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SCUTTLEBUTT 3359 - Thursday, June 9, 2011Scuttlebutt is published each weekday with the support of its sponsors,providing a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk . . . with a North American focus. Website: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/scuttbutt Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sailingscuttlebutt RSS: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/rss/index.xml Today's sponsors: Ullman Sails and Point Loma Outfitting. CHALLENGING CONDITIONS ON DAY 3 SAIL FOR GOLD Weymouth, U.K. (June 8, 2011) - It was another ripping windy day at Skandia Sail for Gold for US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. With wind speeds in the upper 20s and a building sea, athletes' fitness were tested in the big conditions. US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics holds nine top-10 positions across 10 Olympic and three Paralympic classes: 2.4mR, SKUD-18, Sonar, Finn, Laser Radial, Star, Women's 470, and both Women's Match Racing teams saw wins in the Gold Round. Scoring two straight match racing wins was Sally Barkow (Nashotah, Wis.), Alana O'Reilly (Charleston, S.C.) and Elizabeth Kratzig Burnham (Miami, Fla.). They defeated the Dutch and French teams. Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.) with Molly Vandemoer (Stanford, Calif.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) went 1 win, 1 loss. Racing in the Gold Round continues tomorrow. In the Women's 470 class, Erin Maxwell (Wilton, Conn.) and Isabelle Kinsolving Farrar (New York, N.Y,) are in 9th overall with scores today of 15-17. Amanda Clark, 2008 Olympic representative in the Women's 470, with new crew Sarah Lihan (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) scored a regatta-best third place in race 6. With a 4th and 8th finishes, Paige Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) continued to prove her strength in the Laser Radial fleet. She is in 7th overall. 2008 Olympic Finn Silver Medalist Zach Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) started the day with a 4th in race 4, then followed it up with a 3rd. Currently in 6th overall, he credited an improved fitness level for boosting his power in the bigger breeze. Railey posted to his blog, "4 and 3 in today's races!! Huge improvement from yesterday, looking forward to tomorrow." From the American Laser competition, Clay Johnson said, "We had a really late start yesterday and had to do three races. Two races today, puffs into the 20s, big waves. It's not the way I wanted to spend the last 24 hours, but we're halfway through the regatta. I hope I made gold fleet and anything can happen. Brad is sailing really well and he's not making many results. He's going to be hard to beat. Rob is sailing well too and it's going to be the three of us duking it out." Event website: http://www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk/ U.S. reports: http://sailingteams.ussailing.org/Events/2011/SFG.htm Canadian reports: http://www.sailing.ca/features/2011_skandia_sail_for_gold/ DAY 1 SUCCESS FOR GILMOUR AT KOREA MATCH CUP Gyeonggi Province, Korea (8 June, 2011) - Four-time Match Racing World Champion Peter Gilmour emerged as one of the on-form skippers in a feisty first day of racing at the Korea Match Cup. Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing finished the first Qualifying Session with four wins from five races including important victories over fellow countryman Torvar Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat, and Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing. Over nine flights were raced and with a light breeze of around six to 12 knots, the sailors' skills were put to the test as they went head-to-head in the specially-designed KM36 yachts. Gilmour, one of the most respected and feared competitors on the Tour, was only defeated by last year's Korea Match Cup winner Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team and finishes the day at the top of the scoreboard. "It was a good first day for us with plenty of action," said Gilmour. "It's pretty brutal out there. You make one mistake and the other guys will pounce on you. The key is definitely to sail clean and slick. It's early days but we're feeling pretty good after day one." -- Full report: http://tinyurl.com/3rpwu2n Standings After First Qualifying Session Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing 4-1 Francesco Bruni (ITA) Bruni Racing 3-1 Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar 3-1 Torvar Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat 3-2 Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team 3-2 Bjorn Hansen (DEN) Mekonomen Sailing Team 2-2 Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team 2-2 Paul Campbell-James (GBR) Dream Team 2-3 Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing 2-3 Reuben Corbett (NZL) AON Racing Team 1-2 Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team 1-4 Sung Wook Kim (KOR) Busan Match Team 0-3 BACKGROUND: The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) is the leading professional sailing series, featuring 9 events across the globe, sanctioned by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) with "Special Event" status. Prize money is awarded for each event, with event points culminating in the crowning of the "ISAF Match Racing World Champion". -- http://www.wmrt.com ULLMAN-POWERED J/105 "GUMPTION 3" HITS THEIR GROOVE When the sailing season kicked off this spring, Ullman Sails customer Kevin Grainger and his team on J/105 "Gumption 3" hit the ground running. The East Coast team won the inaugural Manhattan YC J/105 Regatta on the waters of the Hudson River May 14-15, posting a solid score of 1-1-1-2 total for the event. And last weekend "Gumption 3" won the Cedar Point YC One Design Regatta in Connecticut, claiming first place with 10 total points in the small but competitive 9-boat fleet. "Gumption 3" competes with the complete Ullman J/105 racing inventory. Invest in your performance. http://www.ullmansails.com 2500 CVS & STLL COUNTING By Michelle Slade It's business as usual at 160 Pacific Ave, downtown San Francisco, home to the 40-50 employees of the America's Cup - both AC Event Authority (ACEA) and AC Race Management (ACRM). Still running on a somewhat "skeleton" staff and in "start-up" mode, finding qualified individuals willing to risk the security of their current comfy job for the wild waters of the America's Cup is the least of the challenges facing the administration of this next Cup event. So, why do people leave a perfectly good job to come work for the Cup? A perfectly good question, says Ron Coverson, ACEA's energetic and engaging Director, Human Resources. "There's two answers, the first is, there really isn't such a thing as a secure job in America anymore, it's mythical, the second is that there is a huge number of people who love sports and they're the ones who address that up front in their cover letters to ACEA," Coverson explained. "We get, 'My dad was a sailor, I was a junior sailor, I want to get involved,' - that's at least 60% of the conversation right there." Coverson, a HR professional for the past 18 years in various capacities, had no qualms in leaving his perfectly great job as HR Director at Stanford University's Athletic Department to jump on the Cup ride. "When I heard about the position with the Cup, I enquired, we went back and forth, and they made me an offer. This is an excellent segue to being a general manager in the sports management world or pro sports or going back into athletics as an athletic director. I love sports, there's nothing like the excitement people have when they're around any kind of sporting event." Others clearly feel the same way as Coverson, as he's had some 2500 resumes cross his desk since he was hired three months ago. "It's a phenomenal amount of CVs. We're getting some amazing talent - even when it's a 2-3 year job with the Cup, max. I hate to say to someone you didn't get the job because we've really talked to so many great people," Coverson said. -- Read on: http://tinyurl.com/3bdl2ue * With the first of the America's Cup World Series events starting in just under two months in Cascais, Portugal, the recently announced format and scoring for the 2011 America's Cup World Series events (Regatta Notice No. 27 link on the official America's Cup website) ensures teams will have the opportunity for a maximum number of races at each event, in turn providing spectators both on site and watching via broadcast the ultimate formula for an exciting series, according to PRO John Craig who will run the racing for America's Cup Race Management. "The races will be short (about 20 minutes) so this will put a premium on starts. The format of both fleet and match racing allows teams to continue to improve and develop their overall programs. Visually the end result will be enhanced for both spectators and the television audience," Craig said. -- Official website: http://www.americascup.com BACK TO THE FUTURE By Kimball Livingston What's a perfect Transpac ride? A lot depends on what you're doing, this time. Philippe Kahn was plenty happy in 2009 when he and Mark Christiansen set a new doublehanded record in an Open 50 named, as all the man's boats are named, Pegasus. For 2011, however, the maestro of mobile software is going retro. After seven months in the shed at Dencho Marine, Kahn's Andrews 70 has been "de-turboed" as he says: "We cut 12 feet off the mast, shortened the fin and went to a smaller bulb with a few thousand pounds of lead in the bilge. We also took out the bow sprit, and the new, shorter pole gybes easily inside the forestay. Combine that with a simplified deck, and three to five of us can handle her at full potential in 35 knots of wind. A perfect Transpac ride!" Pegasus 70 is now close to the configuration of a stock Santa Cruz 70, Kahn says. "We plan to sail her surfing to Honolulu like a Moore 24 as opposed to sailing across the waves, reaching, like a Melges 24. I surf, and I love surfing, and what we want is to have fair racing with the other 70s using the Transpac ORR rating. We hope to get more people wanting to do this and have some great Pacific Ocean sailing." Gee, it seems only yesterday that the cool thing was to go "turbo." The upper end of the fleet for the 2011 race has seven 70-footers entered, two 68-footers and, of course, good ole Ragtime. The fleet has two starts, July 4 and July 8, and no one is more qualified to decide how he wants to do it "this time" than Philippe Kahn. He has sailed 12 races to Hawaii, three of them doublehanded. The new record he set in 2009 with Christiansen stands at 7 days, 19 hours, which got them to the Diamond Head Buoy ahead of all the 70s, turboed or un, and lopped two days off the doublehanded record. He was already a more accomplished sailor-competitor than most, years ago, when he declared to your reporter, "I have to learn how to sail before I die." ROUTE: The 2225 nm Transpac Race begins near Point Fermin off the coast of Los Angeles, California, and then heads across the Pacific Ocean to the finish line near Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii. Event website: http://www.transpacrace.com/ SENIOR & MASTERS SABOT NATIONALS (June 8, 2011) - The Senior & Masters Sabot Nationals for the International Naples Sabot Association (I.N.S.A.) were hosted in Newport Harbor by Balboa Yacht Club last weekend. Starting in 1946, I.N.S.A has been holding a competition for the adults who race the single mast, single sail, one person boats. Many of the current racers are following their parents' and grandparents' example by racing in the 8 foot long boats. There were a total of 37 competitors in this year's competition from six yacht clubs, including 11 in the Senior Class (over 18 years), 19 in the Masters Class (over 40), four in the Grand Masters (over 65) and three in the Clydesdale Class (weighing over 200 pounds). Both the youngest and one of the oldest did well in this annual event. Caitlynn Ybarra from Balboa Yacht Club has just recently become eligible to race as a Senior, (over 18) and placed 3rd in her class. First place in the Grand Masters (over 65) was Nancy Mellon, also from Balboa Yacht Club. Nancy has been able to sail in that division for over fifteen years. First place getters: Mark Gaudio, BCYC, in Seniors; Tom Newton, ABYC, in Masters; Jeff McDermaid, ABYC, in Clydesdales. -- Full story: http://tinyurl.com/3onnl79 CALENDAR OF MAJOR EVENTS (Sponsored by West Marine) Is your event listed on the Scuttlebutt Event Calendar? This free, self-serve tool is the easiest way to communicate to both sailors and sailing media. These are some of the events listed on the calendar for this weekend: Jun 10-12 - Cape Dory Typhoon National Championship, Irvington, VA, USA Jun 10-13 - Mills Trophy Race, Toledo, OH, USA Jun 11 - The Leukemia Cup Regatta, Seattle, WA, USA Jun 11-17 - Shark World Championship, Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada Jun 11-17 - IOD World Championship, Marblehead, MA, USA View all the events at http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/calendar INDUSTRY NEWS UPDATES The Industry News category of the Scuttlebutt Forum provides an opportunity for companies to announce new products and services. Here are some of recent postings: * Sailing DVDs * New J/70 Speedster Sails 2012 * Top Volvo Syndicates Choose Navtec Race Hydraulics View and/or post Industry News updates here: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/forum/industry_news GOOD STEAL, I MEAN DEAL ON SLAM SAILING GEAR With the arrival of the new 2011 Superyacht collection from SLAM, there is a need to clear out some of the older styles. Here's a chance to save 25% on some great gear, while supplies last! Better yet it's just in time for the 2011 season. Foul weather gear, shoes, shirts shorts, etc. Visit http://www.slam-shops.com/clearance.html to see all of these great deals, and save bundles! There is also still time to outfit your team. Give us a call and ewe will help your team look good on, or off the water with our new apparel. http://www.pointlomaoutfitting.com/team-clothing.php SAILING SHORTS * San Diego, CA (June 8, 2011) - Day 3, race 5 of the Etchells Worlds Championship started in 10 knots under cloudy skies, by race 6 the sun was out and the breeze building. Racing was tight at the top of the fleet as Vince Brun and Bill Hardesty continued to duke it out, switching places on the leaderboard by day's end as Hardesty took another bullet in race 5, his third in the series so far. Hardesty sits in first overall with 16 points, Vince Brun in second with 20 points, Aussies Noel Drennan and Michael Hiatt are third and fourth respectively with 30 and 37 points. Don Jesberg (USA) sits in fifth with 41 points. -- Event website: http://www.etchellsworlds2011.com/ * (June 8, 2011) - At 0930 today, this year's edition of the Annapolis to Newport race was officially over, with all boats finished or retired. The last boat finished about 6:15am. The light winds resulted in 14 retirements as people ran out of time. Competitors said they found the race a challenge, tactically interesting and hardly anyone complained about the light wind. -- Results at event website: http://www.race.annapolisyc.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=46 * (June 7, 2011) - The 2011 Transpac Race Divisions and Boat Assignments have been determined and can be viewed at http://transpacrace.com/race-documents/287-2011-transpac-divisions. Racing begins July 4 for divisions 6, 7 and Multihull, while Divisions 1-5 set off on July 8. To date, 53 entries have been posted at the event website: http://www.transpacrace.com/ * (June 8, 2011) - The deadline for community organizations to apply for a 2011 Interlux Waterfront Challenge grant is August 31, 2011. The company will award $50,000 in grants in October to organizations to create sustainable waterfront environmental improvements in their communities. Eight grants from $4,500 to $20,000 will be awarded to groups in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. A five-judge panel of marine industry leaders - with the help of boaters voting on Facebook for their favorite projects among the applications - will select seven regional winners. -- Full story: http://www.boating-industry.com/output.cfm?id=2763523 GUEST COMMENTARY Scuttlebutt strongly encourages feedback from the Scuttlebutt community. Either submit comments by email or post them on the Forum. Submitted comments chosen to be published in the newsletter may be limited to 250 words. Authors may have one published submission per subject, and should save their bashing and personal attacks for elsewhere. Email: editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com Forum: http://sailingscuttlebutt.com/forum * From William Sandberg, Riverside, CT: Much has been written over the years in Scuttlebutt about junior sailing rights and wrongs. If a picture is worth a thousand words, check out the cover of June Southern Boating--http://southernboating.com/. This picture is worth a million. * From Mike Esposito: In regards to the math confusion by a dermatologist quoted in The Los Angeles Times' SPF story (S'butt 3357, pointed out by Richard Hinterhoeller in S'butt 3358): The U.S. Military Academy at West Point's graduate with the lowest academic standing in his or her class is called "The Goat" (mocking the rival Navy mascot). The equivalent graduate in a U.S. Naval Academy class is called "The Anchorman" (for obvious reasons). What do they call the person who graduates last in their class from medical school? "Doctor." * From Doug Simms (re, Scuttlebutt 3357): Re California Senate Bill 623 on copper antifouling paint. This bill was authored by Senator Kehoe from San Diego. I found a report on the internet by two scientists that documented the copper levels in the San Diego Bay. Since the highest levels were in marinas versus other shoreside facilities they came to the conclusion that the copper was from the bottom paint. I believe that this report is the basis for the legislation. Although this legislation attempts to reduce toxic pollution in the coastal waters, the way it is written, it will never succeed. The owners of all boats that are in the water most of the time apply bottom paint to prevent/reduce the growth of organisms, barnacles and corals, on the underwater surface. The Bottom paint prevents growth by providing a toxic environment on the underwater surface of the boat. Copper is the current toxin and has been used for centuries. There are two problems that prevent this legislation from working. 1. Currently available bottom paints, by design, slowly falls off taking some copper with it. Thus dispersing the copper into the local environment. If the copper in the bottom paint is replaced with another toxin this new toxin will just be another source of pollution. The bill does not PREVENT the use of toxins it only promotes "the use of nonbiocide alternative paints". -- Full letter posted at: http://tinyurl.com/453rpux CURMUDGEON'S OBSERVATION The Mr. Bean Guide to Fun in an Elevator: Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally. SPONSORS THIS WEEK Kaenon Polarized - JK3 Nautical Enterprises - Team One Newport North Sails - LaserPerformance - Doyle Sails - West Marine - Interlux Ullman Sails - Point Loma Outfitting - New England Ropes - Summit Yachts Need stuff? Look here: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ssc/suppliers |
