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Greetings yachties,

Beached Az – The Koalas :-)

Audi MedCup,

Google TV,

Solent Slog,

Mini-Fastnet,

Bol d’Or Mirabaud,

Black Sheep Racing – Win,

Sailability,

Alinghi are having a sale here

Great news about Abby and talk of her having another go – more on that later.,

RC44 – BMW ORACLE Racing,

Korea Match Cup,

Waka Racing,

Giraglia Rolex Cup,

Zerograndinord – latest issue here,

Cowes on line – latest issue here,

Sail-World NZ – latest issue here,

Sail-World USA – latest issue here, & here

Scuttlebutt Europe – latest issue here,

Latitude 38 – Lectronic Latitude – latest issue here

ISAF Making Waves – latest issue here

more later… day job :-)

Family Post

Our family would like to thank everyone for their wonderful support and encouragement over the past week. As you can imagine it has been an exhausting time with so many mixed emotions and we are now eagerly looking forward to Abby’s return.

We will not be issuing any further public or private statements. To assist us to manage the publicity Abby’s trip has created we have appointed a public relations consultant / manager to act on our behalf and request that from this point, all media enquiries be directed to him. This will enable us to return to our primary role – parents to our children and in particular at this moment, a supportive mom and dad to Abby.

We would ask that you respect our family’s request for privacy at this time. Our focus is on both Abby and our new baby who is expected to arrive into the world at anytime. The next couple of weeks will be very exciting for us.

We will continue to update our blog with Abby’s progress and in due course Abby will be available to tell her story.

Thank You,
Laurence & Marianne Sunderland

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LETTER FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SEARCH & RESCUE

Can you put a message on your blog informing your readers that the Australian government has not requested any recovery cost for Abby’s search and recovery. In fact the Govt here has been in the media and stated that fact several times. I doubt this got coverage in the US.
Australia like the US have always responded to requests for help and have provided whatever resources are required. At no stage have we asked for cost recovery. Likewise domestic search and rescue have never requested payment for services. If a person wishes to make a contribution to the costs then that is their call. It is not expected or asked for.

The cost recovery stuff is a beat up by the media. They do it every time. Don’t get sucked in by it. Unfortunately some of the comments I have read on some blogs seems to paint Australians as a bunch of tight arses who will only rescue people if they have a cheque book. This has never been the case as you have found out.

Let’s not let the media hijack a good story. Likewise don’t become a victim of it by playing into their hands.

Bottom line is, don’t get sucked in by the media. I would like a clarification on your blog just letting your readers know that the Australian Government has not requested payment nor would they. Let’s not let the media portray the many groups that were involved in Abby’s rescue as a bunch of people motivated and driven by money. This is not the case.

-Search and Rescue Volunteer Perth.

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Watch the racing live and free on Yachtyakka

It is a clearer morning around the Audi MedCup dock and out on the rade Sud where the Marseille Trophy is poised to start with three races for the TP52 Series fleet and the practice race for the GP42 Series.

The rain has moved off for the moment and it is expected that we will see somewhere around 7-11 knots of wind from the SW, backing to SE, possibly dropping slightly during the early afternoon and moving more to the left, building again later.

Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) go out today with a 20 points lead in the TP52 Series and set up their winning run here last season. Second on the standings is Audi A1 powered by All4One (NZL). There is a great air of anticipation around the dock, but some of the teams may be feeling a little fatigued due to the intensive schedule as the various international regattas dovetail with one another. Maybe the first days will be easier to sustain the tempo, but could this be a factor this week?

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Long distance dinghy race around the Solent

The ‘Solent Slog’ is the revival of Weston Sailing Club’s long distance race for multihulls; historically a fast cat race, this year the fleet was opened up to slower cats and monohulls of PY952 and lower, writes Rich Thoroughgood.

Day one on Saturday, 5 June, dawned and with many competitors already in attendance having camped in the field nestled between the club and Netley’s picturesque castle; the remainder began arriving greeted by bright sunshine and light southerly winds.

The format for the first day consisted of two events that ran concurrently, a short distance race along Southampton Water and back, and GPS speed trials. The option was open to partake in either or both, with many opting to use the distance race to ensure the boat was prepped, before attempting to register their quickest speed in the dying breeze.

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2010 Mini-Fastnet

Tough first 24 hours

Nice conditions for the 68 duos of the Mini-Fastnet on this Sunday. Sun and breeze, the perfect scenario to get out of the Bay of Douarnenez.

Photo Gildas Hémon

But in the evenig, conditions change in the English channel : 25 to 30 knots with gusts, showers and rough sea are expected. The first 24 hours should be tough, the race direction warn the skippers that they will have to be careful.

A first start was launched at 1:00 pm sharp on this sunday, but this was not the good one… A general recall later, the 68 duos of this Mini-Fastnet finally started in the Bay of Douarnenez/

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where are they now?

Ladycat and its (almost) all girl crew won Switzerland’s greatest yacht race yesterday by 1h30m after a gruelling and tactical 16h49m race. Dona Bertarelli and her crew had an excellent start on Saturday morning getting off the crowded start line in clear air and staying at the head of the fleet up the first leg to Le Bouveret. At the halfway mark, the pink multihull snatched the lead and hung on to it to finish ahead of their closest rival Pascal Bidégorry on Banque Populaire at 02:49 this morning. “We had a good start and never let up, we never stopped working the boat and we managed to keep going. I can’t believe it, I never thought that one day I would manage to win the Bol d’Or Mirabaud. It’s magnificent – I still can’t believe it!

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Reuben Corbett (NZL) of Black Sheep Racing, matched Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS) in the finals of Sails of White Nights, the National Congress Palace Cup 2010.

The team from New Zealand won the ISAF Grade 1 regatta comfortably.

The final round robin clarified who would proceed into the semi-finals. They were Damien Iehl (FRA), Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS), Simone Ferrarese (ITA) and Reuben Corbett (NZL). Iehl, winner of the Sails of White Nights 2009 and leader of this round robin, had a right to choose the opponent for the semi-finals and chose Corbett. But Reuben scored two points in a row, leaving Damien no chance to respond.

Thus, teams from New Zealand and Russia met in the finals. The Organizers decided to conduct the finals as the first team to score two points. Reuben Corbett did it all right, scored two wins and won the Cup!

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Abby Blog

Everyone on board has been really friendly. They have come a long way out of their way to help me and I am so thankful that they did. My mom has told me about all that the different rescue groups did to help find me. So thank you to all of you. I had only hoped that a ship would pass by me within a few weeks. I am really in awe. Thank you to everyone involved.

The captain is a big, friendly, bald guy with a big beard. He speaks English pretty well and he says, “Is no good to worry about the boat. Is just a boat, you is safe. You should not think about the past.” Which is true, but its hard to keep my mind off everything that’s happened.

Everyone in the bridge has been fending off the press and I’m very grateful for that. I really don’t want to start doing interviews quite yet.

I have started writing. At first I decided that I wasn’t going to write a book. But then I started to think about all the good times Wild Eyes and I have had together. All that’s left of the voyage of Wild Eyes are my memories, eventually they will get fuzzy and I won’t remember all the details. I don’t want that to happen. Wild Eyes and my trip have been the best thing I have ever done or been through and I don’t ever want to forget all the great times we have had together, or the bad ones for that matter.

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Abby and her winter rescue – why?

‘Abby Sunderland – all the courage in the world, but too late in the season’    .
How and why Abby Sunderland ended up in the South Indian Ocean in winter, when the passing systems combine with warm tropical air moving south to make monster storms, is now being asked by experienced sailors round the world. However, especially after Jessica Watson’s successful conclusion, skeptics who voiced their concerns up until now were few and far between, and slammed as pessimists.

Sailing around the most southerly tip of Tasmania in mid winter is not something that most hardy sailors would voluntarily take on, but that was what she was planning to do.

Sailing, even in more innocent voyages, is all about timing, and the contrast between Jessica Watson’s voyage, which was years in the planning, and Abby’s couldn’t be greater. So why was Abby end up in that wrong place at the wrong time? The answers are all in Sail-World Cruising’s archives.

Abby always claimed that she had wanted to sail solo round the world since she was thirteen, ‘but nobody was doing it then’ she said back in August last year, when she first announced her voyage in Sail-World.

At the time world-wide hype about teenage sailors was high and growing. Her brother Zac had finished his 11 month trip (a ‘warm weather route, and with stops’) to make him the youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate. Mike Perham was just about to arrive back in Britain to eclipse Zac’s performance, but Jesse Martin still held the record (ratified by the WSSRC, which Perham’s and Sunderland were not) as the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the world non-stop and unassisted.

Inspired by both her brother and maybe the other teenage sailors, Abby decided to have a go. But it was August 2009, and she wanted to begin her journey in November, and that’s where the timing problem started.

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Dear Abby, Huge Storm Approaching!

June 14, 2010 – The World of Sailing

Having resided in the confines of a sheltered world, we’re not sure if Abby Sunderland yet understands that when she returns to the States, she’s likely to face a bigger storm than any she saw in the Southern Ocean.

It’s true that much of the general public — knowing as much about sailing in the Southern Ocean as they do about the relationship between credit default swaps and the oil contango — have gone absolutely ga-ga over the perceived exploits of the rescued 16-year-old from Thousand Oaks. But based on a rough survey of Latitude readers — and even the comments of celebrity sailors such as Geraldo Riviera and Dr. Laura — the overwhelming majority of sailors, who Abby might assume to be her natural constituency, are giving her adventure a moderate to vehement thumbs down. If Abby is to take any shelter from this storm, it will have to be in the fact that her parents are the objects of even greater scorn.

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Abby Sunderland’s family cuts ties with TV reality show producer

June 14, 2010 |  1:54 pm

Abby The father of Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old girl whose solo sailing effort ended when her boat was damaged, cut ties with a company that planned to do a reality TV show about the family because he disagreed about the direction the producers were taking, he said Monday.
“There is no show at this time, nor will there be,” Laurence Sunderland said, addressing reporters outside the family’s Thousand Oaks home.

Long before Abby Sunderland set sail on her around-the-world attempt in January, Sunderland was approached by Magnetic Entertainment about the possibility of a reality show, he said. His wife, Marianne, was against it, he said, but they eventually agreed a show focusing on “inspiring kids doing inspirational things” was a story that needed to be told.

Sunderland’s son, Zac, became the youngest person to sail around the world at age 17.

Magnetic did some initial filming but could not sell the show, said Sunderland, a shipbuilder. He also had a falling out with the partners over the angle they wanted to take, he said.

“They were assuming Abigail was going to die out there,” he said. “They were relying on her dying, and so we cut the ties.”

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……………You can take calculated risks without being reckless. Just like you can be so bold as to order the larger-screen high-def TV so that it’s easier to settle into our NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR viewing seasons, navigating through vacations, weddings and family gatherings so we don’t miss major sporting events.

We can plot a plan and take action, or we can be spectators and speculate.

What Zac already accomplished, and what Abby had set her mind to try to do, should continue to be more a beacon of hope than hype. They’ve showed there’s more do for teenagers today vegging out watching someone else’s real world happen on a TV show.

If we’re guilty of anything lately it’s living vicariously through Zac and Abby the last couple of years. But it’s also been much more inspiring.

Zac and Abby Sunderland faced nature head on. Boy and Girl versus Wild.

They measured their intestinal fortitude and then were fortunate enough to have parents gave their two oldest something many adults forget to hand over to their kids today — the opportunity to succeed and / or fail

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Photo: Copyright: Per Heegaard / RC44 Class

The game of elimination benefits BMW ORACLE Racing, winner of the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup
The tricky conditions, strong and shifty wind, put one team after the other out of contention for the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup fleet race title. Separated by one point ahead of the last race, BMW ORACLE Racing and No Way Back had a last race of their own…
June 13, 2010 – The cold and windy conditions prevailed for the last day of the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup. Four beautiful races took place today; they led to the elimination of one team after the other from contention for the fleet race and overall titles.

Igor Lah’s Ceeref was the first and biggest casualty of the day, going from second overall to eight. “Just a day of hell”, summarised tactician Rod Davis. The team’s worse moment occurred when they collided with Paul Cayard’s Katusha during a tacking dual. Ceeref got two points penalty whilst Katusha had to stop racing in order to change their crash bow. They got redress from the Jury.

Many teams broached, ripped their spinnakers or suffered in a way or another. Team Sea Dubai, who got some brilliant results today – a 2nd and a 1st – lost it all because of two DNF’s due to a spinnaker problem and a man overboard during the last race; an incident that occurred as the team was controlling its third place overall against Artemis and that cost four places in the overall ranking!

The wind was blowing quite hard throughout the day, at 18 knots with gusts up to 25 that put great emphasis on crew work and tactical decisions.

BMW ORACLE Racing, who was fifth overall this morning, started the day with a 1st and a 2nd. On the other hand, No Way Back couldn’t do any better than 4th and 6th. With both Team Aqua and Artemis failing to obtain consistent results, the final race would definitely be between those two teams.

Both of them started the last race at the pin end of the line, with BMW ORACLE Racing controlling No Way Back. The American team reached the top mark ahead of its opponent, and chose the worse side of the course during the run, letting the Dutch team grab the lead within this personal race (John Kostecki’s 17 had a huge lead over the rest of the pack).

Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts then opted for the left of the course during the second beat whilst Pieter Heerema and Ray Davies went to the right. The American’s choice was the right one. The american team then controlled No Way Back until the arrival, crossing the line in third, two places ahead of its opponent.

Winner of the fleet regatta and second of the match race event earlier in the week, BMW ORACLE Racing conquers the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup – the combined fleet / match race ranking ahead of Chris Bake’s Team Aqua.

The next regatta will take place in Valencia on July 27 – August 1.

Photo: Copyright: Per Heegaard / RC44 Class

They said:

Larry Ellison, helmsman, BMW ORACLE Racing: “This has been a fantastic event. Yesterday we practiced in strong winds and reached the speed of 25 knots. In hindsight, it has helped us a lot today: I felt very confident and more precise at the helm. Having said this people sometimes put too much credit on the helmsman: this is a real team effort and all the guys did a great job. Russell was also fantastic at making the tactical choices.”

Pieter Heerema, helmsman, No Way Back: “Everything was open ahead of the last race; unfortunately we were a bit out of phase. I am happy with our result but not pleased with the way we got there. It was all a bit messy. Of course the conditions were difficult but we should be able to master this. Altogether I have loved this event. I just found that the weather was unfair with the venue.”

Terry Hutchinson, tactician, Artemis: “This was a tough day for the helmsmen and it also required a great team effort to succeed. There were massive wind shifts but at the end of the day it didn’t really matter if you went right or left; you just had to be in phase with the shifts. This morning Torbjorn told us to make the best of it and have fun. That’s what we did; I feel very privileged to have an owner like him.”

Chris Bake, helmsman, Team Aqua: “It has been very challenging few days. Today we struggled during the first two races and then I started to feel settled. I am pleased that Team Aqua won the match; it was difficult for me to arrive and settle in immediately, I took me a little while.”

René Mangold, helmsman, AEZ RC44 Sailing Team: “We were sailing with two new people and we struggled because of this: we couldn’t look out of the boat. We definitely need more practice and we will do this in the future.”

Fleet race, final results after eight races: Ranking, name of team, helmsman, results, points (no discard)

1) BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison, 8, 6, 2, 41, 2, 4, 3 – 30 points
2) Team No Way Back, Pieter Heerema, 10, 1, 4, 1, 4, 6, 2, 5 – 33 points
3) Artemis, Torbjor Tornqvist / Martin Hestbaek, 3, 5, 8, 2, 5, 5, 6, 4 – 38 points
4) Team Aqua, Chris Bake, 2, 3, 9, 5, 6, 9, 3, 2 – 39 points
5) 17, Anders Myralf  4, 7, 6, 7, 9, 1, 7, 1 – 42 points
6) Katusha, Guennadi Timtchenko, 6, 8, 1, 8, 3, 4, 7 (RDG), 5,3 (RDG) – 42,3 points
7) Team Sea Dubai, Harm Muller Spreer, 7, 4, 3, 6, 2, 11 (DNF), 1, 11(DNF)  – 45 points
8) CEEREF, Igor Lah, 5, 2, 7, 3, 7, 8, 10, 8 – 50 points
9) Team Islas Canarias Puerto Calero, Daniel Calero, 1, 10, 5, 9, 8, 7, 5, 7 – 52 points
10) AEZ RC44 Sailing Team, René Mangold, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 3, 9, 6 – 66 points

RC 44 Copenhagen Cup – Overall Ranking: (ranking, name of team, match race, fleet race, points)

1) BMW ORACLE Racing, 2, 1 – 3 points
2) Team Aqua, 1, 4 – 5 points
3) No Way Back, 4, 2 – 6 points
4) Artemis, 3, 3 – 6 points
5) 17, 5, 5 – 10 points
6) Team Sea Dubai, 7, 7 – 14 points
7) Ceeref, 6, 8 – 14 points
8) Katusha, 9, 6 – 15 points
9) AEZ RC44 Sailing Team, 8, 10 – 18 points
10) Islas Canarias Puerto Calero, 10, 9 – 19 points

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Richard Reigns as King of Korea Match Cup

26 Point Lead for Richard at top of Tour Standings

Gyeonggi, Korea – 13 June 2010 – The island of Jebu sitting 2km off Jeongok Marina could once again be seen today as great weather set in for the ultimate day of Stage 3 in the ISAF World Match Racing Tour (WMRT). Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team is ‘King of Korea Match Cup’ after racing against the best pool of match racing skippers in the world and concluding Korea with a victory over double World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar.

Richard kept momentum at all times in the light airs up the concentrated course area which created a need for all the crew to use their bodyweight and drill the KM36 yachts into a series of smooth roll tacks and gybes to propel the Blakewell-White designed yachts round the race marks.

Richard is delighted to have won Korea Match Cup, two years previously he was watching the skippers in the final hoping to reach it himself one day, I have had a good feeling onboard since the beginning of the season and I am happy with the team.

Williams has now been in the final at Korea Match Cup for the last 3 years since the inception of the Korean leg of the WMRT. Williams however has not yet won this Tour stage and is seen as always the bridesmaid and never the bride. He is however, in good spirits despite missing out on the biggest prize money and spoke about Richard’s style on the race course, Richard really nailed the starts today, every time he dominated the first exchange.

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Giraglia Rolex Cup

St.Tropez, France / San Remo, Italy

SLOW START- SHORT, SHARP FINISH TO FIRST DAY

It was a long wait, but the Giraglia Rolex Cup eventually got underway this afternoon at 15.28 CEST after a long wait for the wind to fill in. When it did come, the wind was piping at 20 knots, with gusts of 25 knots, and the Yacht Club Italiano/Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez race committee put on a short fast race of 9 nautical miles, which Esimit Europa 2 (EUR) had the audacity to complete in a few seconds under 40 minutes. The rest of the fleet was at sea for a little longer enjoying a brief, productive start to the inshore series. Winners today include Container (GER) in IMA, Near Miss (SUI) in IRC A, Nusantara (FRA) in IRC B and Keonda II (ITA) ORC B.

Whilst the first three days of racing in the Bay of Saint-Tropez are treated competitively, it is the distance race component of the Giraglia Rolex Cup that deservedly garners most of the attention, and, the winners most of the plaudits. There is likely to be a record fleet this year, with large numbers entering across all categories. There is added significance for the Maxi fleet; the distance race forms part of the 2010 International Maxi Association (IMA) Championship, a season long series that culminates in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in September. Within the IMA category, the Mini Maxi class has gathered in force with plenty of both Racing and Racer/Cruiser examples in the entry list.

Amongst the Racing Mini Maxis, Neville Crichton’s 21.8 metre Reichel-Pugh designed Shockwave (NZL) (class winner at the 2009 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup) is the longest and should be the fastest. Last time he competed, Crichton was by some way the fastest and set a new course record. But that was on his former steed, the 30.5 metre Alfa Romeo II (now Esimit Europa and in the hands of Igor Simcic), and, the course differed in that the finish was in Genoa rather than San Remo.

At just under a metre shorter, Andres Soriano’s Mills 68 Alegre (GBR) may be slower than Shockwave on paper, but Soriano and his crew have beaten longer boats before. In last year’s Giraglia Rolex Cup, Alegre took line honours in the distance race (also to Genoa) despite conceding waterline length to others in her category.

According to Soriano, last year’s result was down to perseverance in the face of testing, light wind conditions. For Soriano the key to success and consistency in a highly competitive class relies upon “being prepared and keeping the same team together, making small adjustments, after each regatta to try to do better, in terms of boat preparation, sails and teamwork. Last year showed that hard work pays off, even though it took a while coming.” Like many of the other race boats, the crew of Alegre is hoping that the San Remo finish will lead to a faster race. History suggests that may not be the case, but optimism is the prerogative of those looking ahead. “This year is probably going to be shorter than it normally is, with the probability of better wind and better approach to the final destination,” commented Soriano, quickly adding that this is only his second Giraglia. “So I’m no expert!”

Ian Budgen is tactician on Sir Peter Ogden’s 18.3 metre Jethou (GBR), one of the smallest in the Mini Maxi Racing category. Budgen explained that although the inshore races are taken seriously, they bear little relationship to the distance race. “In reality the inshore part of the event is no preparation for the offshore race, which starts on Wednesday. The offshore race is 241 miles. It is going to be somewhere between 24 and 30/36 hours. It’s overnight and probably long enough that you’ve got to rest some of the guys, who’ve got to get some sleep. I’m currently trying to put together a watch system so everybody gets some rest even if it is for a short space of time. There is nothing worse than all the key people trying to stay awake in their proper positions for 24 hours and then find you have another 12 to go.”

Apart from managing the crew, another big decision for the race-oriented yachts will be sail inventory. The eventual decisions will be made as close to start time as possible since, whilst all are looking at the long term weather predictions, the wise know well that the best guess as to the course conditions will be made on Wednesday morning. Budgen gave a résumé of the inventory Jethou has to choose from. It was enough to give mere mortals a serious headache, so what will he do when the time comes to leave the dock? “We have two considerations, what we think we need and the weight of those sails. When it’s light we want the boat as light as possible, so we try to take the minimum amount. My general rule is to take everything we think we might need, even if it makes the boat slightly heavier because if you get caught without a sail that you need then the difference in boat speed is huge.”

Budgen, at least, has plenty of experience with Jethou. Spare a thought for Marton Jozsa, skipper of Wild Joe (HUN). Landlocked Hungary is not noted for its offshore prowess, but it has an active sailing community particularly in the Olympic classes. Jozsa, however, has gathered a crew to race on what was, when it was first launched, one of the first canting-ballast twin-foiled race yachts. Designed by Reichel-Pugh, it spawned some of the finest fastest yachts of recent years. As Wild Oats, the yacht was part of the winning 2003 Admiral’s Cup team from Australia so it has some pedigree.

Jozsa and his crew are up against it. “This is our first regatta,” he calmly remarks when asked if this is his first Giraglia Rolex Cup. “She arrived in Europe a month ago. We have had 10 or 11 days training on her, so we’re quite new to this category of boat and sailing. Our crew is quite young, but we have a number of Olympic class sailors in the crew, so we have experience, but it is still a big step up to this type of boat.” Jozsa is expecting wind for the offshore race, but is taking nothing for granted and is checking the situation everyday.

Amongst the Racer/Cruiser Mini Maxis, Aegir (GBR) is another taking part in the IMA Championship. The owner, Brian Benjamin, confesses to being new to competitive sailing, but discovered recently that with two previous Giraglia Rolex Cups under his belt he is possibly one of the most experienced, certainly on this race, in his crew. Even so, with Andy Beadsworth, Ian Moore and Guy Barron in the team he has plenty of knowledge to call on. Benjamin is looking forward to Wednesday, “the long distance race is great. It is totally different to the inshore races, calling on different disciplines and skills, creating different problems – lack of sleep, lack of wind, too much wind.” Benjamin pointed to another issue he believes needs to be considered, “it’s important to get on, because you are out on the boat for a long time together. We have an Anglo-Spanish boat, which makes it interesting, particularly making up the watches. We did well last year so we are hoping to improve on that.”

Tomorrow is another day for the crews competing in the Giraglia Rolex Cup, with more inshore racing planned. We will be talking to the extreme ends of the fleet, getting a feel for how their approaches differ or, indeed, do not.

The 241 nautical mile offshore component of the 58th Giraglia Rolex Cup starts on Wednesday, 16 June from Saint-Tropez. Prior to this there are three days of inshore racing on the Bay of Saint-Tropez.

The prize giving for the inshore series will be held at La Citadelle, Saint-Tropez, on the evening of 16 June. The prize giving for the offshore race will be held on the evening of Saturday, 19 June at the Yacht Club San Remo.

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