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out, hand sanitiser everywhere, well-respected limits on numbers of people on stands, boats and overall visitors… and ultimately good business was done. Bravo to our Italian friends for pressing on while others wilted in the face of the task; Genoa deservedly takes another step up the pecking order of European shows. Inevitably the weather was unseasonably appalling for most of
the show but nevertheless more than 71,000 visitors came to support the Genoa Boat Show and celebrate its 60th birthday! The rightly proud Mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci, wrapped up
proceedings: ‘This has been defined as the Boat Show of Courage and we have managed just that, we have shown the world that Genoa is able to come together and face down the odds. The Italian Marine Industry Association achieved something incredible this year. The public administrations also played an important role. Genoa is a great city, we are all in this together, we do not back down, we roll up our sleeves and work in synergy. ‘Now we have new ambitions for the Genoa International Boat
Show: a 10-year agreement has been signed meaning that we can develop new docks, improve the Levante waterfront and make plans for 400,000m2
of new space to one day soon compete for the title
of “the world’s no1 boat show”.’ Genoa deserves every bit of its newfound international stature.
52 entrants. The winner was the JPK 10.10 Un Papillon Contre in front of a Sun Fast 3200 and an A35 – three boats that are not of the latest vintage. September was by necessity a busy month with the Atlantic
Telegramme in Lorient counting 25 two-handed crews, a good score given the proximity of Spi Ouest-France plus another 63 boats with virus-limited crews of four people. This time the SF 3300 Sapristi defeated the ‘usual’ JPKs to win both races. In total 114 crews raced the Manche-Atlantique two-handed
championship, a figure higher than the boats racing full crew but put together a total of 158 boats all determined to go to sea as usual. The overall winner was a crewed boat: the new JPK 11.80 (of course!) Fastwave, skippered by Eric Fries. The second, the JPK 10 Raging-Bee 2, was alternately double-handed and crewed (a bit complicated!). The IRC/UNCL Championship in the Mediterranean is continuing
with 71 boats so far competing in the crewed category plus 56 two- handed – but curiously few in the solo division compared to last year. The Mediterranean has suffered more from the consequences of the pandemic, with exceptions such as the Voiles de St-Tropez which remains the largest concentration of IRC in the Med (more than 80 boats) but… does not count for the championship! To conclude on the topic of duo/solo, note that the Transat Cap
Martinique is already sold out with 60 registered (one third solo, two-thirds two-handed) and that the Transquadra, raced in two stages, has 81 registrations (33 singlehanded and 48 two-handed). The Frenchies like to go sailing!
IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES The all-new Arkema 4 trimaran was launched in late September in front of the Lalou Multi Composite yard in Port Bloc, Gironde, after a year of meticulous work. This Multi50 is the result of a close tech- nical collaboration between the Arkema Group and Lalou (Roucayrol) Multi, partners for more than eight years, specialising in recyclable resins, new adhesives, clean energy and so on, innovative materials and technical solutions complementing bold architectural choices. If the construction of Arkema 4started a year ago the discussions
No stopping us… the City of Genoa and its boat show organisers were determined to demonstrate that one of the regions of Italy worst affected by Covid was now back and ready for business
DESPITE THE COVID – Patrice Carpentier From year to year participation in solo or duo racing continues to increase in France in coastal, offshore and even oceanic races. The annual UNCL/IRC Manche-Atlantique Championship is now divided into two categories, and this year it recorded a record participation in the popular two-handed division. Overall placings are decided counting the three best results of the six events – we noticed a sig- nificant number of boats who raced four or even five races this time. The season started with the Drheam Cup between Cherbourg
and La Trinité sur Mer, open to a wide range of boats with one or more hulls (there were even three Ultims!) but the double-IRC category, mostly boats between 9.5m and 11m LOA, was the one with the most entries (27). The win went to a brand new JPK 10.30, Xpresso, from the Mediterranean. Next was the La Rochelle-Royan-Les Sables-La Rochelle Race
for the sailors of Biscay and South Biscay… won by the new JPK 10.30 Wasabi. The third event, the 300nm La Cap Volvo Pemzec, was organised by the Yacht Club du Crouesty with the co-operation of the UNCL to qualify crews for the Cap Martinique, a new IRC Transat solo/duo non-stop between La Trinité (start 18 April 2021) and Fort de France in the West Indies. It was an immediate success with the participation of 35 boats
that could have been further increased if the port had been able to accept more sailboats. The Cap 300 was won by the JPK 10.80 Contre vents et Marée. Another JPK! Then came the ArMen Race from La Trinité, which due to the virus was restricted to one night at sea. Once again the ‘Doubles’ formed the bulk of the fleet with
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that defined its architecture go back much further. Building on the experience of Arkema 1, designer Romaric Neyhousser (who is close to Guillaume Verdier) created a more versatile Multi50 able to achieve in solo offshore racing but also in the inshore grand prix. Immediately one notices the care taken to limit aerodynamic
drag with numerous fairings around the platform, but also the large cockpit for crewed races. She is built with recycled Elium resin- composite, an Arkema innovation, and assembled with Bostik acrylic adhesives, also recyclable. Interesting too is a nice coachroof to shelter the solo skipper which will be removed for grand prix racing. Coated with a water-repellent varnish, its multiple glazings are made of Arkema’s own PMMA ‘acrylic glass’, recyclable, ultra- light and very shock-resistant. Many other special materials produced by Arkema Group con-
tribute to the performance of the trimaran. For example, Bostik’s structural adhesives that connect the structure, or state-of-the-art lithium batteries for sustainable energy management in transatlantic environments. ‘Well, today I find Arkema 4 slender and elegant,’ said Lalou
Roucayrol, moved and proud. ‘Romaric Neyhousser designed a beautiful boat as usual. We have gone even further in terms of innovation and the use of materials and we are on a new course! The use of Elium resin is completely revolutionary. Our sailing boats are indeed entering the era of neutral impact for recycling...’
AN INTERNATIONAL STORY – Carlos Pich Although we know nothing lasts for ever, the sad recent news was of the end of the Matador saga of the Roemmers family, which in 2011 renamed its famous TP52 Azzurra thanks to the agreement between the Argentine owners and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. ‘The decision caught us with a certain surprise,’ explained the team manager and skipper Guillermo Parada. ‘We knew that at some
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