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GENNAKERS, CODES ZERO, ASYMMETRIC SPINNAKERS & STAY
Southampton Boat Show (Eurospars - J243) Cannes Yachting festival
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Our new ‘recruits’, the classic schooners of the International Schooner Association, will continue their series with Monaco Classic Week and then Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. Next year there are plans for them to join the Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta (Greece) to help celebrate their 10th anniversary. A return to Porto Cervo in September is already being planned.
We are currently looking at a number of unique possibilities for next year. The J Class will join both the Antigua Superyacht Challenge and the St Barths Bucket next March. Most will then find their way to Auckland for a second IMA-endorsed World Championship in March 2021 to mesh with the next America’s Cup. It is hard to think of two more different types of boat but they will have sailed for the same trophy, separated by 90-odd years.
Potential new events in the calendar for next year include the 300th anniversary of the Royal Cork Yacht Club in July and a pro- posed new offshore race based on the model of the RORC Caribbean 600 but in June in the Aegean going around many of the Greek islands – the Aegean 600.
A new concept Maxi race is also proposed starting on the Sunday after the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup which will depart from Porto Cervo and run for exactly 24 hours. The first yacht to Monaco, or the near- est at noon the next day, wins. This format aims to reduce the fre- quent problem of getting becalmed off Monte Carlo… as well as allowing the opportunity of a gala dinner for all competitors that evening in the Yacht Club de Monaco. Most important. Back to our usual programme and we need to maintain or better accelerate the progress we have made this year with our core events. Our influence on consistency of notices of race, sailing instructions, race management and class splits has been designed to improve the quality of racing for Maxis. All our efforts are aimed at encouraging participation, since at present worldwide there is a worrying decrease in numbers in many forms of yacht racing – with the notable exception of the ‘big name’ offshore events. The reasons are many, making it difficult to know how to reverse the wider trend. But given the turnout of Maxis in Porto Cervo we do seem to be slowly succeeding...
Andrew McIrvine, secretary, International Maxi Association SEAHORSE 39 30 years of race*
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