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THIS MONTH JANUARY 2013

OPINION 6 News Latest from around the world

11 Bob Fisher: Roving eye Statistics from VOR and ISAF

13 Andy Rice: Dinghies Kids on tour - is there another way?

14 Jeremy Evans: Multihulls What really happens when AC72s fl ip

16 Andi Robertson: Yachts Chatting to Ian Walker

ANALYSIS

18 AC72s: last man standing? Cover story Bob Fisher wonders if

the AC72s are up to the job? Plus the latest from the 45s in San Fran

24 The complete test Helen Fretter talks to Cameron

Appleton about his RC44 season win

30 Lifetime Achievement Sir Keith Mills wins our Lifetime

Achievement Award, plus how to VOTE NOW for a chance to WIN a Sunsail holiday

32 David Carr Ingrid Abery meets the versatile pro

36 Taking on the masters Cover story Ben Saxton on how he won the Endeavour Trophy aged 22

TECHNIQUE

42 Dinghy SailinG A-Z Our essential guide

46 Musto Skiff Worlds MPS champion Bruce Keen shares his tips for success with Andy Rice

TESTING

53 London Boat Show We preview the 2013 London event

54 Kitbag at LondonNew products launched at Excel

56 New boatsLatest yacht and keelboat designs

58 Design FocusGlamorous Maxi ‘Nilaya’

60 B/One on testRupert Holmes puts Bavaria’s brand-new sportsboat through its paces

67 Buyers’ guide: winchesWhen to upgrade your deck hardware

TRAVEL 72 Destination Palma

Louay Habib enjoys the big breeze and old world charm of Majorca

2012 CLASSES GUIDE

79 A-Z Keelboat reviewSportsboats and dayboats listed

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86 Clubs and Classes Grassroots and grand-prix events

92 Boats on the water Second-hand buys worth a look

98 Position of the month Noughts and Crosses meets Risk!

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sir Keith MillsYACHTS & YACHTING AWARDS

Do you have a purple Nectar card in your wallet? Have you been cheering on Alex Thomson in the Vendée Globe? And were you,

like the rest of the country, glued to the action during last summer’s phenomenal home Olympic Games? You may not have realised, but all are due in no small part to Sir Keith Mills, the worthy winner of Yachts & Yachting’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

Without Keith Mills, it is very likely that the 2012 Olympic bid would not have been successful. In the business world, Sir Keith Mills is chiefl y known for inventing the hugely successful Air Miles and Nectar loyalty card schemes. However, his involvement with sport and sailing dates back over many years – he was knighted in the 2006

President of the London 2012 campaign, which saw London selected to host the 2012 Olympic Games. He was then made Deputy Chairman for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), alongside Chairman Lord Coe, and was awarded the Olympic Order for his work.

In 2007 he also set up Sported, a charity that aims to change young lives through sport. Sir Keith explains: ‘While we were bidding to host the 2012 Games I saw fi rst-hand how sport was able to inspire young people and improve their lives. We looked hard at how we could help expand sport for development in the UK and decided to put all of our efforts into supporting the thousands of amazing community based projects throughout the UK.’

In January 2007 Sir Keith also announced his intention to lead a new British America’s Cup challenge Team

From round the world racing to the America’s Cup, Sir Keith Mills’ infl uence on the sport of sailing has been far-reaching, but his biggest achievement is

undoubtedly London 2012

New Year Honours in recognition of his services to sport. In 1999 Sir Keith was part of a young Alex Thomson’s winning Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crew. Recognising Thomson’s talent and potential, he worked with Alex to set up Alex Thomson Racing as Alex built his reputation and sponsorship to become one of the world’s leading solo racing skippers.

From September 2003, Mills became Chief Executive and International

From round the world racing to the America’s Cup, Sir KeithMills’ infl uence on the sport of sailing has been far-reaching

Origin. Skippered by Ben Ainslie, the team included many British Olympians and talented sailors, and competed at Louis Vuitton, World Match Racing Tour and TP52 events, as well as a special 1851 Cup held during Cowes Week 2010. Sadly the America’s Cup court battles, subsequent Deed of Gift match and move to multihulls led him to end the project – it was the America’s Cup’s loss.

More recently Sir Keith announced a collaboration between IMOCA and his company Open Sports Management (OSM). His aim is to raise the profi le of the class and its events to an international audience. ‘The Vendée Globe is an incredible event – we want to build on that and develop its awareness outside France. This event is essential and we need to build an incredible programme of sport beyond the Vendée Globe,’ he explained.

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Amazing achievements

It’s certainly been a fabulous month for sailing, although not so good for our kitesurfi ng cousins. First windsurfi ng got re-instated into the Olympics - not that I have anything against

kitesurfi ng, but I don’t really think it’s a sport for windward-leeward racing, nor does it lend itself to youngsters learning the sport on inland waters - then kitesurfi ng’s grip on the outright World Sailing Speed Record was well and truly broken.

It was a sunny day in Southampton over 10 years ago when we all crowded round to see a rather strange looking craft, and I spoke to the man behind it, an enthusiastic and smiley Paul Larsen. The boat (could you really call it a boat?) looked amazing… It seemed like a crash helmet would be vital, and rather than a skipper, it called for a pilot. But Paul Larsen was soon out taming the beast, and we watched in awe as he started pushing it towards his goal. Since then we have seen the promising glimpses of speed, his dogged determination, and the spectacular crashes.

The terminal crash - for the boat - might have put many off, but Paul was soon back with ‘Vestas Sailrocket 2’. Then, as the new record-breaking season came upon us once again, there was amazing news from Walvis Bay in Namibia,

Sailrocket had hit over 60 knots... and just a few days later it smashed the outright world speed sailing record by the biggest margin ever! It was an amazing achievement and testament to the determination of Paul and his team.

As the news came through we were in the fi nal stages of this issue, so watch out for a full interview with Paul in our February edition. Without doubt, it’s one of 2012’s most stunning achievements, although sadly too late for our awards… This issue we announce our Lifetime Achievement Award, which appropriately goes to the man behind the bid to get the Olympics to London, Sir Keith Mills – and there’s still time to vote on your favourites in the other 10 categories before we announce them next issue, see p20... 2013’s going to have a lot to live up to!

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Paul Larsen’s ‘Vestas Sailrocket 2’ has broken the world speed record with a 500m run at an average of 65.37 knots in Walvis Bay, Namibia on November 24. The team also hit a new top speed of 67.74 knots. This new time (awaiting ratification at

time of going to press) obliterates the previous record of 55.65 knots held by kitesurfer Rob Douglas, as well as topping Sailrocket’s own previous fastest time of 59.38 knots, set a few days beforehand. An ecstatic Paul Larsen, who has been

working to break the elusive 60-knot barrier for over a decade, reported afterwards: ‘We are absolutely over the moon with todays performance. I’ll leave it at that. So cool, so damned cool. Thank you Vestas for backing us all the way. That’s it. Job done!’

Sailrocket smashes world record

ISAF U-turns on kitesurfing Y&Y’s 2013 awardsmade by the ISAF Council in May to drop windsurfing in favour of kitesurfing as an Olympic sport was carried. Other decisions at the conference include a green light for a new ISAF Youth Match Racing World Championship to help foster the discipline of match racing.

The annual conference of the International Sailing Federation discussed 23 submissions to re-open the federation’s earlier decisions on the events and equipment for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Despite needing at least 75 per cent of votes cast, a motion to reverse the decision

Award for AndrewsRob Andrews, London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition manager, has been presented with the ISAF President Development Award, in recognition of his tireless work that has contributed enormously to a significant lasting legacy for sailing.

Ainslie and Xu honouredBen Ainslie and Lijia Xu have been named as winners of the 2012 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards. While Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor ever following his fourth gold medal this summer, is well-known, Xu is not as yet a household name. However, the 25-year-old

Chinese sailor was twice top girl in the Optimist worlds, and became the first Asian sailor to win an Olympic gold medal in a dinghy when she triumphed in the Laser Radial class at the 2012 Games in Weymouth.

Gathering Cruise 2013 This event will see a flotilla of 100 yachts from across the UK, Europe and further afield sail to Irish ports as part of Gathering Ireland 2013. The 19 day event starts in Dublin in July, then heads south to explore the spectacular County Cork and Kerry coastlines.

There’s still time to choose your favourite events, boats, sailors, clubs, achievements and innovations of the year. The awards are sponsored by Garmin, Brewin Dolphin, Hugo Boss, Musto, Olympus, Sebago, Sunsail, theyachtmarket.com, SWIMS and Trident. www.yachtsandyachting.co.uk/awards2013

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New Olympic class circuit The Eurosaf Champions Sailing Cup aims to provide top competition for Olympic and Paralympic classes. It’s based on five established European regattas, including Weymouth’s Sail for Gold and Holland’s Delta Lloyd Regatta. To make racing easier for non-sailors to follow and

more enjoyable for competitors, the series will include a larger number of shorter races and the theatre style of racing used in the recent 49er worlds. In addition, the boat winning the final race will win the gold medal. Events will be ranked as 100-pointers in the ISAF world sailing rankings.

LeftAlinslie celebrates in Weymouth, his new focus is the America’s Cup

Youth AC TrialsThe Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is to hold a selection series in San Francisco in February 2013, with the goal of ensuring the best of the best are on the starting line of the main youth event in September. As well as qualifying through the selection series, prospective youth teams can enter through an affiliation with a current AC World Series team, or by buying an AC45 and registering their team.

Ainslie’s Olympic farewellBen Ainslie officially announced his retirement from Olympic sailing at the end of November. While it was a tough decision, it came as little surprise to many. When the Star class was dropped for the 2016 Games, it seemed there was little hope he would challenge again in the physically punishing Finn class, and any hopes that the Star would be reinstated were dashed at the ISAF conference

earlier in the month. Ainslie said the decision was tough, but ‘It is time to move onto the next challenge in my career.’ That challenge is the America’s Cup – an event Britain has never won. While Ben is racing with the US Oracle team for the 34th America’s Cup in 2013, he hopes to return with a fully-funded British team for the 35th edition of the event.

“It is interesting to see the number of boats which have already pulled out. You would like to think the attrition rate will not be as high in the south, but you could be looking at just seven or eight finishers. Equally, you are also thinking that it will be boats from the top eight who might be next to drop out. That really gives you pause for thought. I don’t want to be that boat. But does it change the way I will sail? Not a bit. It is about just keeping it all together.” Mike Golding talking on day 11 of the Vendée Globe Race

“If I was in the other teams I’d be envious for sure. I’d be a little worried, because this isn’t making us go slower, I know that.” Emirates Team New Zealand managing director Grant Dalton talking after his team had been sailing with Luna Rossa Challenge – the first time two AC72s have been together on the water.

“It was a challenging race with lots of parking lots, breeze and different forecasts. It was very demanding from a navigational and tactical point of view. We had a lot of opportunities when the bigger boats parked and we could decide which way to go.” Mark Sadler, co-skipper of Eddie De Villiers’ Welbourne 46 ‘Hi Fidelity’, overall winner of the Rolex Middle Sea Race at the first attempt.

They said…

You said…Forum users discuss their progress in the Virtual Vendée Globe:

“I’d managed to get up to around 20,000th before missing the wind shift while I had my dinner!!! Dropped 30,000 places as a result. It’s going to be a long few months.” – Craiggo

“I have just joined. No idea what I am doing yet. I haven’t hit any countries which I guess is a good thing, and I think I gybed, which led to the loss of 1,500 places. I can see this becoming very addictive!” – Dougal

“Really tempted to register and do it again. Must resist, must resist.” – Hengest

“I must be flipping brilliant at this… just checked my course this morning, I overtook 32,000 boats in my sleep!” – getafix

“I submitted a protest as a joke last night. It seems it’s been taken seriously and a lot of other people have submitted them too… oops!” – tgruitt

For more views go to www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/

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n Chatham Marine has won a Dame award for innovation at mets, the marine equipment trade show, for its sail cloth deck shoes. n the full text of the 2013 IRC Rating Rule has been published. it’s available at rorcrating.com

n irish Paralympic sailor John Twomey is to be president of the international association for Disabled sailing for the next four years.

n rising young 470 sailors mike Wood and hugh Brayshaw have won a coveted Marlow Ropes award in recognition of their determination, focus and talent.

n Weymouth and Portland national sailing academy will host the 2013 Dragon World Championship from september 5-13.

n the America’s Cup World Series will return to naples, italy in april 2013.

n Hanse Group the largest exhibitor at the hamburg boat show, saw a 30 per cent increase in sales. new boats launched included the hanse 345 and 575, Dehler 38 and varianta 44.

n the 2013 J/80 UK national championships and the inaugural J/70 UK nationals will be held at the royal yacht squadron in cowes from June 14-16. n JP morgan asset management has extended its title sponsorship of the Round the Island Race for a further two years. the company has sponsored the event since 2005.

n Britannia Corporate Events and Solent Events are to be official charter suppliers to cowes Week. individual racing slots will be available from £164 per day per person.

n Sevenstar is to sponsor the 2014 rorc round Britain and ireland race.

n Ancasta has appointed sam Pearson as race boat broker.

n the John Merrick’s Sailing Trust golf day raised £11,275 for the charity. www.jmst.org.uk

n the website address given for the Contour+2 waterproof hD video camera reviewed in the last issue of yachts and yachting was incorrect – it should read www.contour.com

In brief

Sunbeam fleet growthFollowing the class’s decision to allow GRP construction in February 2010, the Solent Sunbeam fleet has grown steadily, with six new boats since the first fibreglass one hit the water just before Cowes Week two years ago. The new boats compete on level terms with the traditional wooden and wood/epoxy fleet as they jointly celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Solent Sunbeam in 2013.

A funding drive to pay for fitting out ‘Brittania’, a replica of the big class yacht owned by King George V, has been launched on the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. The appeal will run until December 30, with a wide range of pledges offered from just

£2 to £5,000. There’s a gift for each pledge – these range from desktop wallpaper to racing on the boat once the refit is completed in early 2014. The 55m yacht will then be used for maritime education, programmes for veterans, and gifted to 80-100

charities a year as a floating venue for charity fundraisers and events. The structure was built in Russia and the vessel is currently at Venture Quays in Cowes. At 55 metres her mast will be the tallest wooden spar in the world. www.kickstarter.com

Help get Britannia sailing

Lightning 368 classWe inadvertently missed this class from the 2012 Racing Classes Review in the December issue. This vibrant 3.68m singlehander is a strict one-design designed by Mark Giles in 1977 and recently updated by class builder John Claridge. Find out more at www.lightning368.org

The first of the new 70ft boats built for the 2013 Clipper round the world race has arrived in the UK ready for final fit out, trials and pre-race training. The third generation boats for the event are significantly more powerful and more performance oriented than their predecessors.

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And they said we couldn’t improve it.

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Examines the end of year reports from VOR and ISAFExamines the end of year reports from VOR and ISAF

Bob Fisher

Lies, damn lies, and statistics,’ said Benjamin Disraeli back in the 1800s. Now more than ever (probably thanks to the internet) we have statistics thrust down our throats. Some are palatable; others have a decidedly nasty taste to them.

The Volvo Ocean Race, for example, claims 2.9 million visitors to the race villages. There were 10 of those in largely major capital cities, so around 300,000 on average per stopover. Can we help but compare that to the 575,000 who attended the Vendée Globe race village in the fi rst two weeks it was open? To bring some perspective, we are told the total attendance at the Euro 2012 Football championship matches was less than 1.5 million, but that, nevertheless, was to capacity stadia.

Perhaps the most indigestible fact was the statement from the CEO: ‘We visited China for the second time in 2011-12 and made a real breakthrough with a fi rst visit to the Middle East with what was a spectacular stop in Abu Dhabi.’

A real breakthrough? My own recollection of the Middle East stopover concerned the way organisers had been forced to ‘hide’ the boats on the leg from Cape Town, sending them to an unnamed port where they were transported by boat, to avoid the possible attention of pirates while at the same time allowing sponsors to reap the benefi ts of taking the race to the marketing opportunities of Abu Dhabi.

The one truly outstanding feature of the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race was the performance of the media crew members. The output of these specialist crewmembers added much to the coverage of the race in terms of video and written reports. No other sporting event can offer this type of reportage and one hopes that it will be encouraged next time, and in other events.

All change (back again)The disease, for that is how statistics may be viewed, has spread to the ISAF. The out-going president, Goran Petterson, spoke of the success of the 2012 Olympic sailing regatta in his report, stating: ‘I think three aspects made these Games stand out from past ones. The fi rst and probably the most important was the success of the ticketed spectator area. More than 60,000 tickets were sold and customer surveys indicated that the people were very happy being there and enjoying the spectator venue.’

All very well, but before the regatta it was well known that the sailing conditions off the Nothe Gardens were not good. They haven’t changed in 60 years – Ian Proctor was aware when he carried out his research for the 1952 Burton Trophy. Certainly in the summer, this area has the most unstable wind anywhere in Weymouth Bay, but the fi nal argument was one of bums on seats and there was nowhere else that this could be

arranged. Pity that the sailors had to suffer.For the many who had hoped the ISAF council

might consider a rethink on the Olympic classes that had been nominated at its mid-term meeting in May, there was initially disappointment in Dublin this November. Under ISAF regulations, a 50 per cent plus majority is suffi cient to make an initial decision, but it takes a minimum of 75 per cent to reconsider that – an unbalanced way of democratic decision-making perhaps?

When the council met on Friday, November 9 the matter was debated and a vote taken. Interestingly, 26 of the 38 of those present wanted the matter re-opened (68 per cent). It needed three more to make the change, leaving one avenue still open – that of the general assembly the next day. Here the simple majority 51:40 vote returned the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfers to the 2016 Olympics.

Finally, the general assembly was where the election of offi cers for the next four years took place. Certainly the presidential slate went against comprehension. Carlo Croce (ITA) publicly declared within the past 12 months: ‘I know absolutely nothing about ISAF,’ yet he was elected president and the candidate who knew its workings inside and out, David Kellett (AUS), was rejected in the fi rst count.

A simple majority 51:40 vote returned the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfers to the 2016 Olympics

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Travelling far and wide to race every weekend? It’s so last centuryTravelling far and wide to race every weekend? It’s so last century

Andy Rice

One recurring topic that crops up during my conversations with sailors is how the highly organised and successful RYA-led youth squads, zone squads and so on are affecting club sailing. In terms of hitting its targets, you can’t

fault the system, with Brits winning the President’s Cup as top nation at the 4 Star Pizza ISAF Youth Worlds in Ireland earlier in the summer. But I have some sympathy with the view that all this national success does little for the club racing scene, and sometimes detracts from it.

I’ve debated this thorny subject in the past with the RYA’s former chief executive Rod Carr and racing manager John Derbyshire, and they point out that the funding ploughed into high-level youth sailing is provided by the central funding body, UK Sport, for that single purpose. It’s not cash the RYA can reallocate to other parts of the sport, even if it wanted to.

Fair enough. But can’t there be a way of keeping the standards high without making kids and parents travel all round the country weekend after weekend? Surely you don’t need to bring all the very best sailors together all the time, to bring out their best performance, especially not in a country like ours which is so densely packed with sailing talent.

In geographical terms, Perth, in Western Australia, is the most isolated city in the world, yet it produced 29er world champions and a high standard of youth sailor for many years. They’ve achieved this with a tight-knit, small group of committed sailors being coached by equally committed coaches. They didn’t need to travel on a regular basis to become the best in the world. The same used to be true of 470 sailing in New Zealand in the 1980s when David Barnes and Hamish Willcox used

to win the worlds year after year, followed by a bunch of fellow Kiwis fi lling the top three or four places.

So maybe there is another way, that requires less travel and a stronger commitment to a home club. I’ve heard that some of the parents at Hayling Island were getting tired of traipsing around the country to the youth events in the RS Feva. Instead they hired Adam Bowers to drive over from Weymouth for a series of weekend coaching sessions over the winter, helping turn the kids into one of the most competitive Feva fl eets in the country (while the parents carried on with their own sailing). It would be nice to see more initiatives like this, and for the RYA to support an alternative to the petrol-hungry travelling circus which tends to restrict high-level youth campaigning to the well-to-do.

The Non-Travellers SeriesOn a similar theme, I’ve been wondering if there’s a way of having a virtual club race simultaneously across the

whole country. Hear me out...Pretty much every club in the country has a race on

Sunday morning, with all kinds of boat taking part. Race results are captured electronically on software packages such as Sailwave and Excel. So why can’t the results from different sailing clubs be mashed together to create one big nationwide race on a Sunday morning? A weekly handicap racing championship!

Sound nuts? Of course, and there are plenty of reasons why it couldn’t work. But there are plenty of ways it could be made to work. You would probably need every participating club to have a ‘base’ fl eet of boats that are popular around the country. The Laser would be the most obvious example, but other popular classes such as the Solo, GP14 etc would do nicely. Provided there are suffi cient clubs across the country using at least one of these ‘base’ boats, then you start to have a means for comparison.

What about the weather differences? From blowing a hoolie at Hayling to a drifter at Derwent, how do you make any meaningful comparison? Well, based on one weekend, you couldn’t. But run the series across three, six or even 12 months of Sundays, and things should start to even out. By no means is this a fully thought-through idea, but it might be fun to give it a go. If you’re interested, let me know!

Can’t there be a way of keeping standards high without making kids and parents travel round the country?

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Multihulls

Too big to fail – can AC72s and their crews survive capsizing?Too big to fail – can AC72s and their crews survive capsizing?

Jeremy Evans

Critics of staging the America’s Cup in multihulls made plenty of noise about it being a nefarious plot to ensure Team Oracle was unbeatable. But the performance of Team New Zealand in the fi rst season of new-style America’s

Cup competition showed that Oracle had minimal advantage. And the move to AC72s does not appear to have upset the pecking order very much.

TNZ’s AC72 looked smooth and formidable fl ying downwind on L-foils and a small wing on the base of each rudder. Much credit must go to the head of design, Pete Melvin, of Morelli & Melvin. Just don’t expect to see these boats fl ying to windward, he told me.

By contrast, Oracle’s AC72 looked fl aky on a tiny pair of L-foils; it was not a huge surprise when she came to grief and pitch-poled after a few outings. Australian skipper Jimmy Spithill admitted it was a major setback, but assured everyone Oracle would bounce back. They were already building a second AC72, with time and resources to modify the design.

So what went wrong? Looking at the video, Oracle suddenly changes from full fl ight, with both hulls up and trimmed level, to displacement sailing with bows going down and front beam about to hit the water! Jimmy and crew were bearing away in 25 knots of breeze with wind over tide in San Francisco Bay providing challenging conditions.

Those with long memories may recall serial pitch-poles by sailors learning to manage the impossibly behaved Hobie 14. Oracle’s fi rst AC72 may be a billion times more sophisticated than the anarchic Hobie, but they share one characteristic – low volume bows. For Oracle, low volume reduces weight and windage for

faster take-off on L-foils which lift hulls clear of the water. But if the boat suddenly falls off its foils there’s a big problem created by hulls decelerating and true wind accelerating in the fabulously powerful rig.

Maybe TNZ and her Prada sister-ship will hit similar problems when they sail in San Francisco. We hope not, because if AC72s are prone to capsize and self-destruct, it will screw up the 34th America’s Cup and prove the critics correct! TNZ has clearly sacrifi ced weight and windage to put more volume in the bows and looks better behaved as an extreme sailing machine.

But the New Zealanders are anything but complacent, and coach Rod Davis has a capsize recovery plan, just in case.

First, there is the possibility of signifi cant injuries, particularly if a crewman hits something falling down the 14m-wide platform. A few years ago, an unfortunate sailor broke his neck falling head-fi rst into the mainsail of a Nacra 20 with a relatively small drop.

Crew members may get separated from the boat,

which will blow downwind faster than they can swim, while chase and support boats could be far away – it’s impossible for them to keep pace with an AC72 in waves, simply because their crews can’t hang on.

Boat recovery is second priority to crew recovery. The TNZ AC72 has righting lines run along each side of the forward beam. Experience with AC45s has shown that a 45-degree angle between righting line and tow boat will dig the bottom hull into the water and trip the cat upright with the bows pointing upwind. But if one of these lines breaks, it is capable of infl icting severe injury on the crew of the support boat.

If the boat is not righted within 10 minutes of capsize, things go progressively downhill, particularly if the bow of the down hull sinks, as happened with Oracle. More worrying still, if the wing disintegrates, the AC72 could turn turtle possibly drowning anyone caught under it.

In case of entrapment, TNZ crewmen have been trained in how to carry and use individual air bottles to breathe underwater while working out an escape route. To provide outside help, a rescue diver will be on stand-by with the support boats.

Hopefully none of these skills will be required, but as Rod Davis explains: ‘If the TNZ AC72 goes over, no question it will be a mess – so you plan for the worst and hope for the best.’

Oracle may be more sophisticated than the Hobie 14, but they share one characteristic – low volume bows...

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Yachts

Ian Walker hopes it’ll be third time lucky in the VolvoIan Walker hopes it’ll be third time lucky in the Volvo

Andi Robertson

Putting the disappointment of the Volvo Ocean Race behind him, 2012 ended on a high for Ian Walker. Fulfi lling a promise to compete in the Mirror nationals with his daughter Zoe their formidable partnership won the title 23 years after he last raced a Mirror, a highlight

of enjoying the post Volvo months with his kids. Since then Walker has been back to Abu Dhabi

numerous times, analysing the race and looking at the possibility of continuing into the next. He is hopeful that there will be an announcement soon, probably before Christmas. And, not surprisingly, he is of a fan of the one-design concept. Certainly his plan is to be back, ideally with Abu Dhabi, for a third race.

‘I guess it was a bit like Steve Redgrave getting out the boat and saying “never again”, but like all offshore races time heals. We have spent an awful lot of time looking at what we did well, and things we did not do so well, and already looking at the new paradigm which is the new race. To all intents and purposes the race is completely different now.’

The move to one-design is a route he welcomes and which was essential: ‘I am pleased. I have had two uncompetitive boats and so if anyone is going to want one-design it is me, but also because I am involved on the commercial side. The bottom line is that without signifi cant changes there would not be a race. I hope the race gets the support it deserves. It is going to be very different next time, but I think it will be very exciting.

‘The skippers on the last race sat down in Lisbon when it was becoming obvious what Volvo were going to do.

And the reaction of everyone there was “we need to get more involved” and I think we just about managed to do that on time, I think we helped spice up the boats a bit. And there is a range of opinions in the fl eet.’

Looking back at their programme has been tough. ‘It is always quite hard to make an objective analysis because you judge by performance and results. Then it would be easy to judge that everything we did was wrong, when in actual fact some of what we did was quite good, and some of what we did needed to be better. And in many instances it didn’t matter how we did it, because if you have fundamental issues – like in Green Dragon we had with the build of the boat, and this time because of other design criteria – it kind of taints everything.

‘But look at the other teams. Early on you thought Telefonica were the perfect team, they would have been the model of how to go about the Volvo Ocean Race. Conversely after a couple of legs Groupama did not

look like they had a grasp on the whole thing. But by the end you’d have a totally different opinion. And that just shows how opinion is dictated by performance.

‘You have to look at every department, at decisions that went well or badly. Our overall management of the assets fi nancially and structurally with the team was very strong. It is diffi cult to bring these projects in on budget, from a standing start especially as we did this time. We had strong sailors, most of the people we had you would not swap. But we could never overcome the fundamental thing that when we got on the same piece of water as everyone else we lost out. I don’t think there is anything we could have done about that other than starting earlier or being able to sign Juan K.

‘Abu Dhabi have been going through the same process... so they are in the process of fi nalising their commitment - or not - to the Race next time around.

‘Principally the race is going from design and build to a situation where potentially you are not going to be able to work on your own boat. It’s going to be completely different but it will also make large swathes of the project considerably easier. At this stage in previous races the team which had already got going was the team which went on to win. You can’t do that now. All you can do now is work on your systems, your processes, try and secure good people.’

It was like Steve Redgrave getting out of the boat and saying ‘never again’, but like all o� shores, time heals

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LAST MANSTANDING?The AC72s are proving spectacular for all the wrong reasons, as Bob Fisher reports

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America’s Cup

The recent proliferation of AC72s has not been the glorious success its promoters had hoped. True, the boats are sensationally fast, but their speed is

matched more than equally by their fragility and seeming unsuitability for purpose. Those that have taken to the water have largely given the naysayers a field day and their progenitors serious headaches. They have brought into question their reliability to the extent the major design problem may

be in providing teams with boats that will last the distance between now and the middle of next September. Will the Golden Gate YC’s champion, Oracle Team USA, have a suitable vessel with which to defend the Cup, or indeed will there be a winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup in shape to challenge?

The Cup’s organisers must be worried, but so far are showing little real concern. However, the drama that is unfolding should be giving rise to second thoughts as to the suitability of 72ft wing-sailed catamarans for America’s Cup racing.

They will be at the leading edge of development in racing sailboats, and that, theoretically at least, should satisfy even the most vehement of the critics. The America’s Cup has, since its inception, been demanding of technological development – although back when it started, the New York YC, among others, had banned multihulls from racing.

A costly mistakeOracle Racing USA produced the most damning example of over-indulgence when the team capsized its AC72 while

While the 72s were providing cause for concern,

the organisers could bathe in the glory of a

highly successful week of 45 racing in the AC

World Series in San Francisco. It ran in parallel

with Fleet Week, whose Air Shows with the Blue

Angels attracted large crowds that mostly

remained for the racing. Nowhere else, before

or since, has there ever been crowds in excess

of half a million for any yacht racing, and these

persisted throughout the five days in October.

From that racing there emerged a new boy

(or two) on the block, but the outstanding

performance was undoubtedly that of Ben

Ainslie. Sailing his J. P. Morgan AC45 with a

highly experienced crew drawn from the

Oracle Team, his results gave him equal points

with the eventual winner, Jimmy Spithill. Spithill’s

overall victory was the result of winning the

heavily points-biased final race on ‘Super

Sunday’. Ainslie’s scoreline read: 1,3,1,2,4,1,4.

Before racing started, there was a warning

from ACRM supremo, Iain Murray, that it could

be dangerous. ‘With the ebb tide running at

two knots against the wind, it could kick up

quite a seaway,’ he warned. And on day one

it did, so that there were some hair-raising

moments as boats buried their bows rounding

the windward gates in the match races.

There were some new faces in the boats; Kiwi

Olympic silver medallist, Peter Burling, took over

the Team Korea skipper’s berth vacated by

Aussie gold medallist, Nathan Outteridge, who

had moved to Artemis Racing Red where his

tactician was Paul Cayard.

The match between Team Korea and Luna

Rossa-Piranha was a nail-biter with big gains

and losses. At one time Team Korea led by 160

metres, and was 20 seconds up at the final

windward gate. A bungled gennaker drop

allowed Luna Rossa-Piranha ahead briefly, but on

the reach to the finish, Team Korea, to windward,

went ahead to win by a single second.

Fleet Week 45s

ABOVE A flying Team New Zealand

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trialling in San Francisco Bay. Only nine days earlier, helmsman Jimmy Spithill had pitch-poled and capsized an AC45 while racing and the second example was an enlarged mirror image – both boats dug in their bows and then fell sideways with their sterns in the air. No lessons learned there then? Now, with the damage estimated in the region of $10 million, the question has to be raised: ‘How long can this go on?’

With the team owned by Larry Ellison (the third richest man in America – only Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

have greater asset wealth), the answer is probably: ‘As long as it takes’, but for others this level of expenditure would be disastrously uncomfortable. Grant Dalton, the CEO of Emirates Team New Zealand, for example, might well be forced to shut up shop if the Kiwis’ boat performed similar acrobatics – he has a board of directors to whom he has to answer and its members are the source of his funding, including the New Zealand Government.

But, to date, the ETNZ AC72 has performed flawlessly during the 20

days of sailing she has completed and impressed everyone into the bargain. This 72-footer heads out on to the Hauraki Gulf in any suitable weather and has shown considerable promise, riding easily on foils and achieving high speeds that have impressed even the most critical (and knowledgeable) of watchers. For Dalton, it is all part of a learning curve and one that he hopes to develop shortly.

The day after the Luna Rossa AC72 was launched in Auckland, Grant confessed: ‘I hope it is considerably faster than our boat!’ However brash

Outteridge was not so fortunate in his debut

with Artemis Red when he met Dean Barker

and Emirates Team New Zealand. The Kiwis

led from the start to finish 51 seconds in front.

Loick Peyron claimed an even bigger winning

margin (1:01) for Energy Team over the China

Team, as did Ainslie when he met Luna Rossa-

Swordfish, coming home 1:15 in front.

Match racing extended into the second

day with two quarter-finals. The first saw Terry

Hutchinson, the previous season’s champion,

with Artemis Racing White meet and defeat

Burling and Team Korea by a big margin. Then

there was a close one when Barker and the

Kiwis met Peyron and the French. Energy team

held an early lead, but the superior boatspeed

of the Kiwis took them to a 43 second lead at

the finish.

On that second day of the regatta, the

fleet racing began in 13-14 knots of breeze

blowing from the west, with the ebb tide giving

all the bumpiness that Murray had promised.

After Outteridge had led with Artemis Red,

Ainslie took over in front on the first windward

leg by going offshore into the middle of the

Bay and led through the windward gate from

ETNZ, Oracle-Coutts and Outteridge. Those

places were retained to the finish where the

surprise was that another new skipper, Iker

Martinez with Luna Rossa-Swordfish was last. In

the second race, Spithill nailed the start and

stretched his lead to 28 seconds from Ainslie,

Hutchinson and Outteridge. In the closing

stages, Hutchinson passed Ainslie but could

make no impression on Spithill. It gave Ainslie

a five point lead over Outteridge and Coutts,

and one point more over Spithill.

Day three began with match racing and

when Coutts met Outteridge there was a touch

of pathos. Coutts led and when the gennaker

on Artemis Red snarled, Coutts’ advantage

became huge – he and his crew joked about

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America’s Cup

and rash that may sound, it was a carefully considered statement. The Luna Rossa boat is a linear development of the Kiwis’ first boat – the hulls came from the same moulds and the platform builders were the same (Cooksons), and the wing is a minor development from the original that the Kiwi boat is using. Dalton sees this simply as a step in the ETNZ development programme and probably regrets that the Italian syndicate is only to build one boat. Patrizio Bertelli, the

head of the Luna Rossa project, is keen to remain a player in the America’s Cup scene and will rely on his team’s sailors to provide the necessary impetus.

Towing the wrong lineMeanwhile, out on San Francisco Bay... with Oracle Team USA out of the AC72 action, Artemis Racing Team put its AC72 (designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian) on trials. It started with towing trials and progressed no further when there was a cracking sound. The tests were

abandoned and the bright red hulls were gingerly towed back to the team’s base at Alameda. It left the venue for the 34th America’s Cup clear until repairs to both boats, or a second Oracle Team USA AC72 makes its appearance. There will be a second Oracle boat, but we have yet to learn whether there will be a second Artemis Racing Team AC72.

Artemis Racing was towing its platform at 15 knots under the Bay Bridge in calm conditions when things began to go wrong. Skipper Terry Hutchinson said that the platform was unintentionally put in a position of risk because of the way it was being towed, with the foils down and without the wing-sail. He added: ‘We shouldn’t have been doing what we were doing. We had the boards down and at certain angles. At certain speeds the boat is going to do things that need the opposing forces in place. We didn’t have one opposing force, primarily the wing, in place.’

Artemis, it should be remembered, has already suffered one setback during trials in which they had expected to steal a march on their rivals by testing their wing on a 60ft trimaran. The Artemis boss, Paul Cayard, said at the time that it had saved them time because it happened before the sailing of AC72s became ‘open season’. But by November 1, the team had not combined its hulls and wing and by this time ETNZ had already accomplished 20 days of sailing trials.

Oracle Team USA had also received a setback earlier with a foils failure on its fourth day of trials that caused considerable hull damage. Once the repairs had been effected, USA-17 – as the boat was dubbed after Ellison’s lucky sail number – sailed again using recycled foils from the giant trimaran that won the Cup in 2010.

‘the old bull and the young bull’, but the

smile was on the young bull’s face as Coutts

rounded the wrong final mark and Outteridge

was declared the winner. Spithill restored the

balance for Oracle in the other quarter-final by

beating Ainslie after the British helmsman was

penalised for a tap touch at the start.

Switching modesIn the first of the day’s fleet races, in 13 knots

of breeze, Ainslie led from the leeward gate

and had a continuous fight with Hutchinson in

Artemis White, while Chris Draper in Luna Rossa-

Piranha snatched third place from Outteridge.

The wind dropped to 10 knots for the second

fleet race where Hutchinson and Spithill were

neck-and-neck at the start. When Spithill gybed

to go offshore, Hutchinson went towards the

City Front and Ainslie went with him. At the

leeward gate, Peyron came from nowhere to

lead from Hutchinson and Ainslie. After the beat

Hutchinson led by five seconds and then there

was a 30-second gap to Peyron in third place.

Despite a fevered attack from Ainslie, Hutchinson

held on to win by nine seconds with Peyron third

and Outteridge fourth. It was Ainslie’s day and

he now had a nine-point lead over Hutchinson

and two more ahead of Outteridge.

On the following day it was back to match

racing for the semi-finals, which saw Spithill

defeat Outteridge in 17 knots of wind. In

the other match Dean Barker beat Nathan

Outteridge by 18 seconds and set up a final

with Spithill.

Meanwhile for the day’s fleet races 11 boats

lined up in front of a huge crowd along the

City Front shoreline, who got the thrills they

had come for when Barker led around the

first mark and Spithill pitch-poled on rounding

and capsized. Hutchinson had to take drastic

action to avoid a collision with the toppling

Oracle Team USA.

With the damage estimated in theregion of $10 million, the question has to be

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At the leeward mark Barker led and

continued to do so to the finish ahead of Team

Korea, Artemis White and Ainslie. Spithill’s team

had made a quick recovery and were back

for the start of the day’s second race, but it

was Ainslie who led from the start, and after

one round was 24 seconds up on Hutchinson

with Spithill third. At the finish, Ainslie won by 41

seconds from Spithill with Hutchinson third and

Barker fourth. It gave Ainslie an 11-point lead.

In the match race final, Spithill was

penalised for breaking the line early, but

was still ahead as Barker stalled ETNZ, and

continued to lead throughout to take the

match race championship.

On the last day, Super Sunday provided a

spectacle for the largest crowd yet. Ainslie, the

points leader, was penalised in the pre-start

and after two rounds was fifth, but Spithill led

and continued to do so to the finish, where

he was 17 seconds ahead of Coutts and 10

more to Hutchinson. Ainslie’s fourth place put

him on level points with Spithill, who claimed

40 for this victory and the overall win courtesy

of the tie-break on the last race. For him and

his Oracle Team USA crew it was the perfect

double: match and fleet racing titles in front of

the home crowd.

ResultsFleet Racing: 1st Oracle Team USA-Spithill 79pts,

2nd J.P.Morgan BAR 79pts,

3rd Artemis Racing White 72pts,

4th Emirates Team New Zealand 57pts,

5th Oracle Team USA-Coutts 56pts.

Match Racing: 1st Oracle Team USA-Spithill,

2nd Emirates Team New Zealand.

Coming up next... February 04-24, 2013 - Red Bull Young America’s

Cup Selection Trials, San Francisco, USA

April 16-21, 2013 - America’s Cup World

Series, Italy

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COMPLETE TEST

To win the RC44 circuit requires fantastic all-rounder ability – to win it twice back-to-back requires something a little bit special. Cameron Appleton tells Helen fretter how Team Aqua achieved just that...

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RC44 Champions

It’s hard to think of a circuit that offers a truer test of skill than the RC44s. A strict one-design, the Russell Coutts-created keelboats are a pure racing design, with no compromise for handicap ratings

or mass-market appeal. The multi-venue series takes in coastal and inland waters, blustery Atlantic and sweltering Mediterranean conditions, demanding consistency across modes. And with fl eet and match racing at each event, every team is tested for speed, strategy, and all-round skill.

The undisputed masters of this circuit are Team Aqua, a British-fl agged team owned by Chris Bake and headed by pro sailor Cameron Appleton. Since the circuit’s inception the Aqua crew has won the series title three times, in 2007, 2011, and 2012. They also topped the match racing rankings in 2010 and 2011.

Team Aqua’s championship defence began in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, in February 2012, where they opened the season with an event win despite a 10th in their fi rst start. ‘Lanzarote is a tricky venue,’ recalls Cameron Appleton. ‘Day one did not go to plan, and we had to really work hard going into the weekend. But we got things rolling and were able to work our way into the lead on the Saturday. Then just one race on Sunday was a little bit of the pressure off. It was the start of the new year and so you have your goals set out. Coming off winning the following year you’re always trying hard not to over-think it and push too

hard and for it to backfi re, so it was wonderful for the team to have a bit of a stabiliser and come out with a win.’

Despite their record in the class, Appleton says they could never be complacent. ‘The thing is these boats are unbelievably great to sail and the class is just phenomenal. There are so many good teams that it doesn’t take much to put just a little foot wrong and everyone else capitalises on any mistakes that anyone makes. It can be very humbling very quickly.’

Perfecting the set-upFor the second event of 2012 the RC44s headed to Cascais, Portugal, where 28-knot gusts and Atlantic waves set a tough challenge. It was a high scoring event with six of the 15 entries winning at least one race. Team Aqua had three race wins, but the Russian Katusha team proved marginally more consistent to take the event overall. ‘The fi rst few days were breezy and again we felt we were slow to get going. The Katusha guys, with Russell [Coutts] as their tactician, led the way. They did a fantastic job, and no matter how hard we tried we couldn’t close down that gap. Once someone’s on a roll in this class it’s pretty hard to slow them down.

‘One of the things we did this year was introduce a new, slightly bigger mainsail. And so that means the boat behaved and responded slightly differently. It wasn’t a big difference but in a couple of conditions it took us a little while to change our moding, and once we had got that out of the way we started to progress.’

The RC44 class is a strict one-design but, now in its seventh year, has matured to the point where teams seek out any speed advantage and sail development is a key part of this. ‘The sails have a box rule, the way you open that up in your design is in the overall fl ying shape. The beauty about the sport of sailing is that everybody has a different style and a different way of sheeting, and what they want to see in their sail shape.

‘Inevitably in one-design boats you get a slight variation in mast thicknesses - just due to when the masts are produced, the time of year, the climate, the humidity, it all plays a part.’

Heading inlandFor the third series event the fl eet headed inland to Lake Traunsee, for

The Team Aqua crew are a consistent squad that has been sailing together for years. ‘It is a pleasure sailing with a really good group of people and knowing when to be serious, knowing when to enjoy it. You know our motto has always been go out and have fun, and the fun will lead to good success. And the success that we have is all from the guys that we have on board, I can never thank them enough for the effort they do,’ comments Appleton.

The key roles include main trimmer Andrew Estcourt, grinder Ben Graham and bowman Matt Cassidy ‘all original members and each one of those guys does an outstanding job,’ adds Cameron. They are joined by trimmer Christian Kamp and pitman Mark Towill, plus of course owner and driver Chris Bake. ‘At the end of the day we’re here because of Chris Bake and the enjoyment that he gets out of the class is what brings him back year after year. Without him and without the level that he drives towards we wouldn’t be in the position that we are now, and we can’t thank him enough for being one of the most supportive owners around.’

But Team Aqua has also welcomed some younger additions. ‘We then have Chris Noble, a young guy who started out from the British Keelboat Academy,’ explains Appleton. ‘He put his hand up and asked if he could be the boat captain and this year he really lifted his game and has done a phenomenal job on and off the water. He’s really grown into the role and as a young guy has done a great job. We keep pushing him, keep asking questions of him and he’s working out what’s required to deliver.’

The Team Aqua squad was also joined by other Keelboat Academy members throughout the season. ‘I got an opportunity at a very young age that I’m very grateful for and it was just through timing and being in the right place. So I think it’s really important – we get a lot out of these young guys but it’s great to see them come in with a really good attitude and to work hard, and they get just as much back from us. Three out of the six have got spots on other yachting teams that they might not have had the opportunity to have access to, so that’s brilliant to see. In the coming years we’re going to open it up a little bit and include a member from each of the nationalities that we represent.’

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the RC44 Austria Cup. ‘Lake sailing is a slightly different concept, you need to have a more open style of sailing. Austria was our worst event of the year, we ended up fourth – we were third most of the week but again it was a shifty, tricky venue, and you’ve got to be a bit tongue in cheek about it, there’s a lot of luck and you need things to go your way. But they only go your way by you creating those opportunities and that particular week Artemis out-sailed all of us.’

Appleton and crew kept a cool head and came back fighting for the fourth event, in Marstrand, Sweden. There they won six of 13 races in another big breezes contest as the team’s solidity and experience came to the fore.

‘All the guys on board did an outstanding job and I can’t be more proud. Overall we’ve got a lot of trust and a lot of faith in each other, they give it their all at any given time but one of the keys is just their ability and the fact that we have so much experience together. We don’t need a lot of extra communication, we know in any situation what’s required and so we’re only ever talking about performance-orientated stuff. You know, sailing always comes back to the basics – who can do the basics better than the next guy, and not give away

little minutes of speed here and there that all add up.

‘In Sweden we got there early, and the days leading up to the event were extremely windy with waves. A lot of the teams were cautious and stayed on the dock not wanting to sustain damage, which was a high probability. But we opted to take it on, go out and find out what may break or what

could lead to be a problem. I think that was key because once we got into those conditions we knew what we were expecting and were able to quickly get up to speed and just go out and sail hard. Those sort of days one small mistake can turn into quite a big mistake and we were able to be pretty well flawless in our boat handling – but we’d put the effort in, that didn’t come for free.’

That doesn’t mean they don’t still

have the odd hairy moment. ‘You have them all the time. The moment you give in and relax it comes back to bite you. The whole time you’re on edge, the adrenalin’s pumping - and you’re having a lot of fun.

Taking on the prosRC44 events have two elements, with fleet racing helmed by the amateur

owners, and match racing where pro skippers take the wheel. Team Aqua have proved equally adept at both, winning the match series in both 2011 and 2010, while owner Chris Bake is a skilled fleet racing helm, having driven them to victory over many years. However, as the RC44s arrived in Adris, Croatia for their World Championship and final event of the 2012 season, Bake decided to take the wheel for his first ever match race,

There’s a lot of luck and you need things to go your way. But they only go your way by you

creating those opportunities

Above Cameron Appleton assesses the conditions at the Adris RC44 World Championship held in Rovinj, Croatia

fAr left Strong winds and Atlantic waves at Cascais for round two of the series

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RC44 Champions

lining up against the professionals.‘In the beginning he felt a bit

apprehensive about it and wanted me to do the starts and I said “Absolutely not, you’re here, we’re going to use this as our stepping stone to the worlds, that’s our goal”,’ recalls Cameron, ‘Chris stepped in and did an outstanding job. We felt that was a psychological advantage, it gave us a lot of confi dence the fact that Chris had a day under his belt.

‘It didn’t change the dynamic because I just slotted back into the role of fl eet racing. What it did was give all of us [a chance] to get into that formation a day sooner and to be put under pressure, and work through

any little problems because the match racing is quick-fi re. Chris did a really good job, we did a lot of tacks, a lot of acceleration gybes, and we had battles. We had an unbelievable race with Artemis - out of all the years that I’ve sailed in this class that probably stands out as a highlight – the amount of situations, the amount of passes, that race wasn’t over till the end. And the amount of fun and enjoyment that Chris got from that – he never

appreciated quite how much fun match racing was! To see the smile on Chris’s face at the end of that particular day was worth everything we’ve worked for over the year and the whole time we’ve been together.’

Team Aqua opened the fi nal fl eet racing event with a great start, but it was a new crew, John Bassadone’s

Peninsula Petroleum, that took the worlds title. ‘We went into the fl eet racing happy with how we were set up in light airs and were leading on day one,’ Appleton explains. However, Team Aqua and Peninsula Petroleum both had a mixed second day that saw Aqua’s lead reduced to one point. On the third day Bassadone’s crew threw down the gauntlet with three fi rsts.

On the fi nal day Peninsula Petroleum took the fi rst two races, leaving the championship to be decided in the last. The two teams match raced around the start, with Peninsula Petroleum eventually breaking away to the unfavoured right. They rounded the top mark in 10th with Team Aqua ahead, but Bake’s team slipped one place while Bassadone’s gained one,

giving Peninsula Petroleum in the World Championship by three points.

‘I get asked all the time – what happened on the last day?’ recalls Appleton, ‘But out of seven races Peninsula won fi ve of them, and I don’t have any answer how we could have done anything different. They just nailed the fi nal two days, and left all of us – the entire fl eet – with a big question mark over our heads – all we can do is congratulate them.’

Nevertheless, the Team Aqua crew were undisputed series champions for 2012 and holders of the class’s ‘golden steering wheels’. Appleton and his team’s enthusiasm for the class is undiminished. ‘It’s all about the way the boats perform – the instant rewards you get from sailing the boat well – and the fact that you don’t have to hike looking down at your feet the whole time in agony! All classes have great attributes but what really makes them is the owners and the crews, the level of the other boats. When we get on an RC44 and analyse the rest of our competitors you know you’re up for a really fun regatta.’

The 2013 RC44 season kicks off in Oman in January, with four European events to follow. ‘Our goals are to be mindful that there’s a lot of good teams out there and a lot of people wanting to be in our position, so we need to put a lot of trust and faith in who we have onboard. You can’t win the season in event one, but you can certainly lose it! We’ve just got to look at what we’ve done over the past two years and try and do the same again.’

• Muscat Cup, Oman January 30-February 3• Sicily, Italy May 1-5• Sweden Cup, Marstrand June 25-29• Cascais Cup, Portugal October 2-6• World Championship, Lanzarote November 20-24

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Above Owner Chris Bake raises the ‘golden steering wheels’ after Team Aqua successfully defended their series title

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sir Keith MillsD

o you have a purple Nectar card in your wallet? Have you been cheering on Alex Thomson in the Vendée Globe? And were you,

like the rest of the country, glued to the action during last summer’s phenomenal home Olympic Games? You may not have realised, but all are due in no small part to Sir Keith Mills, the worthy winner of Yachts & Yachting’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

Without Keith Mills, it is very likely that the 2012 Olympic bid would not have been successful. In the business world, Sir Keith Mills is chiefly known for inventing the hugely successful Air Miles and Nectar loyalty card schemes. However, his involvement with sport and sailing dates back over many years – he was knighted in the 2006

President of the London 2012 campaign, which saw London selected to host the 2012 Olympic Games. He was then made Deputy Chairman for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), alongside Chairman Lord Coe, and was awarded the Olympic Order for his work.

In 2007 he also set up Sported, a charity that aims to change young lives through sport. Sir Keith explains: ‘While we were bidding to host the 2012 Games I saw first-hand how sport was able to inspire young people and improve their lives. We looked hard at how we could help expand sport for development in the UK and decided to put all of our efforts into supporting the thousands of amazing community based projects throughout the UK.’

In January 2007 Sir Keith also announced his intention to lead a new British America’s Cup challenge Team

From round the world racing to the America’s Cup, Sir Keith Mills’ influence on the sport of sailing has been far-reaching, but his biggest achievement is

undoubtedly London 2012

New Year Honours in recognition of his services to sport. In 1999 Sir Keith was part of a young Alex Thomson’s winning Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crew. Recognising Thomson’s talent and potential, he worked with Alex to set up Alex Thomson Racing as Alex built his reputation and sponsorship to become one of the world’s leading solo racing skippers.

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More recently Sir Keith announced a collaboration between IMOCA and his company Open Sports Management (OSM). His aim is to raise the profi le of the class and its events to an international audience. ‘The Vendée Globe is an incredible event – we want to build on that and develop its awareness outside France. This event is essential and we need to build an incredible programme of sport beyond the Vendée Globe,’ he explained.

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A versatile star

As the America’s Cup shifts into the multihull domain, versatility is the name of the game for those who crew professionally in

high-level yacht racing. Three-time America’s Cup sailor David Carr is a case in point. He has been juggling multi- and monohull projects over the past few years, banking a high-profile Extreme 40 world championship win in 2009, featuring on key crew lists in the Extreme 40 and Audi MedCup circuits in 2011, and moving to AC45s this season.

David, or ‘Freddie’, as he is known, did not set out to blaze a trail in sailing. Born in Newport, Isle of Wight, he began sailing at the age of four. At 13 he took a break from the sport, took up basketball and tested for England. ‘On a social level I would go and watch friends sail and two years later I was lured back,’ he recalls.

He then worked his way up through the RYA sailing programmes, inspired by ‘the admirable depth of coaching talent at the RYA’. He went onto win gold in the world youth championships and world student championships. ‘My father [Rod Carr, RYA chief executive from 2000-2010] certainly didn’t push me into the sport, but gently encouraged.’ David and his wife, Bianca Jayne, intend to use the same approach with their young son Mason.

At 30 years old, David’s easy manner

belies a powerhouse of talent. The youngest member of the 2007 Victory Challenge’s sailing team, he spends around 200 days a year on and around the racecourse. ‘Ian Walker gave me my first big break offering me a slot on GBR Challenge,’ he says. ‘The call came again when the Abu Dhabi deal was signed, but inshore racing is now keeping me closer to home.’

Monos and multisHe transfers from monohull to catamaran racing and back with agility and is fired by both worlds. His commitment to the Extreme 40 circuit, as trimmer on Oman Air, meant he was unable at that time to take up offers for the AC45 circuit that ran concurrently. However, his depth of catamaran knowledge has been tapped. Switching between cats and monohulls appears seamless to this talented young gun. He jokes that stepping back into a monohull ‘means I have time to tie my shoe laces before reaching a mark’.

Last season’s diary afforded him time to participate in the Audi MedCup, firstly in the TP52 class and later the Soto 40. He started the season

aboard Tony Langley’s ‘Gladiator’ in Marseille as mast man. A few changes were made to the team after the Palma Vela regatta in which five of the Audi MedCup campaigns enjoyed a shake down for the season ahead. The re-formed crew were put together a week before round two in Marseille.

‘Our sailing team manager made quite a few crew changes as the programme was stepped up and we raced this circuit,’ Carr enthused. ‘We did two long hard days’ sailing before the first day of racing. As a new crew we covered every manoeuvre in the book. It was a big two days on the water but vital for us to come together as a team.’

It was only ‘Gladiator’s’ second event and the team didn’t anticipate scoring two bullets. ‘Our goal at the beginning of the week was to get in the mix and try to take a few boats. We were acutely aware of being a new crew coming into the hottest race tour, so to win two races was pure class. We enjoyed every minute of it as a crew. It was a great sporting moment for Tony. We were under no impression that we would even be in the middle of the fleet so we took our victories and loved every second of it.

‘The coastal race was hard work for us. The big breeze did come to get us and it found us out a bit. We didn’t get the boat sailing to its full speed. We needed to work harder at getting the boat locked in at top end speed for longer periods of time. We had been

David carr has amassed a huge depth of experience at the

highest levels of the sport. he talks to Ingrid Abery…

He jokes stepping back into a monohull ‘means I have time to tie my shoe laces before reaching a mark’

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David Carr

taking quite big risks on the tactics to stay in contact with the top boats. On this windy coastal race the risks were not there to be taken.’

Top talentAppraising his week on ‘Gladiator’ Carr added: ‘Although there were fewer boats on the Tour the quality had not dropped at all. The Audi MedCup offers a great chance for good sailors like Tony to race the very best

in the world. The owner/drivers have to sail very well to beat the full pro teams and it is very rewarding when you take a few scalps.’

With three America’s Cup campaigns under his belt (GBR Challenge, Victory Challenge and TeamOrigin), David brings a great deal to the MedCup circuit. ‘The America’s Cup is the very pinnacle of our sport. The skills you learn in that arena will always put you in a confident frame of mind stepping onto any sailing boat. The TP52 is a big boat, but it sails like a small dinghy and you have to be very physical with it to get the boat around the track as quickly as possible.’

Racing the likes of Jochen Schuemann and Hamish Pepper at the

fourth in the second, third in the next and aimed for second in Cartagena. After day three they were at the top of the leaderboard. In the penultimate race Sproul, Carr and the team added a pair of second place finishes to their already buoyant scoreline, winning the championship with a day to spare.

That regatta win, added to his Extreme 40 and three TP52 world championship wins, place Carr at the top of his game. I wondered if he has a preference for mono over multihull sailing or vice versa? ‘I love any form of high-level racing. To test yourself against the top guys in the world is tremendous. It was my childhood dream. I am very pleased with the level of my sailing at the moment and I am involved with

ABOVE The America’s Cup World Series, described by Carr as ‘the Extreme 40 series on steroids’

America’s Cup level must certainly help Carr anticipate their moves on the racecourse. ‘Knowing the other teams’ sailing styles can help you plan your own way around the track. These are the very best sailors in the world and one thing I do know from the America’s Cup is that they do not give you an inch.’

When ‘Gladiator’ was unable to make the following round of the Audi MedCup in Cartagena last August Carr

received the call from Kevin Sproul, skipper of the British Soto 40 ‘Ngoni’. As they were light on crew numbers, the Soto 40 team of eight shared jobs on the boat, with David’s versatility coming into play taking on a number of roles including mast and foredeck.

Soto 40s‘Ngoni’ began the regatta modestly and observed their rivals’ performance, including ‘Iberdrola’, winner of the Cascais event. Yet they firmly established their place in the Trofeo de Murcia championship. A range of conditions, from light to breezy, tested the fleet throughout the week. They had great starts and were fast. ‘

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some top teams, which is great. ‘I hadn’t raced in the MedCup since

2008 so was a little nervous coming into the fleet but I am very pleased with my performance and the racing felt fresh and new after such a long break. There is plenty more to come. I am looking forward to more years racing at my peak.’

Multihull racingCarr sailed Extreme 40s for four years and as trimmer on Oman Air Carr was part of the regular long-term crew under skipper Sidney Gavignet before the Frenchman left the series to campaign his new MOD 70. ‘Winning the [2009] season with Oman Sail with four good friends was the highlight

for sure. We had an amazing year on the water and had great fun with the Oman Sail project. The best day that year was sailing on the first day of Cowes Week in big breeze, when we won six from seven races in front of 4,000 people!’

When Gavignet left after the first five events last year, Ben Ainslie stepped in for three events. They scored a third in Ainslie’s first taste of racing the boats on the circuit in Sicily: ‘Ben came having never raced a cat before, so we did a week of training before the first race day. Within half a day of training he was nailing the starts with his time on distance and we never looked back. He picked it up quicker than I have seen and was straight to the front of

the fleet. A great man of the sport.‘The biggest change compared to say

TP52 racing is the speed that things happen. Not just the speed of the boats but the number of races you do in a day. In the two hours that you would do a Med Cup race, the Extreme 40 fleet has done eight races!’

This season he has been sailing with Luna Rossa on the America’s Cup World Series, winning the first event in Naples. ‘I think the ACWS is the Extreme Sailing Series on steroids. That win was massive for Luna Rossa in its home waters. To win the first event Naples in front of 180,000 people was mind blowing. In Italy Luna Rossa is a household name and it is an honour to race for them.’

ABOVE Non-stop action as trimmer aboard Oman Air Extreme 40

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TAKING ONTHE MASTERS

This year’s Endeavour Trophy was a battle of youth versus experience, with the ‘Champion of Champions’ title going to 22-year-old Ben Saxton and crew Alan Roberts, as Georgie Corlett reports

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At the age of just 22 Ben Saxton, sailing with Alan Roberts, also 22, won the 2012 Endeavour Trophy on his very first attempt. In

winning one of dinghy sailing’s most prestigious events, the young team beat stiff competition from a rollcall of 25 national champions - including five-times Endeavour winner and defending champions Nick Craig and Toby Lewis.

To become the ‘Champions of Champions’ is no mean feat; the Endeavour Trophy is a notoriously tough competition, sailed in one-design matched Topper Xenons and hosted by the Royal Corinthian YC on the waters of the River Roach. The race schedule is punishing, with up to eight races over two days. Arriving a day early to sail the practice races on Friday afternoon is an opportunity not to be missed. This proved even more crucial for Ben and Alan, as this was only the second time they had stepped into a boat together, so it wasn’t just about getting to grips with the Topper Xenon, but also with each other.

Although Ben had qualified for his invitation by winning the RS200 nationals, his crew from that event, Toby Lewis, was already set to defend

his 2011 Endeavour win with his helm from the Enterprise nationals, Nick Craig. Consequently, long-standing RS200 rival and friend Alan Roberts got the call; although they had only sailed together once, Ben was confident in his choice: ‘We’d sailed against each other a lot in RS200s. I knew he was a good crew and that we get on well. Turns out I chose well! We had a great laugh around the course and we sailed very well together; it quickly felt as though we had sailed together for ages.’

Cool confidence From the moment they stepped afloat, Ben and Alan made it clear that they were not intimidated by the pressure of such a highly regarded event. Rather than join the formal practice races immediately, Ben and Alan instead elected to do their own thing, working

intensely on speed runs upwind and downwind and perfecting their tacks and gybes. Only when they were happy they had the fundamentals of boat speed cracked did they choose to join the rest of the fleet to refine their boat handling and try out some startline manoeuvres.

Ben, an ambitious 470 sailor with his sights set on the 2016 Olympics in Rio, is no stranger to high level competition, having worked his way up through Optimist and 420 National Youth Squads, and competed at several world

championships. Even so, the level of talent the pair was up against at this, his first Endeavour, was not lost on him. He says: ‘We wanted to do well and knew we would like to win, but by no means did we think we should win; we’d have been happy just to be up there.’

Alan, who earned his place at the 2011 Endeavour by winning the RS200 nationals, also began in Optimists before swapping to the 29er and graduating to RS800s and International 14s. He adds: ‘The event is special because you’re sailing against national champions. So not only is it a great fun event to do but it’s also a massive privilege to take part, when you consider the history of the event and the calibre of the sailors who take part. You get the chance to sail against some really interesting and talented sailors.

‘Coming from the RS200 fleet,

which is of a very high standard with lots of top guys racing against each other, I think that gave us an edge.’

By the end of the first day Ben and Alan had scored three firsts out of four races which left them comfortably lying first overnight - leaving the rest of the fleet in little doubt that they were going to be strong contenders. However, with the wind steadily dropping as the weekend wore on, from 10 knots on Saturday morning to a mere zephyr by Sunday afternoon, the pair were careful to keep a lid on their expectations as the pressure mounted on those around them.

Ben says: ‘We took every race as it came as we had no idea how many races we would sail given the conditions; because of that we couldn’t really put any pressure on ourselves; we just set our minds on having fun and enjoying it, and when you do that in sailing things have a habit of just falling into place!’

The pair concede that their approach to the racing was more laid back than many sailors would have taken given the circumstances, Alan agrees: ‘That certainly worked to our advantage in that we were pretty chilled out, and things never got too heated or stressed in

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the boat. Having said that, we are both pretty competitive, so the will to win was certainly there - we just made sure we kept our cool and enjoyed the sailing.’

The boat to beat From an early stage, Ben and Alan had identifi ed one boat in particular as the one to beat, with last year’s winners, Nick Craig and Toby Lewis consistently chasing hard from race two onwards, and diverting their attention from Stuart Bithell and Luke Patience, who had threatened to overhaul them in the opening race. Ben

explains: ‘Stu and Luke tracked us down in the fi rst race and we had a job on to hold them off; we initially thought they were going to be our main competition. Christian Birrell and Andrew Tunicliffe were also pushing us hard, and by the last race on Saturday our three boats, together with Nick and Toby, were all miles ahead. By that stage, the wind had dropped so much we were almost drifting.’

With fi ckle conditions and wind against tide at times, patience was at a premium, and maintaining boat speed became imperative. ‘Pace and sailing

safe were key for us to stay ahead,’ says Ben. ‘By halfway up the fi rst beat we tended to come out in the top 10 and after the windward mark we were usually in the top fi ve. There was the constant debate of whether to go for pressure or tide, and which will be the most important. We decided early on to play the tide upwind and the pressure downwind, which generally paid.’

Alan, having been runner-up to Nick and Toby in the 2011 event, knew from the outset what they were up against. ‘Nick is a pretty good sailor and he

knows his way around the boat very well. He is really good at making the boat move. I think though that Ben and I have a similar strength. We’re both good at making boats go quickly – from my point of view that comes from my International 14 experience, plus the fact I’m a naval architect, so I am always playing around with boats. For Ben, his 470 background has given him a good grounding in tweaking settings. And of course, getting our settings right was always going to be crucial.’

Sailing brand-new matched boats supplied by Topper for the event sets all the competitors off on an equal footing: ‘We got to literally rip the kit out of the packaging, that’s pretty impressive!’ says Alan.

Having spent all that time during the practice session focusing solely on boat speed certainly seemed to pay off

for Ben and Alan. They both agree that this contributed to giving them the edge on the fl eet. Ben says: ‘The Xenon was unlike any dinghy I have sailed before, noticeably bigger and heavier, although we did fi nd some similarities with the RS200 in the way it handled. Having all the boats the same made for some great racing. The boats are perfect for that purpose. We found that the Xenon does respond, and there’s defi nitely a groove you have to keep it in.’

Posting another fi rst place in Sunday’s opening race, Ben and Alan proved that they had found that groove; after that, a sixth race brought the series to a close in dying winds, with them fi ve points clear ahead of Nick and Toby in the overall standings.

Future endeavours Very few sailors can claim to have competed in, let alone won the Endeavour, and so to scoop the coveted trophy on the fi rst attempt is an outstanding achievement for Ben. To have done so with a good friend with whom he’d barely sailed before is testament to the talent of both sailors. And to have taken such a laid back yet modest approach makes the feat all the more admirable. Will they be back next year? A resounding ‘I hope so!’ from both sailors. Veterans watch out!

Despite plans to step up his Olympic campaigning, Ben still hopes to qualify for next year’s Endeavour via the 2013 RS200 nationals; whilst Alan’s plans involve Merlin Rocket sailing with Nick Craig in between some RS200 and RS400 events. Could we also see the pair teaming up together again in future? ‘Yes,’ says Ben, ‘I thoroughly enjoyed sailing with Alan and next time I need a crew he is top of the list!’

1st RS200 Ben Saxton & Alan Roberts, 2nd Enterprise Nick Craig & Toby Lewis, 3rd Laser 2000 Jasper Barham & Graham Sexton, 4th Merlin Rocket Christian Birrell & Andrew Tunicliffe, 5th 470 Stuart Bithell & Luke Patience.

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Accessibility Sailing caters for all ages and abilities, cruising and racing; and no matter

where you live, inland or by the sea, there will be a sailing club near you.

Galley Most clubs aim for top level ‘bacon butty status’ in their

galley or wet bar, enabling members and visitors to fuel up before sailing and then replenish all those calories afterwards.

Friends and Family Friendships in sailing span both time and distance and

it’s also the ultimate family-friendly sport. All ages can race and socialise together and it’s no coincidence that most clubs have several dynasties, where three generations of the same family take out annual memberships year after year.

Events Special occasions in the sailing calendar are

great for reunions and racing. Queen Mary SC in London, for example, holds its annual Bloody Mary Pursuit Race in the New Year and in 2012 attracted 302 entries in 63 classes from 104 clubs. The 2013 event takes place on January 12.Dinghy Show

Kick off the season at the RYA Dinghy Show, a key feature in the

British sailing year, held from March 2-3, 2013 at London’s Alexandra Palace.

Clubs and ClassesMost sailors belong to a sailing or yacht club, and those who race regularly are

also likely to be members of the class association representing their type of boat. Clubs and classes are a gateway to a community of sailors and friends, with access to courses and coaching, racing and socials.

Boats Your ideal dinghy might depend on age, size, fitness, or how fast you want to go,

and there is a huge range – from Optimists for children as young as eight, to versatile single and doublehanded hiking boats for racing or cruising; from trapeze skiffs such as the Olympic 49er to development classes like the foiling International Moth.

A-Z of sailingFor those wanting to try sailing, the RYA Dinghy Show is the perfect opportunity to find out more about the sport. Paula Irish takes an A-to-Z look at what makes British dinghy sailing tick...

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Management At the helm of any sailing club is the commodore, and behind any good commodore is a dedicated

committee, including flag officers such as vice commodore and rear commodores. Other posts may be paid or voluntary, such as secretary, bosun / water manager and training.

Location location locationThe all important après-sail social is a key attraction of getting on the water in the first place

and usually, in the region where you live, the bar will have the best view of anywhere.

KitThe right kit will ensure you enjoy rather than endure

your sailing whatever the weather. A whole host of leading British manufacturers and chandlers ensures there is always the right kit at the right price to suit you – from boots and hats to wetsuits, drysuits, buoyancy aids and trapeze harnesses.

Juniors & youthsBritain has one of the most vibrant junior and

youth sailing scenes in the world with clear pathways for those with ambition to make it all the way to Olympic gold.

HolidaysA holiday can be the perfect time to learn how to sail,

with many British centres offering courses and plenty of specialist sailing holidays abroad for those who prefer warmer conditions. Look for RYA accreditation, then enjoy!

InstructorsInstructors aim to teach and improve sailing

skills in a safe environment while sharing their own enthusiasm for the sport.

Tim Lowe, aged 24, is a volunteer

RYA instructor and racing coach

at his local club Redesmere SC in

Cheshire, passing on his knowledge

and passion for sailing. ‘I enjoy

seeing other people progress and

have fun, and make the most of

the sport,’ he says. ‘Hopefully,

courses give participants a sense

of independence and freedom –

the ability to escape it all. Sailing is

accessible to everybody and there

is a form of sailing that will suit most

people, whether it’s big boats, little

dinghies, keelboats or catamarans...

it certainly can be a sport for life,

with the various types of boats and

ways you can get involved.’

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years, OB is working to introduce half a million children into the sport.

Novices Everyone has to start somewhere, and sailing clubs are always looking for new members to

stay vibrant for the future, so it’s a perfect synergy.

Anyone new to sailing or looking to further their skills will

find a warm welcome at their local club, as Liz Ackrill

found when she joined Eastbourne Sovereign SC. She

says: ‘I was new to the area and found the club to be

really friendly and very encouraging about getting

people into sailing.’

Although Liz could sail a bit she felt quite novice in

terms of having her own singlehander dinghy and racing.

But she says no matter what level you’re at, just take

a course or a refresher and get down there and meet

people. ‘There were lots of people happy to show me

round and they were really enthusiastic about me joining

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A-Z of Dinghy Sailing

You can fi nd more about how to get involved in dinghy sailing at the RYA Dinghy Show March 2-3, 2013 at London’s Alexandra Palace.

RYA DINGHY SHOW Zephyr Wind is essential to sailing – for some sailors big breeze is the best; for others, chasing zephyrs over

the water on a hot summer’s day, either for fun or to win a race, is just as irresistible. As always with the diversity of dinghy sailing, there is something for everyone.

Yardstick The Portsmouth Yardstick was created by Sidney ‘Sinbad’ Milledge in 1952 and 60 years later

continues to enable different types of boats to race together fairly under a handicap system.

X - FactorThere is a special quality to sailing – a certain X factor. Once most people who love outdoor sports

have tried it, they fi nd it leads to a lifelong passion. Beware!

WinnersThere is a saying that sailing is F-U-N but many sailors

spell it as W-I-N. Racing is a way of improving skills, sharing time on the water, having a banter in the bar afterwards, and maybe even winning some silverware. Not everyone can win but no matter where you are in a fl eet, there is someone to race. Providing the ultimate inspiration is the world’s best ever Olympic sailor, Britain’s Ben Ainslie.

Pensioners Sailing can be enjoyed at any age.

Retired teacher Dave Woodhead,

aged 62, organises the North West

Traveller Series for over-50s. Fifty-

eight boats took part in 2012 with

entrants up to the age of 79 and

ranging from people who’ve sailed

for years, to others who’ve learnt

since retiring.

Dave says: ‘You can still sail at

basically any age to a certain

level, that’s the beauty of the

sport compared with say football

or rugby. Obviously you’ve got to

be super-fi t to be at the top of the

game, we all know that, but you

can still be moderately successful

quite late in life in sailing. You can

still sail and get prizes well into your

60s and even into your 70s.’

Umpires While some events have umpires or jury boats, sailing

generally is a self-policing sport. A breach of the racing rules incurs on-the-water penalties such as taking a boat through one or two turns. Unresolved matters go to a protest committee which hears the evidence and makes a ruling.

TrustsSailing trusts and charities do much to share the

sport’s benefi ts. For example, the John Merricks Sailing Trust and Eric Twiname Trust both support young sailors; the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust helps eight to 24-year-olds on their way to recovery; and Toe in the Water rehabilitates injured servicemen through competitive sailing.

RYARoyal Yachting Association, promoting and protecting

safe, successful and rewarding British boating.

Qualifi cations Covering everything from the basics through to more

advanced modules such as racing, spinnaker work and performance sailing, the RYA’s National and Youth Sailing Schemes are a series of two-day courses for adults and under-16s.

Sailability Sailing enables able-bodied and disabled people to participate on equal terms.

Dennis Priebe, a founder member of Rudyard Sailability

in Staffordshire, is a former company director who

discovered sailing following a spinal injury. He says:

‘Previously I’d been very athletic, squash, rugby, weight

lifting... then everything came to an end. I saw an advert

for a sailing-for-the-disabled taster day and went to give

it a go. I was hooked. By the end of the day I realised I

could compete on level terms – you can either take it as

a leisure sport and go out on the lake with the swans and

the herons or you can compete.’

Dennis went on the racing circuit sailing a Challenger

trimaran: ‘I had some really good success and won quite

a few races, and against able-bodied people. It’s the

only sport that is a 100 per cent leveller. I had two years

in the doldrums, I was in a wheelchair and it was really

diffi cult to adjust. Sailing bridged that gap for me.’

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relying on the goodwill of their members to teach sailing, run racing, undertake rescue duties and help on committees.

John Crosswaite has been a

volunteer with Tamar River SC in

Devon since fi rst helping to get cadet

sailing going when his own children

were teenagers, and has also assisted

Plymouth Youth Sailing and the

National Schools Sailing Association.

He has just been presented with an

RYA Volunteer Award by Princess

Anne in recognition of his services

to the sport and for John and his

club, his volunteering has been a

win-win situation – in his role as an

instructor John has taught countless

young people and adults to sail,

while he says for him it has been

an ‘opportunity to meet and make

some fi rm friends in the club, the Port

of Plymouth and around the country’.

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KEEPING KEEN

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KEEPING KEEN Bruce Keen’s win at the Musto Skiff worlds was a lesson in never giving up hope, as Andy Rice discovers

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Bruce Keen has been one of the top dogs in the Musto Skiff fleet for several years. Formerly from South Africa, and a good Laser sailor, when he made England his home

he also switched to a different kind of sailing challenge. These days he sails out of Stokes Bay against the strongest fleet of Musto Skiffs in the country. His first championship win was a windy 2010 nationals at Hayling Island where he emerged from a final-day, four-way battle for honours as the victor – narrowly ahead of multiple national and world champion Richard Stenhouse.

Keen then went to the worlds in Melbourne at the beginning of 2011. While he had put on a couple of kilos in anticipation of a windy regatta on Port Philip Bay, freakish weather conditions were creating havoc across the state of Victoria with massive floods inland. The regatta was an unexpectedly rainy and light wind event. This suited the lighter weight Dan Henderson nicely, but Keen had to satisfy himself with winning the battle of the heavyweights, coming second ahead of a bunch of talented Australians.

Since then Keen has continued to win many open meetings on the UK circuit and although he failed to defend his national title last year at Mount’s Bay – finishing runner-up to James McIntosh – he did regain the title again earlier this year at Stone SC. Having become a father for the first time in 2011, Keen doesn’t get to train as often as he used to, mostly fitting in one day per weekend and a Wednesday evening race at Stokes Bay during the summer months. This is hardly ideal for a boat as tricky to handle as the Musto Skiff, but Keen has sufficient experience to

get himself around the track in good shape most of the time, and he doesn’t like to overcomplicate things.

Against the unknownComing into the 2012 worlds in Weymouth, Keen could reasonably expect himself to be among the frontrunners, although the Australian threat – and that of other overseas competitors – was something of an unknown. ‘Of the Australians I knew John Newman in particular was going to be quick, but I didn’t know how quick. Then obviously Richard Stenhouse and some of the other Brits would be up there. But I beat them at the nationals and I knew if I didn’t do anything stupid I could beat them,’ Bruce recalls.

Keen is a perfect size for the Musto Skiff, standing about 6’1” and weighing about 84kgs. He is competitive across the wind range and was hoping for a range of wind conditions in Weymouth, but was particularly looking forward to some moderate breezes. ‘It would be nice to have some winds around 12 knots because for the heavy guys it’s not quite strong enough for them to be powered up but the light guys are getting overpowered. I tend to do fairly well in those conditions and then as the breeze picks up I kind of hold my own even against the bigger guys. So probably the worst for me is anything up to 8 knots, at which point some of the lighter guys plane downwind. I can’t, so I tend to soak as low as I can.’

Oh dear. Day one of the worlds opened with very light airs, the 105 boats starting off one line into just 4-6 knots of breeze in Weymouth Bay, with a light drizzle to add insult to injury. Keen started his campaign with

a fifth, not too bad, but followed up with a 14th, not so good. Stenhouse, on the other hand, belied his 90kg-plus weight to put in the best results from a day that should have been dominated by the flyweights. He was leading with scores of 2,9. To Keen this was not such a surprise: ‘Sten is a consistently good sailor, he can think tactically and cleverly and he is always up there.’

For others with eyes on the main prize, it was a disastrous start. Aussie former 49er sailor Jon Newman put in a 14th and 40th in conditions that should have suited him better, bearing in mind that his 80kg frame is on the lighter side of most of the leading Musto sailors. After day one, Keen was looking to discard the 14th, especially because the wind was blowing about 12-13 knots. Perfect for Keen, although it didn’t quite work out that way. ‘I did something I am not sure I have ever done before in a Musto Skiff. I managed to stall on the start line and fell in to windward. By the time I got upright and going again, I was last off the start line, which in a fleet that size is not a good idea!’

Considering the circumstances, a 17th place – thanks to Keen’s blistering pace upwind and downwind – was perhaps not so bad in a congested fleet

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of 105 skiffs, but not good enough to win a world championship either. ‘After that, it was kind of the end of the world championships – any likely thought of winning it anyway. But I thought: “I can’t give up.” I do tend to fight back when I am down and probably sail better when the odds are stacked against me. So I just got my mind together and sailed the best I could to make up what I could in the race.’

High winds, high scoresAny hope of capitalising on his medium airs advantage was gone, as the remainder of the championship would take place in Portland Harbour in strong winds. Not that Keen is too shabby in that stuff. After being sent in for lunch from that 17th place race, by the time the fleet launched again for an afternoon race the breeze had built significantly, to well in excess of 20 knots. ‘The start was down near the breakwater of the harbour. There was a backwash coming off the wall so the waves were quite short and choppy. I rounded the top mark fairly well, definitely somewhere in the top three, but then I pitch-poled. There wasn’t much I could do about it, the bow went down and that was it.’ Fortunately for Keen, there was plenty of capsizing

going on elsewhere. ‘I think there were two people in the entire fleet that didn’t capsize that day. I had good speed upwind in those conditions and so it was really just a case of hanging in there and picking off boats.’

Keen got back to fourth, although Stenhouse won that race and was sitting pretty at the top of the leaderboard with all scores in the top

10. With scores of 5,14,17,4, Keen was amazed to find himself lying third overall. ‘It wasn’t where I’d wanted to be, but bearing in mind how I’d sailed up to that point, I certainly couldn’t have asked for more.’

All the remaining races would take place in strong winds with the breeze blowing over the top of Chesil Beach from the west. Keen had a plan to start well, sail fast and keep things

tactically simple. ‘I had heard that for Weymouth you should generally go left. So that was what I was doing. And it seemed to be paying for me; I was leading races, and yet I saw a lot of other people hitting the far right corner. In one race there was just me and another boat heading out left, and all the rest of the front pack heading the other way. And I am thinking to

myself, “Is this really a good thing to be doing?” Of course with the Musto Skiff and our windward/leeward courses with a leeward gate, if you do just one gybe then it takes you round the left-hand gate mark [as you look at it downwind], and that takes you up the right-hand side of the beat. So effectively you can get round one lap of the course with one gybe and one tack. Going left requires at least one

I managed to stall on the start line and fell in to windward. By the time I got

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A lesson in winning

more gybe and one more tack, so you have to be sure that going that way will more than make up for the loss of speed and the added risk of doing those extra manoeuvres.’

For the penultimate day’s racing

Keen persisted with his left-hand side tactic, and it worked out very nicely with two bullets, a perfect day on the water. However for the fi nal day he experimented more with the right-hand side towards the mainland shore. ‘For that last day I think I went up the left-hand side on the fi rst beat every time and after that I went right, basically because I was minimising manoeuvres.’

Strangely Stenhouse seemed to be struggling for pace in the stronger

winds, although another heavyweight – Tom Wright from Stokes Bay – was coming on strong. ‘Tom is quite a big guy and he goes very well in the breeze upwind in fl at water. He is fairly unbeatable in those conditions and he

has a totally different sailing technique from anyone else. While the rest of us are using lots of downhaul and lots of vang, his downhaul is totally slack, his outhaul pulled out to the end of the boom, but overall with quite a full sail. He sails higher and faster than me. In one of those races he was 500m behind me on the layline, and there was nothing I could do about it. He was sailing up from behind and but so much quicker. He seems to be the only one who can make it work and I am not quite sure how he does because it doesn’t look right.’

Final sealGoing into the fi nal day of the championship, with the prospect of four races in strong winds, it was Stenhouse who continued to hold the lead. Keen could see that he held a speed advantage, however, and his previous day’s performance had rekindled hopes of winning the regatta. In the end only

three races were held, but Keen scored well in all of them, clocking up 2,2,1. The win in what would be the fi nal race was particularly satisfying. ‘I had a big lead and, knowing the position I was in, that was a pretty good feeling. As long as I kept it upright and as long as Sten didn’t get into the top three, I knew I could win the worlds. It was nice to fi nish on a high note, what I think was probably my best race in the whole championship.’ With another race, the second discard would have kicked in and Keen would have had the chance to drop that 14th place from the fi rst day. But he won all the same, and after a less than satisfactory start to the regatta.

‘The long regattas tend to suit me because I’m okay in all the wind conditions, even if I’m not winning races all the time. If I get fourths and fi fths that’s probably going to be okay. This time I didn’t do quite as well as I would have liked in the lighter stuff. It’s normally the medium races that pull me through but this one was slightly different in the fact that it was the big breeze that got me to the front.’

It’s a particularly impressive win considering he has little opportunity for practice, what with family commitments. ‘My boat handling didn’t feel as good as it did in some of the events in the past. I was doing safety gybes in the strong winds rather than trying to do anything fancy. I was really relying on what I had done before, the work on boathandling and boatspeed and my experience, and hoping to put it all back together in time for this event.’

With the next Musto Skiff worlds not scheduled until early 2015 in Perth, Keen gets to wear the crown for a good long time. He hopes to be back to defend his title against the Aussies on the fl at water of the Swan River. Maybe their fl ashy wire-to-wire tacks and gybes – thanks to the use of solid carbon tacking sticks which enable the sailor to hook himself on to the trapeze while trapezing straight-armed from the handle – will be a big advantage on a more restricted race course. Keen is yet to be convinced. ‘If this was an Olympic class then it would be different because you would have the time to perfect the technique, but the risk of error is high and with limited practice time for most sailors, I’m not sure it is worth the effort. Maybe it’s something I might experiment with at some point over the winter, but either way I hope to be back to defend the title.’

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Change is inevitable and London is no exception. This year’s show is a day shorter – opening on Saturday January 12 – and all

the exhibitors will be housed in the one (South) Hall.

But for fans of keelboat racing, the big news is what’s going on out on the water. The fi nal weekend of the show (Jan 18-20) plays host to the fi rst round of the CNM Estates UK Star Championship featuring world and Olympic champions galore – Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, Pippa Wilson, Ian Walker, Mark Covell, Michael McIntyre and Bryn Vaile – to name but a few. And there’s a twist – each of the boats will be sporting a ‘fi ne art’ mainsail courtesy of Fine Art Sails (www.fi neartsails.com).

If you can’t make it to the outdoor events, there are three activity pools at

this year’s show including one with a fl eet of radio-controlled model racing yachts for a bit of friendly competition between bitter rivals. The biggest pool will be dedicated mainly to canoeing and kayaking but for families with active kids, look out for the children’s watercraft pool, where you can make your own vessel then even try it out on the water!

Throughout the show, 17-year-old freestyle jetskier Jack Moule will be performing backfl ips and corkscrew rolls on the river. The Outdoors Show, London Bike Show and Active Travel Show all run concurrently January 17-20.

And to see out the year that was 2012, don’t miss the Yachts & Yachting Awards announcement (have you voted yet?) as well as the RYA Young Sailor of the Year. (see over for Y&Y’s pick of the new kit at the show) – Chelsea Publishing (Y&Y) Stand: E165

A more compact Tullett Prebon London Boat Show this year still promises much for sailors to see and do...

London2013When: Saturday January 12 - Sunday January 201000-1800 weekdays and closing Sunday

1000-1900 both Saturdays and opening Sunday

1000-2100 Thursday January 17

Tickets:Standard Day is £16 advance, or £20 on the door.

Weekday Monday 14 - Wednesday 16 January or late

entry (after 3pm) is £10. £1.75 transaction fee applies

to all advance bookings. Two children up to 15 years

old go free with each ticket.

Getting there:The show is held at the Excel Exhibition Centre in

London’s Docklands. There’s easy access from the

M25, M11, A406, A13, with pay and display parking for

3,700 cars. Use postcode E16 1DR for sat nav.

Those travelling from outside London may fi nd coach

deals with tickets included. More details are in the

Travel Guide section of the show website.

Excel is at the Prince Regent for Excel station on the

Docklands Light Railway, with easy connections from

Stratford, and the Jubilee underground line. Or try the

Emirates Air Line – a new cable car operating between

the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks and Excel.

More info: www.londonboatshow.com

2013 TULLET PREBON LONDON BOAT SHOW

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Kat G2 ProWomen’s deck shoe sporting premium leather uppers and a razor-cut non-marking sole. RRP: £89 www.chatham-marine.co.uk

Crewsaver Ergofi t 190 coastal lifejacketPart of a brand new range of 3D moulded lifejackets, all of which sport crutch straps, integral safety harness, PLB pocket and easily adjusted buckles. RRP: £125 www.crewsaver.co.uk

Paul Elvstrøm Explains the Racing Rules of SailingNow in its 13th edition, this handy-sized book with its signature plastic protest boats includes the full text of the racing rules and a handy quick reference to the latest changes. RRP: £19.99 www.acblack.co.uk

Henri Lloyd Phoenix hooded smockPart of a whole new keelboat racing range made of durable TP2 fabric, the hooded smock features the Optivision transparent side panels on the hood to reduce obstruction of the wearer’s peripheral vision. RRP: £210 www.henrilloyd.com

A few of the top products available at the London Boat Show; we’ve even included the stand numbers to help you fi nd them...

London kitbag

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Raymarine i60 instrument displaysDesigned primarily for sailing, Raymarine’s replacement for the ST60+ analogue displays show wind angle and close-hauled wind angle. RRP: £378 www.raymarine.co.uk

Ullman Sails iPad pouchA padded iPad pouch made from recycled sailcloth – just in time for Christmas? RRP: £19.99 }www.ullmansails.co.uk

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new products

Our burgee was on its last legs, writes Gael Pawson,

and when I turned up with a replacement I found I was the envy of the

dinghy park. Feather Vane’s Race1 carbon wind vane is a sexy alternative to a traditional burgee and has ‘I want’ written all over it. Rather handily, it slips straight onto a traditional burgee clip. It did feel a little delicate, but that means light – it’s just 10g all-up. We used a bit of tape as well as the supplied stopper to secure it to the clip. Out on the water it worked a treat, the lightweight carbon (0.3mm) feather responding so well, better than a burgee in light airs. We’ve been racing with it for a few weeks now, and it’s bearing up well… not sure it would last if we capsized and dug it into the mud, but then that would kill most burgees as well. RRP: £19.99 www.feathervane.co.uk

TRIED & TESTED: Feather Vane Race1

Ocean Safety Kru Sport Pro Mk II lifejacketThe Kru Sport Pro was used by all but one of the 2011-12 Volvo teams. The Mk II version has been subtly restyled. RRP: £95.95 (manual infl ation/no harness) www.oceansafety.com

Spinlock T25 deck organisersSpinlock’s latest multiple-line organisers are micro-sized for smallest weight, windage, and deck footprint. RRP: £22-44 www.spinlock.co.uk

39270 - The offi cial VOR 2011-12 bookRe-live the longest ever Volvo Ocean Race (39,270 miles) featuring over 250 colour images and text in four languages.RRP: £29.95 (£24.14) www.volvooceanrace.com/shop

Gill updates OS2 Jacket Gill’s 3Dot laminated fabric remains the same – despite a six-month search for something better – but all the details are fi rmly elevated to ‘offshore’ grade. The retractable cuffs are borrowed from last season’s Ocean series and the full height collar and fl eece-lined hand warmer chest pockets look cosy warm. RRP: £225 www.gillmarine.com

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B&G Zeus Touch 7A 6.4ins touchscreen multifunction display that offers all the existing Zeus functionality plus a brand new user-confi gurable SailSteer screen. Also available in 8ins and 12ins versions. RRP: £1,329 www.bandg.com

Garmin GPSMap 557Featuring built-in UK and Ireland Bluechart G2 charting, a micro-SD slot to upgrade to G2 Vision charts, plus Wifi and bluetooth to allow compatibility with Bluechart mobile

app. RRP: £699.99 www.garmin.co.uk/onthewater

A172

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The latest new designs… from superyachts to oppies!New boats

50m wingsail superyachtHamble based yacht designer Tony Castro is responsible for a wide variety of craft, from the 6m SB20 sportsboat to the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s 590-ton tall ship ‘Tenacious’, plus a whole variety of craft in between. One of Castro’s latest projects breaks new ground – if you reckon the America’s Cup 72-footers are powerful beasts, think again: this is an amazing 50-metre long wing-sailed superyacht.

The giant rig gets around the problems of setting a solid wing of the type employed by the AC classes, by using a wing that’s designed to be furled into the boom. Other details are sketchy at the moment, but it’s certain this new design will incorporate the latest styling, together with the comforts and space that are commensurate with a vessel of this calibre and cost.www.tonycastroyachts.com

Dehler 38 Competition This is the performance version of Dehler’s new Judel / Vrolijk designed 38-footer due to be launched at January’s Dusseldorf boat show. Compared to the standard boat, it sports a taller, keel-stepped 9/10ths carbon mast with rod rigging; displacement is reduced by 400kg and there’s a deeper-draught cast-iron/lead T-bulb keel with an extremely low centre of gravity.

Hull construction is of hand-laid GRP sandwich with end-grain balsa core, while all through-hull fittings are flush-mounted. On deck there are twin wheels, Dyneema halyards as standard and a powerful backstay with a 64:1 purchase. Below deck there is a selection of spacious two- or three-cabin layouts, including weight-saving options for owners who want to minimise the amount of woodwork they drag around the course. www.dehler.com

LOA 11.30m

LWL 10.40m

Beam 3.75m

Draught 2.30m

Displacement 6,600kg

Ballast 2.000kg

Fresh water 300 litres

Fuel 160 litres

Total sail area 82.4sq m

Mainsail 46.0sq m

Furling Jib (105%) 36.4sq m

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D23De Antonio Yachts, a new Barcelona based company, founded by a group of young people passionate about the sea and design, has launched this classy 7m runabout as its first model. Simple lines with angular shapes give an up-to-date, minimalistic style, while seating configurations can be changed to suit different uses. Hull and deck construction is in fibreglass / epoxy, with finishing in teak and carbon detailing.

The design uses a conventional outboard engine, that’s completely hidden from view in a soundproofed box. The D23 is suitable for a variety of uses: as a superyacht tender, day trips and picnics, as well as undertaking coastal passages and use as an exclusive water taxi.www.deantonioyachts.com

Length 7.0m

Beam 2.5m

Draught 0.40m

Weight 1,000kg

Engine 135hp

Max speed 35 knots

Rotomoulded OppieThe Optimist – a mainstay of both children’s training and racing fleets has been re-imagined by a team including designer Jo Richards and Glen Truswell, formerly new product development manager at Laser Performance. Styling and dimensions remain faithful to the original Optimist where possible, but the rotomoulded construction results in a hull that’s enormously strong and resistant to damage.

The new design benefits from a larger 100 per-cent self-draining cockpit that remains dry after righting from a capsize, and strong towing points and bridles.

Three versions of the boat are available: a hull complete with fittings, a ready-to-sail SailQube School model, plus a SailQube Optimist race trainer with race spars (instead of school sleeve spars) and a mainsheet ratchet block. To make it as easy as possible for clubs and sailing schools to look after the boat and maintain an inventory of spares, standard Optiparts / Windesign fittings are used throughout.www.sailqube.com

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Belgian industrialist, Filip Balcaen wanted a yacht to satisfy not only his desire for an adventurous cruiser but also his passion for racing. And the result – 112ft ‘Nilaya’ – has

proved to be a truly head-turning yacht since its launch in 2010. The Super Maxi is beautifully furnished and a highly desirable cruising yacht, capable of exploring the world’s oceans. However, it is a proven racer having won its class at the last two editions of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup.

‘Nilaya’ was primarily designed as a high performance yacht even in light winds, however the design and build team were also charged with achieving a yacht of aesthetic beauty, functionality and comfort. One of the biggest design issues was the deckhouse; it is difficult to produce a deckhouse that works for a raceboat and doubles as a stunning dining room in cruising mode. There will always be compromises but ‘Nilaya’ has a fantastic open air dining area with a 270 degree view that doesn’t get in the way of the race crew crossing over, as it is recessed into the deck.

The owner’s desire to win races means that great attention has been paid to the deck layout and systems keeping manoeuvres as simple as possible. Two different cockpits ensure privacy for guests while allowing the crew to sail the boat from their dedicated aft control cockpit. Hydraulic winches, jib cars and other sail controls are well thought-

out, recessed below deck and powerful enough for the loads. A two-metre removable bowsprit turbo-charges ‘Nilaya’ in race mode. The pivoting/telescopic hydraulic anchor arm is an excellent solution to a common issue with cruiser-racers.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the mahogany and cream ultra-leather is a fashion statement that manages to be both pleasing on the eye and also highly practical. The master cabin with en-suite bathroom is forward with the large and functional crew area aft. Three other guest cabins are all en-suite and one, aft of the saloon, can also be used as an owners’ cabin in a rough upwind conditions. This layout works well for a yacht often doing long passages with the crew only, and it keeps guest and crew areas well separated for the best privacy of all on board.

A very spacious and functional engine room is housed underneath the saloon and is accessible from the crew quarters. Still in the crew area, there is an innovative open-plan, full-beam galley, mess and nav station with a dedicated companionway that leads to the sailing cockpit. An asymmetric central counter allows access to prep and clearing spaces, as well as the sink and dishwasher without invading the chef’s workspace.

In many respects the combination of beauty and well thought-out, practical technology makes ‘Nilaya’ one of the best cruiser-racer Super Maxis ever built.

Baltic yachts’ 112ft cruiser-racer is equally at home on the racecourse as it is cruising the world. Louay Habib gets acquainted...

SPECIFICATIONS LOA 34,13m LWL 30.75m Beam 7.52m Draught 3.5 - 5.5m Displacement 88 tons (half load) Fuel capacity 6000L Water capacity 2,800L Engine 355hp Cummins QSB 5.9 Mainsail 348sq m Genoa 264sq m Gennaker 874sq m Naval Architect Reichel Pugh Yacht Design General design Nauta Yacht Design Builder Baltic Yachts Project Management Nigel Ingram (MCM)

Design profile

Nilaya

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There has been a perceived need for a new and exciting Sportsboat for some time - a gap that Bavaria seeks to fill with its new B-One model. Although the German

boat builder is best known for its range of high volume cruising yachts, this new design follows a completely different philosophy.

General concept★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Farr Yacht Design was commissioned to create an economical one-design that would combine performance to impress talented sailors with easy handling for weekend and family sailors. As such, the B-One is intended as a crossover boat between a dinghy and a modern yacht, and aimed at bringing both dinghy sailors and beginners into keelboat sailing.

Farr also developed the strict one-design rule for the class - only a single sail supplier is allowed and minimal modifications from the standard specification are permitted. It’s clearly a concept that has appealed to sailors across Europe, with 79 boats sold in the first season and a number of one-design fleets established.

The first boat in the UK also proved to be

successful under IRC in the Sportsboat class at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, scoring two firsts and a third place from the three races she started. In stronger winds sailed by the same team from Hyde Sails she has hit speeds in the mid to upper teens on breezy days.

It’s a relatively wide design, following the latest Volvo 70 and IMOCA 60 styling, with relatively full bow sections and modest chines on the after quarters. While the deck layout is optimised for racing crews, the vestigial coachroof belies a surprisingly spacious interior for this style of boat.

The lifting keel has a T-bulb with more than one-third of a tonne of ballast and there’s a cassette style vertically lifting rudder. The combination makes towing on the optional road trailer easy - an expensive 4x4 vehicle is not needed - and also gives the option of keeping the boat on an inexpensive drying mooring.

Construction is of a Coremat sandwich hull and foam sandwich deck, using E-glass chopped strand mat and multi-axial fabrics, with additional material, including uni-directional rovings, used in high-stress areas. A one piece structural liner of transverse floors and longitudinal members stiffens the structure and provides support for the lifting keel. The keel fin is of extruded aluminium, while the cast mild steel bulb is electrically isolated from the fin by Delrin bushes and washers.

Deck layout and rig★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★The cockpit is large in terms of width and length, while the low coachroof means it’s easy for crew to slide under the boom in tacks even when further forward. The 12 inch stanchions with a well-padded Melges 24 style hiking line also hint at a strong performance bias. The square moulded non-slip pattern on deck and in the cockpit is effective and there are also full-length foot chocks in the cockpit, although these are in a smooth gelcoat finish.

The deck layout is elegant in its simplicity with no winches or traveller - the jib sheets for instance have a 2:1 purchase and are led through ratchet blocks. Similarly the asymmetric sheets each pass through a pair of ratchet blocks – this works well, although two people would need to be prepared to heave on the line when sailing at hot angles in a big breeze. The mainsheet is on a meaty purchase that leads from a simple bridle, and there’s

Bavaria B-OneRupert Holmes reports on a new one-design Sportsboat from an unlikely boatbuilder, but with the backing of one of the world’s strongest yacht design groups…

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a powerful 16:1 vang on a cascade system, negating the cost, weight and complexity of a traveller. The sheet is positioned so that it can be trimmed either by the helm, or by a dedicated trimmer.

Halyards are led directly to cam cleats on the mast, with light block and tackle downhauls used to achieve luff tension. Serious IRC racers who are not constrained by the one-design rules may want to upgrade some of the gear - the layout is such that to do so would be neither time consuming nor expensive.

The alloy backstay-less fractional rig has calibrated adjusters for both the cap and lower shrouds, allowing quick and repeatable adjustments to suit changing wind strengths. A 1.3m alloy bowsprit retracts into a recess in the foredeck, which although not as visually neat as an internal tube is arguably a more cost-effective option and offers less chance of water finding its way below.

Under sail★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Our test boat was fitted with the racing sail pack developed by Hyde and including fully battened Mylar radially cut fat-headed mainsail, furling Mylar radial jib on a continuous loop type roller furling system and a racing asymmetric spinnaker. A smaller cruising gennaker is also offered as an option.

The rig gives ample power and although simple the sail controls proved effective. Our test started with around 10 knots of mean wind speed, building to give gusts into the mid to upper teens towards the end of the morning. Upwind the boat proved stable with four people on the rail and it was easy to control mainsail shape, despite the lack

of backstay. For racing the crew weight is restricted to 286kg - a very similar number to the established limits a number of classes including Etchells and SB20s. In practice this means racing with three large people or four small ones.

Upwind she tracked and pointed well, although boat speed is naturally limited by the relatively short hull length. Sailing in flat water it was easy to feather into the gusts, pointing a little higher without loss of speed. Bearing away and hoisting the asymmetric, we

were initially just short of sufficient wind to plane, but nicely powered up on a reach the boat was steady and responsive, accelerating smoothly on the puffs. Later in the test and in more wind she picked up speed to provide an exciting but well mannered ride.

Unfortunately, our test boat had previously sustained damage to the rudder which meant the foil could no longer be held at the correct angle and was instead rotated slightly aft. This added weight to the helm and reduced feel, especially at speed downwind, but should not be experienced on other boats. On the plus side, it’s a powerful foil that gives ample control even with the boat well pressed.

Below decks★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The B-One’s almost flush coachroof belies the space below – although sitting headroom is limited, the boat’s generous beam helps to create a surprising feeling of space. A cruise package is available, with a large double berth with stowage underneath ahead of the mast and two settees/quarter berths with sitting headroom can also be fitted, as can a coolbox and chemical toilet. The interior fittings, including berths, can

be removed to return the boat to one-design racing trim.

Although there are no windows, the white flow-coat finish, combined with a proper forehatch and tinted companionway hatch mean it’s surprisingly bright inside – a very different experience to going inside an all-carbon boat. There’s also lots of volume under the cockpit, which helps to contribute to the feeling of space, although obviously loading this space with gear would noticeably impair performance. There’s also a cockpit tent on the options list that would further increase the available space in a manner that’s in keeping with the boat’s minimal style.

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From: Richard Hewitt, Clipper MarineWith over 96 boats now sold in Europe, the

B-One is designed to be one of the most

cost-effective small boats on the market.

Bavaria’s philosophy is to attract new sailors

into boating either via sailing clubs and

schools, or local racing whilst maintaining

a rock-solid boat that maximises the fun of

sailing. The B-One also offers a modern way

of daysailing a Sportsboat, providing simple

handling for all the crew to get involved,

with fewer lines for new sailors to manage.

The cruising sails are eight per cent less

area and the main comes with one reef.

The aim is also to build one of the biggest

one-design classes in the world (already

covering 14 nations) with an international

class association online from December.

A race calendar will be unveiled for the

2013 season along with a World Cup in the

summer next year.

ANSWER BACKCOMPARISONS

J/70New Sportsboat with carbon rig and impeccable handling, optimised for fast and competitive one-design racing. Benefi ts from J-Boats’ long experience in this part of the market and indications are sizeable fl eets will form both in the UK and around the world. Hull length 6.93m LWL 6.24m Beam 2.25m Draught 1.5m (keel down) Displacement 795kg Ballast 285kg Sail area upwind: 26sq m

downwind: 45sq m

SB20With a new builder appointed and a revitalised class structure, enthusiasm is again growing for the old Laser SB3 class. This is Sportsboat racing at its simplest yet blisteringly fast downwind in a blow.

LOA 6.15m Beam 2.15m Draught 1.5m (keel down) Displacement 685kg Ballast 327kg Mainsail 18sq m Headsail 9.3sq m Asymmetric 46sq m

Verdict★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★The B-One is a well thought out and likeable dual-purpose small Sportsboat with enough power to provide exciting racing, plus the option of converting the interior

for fast, spirited day sailing with the family with the option of overnight camping style accommodation.

The collective might of Bavaria in Europe and Farr Yacht Design in the USA means the boat is being heavily promoted, with more

than 80 sold across Europe after the fi rst couple of months of production. This is a boat that has clearly quickly attracted attention, and where large fl eets become established good class racing can be expected. A world championship is being mooted for next year.

It remains to be seen whether fl eets will form in the UK, but don’t worry if the racing where you sail is predominately held under handicap systems – the B-One appears to be competitive under IRC and therefore would make a good choice for this purpose. Pricing is attractive, making it possible to get racing without an enormous outlay, although the total price quickly ramps up if all the options are selected.

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Consult a rigger with raceboat experience - they are in a great position to advise on deck layouts

The past three years have arguably seen as much development in winch technology as in the previous few decades, making this an ideal time to upgrade.

While the evolution of winch design had previously been a slow process, a number of manufacturers now have newly designed ranges that represent a step change in design terms. These new models are physically smaller for the same power than their predecessors and offer a 30-50 per cent weight saving, along with reduced friction and easier maintenance.

Harken started the ball rolling in 2009 with its new Radial series. It offers a weight saving of 25-50 per cent and a new grip pattern increasing holding

power by 30 per cent, while also reducing line wear. This improved grip allows drums to be smaller, while composite roller bearings and bushings are fitted where possible to help reduce friction and weight. In an acceleration of a long-running trend, maintenance was further simplified – the composite bearings, for instance, are impervious to corrosion and

don’t need to be lubricated.Competitors were not far behind,

with Lewmar launching its Evo range, which combined key characteristics of its existing Ocean winches, such as ease of servicing and quality materials, with improved efficiency and strength to weight ratios. The range includes seven self-tailing winches from size 15 to 65, plus Evo Sport non-self tailing models for Sportsboats. For larger race boats Lewmar also has an extensive range of Grand Prix racing winches, with carbon tops and skirts keeping the weight of the smallest, size 50, model down to an impressive 4.7kg – 45 per cent lighter than an equivalent aluminium winch.

Similarly, Italian manufacturer Antal launched its new XT series in late 2010.

Upgrading winchesWinches are the powerhouse of the rig and an essential element in getting the best performance from your boat, Rupert Holmes

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This includes nine models from size 40 to 70, all of which are more compact and lightweight than their predecessors.

Reverse advantageSpar Selden has also reimagined the winch from scratch – the company’s range, launched just over 12 months ago, includes manual winches with a reverse gear. The advantages of reversible winches are easy to see for superyachts, where they have been used for many years, as the enormous loads involved make manually easing a line a dangerous activity that risks limb damage to crewmembers.

However reversible winches are also relevant for smaller raceboats as they signifi cantly speed up easing a line a small amount, such as when trimming a headsail or adjusting halyard tension. In particular, they enable a line to be eased a precise amount in one movement, without taking the handle out, or removing the line from the self-

tailer. Simply pressing a button on the purpose-made handle with your thumb activates the reverse action.

As well as fast and accurate trimming being an advantage for fully-crewed racers, this enables solo sailors to steer and trim simultaneously. Selden’s new winches are available in sizes from 30-52 and won the DAME Award for innovation at the METS (Marine Equipment Trade Show) in late 2010.

When to upgradeWinch upgrades are best planned as part of a larger optimisation process of deck gear and running rigging. Ideally

this should be carried out in one go, but economics may dictate otherwise, in which case make sure each season’s changes are informed by the big picture of what you want to eventually achieve. The danger of a piecemeal approach is that you risk spending money on work or equipment that later becomes redundant.

In-depth conversations with deck hardware manufacturers will ensure your money and effort is focussed to best effect. Better still, consult a rigger with raceboat experience – they are in a great position to be able to advise on all aspects of deck layouts and running rigging.

In many cases cruiser-racers are most likely to benefi t from upgrading winches, as many are a compromise

Don’t fall into the trap of buying new simply because your existing winches appear to make sail handling hard work. Start by making sure your existing winches are properly serviced – this should be done several times a season to keep friction to a minimum.

The thinking around deck layouts for performance boats has changed enormously over the past 10 years and better results may be obtained by spending your budget on optimising this area. In modern performance boats, lines are no longer led alongside each other through identical deck organisers and clutches as this type of layout inevitably bends highly-loaded lines around corners, further increasing loads and friction. Instead each line is taken to an individual jammer or clutch with as straight a lead as possible.

In addition, new materials, improved design tools, and the ever growing use of rope attachment to give blocks perfect articulation mean that friction can be signifi cantly reduced before the line reaches the winch, which again reduces loads.

It’s also worth considering whether a purchase system be used in place of a winch. The increased use of lighter materials such as carbon, plus low-friction blocks means purchase systems, rather than winches, can control even quite high loads. Equally, it may be possible to use a simple diverter to avoid needing to fi t an extra winch – this keeps both weight and costs to a minimum.

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between performance, comfort and economy. Often all that’s needed is a slightly more powerful model and with the new ranges of winches being physically smaller than their predecessors, these are likely to fi t within the same footprint as the old winch and may weigh less than the original.

On larger cruiser-racers one of the most effective upgrades can be to replace secondary winches with a fast wind alternative such as Lewmar’s Speed Ring racing winches. These have two drum diameters, allowing maximum power on the narrow upper drum to be used for fi ne tuning highly loaded lines, while the wider lower drum provides an ultra-fast wind for spinnaker trimming or gybing an asymmetric.

Most boats built since the mid-

1990s already have backing pads bonded into the structure of the deck located in the positions in which additional winches most likely need to be fi tted, for instance when adding optional spinnaker gear. The manual supplied with the boat when new should identify exactly where these are. These pads are normally aluminium, so fi tting the new winch is an easy task – just drill holes in the right place and tap a thread in the backing pad – you don’t need access underneath to fi t nuts on the end of the bolts that secure the winch to the deck. The older the boat – whether an out and out raceboat, or a cruiser-racer – the more

likely it is to benefi t from optimising the deck layout and replacing winches (see box).

Materials and drum patternsFor any performance boat weight is clearly of prime concern, which generally points to models with as much composite – rather than metal – content as possible. While polished stainless steel can look great, it’s somewhat heavier than aluminium, which in turn is heavier than composite.

As far as the pattern on the drum that grips the rope is concerned, manufacturers tend to have different views as to what works best in terms of maximising grip while minimising chafe on the rope. Improvements in rope technology make this more

challenging than in the past as smaller lines are able to hold ever higher loads with minimal stretch and applications that might once have required a 14mm line can now be served by one of only 8mm. The highly loaded smaller line must also hold securely in the self-tailer of the winch.

Selden winches have10 fl at faces on the drum designed to provide good grip while being kind to the cover. Anderson’s stainless steel winches have rounded vertical ridges, which are said to be very kind to lines while providing good grip once the line is loaded. Harken’s Radial range has a series of diagonal grooves that both provide

grip and help to prevent riding turns. Lewmar uses an imprinted pattern on the surface of the drum.

The model number of a winch refers to its power ratio, the multiplication factor by which the input effort is increased in the lowest gear. For instance, a 40 winch generates 40kg of theoretical output power for every 1kg of effort applied to the handle. However, in practice friction means that the winch will not be as effi cient as this and it’s inevitable that some power will be lost.

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The Oyster Regatta Palma at the end of September was a lively affair. With an average wind speed of over 20 knots and a top gust of close to 40, the conditions were such

that the Bay of Palma was no place for yachts unable to handle the big breeze and lumpy seas.

Twelve different Oyster designs took part in three days of racing and visiting some of the Mallorca’s fi nest locations. This year marked the eighth occasion that the Oyster fl eet had gathered in Palma and the exclusive Real Club Nautico was once again the host for the regatta.

Puerto AndraitxEven light rain and gusty conditions could not dampen the spirits of the competitors for the fi rst race – a 20-mile coastal race, fi nishing at the enchanting natural haven of Puerto Andraitx. The entrance to Puerto Andraitx affords stunning views of the cliffs along the south-west tip of Mallorca and the natural harbour is home to Club de Vela Andraitx.

The Oyster family enjoyed the full hospitality of the yacht club before heading off into the mountains for dinner at the Bodegas Santa Catarina. Set in the rugged Sierra de Tramuntana, the vineyard is one of Mallorca’s hidden gems. Bodegas Santa Catarina produces award-winning wines in a magical setting that has

been a centre for wine production for many centuries. A traditional paella was prepared and served inside the barrel-vaulted stone wine store.

The second day featured a passage race back to Real Club Nautico in a solid 15 knots of breeze from the north-east that built to gale-force conditions with the wind speed close to 40 knots. After a lively fetch along the rugged coastline, the fl eet entered the Bay of Palma, which was festooned with white horses and a short nasty sea state developed.

Many yachts were quick to reef in the conditions but it was a bumpy rollercoaster ride. There was scarcely another vessel in the entire Bay of Palma, but the fl eet was an amazing sight powering through the surf. The gnarly weather conditions provided high speed racing for over three hours before the fl eet fi nally moored up again within the safe confi nes of Real Club Nautico.

Gerd Köhlmoos was delighted to win his second race at the regatta, but was quick to explain that it was a team effort. ‘Probably the best move we made today was going inshore to fi nd fl atter water inside the bay but we had a big problem when our genoa sheet snapped but the crew acted quickly to limit the loss. I love to sail with my family and friends and we have become an excellent team because we have sailed together for so many years, it was a very exciting race today and I am really looking forward to the last day of racing and hopefully the “Sarabande” team can win again, to fi nish off a great regatta.’

John and Odette Maxwell’s British Oyster 54, ‘Om Shanti’ racing in Class Two managed a credible sixth for the race. John and Odette will be taking part in the Oyster World Rally next January and the tough conditions were a great way to test ‘Om Shanti’ before her long voyage. For the Oyster Regatta Palma, John’s sons Ian and James were on board, as well as Odette’s 18-year old grandson, Raph Marshall-Naef, who will be joining the couple for their great adventure.

‘That was pretty feisty today,’ beamed John, having helmed ‘Om Shanti’ non-stop for over three and a half hours. ‘It was thoroughly enjoyable and very educational. Fortunately “Om Shanti” will be likely to experience more downwind sailing on the Oyster World Rally but

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today was a great day to perfect heavy weather upwind sailing. Apart from the fridge door fl ying open and sending the lunch all over the galley, I think we coped pretty well!’

The fi nal day of racing was blessed with glorious sunshine in the Bay of Palma. Twenty knots of breeze and considerable swell provided sparkling conditions for the fl eet. Two dozen Oysters enjoyed a magnifi cent day’s racing with a points-scoring windward-leeward race and an exhibition pursuit race, which was not part of the series but gave the competitors a thrilling end to racing. A box course was set around the Bay of Palma and the fl eet engaged in a gigantic game of ‘cat and mouse’ with the larger yachts aiming to make up the distance on the fl eet in front of them. Only 10 minutes separated the entire racing fl eet after two hours of racing.

In Class One, Thomas and Esther Meseck’s Swiss Oyster 575 ‘Satika’ had a cracking start but on the fi rst beat, the power of the larger Oyster yachts came to the fore. Oyster 82, ‘Starry Night of the Caribbean’ took up an early lead and did not relinquish it, taking the gun and

succession to fi nish the regatta with a perfect score line. In the last scoring race of the series, Igor Lazurenko’s Russian Oyster 54, ‘Light Lana’ held on to a slender lead to take second place from Rudolf Kägi’s Swiss Oyster 56, ‘Magic Spirit’, which was just a boat length behind ‘Light Lana’ but ended the points scoring series in style, claiming third.

the victory on corrected time from Alberto Vignatelli’s Italian Oyster 72, ‘AlbertOne3’. Maxim Kudryashov’s Russian Oyster 625, ‘Guardian Angel’ was third by just 13 seconds on corrected time.

In Class Two, Gerd and Annemarie Köhlmoos’ German Oyster 54, ‘Sarabande’ continued to dominate the class, winning their third race in

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Cap RocatWith three days of racing concluded, the fi nal prizegiving was a lavish evening of festivities at one of Mallorca’s most exclusive resorts. Cap Rocat is a former military fort set on a cliff top in 88 acres with over a mile of coastal walkways offering views across the city and the bay beyond.

As dusk fell, the bright lights of Palma lit up a magical backdrop to a fabulous evening. Beautifully restored and adapted for a grand occasion, the venue saw 250 Oyster owners and guests gather for the fi nal results.

to win this regatta.’The next Oyster Sailing event will

be a fi rst for the British luxury yacht builder. The Oyster World Rally comprises 28 yachts taking part in an exciting 14-month odyssey starting in Antigua on January 6, 2013. The fl eet will pass through the Panama Canal, across the Pacifi c and the Indian Ocean and back into the Atlantic. Stopping at some of the world’s most fabulous locations on the way, it looks set to be an adventure of a lifetime, which will fi nish in Antigua in April 2014.

Three days of windy weather had produced some spectacular sailing, which was also very competitive with several podium places being decided on the last race.

The winner of Class One was Maxim Kudryashov’s Russian Oyster 625, ‘Guardian Angel’, in its maiden regatta. He commented: ‘I love to sail in strong winds, it is fantastic to power through the waves in “Guardian Angel” and the crew love it as well. We had a few problems because we are still getting used to her but the crew work was excellent and I was so proud

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Although sheltered from most wind directions, the sheer size of the Bay of Palma sees a steep chop develop in any conditions over a Force 4. Renowned as a deep-water superyacht port, there is abundant dinghy, keelboat and big boat racing during the season. Real Club Nautico de Palma (RCNP) hosts the Trofeo Princesa Sofi a every April, where the Olympic dinghy and keelboat classes kick off their racing seasons. Then later the same month the Palma Vela welcomes the big boats, IRC and keelboat one designs to the Bay for a week of serious competition. Two of this season’s fi ve events in the newly formulated ‘52 Series’ – July’s Royal Cup and the Copa del Rey – were held in the Bay. And the past few years have seen the Spanish J/80 nationals and the Melges worlds hosted in the Bay, not to mention the start of the Class 40 Global Ocean Race around the world in September 2011.

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RaCING Classes 2011/12

Rupert Holmes analyses activity in keelboat and sportsboat

racing over the past 12 months and makes predictions for the

2013 seasont

his year a number keelboat classes saw signifi cant increases in attendance at their national championships – Squibs (up by 12 entries), SB20 (+9), RS Elite (+14),

J/24 (+12), 707 (+11) and Etchells (+9), with the latter taking the largest percentage increase, more than doubling the fl eet to 17 competitive entries.

On the other hand it’s no surprise that the XOD class saw a downturn in numbers following its massive turnout of 145 boats for the class centenary last year. However this year’s nationals, held during Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, still saw a turn-out that equals the class long-term average. Although a number of classes dipped below their long-term averages, others show healthy signs of growing activity, especially among faster and relatively newer designs including

SB20s, 707s, J/80s and J/24s.Alas this wasn’t enough to prevent a 20

per cent drop in the total 2012 nationals attendance of the largest dozen classes compared to the previous year. While around half of that decline can be traced to the XOD’s bumper year in 2011, that can’t be said for the other 10 per cent.

What will the 2013 season hold? For the fi rst time in several years, two new one-design Sportsboat classes are likely to feature strongly. The Bavaria B-one has sold well in Europe, with 100 boats sold in 17 countries within

fi ve months of launch, although it has yet to take off in the UK. The new J/70 is selling well here and will clearly have class racing next season - close to two dozen boats were sold in the UK within four months of the fi rst one arriving in mid summer and in total 160 had been snapped up when we closed for press.

Another class to watch in 2013 will be the SB20. This is the re-named SB3 that experienced a painful period of decline, due at least in part to lack of support from the manufacturer to which the class was previously beholden. However, those ties have now been severed, there’s a new UK-based builder who understands the market well, plus a well organised and enthusiastic class association. With plenty of second-hand boats available at attractive prices, plus a strong order book for new ones, this is another class to watch in 2013.

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KeelboatsRacing classes Review

AjAx 23ft open three-person keelboat with spinnakerDesigneD by: Oliver Lee in 1966ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: finloA: 7.07m; beAm: 1.95mWeight: 873kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 10.8; Jib: 9.2; spi: 20.62priCe: bAsiC: £4,000; gooD: £4,500ClAss seC: IK Douglas, [email protected] Website: www.ajax23class.co.uk2012 nAtionAls: St Mawes, Cornwall; 22 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Roger WoodFurther inFo: The class has active fleets on the east coast and in the south west.

B-oneTrend setting new Sportsboat attracting new sailors with an easy to handle performance boatnumber oF CreW: Four people up to 320kg for one-design racing; CE certified D6, 338kgDesigneD by: Farr Yacht DesignConstruCtion: Hand layup GRP with superstructureKeel type: T-bulb, lifting for transport loA: 7.28m; beAm: 2.49m; DrAught: 1.65mWeight: 1,058kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 21; Jib: 11; spi: 48typiCAl irC: 0.969priCe (inC VAt): bAsiC neW boAt: £25,950; £33,468, with Mylar /Nylcote race sails and trailerCurrent builDer: Bavaria Yachtbau ClAss seC: Eberhard MaggClAss Website: Under construction neW boAts in 2012: 98 (after 5 months)2013 nAtionAls: to be announced early 20132013 europeAns: to be announced early 2013

next WorlDs: July 2013 DiD you KnoW: That an easy and uncomplicated boat as the B-One can outperform higher spec and well-known race boats for a budget price?Further inFo: The B-one is a concept which is already attracting new sailors to boating due to the easy layout and concept and is an international one-design class for serious racing on a low budget. The boat is already in use in over 17 countries worldwide for family sailing, club racing, one-design racing, match racing and sailing schools.

British And nordic FolkBoAts Two classes sharing the same hull lines and many featuresnumber oF CreW: 3DesigneD by: Scandinavian committee in 1942ConstruCtion: Nordic: Clinker planking in GRP or wood; British: Mainly wood with either clinker or carvel plankingKeel type: Long loA: 7.68m; beAm: 2.20m; DrAught: 2.00mWeight: 1,960kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 17; Jib: 7; spi: 20priCe guiDe: bAsiC: £5,000; gooD: £20,000 neW: £50,000Current builDer: GermanyClAss seC: Eddie Mays, [email protected], 02380 402194, 07766 568150ClAss Website: www.folkboats.comneW boAts in 2012: One2012 nAtionAls: Royal Lymington YCnAtionAl ChAmpion: Stuart Watson & Matthew Jones2013 nAtionAls: Royal Lymington YC, June 8-9DiD you KnoW: A new website will be online by December 1Further inFo: Although there is strong Nordic fleet racing in the west Solent, most Folkboats within the association are scattered across the whole of the UK and enjoy competitive racing at club level or spend time cruising, either solo or in company.

drAgon Graceful three-person keelboat with spinnaker. DesigneD by: Johan Anker in 1929ConstruCtion: GRP or wood; Keel type: Long loA: 8.7m; beAm: 1.95m; DrAught: 1.2mWeight: 1,700kg; CreW: 285kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 16; Jib: 11.7; spi: 23.6priCe guiDe: bAsiC: £10-15,000; gooD: £20-30,000; neW: £55,000Current builDer: PetticrowsClAss seC: Tim Wilkes, 01371 874909, 07720 288100 [email protected] Website: www.britishdragons.org2012 nAtionAls: Belfast (Edinburgh Cup)nAtionAl ChAmpion: Simon Brien2013 nAtionAls: WPNSA, Weymouth (Edinburgh Cup), June 25-28europeAn ChAmpion: Markus Wiesernext WorlDs: Weymouth, September 5-13, 2013DiD you KnoW: A strong international class with fleets in 29 countries around the world and a busy programme in the UK and Ireland.

etchells Three-man strict one-design with spinnakerDesigneD by: Skip Etchells in 1966ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: FinloA: 9.3m; beAm: 2.1mWeight: 1,405kg; CreW: 285kg maxsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 20; Jib: 8.5; spi: 48priCe: bAsiC: £5-8,000; gooD: £12-23,000neW: £40,000 fully kitted out inc sails, trailer, etcUK builDer: David Heritage Racing YachtsClAss seC: Jan Ford, [email protected], 07747602707, 07747602707

ClAss Website: www.etchellsukfleet.co.uk2012 nAtionAls: Cowes; 17 EntriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: James Howells, David Bedford and Mark Lees2013 nAtionAls: Cowes Corinthian YC, Sept 13-152013 WorlDs: Rosignano Solvay, Italy, June 10-15Further inFo: Offers superbly close racing with a refined one-design format that attracts some of the world’s top sailors to the 50 fleets around the globe. The class is enjoying a resurgence in the UK, with a pro-active class association attracting new owners and providing opportunities for some of the country’s best young sailors.The 2013 programme has up to 51 days of racing over seven months and participation is sure to grow in advance of the 2016 worlds in Weymouth.

FArr 30 Rocketship with strong international calendarnumber oF CreW: 7 - 8DesigneD by: Farr Yacht Design in 1996ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: FinloA: 9.43m; beAm: 3.08mWeight: 2,000kg; CreW: 525kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 55.68; spi: 89priCe: bAsiC: €30,000; gooD: €50,000 Current builDer: NoneClAss seC: Bunny Wayt, [email protected], +252.661.6159ClAss Website: www.farr30.orgneW boAts in 2012: 0WorlD ChAmpion: Deneen Demourkas, USAnext WorlDs: Newport, RI, July 17-20, 2013Further inFo: After several years of decline, the class is experiencing renewed interest and growth, especially in Northern Europe. The 2012 worlds in Sweden had 19 competitors from eight countries. The venue and dates for the 2013 Europeans should be set shortly. We anticipate a return to Northern Europe for the worlds in 2014 and hope to announce that venue early next year.



Flying 15 The world’s most popular racing keelboat, with fleets at 48 UK clubsnumber oF CreW: 2DesigneD by: Uffa Fox in 1947ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Low centre of gravity finloA: 6.1m; beAm: 1.52mWeight: 138kg; CreW: 140-190kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 11.95; Jib: 4.78; spi: 14.2pn number: 1022priCe: bAsiC: £1,500; gooD: £6,000; neW: £17,654Current builDer: Ovington, Composite CraftClAss seC: Keith Jamieson, 01539 735839, 07977 591677, [email protected] Website: www.flying15.org.ukneW boAts in 2012: 252012 nAtionAls: LargsnAtionAl ChAmpion: Simon Kneller and Dave Lucas2013 nAtionAls: Weymouth, July 15-20europeAn ChAmpion: Greg Wells and Richard RiggWorlD ChAmpion: Graham Vials and Chris Turner2013 europeAns: 2014 not yet announcednext WorlDs: Hong Kong, Oct 24-Nov 7, 2013DiD you KnoW: Flying Fifteen Sail number 4000 was issued during 2012, making the class the world’s most successful keelboat of all time.Further inFo: The real strength of this exciting, planing, two person keelboat, is its availability of UK Fleet Racing. Raced actively at 48 clubs and present in 30 more, there is strong fleet racing in all areas of the UK. This network of clubs supports 32 open meetings a year, as well as regional, national, European and world championships. The worlds and Europeans are held in alternate years. The 2012 Europeans were in Garda.

illusion 12ft singlehanded mini 12 Metre DesigneD by: Jo Richards & Neil Graham in 1981ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Fin and skegloA: 3.65m; beAm: 0.825mWeight: equalised so that helm plus boat weighs 340-350kg

sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 2.82; Jib: 2.46; spi: 5.61Current builDer: Mark Downer, Advanced Marine Structures, +44 1983 200011 priCe guiDe: bAsiC: £1,000; gooD: £1,900 neW: £5,000 approxClAss seC: James Axtell, 07966 035260 [email protected] Website: http://illusionclass.org2012 nAtionAls: Bembridge, Isle of Wight; 26 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Raymond SimondsFurther inFo: Close tactical and affordable one-design racing with fleets at West Kirby, Aldenham and Bembridge. The winter programme at Bembridge attracted 45 boats last season, with racing mostly taking place every second weekend with three short races each day. It makes an excellent winter training programme with results that speak for themselves – Illusion sailors take overall wins in several classes at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week every year.

j/24 One-design symmetric keelboatnumber oF CreW: 4-6 (400kg max combined crew weight)Designer: Rod Johnstone in 1977ConstruCtion: GRP Balsa Core; Keel type: finloA: 7.32m; beAm: 2.64m; DrAught: 1.22mWeight: 1,270 kg; CreW: 400kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 12.68 ; Jib: 12 genoA: 18.4 ; spi: 18.9 pn number: 935 priCe: bAsiC: £4,000; gooD: £8,000 - £10,000neW: £27,000builDer: J Boats Italy, US Waterline USA, J Boats ArgentinaClAss seC: Rob Clark, [email protected], 07967 563237ClAss Website: www.j24class.org.uk 2012 nAtionAls: Parkstone YC, Poole; 28 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Serco – Nathan Batchelor2013 nAtionAls: Royal Western YC, July 4-7europeAn ChAmpion: La Surperba - Ignazio Bonanno, ItalyWorlD ChAmpion: Bruschetta - Mauricio Santa Cruz, Brazil2013 europeAns: YC Monaco, October 6-142013 WorlDs: Howth YC, Ireland, August 22-30, DiD you KnoW: The 2012 J/24 world championship hosted 96 teams from Europe, North America, South America and Asia Further inFo: With the world championships to be based in Northern Europe during 2013 and

2015, a very competitive and welcoming UK race circuit and the low cost of a competitive boat, the J/24 remains the world’s most popular keelboat.

j/70New 7m planing Sportsboat with a lifting keel for slipway launching number oF CreW: 3-4 (270kg)DesigneD by: Rod JohnstoneConstruCtion: GRPKeel type: Fin with lead bulbloA: 7m; beAm: 2.25m; DrAught: 1.5mWeight: 795kg; CreW: 270kgsAil AreA: upWinD: 26; spi: 45typiCAl irC: 0.971priCe guiDe: neW: £35,000 including trailer, sails, engine and VATbuilDer: J Composites and CCF CompositesClAss seC: Becci EplettClAss Website: www.j-70.co.uk – coming soonneW boAts in 2012: 1602013 nAtionAls: Cowes, June 14-16 2013 europeAns: Lake Garda, Italy, Junenext WorlDs: USA, 2014DiD you KnoW: The J/70 is the first new Sportsboat design from J Boats since the phenomenally successful J/80 was launched in 1994. Like the J/80 and the J/24, the J/70 is expected to quickly become a one-design classic across the globe.Further inFo: With its easily driven hull, large cockpit, and manageable three sail inventory, the J/70 is perfect for three adults, two couples, or four juniors. Performance is an integral part of the J/70 concept and its light 795kg hull, driven by a 45sq m spinnaker, will delight fans with double figure speeds. In a moderate breeze, the J/70 just takes off. Off the wind, J/70 simply lights up. It’s no surprise that order numbers have already exceeded the boatbuilder’s expectations.

j/80 ISAF asymmetric Sportsboat, raced as a one-design globally

number oF CreW: 4-5 (338kg max)DesigneD by: Rod Johnstone in 1993ConstruCtion: GRP balsa sandwichKeel type: Fin with bulbloA: 8m; beAm: 2.81m; DrAught: 1.65mWeight: 1,495kg; CreW: 338kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 17.41 Jib: 13.6; spi: 65pn number: 876priCe: bAsiC: £25,000; gooD: £32,000neW: £45,000Current builDer: J BoatsClAss seC: Mark Cockrill, [email protected], 07533 005194ClAss Website: http://j-80.co.uk neW boAts in 2012: 702012 nAtionAls: Royal Southern YC, HamblenAtionAl ChAmpion: Nic Barnes and Rob Larke2013 nAtionAls: Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, June 14-16WorlD ChAmpion: Jose Maria Van Der Ploeg, next WorlDs: Marseille, France, July 6-13, 2013DiD you KnoW: The 2012 World Championship was held in Dartmouth, and attracted 76 competing boats from Ireland to Hong Kong.Further inFo: The most popular one-design Sportsboat in Europe. It is the only Sportsboat that is certified for offshore sailing and capable of over 18 knots, yet designed to sail under just the mainsail to cruise with friends and family.

k1 Unique mini yacht with a lifting bulb keel yet weighing little more than many dinghiesnumber oF CreW: 1DesigneD by: Paul Handley in 2009ConstruCtion: FRP foam sandwichKeel type: Lifting with 60kg bulbloA: 4.7m; beAm: 1.3m; DrAught: 1.15mWeight: 125kg; CreW: 60-110kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 7.8; Jib: 3pn number: 1062priCe: bAsiC: £5,500; gooD: £6,300neW: £6,990Current builDer: VanderCraft and K1 Sailing, [email protected] seC: Chris Querée; [email protected] Website: www.k1sailing.com neW boAts in 2012: 242012 nAtionAls: Burton SC; Entries 23nAtionAl ChAmpion: Wiclif McCready2013 nAtionAls: Royal Torbay YC, Sept 27-29DiD you KnoW: The K1 is easy for one person to handle and faster than most singlehanded dinghies but doesn’t capsize!



Further inFo: Since its launch in 2010 the K1 has spread rapidly - there are now over 70 boats in 35 UK clubs and many of these are starting to form fleets. The K1 has an active and friendly class association which organises open meetings, training events and a well-supported nationals.

k6 Thoroughly modern asymmetric keelboatnumber oF CreW: 2-3DesigneD by: Paul Handley ConstruCtion: Epoxy foam sandwichKeel type: Dagger keelloA: 5.8m; beAm: 1.97mWeight: 260kg; CreW: 160-190kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 13.2; Jib: 6.5; spi: 29pn number: 903priCe: bAsiC: £7,000; gooD: £10,000neW: £17,000 complete with sails and trailerCurrent builDer: Rondar RaceboatsClAss seC: Heather Chipperfield, [email protected] Website: www.k6class.org2012 nAtionAls: Royal Torbay YCnAtionAl ChAmpion: Ian Robson, Sandy Johnson & Paddy Daniels2013 nAtionAls: Parkstone YC, Poole, Sept 12-15europeAn ChAmpion: Dave Hall, Paul & Ben Constable2013 europeAns: Riva, Lake Garda, June 24-28 DiD you KnoW: K6s are now sailed on both the East and West coast of the USA as well as in six European countriesFurther inFo: The K6 class association is launching an all-in online entry system for 2013 open meetings. Owners will be able enter, pay and have accommodation booked for them all through the class website.

loch long one design Traditional 2-3 person keelboatDesigneD in: 1937ConstruCtion: wood carvel; Keel type: long

loA: 6.4m; beAm: 1.55mWeight: 750kg priCe: bAsiC: £2,500; gooD: £3,500; neW: £22,000builDer: Aldeburgh BoatyardClAss seC: John McMurtrie, 07725950050, [email protected] inFo: The class celebrated its 75 anniversary in 2012. 23 boats competed in the Loch Long Week at Cove SC on the Clyde and there are fleets at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. There was also a start for the class at the Cowes Classics week.

Mini tonner Smallest of the old level rating IOR classesnumber oF CreW: 3-4DesigneD by: Varied designs, some one-offs, some production built Keel type: fin or liftingloA: varies, but mostly 6.4-7.2m priCe: bAsiC: £2,000; gooD: £5,000ClAss seC: Matt Atkins, [email protected], 02932 808717, 07950 012977ClAss Website: www.minitonner.com2012 nAtionAls: Island SC, Cowes; 14 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Matt HittFurther inFo: Cheap to buy and to run, but with excellent racing and regional events around the country.

QuArter tonner Close, fun racing for IOR Quarter Tonners now racing under IRCnumber oF CreW: 5-6AVerAge irC: 0.880DesigneD by: Assorted from 1969 onwardsConstruCtion: Various, wood and GRPloA: 7.3-8.5mpriCe: bAsiC: £5,000; gooD: £20,000+ClAss seC: Louise Morton, 01983 280642, 07769 972979, [email protected] Website: www.quartertonclass.org2012 nAtionAls: CowesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Peter Morton2013 nAtionAls: Cowes, July 15-17

rs elite Modern one-design performance racing keelboatnumber oF CreW: 3DesigneD by: Phil Morrison in 2003ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: FinloA: 7.4m; beAm: 1.72m; Weight: 925kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 15.8; Jib: 7.3; spi: 25pn number: 1020priCe: bAsiC: £10,000; gooD: £19,000neW: £27,500Current builDer: RS SailingClAss seC: Lyn Brown, 07801 277728; [email protected] Website: www.rselite.org2012 nAtionAls: Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes; 40+ entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Crauford McKeon, Rupert Harding and Paul Bowen2013 nAtionAls: RNIYC, Belfast, August 22-25Further inFo: The class continues to grow, with a record turnout of more than 40 boats at this year’s nationals in Cowes.

sAndhopper Shoal draft two-person keelboatDesigner: Oliver Lee in 1970ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: BilgeloA: 5.79m; beAm: 1.87mWeight: 700kg; CreW: 150-180kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 8.64; Jib: 7.14; spi: 15.5pn number: 1193priCe: bAsiC: £3,500; gooD: £6,500 ClAss Website: sandhopper.org.ukDiD you KnoW: The Sandhopper is a shallow-draught version of the Squib with triple keels that can be kept on an inexpensive drying mooring.

sB20 High performance asymmetric Sportsboatnumber oF CreW: 3 or 4DesigneD by: Tony Castro in 2002ConstruCtion: Foam sandwichKeel type: Lifting bulbed keelloA: 6.2m; DrAught: 1.5mWeight: 685kg; CreW: 270kg maxsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 18; Jib: 9.3; spi: 46priCe: bAsiC: £10,000; gooD: £16,000neW: £25,000Current builDer: Sportsboat WorldClAss seC: Katie Ashworth ClAss Website: www.sb20class.comneW boAts in 2012: 8 2012 nAtionAls: Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy; 46 entries2013 nAtionAls: Royal Cornwall YC, July 4-7europeAn ChAmpion: Rodion Luka & Oleg Zherebtsov (RUS)WorlD ChAmpion: 2012 Worlds to be raced at Hamilton Island, Queensland Australia, Dec 12– 20 next WorlDs: 2013, COYCH, Hyeres, FranceDiD you KnoW: Joe Llewellyn, Nigel Wakefield and Jerry Vigus clocked 20 knots downwind inside Portland Harbour during the 2012 nationalsFurther inFo: 2013 will offer an active UK circuit as well as a new Grand Slam Series which will take place at sailing hot spots around Europe,

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with plans to be announced shortly. Sportsboat World took over the build of the SB20 in May 2012, and now provides a steady flow of supplies and dropped the cost of sails by 15 per cent.

seAscApe 18 One-design three-person SportsboatDesigneD by: Sam Manuard in 2009ConstruCtion: GRP hull, carbon mast and boomKeel type: 125kg cast iron centreboardloA: 5.5m; beAm: 2.4mWeight: 470kg; CreW: 100-270kg (class max) sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 14.5; Jib: 8.5; spi: 32pn number: 1025priCe: neW: £18,500Current builDer: ISSA d.o.oClAss seC: Peter Wanstall, 01752 839599, 07950 000847, [email protected]

707 Sportsboat with symmetric spinnakerDesigneD by: David Thomaspn/AVerAge irC: 927 / 0.926loA: 7.09m; beAm: 2.49m; DrAught: 1.5msAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 20.2; Jib: 9.3; spi: 46.45Weight: 1,058kg; CreW: 450kgConstruCtion: GRPpriCe: bAsiC: £4,000; gooD: £7,000ClAss Website: www.sail707.comneW boAts in 2012: 02012 nAtionAls: Stone SC, EssexnAtionAl ChAmpion: Jon Powell2013 nAtionAls: Scarborough, June 25-29Further inFo: 2012 saw a revival for the class, with nationals attendance up from 14 to 25 boats – the largest attendance since 2005. Fleets around the country are now growing in size each year, with the largest numbers found at Burnham on Crouch, Falmouth, Hamble, Edinburgh and Scarborough. Other events planned for 2013 include Northern, Southern and Scottish area championships.

1720 Pedigree Sportsboat for one-design or IRC racing.number oF CreW: 5DesigneD by: Tony Castro in 1991ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Fin loA: 8m; beAm: 1.5m; DrAught: 1.65mWeight: 1,350kg; CreW: 450kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 26.3; Jib: 15.8; spi: 69.37priCe: bAsiC: £12,000; gooD: £16,000neW: £45,000Current builDer: Key YachtingClAss seC: Neil Angel, 07803179305; [email protected] Website: www.1720sportsboat.org2012 nAtionAls: Cork, 15 entriesnAtionAl AnD europeAn ChAmpion: Terence English and Mark Mansfield2013 europeAns: CorkDiD you KnoW: The 1720 is designed by Tony Castro and is the big sister of the SB3.Further inFo: Over 100 1720s have been built,

and there are active fleets in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands and elsewhere.

soling Three-man keelboat with spinnakerDesigner: Jan H Linge in 1964ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Single finloA: 7.6m; beAm: 1.37mWeight: 1,035kg; CreW: 250kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 13.6; Jib: 8.08; spi: 40.9priCe: bAsiC: £3,000; gooD: £5,000builDer: International Soling Association

sonAr 23ft day racer sailed by all ages at club and international levelnumber oF CreW: 4DesigneD by: Bruce Kirby in 1980ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: finloA: 7m; beAm: 2.4mWeight: 950kg; CreW: 350-400kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 14.1; Jib: 9; spi: 22.8priCe: bAsiC: £8,000 ; gooD: £17,000; neW: tbaCurrent builDer: Carbon IndexClAss seC: Jackie Mackay, 01506 491 944, [email protected] Website: www.uksonar.info2012 nAtionAls: Helensburgh SC, 9 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Ewan MacKayFurther inFo: UK fleets are on the Clyde and at Cowes – there were 13 entries in Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2012.

sonAtA One-design racer-cruisernumber oF CreW: 3-5

DesigneD by: David Thomas in 1976ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Fin or lift keelloA: 7m; beAm: 2.6mWeight: 1,115kg; CreW: not restricted sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 13.38; genoA: 13.75Jib: 9.16; spi: 28.13priCe: bAsiC: £4,000; gooD: £7,000neW: n/aClAss seC: Catherine Hartley, [email protected] Website: www.sonata.org.uk2012 nAtionAls: Medway YC; 23 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Joe Cross2013 nAtionAls: Strangford Lough YC, Northern Ireland, August 1-4

sQuiB A popular boat for two crew - easy to sail but tough to win eventsDesigneD by: Oliver Lee in 1968ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: finloA: 5.8m; beAm: 1.9m; DrAught: 0.9mWeight: 680kg; CreW Weight: varioussAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 9.2; Jib: 5.8; spi: 13.5pn number: 1114priCe: bAsiC: £2,500; gooD: £6,000; neW: £17,000Current builDer: BP Sailboats ClAss seC: Chris Stonehouse, 01572 822923, 07770690154, [email protected] Website: www.squibs.co.ukneW boAts in 2012: 42012 nAtionAls: Royal Dart YC; 72 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Alan Johnson and David Garlick 2013 nAtionAls: South Caernarvonshire YC at Abersoch, June 30 – July 5DiD you KnoW: A Squib is for everyone, everywhere – male and female, all ages. Sailed in all sorts of conditions on open sea, inland waters and estuaries. Further inFo: To learn why the one-design Squib is so interesting and so much fun, go to www.squibs.co.uk Sailed by two people, the Squib provides easily affordable racing.



solent sunBeAM Classic two or three person day-racing keelboat with spinnakerDesigneD by: Alfred Westmacott in 1922ConstruCtion: Wood and now wood / epoxy and full GRPKeel type: External 860kg lead ballast keelloA: 8.1m; beAm: 1.82m; DrAught: 1.2 mWeight: 3,000kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 19.5; Jib: 8.0; spi: 14.5priCe: bAsiC: £10,000; gooD: £20,000neW: £58,500Current builDer: GRP - Advanced Marine Structures, Sandown IOWClAss seC: Graham Colbourne, 01243 513963, [email protected] Website: www.solentsunbeam.co.ukneW boAts in 2012: 32012 nAtionAls: Cowes WeeknAtionAl ChAmpion: Roger Wickens 2013 nAtionAls: Cowes Week, August 3-10DiD you KnoW: Six new GRP boats have been built since 2010, to complement traditional wooden boats.Further inFo: A classic keelboat, the largest of the Alfred Westmacott designs, the Solent Sunbeams at Itchenor range from 90 years old to new GRP yachts. Beautiful lines with great handling across the whole wind spectrum. Highly competitive racing, very friendly small class. 25 yachts are based at Itchenor and race March through to the end of October three to four times a week.

internAtionAl stAr Two-man former Olympic keelboatDesigner: William Gardener in 1911loA: 6.92m; beAm: 1.73msAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 26; Jib: 8Weight: 671kg; CreW: 180-200kgConstruCtion: GRP/foamCurrent builDer: Folli/Lillia/MaderClAss Website: www.starclass.orgFurther inFo: The Star was the longest-running Olympic class, having been sailed at the Games from 1932-2012. Fleets around the world remain active and still attract some of the most successful sailors ever.

swAllow Day racing three-person planing keelboatnumber oF CreW: 3DesigneD by: Tom Thorneycroft in 1946ConstruCtion: Glass fibre; Keel type: Single keelloA: 7.7m; beAm: 1.7m; DrAught: 1.0mWeight: 1,022kgpriCe: bAsiC: £8,000; gooD: £20,000 neW: £30,000Current builDer: Composite Craft (Cowes)ClAss seC: Nigel Glennie, 01243 641240, 07512 553130, [email protected] Website: See Itchenor SC websiteneW boAts in 2012: None2012 nAtionAls: ItchenornAtionAl ChAmpion: Skua (Harry and Prue Roome, Will Rainey)2013 nAtionAls: Bembridge SC, July 13-14DiD you KnoW: The Swallow was the Olympic keelboat class at the last UK Olympics in 1948. Stewart Morris and David Bond won a gold medal for Great Britain.Further inFo: The class have a very active racing at Itchenor, and a fleet at Aldeburgh

teMpest Two-person racing keelboat with trapezeDesigneD by: Ian Proctor in 1965ConstruCtion: GRP; Keel type: Bulb loA: 6.70m; beAm: 1.97mWeight: 470kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 15.3; Jib: 7.7; spi: 28priCe: bAsiC: €7,000; gooD: €12,000+neW: €30,000Current builDer: Bootswerft MaderClAss seC: Jean Marie Thierry, [email protected] Website: www.tempestclass.com

2.4Mr Singlehanded keelboatDesigner: Various since 1983Keel type: FinloA: 4.1m; beAm: 0.8m; DrAught: 1msAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 7Weight: 254kgConstruCtion: GRP/compositeBUILDERs: Many worldwide, including Charger Composites, Finland for Norlin MklllClAss Website: www.ukassociation2-4mr.co.ukpriCe: bAsiC: £1,500; gooD: £3,000; neW: £12,0002012 WorlDs: Porto San Giorgio, Italy; 90 entries (open)WorlD ChAmpion: Peter Andersson, SwedenDiD you KnoW: Helena Lucas won a Paralympic gold medal for Britain in the class at the London 2012 Games.Further inFo: The class offers close competition and a level playing field for both disabled and able bodied sailors.

Victory Three-person keelboats originally designed for racing out of Portsmouth harbourDesigneD by: Alfred Westmacott in 1934ConstruCtion: Wood or fiberglass; Keel: longloA: 6.37m; beAm: 2mWeight: 1,290kg; CreW: OpensAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 18.12; Jib: 5.9; spi: 17.4priCe: bAsiC: £1,000; gooD: £10,000; neW: £25,000Current builDer: David Heritage Racing YachtsClAss seC: Jim Page, [email protected], 07769 650482ClAss Website: www.victoryclass.org.uk2012 nAtionAls: at Cowes WeeknAtionAl ChAmpion: Mark Dennington2013 nAtionAls: Cowes WeekFurther inFo: The Victory Class was founded in 1934 to race day-boats out of Portsmouth Harbour and participate in the annual Cowes Week regatta. In their home waters the distinctive 21ft black

clinker built boats provide competitive racing three times a week and a turnout of 20 or more boats is not unusual. The class believes it has some of the most competitive racing on the Solent.

Viper 640 High performance asymmetric keelboatnumber oF CreW: 3-4DesigneD by: Brian Bennet ConstruCtion: Foam sandwich FRPKeel type: Dagger keelloA: 6.4m; beAm: 2.5mWeight: 340kg; CreW: 250kg sAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 15.5; Jib: 7.5; spi: 40pn number: 894priCe: bAsiC: £13,000; gooD: £15,000neW: £23,000 complete with sails and trailerCurrent builDer: Rondar RaceboatsClAss seC: c/o [email protected] Website: www.viper640.orgusA ChAmpion: Pieter Taslaar

xod One-design three-person keelboatDesigner: A Westmacott in 1908ConstruCtion: Wood; Keel type: Long keelloA: 6.31m; beAm: 1.8mWeight: 1,304kgsAil AreA (sq m): mAin: 10*; spi: 9.9priCe: bAsiC: £4,000; gooD: £11,000ClAss seC: Tina Scott, [email protected], 07767 470958ClAss Website: www.xonedesign.org.uk2012 nAtionAls: Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week; 82 entriesnAtionAl ChAmpion: Steve & Peter Lawrence and Paddy Smart2013 nAtionAls: Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, August 3-10Further inFo: The class is thriving after more than 100 years, with most of the boats built during that time actively racing in close, tactical competition. Fleets at Itchenor, Hamble, Cowes, Yarmouth, Lymington and Poole.

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The D-One 2012 Gold Cup took place in Alassio, Italy with 35 sailors from some nine countries, with much of the top 10 coming from Olympic classes. Picking out the breeze as the gradient breeze fought the sea breeze through the afternoon proved to be excellent fun, if quite tricky. The event was Volvo sponsored and much of the racing was

filmed by Luca Devoti, Finn silver medallist, who invented the D-One. His infectious enthusiasm permeates the fleet. The event was exceptionally close with son of the class builder Victor Teply (CZE) leading the double-points non-discardable medal race from the first mark only to have a kite sheet wrap on the last hoist, resulting in a disastrous cartwheel.

This left Martin Trcka (CZE) leading but Augustin Zabalua (ARG) in second and overall gold position. However, Piero Sibello (ITA) took 2010 champion Zabalua by a quarter of a boat length on the finish line to give Trcka the 2012 Gold Cup. Six Brits were racing with Nick Craig and Giles Chipperfield seventh and eighth overall.

D-One Gold Cup in Italy

K6s meet Hurricane Sandy British hat trickGBR’s Neil Fulcher and Lawrence Crispin won by a comfortable margin. But Jim Wilson from the home club was not far behind and as the wind dropped slightly, he took advantage of his lighter weight to win three of the next races and the trophy by three points from Fulcher.

The bi-annual international K6 regatta for the Owen Torrey trophy took place at the American YC in New York, where day one saw no wind and day three was the beginning of Hurricane Sandy. Despite only one day of sailing, there were seven races in a glorious 12 knots. During the first races

OK inlandsThe weather gods looked favourably on the 27 strong OK fleet at Northampton SC with a building breeze. Terry Curtis took the title by a point from Jim Hunt.

420 inlandsComfortably ahead at the end of the 420 inlands at Burton SC were Callum Airlie and Joe Butterworth of East Lothian YC. Craig Dibb and Matt Wallis took second ahead of James Taylor and Tom Lovesey.

Merlin inlands56 Merlin Rockets descended on Blithfield SC, the title going to Richard Whitworth and Sarah Bines with a race to spare.

Vago victoryThirteen Vagos battled for the national title at Rutland SC with Dave Baxter of West Riding SC taking an emphatic victory.

ISO inlandsA light wind ISO inlands at Draycote Water saw two race wins for John Gill and Juliet Daniels, with Bob Ladell and Gary Hill taking the other two wins to take the title.

It was a one, two, three for GBR skippers at the World Radio Marblehead Championshipat Club Nautique, Ploermel, in the Lac au Duc region of France. The event saw 67 competitors from 11 countries. Brad Gibson dominated with eight firsts from 20 races. Graham Bantock was second overall with Martin Roberts third.

It was a case of eyes out of the boat for breeze as light winds dogged many end of season and inland championships... Paula Irish reports

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49er nationals at Weston Hurricane nationalsTwenty-seven 49ers were joined by four women’s 49er FX for their inaugural nationals at Weston SC. What did not turn up was the wind, with two days of snakes and ladders before a 6-8 knot sea breeze on the final day. With 30+ boats fighting in a small bit of water up the shoreline, it was perfect for spectators.

The end of season Solo championship at Draycote Water SC had sunshine for the 51 helms but 12-30 knots and a wind chill of -6°C. It was declared that Kevan Gibb, who made the long trip from Scotland, must have felt quite at home in the penal conditions.

The event finished with Henry Lloyd Williams and Sam Batten taking the bullet followed by Dave Evans and Simon Hiscocks - securing them the win. Dave Hopper and Mark Asquith were second overall ahead of Rick Peacock and Nick Murray. First in the 49er FXs was Frances Peters and Katrina Best.

The 25th Hurricane Nationals could only be held at one club, and so 28 teams returned to Brightlingsea SC in Essex, including the last six national champions. Ultimately it was two-time winner John Ready, with a very handy ex-49er GBR development squad sailor Jamie

Bolingbroke, who led the way, counting six bullets and a 4,2 to wrap up the nationals with a day to spare. The final and fourth day, the windiest of what was a breezy nationals, saw Grant Piggott, crewed by Simon Farren, take the final two bullets of the 10-race series to finish second.

Blithfield’s Andy Davis took two bullets and the title with a race to spare, adding to his national title. Only 25 helms stayed out for the last race, with Charlie Cumbley taking the final win and second overall, and Michael Sims holding onto third overall.

200 Lion tamers

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The crews of 60 RS200s eyed the bitter northerly gusting 35 knots or so with, for the most part, fear and loathing. But there are always ‘The Others’ - those who find lion taming so passé, they smear themselves in Bovril for a bit of edge. With two breezy races, James Peters and Alan Roberts took two bullets, following it up with another in a more regular Force 3-5 on day two plus a 2,5 to take the title.

Peter O’Leary won Ireland’s most prestigious sailing title; the ISA All Ireland Sailing Championship. The three day invitational regatta, raced in J/80s, concluded in Lough Derg with O’Leary dominating the final three-race series to claim the Helmsman Trophy for the second time. The youngest competitor, 17-year-old Fionn Lyden, took silver, with George Kenefick in third.

Team GBR brought home the silverware from the 29er Lake Garda Euro Cup, with Owen Bowerman and Morgan Peach winning with a race to spare and Matt Venables and Will Alloway second. The top female team of Vicky Payne and Stephie Orton fought to the wire for a GBR 1,2,3 but tied on points for third, missing out on count back to the Germans.

Scottish ChampionsWayfarer sailors Chris Owen and Sam McNamara were crowned RYA Scottish Champion of Champions at East Lothian YC. The 50th edition of the annual invite-only event, saw 35 boats ranging from Moths to Optimists. Light breezes saw one day of racing with different course shapes for each of the four races, giving the diverse boats the chance to shine. With a perfect score of three

wins, Wayfarer national champions Owen and McNamara, from Oban SC, took an emphatic victory. Ronnie and Torr Millar in an RS200 took second, with National 18 sailors Richard and Stuart Urquhart third. Fiona Rigg of Dalgety Bay, sailing an RS200 with Ashley Martin, was fourth and first lady helm. First youths were Callum Airlie and Joe Butterworth in a 420.

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The crew of ‘Gelert’ – James Howells, David Bedford and Mark Lees – dominated the Etchells nationals fleet from the outset, taking three wins and a second in the first four races. Although they slipped to an uncharacteristic fifth place in the next race, they returned to the podium in all but one of the last four races, winning overall by a comfortable 14-point margin ahead of Bleddyn Mon’s young British Keelboat Academy crew on ‘Darling S’.

At the Tornado Nationals at Weston SC, Grant Piggott and Simon Farren sailing on home waters managed to break their recent pattern of second place in events to take the title with a well deserved victory. It was Grant’s third Tornado national championship title in a row.

The Rooster 8.1 nationals at Weir Wood SC saw both 95kg and 67kg sailors battling it out over seven races in winds of less than 12 knots with the larger helms quicker upwind and the smaller ones quicker downwind. Counting a string of first places Steve Cockerill took the title which as he says - he does not want to win - but does not want to give it away. Locals Simon Barrington and David Binding finished second and third overall.

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Trident Topper travellerThe Trident Topper North East Traveller Series saw eight events at venues ranging from small ponds to the open sea. Ripon was first and a light weight bonanza saw Joe Trotter win. Beaver was a win for Ellie Brown, while Derwent honours went to Will Tarn Chapman. Tom Clayton, last year’s series winner, took the Yorkshire Dales open and

Luke Cowling showed being on the heavy side doesn’t mean you can’t win in light weather at Yeadon. Scaling was won by Callum Escritt, as was South Shields and Pennine, giving him the series title. Oliver Blackburn overhauled James McKenzie at the last event to take second, with James third and his sister Georgie first girl and fourth overall.

A high quality fleet of Flying Fifteens gathered at Draycote Water SC for the inaugural end-of-season FF Sprint, sponsored by Mercure Hotels. The event saw a new format with shorter 30-40 minute windward-leeward races with media partner, Pictures 55, streaming live pictures

of the racing into the clubhouse. The anticipated showdown between the multi-worlds winner Steve Goacher and Phil Evans, and Euros winner Greg Wells reunited with multi-class winning crew, Mark Darling, didn’t disappoint. In the light breeze the two big guns traded blows and shared all

five race wins; three to Wells/Darling and two to Goacher/Evans. Wells/Darling showed signs of blistering pace but a black flag in race four meant they had to count a 12th place, enabling Goacher and Evans to add the Sprint title to their long list of FF victories.

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505s in Ireland

RC Lasers

Monkstown Bay SC in Co. Cork, Ireland, hosted the 505 British Isles Championship and 505 Irish nationals. With moderate breezes line honours were shared between Ian Pinnell and Christain Diebtisch with four wins, and Harry Briddon and Adam Kenny with one win, who took first and second overall in the 505 British Isles Championships. Third overall were Brian Jones and Gary Frost, who took the 505 Irish national championship title.

The RC Laser nationals hosted by Ayr Bay MYC at Castle Semple saw mainly light and variable breezes for the 23 skippers, with A rigs mostly prevailing. John Tushingham and Dave Fowler set the pace, with John taking the title, and John Sharman taking third overall.

Optimist end of seasontook second position to secure his place at the top of the combined overall rankings for the Optimist championships this year, comprising the inland, national and end-of-season championships. First girl was Emilia Boyle, aged 12, of RLYC, claiming sixth place overall. The regatta fleet was won by nine-year-old Ben Hutton-Penman, Corinthian Otters, and top girl Elizabeth Beardsall, aged nine, of Warsash/ RLYC, was second.

Consistent sailing saw Arran Holman crowned The Volvo Gill Optimist end-of-season champion at Rutland SC. Two contrasting days saw light and very shifty winds followed by stronger winds for the 208-strong main fleet and 62-strong regatta fleet. The main fleet completed five races each and Holman, aged 15, of Hollowell SC, scored three firsts and a fifth, discounting a seventh, to take the top spot. Max Clapp, aged 13, of RSYC,

Sibling successThe Harken 29er grand prix series concluded at Pwllehli with a non-discardable event, encouraging a good turnout at the end of the season. A sixth place was enough for Rob and Emma Loveridge, of Draycote Water SC, to clinch a very well deserved series victory; out of the seven events they attended they

were never outside the top 10. Second overall in the series went to Ruth Allan and Alice Masterman (Emsworth/HISC), and third to Ed Connellan and Matt Rhodes (Middle Nene). Over the eight-weekend series more than 100 boats entered at least one event with more than 40 doing three or more events.

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busy JOG seasonTaunt; Class 5: ‘Black Diamond’ (Figaro Solo) Mark Brown & Justin Leese. Doublehanded Category 4 Inshore Series: Class 4: ‘SX’ Girl (X37) John & Christine White; Class 5: ‘QT’ (Ecume de Mer) Giles Redpath. Category 3 Offshore Series: Class 3: ‘Xinska’ (X40) Bernard Olesinski; Class 4: ‘SX Girl’ (X37) John & Christine White; Class 5: ‘Moondog’ (Laser 28) Peter & Andy Pickett. Doublehanded Category 3 Offshore Series: Class 3: ‘Jbellino’ (J122) Rob Craigie; Class 4: ‘SX Girl’ (X37) John & Christine White; Class 5: ‘Moondog’ (Laser 28) Peter & Andy Pickett.

A busy season for JOG saw 15 races split across an inshore (cat 4) and offshore (cat 3) series. March saw the season kick off with an inshore Solent race that had many defrosting their decks, and the St Peter Port race in August was only finished by two boats in horrible conditions. The last offshore saw champagne sailing conditions, a fast, mild, starry skies, overnight dash to Cherbourg, and the season closed with a sunny coastal race out to the Owers.Overall Winners: Category 4 Inshore Series: Class 3: ‘OJE’ (J111) Andy Hill; Class 4: ‘JIBE’ (J/109) Robin

RS300 titlesSteve Bolland claimed his fifth consecutive title at Pwllheli SC by the slimmest of margins in one of the closest ever 300 nationals, winning on countback from David Acres. Matt Sharman took the inlands title at Leigh & Lowton.

500 inlands A light airs RS500 Magic Marine inlands at Grafham Water saw national champions Mike Saul and Meg Fletcher from Yorkshire Dales SC take the title for the second year running.

Sprint 15 inlands Stuart Snell secured the Sprint 15 inland championship at Grafham Water in a 33-strong fleet to add to his national and northern championship crowns.

400 masterclassThirty-six RS400s arrived at Grafham Water for the inlands, which witnessed four races and a master class in light wind sailing by Scaling Dam’s finest, Wayne and Debbie Fletcher, who took three bullets to claim the title.

RS600 & 700A breezy first day at the RS600 inlands at Rutland, with some remaining venom in the wind for day two, saw Peter Nelson from Northampton take the title with five bullets. The RS700 inlands saw Jon Heissig win ahead of Steve Powell.

Twiname team racingThe RYA Eric Twiname Youth and Junior Team Racing Championships at Oxford SCsaw Not the Spinnaker Team, from Spinnaker SC, and Magdelen College School from Oxford, claiming the Junior and Youth crowns respectively. Light winds meant no racing on day one, leading to an intense day two for the 24 juniors in RS Fevas and 23 in Fireflies. In the junior final Not the

Spinnaker Team – comprising Robbie King, Daniel Burns, Jo Burns, Adele Young, Milo Gill-Taylor, William Bedford - took control to overcome Team from South from Royal Lymington YC 2-0. In the youth final Magdelen College School - Guy Dixon, Joe Gough Josh Adams, Nic Upton, Sam Jenkins, Owen Hallet - claimed a 2-0 victory over Ladico Race Team.

Light wind 100 inlandsWith breeze at Grafham ranging from zero to marginally more, Alex Morrison proved little guys weren’t going to have it all their own way with a 1,3,2, while Chris Larr scored a fifth then two bullets. Day two dawned with

little promise of breeze... then the fleet was sent afloat in a dying breeze. Morrison saw the writing on the wall and retired from third place with Andrew Wilson winning and Northampton’s Larr finishing second to be crowned inland champion.

GP14 end of season

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The end of season GP14 championship was held at Royal Windermere YC with 42 boats and a fairly light southerly breeze. Counting laps was to prove crucial. In race one Andy Tunnicliffe crewed by Ian Dobson, Gavin Tullett and Mark Wilson, and Neil Marsden and Derek Hill, headed for the finish after three laps, which allowed Mike and Lizzie Senior win, since the race was four laps! Race two saw Marsden/Hill take the bullet with the Seniors in second. Mike Senior and Chris White were the overall winners for the second year in succession, and with a mirror-like Windermere on day two, racing was abandoned.

The Laser Master European Championships at Roses, Spain, concluded with the victories of Spaniard Miguel Noguer in Standard Grand Master (55-64 years old), Greek Adonis Bougiouris in Standard Apprentice (35-44) and Dutchman Lennart Cnossen in Standard Master (45-54). Brits Jon Emmett and Stephen Cockerill were first in Radial Apprentice and Master respectively, while Peter Seidenberg, USA, won the Radial Great Grand Master category, and Lesley Hotchin, GBR, in Radial 4.7.

Squib inlandsBryan and Jenny Riley sailing ‘Brimstone’ took the Squib inlands title at Rutland SC over a light and shifty weekend of four races for the 41-strong fleet, finishing just a point ahead of overnight leader ‘Spoof’, Micky Wright and Marion Aspinall. Gerard Dyson and Tony Saltonstall just failed to take third place from Nigel and Jack Grogan by a point. The first four comprised two very old Squibs and two from the recent 800 sail numbers, mirroring the split in the entry list and illustrating it’s the nut on the tiller sailing a very well prepared Squib that will be successful.

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The Bottle Boat Championship at Waldringfield SC attracted competitors aged from nine to nearly 80 sailing the colourful one design class made mainly from recycled materials. Wind conditions were perfect

with a light northerly wind parallel to the beach against a flood tide, and 25 competitors sailed 15 races. Neil Collingridge (WSC) won ahead of Allan Viney. Juniors made up nearly a third of the fleet.

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The RS800 inlands had 29 boats at Grafham Water SC and the three races on day one were a case of eyes out for the breeze. Tom Halhead and Stu Jagger posted a commanding 1,2, but were undone in the last race as the breeze shut off, relegating them to 15th and leaving Dave Hivey and Bart Bridgen as overnight leaders. A further race on day two was won convincingly by Halhead/Jagger for the overall win.

Three straight wins on a light breeze day at Haversham SC saw Matt Hopkins, of Up River SC, crowned champion at the Noble Marine Lightning 368 inlands. Caroline Key of West Oxfordshire SC took second overall ahead of Paul White, Draycote SC.

In light winds Stuart and Zoe Bailey took the Buzz inland championship title at Draycote Water SC to add to their European and national wins, giving them a hat trick of titles from 2012 and setting up a Buzz class record to beat.

NW Senior TravellersThe wind was light for the final NW Senior Travellers event of 2012 at Elton SC and it was calculated that well over a collective 1,000 years of sailing experience was on hand on the day for this over-50s open meeting. The overall series had 58 boats taking part in one or more event with the highest individual entry being 29 boats at Bolton SC – proving there is a niche for mid week sailing for all those retired

and semi-retired sailors and those that can take the odd day off. There were seven open meetings with four to count, with boats from Mirrors to Merlins sailing three handicap races at each with the best two results on the day to count. Sailors were aged from 50 to mid-70s. Solos took the first two places overall sailed by Dave Woodhead and John Cronshaw with the Merlin of Martin and Renee Watts in third.

National 12s

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Graham Camm and Zoe Ballantyne have been the team to beat in the National 12s this year, and proved true to form at the inlands at Northampton SC. The event saw 23 boats and Graham and Zoe won the first race, and then a tricky third one when others were putting in high scores. On a breezy day two John and Katy Meadowcroft won two races in fine style, enabling them to finish in second overall, but the Camm team did enough to win with a race to spare.

Leigh & Lowton SC’s GJW Guy Fawkes Pursuit welcomed visitors from 12 different clubs with 65 entrants for the three hour race, without a spinnaker in sight at the front. Streaker sailor Tom Gillard of Sheffield Viking took the win with Michael Sims, Solo/Carsington, in the rear view mirror for 120 minutes. First Junior was Olivia Cuthbert in 15th.

Nine visitors joined 26 home boats for the annual Iced Tankard open at Hollowell SC, with three races and a building south-westerly. The traditional shifts caught out some but not Steve Hall and Ally Dart in their Lark, who comfortably won from Greg O’Brien in his RS400 and Keith Lancaster in his Solo. First junior was Niall Holman in his Optimist.

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It’s perhaps no surprise that the J/109 is one of the most popular one-design cruiser-racers in this size range. The class offers excellent racing, both round the cans and offshore, plus an interior that works for cruising.

The deck layout and rig configuration make for easy handling, whether racing two-handed or for fast family cruising. However, light displacement, a slippery hull shape and giant asymmetric spinnaker mean that performance isn’t compromised. As well as a large south coast one-design fleet, the design performs exceptionally well on handicap under

Over the nine years since the class was launched, RS Elites have consistently had some of the closest racing of all the one-design classes at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week. This frequently sees the bulk of the fleet finishing within two or three minutes, even after three to four hours of racing.

The class has a programme of events throughout the year, plus a well attended national championship. This saw 33 boats in Lymington two years ago, 23 at Forth YC in Scotland last year and a record turnout at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes this year.

This two-person hiking asymmetric dinghy has an enthusiastic following among those who value fast sailing in a boat with a hull shape that has excellent stability. It’s a Phil Morrison design from 1998, built in GRP and suitable for crew weights from 120-180kg.

The Laser 2000 is an ideal boat for those starting out with dinghy sailing, but competition at the front of the fleet is intense – class representatives Jasper

IRC, winning many major events.With many of the top J/109 teams

having moved into the new J/111, the class is more accessible than ever for amateur and family sailors.

Built in 2005, ‘Catalpa’ is hull number 213 and is offered at a sensible price for a quick sale and to reflect a less than perfect cosmetic condition. She has had one owner from new and with some TLC, she will continue to give good service to new owner for many years to come.

Her hull is painted Awlgrip flag blue, with red water lines, She is fitted with an optional second spinnaker

halyard, removable bow roller and Raymarine instrumentation, including an Autohelm 6002 wheelpilot, plus a Garmin chartplotter. The engine is a 28hp three cylinder Volvo 2030 and sails are all by North. Contact: www.keyyachting.com

LOA 10.75m

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SA Spinnaker 108sq m

J/109 i £78,000 RS eLite i £9,250

LASeR 2000 i £4,250Barham and Graham Sexton were third in this year’s ‘championship of champions’ Endeavour Trophy. The class has a good circuit of open events, owners are happy to share their knowledge of the class, and a national championship attendance that has averaged 50 boats.

Sail number 21896 has had one owner from new in 2006, light summer use and has been stored under cover. She has a dark blue hull and foils,

plus top cover, rudder bag and a combination trailer/trolley. Sails are in good condition and lines and halyards have been replaced as necessary. Contact: 07717 877962

LOA 4.44m

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Hull weight 140kg

SA Main 8.66sq m

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‘Origo’ is sail number GBR 13 and in good condition. She comes with a suit of Batt sails, galvanised road trailer, Tacktick speed and depth, paddles, outboard motor with bracket, and a cockpit cover. She is now for sale because, ‘the helmsman got old and the crew got married!’ She’s priced at £9,250. Contact 01189 811642

LOA 7.4m

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Yachts & Yachting January 2013