-36 hours to get out of the region.
In the absence of the typical trade winds for the 2700 nm leg from Santa Cruz de La Palma (Canary Islands) to Saint-François (Guadeloupe), the 12 to 13 days needed to complete the course in 2019 is expected this time to be between 14 and 16 days to complete the distance…
2021 Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup Day 2
Saturday
Oct 30
2021
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Oct 30
2021
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Sailing is a sport that requires a whole lot of patience. As good a sailor as you may be or as experienced as you are, there’s nothing you can do about Mother Nature on the racecourse.
First test for Class Globe 5.80
Saturday
Oct 30
2021
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Oct 30
2021
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The first event of the Class Globe 5.80 One Design Ocean Racing yacht is the Globe 5.80 Transat which sets off from Portugal to the Canary Islands for the first stage of 600 miles, followed by the 3000 mile second stage to Antigua.
For the new class which seeks to be an affordable option for those that want the challenge of offshore competition, the first stage was to start October 31 but has been delayed one day to provide Irish entrant Jim Schofield additional time to prepare. Six solo skippers will be now be on the start line November 1 for the leg from Lagos to Lanzarote.
The new amateur build plywood class, which released building plans 18 months ago, has attracted strong interest with 165 builders in 27 countries. The first six launched from five countries are all entered in this inaugural race…
tequila sunrise
Saturday
Oct 30
2021
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Oct 30
2021
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To say that the Rolex Middle Sea race completely screwed the pooch in this edition of the race would be alarmingly accurate, figuratively speaking. Read this article which we published yesterday for the story. Below is what Sunrise navigator Tom Cheyney had to say… It is our understanding that Sunrise received a three-minute standing ovation at the prizegiving last night. There was a cringeworthy speech from a Rolex representative about the integrity of the race and you could have cut the tension in the room with a knife.
69 boats finished the full racecourse. 23 were still racing when the course was shortened. Approximately 24 hours after we finished a notice was issued stating that an alternative finish was to be used. The sailing instructions do have a section describing how the race might be shortened at Camino (the strait between Malta and Gozo) 13 miles before the finish and without rounding the final mark of the course. The PRO acknowledged that he’d never intended to use 11.3 after a boat had finished.
SI 11.3 doesn’t amend the RRS on how to shorten the course (see RRS 86). The RRS is pretty clear that you can’t shorten the course after a boat has finished (RRS 32). I completely understand the safety aspect of this but I’m a pretty strong believer in the decision to race, and the weather was never that severe.
My issue is the timing and that I don’t believe the SIs allow them to shorten the course after a boat has finished…
Hot start for home team at Lipton Cup
Friday
Oct 29
2021
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Oct 29
2021
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San Diego, CA (October 28, 2021) – The San Diego Yacht Club team dominated day one of the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup, with Tyler Sinks’ team posting a 1-2-2-1 in the field of 12 yacht club teams across the United States.
With 12 races planned in the round robin series in J/105s, it was a good start which came from good starts. “We got off the line well,” noted Sinks. “The team did a good job of keeping us in the pressure. It was tricky and really shifty, but we always stayed in phase and kept the boat moving. It’s a long event and we’re only a third of the way through it. The rule of thumb is to not lose the regatta on the first day and we accomplished that mission.”
With racing in South San Diego Bay, tThe teams that beat SDYC in races two and three were the only teams in the regatta with women skippers. Allie Blecher, skipper for Long Beach Yacht Club, and Shala Youngerman, skipper for Cortez Racing Association, earned their wins today and showed the rest of the fleet they’re not to be messed with…
112 boats entered for 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart
Friday
Oct 29
2021
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Oct 29
2021
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The stage is set for the return of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with a fleet of 112 boats confirmed for the 2021 edition of the prestigious race.
Skunked again at J/105 North Americans
Friday
Oct 29
2021
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Oct 29
2021
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Annapolis, MD (October 29, 2021) – After a lack of wind prevented racing on the opening day of the 2021 J/105 North American Championship, excessive wind today kept the 35 teams from competing. With two days remaining, the fleet must complete three races to constitute the championship.
Racing is planned for October 28-31.
Globe 5.80 Transat Starting this Weekend
Friday
Oct 29
2021
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Oct 29
2021
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What has got to be one of the coolest, if not the coolest race of the year is set to kickoff this weekend—on Halloween no less. Known as the Globe 5.80 Transat, the race is the brainchild of veteran adventurer and creator of the 2018 Golden Globe Race, Don McIntyre.
The race will feature a half-dozen solo-sailors—including McIntyre—all sailing a fleet of plywood Class Globe 5.80 meter amateur-built ocean racers. The race will consist of two legs: a 600-mile leg from southern Portugal to Lanzarote, in the Canaries; and a 3,000-mile leg, set to start Nov. 18, from Lanzarote to Antigua. The entire race is also serving as a kind of warmup/proof of concept exercise in anticipation of an upcoming solo circumnavigation of the globe. At press time dozens of other Class Globe 5.80 boats were reportedly already in-build in anticipation of the latter event…
you can’t make this up
Friday
Oct 29
2021
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Oct 29
2021
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What sporting event changes the rules after a large proportion of the competitors have finished? Well, apparently one that does is the Rolex Middle Sea Race.
I read about the actions of the Royal Malta Yacht Club the Organising Authority of the Rolex Middle Sea Race backed up by an International Jury with more than a small element of disbelief. The facts of the case as I have read them are that after 69 boats had correctly started, sailed the course and finished the Royal Malta Yacht Club decided to shorten the course.
RRS Rule 32.1 lists a number of reasons a Race Committee can do this. Foul weather, lack of wind making it unlikely any boat will finish, a missing mark or any other reason directly affecting the safety or fairness of the race.
Make no mistake, there is nothing in RRS 32 that allows shortening after a boat has finished and nothing in the SI’s that states 2.2 is changed’ The fact that 69 of the fleet finished with Comanche setting an incredible course record proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that NONE of the conditions listed in RRS32.1 (a-d) were satisfied.
In addition, RRS 32.2 states “The shortened course SHALL (note the use of the imperative) be signalled BEFORE the first boat crosses the finish line. In this case 69 boats had crossed the finish line when the course was shortened (by some 13 miles I understand)(It only needs one to satisfy RRS 32.2)
The action of the Race Committee affected, I understand, 6 of the top 10 finishers including Rolex Fastnet Race winner Sunrise which was on for the ‘double’.
The Race committee’s erroneous action was taken more than 24 hours before the published time limit although long after several boats had started, sailed the course and finished as per the RRS definitions. If it was that gnarly in the harbor approaches those poor unfortunates could have stood off, hove to until the conditions moderated as many boats in past races elsewhere have had to – but no!
Although RRS 32 is a rule which RRS 86.1 (b) allows to be changed, a ‘key word’ search for ‘shorten’ in The Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, and Appendixes produced no results.
With reference to any alternative finish line the only mention is in SI 11.3 which, quite specifically allows for such a variation if severe weather prevents boats from entering the Malta harbor to finish. SI’s 11.3 however it DOES NOT state this changes RRS 32.2 therefore the race, the competitors AND the Race Committee were all still bound by RRS 32
Naturally, boats affected by this cavalier action protested (actually probably through an application for redress).
The International Jury (I wonder how they reached their decision) found that the actions of the Race Committee did not break any rules. Perhaps there was not a question on the wording of RRS 32.2 in their IJ exam. It is rather surprising as the Jury drawn from GBR, USA, CAN, GER all had over a decade of experience although the 5th member was not an IJ
SI’s 11.3 shortened the course by around 13 miles so they could have done so before Comanche arrived back in Malta – after that, sorry the combination of the RRS & SI’s meant that option was no longer legitimately open to the Race Committee, clearly no one like Clouds Badham on the RC who could have perhaps forecast such a possibility
So then RRS32.2 still stands that a course SHALL be shortened before the first boat crosses the finishing line. No reason for the exception is quoted in the rule so there are no exceptions.
I would suggest that ANY boat of the 69 that finished the full course and had their position detrimentally affected by this retroactive decision by the Royal Malta Yacht Club, most particularly Sunrise which, according to the rules achieved the ‘double’ of the Fastnet and Middle Sea would be particularly ‘miffed’.
And what about poor Comanche? Of course, they won but next year there will be another winner and they just become one on the list while their outstanding race record time would doubtless have stood for many years to come….
iQFOiL Europeans – Islay Watson takes Silver
Thursday
Oct 28
2021
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Oct 28
2021
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Three medal races were completed to decide the winners of the iQFOiL European Championships in Marseille…
winning style
Thursday
Oct 28
2021
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Oct 28
2021
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The opening day’s racing of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-22 season saw the young bucks of Balmain Slake, Henry Larkings, Max Paul and Flynn Twomey, win both races to dominate the day.
Shock, Horror . . . Team New Zealand sign Aussie helm Nathan Outteridge
Thursday
Oct 28
2021
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Oct 28
2021
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In a surprise move, Team New Zealand have signed the Australian helm Nathan Outteridge for the next America’s Cup . . . AC37.
5O5 Class: Behind in the count
Wednesday
Oct 27
2021
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Oct 27
2021
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After the 5O5 Class cancelled its 2020 World Championship in Sweden due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was all systems go for the 2021 edition in Bermuda on October 27-November 5 until that was cancelled too. Concern over travel issues due to COVID-19 quarantines and the impact of the pandemic on shipping costs led to the decision. The 5O5 Class hopes to avoid strike three with their 2022 World Championships on August 3-13 in Cork, Ireland. Until then, Mike Martin and Adam Lowry (USA) remain the reigning World Champions from their 2019 victory in Australia.
Russell Coutts is mad as hell
Wednesday
Oct 27
2021
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Oct 27
2021
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Opinion is influenced by environment, which hasn’t helped the world get their hands around the coronavirus pandemic. Every approach is different, and odds are half the people disagree with the regulations they face. It’s that kind of world these days.
For Russell Coutts, whose launch of his SailGP global sports league has been navigating COVID-19, he has grown tired of the inequity.
After forced to cancel his 2020 season, he’d been tiptoeing in 2021 through Bermuda and Europe before his New Zealand event, planned for January 2022, was canceled in August 2021 due to government hurdles.
Coutts, in his best Howard Beale of “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” impersonation, offers this commentary:
After experiencing what it’s like in Europe since May, it appears there are a lot of things being mis-reported in New Zealand. The media here seems set on promoting fear. It would be interesting to send a truly independent news crew offshore to report on what it’s really like in a more balanced way….I suspect most kiwi’s would be incredibly surprised…
– Read on
2021 iQFOIL European Championships day 4
Wednesday
Oct 27
2021
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Oct 27
2021
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As of 11 am yesterdy morning, all the competitors were out on the water with an average north-westerly wind of 12 knots. But very quickly things got complicated, the wind gradually decreased and became very unstable in intensity and direction…
firefox
Wednesday
Oct 27
2021
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Oct 27
2021
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Arto Linnervuo’s new DSS foil-driven Infiniti 52R Tulikettu – looking to be the first Finnish crew to win a major RORC race and to win the RORC Season’s Points Championship © Rick Tomlinson
Looks cool, despite the busy paint job of the Tulikettu and the Finnish flag…
Cruising not as friendly
Wednesday
Oct 27
2021
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Oct 27
2021
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Been full time cruising now 5 years. It doesn’t seem as friendly as before between boats. Used to be there was normally someone putting together sundowners, a beach get together, cards games, etc. Now seems hard to get people to come drink your alcohol, for free.Anyone else noticed a change?
50th Sunfish Worlds gets underway
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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Sarasota, FL (October 25, 2021) – The opening day of the 2021 Sunfish World Championship yesterday completed three races with winds from the southwest in the mid- to high teens with a bit more during race one. Jonathan Martinetti from Equator sits atop the leaderboard after finishing a very consistent 2-1-3 in the 100 boat fleet. – Full report
Im the newest sailor in MI
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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Hello all, after dreaming for years about sailing this year I decided to purchase my first sailboat….spent all summer traveling around MI looking at different boats and pulled the plug on an old 68 alberg 30, over the last 2 years previous owner did a complete refit and remodeled the cabin….I fell in love with the look and spent time sailing with the owner and after looking at many newer boats with bigger cabins etc I couldnt pass it up…….Sold my jet skis and wake boat Im all in now…Im the newest sailor in MI
World Sailing Kick-Starts Reinstatement Bid for Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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World Sailing has today officially kick-started its campaign for sailing to be reinstated in the Paralympic Games in Los Angeles (USA) in 2028…
Racing is Back
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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For all that the pandemic turned the world upside down, the summer of 2020 proved to be a surprisingly good one for sailing. Sales of boats—both new and used—went through the roof, and sailors everywhere found ways of getting out on the water, either alone or with friends and family as part of their personal “bubble.” One kind of sailing, though, that didn’t fare so well was racing. Granted, local sailors did their best to find alternatives. But with the exception of the America’s Cup and Vendée Globe, major regattas everywhere had to be put on hold—which only served to make it that much more fun being able to compete again in 2021.
Thistle Nationals
Hosted by the Cleveland Yacht Club and held on the unpredictable, occasionally tempestuous waters of Lake Erie, this year’s Thistle National Championship regatta also served as the class’s 75th-anniversary celebration. Designed by Sandy Douglass, more than 4,000 boats have gone down the ways since the first Thistle set sail in 1945. In addition to providing great racing aboard a great little boat, the Thistle class is renowned for attracting some of the friendliest, most welcoming sailors around. No great surprise, it looks like they had a pretty good time at this year’s nationals…
fun sized
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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The IRC4 class in the Hamble Winter Series is highly contested, with a bunch of Quarter Tonner’s, Mustang 30’s, Corby 25’s and Impala 28’s, all finishing very close on Sunday’s last race in dream conditions. From our friend Bertrand Malas…
The Race to Break the Speed Record
Tuesday
Oct 26
2021
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Oct 26
2021
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The Swiss-based SP80 speed project aims to reach 80 knots with a kite pulling its surface-skimming trimaran. A subsurface superventilating foil counters the lift of the kite, and a mechanical interface aligns the forces. (Courtesy SP80/)
If Alex Caizergues succeeds at breaking the speed sailing world record in 2022, it will be his third time around using a kite, but otherwise completely different from his first two records. Those marks—50.57 knots in 2008 and 54.10 in 2010—were set when foiling boards were continually upping the 500-meter mark, sometimes more than once a year. Caizergues’ 2010 run added 3 knots to what the famed trimaran L’Hydroptere had shown us only a year before. But all those efforts ran into cavitation trouble at about 52 knots, that point when flow over the foils boils into vapor—the point at which control vanishes. For his early records, Caizergues used a hydrofoil to lift him above the water. Now, with his Syroco team based in Marseille, France, he intends to use a hydrofoil to hold him down…
they didn’t win
Monday
Oct 25
2021
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Oct 25
2021
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Not sure how this new Swine 125 (140′) didn’t win line honors on the Middle sea Race, but they didn’t. Comanche at only 100′, set the monohull elapsed time record at 40 hours. More here.
chicks dig it
Monday
Oct 25
2021
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Oct 25
2021
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Now that is a happy boat. Gotta love those smiles! ©Sailing Energy / 69F media
J/111 Worlds a Hampton, Virginia USA overall
Monday
Oct 25
2021
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Oct 25
2021
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The 2021 J/111 World Championship hosted by Hampton YC in Hampton, Virginia USA was decided both on the water and in the Jury Room. Heading into the final day of racing Sunday, Rodrick Jabin’s Ramrod held a six-point advantage in the seven-boat fleet.
42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race – New Mono and Multihull records set
Monday
Oct 25
2021
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Oct 25
2021
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This morning, Monday 25 October, the racing maxi, Comanche (CAY), skippered by Mitch Booth, crossed the finish line of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race to take Monohull Line Honours in record time…
Alex Thomson Won’t Compete in Vendée Globe
Monday
Oct 25
2021
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Oct 25
2021
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Photo courtesy of Alex Thomson Racing
Veteran British solo-sailor Alex Thomson has announced he won’t compete as a skipper in the 2024 Vendée Globe [https://vendeeglobe.org]. However, he isn’t ruling out returning to the race in 2028. Thomson has competed in the IMOCA circuit for 19 years, including five successive Vendée Globe’s with two podium finishes and numerous world records. His record has also been marked by more than its fair of disappointment and heartbreak due to equipment failures. In 2016 he was solidly in the lead off the Cape of Good Hope, but then lost his starboard foil after hitting an unidentified floating object. He still managed to finish second behind France’s Armel Le Cléac’h.
In the 2020 Vendée Globe he was forced to withdraw after just 19 days of racing because of damage to one of his two rudders.
“I have had the privilege to compete and race IMOCA 60s for almost 20 years. I love the sport, but it’s time for me to spend more time on land, with my young family. My wife Kate has single-handedly raised our children for the last 10 years whilst I have pursued my dream. Now I want to support Kate and allow her the same opportunity that she has given me. This doesn’t mean that I am retiring, just changing my role, from spending most of my time at sea, to spending more of it on land,” Thomson said…
Argo breaks Middle Sea Race record
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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Ta’ Xbiex, Malta (October 24, 2021) – Following the start yesterday for the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race, Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo (USA) crossed the finish line today to take line honors and smash the outright record for the 606nm circumnavigation of Sicily. – Full report
America’s Cup: Not their kind of party
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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When New York Yacht Club entered the 36th America’s Cup, they did so after a decade and a half away from the event, motivated to influence the direction of the competition. But you can’t change it if you don’t win it, and when they didn’t win it, they sought to change it anyway.
Not surprisingly, the New Zealand defender did not welcome this advance, and now that New York Yacht Club has opted out of participation, Kiwi journalist Duncan Johnstone offered his opinion of the turn of events. Here’s an excerpt:
New York’s high-handed attitude is bemusing, coming from a club that set the tone of the winner-takes-all attitude engrained in 132 years of holding the Cup before Australia broke that stranglehold in 1983.
The prestige the famous club brings to the regatta will be missed, but not the baggage that comes with them. The cheek of releasing an alternative draft protocol in May – when they have no say in the runnings of the regatta as a well and truly beaten challenger in late January – defied belief.
Just as mystifying was the decision to jettison their American Magic team in July, replacing it with the unproven Stars + Stripes syndicate. Now that budding team also find themselves looking for a new club to back their challenge.
The most pleasing news out of the United States this past week was the commitment from American Magic and Stars + Stripes to stay in the game. Right now, the America’s Cup needs them more than it needs the New York Yacht Club.
Time is always the greatest commodity in the Cup, and it is ticking by.
November 17 is looming on the countdown clock, and Team New Zealand will be hoping it can arrive without more dramas – maybe a tough prospect as whispers continue to swirl of potential legal action to see the Cup sailed in Auckland.
Discard now in play at J/111 Worlds
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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Hampton, VA (October 23, 2021) – The penultimate day of the 2021 J/111 World Championship hosted by Hampton Yacht Club saw light and shifty conditions, allowing only one race won by Bill and Jackie Baxter’s Fireball.
Rodrick Jabin’s Ramrod maintained the lead with 10 net points. Now that six races have been completed, the discard came into play, and Ramrod is able to throw-out their seventh from ysterday.
Andrew and Sedgwick Ward’s Bravo held onto second place with 16 points, and reigning World Champion Rob Ruhlman’s Spaceman Spiff jumped into third place at 19 points…
Building on its storied history
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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Aspiring sailors that consider Olympic pursuits assess their skills and body type, and then select the equipment that best matches these variables. But for big body males, those options have been shrinking.
In the past half century, gone is the Soling (1972-2000), Tempest (1972-76), and Star (1932-40, 1952-72, 1980-2012). Change occurred for different reasons, with a movement by the International Olympic Committee to modernize format and equipment finding no event to fit the Finn (1952-2020).
Class organizations and suppliers thrive under Olympic status, with participation guaranteed and gear regularly updated. Following Tokyo 2020, the Finn Class is now grappling with their new paradigm, though much like the Star, which holds much history in the sport, the Finn may even thrive as they look forward…
Are you OK having Autonomous Ships near you?
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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Autonomous shipping is close to reality.
In the thread Autonomous Tug does 1,000 mm. | SailNet Community a tug went through the shipping lanes around Denmark whilst being controlled from Boston, 3000 miles away.How close are you OK sharing the ocean/sea/estuary/bay/harbour amongst remotely controlled ships? I.E absolutely NO CREW or PILOT on board.
In the thread Autonomous Tug does 1,000 mm. | SailNet Community a tug went through the shipping lanes around Denmark whilst being controlled from Boston, 3000 miles away.How close are you OK sharing the ocean/sea/estuary/bay/harbour amongst remotely controlled ships? I.E absolutely NO CREW or PILOT on board.
*Votes Public!!
*Single option…
18ft Skiff Sydney Spring Championship Races 1 & 2
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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The Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-2022 18ft Skiff racing season began on Sydney Harbour today when the club staged Races 1 and 2 of the annual seven-race Spring Championship series.
Buchan wins 2021 International Masters Regatta
Sunday
Oct 24
2021
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Oct 24
2021
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San Diego, CA (October 23, 2021) – Who more fitting to earn the championship title at this year’s International Masters Regatta than the 2021 National Sailing Hall of Fame inductee himself, Carl Buchan.
After taking the lead yesterday, Buchan’s team stayed on a roll today, posting a 3-1-5 to seal victory before the final race. Pondering whether to sail, when an opposing team had boat problems prior to that race, Buchan solved the issue for both teams, offering his boat as his team celebrated their victory.
“Our crew all worked together really well,” said Buchan. “We all did our job and trusted each other. It was good to feel the team coming together. We kept our focus on what we needed to do. The starts were really close and hard-fought. We had some great breezes, but sometimes it got a little tricky on the shift.”
No racing on day 1 of 2021 iQFOiL European Championships in Marseille
Saturday
Oct 23
2021
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Oct 23
2021
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No racing on Saturday, first day of the 2021 iQFOiL European Championships in Marseille, France…
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