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Monthly archives for May, 2022
ETNZ Project Speed: Ashby’s Update -Testing ends
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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New Zealand-based testing program of Horonuku at Whenuapai Air Base – Phase 2 is complete! With the wonderful assistance of the RNZAF we have been able to sign off on the many pre-designed configurations and tuning of the main components of the yacht…
En route for the 2022 Globe40
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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The first edition of the Globe40 had to wait a year due to the pandemic, but this doublehanded around the world race for Class40s is set to start on June 26 from Tangier, a Moroccan port on the Strait of Gibraltar.
The race, which seeks to be both affordable and accessible on a competitive level, has 10 teams to complete the eight leg course with the final finish on March 2023 in Lorient, France. Among the field is American Joe Harris sailing his GryphonSolo2 with Roger Junet.
Having departed on May 17 from Portland, ME, they are currently crossing the Atlantic Ocean en route for the Prologue Race from Lorient to Tangier. Harris offers this update from that 3000+ nm journey:
(May 31, 2022) – I am writing on Day 13, soon to be Day 14 of this trans-Atlantic voyage that has taken many twists and turns. We are approximately 770 miles from our destination of Lorient, France but we are blocked by a wall of very strong Easterly winds that prevent us from heading east…
Timeless designs
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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It’s hard to believe that two of the most popular dinghies were designed over 50 years ago. Between the Hobie 16 and the ILCA over 350,000 have been produced; what is even more remarkable is that they are still going strong…
Amsterdam set to host Olympic stars
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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Amsterdam is to host more than 400 of the world’s best sailors and riders in nine Olympic disciplines at the Hempel World Cup Series at the Allianz Regatta…
RS Aero 2022 UK Nationals – Day 3
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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The penultimate day of the 2022 RS Aero UK at Paignton brought another increase in wind and new faces to the front of the leader boards…
Tasmanians prepare for assault on 50th M2H Race
Tuesday
May 31
2022
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May 31
2022
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Tasmania can lay claim to a rich history in the ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, or ‘Westcoaster’ as it’s also known, with the likes of Bob Clifford, John Saul, Michael Pritchard, David Alpin and the Escott family names engraved on the major trophies…
Coast Guard stops illegal migration
Monday
May 30
2022
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May 30
2022
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant’s crew repatriated 146 Haitians to Cap-Haitien, Haiti on May 27, after being stopped approximately 45 miles southeast of Islamorada, Florida. The distance between these locations is 565nm.
A Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations air crew spotted the grossly overloaded vessel on May 24, and Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant and Station Islamorada crews diverted to the vessel. Once on scene, the crews provided the people with life jackets due to safety concerns associated with the vessel being grossly overloaded…
2022 GC32 Riva Cup overall
Monday
May 30
2022
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May 30
2022
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Technically helmsman Arnaud Psarofaghis and his crew on Alinghi Red Bull Racing – SUI 8 won the GC32 Riva Cup with two races spare…
RS Aero UK Nationals at Paignton day 1
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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For the first time at a championship the RS Aero 6s join the Class with the first new owners having received their new 6 rigs recently following the RS Aero 6s adoption into the RS Aero Class in December…
52 Super Series – Quantum Racing claim overall victory
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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American owner-driver Doug DeVos steered Quantum Racing to overall victory at the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week…
Video: Foilboarding behind a Hobie 16!
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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The weather has been kind to Wildwind since we opened for this summer and we have seen perfect cross-shore winds most afternoons in May. That’s not unexpected, of course, since it’s like this pretty much season round…
Marshall wins J/24 US Nationals
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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Eight races were completed at the 2022 J/24 US National Championship, held July 18-24 in Oak Point, TX. While the 24-boat fleet was skunked on the middle day, Texas winds did not disappoint on the bookends with consistent 15 knot breezes and gusts that averaged around 20 on both days of racing. Mike Marshall with crew Jeff Hayden, Dave Hughes, Alan Terhune, and Rod Favela won the final two races to retain the U.S National Championship title from his win in 2021. – Details
Kites and Nacra 17 dodge a bullet for LA2028
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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World Sailing’s Mid Year Council Meeting, has just concluded in Dubai. The main business on the final day was confirmation of the Olympic Equipment and Events for the Los Angeles Olympic Regatta in 2028…
Jimmy featured on Into the Depths
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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Episode 6 of ROCKWOOL’s Into the Depths sees us head to Bermuda – and what better way to kick off season 3 than to sit down with a genuine legend of the sport?
Pinnell and Cadwallander wrap-up Flying Fifteen Inland Championship
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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Ian Pinnell and Ian Cadwallerder of Hayling Island SC are the Gill Flying Fifteen 2022 Inland Champions…
2022 ILCA 7 Men’s Worlds at Vallarta, Mexico overa
Sunday
May 29
2022
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May 29
2022
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The first race of the day brought a little drama when the event leader Jean-Baptiste Bernaz (FRA) got a Black flag, and Pavlos Kontides (CYP) finished fifth, which lifted him to a second overall place, with just 12 points behind Jean-Baptiste…
Foiling and ocean racing in Jeddah
Saturday
May 28
2022
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May 28
2022
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Foiling and ocean racing boats and sailors are in Jeddah throughout May and June as part of the Jeddah Season celebrations hosted by the National Events Centre of Saudi Arabia…
ILCA 7 Worlds: Saunders into 2nd – Day 5
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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Tom Saunders is excited about the chance to win a second world title and will look to put the pressure on those around him on the final day of the ILCA 7 (Laser) world championships in Mexico…
Waterline Mini set to embark
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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This Sunday May 29, 21 year old Australian, Xavier Doerr, will commence “The Little Aussie Lap”, a solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of Australia in his 21ft Mini Transat yacht, Waterline…
2022 ILCA 7 Men’s Worlds at Vallarta, Mexico day 4
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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Two races were completed today at the ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. The thermal breeze on Banderas Bay continues to arrive in time for racing each day…
International 14s at the Weymouth Skiff Open
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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Ten International Fourteens travelled to Portland for the 2022 Skiff Open. The two-day event joined together Musto Skiffs, B14’s, Cherubs and I14’s, providing a great opportunity for the 14 to show what it could do…
AC37 – Location, Location, Location
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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Team Principal and helm of INEOS Britannia, Sir Ben Ainslie, speaks about Barcelona, the venue for the 37th America’s Cup, and what it means for the teams logistics, weather performance…
Round the Island and the Need for Speed
Friday
May 27
2022
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May 27
2022
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Pegasus of Northumberland has entered the Round the Island Race as part of their programme to compete in significant competitions, raise awareness of Parkinson’s and to highlight the positive impact sailing can have on Parkinson’s sufferers…
2022 GC32 Riva Cup Day 1
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Lake Garda was playing awkward for today’s opening rounds of the GC32 Riva Cup, first event of the 2022 GC32 Racing Tour…
cat crazy
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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If there is one sailing event that always makes my heart skip a beat it’s the Worrell 1000. It has always been like that from the first time I heard about the race back when who knows when. A long time ago. I grew up sailing beach cats out of Durban, South Africa. Hobie 16’s to be exact, and I simply loved it. We were just day sailing and the thrill was at a high level.
When I heard that there was a beach cat race along the east coast of the US that went from beach to beach and involved good music and pretty women in bikinis, I was totally hooked. When I found out that it was a 1,000 mile race, well my mind was blown. A thousand miles on a beach cat and on a Hobie 16 nonetheless. What an idea and what an event it was; until it wasn’t.
I bring this up now because the Worrell 1000 is back and the most recent race finished this past weekend. There are a few things to note here. I knew Mike Worrell, well that may be a bit of a stretch, I met him a few times. He was a mild mannered man who, back in 1974, as a result of a bar bet, you know how those things go, sailed his Hobie 16 from Virginia Beach to Florida. There were only two entries; Mike and his brother. Mike and his crew Steve McGarrett were the only ones that finished. They pulled into Ft Lauderdale after 20 days. From that bar bet and very humble beginning the Worrell 1000 grew in strength until it started to attract some of the best sailors in the world…
Race to Alaska ready to roll
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Race to Alaska is back for year six after a two-year COVID-induced hiatus. No motors or support allowed, the R2AK is about the physical endurance, saltwater know-how, and bulldog tenacity that it takes to navigate the 750 cold water miles from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska. Teams embark on Stage 1, “The Proving Ground,” from Port Townsend on June 13; they have 48 hours to cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca and make it to Victoria, BC. June 16 marks the start of Stage 2, “To the Bitter End,” the 710-mile trek from Victoria to Alaska. – Full report
Eight Bells: David Forbes
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Australian sailing legend David Forbes OAM (1934-2022) passed away in Sydney on May 22, 2022.
“We have lost one of the most passionate and creative yachtsmen ever born in Australia,” said Australian Sailing President Daniel Belcher. “David was a friend to many, and his loss will be felt right across the country. He achieved so much on the water in his competitive career, off the water as a designer and later in the business world.”
Forbes will be remembered by many for his Olympic gold medal win the Star Class at Munich 1972 alongside crew John Anderson OAM. It was just Australia’s second Olympic sailing gold medal, after the Barranjoey’s victory at Tokyo eight years earlier.
But there was so much more to his career, one which spanned over 20 years and included a 5.5m World Championship in 1970, a Sydney to Hobart race in 1974, and ten Australian championships in the Star (seven times), 5.5m, Soling, and Etchells classes…
Transpac 2023: Dates announced
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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The Transpacific Yacht Club announced the start dates for the 52nd biennial running of the Los Angeles to Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Race. For the 2023 edition the start dates are: June 27th, June 29th and July 1st. Once divided into divisions, entries will start from slowest to fastest in order to come closer to finishing together at Diamond Head. The first edition of this race was 1906 and is one of the longest and oldest among the world’s classic ocean races, starting at Point Fermin in San Pedro and finishing 2220 miles away at Diamond Head in Honolulu. – Full report
ILCA 7 Worlds: Saunders into 3rd – Day 4
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Tom Saunders had felt he wasn’t far off clicking in the early stages of the ILCA 7 world championships and it all came together for him on Day 4 in Mexico…
69F Youth Foiling Cup Act 2 in Portorož
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Eleven international crews under 25 years old came to the beautiful resort town of Portorož on Slovenia’s Adriatic coast to compete against each other in a fleet of 69F high-speed foilers…
VIDEO: Top Gun: Maverick sailboat scene
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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After nearly three years of delays, the sequel to Top Gun (1986) – Top Gun: Maverick – will be released on May 27, 2022. And it has a sailing scene on a J/125 which actress Jennifer Connelly describes in this interview…
Nat Shaver, INEOS Britannia’s Foil Designer
Thursday
May 26
2022
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May 26
2022
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Nat Shaver is a new recruit for INEOS Britannia’s 37th America’s Cup campaign, Nat brings with him a huge amount experience from five previous Cup campaigns…
2022 ILCA 7 Men’s Worlds at Vallarta, Mexico day 3
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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The last day of Qualifying series at the 2022 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship in Riviera Nayarit, Nueveo Vallarta, Mexico…
International Canoes at Castle Cove
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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Fresh from the Friday’s training session with words of wisdom from Adam Bowers on starting techniques and the finer points of rounding marks echoing through the heads of the assembled canoe sailors, Saturday morning brought a promising outlook…
52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week Day 2
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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While Quantum Racing made the best of the great conditions on Galicia’s Ría de Vigo on the second day, scoring a first and a second it is Phoenix which has stretched their overall regatta lead to four clear points…
Tragedy during safe boating campaign
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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Dale Allan Hossfield
The annual campaign, National Safe Boating Week, is a leading catalyst for recreational boating safety through education, outreach, and training. Held in 2022 on May 21 through May 27, the mission is to reduce accidents, but the messaging came too late for 68-year-old Dale Allan Hossfield from Vero Beach, FL.
The Coast Guard suspended the search for Hossfield on May 22 after it was discovered his 29-foot boat washed ashore on Melbourne Beach, FL. It was reported Hossfield left from Fort Pierce Inlet at approximately 2:00pm on May 18.
“We have made the difficult decision to suspend the search for Dale Hossfield,” said Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Delgado, Coast Guard Sector Miami search and rescue coordinator. “We extend our deepest condolences to Dale’s family and friends during this difficult time.”
Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders received a report on May 18 that a 29-foot boat had washed ashore on Melbourne Beach with the engines still running. After issuing an urgent marine information broadcast over VHF-FM Channel 16 notifying all mariners to keep a lookout for Hossfield, the Coast Guard launched air and surface assets to begin the search.
But after covering approximately 4,264 square miles, roughly the size of Connecticut, and searching for a total of 132 hours, their efforts were discontinued. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Hossfield should contact Coast Guard Sector Miami command center at 305-535-4472.
Closure for 2018-19 Golden Globe Race
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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On September 4, 2022, the third edition of the Golden Globe Race will start from Les Sables d’Olonne, France. Twenty-three sailors from 13 countries will face eight months of isolation sailing 30,000 miles across five oceans solo non-stop and unassisted.
This race, which features the type of boats and equipment from the first edition in 1968-69, will soon have closure for the second edition when Mark Sinclair (AUS) completes the course that he started with 16 others in 2018. He is expected to cross the finish line on May 27 in Les Sables d’Olonne, France.
During the 2018-19 race, Sinclair was plagued by barnacle growth which slowed his pace, and as he was running out of water, he made the decision to stop his voyage in Adelaide, South Australia after completing only half the course.
However, as there was no finishing time limit, and he only made the one-stop, he was able to re-join under the Chichester Class which was created for this sort of instance…
GC32 foil catamarans return to Lake Garda
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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After the European Championship of the new iQFoil Olympic class, it is the GC32 catamarans that finally, after a two-year forced stop, return to Fraglia Vela Riva to put on a show with the debut of the 2022 Circuit…
ILCA 7 Mens Worlds – Whiteley and Hanson are winners on day 2
Wednesday
May 25
2022
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May 25
2022
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A better day for British sailing team competitors on Day 2 the 2022 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship at Vallarta YC on Banderas Bay, Mexico…
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