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Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
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Maine Coastal News is published 12 times a year and is dedicated to covering the news along the entire coast of Maine, Kittery to Eastport. We cover general marine news, commercial fi shing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. Distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Marblehead, MA and is free on the newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year. The Maine Coastal News offi ce is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport,
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Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward
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bart Race just after Christmas. This project is being overseen by Ken Read, President of North Sails, who will also be her skipper. Building a boat to break records in- volves an extensive design team, coupled with engineers and boatbuilders who make the dream a reality. This boat is 100-feet length overall, 20-foot something beam and weighs 30 tons. She sports a cantilever keel and water-ballast tanks. The designers looked at a lifting keel, but determined that this created too much drag and thus decreased upwind ability. The winches are manually and this the designers have proven will be better than powered winches. The sail plan has not been fi nalized yet. This boat has been compared to the Reichel/Pugh designed WILD OATS XI. However the new boat is wider and deeper, but with her mast stepped further aft she will look different. The designers for this new boat were Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost (VPLP), along with new star Guillaume Verdier. VPLP is well-known for the multihull designs and two of the most notable are GROUPAMA 3 and BANQUE POPULAIRE V. This combination also took on the IMOCA designs and did well in 2007. In 2012 they combined again and designed MACIF, which won the 2012-13 Vendée Globe singlehanded non-stop race around the world. MACIF not only won the race in under 80 days, but also set the record of 534 miles in one day with an average speed of over 22 knots. When you looked at the bow of MACIF it was fuller than other designs. Verdier tested a number of models and opted
to go with a more traditional bow, not so full. The hope is that this allows the bow to raise out of the water when the boat is planning. Racing in the Vendée Globe you want a boat that sails well close reaching and off-wind sailing. However, this boat was designed with better upwind performance. Her upwind performance is expected to be 13 knots. At 120 degrees true wind in 25 knots of wind her speed should be 30 knots. Hodgdon Yachts has had this boat un- der construction for over half a year. The hull, which is being built to Germanischer Lloyd’s scantlings, has been laid up and the bulkheads and other internal structures are being put in.
One record that they would like to break is the one held by the 140-foot ketch MARI CHA IV set in 2003 for crossing the Atlantic in 6 days, 17 hours and 21 minutes set. BANQUE POPULAIRE, a maxi-cata- maran, holds the overall record for crossing the in about three and a half days. Another record they would like to break is the one day record of 596 nautical miles set by ERICS- SON 4 in 2008-2009. If that is not enough the round the world record is 45 and a half days held by BANQUE POPULAIRE V and they would like to break that too. After competing in the Sydney Hobart race, she also hopes to enter the Caribbean 600, Fastnet, Middle Sea Race, New- port-Bermuda Race, Pineapple Cup, and the Transpac.
The 100-foot maxi racer is a huge job with lots of challenges. Another project is sitting on the dock at Ocean Point Mari-
Continued on Page 14. MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events
On-Going Exhibits: - 1 June 2014 Exhibit: Going Coastal: Humor, Parody and Amusement of a Maritime Nature Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission Going Coastal celebrates how we have enjoyed ourselves on, alongside, and at the expense of the maritime world. It traces the transformation of maritime amusements from shipboard traditions to sailor stereotypes and nautical nonsense ashore. FMI visit
www.MaineMariti-
meMuseum.org.
Exhibit: Those Contrary Winds: Weather and its Effects on Ships, Mari- ners and Maritime History
On view March 15 – June 1, 2014
Marjorie W. Kramer Gallery, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission
A selection of paintings, photography and artifacts from MMM and private collections highlighting the perverse yet privileged place of weather in the eyes of the mariner. FMI visit
www.Maine-
MaritimeMuseum.org.
MAY 4 USCG Auxiliary About Boating Safely Class 9AM to 4:30PM West Marine 775 Lafayette Rd. Portsmouth NH 03801
Info: Gene Grossi 603-233-9784
4 USCG Auxiliary About Boating Safely Class 8AM to 3:30PM York Harbor Marine 20 Harris Island Rd. York ME 03909 Info: Dana Moulton 207-363-3602
or 866-380-3602
10 USCG Auxiliary About Boating Safely Class 9AM to 4:30PM Huggins Hospital 240 South Main St. Wolfeboro NH 03894
Info: Ken Cookson 603-544-2248
12-15 ASMFC Spring Meeting Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria, VA
JUNE 11-12 Commercial Marine Expo State Pier
New Bedford, MA Info: (207) 799-1356
14 Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races
Boothbay Harbor Info: M. Farnham (207) 380-5892
14 Centreboard Regatta Centreboard Yacht Club South Portland
15 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Rockland
17-19 New England Fishery Management Council Meeting Holiday Inn by the Bay Portland
21 PYC Pilot Race Portland Yacht Club Falmouth
22 USCG Auxiliary About Boating Safely Class 9AM to 4:30PM Huggins Hospital 240 South Main St. Wolfeboro NH 03894
Info: Ken Cookson 603-544-2248
23-26 Newport Charter Yacht Show Newport Yachting Centre Newport, RI Info: (401) 846-1115
28 Harraseeket Regatta Harraseeket Yacht Club South Freeport
29 Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races Bass Harbor Info: Wayne/Colyn Rich (207) 244- 9623
JULY 5 Moosebec Reach Lobster Boat Races
U. S. Coast Guard Station Jonesport
Info: E. Blackwood (207) 598-6681
12 Hospice of Maine Regatta Southwest Harbor
12-13 Monhegan Race Finish at Camden Portland Yacht Club Falmouth
13 Stonington Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Stonington Info: Nick Wiberg, (207) 348- 2375
13 MDI Series I
13 Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Foundation Cup Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
19-20 Penobscot Pursuit Front Street Shipyard Rockland to Belfast Info:
penobscotpursuit.org
26-27 Solo/Twin Race Rockland Yacht Club Rockland
26-27 Seguin Island Trophy Race Southport Yacht Club Southport Island
27 Harpswell Lobster Boat Race Potts Harbor Info: Albert Rose (207) 844- 0346
30 Castine Classic Yacht Symposium The Maine Lobster Boat Maine Maritime Academy Castine
Info: (212) 471-4709
31 Castine Classic Yacht Race Castine to Camden Info: (212) 471-4709
AUGUST 1 Camden to Brooklin Yacht Race
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