VIV WILSONCHRISTOPHE LAUNAYTIM JEFFRYS14 CLASSIC BOAT AUGUST 2016
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The toast of Teignmouth
Thousands lined the foreshore on 22 May to witness Jolie Brise slide through
the River Teign’s narrow neck, followed by a flotilla of smaller craft, reports
Viv Wilson. The sun lit her deep red sails as she passed the sharp end at The
Point close enough to touch. Drums, air horns, cheering and flag-waving
created a carnival atmosphere. The crew enjoyed hospitality in Teignmouth’s
Wetherspoons that opened as ‘The Jolie Brise’ last year, commemorating
the historic vessel that won the first Fastnet Race in 1925. Guests included
the Morgan Giles family, and descendants of the boat’s Fastnet crew.
Teignmouth’s mayor Cllr Terry Falcão presented skipper Toby Marris with a
certificate celebrating the boat's links with the town and a local choir sang a
specially composed song. George Martins’ great niece and Classic Boat
writer Clare McComb gave a presentation at Teign Heritage Museum on the
boat’s history and Toby Marris spoke about how the boat is used today.OSTAR
Peyron and
Pen Duick
retire
French sailing legend Loïck Peyron (above) has been forced to abandon his
campaign in the Transat Bakerly, a Plymouth-New York solo race in the manner
of the original OSTAR. He was sailing Pen Duick II, the 44ft (13.4m) wooden
ketch that won the 1964 OSTAR, in tribute to her legendary skipper Tabarly,
and Canadian ocean-racing pioneer Mike Birch. He was more than halfway
across when bad weather and a broken headstay forced him to turn tail for
Quiberon in France. Next year will see the return of the OSTAR and TWOSTAR.Sail on Gipsy Moth IV
Another legendary '60s ketch, Chichester's 53ft (16m) Gipsy Moth IV, will sail
around Britain in 2017 for Help for Heroes. A fundraising competition is offering
crew places on the "cantankerous ketch" (Chichester's words!) for this summer’s
ASTO race from Dartmouth to Gosport. See gipsymoth.org and also see p62 in
this issue, where she comes under Theo Rye's cricital eye.SOLENT
Cowes Classics Week
Follow the Classic Boat team
on Twitter and FacebookCharles Stanley Cowes Classics Week 2016 takes
place 11-15 July, with this year's regatta welcoming a
fleet of vintage Dragons to add to the mix of Metre
boats, day boats, dinghies, classic yachts, gaffers
and spirit-of-tradition yachts that enjoy competitive
one-design and handicap racing on the Solent. In a
new initiative for 2016, classic Sparkman & Stephens
Swans, regardless of their design date, have also
been invited to race.
The regatta is organised by the Royal London
Yacht Club, with classics designed pre-1975 and built
in wood or steel eligible to race, as well as GRP
yachts that were designed more than 50 years ago.
Spirit-of-tradition yachts, provided they are to a
classic design, are eligible and the race committee
also gives itself the discretion to accept an entry
from a yacht that is not within these rules if she has
sufficient provenance.
Additionally, this year the event will host the
Tempest class world championships, a two-man
trapeze boat used in the Olympics in the 1970s.
A regatta spokesman said: “We are expecting at
least one 12-M, several 8-Ms, 6-Ms and our own
Darings (glass 5.5s). Four classes of metre boats in
the same regatta is rare these days and will make for
a great spectacle on the water. We will also be
welcoming a fleet of vintage Dragons for the first
time, alongside the regular classic dayboat classes
of Solent Sunbeams, Swallows, Flying Fifteens, Loch
Longs, Bembridge One Designs and Squibs."
Depending upon fleet numbers, individual classes
may share a start, but class results and prizes will be
awarded.
Classic Boat sponsors the Concours d’Elegance
Trophy and Seamanship Trophy at the regatta. See
our October issue, published 2 September in the UK,
for a review of the racing.cowesclassicsweek.org