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Jo Aleh and Molly Meech find their feet in the 49erFX at Hyères, their first major regatta since teaming up at the start of 2022. Aleh is understandably delighted to be enjoying going sailing again after a long break following 10 years’ hard campaigning – and dieting – in the Women’s 470, but there is a pretty solid pecking order in the FX fleet and only two years until Paris 2024 so it really is straight back in at the deep end. As one of the greatest Olympic women sailors, with gold and silver to her name (to add to Meech’s own FX silver at Rio 2016), Aleh now takes a notably more thought-provoking stance when talking about Olympic sailing second time around
Class 30 – let’s go! Good news for the boat created and designed at the joint initiative of the Union Nationale pour la Course au Large (UNCL), RORC and Storm Trysail Club to encourage more young sailors into ocean racing, whose first floating appearance is scheduled for the end of the year. With the delivery of the final design by VPLP and Multiplast, after nine months of study, orders are now being taken, with the aim of participating in the first Class 30 one-design racing at Spi Ouest-France 2023. ‘The final design and engineering were of course the submerged
part of the iceberg, but their importance is paramount for the future of the class, not just the boat. Our choice was to take a little more time for studies so that we could go straight into a production build,’ explains Yves Ginoux, secretary of the UNCL, in charge of the project. The boat is now fully defined technically and commercially. The
base price of the Club version ex-sails and tax is 94,500 euros, and 132,500 euros for the more sophisticated one-design version. Both versions are CE homologated in category A4, allowing four
crew in oceanic and offshore races – like the Fastnet Race, for example. The VPLP design’s low displacement of 2,700kg combined with a generous 105m2 spinnaker ensure plenty of speed to keep the anticipated younger sailors interested. The first 25 confirmed orders received the final sales contract
this month with the first boats to be delivered by the end of the year. It is planned the boats will leave the factory at the rate of one per week from January 2023 (to receive more information about the boat and the proposed sales prices:
uncl.com/class30-od/). For the first year of racing in 2023 a programme of 13 events
has been lined up in the English Channel and Atlantic plus 10 more events in the Mediterranean – including plenty of existing classic courses including the Fastnet itself. The programme takes in both double-handed and crewed events. After a first season to establish the class in 2023, a bigger ‘Class
30 Tour’ is already scheduled for 2024. Géry Trentesaux, president of the UNCL, declared to our colleague Jacques Guyader from the
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daily newspaper Ouest-France: ‘We all benefitted – and I’m talking about people of my generation – from our experiences in the Tour de France, or the Solo Figaro. There was no better ocean racing school in the world than those two events. And that’s missing today. ‘The Figaro has become a bit elitist, and the Tour de France no
longer exists. Young people no longer practise offshore racing as we did. I sailed the Tour de France, but also the RORC races as a family. We believe there is today a missing link between dayboats like the J/80 and the offshore racing boats. ‘In the old days there was the Half Tonner… a 9m boat with five
crew on which we raced for miles and miles. What we want with the Class 30 is a boat like that but faster and much more affordable for young people… and also for the Quadras [sailors over 40]!’
Another record In recent years the CIC Normandy Channel Race has enjoyed a bumper entry with 27 Class40s at the start in both 2016 and 2018… and 2022 will be another great vintage. Actually before mid-April 32 teams had signed up with a month and a half still to go until registration closed. The public’s thirst for offshore racing, the steady growth of this event and the overall development of the Class40 all go some way towards explaining the big draw of the race which starts this month in Ouistreham. With one exception the 16 new boats launched since the last
edition of the race (Nos 163 to 178) have already registered for the 1,000nm Norman classic. Furthermore, a wide range of naval architects and yards are now represented in the mix and this year’s event is a unique showcase for the evolution of the Class40: from the Pogo S4 (Verdier/Structures) to the Lift V2 (Lombard/Grand Large Composites – V1D2), Max40 (Raison/JPS), Clak40 (VPLP/ Multiplast) and Cape Racing Scow 40 (Bertrand/Cape Racing Yachts), with the very first Mach40.5 (Manuard/JSP) skippered by Luke Berry also set to compete. The NCR is the second Class40 event of the year after Les 1,000 Milles des Sables, sailed singlehanded in April and won by Corentin
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