Greetings yachties,
In this issue:
ISAF Making Waves – latest issue here
Surperyacht Business – latest issue here
RC 44 World Championship
Mermaid Parade & Ball
Groupama – Volvo Strategy
Des Top News
TEAMORIGIN – Mike Sanderson has left the team
34th AC Designers Meeting,
Speed World Championships,
Mini 650 – The Hexis Cup – Le Grand 8,
BlackMatch training
Normandy Channel Race – Class40,
Ken Ring – Predict Weather,
Remembering Jacqueline du Pre,
Enjoy,
Recognised by ISAF, the RC 44 Class announces its first official World Championship
The first official RC 44 World Championship will take place on October 11th – 16th 2010, in Puerto Calero (Canary Islands). The recognition by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) is an important milestone for the Class.
May 19th, 2010 – The RC 44 Class Association announces today that its first World Championship will take place on October 11th – 16th in the Canary Islands (ESP). Hosted by Puerto Calero, the event is officially endorsed by the International Sailing Federation.
“This is an important step for us”, comments the RC 44 Class Manager Bertrand Favre. “Over the past two years we have consistently organised races involving ten or more strict one-design RC 44’s representing ten countries. This number is due to increase over the coming months and the recognition by the International Sailing Federation comes as an acknowledgement of the hard work we have put into the development of this Class.”
The first official RC 44 World Championship will bring together twelve RC 44’s in the Canary Islands. “It will be the second time that we welcome the RC 44 fleet in Puerto Calero”, says event organiser Daniel Calero. “We are very proud to welcome the world’s best sailors to our venue. The fact that this event is the official World Championship is a great bonus for us as the event organisers, and a fantastic achievement for the Class.”
The RC 44 Championship Tour consists of six international regattas per year. A professional Race Committee manages the on-the-water operations, whilst direct umpiring is coordinated by world class yacht racing judges.
The fourth season of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2010 started in Dubai with the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy and on Lake Traunsee with the RC 44 Austria Cup. The Tour’s next stopovers will be the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup (8th – 13th June) and the RC 44 Valencia Cup (July 27th – August 1st).
The RC 44 World Championship in Puerto Calero will be an integral part of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2010. Three world championship titles will be awarded during this event; the RC 44 fleet race, match race and overall title. The points attributed towards the overall Championship Tour will have the same value as in the other regattas.
After the RC 44 World Championship, the RC 44 fleet will be shipped across the Atlantic for the season’s last regatta, the RC 44 Miami Cup, on December 7th – 12th.
Twenty-two RC 44 one-designs have been built to date. One of them has just been shipped to the US in order to be showcased to the American sailing audience before the first ever RC 44 regatta on American land.
Coney Island USA is pleased to present the 8th Annual Mermaid Parade Ball, the official after-party
of the Mermaid Parade, this year held at The New York Aquarium (Oceanic Deck), Surf Ave. & West 8th Street,
6pm-11:30pm. 21
2010 MERMAID PARADE, SATURDAY JUNE 19TH, 2PM!
KING NEPTUNE LOU REED, QUEEN MERMAID LAURIE ANDERSON
Groupama unveils its strategy for the Volvo Ocean Race
This Thursday in Eric Tabarly’s Cité de la Voile and then its base in Lorient, vessel owner Groupama and its team, revealed the reasons behind their commitment to the next two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race, the crewed round the world race with stopovers. It proved to be an excellent opportunity for the European insurance and banking group to display its international ambition and for Franck Cammas and his team to vie with the top Anglo-Saxon crews.
Frédérique Granado, Director of External Communications for Groupama S.A. – © PAGET Bruno
“When we committed ourselves to supporting Franck Cammas back in 1998, he was a young sports entrepreneur, who was just discovering the multihull scene. Twelve years on, he has won virtually all the crewed races and racked up no less than six records, including the legendary Jules Verne Trophy on 20th March 2010. By confirming our commitment to the next two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race, namely until 2015, we are supporting the Group’s international development, which makes 30% of its turnover overseas and employs over 11,000 employees outside France. Groupama is today identified as the leading vessel owner in French sailing. With the Volvo Ocean Race, this presence will further develop overseas” analyses Frédérique Granado, Groupama’s director of exter
Alinghi’s America’s Cup sails are to be shipped to Haiti for use as tents by the victims of January’s earthquake. Spanish daily, El Mundo, reported that the shipment, which also includes 65 boxes of Alinghi team clothing, leaves today from Madrid airport as part of a wider Messengers of Peace charity arrangement.
The Alinghi carbon-fibre sails are strong, light and waterproof and will be re-cut and made in to tents at the camps through an on-site work programme. With hundreds of thousands still living in the island’s temporary camps, the resulting 1,000 shelters will be shared as widely and equally as possible among survivors.
Official TEAMORIGIN statement:
TEAMORIGIN announced today that Mike Sanderson has left the team following the decision by Sir Keith Mills, Team Principal, to restructure the organisation. This decision has been taken to ensure that the team functions as effectively and efficiently as possible, in order to improve the team’s performance and ultimately win the America’s Cup. Mike has been with the team since it was formed in 2007. He has made a huge contribution to establishing what has been a relatively new team and has worked hard to keep the team together over the last three years while the America’s Cup was in the courts. Sir Keith and the team wish Mike every success in the future.
Ends.
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34th AC Designers Meeting – part I
The serious business for the 34th America’s Cup has just started in Valencia with the first designer meeting in view of establishing a new design rule. The who’s who of international yacht design gathered at the BMW Oracle base at 9:30am for a long discussion.
As the title of this post implies, this is the first part of today’s report and for the moment it only consists of photos of the group leisurly chatting over coffee and croissants, waiting for Russell Coutts. Once the CEO of the 34th America’s Cup Defender came, the entire group moved to a conference room where Ian Burns made a brief introduction. That’s when the doors closed and I had to leave. The meeting will now go on until 4:30pm and I will be back to talk to Ian Burns and any other designer willing to talk. Stay tuned.
Speed World Championships
Dear Speed Sailors !
The registration is open for the upcoming Speed World Championships, a combined event of ISWC and IKA.
Please register online by following this link until June 17, 2010. We will inform you about your confirmed starting place within one week of the end of the registration period.
The Notice of Race will be available in this website in the next days.
See you soon !
Your
Speed:World:Cup Team
One month before the start of the Hexis Cup – Le Grand 8
Press Release
From June 6th to 19th, the Yacht Club of La Grande Motte offers a great single-handed sailing event for specialists of the Classe Mini, the Hexis Cup – Le Grand 8, second of that name.
More than 500 NM on contact, without stopover and single-handed, in a magnificent nautic stadium naturally defined by the course. The Yacht Club of La Grande Motte, dynamically involved for several years in the development of a center of excellence in offshore racing prepares for next June a nautic celebration around the Hexis Cup – Le Grand 8. A subtly studied course that will see the 16 skippers registered this day go from La Grande Motte on Thursday, June 10th for an estimated arrival on Thursday, June 17th.
A 500 NM roller coaster*…
The first success of this Hexis Cup is to have been able to draw a course in the shape of an eight* in the Mediterranean Sea, blending seamlessly a route flush the coast and as close as possible of the beautiful Mediterranean islands – Medes and Balearic Islands, while respecting the wishes of the skippers to taste the joys of the offshore sailing. Competitors will face all kinds of sailing trims must master the art of strategy in order to accommodate the often unpredictable weather in the Mediterranean sea (blanketing of the islands, near the Pyrenees mountains, etc..).Of course, 500 NM represents a “psychological barrier” that any candidate to major nautic challenges, especially on a Mini 6.50, must pass. The Hexis Cup – Le Grand 8 is firmly placed in the wish of the Yacht Club of La Grande Motte to submit the Mediterranean but also the Class most promising skippers with a true sportive challenge.
Following some training with Magnus Holmberg in Sweden, Adam Minoprio and his ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing Team will be heading to Match Race Germany
Testing conditions in the Normandy Channel Race
At 13:00 BST on Sunday, the ten boats in the Normandy Channel Race Class40 fleet crossed the start line at the beginning of this tough double-handed race across The Channel, through The Solent and west towards Ireland and Fastnet Rock, before returning across the Channel to the finish off Caen and Ouistreham on the Normandy coast next weekend.
The first 24 hours have seen a wide range of conditions and challenges for a highly-experienced, international fleet of twenty offshore sailors including two entries for the Global Ocean Race 2011-12; Class40 President, Jacques Fournier, sailing with fellow Frenchman, Denis Van Weynebrgh, on Groupe Picoty and Belgian GOR entry, Michel Kleinjans, racing with Dutch yachtsman, Roeland Franssens, on board Moonpalace.
As the fleet headed west for an early, upwind coastal section of the course, the South African Class40 duo of Nick Leggat and Phillippa Hutton-Squire on their recently-purchased Phesheya Racing took the lead as the boats reached the first starboard rounding of the race – the Îles St. Marcouf in the Baie de Seine – before turning north across The Channel.
As the fleet left the wind shadow of the Cherbourg Peninsular and found open water, the pace began to pick-up as night fell with perfect reaching conditions. The French duo of Thomas Ruyant and Tanguy Leglatin on Destination Dunkerque took the lead across The Channel with Kleinjans and Franssens on Moonpalace just under two miles astern chased by Tanguy de Lamotte and Jean Galfione on Novedia Intitiatives in third. Overnight, the race leaders tacked westwards through The Solent and by dawn on Monday, Destination Dunkerque was at The Needles, exiting The Solent having built a seven mile lead over Moonpalace with the Anglo-French duo of Peter Harding and Halvard Mabire on 40 Degrees moving up to third place three miles astern of Kleinjans and Franssens and a few hundred metres ahead of Yvan Noblet and David Tabouré in fourth on Appart’City.
A two-part blog about Australia in months ahead. Firstly month by month, what to expect between now and the end of the year. A drier winter for some but a surprisingly wet spring and summer. There will be exceptions: Darwin may get little or no rain between now and October. Tomorrow we will go State by State.
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