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SCUTTLEBUTT 3291 - Friday, March 4, 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: North U and Morris Yachts. DISSECTING THE RULES If you enjoy the racing rules of sailing like some people enjoy a good glass of Cabernet, then this story is for you. It comes from Matt Knowles, a self-described rules nerd, and a member of the US SAILING Racing Rules Committee: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ America's Cup Race Management has released the first draft of the Racing Rules of Sailing for the America's Cup (RRSAC). I've just taken a quick look through and jotted down some notes, which are by no means comprehensive. My first impression is that this document represents a significant change to the ISAF racing rules. These are major changes not minor tweaks. Many of the changes, of course, are geared to racing in high performance catamarans. I wonder whether other high-performance classes will seek permission to use these rules as well. I'm also not certain that it is good for the sport to have a parallel set of rules develop, but only time will tell whether that is a real problem or an illusory one. That said, I think nearly all of the changes are very well thought out and positive improvements to the RRS. I'm curious that the term "yacht" is used throughout rather than "boat." At the ISAF level, there has been a clear push over the years to use the latter term. Was this a conscious change, or just the stylistic preference of the drafters of the RRSAC? Below are my very rough notes after a quick read through. Please share any omissions or errors you notice. I've ignored some small changes and focused on the ones I think are most interesting. Read on here: http://tinyurl.com/4z62t5k * Version 1.0 of the RRS for the 34th America's Cup has 16 pages. Here's the direct link: http://tinyurl.com/AC34-RRS ORACLE RACING LEADS DAY 1 RC44 FLEET RACING San Diego, CA (March 3, 2011) - The first day of four days of fleet racing in the ORACLE RC44 Cup San Diego kicked off with clear skies and light breeze. It was all action off San Diego's Broadway Pier and the view fantastic with the racecourse leeward gate just off the dock, Four races were held, with Race 1 starting around 11:45am. Artemis nailed the start, at pace and flying out the blocks. After a great start the Swedish team hunkered down for a fast first beat - nice work from Morgan Larson and his team brought them the first win for this fleet racing series, with ORACLE in second and Team Aqua in third. Race 2 got underway just after 1pm. ORACLE lead around the top mark and continued to consolidate that lead throughout. Ironbound took second and Katusha third. For the remaining two races, the top four contenders continued to be Artemis, ORACLE, Katusha and Ironbound, with Ironbound taking first in Race 3, and Artemis winning Race 4. -- Full scores here: http://www.rc44.com/...match_racing_results Standings after Day 1 fleet racing: 1. ORACLE Racing (USA) 10 pts 2. Katusha (RUS) 14 pts 3. Artemis (SWE) 16 pts 4. Team Aqua (GBR) 19pts 5. Team Ceeref (SLO) 20 pts 6. Ironbound (USA) 26 pts 7. Peninsula Petroleum (GBR) 26 pts 8. AEZ (AUT) 29 pts 9. Puerto Calero (ESP) 33 pts 10. Synergy (RUS) 34 pts 11. No Way Back (FRA) 40 pts EYE SPY: The local Fox news television affiliate is hosting a camera in one of the downtown high rises that will be fixed on the race course to provide a live feed of the racing. Here is the link: http://www.fox5sandiego.com/videobeta/?watchLive=kswb-ls-breaking-news RACE & WIN We can show you how. It is not too early (nor too expensive) to schedule a North U Coach to join you and your crew for a spring tune-up. Expert sailors with years of teaching experience working with you and your crew aboard your boat (can you think of a better place?) on every facet of racing trim, boat handling and tactics. Sign up now while spring dates are still available. 800 347 2457. http://www.northu.com 6 NEW BUILD TP52S EXPECTED FOR 2011 AUDI MEDCUP (March 2, 2011) - With just under 12 weeks until the first Trophy regatta of the season the 2011 Audi MedCup Circuit is taking final shape and is set to feature no fewer than 11 brand new build boats across the well established TP52 Series Class and the new Soto 40 class. Six new build TP52's are expected. Previously announced are Synergy (RUS), Quantum Racing (USA), Ran (SWE), Container (GER), Audi Sailing Team powered by ALL4ONE (GER) and a sixth boat which will be sailed by the very successful Matador (ARG) team, the details of which have not been made public yet. "We have a group of owners with new units who are investing in the best boats they can have, and will similarly be ensuring they have the top talent available on their programmes. All will be trying to be the best of the best, and will want the best of the best," commented Nacho Postigo, Technical Director of the Audi MedCup Circuit. "We are just delighted with the response that we have had from owners and potential owners for this coming season. When we set up the Circuit originally we were aiming to build and keep developing a racing platform which has longevity, offering exciting close races each year to high level competitive owners and top crews and this is still being delivered," said Postigo, co-founder of the Circuit. -- Full story: http://www.medcup.org/news/?id=4213 TEAM TUNNICLIFFE'S LAST MINUTE PREP FOR SNIPE REGATTA (March 3, 2011) - Today was the practice day at the 2nd National Open Snipe Regatta 2011 in Vilagarcia, Spain. Anna Tunnicliffe reports from her blog: It was a chilly morning when we got to the boat park this morning around 9:30am to collect our boat and start putting the boat together in time to make the practice race held this afternoon. Molly and I qualified for this event after winning the Women's World Championships last November. The organizers invited sailors to come to this event. We forced ourselves out of bed at 7:30 this morning to eat breakfast and to start adjusting to the local time zone (we are 6 hrs ahead of US ET). At the sailing center we rigged our boat and eventually hit the water. As we were launching, the wind picked up a little more taking it into the high teens and we were really put to the test on the race course. We missed the start, but joined in the practice race just before the top mark. We were fast on the reaches, but then got a little out of control at the bottom mark and capsized. -- Full story: http://www.teamtunnicliffe.com/news/237-last-minute-prep-for-2nd-nacional-op en-snipe-regatta-2011.html TEAM NEUTROGENA APPROACHES HORN IN SOLID 4TH (March 3, 2011: Day 63) - At 1020hrs Thursday morning Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron on Virbac-Paprec 3 lead the Barcelona World Race fleet past Cape Horn only four hours and 20 minutes and 72 miles ahead of Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez. Young rookie Ryan Breymaier, the sole U.S. sailor in the Barcelona World Race, is giving seasoned sailors a run for their money as he weaves himself through the pack to a solid fourth with the intention of moving up to a podium finish. In his first-ever circumnavigation of the globe aboard Team Neutrogena (with German co-skipper Boris Herrmann), Breymaier has encountered "many firsts," including the crossing of the Equator, sailing in the Southern Ocean, and the rounding of two famous capes. "Before this, the longest I had ever spent on a boat was 18 days, and we're on day 61 with about 30 or so more to go," said Breymaier. In a video conference while at sea, Breymaier spoke of his new experiences with the core group from the All-American Offshore Team (AAOT), which is currently fund raising to campaign its 2011 Offshore Team to bring young sailors into ocean racing. "The creation of AAOT is a huge step forward in giving young U.S. sailors the chance to find out if it is the career for them," said Breymaier. -- View Breymaier's interview at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQpCFilMoE Race Tracker: http://tracking.barcelonaworldrace.org Standings (top 5 of 14 as of 20.01.08) 1. Virbac-Paprec 3, Jean Pierre Dick/Loick Peyron (FRA/FRA), 6748 nm DTF 2. Mapfre, Iker Martinez/Xabi Fernandez (ESP/ESP), 93.4 nm DTL 3. Renault, Pachi Rivero/Antonio Piris (ESP/ESP), 533.7 nm DTL 4. Neutrogena, Boris Herrmann/Ryan Breymaier (GER/USA), 605.8 nm DTL 5. Mirabaud, Dominique Wavre & Michele Paret (FRA/SUI), 779.1 nm DTL Full rankings: http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org/en/ranking/ BACKGROUND: This is the second edition of the non-stop Barcelona World Race, the only double-handed race around the world. Fourteen teams are competing on Open 60s which started December 31st and is expected to finish by late March. The 25,000 nautical mile course is from Barcelona to Barcelona via three capes: Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn, Cook Strait, putting Antarctica to starboard. Race website: http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org PHOTOS OF THE WEEK Some of the random photos from the sport received this week at Scuttlebutt include a 1000 Optis, an interior being built, a windy day, your March calendar, your winter winners, a Paralympic revival, and a detailed bow. Here are this week's photos: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/11/0304/ BONUS: Sailing is not your typical sport. How many sports exist where a well taken action photo would look appropriate on the wall in your home? Galleries like the Farr 40 Worlds is a nice reminder of the beauty of our sport: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/11/0303/ SEND US YOUR PHOTOS: If you have images to share for the Photos of the Week, send them to the Scuttlebutt editor: mailto:editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Dillon Yacht Club in Dillon, Colorado annually hosts the Dillon Open Regatta, the world's highest regatta at 9,017 ft above sea level. But that is for people who sail in the summer, so to switch gears in the winter, the 2011 Dillon Snowkite Open was held in February with warm sunny skies and a fresh afternoon breeze every day. About 40 competitors came from throughout the U.S. as well as Puerto Rico, Russia, and Canada. The Event included a long distance race, freestyle, along with freeriding and demos to get the local Dillon Yacht Club members and public involved. Curious what a snowkite regatta looks like? View it here: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/media/11/0304/ BONUS 1: Rambler 100 was both the elapsed and corrected time winner of the RORC Caribbean 600 race. Here is a highlight reel from her victory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tumE45RqV24 BONUS 2: 2009 International Moth World Champion Bora Gulari shares this grizzly video of all the crashes that occurred at the 2011 Worlds in Belmont, AUS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwYMr53YpD0 BONUS 3: Now in its fifth season, the nine event 2011 Extreme Sailing Series saw 11 international teams competing in the opening event in Oman. With the America's Cup moving to multihulls, the this Extreme 40 catamaran event has attracted America's Cup skippers Terry Hutchinson (USA) Artemis Racing and Dean Barker (NZL) Team New Zealand, along with top World Match Racing Tour skippers Torvar Mirsky (AUS) and Ian Williams (GBR). The 2011 ESS will travel to three continents, with its North American stop in Boston, USA on June 30-July 4. There are a number of edited highlight clips from this recent event here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtremeSailingSeries SEND US YOUR VIDEOS: If you have clips to share for the Video of the Week, send them to the Scuttlebutt editor: mailto:editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com THIS SPRING IT IS A WEST COAST SWING FOR MORRIS YACHTS! After a successful event in Florida's Coconut Grove, Team Morris will spend this month in Maine. Come see the Morris Service and Brokerage team at Portland's Maine Boatbuilders Show, March 18-20. Meanwhile, the Morris sales team is prepping for a return to California for Strictly Sail Pacific on April 14-17th. Morris will be showing the M36. Morris has been delivering M-Series and Ocean Series yachts steadily to The Bay and the entire West Coast over the past years and looks forward to catching up with owners and those who have been encouraging Morris' return! We're California Dreaming! http://www.morrisyachts.com/The-Morris-M36 SAILING SHORTS * Canadian ocean racer Derek Hatfield has finished the third ocean sprint of the VELUX 5 OCEANS crossing the finish line in Punta del Este, Uruguay, at 5.52pm local time (1952 UTC) to take fourth position. Derek completed the leg from Wellington in New Zealand to Punta del Este in 25 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes, just over an hour behind fellow ocean racers Zbigniew Gutek Gutkowski and Chris Stanmore-Major. -- Full story: http://tinyurl.com/4nz7n9x * The Winning Appliances JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship begins Saturday on Sydney Harbour with a fleet of 29 international teams. Howie Hamlin (USA), who is a two times winner (2002 and 2003) and John Winning (2000) will each be striving for another win. Both Hamlin (CST Composites) and Winning (Yandoo) have new boats built for the championship and have displayed the type of form in lead up races to make them definite chances. -- Full story: http://tinyurl.com/4cxohha * (March 3, 2011; Day 34, 22:00 UTC) - As of Thursday morning, Thomas Coville (FRA) on the 105-foot trimaran Sodebo was approximately 2,000 miles off Cape Horn. Conditions have forced him to take a more north-easterly course to avoid a series of depressions and 35-45 foot seas, all in a enormous zone of ice. Colville is currently 110 miles behind the solo singlehanded round the world record set by Francis Joyon (FRA) in 2008 on the 97-foot trimaran IDEC. -- http://www.sodebo-voile.com/ * (March 2, 2011) - Event organizers from the Chicago Match Race Center (CMRC), Bayview YC (BYC), Manhasset Bay YC (MBYC) and Oakcliff Sailing Center (OSC) have announced the inaugural North American Grand Slam Match Racing Series for 2011. An invitation to the 2012 Congressional Cup at Long Beach YC, the oldest ISAF Grade 1 prize money event in the US is on offer for the team with the best combined scores from match racing events raced at each venue. Events in the Grand Slam Series constitute four out of the five Open Grade 2 events in the US. -- Full story: http://www.chicagomatchrace.com/PressRelease/article.asp?p=10080 * The California Dreamin' Series continues this weekend with the Butler Cup hosted by the Long Beach Yacht Club. The two favorites in the event will be Will Tiller, 21, a successful upstart from New Zealand, and Russ Silvestri, 49, who raced a Finn dinghy for the U.S. in the 2000 Olympics in Australia and at San Francisco last weekend finished second behind Shawn Bennett, who is skipping this event. Teams will be increasing the crews of three or four they used on the J/22s last week to six or seven on the C/37s. -- Info at: http://www.lbyc.org JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING TWO GREAT CAUSES By Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt editor When breast cancer entered my home, I was reminded of how fragile life was, and how prevalent breast cancer is. During my education, I also learned that early detection remains a key component in the battle against breast cancer. We were fortunate to have caught our occurrence early, and it is through heightened awareness that I hope others will be as fortunate. Scuttlebutt has launched a new T-Shirt that promotes sailing with one of the Curmudgeon's Observations, but also proudly displays the pink ribbon symbol that is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Please join me in supporting two great causes, with all the proceeds going to breast cancer research. All Scuttlebutt gear can be purchased at the Scuttlebutt Store: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/store 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 Bill Canfield: Five years ago I would have agreed with all that Tony Nunes said and I would have been the last person to defend match racing. Now after becoming involved in this discipline of sailing as a spectator and race officer has changed my opinion 100% the other direction. I now find it not only incredibly exciting but also strategic in a way that you can almost put yourself in the boat and guess what the next move each skipper will make and see the instant consequence of his/her actions, and what new challenge that last move produces. Recently in the Miami Olympic training event hosted jointly hosted by Chicago Match Race Center and the US Sailing Center in Sheboygan, in the Elliot 6 meters, there were any number of races coming down to a finish with boats literally inches apart. That is exciting no matter what your interest in sailing. Watching a boat trying to shed a penalty while protecting the finish line is also something that will surprise you if you haven't seen it accomplished before. Its all part of the game. -- Read on at Scuttlebutt Forum: http://tinyurl.com/4bc4g5x * From Ralph Longfellow, Secretary, CISA: In reference to the article by Joe Morris (The Evolving Olympic Path, Scuttlebutt 3289), the California International Sailing Association (CISA) recognized the problem several years ago. When funds became available CISA purchased nine I-420s. The I-420 is a perfect boat to introduce young sailors (13 to 17) to the technical aspects of sail tuning. The CISA Advanced Racing Clinic held in April includes the I-420 class and the 29er as two of the six class' included therein. The I-420 leads young sailors to the 470 and the 29er leads them to the 49er, both Olympic class boats that are not used in college sailing. Check the history on the CISA web site for the past I-420 sailors. Last year CISA replaced the original nine I-420s with nine new ones and sold six of the original nine. There are still three of the original available for purchase. If anyone out there is interested in three I-420s, contact Scott Mason at smason@advbenesys.com. CISA has lost its major financial supporter, Roy Disney, and could use any funds which may come its way. CISA is a 501(c)3 foundation and any contributions are tax deductable. If you are looking for a way to help young sailors get interested in Olympic class types of boats, a donation to CISA is a good way. Check the web site at http://www.cisasailing.org * From Tej Trevor Parekh, President, Canadian 49er Class Association: The lifejacket problem used to be huge in the 49er class. I also was one of the ones that never wore a PFD. But after an incident at CORK where I was penalized in three races, and lost the championship I started wearing one. This was also around the time that the International 49er Class adopted the rule that all crews must wear a minimum 50 N PFD. There was a common misconception that the PFD was more dangerous, that it would get caught on rigging during a capsize, or provide too much buoyancy if trapped under a sail. And all those are completely false! Now all 49er sailors wear a PFD and it no longer sends the message to all the younger sailors that wearing one isn't cool. I also always wear mine now, since it would be a breach of the rules AND because not wearing one is just plain stupid. It will save your life. So be sure to strap it on, even on a keel boat! PS - the 49er.ca Championships take place July 22 - 24, 2011 at Kingston YC CURMUDGEON'S OBSERVATION Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career. SPONSORS THIS WEEK Team One Newport - Doyle Sails - IYRS - North U - LaserPerformance North Sails - Melges Performance Sailboats - Lewmar Summit Yachts - Ullman Sails - Morris Yachts Need stuff? Look here: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ssc/suppliers |
