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SCUTTLEBUTT 3107 - Monday, June 7, 2010Scuttlebutt 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 KINDLE: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/rss/kindle RSS: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/rss/index.xml Today's sponsors: Summit Yachts and Kaenon Polarized. SF SEEKS HEAD-START IN BID TO WIN AMERICA'S CUP San Francisco, Calif. (June 4, 2010) - As it readies its pitch to host the next America's Cup, San Francisco has already scored an unusual coup: Lining up early support from a wide array of government agencies. San Francisco's economic development arm, which is overseeing the city's bid, has already received preliminary support from the city's Board of Supervisors, Port Commission, Recreation and Park Commission and the Convention and Visitors Bureau, as well as the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and Golden Gate National Recreational Area. Even more backing is expected. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning and funding agency, is expected to formally back a bid this month. The America's Cup regatta, governed by rules that can vary with each competition, is typically held every two or three years and can generate billions of dollars for a host city. Apart from the competition itself, which can last up to two weeks, teams spend much more time training, which can bring tourists and other race-related commerce. Lining up early support, organizers said, is done in the hope that these various fiefdoms will pull in one direction on the project. And it could also send a strong message to the sailing team headed by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the America's Cup defender, that San Francisco will be able to plan and build an America's Cup village, where teams would train for more than a year and be based during the regatta. "San Francisco has a history of having a tortured process," said Kyri McClellan, a project manager in the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development. "This early demonstration (of support), we hope will show Mr. Ellison and his team that this can be done." -- Read on: http://tinyurl.com/2arbmee TACKING TIPS: THE TURN AND THE ACCELERATION By Bill Gladstone, North U A proper turn is just the first part of a tack. The Acceleration will complete the tack. As noted before, all the losses from tacking accrue during this critical second phase. Typically, (on keelboats) losses are between one and two boat lengths. Our goal is to minimize losses. Coming out of the tack directly to a close hauled course with full trim will leave us with a long slow acceleration and result in losses of two boat lengths or more. Coming out too low, on a close reach, will provide quicker acceleration but at a low angle. The losses from slow speed are reduced here, but losses from poor initial angle take their toll. The challenge is to strike the best balance to achieve quick acceleration at the most effective angle. The correct angle varies with conditions, with a wider angle required in lighter winds and bigger seas. The trimmers can help. The jib should be trimmed a few inches short of full trim. As the boat accelerates, the jib trimmer trims in the last few inches, reaching full trim as the boat reaches full speed. If you have a knot meter then the jib trimmer should note the speed before tacking and count down to the driver as the boat accelerates out of the tack: "We're 2.5 knots slow... Speed building... 2 knots slow... 1.7... 1.5... 1 knot below full speed... Half a knot... Trimming up to full trim... 2... Coming to full trim... At full speed." -- Read on: http://tinyurl.com/2b35du4 SUMMIT 35'S DELIVERED WORLD WIDE The two newest Summit 35's have just been delivered to owners in Japan and Australia, where they will join their big sisters - the Summit 40's - Karasu in Japan and Canute in Australia. Both of the 40's have enjoyed considerable success in their local regattas, and the Summit 35's are expected to continue the Summit success. We still have one brand new Summit 35 available for early summer racing. Check us out at http://www.summit-yachts.com EMIRATES TEAM NZ WINS LV TROPHY LA MADDALENA Sardinia, Italy (June 6, 2010; Day 16) - Two races down and on match point, Emirates Team New Zealand won the Louis Vuitton Trophy La Maddalena today in an action-packed afternoon of match race sailing. The New Zealand boat that won the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland in February prevailed 3-2 against the SYNERGY Russian Sailing Team that had put the Kiwis on the ropes 2-0 after the first race today. "In the end it comes down to confidence in our team," said Dean Barker, skipper and helmsman of ETNZ. "It's hard to believe. It was a long way back from 2-0 down. But the guys stuck with it and they gave us an opportunity that we jumped on. After that we sailed more like we expect to and it feels fantastic to win another event." Grant Dalton, CEO of Team New Zealand put it slightly differently: "This regatta has been about the emergence of these teams that are putting us under pressure. We need someone to put a blow touch on us before we start performing. That's not good enough. Someone's going to knock us off our pedestal if we carry on like that. I would have been incredibly hacked off if they hadn't won." A shifty easterly breeze that built slowly in speed provided excellent conditions on a warm, sunny final day of racing. Because there was no wind early, the petit final for third and fourth places was abandoned and the French/German team All4One was confirmed in third place, with Sweden's Artemis fourth. It was the first time in America's Cup history that a Russian-flagged boat has reached the final of a Louis Vuitton-sponsored event and her mixed Russian and international crew led by Polish skipper Karol Jablonski came very close to clinching the series. -- Full story: http://tinyurl.com/2cpgkwp FINAL RESULTS 1. Emirates Team New Zealand 2. SYNERGY Russian Sailing Team 3. All4One 4. Artemis 5. Mascalzone Latino Audi Team 6. Azzurra 7. TEAMORIGIN 8. Luna Rossa 9. BMW Oracle Racing Team 10. ALEPH Sailing Team BACKGROUND: The Louis Vuitton Trophy series is designed to be a cost-effective format for match racing competition in Version 5 America's Cup Class boats. For the La Maddalena event, teams will take turns racing on four equalised America's Cup Class boats: two have been provided by BMW Oracle Racing (USA 87 and USA 98) and two by Mascalzone Latino Audi Team (ITA 90 and ITA 99). After La Maddalena, the 2010 series continues on to Dubai (Nov. 13-28). -- http://www.louisvuittontrophy.com LEROY DEFENDS TITLE AT 2010 AT SANTA MARIA CUP Annapolis, MD (June 5, 2010) - Close racing in hot, shifty conditions through today's final contests of the semi-final and five-match final rounds in the 20th annual BoatU.S. Santa Maria Cup international women's match-racing regatta produced a similar result to last year, with the French team skippered by Claire Leroy topping San Franciscan Genny Tulloch and her team 3-2 to retain Leroy's title as champion for another year. In the semi-final pairings, which were all tied up at the end of Friday's racing, Tulloch and her crew, including Molly Carapiet, Katie Pettibone, and Jen Chamberlin, outfought Sally Barkow and her crew this morning, going on to win the series 3-2, while Leroy made short work of Floridian Anna Tunnicliffe and her team in just two more races to earn the spot to race Tulloch and defend her title. The final series was a nail-biter, with Tulloch coming from behind in the second race to beat Leroy, and solidly in the lead throughout to win the fourth race, but Leroy and her team, including Elodie Bertrand, Marie Riou, and Claire Pruvot, were able to hold the challengers off for a second straight year and win the other three. -- Full story: http://www.BoatUSSantaMariaCup.org/news.asp# Final Results Claire Leroy (3-2) vs. Genny Tulloch (2-3) Petit-Final Results Anna Tunnicliffe (2-0) vs. Sally Barkow (0-2) Event website: http://www.boatussantamariacup.org Anna Tunnicliffe reports on her team's bronze medal win at the Santa Maria Cup: "The day started hot again, but with a bit more cloud cover, which meant that we weren't going to get a sea breeze, but were going to sail in the gradient breeze. The 5-9 kt breeze was off the land so it made for very puffy and shifty conditions. In addition to that, the usual Annapolis boating traffic was out, resulting in a lot of challenging chop." -- Read on: http://www.annatunnicliffe.com/content/view/368/1/ 2010 ETCHELLS NORTH AMERICANS KICK OFF JUNE 7-12 San Diego, Calif. (June 4, 2010) - The San Diego Yacht Club is ready to host over 40 competing teams for the Etchells Orca Bowl June 5-6, a "tune-up" regatta prior to the 2010 Etchells North American Championship from June 7-12. Registration and measurement will occur June 7-8 and races for the championship will start Wednesday, June 9. The plan is to have 2 races/day, Wednesday through Saturday, with the awards ceremony concluding the event on the evening of the 12th. The boats will race in the Pacific Ocean, west of Coronado Island in the area called Coronado Roads. 6 races are required to be completed to constitute a championship, and once 7 races are complete a "throw out" is allowed, where a boat's series score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score. Though only a single boat and crew will get the recognition of 2010 Etchells North American Champion, the experience gained in San Diego will prove invaluable for crews planning on competing in the 2011 World Championship next June at San Diego Yacht Club. San Diego Etchells Fleet 13 has long been a strong and competitive entourage of talented yachtsmen and women including previous Etchells Worlds winners Bill Hardesty, Vince Brun, and Dennis Conner, among others. You can expect all of the elite to be out on the course battling for the 2010 North American Championship. -- Details at event website: http://www.etchellsna2010.com/ IRISH BANS ON BOATING COULD RESTRICT USAGE (June 4, 2010) - New maritime safety regulations, including outright bans on all boats with engines, by local authorities in Ireland could pose a threat to boating in that country. The Irish Sailing Association (ISA) said the laws could also threaten yacht racing in much of the country. The Irish Times reported that boat users are already breaking laws in Dun Laoghaire, which is one of the largest boating centres in Ireland. Rules intended to promote beach safety ban boats 300 metres from the shore, including popular boating destinations like Dalkey Island that have no beaches. The ISA said that 12 local authorities have banned or restricted motorboats, but others are including any type of craft with engine power, including most sailboats. "We're struggling, to be honest," Harry Hermon, ISA chief executive, told the paper. "It's a significant threat to the future of boating activity. We're trying to work with 33 local authorities, some of whom are willing but many are not and seem intent on banning as the easiest solution." Many laws were drafted to protect against reckless personal watercraft use, but the ISA says a lack of understanding by authorities could impact all boating activity. "Banning doesn't work as it simply moves the problem somewhere else," said Hermon. "We have no problem where the rules are appropriate, but we lack a set of national guidelines. Confusion leads to inadvertent lack of compliance." -- By IBI Magazine, http://www.ibinews.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20100504145938ibinews.html WHAT DO ANNA, GENNY AND BRYONY HAVE THAT YOU DON'T ...until now? 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With the record looking less and less achievable, Skipper and Boat Captain Chris Sherlock took the decision to abandon the attempt. With a record attempt of this nature the weather has to be consistently good for the entire voyage, which is hard to predict 9 or 10 days in advance. -- Full story: http://www.leopard3.com/transatlantic_record_attempt_2010.html * The International Etchells Class announced the launch of the Zhik Etchells Atlantic Championship Series. The series was the brainchild of a large group of New England based Etchells sailors who wanted to replicate the successes of the Jaguar Cup Winter Series held in Miami, FL. The series has scheduled four class sanctioned events between June and October with a concentration of activity in Newport, RI. -- Details: http://forum.sailingscuttlebutt.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=9954#9954 * (June 6, 2010) - The Clipper fleet departed New York today for the start of Race 11 of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race to Sydney, Cape Breton Island. The fleet treated New Yorkers to a parade of sail past the Statue of Liberty before heading out of the Hudson to the site of Ambrose Lighthouse where Race 11 got underway at 1645 local time. With winds touching the 30 knot mark, most crews opted for a Yankee 2 and reefed mainsail combination after the Le Mans start. -- Event website: http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/index.php/Home * Annapolis, MD (June 4, 2010) - Annapolis Mayor Joshua J. Cohen proclaimed this week as, "Celebrate Women in Sailing Week," to coincide with the BoatUS Santa Maria Cup Women's Match Racing Championship raced this past week. Said Claire Wyngaard of BoatUS, "It reinforces the importance of women's sailing programs not only in America's sailing capital, but in every community with sailboats on the waterfront." -- Full story: http://www.boatus.com/pressroom/release.asp?id=521 * Robert, La. (June 4, 2010) - BP said today it will be sending a second advance payment during June to individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast to compensate for the loss of income or net profit due to the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon Incident in the Gulf of Mexico. BP estimates it will have spent about $84 million for loss of income or net profit through June, based on the claims it has received to date. About 14,000 individuals and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have received an initial advance payment for loss of income or net profit to date. -- Full story: http://tinyurl.com/2c5bnb4 CORRECTION: In Scuttlebutt 3106 it was incorrectly reported that the 52m ketch Nazenin V built by RMK Marine was awarded Best Sailing Yacht 45m+ at the Boat International's World Superyacht Awards 2010. In fact it was Riela, a 56-meter Perini, and not Nazenin V that had won the award. SCUTTLEBUTT SAILING CALENDAR Events listed at http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/calendar LETTERS AND FORUM Please email your comments to the Scuttlebutt editor (aka, 'The Curmudgeon'). Published letters must include writer's name and be no longer than 250 words (letter might be edited for clarity or simplicity). One letter per subject, and save your bashing and personal attacks for elsewhere. As an alternative, a more open environment for discussion is available on the Scuttlebutt Forum. -- To submit a Letter: editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com -- To post on the Forum: http://sailingscuttlebutt.com/forum * From Peter Harken: The College National Championships at Madison, Wisconsin were fantastic regardless of the wind. The huge organization led by two student women of the UW Hoofer Sailing Club and Team Wisco, Margaux Stutz and Christine Porter, was phenomenal. They did such an outstanding job, all volunteer from their team and students to boot! An experienced pro-org regatta team could not have done better and not near as fun!! Gary jobson came, filmed and spoke and so did Buddy Melges. I sailed in the alumni regatta in the Badger Tech Dinghy, (the rolled in tank self-rescuing deck built on the original MIT Tech design hull I first built in a one horse barn after I shoveled the manure out of) and now back in the boat for the first time in 50 YEARS and holy cow did it show! But damn, it felt good to be punching it out again in college racing, loved it even with the old body getting all scarred up and having to roll out of bed the next morning! It was a hoot! * From John Harwood-Bee: What a tragedy to hear of the death of Reg White at what is a comparative early age. I shall always remember him as the stalwart of the Tornado fleet that sailed out of Brightlingsea, UK in the '70s'. It was Reg's inspiration that converted me from Shearwaters to Tornados way back when. I recall those occasions when his highly tuned cat was coming back in after a stunning performance and we would pass him on our way out for some 'extreme' fun on our marine ply early cat. Back in the Brightlingsea club house he would always offer good advice and the occasional anecdote. Back then we were at the forefront of extreme sailing with a cat that was capable of towing a water skier as once demonstrated off Brightlingsea. I went on to sail several of the cruising cats manufactured by Sailcraft and spent many summers of our Cherokee in the south of France. Reg was a true 'son of the sea' an Olympian of great standing and an all round great sportsman. He will be sadly missed. * From John Glynn (re, story in Scuttlebutt 3106): Given that there are no longer any real restrictions on the nationality of sailors on AC boats (count American's on the last two Oracle/BMW teams), and given that the event is no longer held on the winning team's home turf, one really has very little left to root for (maybe root for the sponsor if you like BMWs). About the only reason I was rooting for BMW/Oracle, was the anticipation of an America's Cup back in the States. If that doesn't happen, even keen sailors in the US will likely tune out. Yes, major sporting events like the Soccer and Rugby World Cups move around. But nationalism runs rampant in those events. It doesn't in the America's Cup anymore. Our best sailors are sailing for teams tied to other countries (some more nationalistic than others). *From Clark Chapin, Plymouth MI (re, story in Scuttlebutt 3106): Bill Gladstone makes it all sound so precise and logical (as it should be), but his statement: "At "Ready About" do nothing, or at least, as little as possible," reminded me of a joke I heard a couple of years ago: Question: In the America's Cup, how can you tell when the French boat is about to tack? Answer: Because the crew simultaneously extinguishes their cigarettes. CURMUDGEON'S OBSERVATION America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning. Special thanks to Summit Yachts and Kaenon Polarized. Preferred supplier list: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ssc/suppliers |
