Yachts & Yachting — February 2018

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IN BRIEF

Rescue o Cape Horn

Youths The organisers of Lendy

Cowes Week are set to promote

youth sailing by once again o ering a

signifi cant discount on entries for

crews under the age of 25.

Show The London Boat Show

is set to unveil a new look for 2018,

this year running from 10-14 January.

Y&Y readers can get a special ticket

discount; book online with code EX12.

Clipper Two boats have tied in

the Clipper Race leg fi nish. After

racing for 14 days and covering over

2500nm Great Britain and Nasdaq

fi nished at exactly the same time -

the fi rst draw in the race’s history.

Sold Comanche, the innovative

record-breaking 100ft Maxi yacht

launched in 2014 for Jim and Kristy

Clark, has been bought by Australian

Jim Cooney.

Charity Sail Aid UK, set up by

UK-based sailors in response to the

devastating hurricanes which

battered the Caribbean in 2017, has

been granted o– cial charity status.

Recognised Dylan Fletcher and

Stuart Bithell took the top prize at the

British Sailing Team’s end of season

awards, jointly taking home the

‘Athlete of the Year’ title.

Injured Annie Lush, sailing on

board Brunel in the Volvo Ocean

Race, injured her back when a wave

swept her and Pete Burling into the

rear guard. Both were clipped on.

GREAT READING

This month our sister

magazine, Classic Boat

releases their Awards

shortlist across 7

categories, launches a new

series on a ordable

classics and gets the story

of the restoration of 7m

Victoria. Meanwhile, Sailing

Today explores St. Helena

in an Atlantic special, Tom

Cunli e carries out a

mid-Atlantic rescue and

Sam Je erson gets behind

the wheel of the brand

new Hanse 548.

Atlantic OCEAN CROSSING

special ARC: a voyage of self discovery?

TOM CUNLIFFE:mid-Atlantic encounter ST HELENA: exploring an an unexpected

Atlantic outpost

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Vital research by VOR

Millions of tiny particles

of plastic have been

detected in European

waters by Team Turn

the Tide on Plastic in

the Volvo Ocean Race.

The scientifi c

research, using data

collected by the team,

identifi ed over 3 million

micro plastic particles

per square kilometre of

ocean by using a

new state-of-the-art

instrument on board

their Volvo Ocean 65.

These initial results

were gathered during

the Prologue stage and

Leg 1 of the Race,

between Lisbon and

Alicante. But the team

will be continuing the

study throughout the

race. The samples

collected during Leg 2

are currently being

analysed and results

will be revealed soon.

“Our initial fi ndings

suggest the levels of

micro plastic in the

ocean are signifi cantly

higher than we fi rst

expected,” said Tanhua,

an ocean researcher

from Germany helping

with the study.

Golden Globe to go?

The Golden Globe Race, a race designed to refl ect

the original Golden Globe in the 1960s may need to

think of a new starting point after the Federation

Francaise de Voile (FFV) declared the race did not

fi t with some of their safety principals.

As we go to press the two sides are sitting down

for talks and will be hoping to fi nd a resolution.

Originally the event was scheduled to start in

Falmouth but it was moved to France following a

reassessment by the host port and race organisers.

The FFV are, in broad terms, the French

equivalent of the RYA, and have been taking a

relatively hard line on safety. Recently the federation

introduced mandatory wearing of helmets for any

foiling class regatta in France. Taking exception to a

fl eet of boats recreating a 1960s globe-girdling race,

which saw only one fi nisher of the nine o– cial

entrants seems a continuation of this focus. JEREMIE LECAUDEY; BENOIT STICHELBAUT; C/O CLIPPER RACE; PPL

Frenchman, Yves le Blevec, has been rescued

after he capsized his 31m Nigel Irens designed

Actual Ultime (formerly Sodebo), o Cape

Horn in the early hours of the morning on

Thursday 14 December.

Le Blevec was in the middle of an attempt to

break the solo non-stop westabout round the

world record. The incident o the tip of South

America came when one of the trimaran’s port

crossbeams broke in west-northwest wind of 30

knots with 5 to 6 metre waves. Luckily, le Blevec

was able to get safely inside the boat and was

then rescued by the Chilean Coast Guard.

The record he sought to break was set in

2004 by Jean-Luc Van Den Heede who

completed the route in 122 days, 14 hours.

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