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In this issue: Time to prep the bottom
• Big contingent for ILCA 6 and 7
• Canadians impress at Heineken
• Additional PanAm spots
• Laser 28s, Martin 242s
• Bayview Mack 2023 is on
• F18 Raid
• Race to Kingston returns
Contributors this issue: David Antognini, Allegra Smith-Harriott, Joe Malon, John Mills, Alex Fox, St Maarten Heineken Regatta, Sail Canada
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News
Canada Qualifies Two Additional Spots in Sailing for Santiago 2023 PanAm Games
Canada has qualified two additional spots for the sailing events at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games to be held October 20 to November 5 in Santiago, Chile, following the reallocation of spots in 49erFX and Nacra 17 classes by PanAm Sailing. Because the last qualifying competition for these classes in Clearwater, FL, was cancelled early in February, Panam Sailing had to move forward with the procedure for the reallocation of unused quota spots, as outlined in the PanAm Sailing qualification criteria.
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News
Canada on the Podium at the 43rd St. Maarten Heineken
Canada was well represented this year at the 43rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta with a total of seven Canadian boats in the fleet of over 100. Serious racing and serious fun were had by all, and Canada snagged some podium finishes after the four days on the water – both sport boats and charter boats. Results: Panacea. CSA 6. Solana 45. 1st overall in their class. Home Port: Vancouver, BC. In the six races, Panacea took 1st, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 2nd and a 1st. Owner Katy Campbell had her two best mates with her down south, Benjamin Daniel, and Hayley McIntosh.
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Racing
Race to Kingston Returns Aug 12
Last year Kingston Yacht Club and Mimico Cruising Club joined forces to co-host a new destination distance race, Race to Kingston. The response was excellent, and 37 boats took part. The new adventure will kick off on August 12, 2023, at Mimico Cruising Club. This year, 38 boats are already registered and 60 are anticipated. The concept of the race initially grew from GTA sailors looking to take boats to the Thousand Islands and has evolved into experience participants enjoy on its own. This year clubs from the south shore of Lake Ontario will also be invited to participate.
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News
12 Canadians, Including Sarah Douglas, Face World’s Best at 2023 ILCA 6 & 7 Senior European Championships
Close to 500 days prior to the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, 12 Canadian sailors in ILCA 6 and 7, including Tokyo 2020 Olympian Sarah Douglas, are caing the best in the world at the 2023 ILCA 6 & 7 Senior European Championships to be held in Andora, Italy, to Friday, March 17. A total of nearly 400 athletes from around the world will take part in the event. In ILCA 6, Sarah Douglas from Toronto, who was sixth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, will represent Canada along with Maura Dewey from Victoria, Clara Gravely from Toronto and Coralie Vittecoq from Montreal.
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New Gear
Harken 40 mm Zircon Blocks
Harken's 40 mm Zircon blocks are on the shelves and ready to be ordered. Zircon blocks are the most efficient small boat blocks Harken has ever made. At the core of Zircon performance are industrial ceramic ball bearings mounted inside caged races. The cages keep these bearings apart so they don’t bunch up, touch, and stop each other. The result is a very free-running block with less energy lost to friction than in even our current Carbo blocks. Give an unrigged Zircon block a strong spin, and it spins for an incredibly long time.
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News
M242 New Crew Night Vancouver March 29
Every year the Vancouver Martin 242 Fleet holds a meet and greet at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club to enlist those interested in racing on these One-Design sailboats. If you have mastered the basics of sailing and would like to try racing, or if you are an experienced competitive sailor, and would like to pair your skills with some of the Pacific Northwest’s top sailors, come to the New Crew Night on Wednesday March 29 to meet skippers and learn about the 2023 racing and social events program. It’s a great way to meet new people.
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View from the Loft
Seeing the Big Picture (Staying in the Game Upwind)
One of the major challenges of any upwind leg, is seeing the big picture and regardless of where you are in the fleet and making the right choices. At any given moment there’s a decision to make...are we doing the right thing...what are the options? Let’s explore that concept a bit and see if we can identify a handful of tips that can help us sail our best upwind leg. Let’s begin with a simple, obvious statement of priority: Clear air is always going to be number one. If you’re sailing at four knots and other boats are sailing at five, there’s no way to massage that discrepancy into anything very positive.
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News
Province Proposes Changes to Anchoring Rights
At the Ontario Regional Boating Advisory Council Meeting held in mid-January, members heard about an issue regarding the construction of “sea cans” on a barge unit being then considered a vessel. The Council is made up of Transport Canada, the Coast Guard, the OPP, and organizations such as Ontario Sailing, Boating Ontario etc. and is currently chaired by Rick Layzell, CEO of Boating Ontario. In mid-February, the Province released a consultation paper to try to put wording in place for limitations on these types of units.
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Racing
Laser 28s Coming to Golden Horseshoe
The summer regatta schedule for the coveted (if homemade) Laser Cup is Royal Hamilton Open July 1, NOLSC's Niagara cup July 15 and then Cornucopia at DYC Sept 2. We will race to class rules, and we will likely have our own starts! Some boats will also do for fun Fiasco at the Golden Horseshoe clubs July 2 on the way home from Royal Hamilton and perhaps a fun face from NOLSC to Port Weller after the Niagara Cup to keep the guys heading home company. For Travel boats, Niagara Cup has docking Friday and Saturday, launching to be reviewed if needed.
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Events
Canadian F18 Raid Championship 2023 Around the County Announced
County (near Belleville, ON) inspired by another event called the Archipelago RAID in Sweden www.stockholmarchipelagoraid.com. This event is a RAID which is a term from France which means a long distance event that starts in one place and ends in another. Another term that we use for it over here is an Adventure Race. In 2017 the International F18 sailing class association created the F18 RAID world championship. The F18 class is the largest class of catamaran in the world, and it is a formula class which means that any builder can build boats to the specification.
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The Big Picture
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Events
Bayview Opens Pre-Registration for BMR
Detroit’s Bayview Yacht Club announced that registration for the 2023 Bayview Mackinac Race (BMR) and pre-registration for the 2024 Race, the 100th edition of the world’s longest consecutively run long-distance freshwater yacht race, is open. More than 160 competitors have already signed up to participate in the 2023 BMR, which begins July 15. A handful of Canadian boats are already signed up including Greg Chamberlain and crew of Huzzah, a Beneteau F36.7 from Sarnia Yacht Club, which won its class last year on Greg’s maiden entry.
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News
Kiteboarder Emily Bugeja Becomes Fifth Canadian to Qualify to be Nominated to the 2023 Pan American Games Team
Emily Bugeja from Vancouver (RVYC), B.C., became the fifth Canadian sailor to qualify to be nominated to Team Canada’s Santiago 2023 Pan American Games squad after she took part in the 2023 Formula Kite Pan American Championships held last weekend in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. These championships were the last qualifying competition in Kiteboarding for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and Bugeja took the 5th spot in the women’s class out of a total of eight athletes who raced.
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New Gear
Crash-Proof Windex 6 for Dinghies and Cats
Dinghy and catamaran sailors are used to the occasional capsize—sometimes in spectacular fashion. Hitting the water at speed can cause run-of-the-mill wind indicators to bend, break or snap off. But not the Windex 6 Dinghy from Windex Development AB, the originator of the modern wind indicator. Engineered and built in Sweden to take on heavy seas, the Windex 6 Dinghy is so ruggedly built it's often seen on the bowsprits of larger boats. The flexible bracket of the Windex 6 Dinghy fits any mast or sprit 1.7" to 2.75" in dia. and secures using an elasticized cord with locking tab.
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