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l A limit on the total number of sailing days in AC75 yachts to be introduced. All the above are good starting points for the planning of AC38.
The timing side of venue announcement is eight months since the last day of racing which translates to 22 June, as well as the exe- cution of the Protocol in the same period. A lot for ETNZ and Ineos to do in this timeframe. The devil will be in the details here, it will be good to see what comes of it and where the teams are heading. Getting back on the racecourse. After seven months of support
in Chase 1 it was heaps of fun and a bit of nervous trepidation to get back out on the racecourse. The last event was the Maxi European Championship aboard
Bella Mente which was great competitive racing. My first regatta of choice… the J/70 Fall Brawl, 15 boats, shifty northerly, and all the nerves of the America’s Cup, kind of! The J/70 continues to impress with its simplicity. One-design
racing is always pure with the rewards coming from doing all the little things well. Jenn Norwood (helm), Dan Morris (trim), Brady Stagg (bow), and yours truly trimming main/tactics, battled through six races over two days in champagne Chesapeake Bay conditions. We did not always do the little things well, but we did them well enough. Getting the win helped the fun but also was a great reminder to get back to basics. Parking lot banter with Dan and Brady and experiencing racing
in a different way. Reminding myself how to go racing again. All the details of the day were covered in Barcelona in a different way, by team members of the highest standard. As I look forward to what is next the J/70 experience, while simple, is directly applicable to all other forms of racing. Being on time and organised, good boathandling, good boat speed, team communication, starting well. The list goes on and on and yet it was a J/70 event. As we transition back to Quantum Racing, Windquest, Bella Mente and any other opportunities that can deliver great energy and getting back on the water… Moving forward there is a lot of great energy within American
Magic. The team is executing the move back to the city of Pensacola. The high-performance centre that is currently under construction can be game-changing for the sport of sailing in the United States. In the same way we are excited to learn about the future of America’s Cup 38, I am equally excited by what can be done in Pensacola. More to come as the plans for both are developed and evolve. Up next: METS trade show and Bella Mente training in
Ft Lauderdale. Excited to get into it! Standing by on a cool autumn evening in Annapolis, MD!
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Almost de rigueur these day, if you cannot have your own large superyacht toy tender trailing you around the world then you have to squeeze them in onboard… somehow. This is a modest if tasty little 50-footer, but we have seen far larger in our travels
18 SEAHORSE
l Go, Sammy, go… Seahorse columnist Sam Goodchild spent a significant portion of week one leading the 2024 Vendée Globe on Vulnerable l And one to bid on… Nicolas Lunven’s opening salvo in the Vendée Globe: a new 24-hour singlehanded record run of 546.60nm in the first week of the race… l Plus… Nicolas’s Holcim-PRB is the same boat that still holds the outright 24-hour monohull record of 640.48nm, set racing with a crew in The Ocean Race… l Meet him in Les Sables… in February with a bag of gelt, and you might get yourself a bargain... l Depending on…how he feels, of course… Or how he’s done l If not, of course there is also… Sam’s 2019 Verdier design Vulnerable which is already up for sale in Seahorse… l But definitely not… available yet l Surprise surprise… with Giles Scott off ‘to Canada’ and Sir Ben head-down plotting the revenge of the Icenis, Dylan Fletcher was obvious pick for the helm of the UK SailGP team l Smart… and promising… l With costs… at the sharp end of the Class40s skyrocketing as more commercial money flows into the fleet… l Class40 skippers… are starting to work together in groups of three or four or more, to share operating costs… l In particular… preparateur costs which have ‘escalated’ l And why… are those costs shooting up…? l With an Imoca build… at least 6million euros and annual running costs a minimum of 600,000 euros… l So time to downsize… with medium-sized Imoca sponsors priced out beyond a sticker on a wing mirror or two. And yet... l Eight… that is the number of new Imoca builds already confirmed for the next Vendée Globe cycle… l And tooling is…underway for at least three of them already l And gone for 2028… is the automatic bye into the race you get by arriving with a new Imoca… l Qualification for Vendée Globe 2028… will be insane l Would be good… global yacht racing impresario Johan Salén anticipates 8-12 ‘good’ teams for The Ocean Race 2027 l Given… the number of VG skippers expressing serious interest, we reckon he could well be proved right l Scoff ye not… among other successes on the Swede’s CV, multiple successful Whitbread Race campaigns… l Including two outright wins… with EF Language (led by another fast Seahorse columnist) and Ericsson 4 l Eek… following the tragic sinking of the Bayesian, the yacht’s builder is now suing The New York Times following an article critical of the yacht’s construction l There’s no hiding it… Mark Mills’ little Cape 31 is now the most significant modern one-design keelboat… l A successful… European championship in San Remo drew entries from no fewer than 12 different nationalities… l Now organisers…have to somehow achieve the balance… l Between the downsizers… Fast40 and big boat owners (sh*t-tons of money and lots of pro sailors…) l And the upsizers… dinghy, cat and small keelboat sailors who made the class’s early days more light-hearted fun... l Oh yes… ‘and sometimes…’ better sailors too l 44 per cent… of Britons aged 18-24 would ‘allegedly’ support military rule... l Allegedly… pucka, bona fide polling by a serious company l Well, it… sure terrifies us l Great news… Alain Thébault’s iconic machine Hydroptère looks likely to be saved from the knackers… l After being abandoned… in Hawaii after a record attempt, she is on her way to France to be restored to 50kt working order l Lot 1… the superyacht of all superyachts, in our opinion… l Ed Dubois’ final… legacy statement design Ngoni is on sale l If you know about her… £45million looks cheap l Or short of cash… there is a 2023 VPLP Ocean Fifty going for around 4million euros… l Plenty of other… juicy morsels at
RaceboatsOnly.com… l Plus the latest shopping tips… at
EurosailNews.com
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