Greetings yachties,
Doing a runner to the day job, more later. 
650 Mini & Class 40,
Abby Sunderland,
ISAF Offshore Team World Championship – Meleges 32,
Lectronic Latitude – latest issue here
Bottom Painting,
First 30,
IFDS Blind Match Racing World Championship,
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb – Red Bull,
Shake-A-Leg,
Russell Coutts talks to the World Yacht Racing Forum,
Sail0World NZ, – latest issue here,
Sail-World USA – latest issue here,
Images of Palma – Superyacht Cup 2010 by Chris Cameron,
Gladwell’s Line – The America’s Cup turns the corner forever,
Groupama 3,
M34,
Abby Sunderland – Team Abby will be attending the press conference tomorrow morning at 10am (PST). We will be posting updates, information and photos as quickly as possible. Welcome home Abby! more here
Enjoy
LA Chrono, this week-end
At the Submarine base of Lorient, the shed Glorieux 2 (ex Groupama)is ready to welcome guests of LA Chrono this week-end.
The organization puts in place, the shed is shining (almost), the bubbles are in the fridge, girls of Rond de Chute, the organizer, are activated for the 10th edition of THE Chrono.
Who, What, Where?Minis and Class40 are greeted at the pontoon E of the Submarine base.(in front of the shed).
A lap around Groix, departure time and direction of rotation as desired. Starting and finish line are the same.
The boats will be visible at the pontoon E. Starts and finishs will be visible from Larmor-Plage and the Citadel of Port Louis.
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Poised calmly before dozens of cameras, rescued teen sailor Abby Sunderland on Tuesday recounted the harrowing storm and rogue wave that ended her attempt to sail around the world.
The strongest gales had abated and Abby was down in the cabin working on the engine when a giant wave caught the sails and rolled the boat upside-down. It immediately righted, and when Abby got to the deck, she saw that there was nothing more than a 1-inch stub where her 60-foot mast had been.
During the rollover, she got banged up and briefly blacked out, she said.
“When I got outside, there was nothing there,” she said at a news conference at Marina del Rey. “It was a 1-inch stub. There was nothing to jury-rig.”
Sunderland recounted the terrifying moments, talked about what she had learned and responded to criticism of her parents during the hourlong news conference.
June 2010
Valencia Sailing
Do you have what it takes to supercharge the media production of the America’s Cup?
So asks a video posted today on the official 34th America’s Cup web site, www.americascup.com, that launches the America’s Cup Video Production Competition.
Transforming the video output in a way that excites and engages the biggest ever audience is a primary goal for the 34th America’s Cup. Fresh thinking for video production is being sought from Generation Y.
The America’s Cup Video Production Competition is open to anyone so long as they’re between the ages of 18 and 28 years of age.
Shamoun, Race three of the Super Yacht Cup Palma 2010. Palma, Mallorca, Spain. Photo: Chris Cameron
Annimated Knots’s Description
Uses: The Chain Splice is a modification of the eye splice decribed by Ashley It is particularly useful when using a chain/rope combination which passes over a windlass and descends into a chain locker.
Structure: Technically it is a miniature Flemish Eye completed with additional tucks. Note: for photography, very short ends were used and only one out of the five tucks was completed. Five complete tucks are essential.
Preparation: To prevent chaos, burn the three ends and wrap the rope at the correct length. Plan to make at least five complete tucks. For five tucks, measure at least 15 times the ropes diameter and wrap the rope with tape or a constrictor knot tied in twine. Unravel the strands back to the tape or twine.
Making the Splice: Two of the strands are passed together through the end of the chain and the third strand is passed in the reverse direction. It is neatest when the single strand passes between the other two. The three strands are then laid down beside the rope and threaded through adjacent standing ends as close to the chain as possible. The remainder of the splice is completed by tucking each tail over and under standing strands.
Practical aspects: As when making the Eye Splice, keep each end as neat and tightly wound as possible – at least for the first three tucks. After the first tuck is completed for all three stands, the wrapping tape (or the constrictor) should be removed so that the splice can be tightened against the chain. Remember to twist each tail tightly before pulling on it!
Durability: By its nature, a chain splice may be subject to heavy load and chafing. It should be inspected if used frequently and a worn splice should be cut off and remade a few inches further up the rope. However, in many yachts where the anchor is only used occasionally, the chain may rust and become untrustworthy long before the splice shows significant wear!
Satellite Television
Getting Satellite TV On Board is Not Cheap, But New Technology Has Made it Far Easier
By Lenny Rudow
A decade ago, few boats under 30 feet had a television onboard and few under 50 feet had more than a single tube.
But we Americans love our entertainment, and thanks to the advent of the space-saving, easily-mounted flat-screen television, these days you’ll find an LCD in virtually every cabin of every boat from the mid-20′s on up. Hop aboard a yacht in the 50-foot class and you’re likely to find three to five screens placed strategically belowdecks.
But putting a television onboard is only half the battle, when it comes to watching tube on a boat – getting reception is the tricky part.
Sure, you can watch cable when you are in the slip. You can also hook up one of those disk-shaped UHF/VHF television antennas which go for $150 to $200 at a marine supply store, and get reception in many marinas or coastal areas located close to major population centers.
Eight teams representing seven nations – Germany, Italy (two teams), Malta, Monaco, Switzerland, Great Britain and United States – are ready to compete in the 2010 ISAF Offshore Team World Championship, also known as the Audi Sardinia Cup taking place in Porto Cervo from 28 June to 3 July.
Each team participating in the event organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) is composed of a Melges 32 and a Farr 40 and with registration and measurement completed, racing on windward leeward courses will commence 29 June. The fleet is also scheduled to dispute a coastal race through the islands of the La Maddalena archipelago during the five days of racing.
The first edition of the event was held in 1978 and since then teams from around the world have travelled to Sardinia to compete for the coveted Sardinia Challenge Trophy. This year Audi has become title sponsor for the first time, thereby confirming their commitment to the most competitive sailing classes as well as their strong ties to the YCCS.
One of the strongest teams on paper is undoubtedly USA, composed of three-time Farr 40 World Champion (2009, 2004,1998) Jim Richardson with his Barking Mad and current Melges 32 World Champion Bliksem, owned by Pieter Taselaar. Also one to watch, however, will be the Italian team composed of the Farr 40 Nerone, reigning Farr 40 class World Champion and fresh from victory in the Farr 40 European Circuit leg which has just concluded in Porto Cervo, and the Melges 32 Fantastica owned by Lanfranco Cirillo.
Newport, R.I. – John Porter on Full Throttle and team comprised of tactician Jonathan McKee, Andy Burdick, Fritz Lanzinger, sons Corbet and Vincent Porter along with Kelly McKenna and Matthew Woodsworth are 2010 Layline Oakcliff Northeast Regatta Champions. Porter finished the event a solid six points ahead of heavy opposition. Long-time Melges 32 owner Kip Meadows on roXanne with Andy Horton on tactics really came on strong Saturday to complete the regatta in second.
Enough can’t be said about the incredible progress made by third place finisher, Newport’s own Michael Dominguez on Bronco with experienced tactician Anthony Kotoun. As mentioned in the preview release, Dominguez officially, yet apprehensively entered the fleet in December ’09 at the Gold Cup. He knew the competition was stiff. Over the last seven months, tremendous strides have been made by this very competitive team. A fourth place finish at the East Coast Championship showed that they are growing fast. “It’s all starting to come together,” was a frequent comment heard from several of Dominguez’s crew over the course of the weekend.
The Northeast Regatta witnessed the return of one of its most treasured player teams, Jim Swartz and famed tactician Gavin Brady on Q finishing fourth.
The new First 30
28 Jun 2010
A little over 30 years have gone by since the launch of the First 30, which more or less set the bench mark for the ocean racer concept. It still has many aficionados today, continues to get some fine results in regattas and has a good quoted value in the second hand market.
The latest First 30 has a new dynamic team so that the new First 30 may have all the characteristics of the finest racing boats while promising a good life on board.
Reliability, safety and comfort are all there, and this boat is innovating in more than one respect.
Juan Kouyoumdjian and Michel Desjoyeaux – Foncia monohull skipper – are the new breed of naval architect and world wide class sailors. Race after race they make their own mark on our age. Now both join their skills with Beneteau in the creation of the all new First 30 headed by these two champions
more here
The first IFDS Blind Match Racing World Championship has been decided on Lake Garda, Italy.
Luigi Bertanza and Sylvia Parente (ITA) claimed the prize with two straight wins in the final of the World Championship for IBSA B1 classified blind sailors. On the other course, Lucy Hodges and Toby Davey (GBR) won the International Championship for the B2 classification.
Bertanza and Parente met Anna Gamba and Enrico Sosio (ITA) in the final matches, but their experience showed through with stronger tactics and boat handling. Bertanza is a skilled helmsman who has won International Blind Match Racing Championships in past years and won the B1 division of the 2009 IFDS Blind Sailing World Championships sailed as fleet racing with sighted crew members.
In the petit final for the B1 group, Manuel Ugarte and Federico Albir (ESP) lost their first match this afternoon but came back to win the next two against Kylie Forth and Erin McGlew (AUS) to claim third place overall.
A sneak peek at the custom-built car Rhys Millen will drive in the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb event on June 27. Rhys hopes to bring the fastest time back to the Millen family – his father, the legendary Rod Millen, held the record from 1994 until it was broken in 2007 by Nobuhiro Tajima.
Shake-A-Leg Miami website here
Valencia Sailing
Russell Coutts talks to the World Yacht Racing Forum
[Source: Bernard Schopfer / World Yacht Racing Forum] The America’s Cup debate has traditionally been one of the World Yacht Racing Forum’s highlights. Last December’s session saw the first – and only – public meeting between the then Defender Alinghi and Challenger of record BMW ORACLE Racing during their two and a half years of bitter rivalry.
The new Defender issued, last week, the long awaited draft Protocol for the 34th America’s Cup. The team’s CEO Russell Coutts speaks exclusively to the World Yacht Racing Forum and answers some of the questions that many have been asking…
Russell Coutts, CEO and skipper of BMW ORACLE Racing: Copyright Guilain Grenier, BMW ORACLE Racing
World Yacht Racing Forum: What are the key changes you are introducing for the next America’s Cup?
Russell Coutts: We are obviously working in a lot of different directions. I think by now everybody has understood that we want fair rules; one of our priorities is also massively improved media output, particularly on screens whether that’s television or other devices. We are doing a lot of research on technology and formats, and will do some tests in July. For example, some people pretend that you can’t do match race with multihulls, or that you need slow boats; this needs to be confirmed. It is very important for Larry and I to make sailing more TV friendly and understandable by a large public; otherwise the sport simply won’t move forward.
World Yacht Racing Forum: How do you respond to those that are saying you are taking a long time to announce the format of the next Cup?
Russell Coutts: It is true. We are just trying to do things well and to take the right decisions: it’s a heavy responsibility and a major task. The choice of the venue is obviously key, and a lot of things depend on it, including the boat. We also want to bring the costs down and need to be very careful with the decisions we take. The number of crew is one element: typically personnel accounts for 60 % of the budget of a campaign. Other elements include sensible restrictions on material and technology.
World Yacht Racing Forum: Will you develop a circuit of pre-regattas?
Russell Coutts: Yes, absolutely.
Groupama 3
Though Franck Cammas can’t be everywhere at once, he does have a real talent for being able to switch from one boat to another without losing time. As such, barely had the hull choices for the future Groupama 4 been made when the skipper from Lorient was back aboard his maxi trimaran Groupama 3, now configured for sailing single-handed, for a few trial sessions on the waters off Île de Groix.
World Match Racing Tour Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing joins Torvar Mirksy for an all Aussie final at Portimão Portugal Match Cup
Morris Adant’s Photos – Tour de France à la Voile – Prologue à Dunkerque
Dean Barker, Bertand Pace,Nicolas Lunven,Jimmy Pahun,Daniel Souben etc etc que du beau monde, le nouveau 34, Oman Sail,Grooverdi que de nouveautés….
We have proceeded to the first M34 sail tests, directed by Bernard Nivelt and Alexandre Mercier, our naval architects.
Different technical staffs also project partners as SP High Modulus, Southern Spars, Nexus, North, Isotop, joined us to participate to these first runs.
William Borel, director of “the Tour” and Cyrille Legloahec, the “Batistyl / Ville de Pornic” skipper did not hidded their joy!
The boat gave us a high feeling of power, speed, really smoothy and reliable…
Sailing downwind 130/140°, 17 knots of wind, speedo came easily to 15 and more giving a good idea of her real potential.
Try was ok, then! we want nothing but sail again asap the M34 please!
Next step as far we are concerned, will be the boat presentation at the “Tour de france à la Voile” in Dunkerque from June the 24/26th.
June 26, the M34 had been officially shown at the « Tour de France à la Voile » at Dunkerque.
After Dean Barker baptized it, the M34 has made its very first tacks next to 2010 FTV competitors.
This moment has been immortalized by one of the best sea photographer, Jean-Marie Liot
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