Yachts & Yachting – April 2018

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NUMBERS THEY SAID...

the anniversary being

celebrated by the

Solent Sunbeam

number of RORC

Caribbean 600 races

held to date, each one

bigger than the last

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“The Ham will be enjoyed by the Tribe

at the prize giving (vegetarians/vegans

exempt) along with other ‘money can’t

buy’ prizes being given away as well.

Prizes to be awarded completely

arbitrarily.”

The team at Foiling World outline their unconvential plans for the

F101 World Hampionship - where sailors will compete for a whole

Spanish ham over a variety of courses

“We’re gutted, I don’t

even know what to

say. We had a good

race, and we

thought we were

going to have a

better result. But

those pesky red

boats always

seem to get it

their way.”

A disappointed Dee Caffari

reacts after her Turn the Tide on

Plastics team slipped from third to

fifth on the final night of the Volvo

Ocean Race Leg 6 to Auckland

“I think Nath had to

change his underpants after

that. We massively improved with

massive gains on Euroflex, all you have

to do is win by an inch not a mile and

we are closing in.”

Tech2 SuperFoiler skipper Luke Parkinson after his close second place

in a race during the second SuperFoiler GP event of the year

“This was definitely a wet and wild ride.

The last race I won was the OSTAR

singlehanded and I came down to do

this race for therapy to get back into

sailing, but after experiencing this event,

it didn’t feel like therapy! We had a

fantastic welcome with about 20 people

on the dock. Getting that respect just

lifted us after a tough race.”

Conor Fogerty, winner of IRC Three in the Caribbean 600 sounds like

he and his team had a tough time on their Sun Fast 3200

“With every schedule we got, each time

we thought we had dodged a bullet. We

dodged the final bullet this morning and

we’rereallypleasedwemanagedtohold

the others off.”

PSP Logistics skipper, Matt Mitchell recounts the tense moments as his

team approached their first win of the Clipper Round the World Race

nautical miles, from

Hong Kong to London

for which a new

record has been set

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Monaco Globe Series

A new event is to be added to the IMOCA calendar as the new

Monaco Globe Series is set to run in June 2018.

Currently, a dozen teams plan to head to Monaco for the first

time for the start of the new doublehanded offshore race on a

course throughout the western Mediterranean.

The race will cover some 1,400 nautical miles, over four days

and three nights of racing. After the start in Monaco, the fleet

races down Corsica’s west coast before transversing the Strait

of Bonifacio, towards the Aeolian Islands, where they will tack

in front of Stromboli and head for Palermo in Sicily. The fleet

then sets course for the Balearic Islands before returning to

Monaco. The event marks the start of the new IMOCA

championship, renamed the Globe Series, with a system of

points and weightings for the events over a four-year period.

IRC certificates

issued in January

C/O YACHT CLUB DE MONACO; PITSFOTO; ONEDITION

Maserati sets new record

Giovanni Soldini and his team on the 70ft trimaran, Maserati – a

modified MOD70 – have set a new ‘tea route’ record from

Hong Kong to London.

The team completed their record breaking run on Friday 23

February as Maserati crossed the finish line by passing under

the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Soldini and the trimaran’s crew,

composed of Guido Broggi, Sébastien Audigane, Oliver

Herrera Perez and Alex Pella, covered the 13,000 nautical mile

theoretical route between the Chinese port and the capital of

the United Kingdom by over five days.

The official improvement on the record (subject to

ratification by the World Speed Sailing Reccord Council) will

be some 5 days and 19 hours. The record they beat belonged

to Gitana 13, the 100-foot maxi catamaran that completed the

route in 41 days in 2008.

the number of races

so far which have

not been won by

Outteridge, Ashby

and Jensen in three

SuperFoiler Grands Prix

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