Greetings yachties,
Sail-World USA – latest issue here,
Emirates Team New Zealand é o Novo Líder – more here,
Extreme 40′s,
ETNZ – 5minute gun race 5,
Groupama 70 – update,
Martin Tasker talks to Oracle skipper Russell Coutts here on Valencia Sailing,
Jessica Watson at Hamo,
C Class crash,
RNLI,
Keep Turning Left,
Robert Wilson’s photo shoot of the, Skandia Team GBR Paralympic sailing team,
Enjoy
Singles, Racing and half through the Doubles
Friday, 27 August 2010 19:31
Riders woke up this morning to hammering rain on their hotel windows and on their tents, but along with the rain came wind from the right side of the beach. Race director Markus Schwendtner announced we would start the day by continuing with the Freestyle Single Eliminations.
The weather was quite stormy so the wind was up and down with some patches of no wind in the competition area. The freestylers spun into gear, choosing between 7m and 10m kites, and got into competition mode.
The last of the second round was finished and we continued up the ladder all the way to the finals. There was some fantastic riding despite the difficult conditions and a brilliant atmosphere on the beach. Everyone was helping each other and the Polish spectators were showing up and getting in the spirit of things despite the rain!
The Pastor’s Ass
The Pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.
The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again and it won again.
The local paper read:
PASTOR’S ASS OUT FRONT.
The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the Pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
The next day the local paper headline read:
BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR’S ASS.
This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Pastor to get rid of the donkey.
The Pastor decided to give it to a Nun in a nearby convent.
The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day:
NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.
The Bishop fainted. He informed the Nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey so she sold it to a farmer for $10.
The next day the paper read:
NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.
This was too much for the Bishop so he ordered the Nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
The next day the headlines read:
NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The Bishop was buried the next day.
The moral of the story is . . . being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery . . even shorten your life.
So be yourself and enjoy life.
Stop worrying about everyone else’s ass and you’ll be a lot happier and live longer!
Have a nice day!
TeamOrigin (GBR) stayed consistent across a testing day of racing over which the starts were always high pressure affairs, when the bulk of the TP52 fleet tussled for the favoured right hand side of the race track upwind. Often that put a high premium on being best positioned towards the committee boat, right end of the start line.
Again TeamOrigin generally started strongly, balancing risk and reward through the stressful final countdown, but also showing good speed in the sub 10 knots SW’ly breezes. While they really minimised mistakes, their main regatta rivals, Alberto Roemmers Matador (ARG) were not quite so fortunate.
After winning the first race, seizing the opportunity presented to them within the final 200 metres of the finish line when TeamOrigin gybed away into lighter wind, Matador could only follow up with a fifth and eighth to finish the day third overall behind Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL).
The North Atlantic will be colder, but the biggest change will be the sea state and wind angle. Long rolling waves, up to 200 metres long, will create a corkscrew motion as the yachts slide down the front of the waves.
Groupama lead the way and are heading for the remote Inishkea Islands, off the northwest coast of Ireland. Just 35 miles behind, Teléfonica Azul lead the chase. The Volvo Open 70s are averaging 15 knots, faster than the wind. The canting keel, high-tech hull shape and asymmetric design of the sails make these yachts the fastest ocean-going monohulls ever built. There are complex weather and tidal issues ahead and the navigators on board will be downloading high-resolution weather data to calculate the best route to take.
“This morning we are just two miles from St. Kilda. In racing terms, it is a bit frustrating at the moment,” commented Jonny Malbon by satellite phone from the IMOCA 60, Artemis Ocean Racing. “There is very little wind at the moment and we can see the 70s up ahead via the race tracker. They are in breeze and the boats behind us also have good speed. We just want to get going again.
“However, racing apart, this is a beautiful part of the world. The water is incredibly clean and bright blue and we had a fantastic sail to here from Muckle Flugga. I can see St. Kilda in front of us with not a soul on it and it looks like something out of Jurassic Park. There are a large number of sea birds circling around us and the cliffs of St. Kilda; it is just such an incredible place.”
I’m up here to take part in Hamilton Island Race Week, sailing a SB3 (a 23 foot sports boat) with some friends – Mike, Matt and Sean (see pic below). And in our defence, we’ve only been relaxing, because there’s been very little wind, making training pretty impossible against the strong currents! It’s been so nice to take things a little more slowly after all the craziness of the national book tour.
Spithill, Ashby to square off against Canadians
BMW ORACLE Racing skipper Jimmy Spithill and sailing team coach Glenn Ashby finished second in the fleet racing portion of the International C Class Catamaran Championship.
Photo by Christophe Launay: Jimmy and Glenn approach a windward mark
After scoring two bullets in three races yesterday aboard Alpha, the crew had to settle for three seconds today to their main rivals, Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke aboard Canaan. The Canadians won with the low score of 8 points, with the Aussies 2 points in arrears.
“We achieved our two goals for the day: bring the boat back in one piece and move into first place,” said Clarke, who was the “wing sitter” for BMW ORACLE Racing during the 33rd America’s Cup last February.
The two crews now square off for the International C Class Catamaran Championship Trophy in a match racing format beginning tomorrow. The first crew to score 5 points wins the 25th championship of the C Class catamaran.
Photo by Christophe Launay
VIDEO: Steve Clark’s Aethon capsize
The destruction of a work of art at the Little America’s Cup
Thursday August 26th 2010, Author: James Boyd, Location: United States
Yesterday out on the water off Newport, Rhode Island in the first race of the Little America’s Cup, Steve Clark’s brand new Aethon, sailing with the solid wingsail from his 1996 Little America’s Cup winner Cogito, suffered a cruel capsize.
Of the four catamaran divisions, the C-Class is governed by a simple set of rules that reward outside-the-box thinking in aero and hydrodynamics to create the lightest, fastest course-racing boats on the planet.
“All wings under the C-Class rule are the same area of 300 square feet but it can be distributed in any fashion,” said Steve Killing, the designer for Fred Eaton’s C-Class program. They are propelled not by traditional fabric sails, but by elegant wings, rigid but with twist capability.
“The C-Class cats were never meant to be convenient, practical craft, instead, efficiency and high performance are the goals,” Killing said. Exotic materials allow them to sail significantly faster than the wind, with a top speed near 25 knots, approaching the efficiencies of ice boats.
John Casey, multihull sailor and writer observed: “The Canadian defenders have meticulously constructed Canaan, a completely new black and white boat to challenge for this year’s ‘Little AC.’ It may be the lightest such boat ever built, but Eaton has a target painted on his back.”
Steve Clark is ready with crew Oliver Moore and a new boat as well, Aethon. He decided to stay with his proven Cogito wing for reliability instead of an untested new design, hoping that his new boat can give enough of an advantage to win back the trophy that he held for so long.
Four other competing teams will try to wrest the Little AC trophy away from Eaton, including James Spithill, BMW/Oracle’s winning helmsman of the 33rd America’s Cup in Valencia, Spain. Spithill will crew for seven-time A-Class Catamaran world champ and Olympic medalist Glenn Ashby. Both Australian nationals, they will sail in Eaton’s proven champion Alpha.
“I’ve looked forward to two regattas this year,” said Spithill. “The America’s Cup and this one.”
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