Greetings yachties,
Thanks Brad.
I had a brief chat with Brad Butterworth on Saturday night while I was at the Stewart 34 – 50th celebrations.
It’s not easy being Luigi,
Jules Vern Trophy – slow going for Groupama 3,
50knots,
Laurie Jury wins 2009 Telecom New Zealand Match Racing Championships
Cape Breton Island – arrives in Cape Town,
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When people talk about all the things needed to sail around the world they never seem to mention patience, but I’m fast learning that it’s as important as anything.
This afternoon was pretty cool, a pod of dolphins spent a couple of hours hanging around and I had a great time sitting in the shade of the sails on the bow, feet dangling over the side (and yes clipped on!!) watching them play in clear water. I’m not sure what kind they were (small and complexly grey) but they hung around for ages, so they can’t have thought my music was too bad! I loved the way the dolphins would play around riding and shooting along the swell and can only imagine how much fun they must have in a big sea.
I’m really getting down to the dregs of the latest food bag so have been eating a bit randomly lately (dinner tonight was mince, tined fruit and noodles!) Funnily enough I’m really looking forward to pulling out the new bag.
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Audio: PJ Montgomery interviews Brad Butterworth
They’ll be racing for the America’s Cup; maybe
By SAM WORTHINGTON – The Dominion Post
Alinghi skipper Brad Butterworth has welcomed the news that next February’s America’s Cup will be raced in Valencia, but cautions that there are still some rocky legal seas to negotiate.
Butterworth, in Wellington as a guest of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, told The Dominion Post he was delighted his team had accepted the Spanish city as the venue after initially pushing for the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
Holders Alinghi and challengers BMW Oracle have been locked in a legal dispute in a New York court for more than two years over the terms of the race. Oracle has got its wish of Valencia and, while it appears a concession from Alinghi, Butterworth was just happy to take a step towards sailing.
“I would love it to be in Valencia. I’d love to just agree the rules to sail the boats and finish the thing as it’s been designed to do,” Butterworth said. “But there’s still some issues that are outstanding and obviously the lawyers are involved – there’s been eight lawsuits so far and there’s three of them pending. So I wouldn’t say anything’s for sure.”
Butterworth, the 50-year-old New Zealander who holds the America’s Cup record with 16 consecutive victories, accepted the legal disputes had turned off all but the most devout yachting enthusiasts.
But he moved to put the row into historical perspective. “It’s not the Olympics and it’s not a club regatta as such,” he said.
“It’s a challenge cup and it’s been embroiled in controversy for 150 years. Disillusioned? Yeah, definitely. Probably more from the fact that the legal side of it is incredibly foreign to anybody that has to deal with the sport. Unfortunately it’s a part of it and it’s stuck in the New York legal system.”
Principal Race Officer Peter “Luigi” Reggio (left) confers with Michele Ivaldi (right) of BMW Oracle Racing as helmsman Gavin Brady (center) looks on.
© photo Credit Bob Grieser/outsideimages.co.nz | Louis Vuitton Trophy, Nice Côte d’Azur.
It’s not easy being Luigi
The PRO for the Louis Vuitton Trophy is up against some deep challenges
Peter Reggio is an ISAF-certified race officer. He’s conducted races for the America’s Cup, Louis Vuitton Cup and Olympics, as well as a host of one-design and rating classes.
“Luigi” is well known for being communicative and amenable to the competitors’ wishes. But his humour and patience are being put to the test at the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d’Azur.
“It’s a challenging venue, for sure,” said Reggio, who recently turned 60. “The wind is an issue, but nobody can control that. What we can control is the course and the way we set things.”
Even the things under his control are a little out of hand. Reggio has to contend with the extreme depths of the Mediterranean Sea when setting the racecourse. The northerly winds of the morning mean he has to be farther offshore to set the starting line. The farther offshore, the deeper the water.
“The depths are 270 metres along the shore,” Reggio said. “But we’ve got a couple of buoys set in depths between 680 and 720 metres. Not feet, metres.”
Those are depths between 2,230 and 2,360 feet. Anchors reportedly take 20 minutes to reach the sea floor. That’s one reason why Reggio isn’t anchoring his committee boat. It simply takes too long for the anchor to reach the bottom. Another reason is the amount of line required. He would swing through too wide an arc.
Round Robin 2 : Flight 3 summary
TeamOrigin scores a comeback win and Synergy keeps improving
FLIGHT 3
M1: TeamOrigin d. BMW Oracle Racing – Delta:
The Union Jack defeated the Stars & Stripes in a come-from-behind performance. BMW Oracle grabbed the lead on the first upwind leg and held a 17-second advantage at the windward mark. BMW Oracle had started to the left of TeamOrigin and then crossed to the right at the first meeting to gain control. BMW Oracle maintained that lead through the leeward gate. Up the second beat, however, the crews split sides with BMW Oracle going left and TeamOrigin going right. The lateral separation surpassed 1,300 meters and when the pair met about two-thirds up the course TeamOrigin held starboard tack and BMW Oracle was forced to tack to leeward. TeamOrigin took BMW Oracle to the port layline and led at the second windward mark by 13 seconds. BMW Oracle made gains on the run to the finish, but ran out of racecourse.
The win increases TeamOrigin’s record to 7-2 while BMW Oracle falls to 3-5.
M2: Synergy d. Artemis – Delta: 41 seconds
The upstart Russian crew is becoming a force to be reckoned with after scoring a solid win over Artemis. Synergy and Artemis had a split start, with Artemis on port at the boat. The Swedish-flagged yacht quickly tacked to starboard and both crews sailed to the left side of the course. Synergy was first to tack to port and at the first cross Artemis was forced to tack on the leebow. On the next exchange Synergy was farther to windward and Artemis was forced to tack to port to leeward. Synergy then drove the match to the starboard layline and led at the windward mark by 11 seconds. Synergy steadily increased that lead around the course for the win.
The Russian crew moves to 4-4 on the scoreboard while Artemis drops to 3-5.
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A Heavy Toll
Jules Verne Trophy 2009 – 2010
There has been considerable loss over the past 48 hours! Franck Cammas and his crew had to wait until 0200 UTC this Sunday before the warm front from Brazil began to provide a light N’ly air flow. The upshot of this is that Groupama 3 now has a lead of just eighteen hours or so over the Jules Verne Trophy record time…
Groupama 3 – © Yvan Zedda
The leak has finally been plugged! At around daybreak (UTC), Groupama 3 had finally picked up speeds more in keeping with her status: around fifteen knots along the direct course towards the Cape of Good Hope… However, her lead over Orange 2 is set to further diminish as Bruno Peyron had a very good day at this point back in 2005 covering over 600 miles, a total the giant trimaran will be unable to match today. Indeed the warm front was still moving slowly this morning, though it is set to accelerate in order to traverse the Southern Atlantic: Franck Cammas and his nine crew will be sailing in excess of twenty knots at midday, but the promised speeds of over twenty-five knots won’t be attained until the afternoon.
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Laurie Jury Wins
Laurie Jury has won the 2009 Telecom New Zealand Match Racing Championships, beating Reuben Corbett 3 – 1 in the first to win three races finals.
Jury won the first race convincingly by 36s but Corbett bounced back in Race Two to gain a penalty on Jury. Jury was in front of Corbett coming into the finish but had to try and slow his boat down and get overlapped with Corbett to have any chance of clearing his penalty and crossing the finish line ahead. In a fantastic display of boat handling, Corbett and crew slowed their boat down and managed to stay far enough away from Jury so Jury could not attack them. Jury simply ran out of runway and the boats crossed the finish line with Jury still having to complete his turn giving Corbett the win and Jury a DNF (Did not finish).
The next two races were won by Jury and awarded them the 2009 Telecom National Championships.
Jury and his crew have sailed consistently well through the entire series, qualifying for the semi finals in second position and having to face a daunting competitor in Chris Dickson, whom he beat 3 – 0.
Jury’s crew is Mike Edmonds (main), Logan Fraser (trim), Matt Stuart (pit) & Rhys O’Cain (bow). Jury, Edmonds, Fraser & Stuart are all graduates of the RNZYS Lion Foundation Youth Training Programme.
In the petit finals Chris Dickson and his crew continued on their winning streak taking the first race by 18s seconds after Graeme Sutherland received a Red Flag Penalty just after the start for being over the start line and the windward boat trying to ‘come down’ on top of Dickson. In the second race Dickson won by 29s giving himself and his young Lion Foundation Youth Training Programme crew third overall for the series.
2009 Final Placings
1. Laurie Jury (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
2. Rebuen Corbett (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
3. Chris Dickson (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
4. Graeme Sutherland (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
5. Josh Junior Royal (Port Nicholson Yacht Club)
6. William Tiller (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Lion Foundation Youth Training Programme)
7. Mark Kroening (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
8. Wataru Sakamoto (Wakayama Sailing Club, Japan)
9. Stephanie Hazard (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
10. Samantha Osborne (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
11. Jessica Smyth (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron)
Fifty knots over one nautical mile!
L’Hydroptere’s record campaign in the Mediterranean ended in great style last weekend as Alain Thebault and his 10 crew members smashed the record over one nautical mile, exceeding 50 knots.
New world record on nautical mile, 50.17 knots. Credit Guilain Grenier.
On Sunday, 8 November, they reached an average speed of 50.17 knots * (92.91 km/h) over one nautical mile. That is the new record to beat over this distance.
Since April 2007, l’Hydroptère has improved this record which was brought to 41.14 knots by Bjorn Dunkerbeck in October 2006, 9 knots under l’Hydroptère’s last performance.
This last record is a wonderful present for Alain Thebault, Thierry Lombard and the whole team as well as for their new sponsor Audemars Piguet, rewarding them for their commitment and perserverance.
(*) subject to WSSRC ratification
Frenchman Alex Caizergues (F One) has broken the world kiteboarding speed record with an incredible time of 50.98 knots, breaking his previous world record of 50.57.
Rob Douglas (Cabrinha) also set a new American outright speed sailing record with an equally impressive time of 50.95knots, just three one hundredths of a knot shy of Alex Caizergues.
Many other competitors also recorded noteworthy times including Sebastian Cattelan (Solid) who completed a run of 49.51before falling foul of equipment problems. Christophe Prin-Guenon (F One) got 48.44, Jerome Bila (Genetrix) came in with 47.73.
Charlotte Consorti (F One) again led the ladies with a speed of 44.27 knots.
Today the riders are heading again to the strip for another day of racing as the wind here in Lüderitz continues to be favorable. With two weeks still left in the competition, everything is still up for grabs, including the highly sought after world outright speed sailing record of 51.36 knots, set by the French Hydrofoil l’Hydoptère in September of this year.
LUDERITZ SPEED CHALLENGE RANKING DAY 3 – 14th of November
MEN:
1 CATTELAN Sébastien 49.51
2 PRIN-GUENON 48.44
3 DOUGLAS Rob 50.95
4 CAIZERGUES Alex 50.98
5 TAUB Manu 46.85
6 BILA Jerome 47.73
7 HOCEINI Sylvain 45.91
8 NIEHAUS Taro 47.19
9 DOUGLAS James 47.7
10 MENOSSI Patrice 45.8
11 MARTIN Marc-Antoine 46.46
12 PRIVSEK Jernej 43.49
13 MASCAREL Geoffrey 44.99
14 RICHARD Maxime 39.97
15 Hall Mike 45.98
Cape Breton Island – Nova Scotia’s Masterpiece has arrived in Cape Town against the imposing backdrop of Table Mountain, crossing the finish line at the end of Race 3 in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race. The stage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, saw the crew race 3,300 miles across the South Atlantic.
The Canadian entry in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race was the ninth boat to finish the race and it proved to be a challenging sail that delivered big seas, high winds and low temperatures for the crew of everyday people who decided to embark on this challenge of a lifetime.
Skipper Jan Ridd, from Weymouth, UK said, “We had an awesome sail – it was so much fun to have this boat surfing down four or five metre waves doing 20 plus knots. Everyone was grinning!”
At the outset of the race from Rio, Cape Breton Island opted for a course midway between the two groups that had chosen to stay north or to dive south. So, on reflection, does he regret that early decision?
“I’d say ‘yes’ in hindsight but at the time when I was looking at our position I was very pleased with it. Both Cape Breton Island and Spirit of Australia got caught in our own personal wind holes and it wasn’t there on the forecast.
“It was very frustrating for the first couple of days when the fleet started to pull away, then we got into some wind and we started pulling back; then the second time they kicked into some wind and we didn’t and they pulled away. But there comes a point when you actually have to accept it. We sailed as well as we could, the crew performed amazingly, we got good boat speed when we actually had wind and we proved that.”
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18ft Skiffs
NSW Championship, Race 2
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Sydney Harbour
Michael Coxon, Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas produced another brilliant performance in Thurlow Fisher–City to score their second consecutive victory in Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. The trio had to produce their very best to outlast the strong challenges of Gotta Love It 7 (Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton, Tom Clout), Yandoo (John Winning, David Gibson, Andrew Hay) and Rag & Famish Hotel (John Harris, Peter Harris, Scott Babbage). The four teams had staged a race long battle with only a few secs. separating them at several rounding marks. Thurlow Fisher–City’s winning margin over Gotta Love It 7 was 45secs. Rag & Famish Hotel was a further 20secs. back in third place, 11secs ahead of Yandoo.
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It was also a great result for the sponsor as Thurlow Fisher–City had only come on board this week to support the team which previously raced as Sponsor Wanted. The leading point scores after the two races sailed to date: Thurlow Fisher–City on 2 points, Gotta Love It 7 on 4, Rag & Famish Hotel 7, De’Longhi (Simon Nearn) and Smeg (Nick Press) equal on 11 and Pure Blonde (James Francis) sixth on 15 points.
Yandoo narrowly won the race from the start in Taylor Bay to the windward mark in Rose Bay, to lead Gotta Love It 7, Project Racing (Andy Budgen), Thurlow Fisher–City and Asko Appliances (Archie Massey), which had sailed to the western side of Shark Island. De’Longhi, Rag & Famish, Thurlow Fisher–Bankstown (Bruce Savage), Gill (Dave Alexander), Pure Blonde and Smeg were in close pursuit.
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The Yandoo team extended their lead to 10secs. over Gotta Love It 7at the bottom mark off Robertson Point with Thurlow Fisher – City in third place. Yandoo extended it to 20secs at Clark Island but it was now Thurlow Fisher-City in second place and beginning to make a serious challenge.
Rag & Famish Hotel was now third with Gotta Love It 7 falling back to fourth place. The three leaders decided to 2-sail reach across the harbour while Jarvin and his team elected to set their spinnaker on Gotta Love It 7 soon after rounding the Clark Island mark.
Thurlow Fisher-City sailed a slightly better course to the Chowder Bay mark and grabbed a narrow lead from Yandoo while Rag & Famish and Gotta Love It 7 retained their positions.
There was less than 10secs separating the foursome at the mark. From that point, Coxon and his team were never headed despite the pressure from the Gotta Love It 7 team. Thurlow Fisher-City turned for home with a 25secs lead over Gotta Love It 7.On the work to the finish, Coxon covered Jarvin’s every move in a classic match race style and eased further away for a great win.
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