In This Issue
Malizia Wins Line Honours in AAR Bermuda Hamburg Race
Racing Tightens Up In The Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds
Buckle up
Youth Sailing World Championships
The Etchells Gertrude Cup 2018, run by the Royal Thames Yacht Club
Prime Racing Conditions Greet Fleet on Day 1
Price (AUS) and Takahashi (NZL) tied for GovCup lead on 7-1 after Day 1
Vale Jim Bishop
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The Last Word: Alice B. Toklas


Malizia Wins Line Honours in AAR Bermuda Hamburg Race
AAR Bermuda Hamburg Race Following a 10-day, transatlantic bow-to-bow battle, the IMOCA 60 dominated on the water and took the elapsed time record, while Varuna scored the current top spot in IRC Zero

It was the last chapter of an epic 3,500nm transatlantic rivalry between Jens Kellinghusen's Varuna VI, and Boris Herrmann's Malizia - Yacht Club Monaco. In the end, Malizia was the fastest boat on the water and first after elapsed time, but Varuna succeeded over Malizia in IRC Zero after corrected time.







While on their way to the AAR Race Village on the other side of the big pond, the entire fleet's forecast skills were challenged by Hurricane 'Chris', who temporarily increased his speed to about 30 knots. All crews persevered and have been reported safe, the hurricane has since diminished.

Racing Tightens Up In The Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds

Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds The Hague, Netherlands - While there's no change at the top of the leaderboards in each of the three classes in The Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds, the fight for the other podium positions remains keen as the points totals tighten up going into tomorrow as the penultimate day of the event. And unlike yesterday's booming southerly with its big waves, today's moderate flat-water conditions in a sunny southwesterly helped keep the action tight on both course areas.

Another significance to today's two races is that tomorrow's fifth inshore race will trigger a worst-race discard opportunity, and further compress the results: those teams who are otherwise strong but may have gotten unlucky in the short offshore race or one of the inshore races will now have a chance to advance.

In Class A, leader Karl Kwok's Pac 52 Beau Geste (HKG) continued to have close but definitive racing with her runner-up rival, Tilmar Hansen's TP 52 Outsider (GER), and continued to earn bullets for the scoreboard. Given that they have owned this boat for less than one month and are sailing it for the first time here, Hansen is not unhappy in this runner-up position and has a long-term view.

"We are very happy to be back in the game," said Hansen, whose various boats called Outsider go back to the Admiral's Cup days of the 1980's. "We had a canting keel boat that we enjoyed for offshore sailing, but we were always sailing alone and maybe getting a little rusty on our skills. Competing against a strong team like Beau Geste is great because it is pushing us to be better and breaking this rust. And this racing here is quite close, not only with them but with the smaller boats too - we feel this pressure from both sides and look forward to more racing like this in our future regattas."

The situation is a little similar in the standings in Class B, where Claus Landmark's Landmark 43 Santa (NOR) continues doing quite well, making few mistakes and harvesting strong results. Landmark's optimization of both the boat with new appendages and a having a strong amateur crew bolstered by pro-level Volvo race talent is paying off with their strong lead in the class standings.

However, their nearest rival is another Landmark 43 from Norway, Torkel Valland's White Shadow, who shared first place points today with Santa in the second race. This crew of amateur sailors with a couple sailmakers are a little more "organic", being a team that has raced together for a long time and even enjoyed success against Santa closer to home, such as in the Swedish ORC championship in Marstrand earlier this year.

Unlike Class A, White Shadow as runner-up in the standings cannot be comfortable, because their points margin is very thin with the third-placed team: only two points to Tiit Vihul's modified X-41 Olympic (EST). Sharing first place with Santa in the first race today showed their potential, and while they have a 11-point margin on Michael Berghorn's X-41 Halbtrocken 4.0 (GER), the discard tomorrow could compress this further.

Full results

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The Nations Trophy 2019 was always going to be spectacular anyway. By day there will be thrilling boat-for-boat action on the Bay of Palma, with lead changes at every mark as the world’s best in three ClubSwan one-design classes square up for the title of World Champion. By night the similarly invigorating and equally exclusive social side of the ClubSwan lifestyle spins elegantly into motion. All in all it’s quite the affair... only this time it’s going to be even more spectacular because ClubSwan are introducing a fifth one-design class: the ClubSwan 36.

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Youth Sailing World Championships
The 48th Youth Sailing World Championships is underway in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.

More than 382 sailors from 66 nations are competing across nine classes with racing set to conclude on Friday 20 July.

Sailors have been basking in idyllic sailing conditions that result in some of the biggest smiles in Texas at the end of the day. Competition in each fleet is heating up under the beating Texan sun.


Top three results after three days:

420 Boys
1. Joseph Hermus / Walter Henry, USA, 6
2. Otto Henry / Roma Featherstone, AUS, 18
3. Kacper Paszek / Bartek Reiter, POL, 25

420 Girls
1. Carmen Cowles / Emma Cowles, USA, 5
2. Vita Heathcote / Emilia Boyle, GBR, 14
3. Julia Minana Delhom / Silvia Sebastia Borso di Carminati, ESP, 14

29er Boys
1. Mathias Berthet / Alexander Franks-Penty, NOR, 26
2. Seb Lardies / Scott Mckenzie, NZL, 27
3. Henry Larkings / Miles Davey, AUS, 32

29er Girls
1. Zoya Novikova / Diana Sabirova, RUS, 18
2. Pia Andersen / Nora Edland, NOR, 21
3. Berta Puig / Isabella Casaretto, USA, 37

Nacra 15
1. Teresa Romairone / Dante Cittadini, ARG, 17
2. Greta Stewart / Tom Fyfe, NZL, 37
3. Silas Muhle / Romy Mackenbrock, GER, 47

Laser Radial Boys
1. Josh Armit, NZL, 14
2. Juan Cardozo, ARG, 15
3. Zac Littlewood, AUS, 23

Laser Radial Girls
1. Charlotte Rose, USA, 6
2. Emma Savelon, NED, 11
3. Wiktoria Golebiowska, POL, 14

RS:X Boys
1. Geronimo Nores, USA, 11
2. Nicolo Renna, ITA, 16
3. Fabien Pianazza, FRA, 26

RS:X Girls
1. Veerle ten Have, NZL, 14
2. Giorgia Speciale, ITA, 15
3. Islay Watson, GBR, 17

Nations Trophy
1. USA, 15 points
2. NZL, 32
3. ITA, 34

Full results:





Prime Racing Conditions Greet Fleet on Day 1

The use of two distinct scoring formulas - and an average of the results - to score a fleet isn't new to the sport of sailing. But the idea of using this system to determine a major championship is. This week, in The Hague, Netherlands, the Offshore Sailing World Championship is being held, with IRC and ORC, the two leading handicap systems for larger yachts, being used in tandem to decide the winners.

For Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex, the New York Yacht Club is scoring all IRC competitors in two ways. One set of results are based on each boat's IRC rating while a second set mirrors the arrangement in use at the world championships: each race is scored using both IRC and ORC, and a boat's score for an individual race is the average of its finishes under the two systems. -- Stuart Streuli

Day 1 Results
Click here for preliminary cumulative results

IRC 1 (IRC - 4 Boats)
1. SPOOKIE, TP52 52, Steve & Heidi Benjamin , South Norwalk, CT, USA - 1 -1 ; 2
2. FOX, TP52 52, Victor Wild , San Diego, CA, USA - 2 -2 ; 4
3. Gladiator, TP52 52, Tony Langley , Retford, Nottinghamshire, GBR - 3 -3 ; 6

IRC 2 (IRC - 5 Boats)
1. Interlodge IV, Botin 44 44, Austin and Gwen Fragomen , Newport, RI - 2 -1 ; 3
2. Temptation/Oakcliff, Custon Ker 50 50, Arthur Santry , Newport, RI, USA - 1 -2 ; 3
3. White Rhino 2, Carkeek 47 47, Todd Stuart , Key West, FL, USA - 5 -3 ; 8

IRC 3 (IRC - 6 Boats)
1. Blazer, Swan 42 42.5, Christopher Culver , Newport, RI, United States - 2 -2 ; 4
2. Ticket to Ride, Swan 45 13.83m, Edward Whitmore , Norfolk, VA, USA - 4 -1 ; 5
3. Quintessence, Swan 42 42.5, Roger Widmann , Larchmont, NY, USA - 1 -4 ; 5

IRC 4 (IRC - 5 Boats)
1. Pendragon, X-41 41, Quentin Thomas , Portsmouth, RI, USA - 1 -1 ; 2
2. Avalanche, Farr 395 39.5, Craig Albrecht , Glen Cove, NY, USA - 2 -2 ; 4
3. Maxine, J 44 44.9, William Ketcham , Greenwich, CT, USA - 3 -3 ; 6

IRC/ORC Combination 1 (One Design - 4 Boats)
1. FOX., TP52 52, Victor Wild , San Diego, CA, USA - 1.5 -1.5 ; 3
2. SPOOKIE., TP52 52, Steve & Heidi Benjamin , South Norwalk, CT, USA - 1.5 -1.5 ; 3
3. Gladiator., TP52 52, Tony Langley , Retford, Nottinghamshire, GBR - 3 -3 ; 6

IRC/ORC Combination 2 (One Design - 5 Boats)
1. Interlodge IV., Botin 44 44, Austin and Gwen Fragomen , Newport, RI - 2 -1 ; 3
2. Temptation/Oakcliff., Custon Ker 50 50, Arthur Santry , Newport, RI, USA - 1 -2 ; 3
3. White Rhino 2., Carkeek 47 47, Todd Stuart , Key West, FL, USA - 5 -3 ; 8

IRC/ORC Combination 3 (One Design - 6 Boats)
1. Blazer., Swan 42 42.5, Christopher Culver , Newport, RI, United States - 2 -1.5 ; 3.5
2. Quintessence., Swan 42 42.5, Roger Widmann , Larchmont, NY, USA - 1 -3.5 ; 4.5
3. Ticket to Ride., Swan 45 13.83m, Edward Whitmore , Norfolk, VA, USA - 4 -1.5 ; 5.5

IRC/ORC Combination 4 (One Design - 5 Boats)
1. Pendragon., X-41 41, Quentin Thomas , Portsmouth, RI, USA - 1 -1 ; 2
2. Avalanche., Farr 395 39.5, Craig Albrecht , Glen Cove, NY, USA - 2 -2 ; 4
3. Maxine., J 44 44.9, William Ketcham , Greenwich, CT, USA - 3.5 -3.5 ; 7

J 109 (One Design - 8 Boats)
1. Cleo, J 109 35, Ray Pepi , New York, NY, USA - 2 -4 -1 ; 7
2. Hamburg, J 109 35, Albrecht Goethe , Seabrook, TX, USA - 3 -2 -4 ; 9
3. Rush, J 109 35, Bill Sweetser , Annapolis, MD, USA - 1 -6 -3 ; 10

PHRF Navigator (PHRF - 8 Boats)
1. Flying Jenny, C&C 30 One Design 30, Sandra Askew , Salt Lake City, UT, USA - 1 -1 ; 2
2. The Cat Came Back, Swan 42 42, Lincoln Mossop , Providence, RI, USA - 2 -2 ; 4
3. Incognito, J 121 40, Chris Brito , Bristol, RI, USA - 3 -3 ; 6

Offshore Multhull Class (4 boats)
1. Flow, Gunboat 60, Steve Cucchiaro,, Boston, MA, USA - 2 -2 ; 4
2. Fault Tolerant, Gunboat 60, Robert and Libby Alexander, Rye, NY, USA - 4 -1 ; 5
3. Nala, HH 66, Jim Vos, Sag Harbor, NY, USA - 1 -4 ; 5








Vale Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop James DeForest Bishop, whose long career as a successful entrepreneur included the founding of Caithness Energy, LLC, a pioneer in the renewable power industry died May 24 at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 84. A resident of Saddle River, New Jersey and Jamestown, Rhode Island, Mr. Bishop was a graduate of Kent School, Yale University and Harvard Business School, and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy.

He was driven by an entrepreneurial spirit that led him to become involved in such varied ventures as oil and gas, mining, real estate, cattle breeding, and finally renewable energy. He remained active as Chairman at Caithness Energy, LLC, one of many companies he founded during his long business career, until his death.

Jim was also an active member of many clubs and organizations throughout his life and was honored to serve on the board of the Intrepid Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum. Jim was a man of many avocations and had a lifelong interest in hunting and fishing, but his true passion was for sailing. The mark he left in the world of competitive sailboat racing through his ardent support of the sport throughout his life is what he will likely be most remembered for. In a sport where success is often determined by outspending the competition, Jim was a staunch advocate of strict one-design classes that promoted highly competitive sailing while limiting the expense of participation. His participation and leadership in the International One Design and J/44 classes were emblematic of this philosophy. While he made numerous contributions to the sport through activities in many club and race organizations through the years, one of his most notable accomplishments was competing in 24 Newport Bermuda Races starting in 1960, with his last in 2014.

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