CHRIS MUSELER
TIM WRIGHT, C/O HOEK DESIGN
C/O TRANSAT CLASSIQUE
OVERSEAS NEWS
USA More classics leave for Europe
Famous French yachtsman and facilitator of the America’s Cup Louis Vuitton Series, Bruno Trouble, has convinced a friend to buy the 1930 Universal Rule Q-Class yacht Falcon. She was built at the prominent
Leaving the US bound for the Mediterranean
Lawley Yard in Massachusetts and was a top classics competitor in New England. But now she follows the S&S Skylark to Europe, in what is
CARIBBEAN
Andre Hoek tour de force in St Barths and Antigua
This is Us leads rivals on a merry dance at the St Barths Bucket
Dutch naval architect Andre Hoek has rounded off a bumper season in the Caribbean with his 2006 design Drumfire winning her class – spirit- of-tradition – at the recent Antigua Classics (see p36 for full feature). Four other Hoek-designed yachts proved their mettle at the St Barths Bucket just a month before – the same event that saw the J race (left). The greatest triumph belonged to the 125ft (37.9m) schooner This is Us, which took first in class and overall. Her speed, according to Hoek, comes from being able to sail just 300
wind – not a feature associated with schooner rigs. Also representing the
off the
Dutch maestro of spirit-of-tradition design was Firefly, living up to her brief by beating the four J-Class yachts present on elapsed time. The 115ft (35m) yacht is the first of the F-Class, launched in 2011; a second is in build. A respectable show was put on by the 180ft (55m) ketch Marie (2010) and the fourth Hoek yacht Athos, was the largest there at 203ft (62m). Spirit of tradition yachts are increasingly popular in the US and Caribbean, but have not taken off to the same degree in Europe. Andre told CB that the cause is a lack of regattas and races put on specifically for them.
TRANSATLANTIC Sponsor found
Panerai has just announced it is to sponsor this year’s Transat Classique. Some 33 yachts have already registered for the quadrennial race, which leaves Douarnenez and St Tropez on 22 July and 25 October respectively, bound for Cascais. The united fleet then races to Barbados on 2 December. Among them are the 1914 Fife III cutter Moonbeam IV (95ft/29m); Stiren (above), a 1962 S&S yawl (48ft 5in/14.6m) and Amazone 1971, a 73ft (22.3m) S&S yawl. Tel: +33 (0)6 0854 8890,
www.transat-classique.com
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becoming a recent trend of losing significant indigenous classics. Joe Loughborough, owner of LMI in Portsmouth, RI, the yard that oversaw two Dorade refits, had been maintaining the boat that will now be called Jour de Fete. She is expected to sail the complete 2012 Mediterranean racing season. Chris Museler
PERU
Lake steamer
Yavari, the steamer that travelled over the Andes to her Lake Titicaca home in the 1860s, is 150 this year. Meriel Larken, the ship’s saviour who restored Yavari after finding her in 1985, has released a new book called The Ship, the Lady and the Lake. This autumn, she will lead a group of young people from London’s West Ham along the journey originally taken by the ship’s parts and porters. The ship was built in West Ham at Thames Ironworks.
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