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The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and...
23/07/2024

The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and final Preliminary Regatta, starting on Thursday 22nd August 2024 and running through to Sunday 25th August where the talking stops, for a few days at least, and it’s down to business as the AC75s go head-to-head for the very first time.

All the hours of training, the work in the simulators, the designer’s theories and the sailor’s skills and prowess will be tested to an extent. No-one wants a bad regatta, and despite the fact that the Preliminary Regatta points do not count towards progression or elimination, everyone will be eyeing everyone else to define the pecking order ahead of the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup on the 29th August where there is simply no hiding place.

As America’s Cup fans are we finally going to get answers to our questions: Who is fast, and in what conditions? Who can manoeuvre best in the starting box? What will the top speeds be? Who has the racecraft and skills to deliver their platform to the winning line?

Right now, as it stands today, nobody knows, and everyone is guessing. Will we see sand-bagging with teams holding back technology (and outright speed) to spring a surprise when it really matters – and will we, as spectators, be able to recognise it? These are the questions on everyone’s lips and the hopes of fans from New Zealand, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, America and France hang on the foils and the spills and thrills of the most fascinating Preliminary Regatta in the 173-year history of the America’s Cup.

What we know for sure is that every team will be operating at their highest level at this given point of their campaign, all eager to take scalps and speed test relentlessly. There is little time to make dramatic improvements but enough time to work on the finest of details. The format will be one-on-one match racing with defined, boundary courses and rounding gates where the side of course can be selected. Conditions may well play into the overall standings with many of the boats having a sweet spot defined by the design teams whilst others are angled as all-weather AC75s, able to be moded at will. It’s a fascinating design conundrum and even the most experienced America’s Cup commentators, those who have watched the boats and the training day-in, day-out for years make it too close to call.
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The 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and final Preliminary Regatta

Suardiaz & Cappuzzo winners of the Freefly-Slalom discipline in FuerteventuraWild and windy elimination series put tour ...
23/07/2024

Suardiaz & Cappuzzo winners of the Freefly-Slalom discipline in Fuerteventura

Wild and windy elimination series put tour leaders and challengers in jeopardy right to the end with nail-biting finishes and explosive crashes.

There were moments when they seemed beatable – a fraction behind on the starting line, a bit wide at a turning mark as competitors’ hydrofoils hummed on their heels – but there was no real passing lane for anyone trying to overtake tour leaders Nia Suardiaz (ESP) and Francesco Cappuzzo (ITA) in Sunday’s FreeFly-Slalom final in Fuerteventura.

Today we have moved on to the Surf-Freestyle discipline, and the action is now in full swing!
Wingfoil World Tour

Suardiaz & Cappuzzo winners of the Freefly-Slalom discipline in Fuerteventura

Tony Langley’s Gladiator became the first British flagged team to lift the Rolex TP52 World Championship title when they...
23/07/2024

Tony Langley’s Gladiator became the first British flagged team to lift the Rolex TP52 World Championship title when they emerged from a testing three race finale today off Newport, Rhode Island with a six points margin over the 2021 world champions Sled and eight on the 2023 champions Platoon Aviation.

With Guillermo Parada steering, backed up by Bruno Zirilli navigator and the owner calling tactics supported by Chris Hosking, the Gladiator team laid the foundations for their first outright regatta success and their first world title together with three back-to-back race wins early in the ten race championship.
They complemented these victories with two second places and some fourths and fifths. They went into the last race today with a seven points lead over Sled which represent the host club the New York Yacht Club. Chasing their rivals across the finish line after a long, tough week on a challenging race course was enough to secure Gladiator the title.

When the Argentinian double world champion and four times 52 SUPER SERIES title winner Parada joined the Gladiator programme before least season Langley passed over the helm to ‘Guille’ as Langley sought to learn from one of the most accomplished, humble pro sailors on the 52 SUPER SERIES. Immediately it proved a potent combination when they finished third in Saint Tropez, third in Menorca and then third at last year’s Rolex TP52 World Championship in Barcelona.
This year they took over the former Alegre and most recently on these same Newport RI waters finished a close second last month behind the Thai Team Vayu, serving notice again that they are potential regatta winners.
52 Super Series

Tony Langley’s Gladiator become the first British flagged team to lift the Rolex TP52 World Championship title

Tour leaders Suardiaz and Cappuzzo show they’re the ones to beat at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Fuerteventura.Day one of ...
22/07/2024

Tour leaders Suardiaz and Cappuzzo show they’re the ones to beat at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Fuerteventura.

Day one of competition starts with a streamlined elimination series and tour leaders Nia Suardiaz (ESP) and Francesco Cappuzzo (ITA) showing why they’re the benchmarking speed and pumping.

Fully maxed out on tiny foils in 30-plus knots of wind hitting 35 knots of speed. That was reality for the 14 women and 27 men competing in day one of the Freefly-Slalom in the Fuerteventura stop of the GWA Wingfoil World Tour. And the tour leaders wasted no time capturing early leads.

In its 36th running, the Fuerteventura World Cup is a legendary event that created the world’s most decorated windsurfers and kiteboarders. Now with the GWA firmly established at Playa de Sotavento, GWA Wingfoil World Tour manager Tom Hartmann told the riders gathered in their bright pink and orange jerseys, “Now you’re the stars of the stage.”
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Tour leaders Suardiaz and Cappuzzo show they’re the ones to beat at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Fuerteventura

It was a two-team dual in the 49erFX atop the standings heading into the final day of racing. Katharina Schwachhofer wit...
22/07/2024

It was a two-team dual in the 49erFX atop the standings heading into the final day of racing. Katharina Schwachhofer with Elena Stoltze (GER) leading Sofia Giunchiglia with Giulia Schio (ITA) by just a few points. The Italians moved into a tie with the Germans after race one of the day, but it was a dramatic moment in the second race that tipped the championship in favor of Italy.

The German pair were deemed over early at the start of the second race, and even though they went on to win that race on the water, their OCS score put the Italians into a commanding 13-point lead as they finished second in the race.

In the final race, the regatta remained in limbo. Both Italy and Germany opted for port tack options on the start, and both cleared early into great lanes on Port, with the Italians leading a big port pack. The top group was bunched together into the first downwind, but Italy played the middle of the course and rounded the leeward, go left gate, in first, with the Germans and most others following them closely.

Up the second beat, in a move reminiscent of Bart Lambriex, the multi-world-champion 49er helm, the Italians tacked across the middle of the course, opening up massive separation between the Germans and most others. But their aim was true, extending their lead to a very comfortable one. They took a 30-second lead around the final windward mark, never needing to look back. They won the championship with a 3, 2, 1 scoreline on the final day when it mattered most.
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It was a two-team dual in the 49erFX atop the standings heading into the final day of racing

No Stress (GER 122, Donald LIPPERT, Jörg SONNTAG, Ralf GOEPFERT) has won the 2024 5.5 Metre German Open at the YC Berlin...
22/07/2024

No Stress (GER 122, Donald LIPPERT, Jörg SONNTAG, Ralf GOEPFERT) has won the 2024 5.5 Metre German Open at the YC Berlin-Grünau after five races were sailed on Saturday. Last year’s Open champions MELX IV (GRE 6, Stavros PAPAGIANNOPOULOS, Yannis MITAKIS, Pavlos KAGIALIS) had their chances, but twice lost the lead in races to end second while last year’s German champions Ali Baba (GER 125, Wolf-Eberhard RICHTER, Beata KALLKOWSKI, Max Müller) finished third. 15 5.5 Metres from five nations were taking part.

After two days of no wind, the fleet finally had a lot of racing on Saturday. Five short sharp races turned the championship into more of a mini-series but nevertheless, it was a valid series, with the race team putting on a slick display to keep the course fair in the shifty winds.

The wind started light with a big shift out of first start. No Stress led out of the pin and rounded first to extend for a huge win with Ali Baba second all the way. The classic, Manuela V (ITA 36, Guido TOMMASI, Matteo BARISON, Filippo AMONTI) crossed third.

MELX IV levelled the score in the next race, with No Stress in second and Manuela V third, the light winds producing little speed difference between boats built 50 years apart.

The wind had stabilised for the third race, but MELX IV was a little too early at the pin and rerounded. No Stress was first to tack away and led at top. MELX IV proved faster downwind but chose the opposite gate, which let No Stress away and she regained the lead. The final downwind was close, with both boats overlapped at the finish. Ali Baba was third.
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No Stress has won the 2024 5.5 Metre German Open at the YC Berlin-Grünau after five races were sailed on Saturday

With almost the entire fleet safely in port at midday Saturday 20 July, three new winners of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX...
22/07/2024

With almost the entire fleet safely in port at midday Saturday 20 July, three new winners of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE arrived in the last 24 hours: defending champion Groupe Snef (Xavier Macaire) kept hold of his title, and the first race of the new Sun Fast 30 One Design was won by SL Energies Groupe (Laurent Charmy). Merry Dancer (Vincent Delaroche) in the Classic Yacht class arrived this Saturday afternoon. They are all expected on Sunday in La Trinité-sur-Mer for the prizegiving ceremony that will mark the end of the fifth edition.
Xavier Macaire was a happy man on Friday night when he moored his Pogo S4 Groupe Snef on the pontoon at the foot of Caradec peer in La Trinité-sur-Mer. The former Figaro skipper returned to the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE to defend his hard-earned Class40 title, won two years ago. He was successful, winning the fifth edition at 20:03, after just over 4 days at sea over the 630-mile course.

"I came back because I love this race and it is important to me, since I won two years ago. The aim was to win again, and we managed, thanks to Tanguy (Bouroullec) and Hugo (Cardon), great crew. They didn't know the boat, but they adapted really well, we formed a good team with a good atmosphere and a good rhythm", commented the two-time winner of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE.

Although he ultimately won by a margin of 1 hour 56 minutes over Viranga (Emmanuel Hamez) and 2 hours 18 minutes over Swift (Jack Trigger), it wasn't all plain sailing for Groupe Snef, whose crew had to dig deep to make the difference, particularly on Thursday afternoon between the DRHEAM-CUP mark and Rochebonne plateau.

"We had a good battle with the three scows, confirmed Xavier Macaire. Swift rounded Wolf Rock ahead of us, hoisted his gennaker and extended his lead to 4-5 miles. We realised that we needed to act fast and do something. With a lot of concentration and hard work, we managed to gain back ground and with a good choice of route in the Bay of Biscay, we managed to make the difference: we sailed towards the coast of Brittany and they went South. Finally, we increased our lead until the finish. It was a great race, it lived up to its promise, with many different conditions, upwind in the first part along the coast of England, where we had to pass points, managed the currents, fronts and rain; then high pressure conditions in the second part of the course.”
La Drheam-Cup

Groupe Snef wins Class40, the new Sun Fast 30 One Design was won by SL Energies Groupe and Merry Dancer wins the Classic Yacht class

Tough to watch for us Aussies, but what an event.Los Gallos ended Australia’s three-Championship winning streak and wrot...
21/07/2024

Tough to watch for us Aussies, but what an event.

Los Gallos ended Australia’s three-Championship winning streak and wrote themselves into the history books against all odds. Poor fleet race results, combined with France’s blistering race starts, saw Spain close to losing its place in the Grand Final. But when racing continued on day two, disaster struck - with the French crashing into ROCKWOOL DEN to pick up season-ending penalty points and serious damage to their F50.

Perfect start line ex*****on propelled Spain into an early lead when the Grand Final began and, despite Australia coming close to overtaking, Los Gallos managed to cross the finish line in the nick of time, sealing their first ever Championship win on the iconic waters of San Francisco Bay.

We recap all the action from the adrenaline-filled spectacle, including racing highlights, driver reactions and five moments you might have missed. SailGP
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Los Gallos ended Australia’s three-Championship winning streak and wrote themselves into the history books against all odds

For the first time in class history, the Nacra 17 fleet sailed with reaching starts, inspired by the Sail GP circuit. Th...
21/07/2024

For the first time in class history, the Nacra 17 fleet sailed with reaching starts, inspired by the Sail GP circuit. The format modifies the traditional start by sending all teams on a beam reach across the wind toward a mark they bear away to a downwind at. Now, crews start reaching directly toward the first mark of the course, which is the maximum speed for most sailboats and puts crew, helm, boat and race organizers under maximum pressure from moment go.

The French Titouan Petard and Thea Lubac sn**ch the Nacra 17 leading position from their compatriots Thomas Proust and Eloise Clabon, who are now third. Siblings Kwinten and Lieselotte Borghijs leapfrog into second. The Belgians are tied on 23 points with the leaders and three points ahead of the third overall, and scoring the fewest points on the day overall.

Manel Lligé, Race Official for the Nacras, says, “Sailing is modernising and there is a social demand to make this sport more attractive; this new format is better for spectators.’

Ruben Booth, son of the legendary Mitch Booth, is the coach of the Belgian and British teams. He explains that ‘this new format changes the whole way of sailing in the Nacra 17.’

Third day of competition in the 2024 Junior World Championship, which ends this Sunday on the waters of the Arousa’s estuary (Ría de Arousa), where once again there was an extraordinary day for sailing with a Southwesterly breeze of 8 knots to start the day but built to 15 knots as the 49er fleet finished their qualifying series.

The 49er FX class has completed the full race program so far (three races per day). Germans Katharina Schwachhofer and Elena Stoltze maintain their position as leaders with 27 points. French Manon Peyre and Clara-Sofia Stamminger de Moura had a really great day on the water today.

The defending Junior World Champions, Manon Pere with Clara Stamminger (FRA), finished the day with two firsts, and they moved up to fourth overall. Italians Sofia Giunchiglia and Giula Schio are in second place, two points behind the Germans, while Danish Rebekka Johannesen and Silje Cerup-Simonsen are third with 56 points.

The last ones to go to the water on this third day of competition were the 49ers. The yellow fleet sailed on the Alpha course and the blue fleet on the Bravo course. Both completed four races. After three days of competition, they will start the Final Series tomorrow. The top 25 teams move into Gold fleet until Sunday, the last day of the World Championships.
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For the first time in class history, the Nacra 17 fleet sailed with reaching starts, inspired by the Sail GP circuit.

Italy retained their Nations Trophy in style as a tremendous week at the Youth Sailing World Championships 2024 was capp...
20/07/2024

Italy retained their Nations Trophy in style as a tremendous week at the Youth Sailing World Championships 2024 was capped off with closing ceremony celebrations in Riva.
The hosts rocketed to claim six world titles on Lake Garda thanks to countless displays of precision and skill across 11 events and six classes.

Sailors, coaches, officials, volunteers and staff gathered outside Case Italia to hail the marvellous achievements of the world’s best up-and-coming talents.

Maria Vittoria Arseni and Antonio Pascali led the way in men’s and women’s ILCA 6, as did Carola Colasanto and Federico Pilloni in iQFOiL for two Italian clean sweeps.

On home waters, Italy managed to match their exploits from last year in Buzios, Brazil, with a young squad led by Alessandra Sensini as Youth Technical Director.

Il Canto degli Italiani rang around Riva as Poland, Argentina, Brazil and Greece also celebrated hard-fought victories with their flags, anthems and prized trophies.

Maria Catalina Turienzo rounded off perfect Paris 2024 preparations with a Formula Kite title and crowned a week of dominance in her fourth and final year at youth level.

In an Olympic year, the Youth Sailing World Championships showed a glimpse of what the future of sailing could look like, with Argentina’s Turienzo and Derin Atakan of Türkiye headed for the Games in Marseille next week.
World Sailing

Italy retained their Nations Trophy in style at the Youth Sailing World Championships 2024 in Riva

Takashi Okura’s Sled, the 2021 world champions representing the hosts, the New York Yacht Club, scored best today at the...
20/07/2024

Takashi Okura’s Sled, the 2021 world champions representing the hosts, the New York Yacht Club, scored best today at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Newport, RI. Their first and second places sees them going into Saturday’s finale just one single point behind championship leaders Tony Langley’s British flagged Gladiator.

With up to three races planned for the final day it might prove to be more than a two cornered fight between Sled and Gladiator. For sure it will take steely nerves and focus, backed up by perfect risk management to lift the 2024 world title from such an evenly matched ten strong fleet of TP52s.

While Sled’s three points daily aggregate, and four points today for Hasso and Tina Plattner’s South African flagged Phoenix – third with Hasso steering, the win for daughter Tina – reflects top drawer consistency in the light 7-11kts of SW’ly winds, sadly that was not the case for Andy Soriano’s Alegre which slipped from contention.

Alegre were second going into today a point behind Gladiator but their tenth and ninth from Races 6 and 7 drops them to fourth and is a timely reminder of what can happen to even the best of the top teams, just as we saw with seven times world champions Quantum Racing powered by American Magic on the last day of last month’s XS 52 SUPER SERIES Newport Trophy.

Meanwhile Harm Müeller-Spreer’s 2023 World Champions Platoon Aviation are on the up with two fourth places today. The German team look now to be in good enough shape to finish on the podium.

Sled won the first race of the day beating Gladiator into second and then they chased Phoenix across the finish line in the second race. Gladiator steered by Guillermo Parada, came ashore ruing a point lost in the second race. They have great speed this week and the confidence to back themselves, whilst always minimising any losses before they become too big.
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First and second places sees Sled going into Saturday’s finale just one single point behind championship leaders Gladiator

After the arrival of MOD70 Drekan Energy (Eric Defert) in La Trinité-sur-Mer on Wednesday night, Teasing Machine (Eric d...
20/07/2024

After the arrival of MOD70 Drekan Energy (Eric Defert) in La Trinité-sur-Mer on Wednesday night, Teasing Machine (Eric de Turckheim) took monohull line honours in the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE on Thursday july 18 at 16h44'18. The bulk of the fleet is still racing in light winds and is expected in La Trinité-sur-Mer today and Saturday.
Just over half a day after Drekan Energy, who crossed the finish line at 3h48'26 on Thursday 18 July, Teasing Machine finished the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE at 16h44'18, after 2 days, 59 minutes and 18 seconds at sea. The large 54-foot Nivelt-Muratet design, which underwent a refit last winter, crossed the line near the entrance of La Trinité-sur-Mer in summery conditions, a far cry from those at the start in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin last Monday.

"This race has been very varied, and that's precisely what has made it interesting, as there has been a lot of work for our navigator, Jean-Luc Nélias, but also on deck, with every manoeuvre possible for the crew, commented the owner and skipper of Teasing Machine, Eric de Turckheim. We set off with wind, we ploughed across to Shambles, then we had a long upwind leg to Wolf Rock, again in quite a lot of wind, slamming against the short seas. The last part of the race, on the other hand, was dead calm, with speeds dropping to 3-5 knots, particularly along Belle-Ile. In fact, we opted to sail between the island at the mainland, in the hope that if the wind really dropped, we'd be able to pick up some thermals near the coast. »

Although this final stretch of the 520-mile course was long, it didn't spoil the pleasure for the skipper who will be aiming to win the Middle Sea Race in October, having already won it in 2022. "It took us a little while to finish, but at the end of the day, we're happy to be first monohull. Even if we didn't have any real competition with boats our size, it's always rewarding to win in real time, which has been the case in several races this year, it isn't that often.»
La Drheam-Cup

After the arrival of MOD70 Drekan Energy (Eric Defert) on Wednesday night, Teasing Machine (Eric de Turckheim) took monohull line honours

Harm Müller-Spreer’s 2023 defending champions Platoon Aviation won the only race sailed at the Rolex TP52 World Champion...
20/07/2024

Harm Müller-Spreer’s 2023 defending champions Platoon Aviation won the only race sailed at the Rolex TP52 World Championship off Newport, RI today. But while their first race victory of the event elevates them to fourth at the theoretical midpoint of the 10 race series, Tony Langley’s Gladiator team sit firm at the top of the leaderboard just a single point ahead of Andy Soriano’s Alegre.
After a long delay waiting for a suitable racing breeze to fill in, Platoon Aviation recognised the extra wind pressure on the right side of the first upwind. That was then augmented by a favourable shift in the direction of the breeze meaning Platoon Aviation had a solid lead by the windward mark. In the 6-9kts SWW’ly breeze they were chased valiantly by Alegre and Sled - which took second and third - but the lead of the German flagged team after the first run was already impregnable.

The first shift very much set the hierarchy and from there passing opportunities were rare.
“It is an important win for us after yesterday when we were in a bad situation so it helps, we were a lot better. We give ourselves a chance. We were not zeroes yesterday but not heroes today. It is a matter of keeping pushing hard to make the next five races proper.” Said Platoon Aviation’s tactician Vasco Vascotto, “Jordi Calafat our strategist went up the mast and saw more wind in the right and we knew the forecast maybe said the wind coming back in at 300 degrees and so we made that call to go right. And it worked. Luckily!”
52 Super Series

2023 defending champions Platoon Aviation won the only race sailed at the Rolex TP52 World Championship off Newport, RI today

The event will feature mixed crews and a strong ocean health component as teams race between two iconic citiesThe Ocean ...
19/07/2024

The event will feature mixed crews and a strong ocean health component as teams race between two iconic cities

The Ocean Race is announcing a new transatlantic, fully-crewed race for the IMOCA class for the summer of 2026. The event is a celebration of the ocean and ocean health initiatives, and a showcase for top-level sport, and the teams and sailors who compete.

The Ocean Race Atlantic will connect America’s leading metropolis of New York with Europe’s capital of cool, the Catalonian city of Barcelona. It will be the first point to point race in the 50-plus year history of The Ocean Race.

This new event in 2026 follows The Ocean Race Europe, which starts in Kiel, Germany in 2025 and will precede the next edition of the around the world race starting from Alicante, Spain, in 2027.

The race across the Atlantic will feature the foiling, flying IMOCA class boats in their fully-crewed configuration. For the first time, the race crew of four sailors will consist of 50-50 split, two women and two men.

The sailors will participate in a comprehensive ocean science programme along the race route, gathering critical ocean data to support scientists studying the impact of climate change on the ocean. This will also include the participation of schools and nautical academies with the aim of promoting ocean literacy and sailing among children and young people.

“The Ocean Race Atlantic is a tremendous new addition to our race calendar and is another occasion where The Ocean Race can expand our ocean science and learning activities. I am personally particularly content that we stay on course leading the way by pushing boundaries with the 50-50 crew split. This provides an additional opportunity for more world-class female sailors to excel in the IMOCA class during a challenging and exciting transatlantic race route,” said Richard Brisius, the Race Chairman of The Ocean Race.
The Ocean Race

The Ocean Race is announcing a new transatlantic, fully-crewed race for the IMOCA class for the summer of 2026

In Galicia, Spain, there was a long wait for wind, with races starting 3 hours late due to unstable SW breeze.It was a l...
19/07/2024

In Galicia, Spain, there was a long wait for wind, with races starting 3 hours late due to unstable SW breeze.

It was a long day on the waters of the Arousa estuary, where the 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17 Junior World Championships continued racing on day 2 of the championship. The wind only appeared after 2pm for racing in a light SW breeze which proved quite unstable.

The blue and yellow 49er fleets were first to sail, completing two races during which New Zealand’s Sebastian Menzies and George Lee Rush maintained their lead after scoring 2-8, the eighth becoming their discard.

Menzies and Lee Rush now have a four-point lead over second-placed Richard Schultheis and Youenn Bertin from Malta, who were third yesterday. The Dutch pair Wiebrand de Vos and Stijn Gast, who have only been sailing together for two weeks and are already showing a great performance, with a first and a third today to move up to third.

On the race course off Rianxo, the Nacra 17 fleet sailed just one race, which was once again dominated by France. Thomas Prousty and Eloise Clabon won the race and they are now in second place tied on points with Titouan Petard and Thea Lubac, who became the new leaders after finishing in third place this afternoon. Clément Martineau and Adélie Bertin are in third place. 49er Sailing
Nacra 17 Sailing

In Galicia, Spain, there was a long wait for wind, with races starting 3 hours late due to unstable SW breeze.

After almost two and a half days at sea, the MOD70 Drekan Energy, skippered by Eric Defert, was the first to cross the f...
19/07/2024

After almost two and a half days at sea, the MOD70 Drekan Energy, skippered by Eric Defert, was the first to cross the finish line of the fifth edition of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE in La Trinité-sur-Mer, on Thursday 18 July at 3h48'26, winning the Multi 2000 class in real time. The next boat expected to cross the line is Eric de Turckheim's 54-foot yacht Teasing Machine.

On Wednesday night, the winner of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE in real time, across all classes and in the Multi 2000 class, had a night-time finish. After picking up a light wind as she passed south of Belle-Ile, the MOD70 Drekan Energy (the first of this one-design series launched in 2011) crossed the line off La Trinité-sur-Mer, at 3h48'26, after 2 days 11 hours 18 minutes and 26 seconds at sea.

"We're really happy, it was a great course", commented skipper Eric Defert, the leader of the crew of seven (including himself) for the race, once he was back on the pontoon. He then recounted his experience of this edition of DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE, which he was taking part in for the first time: "We began with a three-hour crossing of the Channel, and reached the south coast of England very quickly. The first night was very demanding, tacking upwind in 25 knots of wind in a very choppy sea with many fishing vessels about. It went well as we implemented a watch system. The following morning, at 10:27, we got to Wolf Rock, and we set off again on a starboard reaching run towards the DRHEAM-CUP mark, which we reached at 6pm. That was the good bit.”
La Drheam-Cup

After almost two and a half days at sea, the MOD70 Drekan Energy was the first to cross the finish line of the DRHEAM-CUP

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