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Latest News Links Catamaran - Rothschild take victory at Kiel Extreme 40 event . . . Catamaran - Canadians successfully defend Little America's Cup . . . Catamaran - Phipps and Glover take Dart 18 World title at first attempt . . . Catamaran - Canada v Australia for Little America's Cup . . . Catamaran - C-Class Catamaran Championship finally gets underway . . . Catamaran - Dart 18 Worlds test the 2012 Olympic venue to its limits . . . Catamaran - Little America’s Cup gets underway August 22-28 off Newport . . . Catamaran - Britain's Chris Field wins Swiss Open A-Cat Championship . . . Catamaran - Tornado Worlds first for Roland and Nahid Gaebler . . . Catamaran - Mitch Booth takes first Extreme 40 World Championship . . . Catamaran - Styles and van West match raced out at F18 Worlds . . . Catamaran - Glen Ashby is the 2010 A-Cat World Champion . . . Back to latest Sailing News reports here . . . Rothschild take victory at Kiel Extreme 40 event . . . Yann Guichard and his crew on Groupe Edmond de Rothschild won the third round of the 2010 Extreme Sailing Series in Kiel with a race to spare – an unusual occurrence on this circuit that normally sees every event go to the wire in the final double points race. The all-British team on Ecover, having led for the first two days, had to settle for 2nd place overall and that was not without a fight. At the start of the final day they were lying in third behind Oman Sail Masirah, skippered by Loick Peyron. But good fighting tactics saw them move into 2nd overall after two races which they managed to cling on to. The battle for 3rd place then developed between the two Omani teams of Oman Sail Masirah and The Wave, Muscat. Paul Campbell-James, skipper of The Wave, finally got the upper hand in the penultimate race moving into 3rd overall with 120 points, 1 point ahead of Masirah. In the final double points race, Loick Peyron had the advantage but ‘CJ’ fought back to finish ahead and take 3rd place on the podium. Next stop for the series is Trapani, Sicily over the 24-26 September, the penultimate event of the circuit. Extreme 40 - Sailing Series 2010 Overall Standings 1st Groupe Edmond de Rothschild 22 points 2nd The Wave, Muscat 20 points 3rd Ecover Sailing Team 19 points 4th Oman Sail Masirah 17 points 5th Red Bull Extreme Sailing 10 points 6th Groupama 40 9 points 7th The Ocean Racing Club 8 points 8th Team GAC Pindar* 3 points Canadians successfully defend Little America's Cup . . . Canadians Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke have successfully defended the International C-Class Catamaran Trophy - aka Little America's Cup - that they first won in 2007.  Canadians Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke, the defenders of the International C-Class Catamaran Trophy, being sailed at the NYYC’s Harbour Court, won the first match race of the second day with Canaan; they beat Australians Glenn Ashby and James Spithill on Alpha by about five minutes in the first race in light winds. In the second race Alpha led at the start by 10 seconds and at the first weather mark by 46 seconds. Canaan, however, used her lower and faster gear on the downwind leg to regain the lead at the second marK by seven seconds. On the second weather leg, the boats split tacks. Alpha stayed close to Jamestown, while Canaan went east, more to the center of the channel. Canaan extended her lead to about 48 seconds and later enjoyed her second gun of the day, leading the series 3-1. The racing was halted after this, and Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke have successfully defended the International C-Class Catamaran Trophy that they first won in 2007. In the Consolation Round, Invictus (GBR) was first, Patient Lady VI (FRA) second and Orion (CAN) third. Phipps and Glover take Dart 18 World title at first attempt . . . The current World Champions, Emmanuel Dode and Fred Moreau and the young hot shots of Tom Phipps and Richard Glover from Cornwall, sailing in their first Dart 18 World Championships, went in to the final race on equal points. Phipps and Glover were unrelenting in their quest for victory and put in a blistering performance in their new South African boat. They maintained their composure in the last race, having gained a significant lead over the two earlier race winners of Dan Norman and Mel Rogers, until they crossed the finish line. The duo knew they had the championships in the bag and after they had crossed the line - Phipps did a backwards flip off the boat into the water. With the disappointment of missing out on their Olympic Games ticket which they had trained so hard for, when the Tornado Class Catamaran was axed from the Games, this victory made them all the more worthy winners. Dart 18 - World Championship, Final Leading positions (133 entries) 1st GBR 7920 Tom Phipps Richard Glover 150 pts 2nd FRA 1812 Emmanuel Dode Fred Moreau 154 pts 3rd GBR 7788 Dan Norman Mel Rogers 166 pts 4th GBR 7724 David Lloyd Joanna Jones-Pierce 48 pts 5th FRA 7777 Herve Le Maux Amy Johnson 202 pts 6th FRA 7921 Thierry Wibaux Christine Wibaux 98 pts 7th GER 7363 Matthias Huber Jonathan List 207 pts 8th SUI 6708 Michiel Fehr Raphael Jakob 226 pts 9th RSA 7903 Shaun Gradwell Sam Waterson 126 pts 10th GBR 7810 Marco Manganelli Rachel Foster 127 pts 11th GBR 4634 Lawrie Draper Ellie Draper 129 pts 12th RSA 7929 Grant Eliot Lise Marie Roux 158 pts Canada v Australia for Little America's Cup . . . Canadian defenders Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke, won all three races on Thursday at the International C-Class Catamaran Championship, while Alpha, yesterday’s leader, sailed by Australians Glenn Ashby and James Spithill, finished second in all three races. In point of fact, Canaan has won four straight races, winning the last one on Wednesday. These two teams will match-race Friday and Saturday to determine the winner of the International C-Class Catamaran Trophy - Little America's Cup - in play since 1961. This is the 25th iteration of this regatta.  Missing from the racing – indeed the competition – was Aethon, sailed by Steve Clark and his nephew, Oliver Moore. Seconds into yesterday's first start, Moore fell overboard and Clark crash landed into the wing, which unfortunately suffered significant damage. They had to drop out of this much anticipated regatta. Before today's first race Patient Lady VI had some rigging failure, they were towed in to shore and the crew headed back to the race course to observe in an effort to build their knowledge base of the C Class cats. Orion and Invictus completed all races, often sailing close, but Orion punctured their wing just before reaching shore. The teamwork seemed cohesive on Alpha, and often they were pointing higher than Canaan. The Canadians however spectacularly overtook the Aussies at the first windward mark of the second race and demonstrated familiarity with their boat, their tactics and their boathandling. In the fifth race, for example, the Australians started on port tack, ducking Invictus and Orion and then had to cross Canaan on starboard. This they were able to do with, perhaps, a thin boat length to spare. However, the Aussies ended up over-standing the weather mark, forfeiting the lead to Canaan. Then it was what became so obvious today. Canaan was able to sail lower and faster downwind – a devastating combination. Adios Alpha! C-Class - Fleet Racing best of 6 races 1- Cannan CAN9 - 6pts 2 - Alpha AUS1 - 8pts 3 - Invictus GBR38 - 16pts 4 - Orion - CAN8 - 25pts 5 - Patient Lady VI - FRA2 - 28pts 6 - Aethon - USA104 - 35pts C-Class Catamaran Championship finally gets underway . . . The International C-Class Catamaran Championship at the New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court finally got underway on Wednesday, and they did not need any encouragement. The wind at the start of the first race was 16 to 20 with puffs pushing it a bit higher. In the first race, Alpha, sailed by Australians Glenn Ashby and James Spithill, had a brilliant port-tack start. It was a shot over the bow. Ashby is an Olympic Silver Medalist and nine-time A-Class, world champion; Spithill was helmsman on BMW Oracle’s wing-sailed trimaran that won the recent 33rd America’s Cup.  Certainly a major story line was the first-leg capsize of Aethon, Steve Clark’s and Oliver Moore’s C-Class Cat. This was a new boat for Clark, an American, the absolute prime-mover in the class, who held the International C-Class Catamaran trophy for 11 years, from 1996-2007. Clark has been as important to the class as Tony DiMauro was to the previous generation. These boats motor, on the sunny side of 20 knots, and the disturbed air off a freighter set off a chain reaction that resulted in a capsize and the loss of the wing. There would be other casualties as well. Orion, sailed by a Canadian team of Dan Cunningham and Rob Paterson, dropped out of the first race with a broken chainplate, and the venerable Patient Lady VI, sailed by the French team of Antoine Koch and Jérémie Lagarrigue, had rudder problems. All were accounted for. Indeed, Patient Lady VI returned to finish the second race and the third. Ashby and Spithill were passed on the first leg by the event’s defender Canadians Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke. Then it was a full-on rumble between these two cats, both designed by Steve Killing, and indeed, both owned by Eaton. Anyone who ever said that multihulls can’t match race was forever silenced by this display.There were passes galore – the absolute essence of racing. The winning margin was two seconds in the Australians’ favor. The second race, in 12 to 14 knots of wind, was less dramatic with Ashby and Spithill leading Eaton and Clarke around the course. The third race of the day was won by the Canadians, Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke onboard Canaan. C Class - Championship after 3 races 1- Alpha AUS 1 - 1 1 2 - 4pts 2 - Canaan CAN 9 - 2 2 1 - 5pts 3 - Invictus GBR 38 - 3 4 3 - 10pts 4 - Patient Lady VI RA 2 - 7 3 4 - 14pts 5 - Aethon USA 104 - 7 7 7 - 21pts 6 - Orion CAN 8 - 7 7 7 - 21pts Dart 18 Worlds test the 2012 Olympic venue to its limits . . . The Dart 18 Worlds at the 2012 Sailing Olympic Games venue in Weymouth did not get a race completed on the first three days but finally managed three races on Wednesday. Sunday the practice race was cancelled due to lack of wind, Monday deteriorating conditions caused the racing to be abandoned and Tuesday no racing was possible due to strong winds - I hope the Olympic guys are taking notes . . . But at the end of Wednesday we have some results from the 130 plus fleet. Leading after three races are David Lloyd and Joanna Jones-Pierce (GBR) four points ahead of Dan Norman and Mel Rogers (GBR) with Dave Roberts and Louise Roberts in third (GBR).  Conditions were such that any sort of consistancy got you onto the top line and race winners failed to do that, thus Martin and Dave White who won the first race, followed that with a 57 and 45 to be 20th overall. Emmanuel Dode and Fred Moreau (FRA) won the second race after a BFD in the first and then a 2nd in the third race to be 30th overall. While Tom Phipps and Richard Glover also had a BFD in the first race to follow with a 2, 1 and are 29th overall. They obviously will return to better positions after the discard - weather permitting. - GN Dart 18 - World Championship, Leading positions after 3 races (130 entries) 1st 7724 David Lloyd Joanna Jones-Pierce Stokes Bay 8 3 6 17 pts 2nd 7788 Dan Norman Mel Rogers Iossc 4 14 3 21 pts 3rd 7835 Dave Roberts Louise Roberts Stokes Bay 2 8 18 28 pts 4th 7903 Shaun Gradwell Sam Waterson East London Yacht Club 14 17 4 35 pts 5th 4634 Lawrie Draper Ellie Draper Stokes Bay 9 5 25 39 pts 6th 7685 Matt Exon Helen Jones Bridlington 11 23 5 39 pts 7th 7893 Stuart Snell Paul Roberts Grafham 12 12 15 39 pts 8th 5076 Paul Wiebel Linda Bierl Segelclub Schwangau 6 25 14 45 pts 9th 7929 Grant Eliot Lise Marie Roux Stilbaai Yacht Club 18 11 16 45 pts 10th 7810 Marco Manganelli Rachel Foster Stokes Bay 15 13 19 47 pts 11th 7921 Thierry Wibaux Christine Wibaux C V Angouleme 3 21 26 50 pts 12th 784 Ben Mienie Laetita Mienie Stilbaai Yacht Club 10 32 11 53 pts 13th 7781 Geoff Sherwood Liz Sherwood Parkstone 35 19 12 66 pts 14th 1198 Robby Vogelenzang Astrid Abendroth Hellecat 17 20 32 69 pts 15th 7875 Florian Bleisch Alfred Seeger Svab 42 16 13 71 pts Little America’s Cup gets underway August 22-28 off Newport . . . Steve Clark has been dreaming of winning back the Little America’s Cup for the USA ever since he lost it to Canada in 2007. Clark wishes to return by entering his new boat, Aethon, launched earlier this year, in the 2010 Little America’s Cup, set for August 22-28 off Newport. The 2010 Little America’s Cup, to be headquartered at the New York Yacht Club’s on-the-water clubhouse Harbour Court, will host a total of four countries (US, Canada, England, France) and seven boats, including Alpha, the boat with which, in 2007, Canadian Fred Eaton wrested the Cup from Clark.  Clark will skipper Aethon with crew Oliver Moore, while his second US entry Cogito - yes, the same Cogito that held on to the Cup for 11 years - will be sailed by A-Class North American Champion Lars Guck and bronze medalist Andrew Gaynor. Seven of the fastest boats in the world, on the same course, at the same time—that’s how the Little America’s Cup will start off. Then, after nine fleet races, pairs for match racing will be established and a winner will eventually be determined. But if the Americans want to win the Cup they have to first get by the Canadians. Since winning the Cup with Alpha, Fred Eaton’s team has not been idle, producing Orion in 2008 and Canaan in 2010. They expect to bring all three boats to the starting line on the 22 August with Eaton and Magnus Clarke aboard Canaan and BMW-Oracle skipper James Spithill and A-Class world champion Glen Ashby slated to sail Alpha. Pending major wing repairs, Rob Paterson and an as-yet-unnamed helmsman should sail Orion . England’s “Team Invictus” will be returning to the C-Class circuit after an unsuccessful first challenge in 2004 with Invictus I. The English, led by Norman Wijker, now have Invictus II, which features a new wing and a more polished program overall. Paul Larsen of Sail Rocket will take the helm of Invictus II while Gordon Kaiser remains as crew. Representing continental Europe will be Antoine Koch and Jean Baptiste Levaillant of France. The French have chartered 1985 Cup defender and 2004 silver medalist Patient Lady VI from the Canadians and will be at the event primarily to get their feet wet as they plan a future campaign. Seven boats and four nations mark the most competitors and countries at a C-Class event in more than two decades. Britain's Chris Field wins Swiss Open A-Cat Championship . . . Britain's Chris Field was the dominating winner of the Swiss Open A-Cat Championship title held on Lake Garda, with eight wins from nine races. With 51 multihulls from 11 nations, the A-Cat Swiss Championship was one of the largest regattas of the class this year. After nine races, Chris Field was the winner of the title with eight wins, Second was Roeland Wentholt of the Netherlands and third Bob Baier of Germany. The best Swiss was Luc Dubois who finished 4th. A-Cat - Swiss Championship, Final leading positions (51 entries) 1 GBR 7 FIELD CHRIS, uk, Maschio, MBSC 7,0 (2) (1) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 NED 95 WENTHOLT ROELAND, HOLLAND, Maschio, HELLECAT 16,0 1 (3) 3 2 3 2 (9) 2 3 3 GER 14 BAIER BOB, Germany, Maschio, Segelclub Füssen Forggensee S 20,0 3 2 (5) 5 2 3 2 3 (7) 4 SUI 202 DU BOIS LUC, Maschio, CN MORGES 29,0 4 5 6 (7) 5 4 3 (ocs) 2 5 ITA 2 CALABRIA GIOVANNI, Maschio 34,0 5 (10) (8) 3 4 5 5 4 8 6 NZL 245 DRUMMOND MIKE, New Zealand, Maschio, Wakatere Boating Club 38,0 (9) 6 7 4 6 (14) 6 5 4 7 ITA 96 FARNESI ALBERTO, Maschio, Circolo Vela Sunset 46,0 6 9 4 8 7 6 (15) (12) 6 8 ESP 2007 TODD MICKY, Spain, Maschio, CAR Murcia 55,0 (11) 8 9 6 9 7 (21) 7 9 9 GER 79 RAAB KLAUS, Maschio, Segel Club Füssen Forggensee 61,0 8 7 (dnf) 10 10 (13) 10 11 5 10 SUI 225 VELA SERGIO, Maschio 78,0 13 (21) 15 14 13 11 4 8 (dnf) Other GBR: 16 GBR 33 LOVETT NIGEL, Great Brittain, Maschio, Thornbury SC 111,0 (24) (18) 10 17 16 16 17 17 18 Tornado Worlds first for Roland and Nahid Gaebler . . . The Greeks Iordanis Paschalides and Konstantinos Trigonis were the stars of the final day of the Tornado World Chamapionships with 3 brilliant wins. But unfortunately not enough to pass the German pair, Roland and Nahid Gaebler, on the scoreboard. Roland and Nahid Gaebler become the first mixed team to win a Tornado world Title. Paschalides and Trigonis finished a mere 1 point behind and secured the second place overall. Third were German brothers Helge and Christian Sach. Tornado - World Championship, Leading scoers (51 entries) 1 GER 1 Gäbler, Roland / Gäbler, Nahid 3 1 2 1 1 2 2 [5] 12,00 pts 2 GRE 7 Paschalidis, Iordanis / Trigonis, Konstantin 1 [5] 1 3 5 1 1 1 13,00 pts 3 GER 11 Sach, Helge / Sach, Christian 4 2 6 2 2 [10] 4 2 22,00 pts 4 AUS 322 Brett Duffield / Ryan Duffield, 2 3 5 6 4 8 [11] 8 36,00 pts 5 GER 5 Hemmeter, Veit / Rieger, Moritz 6 4 [OCS] 7 8 4 3 7 39,00 pts 6 GRE 11 Mavros, Nikolaos / Tagaropoulos, Alaexander 5 [DNF] 3 4 10 7 6 10 45,00 pts Mitch Booth takes first Extreme 40 World Championship . . . The final day’s racing at the first ever Extreme 40 World Championship saw a change of conditions from the rest of the five-day regatta, with a storm sweeping through Portoroz overnight bringing strong winds and rain showers. Just two points separated the overnight leaders, Mitch Booth’s Slovenian home team The Ocean Racing Club, from their closest rivals Red Bull Extreme Sailing, led by Roman Hagara. Competition between the two teams was incredibly tight with each team boasting six wins and four seconds over the week. In order to win the overall title Booth needed to finish less than two points behind Hagara in the last and only race of the final day. It was Team Kempinski/Great Britain, helmed by Shirley Robertson, which put the pedal to the metal leading the fleet for the whole race in a spectacular show which saw the crew take their first win of the regatta. Rounding the final windward mark, Red Bull Extreme Sailing were close behind in second with Team IWC/Holland in third and The Ocean Racing Club in fourth. It was looking like Booth and The Ocean Racing Club could be edged out of the top spot but some stylish downwind sailing from catamaran legend Booth saw them overtake Team IWC/Holland in the dying seconds to clinch third – and become the first ever Extreme 40 World Champions. Booth, co-creator of the Extreme 40 class, was helped to victory by tactician and Portoroz resident Tomaz Copi, trimmer Sander Speet and bowman Ed van Lierde. The inaugaral Extreme 40 World Championship was staged by The Ocean Racing Club. The next stop on the Extreme 40 calendar will be at Cowes Week in the UK when The Ocean Racing Club will look to move up the leaderboard from their current sixth position in the Extreme Sailing Series. Cowes Week runs from July 31 to August 7. Styles and van West match raced out at F18 Worlds . . . Hugh Styles (GBR) and Ferdinand van West (NED) climbed to first place Friday at the F18 Worlds in Erquy/France, but lost it in the third and final race. Multiple World Champion Tornado/F18 and double Olympic silver medallist Darren Bundock (AUS) decided to match race them out of contention to protect his podium place. Ferdinand van West explains what happened: 'We were leading after today's first two races. The committee started a third one only three minutes before the time limit. Darren match raced us and we ended up in the far back fleet." That was extra unfortunate for Styles and Van West, as they had a redress for race 8 and 9, when they could not compete after a collision with a media boat just after the seventh starting gun. Van West: 'That redress is calculated with the average points over the final series, including the discard. We had only scored top four positions since yesterday, which was good for the average numbers. Darren was in third place and could not win the title anymore, but we were in a weak position. One bad score would have pretty big consequences for our redress calculation and therefore our series." Styles and Van West protested against the fact that the calculation included the discard, but lost it. F18 Worlds 2010 - Final leading positions (159 entries): 1. FRA, Backes/Jarlegan 2. AUS, Bundock/Howden 3. GBR, Styles/Van West Glen Ashby is the 2010 A-Cat World Champion . . . Glen Ashby is the 2010 A-Cat World Champion. Ashby captured his seventh world title after a close eight race series in Cesenatico, Italy. It was an all Australian podium with Steve Brewin taking second and Jack Benson third.  A-Cat - World Championship, Final leading positions (100 entries) 1 AUS 1 Ashby Glenn, S, Bendigo 11,0 1 4 1 (17) 1 2 1 1 2 AUS 4 Brewin Steven, S, GSC 15,0 2 2 3 2 (64) 1 2 3 3 AUS 13 Benson Jack, J, DSC 53,0 4 13 2 8 9 11 6 (18) 4 SUI 202 Du Bois Luc, M, CN Morges 54,0 5 1 4 (ocs) 7 7 25 5 5 AUS 308 Landenberger Andrew, S, CRYC 68,0 11 7 35 (43) 2 3 8 2 6 SUI 218 Wallmer Sascha, S, SCMd 68,0 (49) 11 6 6 20 4 11 10 7 ITA 357 Marcolini Francesco, S, YCI 97,0 15 25 13 3 15 19 (dsq) 7 8 AUS 898 Cairns Chris, GM, Gosford 108,0 32 (41) 21 1 4 13 23 14 9 GER 599 Dietz Matthias, GGM, PSG 110,0 3 (53) 49 7 28 5 7 11 10 USA 112 Smyth Randy, GGM, Fort Walton 115,0 21 (47) 25 4 26 32 3 4 GBR 51 GBR 7 Field Chris, S, MBSC 340,0 59 38 14 27 67 34 (dnf) dns 75 GBR 33 Lovett Nigel, M, Thornbury 449,0 86 72 27 62 86 (93) 53 63 Full story at http://www.congregavelisti.it |
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