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Left: who saw that coming? Tom Dolan of Ireland steals the 2024 Figaro from under the noses of the cream of ambitious young French singlehanders then two young Scots, Maggie Adamson and Cal Finlayson, nip home 65 seconds in front of the highly fancied French team of Elodie Bonnefous and Basile Bourgnon to win the 151nm decider of the new Offshore Mixed Doubles Worlds. Ineos Britannia (above) did score a first getting a CDK-built AC75 mast into the Cup Match. There was no way Kiwis would race with other than a homegrown Southern Spars rig, so this really was the best CDK could do and a nice endorsement from the British of a French company that’s been delivering perfectly finished yachts and then spars since the early 1980s. 49er gold medallist and Moth World Champion Dylan Fletcher (above) definitely added some secret sauce to Ineos – especially given he was dropped in at the last minute


these recent ‘sprints’ of up to 1,800nm have reminded the teams of the vulnerability of these big hyper-powerful machines that always sail so fast. Several crews have suffered failures of complex Ultim hydraulic systems and, much more serious, Gitana dismasted off Gibraltar on 8 October while sailing back to Brittany. At the time of writing Charles Caudrelier and his Gitana teammates


were heading to Motril, Spain; sadly the winner of the last Route du Rhum said that it was unlikely that he would get the boat back in sailing condition in time for a round-the-world record attempt. As we saw during the solo Ultim race round the world at the


beginning of the year, and before that during previous Trophée Jules Verne attempts, technical breakages and collisions with floating objects are a sword of Damocles that hovers constantly above the head of these brave sailors sailing their giant foilers. Actually the two remaining contenders could well find themselves with some close racing if they leave Brest simultaneously, or close to each other, rather than just looking for a record. Remember that this trophy has belonged to Francis Joyon since


2017 and his crew onboard a conventional trimaran, much slower on paper than the modern Ultim foilers, but more reliable… which helps explain how Francis’s record has survived so many attempts to break it. The time to beat is 40d 23h 30m 30s. Remember also that the deed of the Jules Verne Trophy states: ‘No outside assistance is permitted’.


Med Max: a successful first! ‘I think we’ve blown everybody’s mind!’ noted with joy Kito de Pavant, a well-known ocean sailor and creator of the Med Max Occitanie- Saïdia which ended on 6 October. Starting from Port-Camargue, the race took 25 pairs of skippers in 16 Class40s and nine Ocean Fiftys to the other side of the Mediterranean to Saïda in Morocco.


‘Soon after the start we shortened the Class40 course to ensure


both classes arrived close together; I think we all put on a nice show for our Moroccan friends,’ said Kito. ‘We also added an extra mark to lengthen the route for the tris… but the Ocean Fiftys flew on the last stage and still arrived much earlier than expected!’ The first three 50s were Primonial (Sébastien Rogues, Jean-


Baptiste Gellée) after 4d 7h, Koesio(Erwan Le Roux, Pablo Santurde del Arco) and Viabilis Oceans (Baptiste Hulin, Thomas Rouxel). In Class40 the podium was composed of Amarris(Achille Nebout, Gildas Mahé), the Italian boat Tyrolit (Matteo Sericano, Lucas Rosetti) and Centrakor (Mikael Mergui, Corentin Douguet). The first three Class40s finished within an hour after five days


at sea. Erwan Le Roux, the most experienced of the multihull skippers, was very positive about this new route. ‘This Med Max was waiting to be invented and Kito did it… bravo, Kito!!!’ Class40 victor Sébastien Rogues was equally enthusiastic: ‘A difficult race, but with the Mediterranean, its mysteries, its magical places, a complex and very interesting journey… See you here again in four years!’ Patrice Carpentier


GREAT BRITAIN Bleddyn Môn – Quiet brilliance By the time you read this the America’s Cup will be in the Squadron. Quite which Squadron that is you will know, but either way Ineos Britannia had a storming, historic run. Sixty years since Great Britain last contested an America’s Cup compounded with 173 years of hurt, the boys have done good, whatever the outcome. How this technology-first campaign went from, let’s be fair,


middling results in the Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta to top of the pile by the end of the Louis Vuitton Cup is head-scratchingly confusing, even to those of us supposedly on the ‘inside’. But a


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