Banque Populaire Trimaran in NY

Close up of BP´s ama

Photos: B.STICHELBAUT- BFBP

Banque Populaire Tri is in New York for her Atalntic Record Attempt.
www.voile.banquepopulaire.fr

Julius Baer Trophy 2009: GP Romandie Act II

Photo: Team Foncia
Alain Gautier and Foncia wins again, Alinghi 1 with Bertarelli as helmsman leads the Julius Baer Ranking.
Alinghi is going to reveal their AC multihull soon, we are all expecting a D35 style catamaran to race against BOR trimaran(?)...
Big news to come these next weeks.
Meanshile Bertarelli continue to race the Julius Baer Trophy on D35s-

General Ranking Challenge Julius Baerwww.challengejuliusbaer.com

1. SUI 1 Alinghi SUI1 5pts
2. SUI 5 Foncia 6pts
3. SUI 2 Okalys-Corum 6pts
4. SUI 3 Julius Baer 14pts
5. SUI 6 Alinghi SUI6 15pts
6. SUI 9 Smarthome 17pts
7. SUI 7 Zebra 7 FirstCaution 18pts
8. SUI 4 Zen Too 19pts
9. SUI 12 Banque Populaire 21pts
10. SUI 10 Ladycat 27pts
11. SUI 8 Romandie.com 33pts

F18 Worlds 2009: Charter boat available

For those who are still looking for a charter boat for the Worlds, there´s an AHPC Capricorn available for rent to race at the F18 Worlds in Belgium.
Please contact us for more info.

Ishares Cup 2009: Mitch replaces Darren on BT

© Thierry Martinez / Sea&Co / BT Team Ellen
From BT Website:
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BT Extreme 40 regular driver, Darren Bundock, has been forced to step down for Round 2 of the iShares Cup in Hyères due to torn knee ligaments. Into the breach steps co-creator of the Extreme 40 Class, Mitch Booth, who will take the BT helm for this challenging round over the 3rd to 5th July.

Few have a sailing CV to match…
Twice named Australian Yachtsman of the Year, Mitch is a two-time Olympic medalist, winning Bronze at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and Silver at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996; he has participated in 64 World Championships and crowned World Champion ten times in the Tornado, Hobie and Formula 18 classes. Mitch is also a world record holder – sailing on Club Med and Playstation – as well as entering into the world of the America’s Cup as sailing manager in 1995. But what really excites the BT Extreme 40 team – who don’t have bad sailing CVs themselves (!) – is that Mitch co-created the Extreme 40 Class: “Mitch has been a key member within the initial design and conception of these boats so it will be great to have him in the Class again. He has in-depth knowledge of the reasons behind certain design elements that characterise the Extreme 40 so we feel very fortunate for the chance to ask the thousands of questions we have in our heads about how to get the best out of the boat,” commented Nick.

The origin of the Extreme 40 is the Olympic class catamaran, the Tornado. Mitch teamed up with fellow Tornado sailors Herbert Dercksen and Yves Loday in 2003 and ‘the rest as they say is history’. Yves Loday completed the Extreme 40 design and Dercksen’s company, Tornado Sport, began construction. Mitch and Dercksen jointly campaigned the Extreme 40 in the early days as the class gathered momentum.

For Darren, its time to rest up and head home for some medical treatment: “It’s a blow for the team but Darren’s health and well-being is obviously the biggest concern. Darren is irreplaceable when you consider the learning's we have made together over the past two years but Mitch is the absolute perfect solution to our predicament. We desperately need a good result in Hyères to maintain the chance of a good overall iShares Cup season performance. Mitch is the best guy we could possibly introduce into the unit to maintain our objectives,” concluded Nick.
After the opening round of the iShares Cup in Venice, BT is in 6th place in the overall iShares Cup standings for 2009.
www.btteamellen.com

Design: Wave Piercing Cruiser cat

Pete Melvin wants to apply experience gained with his wave piercing racing beach cats like the Infusion and A-Class models to cruising catamarans.
Although wp hulls are being used quite often in power ferry boats, large Trimarans amas like Groupama 3, Banque Populaire and others (but this ocean going sail multihulls have a traditional main center hull) this is the 1st time to my knowledge this technology is being applied to cruising catamarans.
Without bow reserve volume up this design aims to reduce pitch poling and provide a more pleasant ride, certainly volume distribution may change but you need volume there, in any shape or form you like, but is has to be present.

Wave piercing beachcats always lacked volume in front until the Infusion came to scene and this Pete Melvin design is now the top performer in the F18 class which sails under 21m2 spi and I´m haven´t heard any report about the Infusion suffering from pitch pole "illness" like some other wp F18s, quite contrary the Infusion seems to nail the right shape and volume distribution for the perfect F18.

Cruising catamarans needs also reserve volume, as they are large boat aimed to pleasure and safety sailing. So I would like to see some saling footage in the future of this design.
Remember wave piercing bows are not rake profiles, there´s a cross section distribution that is quite describable as a Tiger-Tornado bow "upside-down".

For more info check:
www.aeroyacht-supercats.com
www.morrellimelvin.com

Round the Island Race: Oman´s VX40 take line honours over Aqua helmed by Russell Coutts

Photo: OnEdition
Flavia Bateson - 16:19 Saturday 20 Jun 2009

Oman Sail Masirah has led the fleet back to Cowes in the JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race as well as taking line honours in the Extreme 40 class. It was a nail-biting finish, with a provisional 29 seconds separating the Omani boat from Russell Coutts helming Team Aqua. Pete Cumming, skipper of Oman Sail Masirah said:

"We were behind Team Aqua right up to Yarmouth but once round The Needles it was true champagne sailing. At St Catherine's we out-gybed Team Aqua and extended our lead to 22 minutes at Bembridge. We thought we might be able to cruise back to Cowes but then the wind started to go light. Once in the Solent it was even lighter and it shut down completely. We could see Team Aqua and Team Origin (Ben Ainslie) trying to short tack out of the tide. We decided to stick in the middle. It was a case of holding your nerve and covering Team Aqua. It's always good to have a close race but to go from a 22 minute lead down to a 29 second win, that's really something."

The winning team comprised Olympic 49er silver medallist Chris Draper on helm, Pete Cumming trimmer with Mark Bulkeley, Olympic Tornado sailor on mainsheet. David "Freddie" Carr and Khamis al Anbouri shared the bow.
www.roundtheisland.org.uk

Exploder F18 : The Polish Rocket

Photos: Paula Kopylowicz
Besides performing quite well in her debut at Carnac and Texel Round with a 7th and 11th in the raids against the top notch of the F18, now the Exploder has been dressed accordingly with some cool graphics!
www.exploder.info

Texel Short Tracks Portfolio

Some close-ups photos from Jasper Van Staveren Sailshoot.com

LodayWhite Shockwave F18

Photo: Gauthier Delannoy

Photo: Gauthier Delannoy

Photo: Gauthier Delannoy

Photo: Gauthier Delannoy

Photo: Gauthier Delannoy
All this great aereal pics are from Gauthier Delannoy at the French Formula 18 Nationals
Riders: Francoise Morvan and Mathieu Vandame

As many are hearing about the Shockwave after Rob Wilson and Marcus Lynch won the Texel, here you have more photos.
The concept is huge volume, Infusion style, but with even more height at front beam.
Should be a smooth, dry and easy ride.
North Sails has developed a good set of sails too, as results in Carnac, Dutch Open and Texel tell.
And of course Rob and Marcus are doing a great job racing her.
They are the underdog for next Worlds.

For more info check Swell Catamarans site:
www.swell-catamarans.com

Round Texel 2009

Photo: www.clairematches.com
Rob Wilson/Marcus Lynch and their Shockwave Winners Round Texel

Photo: www.clairematches.com Will Sunucks M20 1st Elapsed

Photo: www.clairematches.com 1st Big win for Loday White Shockwave Rob and Marcus
Winnner Zwitserleven Week, Open I: Coen de Koning/Visser Infusion F18
Round Texel Line Honours: William Sunnucks/ Simon Farren M20 wide
Round Texel Overall Winners: Rob Wilson / Marcus Lynch Shockwave F18

So confirming preliminar results, UK teams Wilson-Lynch and Sunnuck-Farren take home the biggest ones of the Texel 2009. F18 2008 World Champion, Coen de Koning was crowned Champion of the Zwitserleven Week (F18 Mixed course racing against M20s and others)

Photos RoundTexel.com & Claire Matches www.clairematches.com
Text From Roundtexel.com
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On Saturday 13 June, Team Boskalis De Koning/Visser won the Zwitserleven Sailing Week 2009 (overall Zwitserleven Open Dutch Championship). The duo managed to be in the lead of the fleet under variable circumstances, both during the sometimes windy Texel Dutch Open and the tactical Round Texel. The overall win of the Zwitserleven Round Texel goes to the British F18 team Wilson/Lynch in their new F18 Shockwave. Their compatriots William Sunnucks and Simon Farren received a warm welcome when they arrived at the sunny beach, after they were the first to cross the finish in their extra wide M20.

Some pics of the fleet racing - Dutch Open

Photo: www.clairematches.com Hoisting the spi, notice the low position of the spi clam, allowing him to remaing seated or on his knees, gaining balance. I tried that clam position and it is really comfortable.

Photo: www.clairematches.com
All Boskalis Team pic, the Infusions dominated fleet racing at the Dutch Open.
With 1st, 2nd and 4th, 3rd place for Wilson-Lynch Shockwave rounding an excellent week for the LodayWhite new baby. 1st Wildcat was Mitch Booth on 5th place.
Next big race for the F18s: 2009 Worlds in Belguim . Hope they end dialing the Wildcat to have even closer racing than Carnac.

Photos: www.clairematches.com Mourniac Wildcat style
Full results
www.roundtexel.com
www.clairematches.com

Boldor 2009: Lack of winds force a 24hs race in Geneve

Ventilo M1 - 35 feet.
D35 Foncia wins after almost 20 hours of "sailing" as wind was "unavailable" at lake Geneva.
New Ventilo 35 Banque Gonet was 16th. But we missed the opportunity to see the real potential of the new Ventilo that was built to race and win against the D35s, next year we'll have also SYZ Foiler (we hope for) So not much to analyze, too poor conditions, and the longest Boldor ever. Alinghi 1 was 8th. First M2 in 6th place.
http://www.boldor.ch/

Pos	Time	R	Sail	Boat	Helmsman	Class
1	19:33:26	905	SUI 5	Foncia	Gautier	M1
2	19:34:34	909	SUI 9	Smart Home	Michel	M1
3	19:36:54	902	SUI 2	Okalys	Grange	M1
4	19:38:43	903	SUI 3	Julius Baer	Cardis	M1
5	19:46:29	1312	SUI 12	Banque Populaire	BIDEGORRY	M1
6	19:47:43	81	SUI 33	GSMN genolier	DURR	M2
7	19:53:44	796	SUI 20	Teamwork	David	M2
8	20:34:15	901	SUI 1	Alinghi 1	Bertarelli	M1
9	20:34:33	927	SUI 7	Team Parmigiani	Geiser/Vionnet	M2

Round Texel 2009 - preliminar Results

Elapsed Time: 1st William Sunnuck - Farren M20

Corrected Time: Rob Wilson - Marcus Lynch F18 Loday-White Shockwave!

1st big victory for the Loday-White Shockwave F18, congrats to Rob, Marcus and the entire Swell Catamarans team

Also to the Thames Raiders team of Will Sunnucks, blue ribbon again, here they will receive some award! as in Carnac they left empty hands at the raid. Tight elapsed race against last year etime winner Xander Pols and his M20 with curved foils (adapted for 2009 Round)

Full Live results

Round Texel 2009 preview

Photo: Emmanuel Rey / Round Texel
Above:Sander de Boer crewing for "F18 rookie girl" (but 470 World Champ and Olympic sailor), Marcelien de Koning, they will be racing the F18 Worlds in a Tiger. Sander is CEO at Hobie NL.

Photo: Emmanuel Rey / Round Texel
Bundy and Ashby dialing the Wildcat for the Texel Round and for the Worlds.

Pic:http://www.clairematches.com/

Pic:http://www.clairematches.com/
Here comes Hugh.
Mr Styles is my bet along Mischa Heemskerk for the 2009 F18 World Championship.

Some pics of the Texel Dutch Open, course racing previous the Round Texel 2009 at Catland ...
I mean Holland
www.roundtexel.com
Photos: Rounde Texel and
- Emmanuel Rey: declicphotos (at) skynet.be
- Claire Matches: www.clairematches.com

Texel Dutch Open Results

William Sunnucks leading a mixed fleet with his M20
Followed by the Infusion fleet lead by Hugh Styles- 1st Wildcat is Mitch Booth at 4th
Mischa 15th
Check great videos and more images at Round Texel Site
Full Results

Pos	Class	HelmName	Texel	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Net
1	M20	Sunnucks	86	(10)	3.0	2.0	6.0	1.0	9.0	2.0	23
1	F18	Styles, H	101	5.0	1.0	1.0	12.0	7.0	1.0	(ocs)	27
3	F18	Koning, C	101	2.0	4.0	(15)	10.0	8.0	12.0	1.0	37
4	F18	Macpherson	101	8.0	2.0	14.0	(14.5)	13.0	7.0	9.0	53
5	F18	Booth, M	101	9.0	19.0	17.0	8.0	( bfd)	2.0	3.0	58
6	F18	Sach,	101	20.0	12.0	8.0	(21)	2.0	6.0	11.0	59
7	F18	Clainche	101	17.5	7.0	(22)	9.0	5.0	16.0	5.0	59
8	F18	Vaireaux,	101	12.0	5.0	7.0	22.0	( dnc	11.0	10.0	67
9t	Expldr	Krizek,	96	13.0	10.0	11.0	1.0	12.0	(28)	24.0	71
10	F18	Mourniac	101	6.0	11.0	5.0	18.0	(bfd)	13.0	18.0	71

New F18 from Mattia

It seems spray rails are here to stay.
Check this brand new F18 from Mattia Italy.
Marco Radman will be racing at Belguim with one, so we'll have 4 new F18s making a Worlds debut at the RBSC: Loday-White Shockwave , Exploder, Hobie Wildcat and the new Mattia F18
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New Mattia F18

Designers: Enrico Contreas, Giorgio Provinciali, Roberto Prever.

By the Italian shipyard Mattia Italia a new F18. The project is the result of a thorough fluid dynamics analysis. The new hulls are characterized by Spray Rails and new balance between the volumes.

New Mattia F18 had the baptism in the last WE to Dervio. The crew remained very much impressed by the potential expressed by the new boat. Fast and very good maneuverability.

For more info www.mattiaitalia.it

Julius Baer Trophy 2009: Geneva-Rolle Sprint

Photo credit: Schmid Chris / EYEMAGE MEDIA
Alinghi teams continue to train hard for AC 33 match race in multihulls against BOR. We are all waiting to see their 90 monster cat? ... From Alinghi press:

--"Alinghi SUI1, helmed by Ernesto Bertarelli and Alinghi SUI6, helmed by Murray Jones fought their way onto the podium today in what were survival conditions on Lake Geneva. Gusts of up to 25knots made the Geneva-Rolle-Geneva race a two hour 23 minute sprint with Okalys-Corum, helmed by Loick Peyron, missing out on the record by just four minutes.

Pierre-Yves Jorand, mainsail trimmer on SUI1, gave some insight on a thrilling race: “Today there were two fights on the water: the first against the elements that were particularly crazy for a part of the race and the second between the Alinghi boats SUI1 and SUI6 and Okalys-Corum and Foncia respectively. It was an extraordinary day!” --"

www.alinghi.com www.challengejuliusbaer.com

A-Class European Championship Final Results

Bob Baier is crowned 2009 European A-Ckass champion over Steve Brewin for one point!
Landy and Mitch got a good recover and press hard and end 5 and 6th respectively.
Although Baier and Brewin had a good margin already before last regattas.
Organization only managed to run 7 regattas of the 9 programmed and only one discard was available.

Pos	Hellsnman	r1	r2	r3	r4	r5	r6	r7	Tot
1	Bob Baier	[8]	2	1	1	5	1	4	14
2	Steven Brewin	3	1	2	[bfd	4	4	1	15
3	Sascha Wallmer	1	3	5	6	2	7	[8]	24
4	Chris Field	18	15	[22]	3	9	6	7	58
5	Andrew Landenberger	38	7	9	[bfd	6	2	3	65
6	Mitch Booth	19	6	6	[bfd	26	3	6	66
7	Roberto Casadei	10	[27]	8	14	3	15	16	66
8	VincenzoSorrentino	13	12	4	[20]	7	16	19	71
9	Georg Reutter	6	4	19	15	1	35	[dnf]	80
10	Helmut Stumhofer	36	13	3	9	[dsq	11	11	83

Full Results

A-Class European Championship Days 4-5

The great Mitch arguing with the rc boat on the BFD
I don´t want to be on those judges shoes... facing Booth, Brewin and Landy among others on the bfd. Check video

No regattas completed yesterday.
Today they only completed the 5th regatta. Bob Baier still in front, but with discards Steve Brewin is close to the top 2 (he has an 86th with a BFD)-
http://www.ycrhd.com/a-cat-em

Full Results

Hobie NL - Wildcat Armada

Photo: John Casey
Hobie Holland is preparing their team Wildcats for next Worlds.
Here you have a good shot from John Casey as he prepares to receive his fully equiped and plotted latest F18 racing machine.
Check JC site for more

www.johncaseyworldwide.com
www.hobiecat.nl

A-Class European Championship Day 2

Bob Baier wins 3rd and 4th and grabs overall lead.
Protests pending. Brewin, Booth and Landy with BFD

pos	Flag		Hellsman		R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot
1	GER	14	Bob Baier		8	2	1	1	12
2	SUI	218	Sascha Wallmer		1	3	5	6	15
3	AUS	902	Scott Anderson		7	10	10	8	35
4	GER	56	Georg Reutter		6	4	19	15	44
5	ITA	16	Michele Petrucci		4	20	17	5	46
6	SWE	22	Johnsson Pontus		17	11	7	11	46
7	ITA	78	Vincenzo Sorrentino		13	12	4	20	49
8	GBR	7	Chris Field		18	15	22	3	58
9	ITA	4	Teo Di Battista		9	17	20	12	58
10	ITA	12	Roberto Casadei		10	27	8	14	59

Full results
Event Website http://www.ycrhd.com/a-cat-em/

Raid Bleu 2009

All photos courtesy of Pierrick Contin
Check his site for more www.pierrickcontin.com

ang	N° de voile	Concurrent	Ecart sur 05h35'20''
1	FRA 88	ERUSSARD Victorien FEQUET Loïc	00:00:00
2	FRA 004	BONTEMPS Gurvan MARFAING Mathieu	00:05:05
3	FRA 8	LAMOTTE Benjamin AMIOT Benjamin	00:05:11
4	FRA 9715	VILLION Julien JOUBERT Antoine	00:11:13
5	FRA 33	HAINNEVILLE Maxime HAINNEVILLE Charles	00:14:03
6	FRA 910	MATHIEU Jean-Luc GAUTIER Benjamin	00:15:43
7	FRA 3576	DELAITRE Alexis FANOUILLERE David	00:21:40
8	FRA 171	GIRAULT Bruni PALY Serge	00:33:14
9	FRA 5555	GUITARD Gilles PASSELAC Arnaud	00:34:38
10	FRA 1968	GRESSET Martin RIVOALEN Guillaume	00:46:43
11	AUS 10	THAREAU Philippe FERRARI Francis	00:49:55
12	FRA 303	LEVIONNOIS Vincent THAREAU Vincent	01:01:36
13	FRA 125	LAPASSET Jerome HAINNEVILLE Eric	01:10:01
14	FRA 162	GUERY Jacques HOUSSAIS Jean-Pierre	01:44:04
15	FRA 3553	BONNABESSE Anaïs CARDIET Françoise	01:44:07
16	FRA 511	LEMESLIF Ronan MACE Nicolas	02:14:45
16 ex	FRA 35	MEURY Paul-André VARRIN Endelvy	02:14:45

Fast Cat Race 2009 Results

M20
Rob Wilson and Marcus Lynch with Loday-White Shockwave wins FCR 2009 over Will Sunnucks-Simon Farrel M20 on corrected time.
The M20 real time was 4:14:31 and the Shockwave F18 time 4:51:42

1	F18 Shockwave	Rob Wilson	Marcus Lynch	1005	04:51:42	04:50:15
2	M20 Vampire	Will Sunnucks	Simon Farrel	836	04:14:31	05:04:27
3	F18 Infusion	Grant Piggott	Andrew Sinclair	1005	05:08:45	05:07:13
4	Tornado	A young	Rob Butterfield	935	04:47:24	05:07:23
5	F18 Shockwave	Simon Northrop	Robyn Ford	1005	05:09:53	05:08:20
6	Spitfire	Alex Farr	M Newbold	1043	05:27:14	05:13:45
7	Tornado	Pete Jary	Tim Roden	935	04:54:11	05:14:38
8	F18 H Wildcat	Lukes yates	Matt Humphyes	1005	05:22:02	05:20:26
9	F18 Nacra	Coert Van Dam	M Van Dam	1005	05:22:11	05:20:35
10	F18 Capicorn	Stuart Gummer	Chris Sproat	1005	05:24:16	05:22:39
11	F18 Nacra	Adam Piggott	Mike Windle	1005	05:39:22	05:37:41
12	F18 Capicorn	Tim Neal	Bob Fry	1005	05:40:02	05:38:20
13	F18 H Tiger	Oli Northrop	Jeremy Carter	1005	05:46:31	05:44:48
14	Spitfire	Richard Golden	Edward Hooper	1036	06:19:40	06:06:28
15	F18 H Tiger	Ben Stubbs	Robert Shaw	1005	06:09:20	06:07:30
16	F18 Nacra	Steve Reeves	Ian Parker	1005	06:12:57	06:11:06
17	Hurricane	Richard Breese	Patrick Okelly	1007	06:24:10	06:21:30