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Seriously… I’m getting too old for this. John Winning Snr, patron saint of the Australian 18 Footers League, gets a bit too breeze-on with the Yandoo crew in a big squall on Sydney Harbour. Winning Snr has been racing competitively in the class since the mid-1970s and has won all the major championships – many of them on multiple occasions. The baton has more recently been taken up by his son, John Jnr (obviously), runner-up in this year’s JJ Giltinan World Championships. John Winning Snr is 66. Yandoo stayed upright
debriefed on Sunday afternoon, the team concluded that we were ‘Charlestoned’: a new term for when the racecourse just bites you. A combination of lack of time as a team and at this venue saw us fall off the podium. Disappointing, yes, but the longterm goal of improving Lucas and me for Super Series racing later in 2022… we absolutely will be better.But losing, how do I put it, sucks! Bruno Pasquinelli and his team on Stampedesailed well. Tactician
Morgan Reeser did not miss a beat and even when they did not start perfectly they were fast and well positioned. A solid win. From Charleston it was on to Annapolis NOOD with the team of
Ian Hill and Sitella. I was fortunate to race with Ian in Key West in the J/111 fleet and this event was spurred on by Ian wanting to try a different class and against some new competitors. Thirty J/70s gathered for three days of racing that like Charleston
featured current but unlike Charleston there was fog and not a lot of wind. The RC did as good a job as they could in at best very difficult conditions. Here, though, things fell more in our direction. Day 1 there was no racing, Day 2 Sitella went 3,2, and Day 3
one race in which Sitella battled to a well-earned 11th. Yes, that is the type of racing that featured. Each team in the top three had one double-digit score but on Sitella our 11th was happily a bit lower and we managed a 2pt win over John Heaton and Emperia. It was a good win for Ian especially given it was his inaugural
entry into the J/70. A bit unnerving as well, as I reminded him from here it is lateral or downhill, kind of! Having fun, we did a lot of laughing and being a little lucky. We were a lot lucky! We did not get Charlestoned. And we fought hard for every point. Up next: Aden’s graduation from high school and TP52 Super
Series getting cranked up in Baiona, Spain. Standing by in Harwood, MD!
HERE COMES THE CUP – Damià Calvet Damià Calvet is President of the Port of Barcelona, the state-owned company that manages the second most important Mediterranean port, the role of which was decisive in the choice of Barcelona as host of the 37th America’s Cup.
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Seahorse: How did the Cup adventure begin for Port Barcelona? Damià Calvet : It’s a story with quite a twist… We received a call in December to meet Barcelona Global – a private non-profit association made up of 100 of the city’s leading companies and entrepreneurs. At this meeting they told us about all the work they had quietly been doing with Team New Zealand, while they were also gently ‘warming up’ our local administrations. But without a port there was no America’s Cup. SH: When did you start working on a possible project? DC: When we found out that Team New Zealand were really inter- ested in Barcelona as the venue for the Cup we started very quickly. On the one hand, at the institutional level they were busy exploring the project with the private sector and other institutions, including Port Barcelona, and on the other hand we carried out an infra - structure study to see if the port was ready to host the Cup within the framework and timing the organisers demanded. SH: How did this study go… DC: We assembled a first proposal, but we were not convinced! We put everything near the Adossat cruise terminal. It was not a bad idea, but the team bases were very far from the city, and to get to the racecourse meant using the southern entrance which is very busy with commercial traffic. Then we tried bringing everything closer to the city centre, distributing the bases through the old port and using our other harbour entrance which makes it all very much more attractive. The first offer of the Adossat pier was not exciting for Team NZ
but the new one they really liked. It is an offer that puts the whole of the old port at the disposal of the America’s Cup. We want to make the best America’s Cup ever organised. It is a very exciting project that has generated a lot of optimism. And it is important for the city, for the country and of course for the port. Also it must leave a legacy for the entire marine sector. The New Zealand organisers are very demanding, but the
America’s Cup is a very demanding competition. They need ade- quate bases that allow them to develop and exploit all the tech- nology. They are also concerned about sustainability and a circular economy. Also of course about television broadcasting. For them
FRANK QUEALEY
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