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Monthly archives for February, 2022
2022: new year, new model Diam 24 One Design
Friday
Feb 18
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 18
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Even for true one-designs, evolutions are never off the table as long as they don’t compro-mise performance and fairplay. With this idea in mind, the designer and builder of this ever-successful true One Design is about to release a new model…
International 14 Grand Prix Heat 3 at Geelong
Friday
Feb 18
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 18
2022
Posted by XS Editor
After weeks of being belted around the course in strong winds it was looking like a repeat for Grand Prix Heat 3 in Geelong, but come race time conditions couldn’t have been any more perfect with the breeze moderating to 10-15 knots.
18 Footers Club Championship Final this Sunday
Thursday
Feb 17
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 17
2022
Posted by XS Editor
One of the Australian 18 Footers League’s most important events of each season comes to a conclusion this Sunday (February 20) on Sydney Harbour with the final race of the 2022 Club Championship…
Wally’s latest full-custom supersailer demoulds
Thursday
Feb 17
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 17
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Wally’s latest bespoke sailing creation has just passed a crucial construction milestone with the demoulding of the hull. The sleek carbon hull of the new 101-foot cruiser racer was lifted out of its female mould…
Sabot NSW State Titles Round 1
Wednesday
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
The Sabot class continues to develop the sailing skills for our sports’ future and is extremely proud that the junior training class is continuing to be a chosen class for female sailors, with girls representing 44% of the 39 sailors…
RS Sailing launches the brand new RS Toura
Wednesday
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
RS Sailing launches the brand new RS Toura! A modern dinghy with enviable space and a durable rotomolded polyethylene hull, families and training centres can revel in the freedom of being out on the water with ease…
Bol d’Or Mirabaud February update
Wednesday
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 16
2022
Posted by XS Editor
A new organizing committee president, a new event coordinator, a new port that is now operational and the club’s 150th anniversary: this should add up to a memorable edition…
Lanzarote Olympic Regatta – iQFoiler Finals go to Spain and Netherlands
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
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Feb 15
2022
Posted by deleteme
With North easterly offshore wind Tuesday, two races could be completed, to give the six required to progress to the IQFOiL Class medal races…
Open 50: World’s coolest yachts
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and ocean racer Nick Moloney nominates the Open 50. Here’s the report:
“I’d been intrigued by solo or short-handed sailing since the early days of the BOC Challenge (Around Alone 5 Oceans) and was blown away by the wide beam Finot-Conq designs that began to push the parameters of form stability with incredibly wide beams,” recalls Nick Moloney, as he nominates his favorite Open 50.
“In the build up to our 1997-98 Whitbread Round the World Race, we were constructing our yacht Toshiba in Newport, which is also where the Open 50 Cray Valley was also coming to life for Jean-Pierre (JP) Mouligne and his campaign towards the 1998 Around Alone Race. I snuck away from the sail loft the day that Cray Valley first went in the water and watched from a distance. I remember saying to myself ‘I’d give anything to sail that beautiful boat’…
The Burton Blizzard
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Burton Sailing Club hosted two dozen dinghies and half a dozen windsurfers for the first event of our season. Part of a four club challenge this was round two and saw entries from our home club as well as Notts County SC, Staunton Harold SC and Ogston SC…
world wide wood
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
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Feb 15
2022
Posted by deleteme
For all you wooden boat junkies, here’s your chance to see over 1,000 of the best classic boats on the planet without leaving the comfort of your favorite chair…
This year’s Worldwide Classic Boat Show opens its virtual gates this Friday, February 18th, and we’ve worked with our friends there so Anarchists get free passes to the entire show. CLICK HERE to get a FREE PASS to the entire Show!
The Show is 100% online (virtual) from February 18th-27th, which means you can enjoy this gathering of classic boats from wherever you are, via your computer or mobile device.
The Show will be open February 18th to 27th at ClassicBoatShow.com, and you can CLICK HERE to GET YOUR FREE PASS (while they last) as a gift from Sailing Anarchy.
2022 Pittman Innovation Awards
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
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Feb 15
2022
Posted by deleteme
As many readers may have noticed, last year SAIL’s annual Pittman Awards were one of the many things that had to be cancelled as a result of Covid-19. Due to the complete lack of boat shows, trying to gauge the state of the industry with so little opportunity to see what it was up to simply didn’t make sense. Fortunately, even as the world continues to battle the pandemic, we were able to get in a pair of stunningly successful boat shows in the United States this past fall, which meant it was game-on! Better still, as was also evident in the latest class of Best Boat winners the pandemic didn’t stop the marine business from doing what it does best—innovate. Not surprisingly, things continue to race ahead in the area of digital tech. However, there remain those fun little analog advances to remind us there will also always be a place for good-old common sense. As always, we think SAIL’s late products editor Freeman K. Pittman, for whom these annual awards are named, would be impressed…
55th Fireball Australian Championship
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
After a long hiatus and an ever changing landscape of restrictions the IFAA finally managed to run the 55th Fireball Australian Championships on the waters of Bass Strait off Portland in the Western Region of Victoria…
get a job
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by deleteme
Feb 15
2022
Posted by deleteme
Rocking the Boat empowers young people to develop the self-confidence to set ambitious goals and gain the skills necessary to achieve them. Rocking the Boat began as a boatbuilding afterschool project for the high-need community of the South Bronx and was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit in 2001.
Today, the organization, with an annual budget of $3,000,000, is a hub of youth development programming that serves nearly 4,000 community members annually. The mediums of boatbuilding, environmental science, and sailing are paired with social-emotional, academic, and career counseling by a team of licensed social workers to have a profound and lasting impact on participants. Rocking the Boat became an accredited U.S. Sailing Community Sailing Center in 2018…
Global Solo Challenge welcomes 41st entry
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Frenchman Robert Scharr has dreamed of sailing around the world in a competitive event all his life. Especially at the time of the first edition of the Vendée Globe. However, back then he didn’t have the financial means nor the time…
SailGP, Vendee Globe updates, One Ocean Summit
Tuesday
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 15
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Winter may only be about halfway over (ugh), but there’s plenty of exciting news coming out of the sailing world, starting with SailGP and extending to the 2024 Vendee Globe and the One Ocean Summit…
One of the coolest near disasters ever
Monday
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
When Scuttlebutt shared a video that looked back on the 1974 America’s Cup, it rekindled a memory during that summer for Moose McClintock which would have melted the internet today. But with no social media yet invented, we let Moose tell the story:
As a born and bred Newport native, I was lucky to watch almost every 12 Meter America’s Cup (a little young for the 1958 match but was on the water for all the others), but the most spectacular 12 Meter moment I witnessed was actually at the old Derecktor yard in Mamaroneck, NY.
I was in town waiting to get picked up for a 505 regatta and staying with my college team mate, Ken Legler. We went down to Derecktors to check out the boats being dropped in the water for the Block Island Race, which was taking place that afternoon…
44Cup: Ceeref holds on to win
Monday
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Puerto Calero, Lanzarote (February 13, 2022) – Going into the final day of the 44Cup Calero Marinas, Igor Lah’s Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 held a strong 11 point lead. Normally this would have seen them packing their bags early, having won with a race to spare.
However this is the 44Cup, home of high performance one designs and owner-drivers surrounded by Olympic medalists, America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race winners and nothing is ever certain. Ultimately the Slovenian team did win here in Lanzarote, but for several tense minutes victory seemed to have fully slipped through their fingers.
Today’s three races took place in a moderate easterly that built during the second race into the high teens…
Star Walker Cup – Cayard and Kleen take early victory at Mid Winters
Monday
Feb 14
2022
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Feb 14
2022
Posted by deleteme
Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen victory at Star Miami Winter Series Walker Cup…
Applications open for the Vendée Globe 2024
Monday
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 14
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Since the end of the conclusion of the last edition, the SAEM Vendée has been observing a huge amount of interest from skippers and their sponsors, who are already keen to be at the start of the Vendée Globe on 10th November 2024…
18 Footer Championship – Andoo are 100th 18ft Skiff Australian Champions
Sunday
Feb 13
2022
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Feb 13
2022
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The Andoo team of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton are the 2021-22 100th Australian 18 Footer Champions…
44CUP Lanzarote – Ceeref take lead after 3 races
Saturday
Feb 12
2022
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Feb 12
2022
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Leading at the half way stage of the 44Cup Calero Marinas in Lanzarote is Igor Lah’s Ceeref, a mere point ahead of Team Aqua…
Take a tour of the F50
Saturday
Feb 12
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 12
2022
Posted by XS Editor
The F50 is the cutting-edge one-design catamaran which makes SailGP’s action heart-racing and adrenaline-fueled…
America’s Cup: American Magic leaves Auckland
Friday
Feb 11
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 11
2022
Posted by XS Editor
American Magic, representing the New York Yacht Club has pulled all their equipment out of one of their temporary bases, and it is now being dismantled. The roof was dismantled on Wednesday…
IACC: World’s coolest yachts
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and Olympic gold medalist and America’s Cup sailor Tom Slingsby picks the International Americas Cup Class (IACC) yachts. Here’s the report:
“I was obsessed with the Version 5 America’s Cup boats back in the early 2000s, I used to sit there and stare at the TV,” recalls 2021 World Sailor of the Year, Tom Slingsby.
Version 5.0 of the IACC America’s Cup yachts rule was issued in 2003 and governed the boats that were used for the 32nd America’s Cup in Valencia in 2007, the last Cup to use the IACC rule.
The boats were lighter, faster, and carried more sail area with a deeper draught keel. Eleven Challengers raced from nine countries, including fleet racing in a series of Acts. The 32nd Cup was successfully defended by Alinghi.
Each IACC yacht raced with a crew of 17, with a guest 18th man spot. “I was extremely fortunate. I was able to be the 18th person and the guest on one of the Oracle boats in 2007,” recalls Slingsby.
“For me, those things are just the perfect blend of technology, beauty, and as a tactical sort of boat I think they were beautiful to watch.”
For Yachting World’s list of cool boats, click here.
Use It Again! – Round World Attempt goes aground after rounding Cape Horn
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella on the Trimaran ‘Use It Again!’ are reported safe in Puerto Williams, Chile, after being recovered from the rocks in Cook Bay…
Who will be the Australian 18-Footer Champion?
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
After a weekend of five action-packed races, former Australian Championship-winning skipper Seve Jarvin will be attempting to win his 7th title when he competes for the coveted trophy against a fleet of 23 boats from NSW and Queensland on Sydney Harbour…
sledding…
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
Posted by deleteme
Feb 10
2022
Posted by deleteme
We love to hear your stories. Got one? Send it on in.
This is what it looks like beginning to sled down a North Atlantic big wave. A Swan 38 does boogie down a big wave. The Swan 38 rises, being pushed by the wave, it bangs along the surface of the wave at high speed. People have told me that this is cool. OK.
Some said it’s like sliding down the snow on a sled. The cool thing here is the rudder. I slowed down to be on the giant face of the wave. Yahoo! Sledding. The big waves fall behind, erupting in the wave behind.
The Swan 38, a beautiful S&S design, was built in the 70s. What a sexy battle wagon she is. The hull is massively thick, a lot of resin…. What amazed me was how the leeward shrouds barely slacked off when it was blowing stink. As we arrived in Horta, everyone whistled when they spotted her. It was like Brigitte Bardot caught their eye. I do love her lines.
I built and raced a Tornado and loved to go wave hunting under the Golden Gate Bridge. I‘m sure I…
44Cup: It’s never like this…
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Puerto Calero, Lanzarote (February 10, 2022) – Sadly no water passed beneath the keels of the ten-strong 44Cup fleet on the opening day of their first regatta of the 2022 season. There was a small hope of the wind filling in early afternoon, but this was too little and of too short duration, 44Cup Principal Race Officer Maria Torrijo, cancelled racing for the day. For tomorrow, some forecasts are indicating more of the same, although others are saying 5-10 knots, which, if it transpires is more than adequate breeze in which the nimble RC44s can meaningfully race. – Full report
Entries hit 40 for WASZP America’s Championships
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 10
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Entries are flooding in for the inaugural America’s Championships, with 40 boats from the USA, Canada, Argentina, Hawaii, UK, France, Spain & France giving this event a full International flavour…
Point of SAIL: Solo-sailor Capt. Donald Lawson
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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In this episode of Point of SAIL, sponsored by East Coast Yacht Sales, Principal Editor Adam Cort talks with veteran professional sailor Capt. Donald Lawson about his plans to break a number of offshore sailing records over the next few years and also become the first African American to sail solo-nonstop around the world. To learn more about Capt. Lawson’s efforts, you can also visit.
To listen to more SAIL magazine “Point of SAIL” podcasts, click here.
February 2022
and they considered this fun…
Thursday
Feb 10
2022
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Feb 10
2022
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MARTELA OF, Custom Baltic 81 Frers Maxi, Southern Ocean, November 1989, speed 28.3 knots. Click here for more. Not so sure about that speed claim…
The Ocean Race: Kiwis out, VO65 on market
Wednesday
Feb 09
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 09
2022
Posted by XS Editor
New Zealand Ocean Racing has advised that it has formally withdrawn its entry to The Ocean Race (TOR) 2022/2023. Their refurbished VO65 has been placed on the market with the hope that it can be sold to a team that will be able to compete in the event…
First entrant fired up for Airlie Beach Race Week
Wednesday
Feb 09
2022
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Feb 09
2022
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Mako, the much travelled Sydney 40 owned by a Newcastle, NSW syndicate is officially the first entry received for Airlie Beach Race Week 2022, which will be held in the Whitsunday Islands from 11 to 18 August…
37th America’s Cup video update
Wednesday
Feb 09
2022
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Feb 09
2022
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Matt Sheahan provides a video update and his views on the 37th America’s Cup along with a quick peek at the new AC40 in build…
Ocean Globe Race entrants seek amateur crew
Wednesday
Feb 09
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 09
2022
Posted by XS Editor
It has been nearly 30 years since ordinary sailors have been able to race around the world. Now, many of the 24 entrants in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race are looking for amateur crews…
Ditch Kit: Don’t Leave Home Without It!
Tuesday
Feb 08
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 08
2022
Posted by XS Editor
The Storm Trysail Club is a private club dedicated to blue water sailing, and is open only to expert offshore sailors who have experienced storm conditions and are capable of commanding a sailing vessel in such conditions. The club actively supports events and education, and has shared the following report regarding Ditch Kits:
A recent email from a Safety at Sea Seminar participant asked if we have a Ditch Kit Checklist we recommended. This sparked a lively email discussion among the Storm Trysail Club members who volunteer as our Safety at Sea organizers.
Of note, World Sailing has their complete Offshore Regulations that details Grab Bags in 4.21 (page 20) but for a more plain English version, these are a few recommendations compiled by Rich du Moulin. We welcome your feedback, comments, or stories as well! So tells us in the comments below or email us at seamanship@stormtrysail.org.
This Ditch Kit is suitable for a 600-mile offshore race in a 40-foot boat and crew of eight in temperate waters where rescue is not remote (within 24 hours): Bermuda Race, for example. A Transatlantic Race in colder conditions might suggest survival suits in a second bag. A Galapagos-Marquesas voyage, remote from shipping lanes, would warrant food and water for minimum 5-days and perhaps some reading material…
Groupama Race 2022: Race in Paradise!
Tuesday
Feb 08
2022
Posted by XS Editor
Feb 08
2022
Posted by XS Editor
The past few years have been some of the most difficult we have all experienced. We have all missed out on something crucial from work to family, we have all been missing a little bit of paradise…
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