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Latest News Links Keelboat - Irish challenge at Star Bacardi Cup . . . Louis Vuitton - Error takes out British boat at Louis Vuitton Trophy . . . Dinghy - Simon Payne tops leaderboard at Moth Worlds . . . Offshore - Groupama 3 crew has lost weight since leaving Ushant . . . Volvo - And the winner is . . . . Dinghy - Perfect weather for Frensham Pond SC RS200 Open . . . Keelboat - British pair start Star Bacardi Cup with a Black Flag . . . Louis Vuitton - Ainslie takes win over All4One in second match at Louis Vuitton . . . Dinghy - First RS500 World Championship to be held in the Netherlands . . . Dinghy - RS Feva Sport Relief Mile Challenge . . . Dinghy - Ideal conditions for RS500 Winter Championship . . . Boards Racing - Clubvass Round Hayling Windsurfing race entry now open News - Radical changes to latest Portsmouth Numbers . . . News - Speed Sails new team headed by Andy Davis and Jim Hunt . . . Ticker - News Ticker and RSS Newsfeed available More Sailing News reports here . . . Irish challenge at Star Bacardi Cup . . . Ireland's Peter O'Leary and Stephen Milne move into second place after the third day of racing at the Star Bacardi Cup in Miami. O'Leary and Milne won race three, ahead of Peter Bromby and Magnus Liljedahl of Bermuda and Andrew Campbell and Chris Rogers of the USA. Former series leaders Americans Rick Merriman and Phil Trinter finished back in 23rd but hang onto third overall. New leaders are Andy Horton and James Lyne of the USA who finished fourth in this race and are the only pair to stay in single figures, they lead the Irish pair by nine points. Britain's John Gimson and Ed Greig finished in 36th and are 41st overall with three races to be sailed. Star Bacardi Cup - Leaders after 3 races, 84 entries 1 USA 8156 Horton, Andy Lyne, James 8 5 4 17pts 2 IRL 8261 O'Leary, Peter Milne, Stephen 15 10 1 26pts 3 USA 8362 Merriman, Rick Trinter, Phil 4 2 23 29pts 4 BRA 8392 Grael, Lars Seifert, Ronald 21 1 8 30pts 5 USA 8285 Diaz, Augie Prada, Bruno 1 21 9 31pts 6 USA 8264 McChesney, Peter Zwingelberg, Shane 5 12 14 31pts 7 USA 8265 Wright, Peter Quist, Nathan 19 4 10 33pts 8 POR 8276 Lima, Gustavo Basilio, Rubrio 3 26 6 35pts 9 NOR 8317 Melleby, Eivind Mrrland Pedersen, Petter 10 11 17 38pts 10 ITA 8266 Negri, Diego Colaninno, Nando 13 20 12 45pts Error takes out British boat at Louis Vuitton Trophy . . . Tipped as the highlight match of the day, the opening race between Emirates and Britain’s TeamOrigin came to a sudden end at the first leeward gate as a late tactical call on the British boat escalated into a firedrill that left spinnaker and jib draped over the foredeck and a broken spinnaker pole over the side.  Ben Ainslie at the wheel led at the end of the first beat after a fierce nine-tack duel up the short 1.2-mile weather leg in a puffy and shifty 13-16 knot southwesterly breeze. ETNZ was right on the British boat’s heels, just 14 seconds astern and began slowly clawing back the distance. They came into the leeward mark with the Kiwis bow to stern with TeamOrigin and British hopes evaporated as Ainslie issued new last-minute orders. “It was a bit of mess,” Ainslie said. “Things change very quickly at the bottom, but a big shift made us change the call and there wasn't enough time for the guys to react." Barker had to sail around the hapless British boat. “It was all go coming into the bottom mark,” he said. “We have confidence in our crew work. If we get behind we’re able to keep the pressure on and keep fighting hard. Today it worked well. They made a mistake. Ignoring what happened, if they had been able to get around the mark it would have been an interesting race. We had made a big gain and it would have been some tough racing. They are sailing well.” After three days of competition, Emirates Team New Zealand representing the host Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is undefeated with three wins while three teams each have a 2-1 record. Race One: Emirates Team New Zealand def. TEAMORIGIN, Ret. Race Two: All4One def. Azzurra, 00:46 Race Three: Mascalzone Latino Audi def. ALEPH Sailing Team, 00:55 Race Four: Artemis def. Synergy Russian Sailing Team 00:41 Provisional leaderboard after Flight Three: 1. Emirates Team New Zealand, 3-0 =2. All4One, 2-1 =2. Artemis, 2-1 =2. Azzurra, 2-1 =5. ALEPH Sailing Team, 1-2 =5. Mascalzone Latino Audi Team, 1-2 =5. TEAMORIGIN, 1-2 8. Synergy Russian Sailing Team, 0-3 Simon Payne tops leaderboard at Moth Worlds . . . Simon Payne of Britain has moved into the overall lead at the PUMA Moth Worlds in Dubai after three more races were completed Wednesday. Payne did not win any of the three races but his 3, 4, 3 scoreline added to the earlier 5, 2, 1 results took him two points clear of Brad Funk of the USA. Payne carries a 41 place discard after dismasting, but if sufficient races are sailed there is a second discard, which relieves the pressure.  Winners on the third day were Funk in the first race ahead of Arnaud Psarofaghis of Switzerland and Payne. In the second race Dalton Bergan of the USA was the winner with Australian Scott Babbage in second and Funk third. In the final race of the day, Psarofaghis took his first win, followed by Funk and Payne, with Bergan in fourth and mirroring the make up of the leading four overall at the end of the day.  Australian Andrew McDougall who lead the first two days has slipped to fifth, but this is the halfway point of the series and there is still a lot of sailing to be done. The championships are still wide open and we have yet to see anyone dominate - Seven races and five different winners! - GJN PUMA Moth Worlds - Leading positions after 7 races, 1 dicard 1 GBR5 Simon Payne 5 2 1 41 3 4 3 18 pts 2 USA3451 Brad Funk 3 11 10 1 1 3 2 20 pts 3 SUI3 Arnaud Psarofaghis 17 9 3 3 2 6 1 24 pts 4 USA4 Dalton Bergan 10 20 4 4 4 1 4 27 pts 5 AUS3380 Andrew McDougall 1 1 11 2 13 8 11 34 pts 6 USA1 Bora Gulari 12 10 2 7 6 5 5 35 pts 7 AUS7 Scott Babbage 8 4 9 5 10 2 9 37 pts 8 UAE3679 Chris Graham 4 7 7 10 5 7 7 37 pts 9 GBR3708 Michael Lennon 2 8 8 6 8 9 10 41 pts 10 GBR3604 Adam May 6 5 6 16 9 14 18 56 pts 11 SIN3700 Mark Robinson 16 23 5 14 11 15 6 67 pts 12 AUS9 Rob Gough 11 18 12 12 12 12 8 67 pts 13 SLO3712 Tomaz Copi 7 3 41 11 19 10 19 69 pts 14 GBR3594 Ricky Tagg 9 17 15 13 14 11 13 75 pts 15 SUI3392 Jean-Pierre Ziegert 19 16 13 9 7 19 15 79 pts Groupama 3 crew has lost weight since leaving Ushant . . . The current phase offshore of the Brazilian coast isn’t the easiest section on this round the world, with a mass of storm squalls making it difficult to anticipate the trajectory. Navigator Stan Honey, in collaboration with the onshore router Sylvain Mondon, is constantly having to adapt Groupama 3’s course in order to extract her from this zone and finally make it through to the tradewinds to the North of the 22° parallel. The forecast wind report isn’t yet tallying up with the current situation on the water… The atmospheric sounding didn’t predict the gale which ripped through the navigation zone to the SE of Rio de Janeiro at 40 knots with very choppy seas last night. The fatigue related to this round the world is beginning to weigh on them now and the crew has lost weight since leaving Ushant. Furthermore this transition around 300 miles to the North, at the mercy of the wind, may well prove to be the key to this Jules Verne Trophy. Right now there are zones of high pressure to the left and to the right. Indeed the calm zones have got Groupama 3 surrounded and she is having to zigzag her way between the squalls, which are causing massive changes in both the strength and direction of the wind, with shifts of over 60° and a breeze oscillating between 10 and 20 knots. As such Franck Cammas and his men are having to constantly be on the alert for the incessant shifts, linking together a series of tack changes to optimise the course. Fortunately the giant trimaran is very at ease in these conditions and has been able to rack up twenty-eight knots of boatspeed with just twelve knots of breeze on the nose. Rather less encouraging news for the crew of Groupama 3 is that this situation will last until the latitude of Vitoria, some 300 miles to their North. We won’t have to wait till the weekend to know the outcome of this “Brazilian ejection”: in this region, the wind is either stormy and inconsistent due to a neo-tropical low, otherwise it’s steady and on the beam along the northern edge of the Saint Helena High! Heckled by the squalls, the crew of Groupama 3 is scanning the horizon and still stands a good chance of winning on this giant trimaran’s first circumnavigation of the globe. However, there’s just a week and a half to go to ‘carry the day’! And the winner is . . . . In the most leaked release since the last Volvo port release, Galway was named as the Finish Port for the 2011-12 Volvo Race. Galway was the finish of the transatlantic leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. In the 2011-12 race the fleet will race from Lorient in France back to Galway on Ireland's west coast. Galway, whose twin town is Lorient, had fought an intense contest against the other bidding ports to win back the event for a second edition. The Volvo Race organisation, in a clever piece of diplomacy, has managed to accept both towns and keep everybody happy. Financially it is a good result for Galway and the west of Ireland, which was reported to have benefited by a massive 55 million Euros for the regional economy from the last visit. This announcement completes the list of European cities hosting the event. The remaining ports will be introduced throughout March. Perfect weather for Frensham Pond SC RS200 Open . . . Roger Gilbert and Jane Willan from the home club won the Frensham Pond SC RS200 Open over the weekend of the Dinghy Show. It seems that whatever date is set for the dinghy show you could almost be guaranteed a perfect sunny sailing day and this was no exception. A bitterly cold crisp wind greeted the small but elite fleet of 12 competitors with a North Easterly blowing at 18-22 knots. The racing was close with regularly changing places, especially downwind. Correct angles, combined with catching one of the many gusts and shifts secured many place gains and good crew work was vital. The youngest crew on the day, 8 year old Nathan Allen, was very pleased to be in 2nd place at the first windward mark in race one, but his dad Mo lost out on the downwind leg. There were some very entertaining manoeuvres especially at the leeward gate just metres from the nice warm clubhouse. Gilbert and Willan soon established their dominance though with two wins followed by another in the third race. Second place was close though between Katrina Gilbert and Jenny Rust, and David Royce and Nicola Russell. The latter had to complete a 720 at the spreader mark in the third race dropping from 2nd place to second from the back and made a remarkable recovery back to third with frequent downwind gybing and planing. The final race saw a slightly depleted fleet and notably longer laps as tiredness set in and Gilbert and Rust secured the win giving them 2nd overall leaving a close 3rd to the first visitors David Royce and Nicola Russell. British pair start Star Bacardi Cup with a Black Flag . . . A black flag for John Gimson and Ed Greig in the opening race was not the best way for the British pair to start their campaign at the 83rd running of the Star Bacardi Cup. A good recovery in race 2 had the Skandia TeamGBR pair finish in 13th place in the high class 84 boat fleet. Topping the leader board after two races completed at the classic Star series are Rick Merriman and Phil Trinter of the USA, their fourth and second place finishes giving them a seven point lead from Andy Horton and James Lyne, also USA. Augie Diaz and Bruno Prada of the USA won the first race, with Jud Smith and Brian Faith in second. On the second day, Race 2 went to Lars Grael and Ronald Seifert of Brazil with Merriman and Trinter taking second. Grael is in sixth overall and Diaz in seventh, both with the same scoreline of a 1 and 21. Star Bacardi Cup - Leading positions after Day 2, 2 races completed, 84 entries 1 USA 8362 Merriman, Rick Trinter, Phil 4 2 6.00 pts 2 USA 8156 Horton, Andy Lyne, James 8 5 13.00 pts 3 USA 7828 Stout, Will Peters, Rick 7 8 15.00 pts 4 USA 8264 McChesney, Peter Zwingelberg, Shane 5 12 17.00 pts 5 NOR 8317 Melleby, Eivind Mirland Pedersen, Petter 10 11 21.00 pts 6 BRA 8392 Grael, Lars Seifert, Ronald 21 1 22.00 pts 7 USA 8285 Diaz, Augie Prada, Bruno 1 21 22.00 pts 8 USA 8265 Wright, Peter Quist, Nathan 19 4 23.00 pts 9 IRL 8261 O'Leary, Peter Milne, Stephen 15 10 25.00 pts 10 POR 8276 Lima, Gustavo Basilio, Rubrio 3 26 29.00 pts GBR 49 GBR 8025 Gimson, John Greig, Ed 85/BFD 13 98.00 pts Ainslie takes win over All4One in second match at Louis Vuitton . . . Out on the Waitemata Harbour on day two of the Louis Vuitton Trophy the wait for a good breeze stretched out to three hours and for Team Origin it was worth the wait. Skippered and steered by Ben Ainslie, Team Origin prevailed in the pre-start to lead Sébastien Col at the wheel of All4One at the gun with a 16-metre margin. Sailing at speed on port tack, the British boat started right at the committee boat while their adversary tacked off to starboard behind them. When they converged at the first cross, Ainslie had converted his lead in the shifty breeze to 70 metres. The German/French boat stayed relatively close until the second weather mark but lost a minute on the last run. The sea breeze eventually filled in from the southwest, starting at five to seven knots and building during the afternoon to nearly 15 knots before softening a little in the late afternoon. The boats raced on 1.2-mile legs on the black course, bounded by the Devonport shore and the natural grandstand of North Head on one side and Bastion Point on the other. With both Azzurra and Emirates Team New Zealand taking their second victories to head the leader board, Team Origin are in third place together with Artemis, All4One and ALEPH Sailing Team, each with one win. Mascalzone Latino Audi Team and Synergy Russian Sailing Team have lost both of their matches. Louis Vuitton Trophy - Day 2 Results Race One: TEAMORIGIN def. All4One, 01:33 Race Two: Emirates Team New Zealand def. Mascalzone Latino Audi, 4:43 Race Three: Azzurra def. Synergy Russian Sailing Team, 00:41 Race Four: Artemis def. ALEPH Sailing Team 01:21 First RS500 World Championship to be held in the Netherlands . . . First World Championships for the newest fully fledged ISAF international class is to be held in perfect skiff country. The Magic Marine RS500 World Championship will take place this summer 15 – 20 August at Aquavitesse, Bruinisse, in the Netherlands.  Registration has just opened and boats have already registered to benefit from a 40% reduction in entry fee before 14 April. Charter boats are also available. For full details about the event and how to entry go to www.rssailing.org/500. This popular two man, single trapeze boat is renowned for its fun but competitive events and Holland this summer looks to be no exception, with lots of social events booked as well as the fabulous racing area on Grevelingen Meer. This is one of the famous lakes created by the damming off of the North Sea. With a flat landscape the winds tend to be relatively uninterrupted and the water remains fairly flat. Ideal skiff sailing territory! We look forward to seeing all our friends there. RS Feva Sport Relief Mile Challenge . . . The RS Fevas are proud to be able to participate in the Sport Relief Mile Challenge. A simple format is being adopted during their annual winter Great Gathering. The All Squads Training Weekend at Hayling Island Sailing Club will involve 70 Fevas from RYA squads and Class Squads, this weekend will be the culmination of the winter training programme for the RS Feva Class and coincides with Sport Relief hence the intensive race training will be briefly interrupted for some fund raising. On Saturday 20 March it is planned to hold a one mile race with a participation fee of £10 (or more if the sailors can raise extra sums) per boat. The winning helm and crew will win £10 each. This will be presented at the squad dinner by guest speaker Frances Peters (ISAF Youth World Champion 2008). The balance of the participation money will go straight to Sport Relief. The twist in the story is that the boats from the RYA National Junior Squad and the Class National Squad will have to start from a separate start line 50 yards back. That should make it more exciting with no predictable ‘winner’! The Fevas sailors think this is a great idea and challenge all other classes to ‘sail the mile’ for Sport Relief as well. It would be great to hear of all the sailing initiatives in support of this most worthwhile cause. Ideal conditions for RS500 Winter Championship . . . Alex Taylor and Brian Mobbs won the RS500 Winter Championship at Alton Water SC. The rather smaller than expected fleet was treated to ideal conditions for their championship with a force 3 to 4 easterly wind blowing over the dam wall and bright winter sunshine. All four races were completed in the crisp conditions with only the final race being shortened on grounds of good behaviour in the chilly conditions. Although the results don’t show it the racing was close and Tim Wilkins and Heather Martin in 625 pushed Alex Taylor and Brian Mobbs all the way. The down wind sailing in particular was spectacular and tactical. Anna Zmurra and Keith Sykes despite numerous excursions from the upright to horizontal and beyond remained in good spirit and persevered with the conditions to come third. RS500 Winter Championship - Results 1 Alex Taylor Brian Mabbs 799 Budworth SC 2 Tim Wilkins Heather Martin 625 Hickling Broad SC 3 Anna Zmura Keith Sykes 748 Rollesby Broad SC Clubvass Round Hayling Windsurfing race entry now open  Hayling Island SC have opened the entry for the Clubvass Round Hayling Island Race for windsurfers. The 30th Anniversary edition of the classic Board race will take place on the 2 April 2010.Total entry is restricted to 150 entrants and is combined with a Stand Up Paddle Challenge event. The entry limit includes the Paddle Board event so those hoping to do the full classic Round Hayling Island course need to get their entry in quick to be sure of a place. 25 entries were taken in the first 24 hours of the entry opening, equally split between the Round hayling and the Paddle Challenge. Entry will close on the 31 March or before if the limit is reached. Full details and NOR/SI available on the HISC website. Full story at http://www.hisc.co.uk Radical changes to latest Portsmouth Numbers . . . For the first year, website data collated from the RYA’s Portsmouth Yardstick Race Results Website, submitted from clubs, has enabled the Portsmouth Yardstick Group (PYG) to make confident and accurate amendments to the Portsmouth Number (PN) list. This innovation, pioneered by the RYA’s Technical Department, has made the yardstick scheme a much more flexible and accurate system and this is reflected in the handicap adjustments for the coming season. RYA Technical Manager Bas Edmonds explains: “The new system has allowed us to collate actual race data which when looking at the returns from the club has given the PYG the option of looking into each submitted race result to see who was sailing and if any conditions were logged, to iron out any anomalies. “This has allowed us to adjust handicaps aggressively and with far greater confidence. This has led to big adjustments, for example, the International 14 and the Phantom classes move down ten and eight points respectively.” In addition to this, the previously used ‘Trial Numbers’ which have been by definition issued by clubs for rolling adjustment on each race have been replaced with ‘Experimental Numbers issued by the RYA. The Experimental Numbers will be based on data coming in from the website only and will allow the RYA to interrogate the data at any point in the season and update those numbers. It will also allow the whole system to be more flexible when looking at new boats coming onto the PY scene. A good example would be the RS100 or the D1 from Devoti, both boats which have already been taking part in some key Portsmouth Yardstick races this season. Provided that those clubs are submitting data to the RYA via the website, then the RYA will have the option of publishing a number within a matter of months, rather than the couple of years under the previous scheme. Updated Experimental Numbers will only be available to registered clubs using the RYA Race Results Website and will not feature on the normal PN list published on the RYA website. The purpose behind this is an incentive to get clubs to sign up and start using the RYA Race Results Website as the whole scheme is totally dependent on the data that the clubs submit. Full story at http://www.rya.org.uk/infoadvice/racing/Pages/portsmouthyardstick.aspx Speed Sails new team headed by Andy Davis and Jim Hunt . . . Following the management buyout at Speed Sails the new team will be headed by Andy (Taxi) Davis and Jim Hunt. With immediate effect Speed Sails will be fulfilling all back orders and resuming normal service. New investment will also enable the range and stock holding of Clothing and Chandlery to be significantly increased. Over the coming weeks Mail Order and Web Sales will be further enhanced with a new warehouse, computer system and website. The shop in Aldridge will be pre-order collection only. The Speed Sails dinghy moulds have been acquired by Winder Boats and a new 2010 Speed Sails range of ready to win racing dinghies will be available in the near future. Andy Davis commented “The last couple of weeks of uncertainty are behind us and we apologise for any disruption caused, however we should be fully up to date within the next 10 days. Many thanks to our customers for their kind words, support and patience.” Speed Sails will be exhibiting at the RYA Volvo Dinghy Show on stand C46 in the Great Hall this weekend and will have deals on Sails, Covers and Clothing from leading brands; Gill, Gul, Crewsaver, Magic Marine and Henri Lloyd. Full story at http://www.speedsails.co.uk News Ticker and RSS Newsfeed available Sailweb News On-line and Free News Ticker and RSS Newsfeed available. Add the News Ticker to your Club, Association or Company website to get the latest sailing news and results. Add the RSS newsfeed to receive instant news and results. See information above... Full story at http://www.sailweb.co.uk |
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