Friday and final race day. 2 races schedule which would enable all crews to utilize a second discard. At the top of the fleet, only 2 points separated Ian Dobson and Matt Mee so this title was still very much up for grabs…
Monthly archives for August, 2022
Tquila finishes Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland
Saturday
Aug 20
2022
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Aug 20
2022
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James McHugh’s Tquila is the first Class40 to complete the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Finishing on Saturday 20 August at 14:06:47 BST in an elapsed time of 13 days 2 hours six mins and 47 secs…
Swiss SailGP Team ready to race in Copenhagen
Friday
Aug 19
2022
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Aug 19
2022
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Swiss SailGP Team will race in Copenhagen over the next two days at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix. It’s the fourth event in SailGP’s global championship calendar, and the second event in the European leg of the league…
British SailGP Team crash out of Denmark Grand Prix
Friday
Aug 19
2022
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Aug 19
2022
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Ben Ainlsie’s Great Britain SailGP Team have pulled out of this weekend’s ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Copenhagen…
Sir Michael Fay resigns in protest
Friday
Aug 19
2022
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Aug 19
2022
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by Michael Burgess, New Zealand Herald
Kiwi America’s Cup icon Sir Michael Fay has resigned his 46 year membership of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in protest at the club’s decision to sanction the sale of venue and hosting rights for the next Cup defence by Team New Zealand.
Fay, along with fellow Cup luminaries Alan Sefton and Andrew Johns wrote an open letter to Commodore Aaron Young on Thursday (August 18), detailing the club’s “regretful approach to its obligations as Trustee of the America’s Cup”.
The trio argued that under the terms of the historic Deed of Gift, the squadron has “no license” to relocate the venue offshore, along with the fact that the decision means that New Zealand will miss out on the numerous benefits of a Cup defense.
They highlight the relevant Deed of Gift passage: “It is distinctly understood that the Cup is to be the property of the Club subject to the provisions of this deed, and not the property of the owner or owners of any vessel winning a match.”
The 37th defense of the America’s Cup will be held in Barcelona, after the Catalan capital won the rights in March following an international tender that saw bids from cities in Europe and the Middle East, in a process that commenced before last year’s successful defense in Auckland.
Fay is considered the godfather of the America’s Cup in this country, while Sefton and Johns played prominent roles in New Zealand’s pursuit of the Auld Mug…
America’s Cup: Legs are back in fashion
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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When the Kiwi team showed up at the 2017 America’s Cup with their systems powered by leg cycling rather than arm grinding, it was the application of a known fact. That legs are stronger than arms is no surprise, but it was believed that crew mobility would be restricted.
Apparently not, but upon victory, Team New Zealand banned the practice for the 2021 America’s Cup. Bad optics to have bikers instead of sailors, but the AC75’s power needs missed the legs, so cyclers are back for 2024. It’s not like the crew is needed to manage a spinnaker…
However, critical to the power needs for the next America’s Cup is how the AC75 crew has been reduced from 11 to 8 people, and while the teams were initially quiet about their energy ideas, it has become clear that legs are back in fashion.
Among the ten people on the British challenger’s sailing team, four are listed as cyclors.
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Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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Sail Canada in partnership with David Cripton have launched a podcast series focusing on Canadian sailing called Whitecap, with Clara Gravely featured in Episode 4.
Canadian ILCA 6 sailor, Clara is a member of the Canadian Sailing Development Squad, gold medalist at the Canada Summer Games in 2017, and winner of Sail Canada’s Marvin McDill award for Rookie of the year in 2019.
In this episode, the conversation discusses the Canada Summer Games, what inspires her dreams of sailing at the Olympics, and using process goals over perfomance goals to acheive success and limit discouragement.
GP14 Worlds – Dobson and Tunihill lead reduced into Final day
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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Ian Dobson and Andy Tunihill (-4 3 1) lead reduced to two points as they go into final day at GP14 World Championships…
U.S. SailGP Team ready to rebound
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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U.S. SailGP Team CEO and Driver Jimmy Spithill recognizes the hard work ahead at this weekend’s ROCKWOOL Sail Grand Prix | Denmark, and says the team has pulled no punches during their internal debriefs to help them improve…
SailGP: Accidents, optimism in Denmark
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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The line-up of nine teams for the SailGP global sports league in Denmark is limping toward the start line as damage during practice may impact the racing in Copenhagen on August 19-20.
It started when the Spanish team’s rudder was damaged in an underwater collision while training, forcing the struggling team to miss crucial practice racing on the day before racing starts. Next down was the Great Britain SailGP Team which hit an uncharted rock just outside the racecourse boundary (see video).
SailGP’s Tech Services will be working through the night to get them both ready for the first race, and while the Spanish troubles look to be solvable, the Brits issues look to be too much to overcome with damage on the starboard side which snapped the head of the starboard rudder clean off along with problems to the foil and board case.
After incurring its share of damage last season, the U.S. SailGP Team has simply not been able to get out of their own way this season, with speed issues and mental errors placing them seventh overall after three events…
SailGP information – Denmark details – Season 3 scoreboard – Facebook – How to watch
Catapult Nationals at Bala
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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Bala Sailing Club hosted the 2022 Catapult National Championships over the weekend of 16-17 July. The forecast of light airs and the record-breaking heatwave obviously put off some potential competitors, so it was a reduced fleet of 8 helms who took part…
F-18 Raid World Championship day 2
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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The start of the sailing on the was postponed due to prognosis of light winds. And the teams could have a soft wake up in the morning. The start was set to 11 o’clock and by then there was warm weather and a steady breeze at about 6 to 10 knots…
Could the Kiwis be Tom Slingsby’s biggest threat?
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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A new rival has entered the ring, with Tom Slingsby confirming that the New Zealand side could now be the Australia Team’s top competition to beat at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, taking place this weekend…
SailGP ‘Racing on the Edge’ : Season 3 Episode 3/2
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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Part 1 and 2 of the SailGP’s insider view of the professional sailing league explores the New Zealand SailGP Team’s dynamic, especially that of co-CEOs Pete Burling and Blair Tuke, and the team starts to see the fruits of its labour…
2022 Airlie Beach Race Week final day
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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A magic day on the water for the record fleet of 178 taking part in the final day of racing at Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) in the Whitsundays, the sun and wind turned on their charms one more time, as whales and dolphins cavorted in the background…
Golden Globe Race ready to go
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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With the finish of the SITraN Challenge from Gijon to Le Sables D’Olonne, the GGR Fleet is assembled for the first time on the Golden Globe Race dock, gearing up for the village opening in three days…
Round Britain & Ireland Race – Medallia Takes Line Honours
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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IMOCA Medallia, skippered by Pip Hare, took Line Honours in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 10 days 13 hours 23 minutes and 22 seconds…
Sign up for the New Multihull Power & Sail now!
Thursday
Aug 18
2022
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Aug 18
2022
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AIM Marine Group’s newest magazine will hit newsstands and your mailbox this fall! Multihull Power & Sail will feature articles on ways to enjoy the multihull lifestyle, the latest models from the world’s multihull builders, the best cruising grounds for multihulls, outfitting your boat for cruising, top charter cats, an A-Z of multihull builders and importers and more. Sign up here!
America’s Cup: Update on INEOS Team Britannia
Wednesday
Aug 17
2022
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Aug 17
2022
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The INEOS media crew caught up with Giles Scott, Senior Sailor, on how the team has been busy preparing to begin their Winter Training Camp in Palma later this year, sailing their AC40 Test Boat…
VIDEO: How do hydrofoils work
Wednesday
Aug 17
2022
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Aug 17
2022
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A deep dive into the physics of foiling.
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Multihull Design Trends
Wednesday
Aug 17
2022
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Aug 17
2022
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For sailors of a certain age, the entire concept of a mulithull is cutting edge. However, even a cursory glance at a harbor full of cats and tris will show that the “cutting edge” of today looks very different from the cutting edge of, say, the ‘90s, or even the early 2000s—to the point where today’s cats and tris are as different from their predecessors as their predecessors were from the monohulls that came before them.
Bows
Where better to start than at the very front of the boat? Two decades ago, in the run-up to The Race, a no-holds-barred, nonstop fully-crewed race around the world, British Vendée Globe hero Pete Goss launched a then radical twin-masted catamaran with “wave piercing” bows. The 120ft Team Phillips, as it was called, ended up falling to pieces during a storm in the mid-Atlantic. However, the boat’s bow concept lived on and can now be found aboard everything from grand prix foiling cats and tris, like those competing in the SailGP, TF35 and GC32 pro circuits, to the latest generations of cruisers. Among the latter, the amount of “piercing” can range from the dramatically fine bows found on the amas of the Neel trimaran line to the “tumblehome” bows found on more conventional cruising cats. Wave-piercing bows are also de rigueur aboard today’s higher-performance cruisers and smaller racing and cruising trimarans with folding amas, like those built by Corsair or in Denmark’s Dragonfly line.
In every case, the goal is to reduce hobby-horsing in chop or a seaway, both by removing weight out of the ends and allowing the bow to better slice its way through the waves (as opposed to lifting over them). Fortunately, since the anchor is deployed amidships aboard a cruising cat, you don’t have to worry about banging the stem when deploying or retrieving the hook. (Neel trimarans employ a combination anchor roller/sprint to help keep you out of trouble: same thing with the new Dragonfly 40.) For what it’s worth wave-piercing, or “tumblehome” bows are also damn sexy looking.
Rigs
With their split backstays and aggressively swept spreaders obviating the need for a single, fixed centerline backstay, multihulls are a natural fit for square-headed mains. The result has been their appearance aboard everything from America’s Cup racers and bleeding-edge A-class cats to performance-cruisers like those built by Balance, Gunboat and HH Catamarans and out-and-out cruisers. Complementing this trend has been the now essentially ubiquitous use of full-length battens—a feature that was already widely used before the advent of square-top mains to support the larger roaches found aboard multihull mainsails…
America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction announcement
Tuesday
Aug 16
2022
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Aug 16
2022
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The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame is happy to announce that the 2022 America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner will be in the iconic Model Room at the New York Yacht Club…
Project Land Speed: Horonuku waits for the Big Dry
Tuesday
Aug 16
2022
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Aug 16
2022
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A lot of the lake is now dry, but not all of it. What does it mean for Project Speed? Glenn gives an update from Lake Gairdner…
Globe40: Missed the gale, not the rope
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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American Joe Harris along with Roger Junet are competing in the Globe40, a multi-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. The second leg started July 17, taking the five-boat fleet from Cape Verde Islands to Mauritius. Harris expects the 7000nm course will take 35 days to complete… here’s his update from GryphonSolo2 on August 15, 2022:
Today’s update revolves around two events – dodging a major gale and getting through the Agulhas Current.
First, the gale was forecast to be coming from the West and packing 40 knot winds and big seas. We had just sailed past the longitude of Cape Agulhas, the official marker of the Cape of Good Hope, while being about 30 miles south and knew that we had to get in close to the mainland to miss the worst of the NW wind.
It was a race against time and we were sailing in light winds, so we lost the battle when the first squall hit us with 35 knot gusts, sheeting rain and lightning! The lightning kinda freaked us out, and while we had been on the fence about whether to stop at Mossel Bay (which we had identified as a safe haven), both Roger and I felt we should seek refuge for about 12 hours and let the worst of the storm blow past.
So about 0430 Sunday morning (August 14) we dropped the sails and motored in to the harbor. We took a couple of laps to determine the best place to dock, and while preparing the fenders and dock lines in advance of the concrete pier to tie up, the engine suddenly quit…
Defining the start line with start marks
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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The racing rules allows for fair competition, but it is a challenge to understand every scenario. To help facilitate the process, the Racing Rules of Sailing Forum offers an opportunity for experts to voice opinion. In a post by Doug Ryan, he was asking what part of the starting mark was the official end of the starting line:
We have a round ball as a starting “pin”. Looking down the line from the pre-start side of the RC flag staff, a boat had its bow directly in line with the center of the “pin” ball.
Is she OCS because she was over the line to the pre-start side of the ball? Starting clear because half the ball was still visible when the start horn/flag was sounded/dropped? Does the RC need to sight to the middle of the ball which is the hardest position to actually determine?
Curious as I have not faced this situation before. We can find nothing in RRS on this and there are no appeals we can find as OCS is not something you can protest. Interested in your thoughts…
World Sailing Judicial Decisions
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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Disciplinary and appeal decisions within World Sailing are determined by Independent Panels appointed by the Judicial Board. Decisions made by Member National Authorities (MNAs) are decided by the disciplinary systems of those MNAs.
The Judicial Board members are: Hon. Ruth Miller (Chair), Alberto Predieri (Vice-Chair), Prof. Bruce Collins QC, Mark Yeadon, Dr. Anne Jakob, Dr. David Sharpes QC SC, and Carol Roberts. Scuttlebutt periodically shares their current decisions. Here is an update as of August 15, 2022:
Suspended Sailors:
• None at present
Recent Decisions:
• Olivier Bovyn, Appeal of Race Official Committee Decision – Dismissed
• Didier Flamme, Appeal of Race Official Committee decision – Dismissed
• Murray Jones, Appeal of Regulation 32 Sanction – Sanction set aside
• Cosmin Andronic, Appeal of Race Official Committee Decision, Dismissed
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Big wind for US Open Series finale
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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The last stop on the 2022 West Marine US Open Sailing Series concluded on August 10-14 in San Francisco, CA. Featuring heavy-air racing, the regatta included two race circles with the iQFoil and Formula Kite fleets organized by the St. Francis Yacht Club and the ILCA and 470 events run by the San Francisco Yacht Club. – Full report
Perfect finals at the 69F Youth Foiling Gold Cup
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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The 12 teams competing in the 69F Youth Foiling Gold Cup that ended on Sunday in Torbole, on Garda Trentino, found truly fantastic conditions during the last two days of the finals…
Celebrating 50 years of Weymouth Speed Week
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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This year we will be celebrating 50 years of Weymouth Speed Week and we expect a large and varied turnout with places being taken quickly…
VIDEO: Small but Mighty
Monday
Aug 15
2022
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Aug 15
2022
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This summer has been a great one for sailors everywhere, but in particular for the 87 sailors participating in the Tiwal Cup on France’s Gulf of Morbihan. In addition to some great sailing, the event saw a new record on the books–fastest ever assembly of the inflatable dinghy…
August 2022
SSL Gold Cup – D6 – AUS v NED and ARG
Sunday
Aug 14
2022
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Aug 14
2022
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Last day of training for the Australian’s who completed their week of practice by racing against the Netherlands, and also Argentina. Video and stills…
At least 60 boats to celebrate Uffa’s legacy
Sunday
Aug 14
2022
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Aug 14
2022
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The Royal London Yacht Club in Cowes has already received 60 entries for their Uffa Fox 50 Celebration, a month before the 18th – 21st August event, with more arriving almost every day…
505 Worlds – McNay and Paine of the USA are 2022 Champions
Saturday
Aug 13
2022
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Aug 13
2022
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Stuart Mcnay and Caleb Paine of the USA topped and tailed their championship series with race wins, finishing with five wins in their scoreline on 7 points…
505 Worlds at Crosshaven, Ireland day 5
Friday
Aug 12
2022
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Aug 12
2022
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The struggle of the 505 Worlds is over, we had wind… Yesterday was a lay day and the plan was to catch up some races, but again there was no wind so the locals pulled out their boats and we cruised the harbour to Cobh and Cork…
SailGP: Outteridge takes over helm on Swiss team
Friday
Aug 12
2022
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Aug 12
2022
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Former JapanSailGP skipper Nathan Outteridge, a current member of the Emirates Team NZ sailing squad, will take over the helm on the SwissSailGP team, which is on its debut season in SailGP…
505 Worlds – Day 5 and they are finally racing again
Friday
Aug 12
2022
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Aug 12
2022
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Day 5 of the 505 Worlds at Crosshaven, Ireland, and still only one race on the leader board, but that is all about to change as the fleet are starting their second race of the championship!
505 Worlds – We have a Championship now we just need a Champion!
Friday
Aug 12
2022
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Aug 12
2022
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After two days without enough wind and a lay day, day 5 delivered with three races completed to reach the magic four completed races to consitute a valid World Championship…
OK Dinghy Worlds – Day 4 – Edler reels in Cumbley
Thursday
Aug 11
2022
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Aug 11
2022
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Niklas Edler of Sweden jumped into secon place, closing the gap on Charlie Cumbley and setting-up a final day match-race finish at the OK Dinghy Worlds in Marstrand, Sweden…
100th Annivesary Star Worlds in one month
Thursday
Aug 11
2022
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Aug 11
2022
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It’s shaping up to be an event to remember, the 2022 Star World Championship not only will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary Championship but will register a record number of participants after the Olympic years…
Boat Review: Dufour 61
Thursday
Aug 11
2022
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Aug 11
2022
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Dufour, long one of France’s most well-respected builders, has been producing sailboats in La Rochelle since the dawn of fiberglass boatbuilding. Having recently merged with another La Rochelle-based builder, Fountaine Pajot, Dufour has now joined other European mass-production yards in producing a large-scale luxury cruising yacht. Its new Dufour 61, winner of SAIL’s 2022 Best Boat Award in the Flagship Monohull category, combines a competitive price point with high-end comfort and some seat-of-the pants performance.
Design & Construction
Dufour has been working with Italian designer Umberto Felci since the turn of this century when it bifurcated its models into a Grand Large cruising range and a Performance racing range. Stepping now into the big-boat luxury cruising market, Dufour has again teamed with Felci to create a boat that hews to the contemporary design idiom: lots of beam carried aft with a hard chine to increase initial stability, a low-profile cabinhouse, an open flush foredeck and an efficient T-bulb keel.
The boat’s construction is fairly straightforward. The fiberglass hull laminate is solid below the waterline, with the topsides cored in end-grain balsa. An internal aluminum grid supports the keel, which boasts lead ballast. The infused deck is also cored with balsa. Finish quality is better than average for a mass-production vessel.
On Deck
The Dufour 61’s cockpit layout is modern in every respect. There are twin wheels aft turning one deep rudder, and I was pleased to see engine controls and a full set of instruments at both helm stations. All lines are led aft under the deck to two pairs of Lewmar 65 winches positioned just in front of each station. The double-ended German mainsheet is controlled via a narrow bridle positioned atop a tall carbon-fiber arch at the forward end of the cockpit…
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