Yachts & Yachting - July 2018

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IN BRIEF

SupportedBritish marine clothing

brand, Henri Lloyd has been

announced as o cial supplier to the

J/70 European Championship, taking

place in Vigo, Spain from the 9-

June 2018.

Surprise One of the closest races

so far in the Clipper 2017-18 Round

the World Yacht Race has ended in a

surprise win for Dare To Lead, after

the team pulled of an eleventh-hour

victory in Race 10 from Seattle, USA,

to Panama.

New On Sunday 3 June, nine

doublehanded crews will set sail at

the start of the Monaco Globe Series,

a brand new 1300-mile race in the

Mediterranean for IMOCA60s.

GREAT READING

This month our sister

magazine, Sailing Today

tests the Amel 50 - a blue

water cruiser with a Gallic

twist - and discovers the

best way to transport a

yacht. Plus over 20 pages

of destination cruising from

Whitby to the Whitsundays.

Classic Boat looks at an

afordable classic in the

shape of the South Coast

One Design, and sails on

Circe, the Sparkman &

Stephens yawl which won

the Fastnet in 1951.

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INTERVIEW

Exploring the realmof the rising sun

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Amel 50: a Gallicglobetrotter

BOAT TESTS

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SCOD: aordable classic

London Show paused

The 2019 London Boat

Show has been put on

hold with organiser,

British Marine citing

independent research

which showed

insucient support

from a large proportion

of the marine industry

for the present format,

duration and location.

The downward trend

in attendance goes

against the increasing

numbers seen at the

Southampton Boat

Show, which looks to

have a rosy future; 2018

will mark the 50th

anniversary of the show,

taking place this year

from 14-23 September.

It is not currently

known if the London

Boat Show will make a

return in future years –

the organisers are

looking at location and

date options for 2020

onwards – or whether

Southampton will

become the sole main,

major UK boat show

going forward.

ONEDITION; PAUL WYETH; ONEDITION; DANIEL SMITH/WORLD SAILING

At World Sailing’s Mid Year Meeting, the governing

body released a five-year strategy for 2018-2022.

The Strategy is broken down into four pillars

including: Inspiration and Participation; Membership

and Governance; Sport Integrity; Leadership.

A key point in the announcement – following the

confusion and criticism surrounding the recent

Olympic classes selection – will be the plans for

governance, which will aim ‘to establish a structure

within the International Federation that is simple,

clear and transparent to all stakeholders’. It is hoped

this will result in a more open and easy to

understand governing body.

Countdown to Cowes

With a little under two months to go until the

UK’s longest running regatta gets underway,

entries are fl ooding in for Lendy Cowes Week.

2018 promises a cracking mix of the new and

the established. Several hundred boats are

already registered, from the out-and-out racers

of the Fast40+ fl eet through to the cruiser

division and hundreds more in a variety of

dif erent classes. Newly created this year, the

doublehanded division already has a number of

entries. Recently appointed Cowes Week

regatta director, Laurence Mead has been

working hard alongside the race management

team to ensure all of those racing this August

receive a mix of windward-leeward courses,

combined with the more traditional Solent-wide

courses for which Lendy Cowes Week is well

known, plus Squadron fi nishes for as many

classes as possible. For a full guide to the racing,

don’t miss next month’s Y&Y.

Impressive Niklas Zennström’s

Swedish-fl agged Carkeek-designed

Rán has won Round Two of the

Fast40+ Circuit. The boat was

launched in April and has won both

Fast40+ events so far this year.

First The first ever all-female

crew will take part in this year’s New

Caledonia Groupama Race, which sees

teams racing round the main island of

New Caledonia starting 17 June.

SelectedThe Hague, Denmark will

host the 2022 Sailing World

Championships where sailors will fi ght

for the fi rst Olympic spots for Paris

2024, for which a number of new

classes will be introduced - see page 18.

Five-year plan unveiled

8 Yachts & Yachting July 2018 yachtsandyachting.co.uk