This sailing is pretty hardcore and he does a great job narrating it all…
everything dies eventually
There is a great FB page called IOR Landfills? and we grabbed this interesting and sad story…
I was the project manager for Atlantic Privateer 1983-1986, negotiated and signed design contract with Bruce Farr (was the first Maxi he designed) and managed the build with Bobby and Eric Bongers in Cape Town. In 1983/4 I signed a sponsorship contract with Apple on behalf of owner, Padda Kuttel, after having met Steven Jobs and then John Scully in Cupertino and subsequently she was launched as Apple Mackintosh.
Having won the South Atlantic race, we still lost that sponsorship (long story) and after winning the Seahorse Maxi Series 1985 as well as handicap class win in the Fastnet race where we lost line honours by half a boat length…
Team Childhood I to enter The Ocean Race Europe
With a star ensemble of Dutch pro-sailors and young talents Team Childhood I will enter The Ocean Race Europe. The Swedish – Dutch joint venture sets sail to raise awareness for and keep children safe from violence and sexual abuse…
Sailing Totem: How to Set a Stern Anchor
Pablo anchored in beautiful San Juanico, Baja California Sur. (Behan Gifford/)
This story originally appeared on Sailing Totem.
Anchored well in the sandy bottom, Totem pointed nicely into the breeze blowing in from the Sea of Cortez. This orientation kept us perfectly aligned… to be beam-on the swell wrapping around the point. With a deep, gentle roll in the flat-looking water, a few unstowed books tumbled. Dangit! A beautiful anchorage can become miserable with misaligned wind and water.
It’s not only a problem for monohulls. We’ve been on a few cats where beam-on chop created enough jerking that sundowner beverages nearly had to be lashed in place. But yes, monos feel the inconvenience more often. There are several solutions: you can leave the anchorage…
Great day of yachting on Day 2 for Starling Nats
With racing abandoned on Day 1, the fleet needed Day 2 to provide compelling, challenging racing in the Barfoot & Thompson Starling National Championships. It did not disappoint…
F50-Catamaran – SailGP – Hamilton BER – With Jimmy Spithill AUS new leading Team USA
Despite drastic Corona restrictions, the first SailGP of the year will be held on the Bermudas this weekend. We will be broadcasting live on Saturday and Sunday. Some of the 8 teams have made prominent additions: Francesco Bruni ITA is on board with Nathan Outteridges AUS Team Japan, James Spithill AUS takes the helm of Team USA. The reports.
giraffe anarchy
GOOD NEWS: Over the past 15 months, rangers in Kenya rescued nine giraffes stranded on a rapidly shrinking island. The piece of land on which the Rothschild’s giraffes were living had been cut off from the mainland after the lake’s water levels raised last year.
Conservationists said that the giraffes — eight females and one male — were in peril because food was scarce on the island. Rangers had been transporting food for the animals for some time but ultimately decided that it would be better to relocate them. The giraffes were transported on a barge dubbed the “GiRaft,” which consists of a tall wooden enclosure built atop 60 empty drums. The last two, a mother and her calf, were taken to a sanctuary in the mainland earlier this month. Read on.
Schedule ready for Great Lakes 52 Series
The 2021 Great Lakes 52 Series is locked and loaded for a second season of Great Lakes grand prix racing. The GL52 Series, with seven events from June through September, is intended to encourage TP52 type boats to compete under the ORC rule in a group of races and to combine the results into an overall season championship. – Full report
M32 European Season starts in Italy
The M32 European season will start in Sanremo in May. After the Italian regatta the fleet will head north to Holland and Denmark to return to Italy and Riva del Garda for the European Championship in September this year…
SailGP announces comprehensive broadcast coverage, spanning 175 territories for Season 2
With the highly anticipated SailGP Season opener less than a week away, the global championship has announced comprehensive broadcast coverage, with viewers in 175 territories globally able to watch the sports pinnacle league, which promises high-speeds, high-tech and high-drama in its second season…
European Olympic Qualifier Day 1 – Best North Americans Charlie Buckingham USA 13th, Paige Railey USA 16th
In a light initial 6kn Seabreeze increasing to 20kn, the qualifiers for the last European Olympic berths (2 per class) began yesterday in Vilamoura. —– The ILCA 6 women opened the competition in light winds, freshening up to 12kn for the second race of the day. With two race wins each in their groups, Vasileia Karachaliou GRE and Anne-Marie Rindom DEN took the lead. Marie Barrué FRA follows with two 4th places on rank 3. The open Olympic berth positions are held by Carolina Jou00e3o POR (rank 21) and Ebru Bolat ROU (rank 56). —– Paige Railey USA (St Francis YC) follows in 16th. Maura Dewey CAN (RVYC) is 24th, Sarah Douglas CAN (Ashbridge YC) 37th, and Emma Oetling Ramirez MEX (Secretaria de Marina) 71st among the 89 starters. —– In the ILCA 7, Robert Scheidt BRA leads with two 2nd places ahead of Maxim Nikolaev RUS (2/3). Tonci Stipanovic CRO and Stefano Peschiera PER are tied for 3rd place. The fight for the two Olympic berths at stake is tight with Joao Rodriguez ESP (rank 8), William De Smet BEL (rank 10), and Eliot Merceron SUI (rank 14). —– Charlie Buckingham USA (NHYC) occupies rank 13, Liam Bruce CAN (Port Credit YC/CSDS) is 88th, and James Juhasz CAN 101st among the 139 participants. —– All rankings and the daily report.
Finnfare celebrates 60 years with April edition
Finnfare has been part of Finn class culture for 60 years. First published in 1961, it has consistently brought Finn sailors the news and views from around the world…
Signing Rush ahead of first SailGP event
As opening day for the first event of the 2021/22 SailGP League approaches this weekend in Bermuda 24-25 April, teams are announcing a rush of big-name signings…
Luke Muller: The road to Tokyo 2020
American Luke Muller, who will be representing the USA at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Men’s One Person Dinghy Heavy event (Finn), was profiled in the April 2021 edition of FINNFARE, the official publication of the International Finn Class:
Growing up in Fort Pierce, Florida, just down the road from an Olympic windsurfing medalist, Luke Muller was surrounded by people who loved being in and on the water. When he thinks about attending his first Olympics this summer, he says, “I guess it’s in my blood.”
Exe hopes to increase entry limit for RS Nationals
Online entry for the Noble Marine West Country Boat Repairs RS200 National Championships at Exe SC reached the 80-boat entry limit within a record 3 hours of going live last month and there is now a waiting list of 20 boats…
Rolex Fastnet Race – More than a race
While Rolex Fastnet Race will be highly competitive, for many among the record-sized entry of 453 yachts, the objective of tackling the 695 mile course from Cowes to Cherbourg via the legendary rock off southwest Ireland is just to get round successfully…
Tokyo 2020: Maneuvering in a minefield
Tokyo, Japan (April 19, 2021) – The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated, causing concern about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that are scheduled to open in just over three months. Taro Kono, the minister in charge of the vaccine rollout, said last week that even if the Olympics go on, it’s possible the venues will be empty. This is partly because of the low vaccination rate. Fans from abroad are already banned from the Olympics, and it’s hard to imagine venues even half-filled with mostly unvaccinated fans. Many non-Japanese entering Japan are expected to be vaccinated.
Q: Are Japanese athletes being vaccinated?
A: This is a minefield for the organizers and the Japanese government. It will be very unpopular to push young, healthy athletes to the front of the vaccination line when almost no one else in Japan is vaccinated. Traffic on social media is strongly opposed.
Kono, organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto and Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa said the government so far has not issued any plans to vaccinate athletes…
Youth Match Racing World Championship Accepting Applications
Youth Match Racing World Championship
Balboa Yacht Club in Corona del Mar will host the 2021 Youth Match Racing World Championship on August 9-14 in provided Governor’s Cup 22 sloops. To compete, sailors must be under the age of 23 in 2021. The selection process for the American skipper will be by résumé. Up to 12 teams will be invited to compete. Each four-person crew must include at least one female and one male.
Governor’s Cup
Balboa YC will also host the 2021 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship, on July 26-31. “After the cancellation of the Cup last year for the first time in 54 years due to COVID concerns and travel restrictions, we look forward to the best ever ‘GovCup’ this year,” said Christine Robertson Gribben, chair of both events…
Sailing Alone Around the World in the Vendée Globe Race
Louis Burton, skipper of <i>Bureau Vallée</i>, sailed an aggressive Southern Ocean leg. A late push in the North Atlantic got him second across the finish line and third overall. (Stephane Maillard/)
Gone is the idea of skippers disappearing over the horizon and then finishing hundreds, if not thousands, of miles apart, having surfed entirely separate weather systems in the Southern Ocean. From now on, we can expect sailors to prepare for the Vendée Globe as a sort of giant fleet race when the great capes—Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn—function as little more than buoys on the course. This pandemic-era Vendée Globe featured not only revmarkably close racing all the way around the world, with a front grouping of 10 boats each in contention for the podium for three months, but it also set a new precedent with a finale that was easily the most dramatic in the event’s 32-year history…
Hong Kong Waszp Nationals 2021
Eleven competitors, two days, nine races, one RO, two AROs, two mark layers and a photographer. You have to start somewhere with a new class, right…
Great Britain SailGP Team confirms Season 2 squad
With less than one week to go until the start of SailGP Season 2, which commences with the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess April 24-25, the Great Britain SailGP Team has unveiled its squad…
fighter pilot
Straight off the PR…
Richard Mille is delighted to be supporting Swiss team SP80 in its latest challenge: to break the World Sailing Speed Record in 2022.
North Thin Ply Technology (NTPTTM), a world leader in pre-impregnated materials, has also contributed to the endeavour by supplying Carbon TPT® for the boat’s structure. The team can now get to work on the crucial stage of producing the sailing boat, which will have to reach a speed of 80 knots (150 km/h) using the wind as its sole source of power…
At The Helm: Man Overboard!
Imagine this simple scenario: the boat’s powered up, sailing close-hauled in a building breeze under full sail. I come on deck as the skipper during the watch change to make sure the new crew is comfortable and the boat is properly set up for both the current conditions and those expected over the next four to eight hours. The helm feels a little heavy, and it’s going to be dark soon, so we decide to roll up part of the genoa, bringing it in to the first reef mark. In doing so, we’ve also got to move the car forward in order to keep the sheet lead correct—we want it pulling “down” on the leech of the sail as well as aft along the foot to maintain proper shape…
SailGP: Crashes and construction
International sports league SailGP continues with preparation to launch its second season in Bermuda on April 24-25, with eight teams to compete in identical F50 catamarans with the season culminating with a $1 million winner-takes-all match race…
Need to re-invigorate American sailing
Los Angeles will host the summer Olympics in 2028, and for Paul Cayard, U.S. Sailing’s new hire, that’s a perfect goalpost for the role he’s recently stepped into as Executive Director of U.S. Olympic Sailing, taking the helm of the US Sailing Team inclusive of the U.S. Olympic Sailing program…
World Sailing in search for another made-for-TV sailing event
World Sailing has just five days – 23 April – to come up with a replacement event for the Mixed Offshore event…
N2E 73: Pre-race traditions return
The annual Yachtsmen’s Luncheon, a longstanding N2E tradition held the Wednesday before the race will resume this year at Balboa Yacht Club…
Melges 24 – 2021 Melges 24 Gold Cup – Charleston SC – Final Results – Harry Melges IV winner
Back to back with the Charleston Race Week, 12 teams completed 10 races at the Gold Cup held in North Charleston, SC, in lieu of the canceled 2021 Melges 24 Worlds scheduled April 9 to 17. —– Harry Melges IV, Fontana, WI, and his team grasped the Cup 2 points ahead of the tied teams of Laura Grondin, West Hartford, CT, and Bora Gulari, Detroit, MI. —– The event website including link to the results.
Ocean Globe Race set to be world’s biggest ever
The 2023 Ocean Globe Race (OGR) will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the original 1973 Whitbread, the first ever fully crewed race, around the world…
SailGP – Aussies pitchpole USA boat
Tom Slingsby and his Australia SailGP team were training on the USA Team’s F50 when they capsized during a training session…
Champions retain Finn European titles
Vilamoura, Portugal (April 16, 2021) – Zsombor Berecz (above) has successfully retained the Finn European Championship after a consistent, confident and conclusive display on the waters of all top ten finishes. The Hungarian never put a foot wrong and achieved a level of consistency unmatched by the fleet and then put the pedal to the metal when it mattered to win with a race to spare. Giles Scott’s return to Finn sailing after six months off with the INEOS Team UK America’s Cup team was also a triumph. A shaky start for the Brit was followed by a few classic Scott moments but he did just enough to fend off the massive challenge from the ever-confident young sailors knocking on his transom…
Race details – Results – Facebook
Source: Robert Deaves
Decarbonizing Exhaust?
two-handed troubles
As an Olympic sport, sailing has always been problematic. It struggles to fit the fundamental “faster, higher, stronger” precept. There are just too many significant variables beyond the control of the athletes taking part, and too much reliance on complex – and fragile – equipment. Through more than a century of Olympic sailing we have seen scores of classes come and go. Many were hailed as the way of the future; most have lapsed into the backwaters of the sport, and even into extinction. (Seen many O-Jollies out there lately? Snowbirds? 15 metres?)
So we shouldn’t be surprised that World Sailing and the International Olympic Committee have got their mainsheets in a twist over the untested mixed-gender, two-handed offshore race proposed for Paris 2024. What was hailed just a year ago as an exciting breakthrough for sailing now looks like it might not happen at all. This is a mess of their own making. World Sailing proposed the event to secure their 10th medal competition and in response to heavy pressure from the European nations where two-handed offshore racing is booming…
Zsombor Berecz is 2021 Finn European Champion
A fifth place in the penultimate race was enough for Zsombor Berecz of Hungary to successfully defend his Finn European title…
Celebration of the classics
The 5th Annual Camden Classics Cup is going forward as scheduled on July 30-31 in Camden, Maine. Over 60 classic yachts are registered for a variety of windward leeward and/or around the buoys courses set in Western Penobscot Bay. – Details
Maserati sets new Plymouth to La Rochelle record
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s crew crossed the finish line off La Rochelle today April 16th at 2:21:42 GMT, conquering a new record: 329 miles from Plymouth to La Rochelle in 12hrs, 15mins and 21secs, with an average speed of 26,84 knots…
Finn – European Championship 2021 – Vilamoura POR – Day 4, Zsombor HUN on a safe way to the title
The Finn European Championship continued yesterday with two races in 10-13 knots of wind. —– With two wins, the defending champion Beresz Zsombor HUN extended his lead to 11 points, and the title will hardly be taken away from him in the final two heats today. The Olympic champion Giles Scott GBR follows in 2nd place, 13 points ahead of the third-ranked Nils Theuninck SUI, who is 11 points in front of Alican Kaynar TUR in 4th. —– As 14th overall, Tom Ramshaw CAN kept his position, whereas Luke Miller USA lost seven places and is now 29th. Juan Ignacio Perez MEX remains in the 38th position among the 49 participants. —– The ranking list, the daily report and the video.
SailGP – So far, so good for Bermuda event
SailGP have received permission to continue its operations at Cross Island, Bermuda, for the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix scheduled for 24 and 25 April…
VIDEO: The Building of Windward Passage
An interview with Alister McIntosh about when he helped build the legendary Alan Gurney-designed 73-footer Windward Passage on the beaches of Freeport, Grand Bahamas…
2021 Australian Moth Nationals
40 helms took part in the 2021 Australian Moth Nationals at Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club, with Scott Babbage giving a masterclass to the fleet, discarding his only result outside of the top two…
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