Yachting News 19th July 2010
Thanks Lisa & Annalee for a great knight and Darryl cooks a fantastic BBQ 
Greetings yachties,
Another great little sail with Edwin today, this time the Clearwater Cover Winter Series,
In this issue:
Des Top News
Conde de Godó Trophy,
The RC 44 Class,
AC 34 Economic Impact,
McConaghy 36,
Team Invictus,
Groupama 3 – solo,
Lyn & Larry Pardey – latest news here
Lectronic Latitude – latest issue here
Tour de France,
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site,
Foiling Kiwis,
Steve White – Impossible Voyage,
Sail-World Australia – latest issue here
Scuttlebutt Europe – latest issue here,
Scuttlebutt – latest issue here,
Sailing News US – latest issue here,
Extreme 40,
Max Ranchi – Melges 32,
European 18ft Skiff,
Enjoy
Camper Regatta – Conde de Godó Trophy – Barcelona © Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup
Dean Barker (NZL), skipper-helm Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL):
“It’s going to be very difficult and tricky, especially around the start line, just getting clean away, and getting a bit of the line. Off the start is going to be sort of the key to having a good result, and I think if you can do that well, consistently well, you will be in a good position to win the regatta.”
“ With this wind boats are going pretty much the same speed, and it comes down to starting well and having a good game plan for the first beat.”
“ I think if you get round the top mark in the top two or three, normally the race is straight forward from there but if you are back in the pack a little bit it’s a real battle.”
“This is actually not a venue where many people have really sailed that much so learning the conditions is very hard and I think across the boats in general there’s not many people with experience sailing here.”
Valencia Sailing
The world’s best sailing team devising their attack plan for the practice day. Barcelona, 20 July 2010.
Photo copyright Ainhoa Sanchez / AUDI Medcup
The RC 44 Class is pleased to announce the arrival of two new top level teams, who will join the Championship Tour before the end of the year.
Synergy, the Russian team for the America’s Cup led by Karol Jablonski – a veteran of the RC 44 Class – plans to join the Tour during the first official Class World Championship: the RC 44 Puerto Calero Islas Canarias Cup (October 11-16). Also confirmed, an American team will join the Tour during the Oracle RC 44 Cup Miami on December 7-12 at the latest.
Both teams have already confirmed that they will compete in 2011. Their new boats are currently being built at Pauger boatyard, in Hungary. They will be the RC 44’s no 23 and 24. Pauger is the only licensed RC 44 builder and it has built all the RC 44’s involved in the Championship Tour.
The RC 44 Class recently announced its project to expand to North America. The first regatta on US territory, the Oracle RC 44 Cup Miami, will take place on December 7 – 12 in South Beach Marina; it will be the closing event of the Tour 2010. “I really look forward to competing in Miami”, says RC 44 founder and co-designer Russell Coutts. “First of all because it is a beautiful sailing venue, but also because it is a symbolic step for the RC 44 Class as it will be the first time we race on American territory. Our goal is to develop a parallel circuit in the USA, and to see the European and American fleets meeting during several events, including the yearly World Championship.”
Following the Oracle RC 44 Cup Miami, the first regatta of the Championship Tour 2011 will also take place in the United Sates (west coast) whilst other regattas will be organised on American waters in the coming years.
San Francisco Report Claims The America’s Cup as World’s 3rd Biggest Sporting Event!
The headline numbers from the report released yesterday show that the economic impact of the America’s Cup could total $1.4 billion and create 8,840 jobs.
The report, titled The America’s Cup: Economic Impacts of a Match on San Francisco Bay, was prepared by The Bay Area Council Economic Institute (BACEI) and Beacon Economics.
The report found that the increase in overall economic activity in San Francisco hosting the 34th America’s Cup could be on the order of $1.4 billion, almost three times the estimated impact of hosting the Super Bowl ($300-$500 million). Additional taxes alone to the City’s General Fund are expected to net more than $13 million, based on more than $24 million in revenue, and an estimated $11 million in tourism related costs. The potential increase in employment surrounding the event could be on the order of 8,840 jobs.
The McConaghy 36 is a light displacement high performance race yacht, designed by America’s Cup yacht designer Harry Dunning and professionally crafted by McConaghy Boats. The McConaghy 36 is for top level racing and international regattas. The concept and the design features are dedicated to strictly controlled one design, but also is a standout in mixed fleets and social twilight racing.
Team Invictus training for the last time in Weymouth UK before shipping Invictus to Newport RI USA for the International C-Class Catamaran Championship 22nd-28th Aug 2010. Wind speed 12-13kn. Paul Larsen and Gordon Kaiser sailing the boat.
Music: Royksopp “What else is there?” Edited/Filmed & Photo’s by Helena.
Cammas qualifies for the Route du Rhum La Banque Postale aboard Groupama 3
After setting out from Lorient, Groupama 3′s port of registry, on Wednesday 7th July, to perform the qualifier for the Route du Rhum, Franck Cammas made it back to port on the evening of Sunday 11th.
With 1,500 miles (2,700 km) to cover in order to satisfy the requirements for the most popular of all solo transatlantic races, the skipper of Groupama 3 certainly had enough time to test the quality of the preparation of his trimaran, as well as his ability to adapt to single-handed sailing: “During the four days at sea, I didn’t have to deal with any gales. However, I did have to put in a lot of manoeuvres as the wind was very shifty”.
Questioned about his ability to singlehandedly manoeuvre a boat designed for 10 crew, Franck deemed himself to be pleasantly surprised: “Certain manoeuvres like gybing or furling in the gennaker are very physical and above all very long. As such you always have to correctly anticipate how things are going to pan out so as you don’t end up in a tight corner, especially when the wind picks up”.
DO WE HAVE OUR PRIORITIES CONFUSED?
By Dave Reed, Sailing World Editor
There’s no denying that sailboat racing has two distinct attractions for you
and I: the mental and physical elements of the game on the water, and the
camaraderie onshore. In other words, there’s the race, and there’s the
party. I’m starting to wonder if we have our priorities confused nowadays.
Most often, the complaints I hear after certain regattas are not about the
quality of the races, but rather, about the shoreside extracurriculars: “The
party was too expensive,” “The food was terrible,” or “The line to the bar
was absurdly long.”
When I hear such things, I can’t help but think that we’ve become spoiled
and expect too much of our post-race parties. Why is it that we feel we need
big tents, bountiful buffets, one bar for every 10 sailors, live music, and
a multimedia bombardment of photos, video highlight feeds, and virtual
replays showing how every race played out?
Videos can be exciting to watch, but I remember one recent regatta where
organizers erected a massive screen smack in the middle of the tent and set
up neat rows of metal folding chairs, 20 wide and 10 rows deep. One evening,
most of the chairs were filled, their occupants staring at the replay of the
previous day’s highlights while the voice-over blared over the crowd, making
conversation a chore. I remember thinking how sad it was that the
“television” had crashed the party, and most everyone was tuned out like a
bunch of zombies. I guess some part of me longs for the days where a line of
kegs and good old-fashioned conversation were all we needed. Might all the
money being spent on these onshore diversions be better spent giving the
race committee better tools?
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity even then.)
“They were so perfectly contoured that they were clearly part of a ship,” said A. Michael Pappalardo, an archaeologist with the firm AKRF, which is working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to document historical material uncovered during construction.
By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.
The Solo Westabout Challenge 2010-11’
This winter Steve White will take on the toughest challenge in sailing when he attempts to break the Solo Non-Stop Round the World record sailing Westabout “the wrong way round”, against the prevailing winds and currents.
Steve White takes on the ‘Impossible Voyage’, sailing a Volvo Open 70, considered to be a “handful” for its usual full crew of ten men. Steve will sail across the historic Ushant – Lizard start line, then down to Cape Horn before turning right underneath it and into the Southern Ocean, where he will spend up to sixty days battling into the wind and against the current in some of the harshest conditions on the planet before turning right again one last time below the Cape of Good Hope, to head North and home to the finish line.
Due to the extreme nature of this record, only five sailors have made this attempt in the past forty years. The current record of 122 days is held by Frenchman Jean-Luc Van Den Heede. Steve is confident of being able to return the record to Britain on its 40th anniversary.
Thanks for the link Reg
BIG WEEK FOR 18ft SKIFFS IN EUROPE
From July 24 to August 1, the European 18ft Skiff Association will stage regattas in Travemuende (Germany) and Sonderborg (Denmark) as part of the 2010 European 18 Footer Circuit. First of the two regattas is the Travemuende event, which will be sailed from 24-27 July. Following a lay day for travelling on 28 July, the Sonderborg event will be sailed from 29 July to 1 August.
Travemuende will also be the German 18 Footer Championship with at least eight German teams competing for that title. Other European teams are expected from UK, Denmark, Hungary and France. Leading contenders for the German Championship are Magic Marine (Norbert Peter) and Euro Link (Friedrich Renner), who have been the top two German teams at major European regattas for the past two years. The Sonderborg regatta is the Viking 18ft Skiff Grand Prix, which will be conducted by the Sonderborg Yacht Club, the host club also for the Mark Foy International regatta in June 2011.
Top local team for Sanderborg is GP Covers (Flemming Clausen, Soren Clausen, Thomas Ebler), which has been several times winner of the European Grand Prix and 2006 European champion. Hungary’s recently crowned European champion Liberty Sailing Team (Miklos Ujhelyi-Gaspar, Matyas Majthenyl, Zsomber Szepfy) will also be among the hardest to beat in what promises to be a great week of competitive 18ft Skiff Racing in Europe.
Frank Quealey
Australian 18 Footers League
