Yachts & Yachting – August 2019

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IN BRIEF

Winning In Class A of the

Superyacht Cup in Palma the 33m

Win Win was able to secure her third

successive victory, this one by the

narrow margin of just 33 seconds on

corrected time ahead of Nilaya, with

Open Season third in the race and

overall in the class. The triumph

is a second SYC win for the Javier

Jaudenes designed Baltic Yacht-built

boat, which also topped the table

in 2016.

Catnap Young sailors in the 2019

IODA Optimist World Championships

will have a taste of luxury afl oat

thanks to event co-sponsor Dream

Yacht Charter, which will provide

cruising cats for accommodation.

Youth World Sailing has

announced the 2021 Youth Sailing

World Championships will take place

in The Hague, Netherlands, one year

before the Sailing World Champs are

scheduled in the city.

Award In recognition of his

services to sailing during a career

spanning more than 20 years, Alex

Thomson has been awarded the rank

of ‘Chevalier’ of the National Order of

Merit, by French Ambassador to the

United Kingdom, Jean-Pierre Jouyet.

Charity The 2019 Nab Tower

Pursuit 2019 raised more than £4,

for charities. Assassin, skippered

by Mark Brown, was overall winner.

The prize for best fundraising e˜ ort

went to Bombardier III skippered by

Matthew Sleap, which raised £866.

GREAT READING

This month our sister

magazine Sailing Today

explores home waters in

the wake of RT McMullen,

Paul Heiney explains how

sailing can make your life

better, and the Najad 395

is put to the test.

Classic Boat magazine

features Sir Robin

Knox-Johnston’s Golden

Globe race report, a look

at the magnifi cent Pacifi c

Class and shows the

rebirth of an 8-M wreck.

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Crossing the fi nish line of the fi nal stage of the

50th anniversary La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro in

fourth place, after a 500-mile leg from Rosco˜

to Dieppe via Wolf Rock and Owers, was enough

to give Yoann Richomme his second victory in the

classic challenge.

Second-placed Gilda Mahé was beaten by just

one hour and 13 minutes after a total of 14 days,

2 hours and 20 minutes of racing.

Eric Peron’s French Touch won the fi nal stage,

but all eyes were on Richomme as he crossed the

line o˜ Dieppe, and left the helm of his HelloWork-

Groupe Telegramme Figaro Beneteau 3, to punch

the air with delight.

Drenched in champagne on the dock, the now

two-times La Solitaire winner

smiled and said: “I am really

moved. I’m lost for words. I never

thought I’d win two.

“It was long and tiring and I

almost took the lead on the last

night but fell asleep. For a couple

hours I was 30 degrees o˜

course.

“This was a really tough event,

which is what it should be.”

Richomme, who won last year’s highly

competitive Route du Rhum-Destination

Guadeloupe in Class40, is the fi rst skipper to win

the multi-stage event racing in the new foil-assisted

Figaro Beneteau 3.

Up against a competitive fl eet on one of the

longest and most open, varied and challenging

courses in the event’s history, Richomme’s victory

makes him the eighth member of an exclusive club

of solo racers who have won La Solitaire twice. Only

fi ve skippers have now won the uno¥ cial world

championship of solo o˜ shore racing more times

than him: Yann Eliès, Jérémie Beyou, Jean Le Cam,

Michel Desjoyeaux and Philippe Poupon.

Coming in as a late replacement for Charles

Caudrelier, the Volvo Ocean Race

winning skipper and 2004 La Solitaire

winner who was due to race the boat,

Richomme was under little pressure

to deliver a result.

After winning in 2016, he had

moved out of the Figaro Beneteau 2

to pursue other projects including his

aim to compete in the Vendée Globe

and advising on the development of

the new Beneteau 3.

PHOTOS: RIC VAN DEN BANDT

The fi nal day of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019

was frustrating as the wind refused to stabilise

su¥ ciently to complete a race.

Pedro Andrade (pictured right in the photo

below), Star class veteran Christian Giannini (centre)

and Joao Vidinha (left) sailing for Portugal were

therefore confi rmed as worthy and very popular

Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 champions. They’d

battled several major gear failures during the week,

including a broken

gooseneck, ripped

spinnaker, failed bilge

pumps and a broken

runner, but in spite

of that, they won the

regatta by a

convincing 10 points.

50th La Solitaire won by Yoann Richomme

Andrade wins Yanmar

Dragon Gold Cup 2019

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