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In this issue: Start first and increase your lead
• Four PanAm medals!
• Martins hardware fest
• Scott Shawyer drops out
• The Rules Guy on tacking part 2
• The new B36 First
• Speed & Smarts Sportmanship and the Rules
• PanAm Lightning up close
• Sailing Shorts as always
Contributors this issue: Tim Finkle, Andrew Madding, Michael Clements, Alec Coleman, Keven Piper, Dave Dellenbaugh, Sail Canada
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One Design
Martin 242 Roundup
M242 Fleet Captain’s Dinner at the Royal Van Yacht Club. The 2023 Fleet Captain’s Dinner was held on Oct 20th – a Spectacular Roaring Twenties Party! We had a great turnout at this event with upwards of 66 attendees. Thermopylae Regatta October 14 & 15, Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Fantastic competition and tight racing in the Martin 242 fleet at Thermopylae Regatta 2022. (See the Big Picture in this issue.) Winners were Crantini in 1st place, No Worries in 2nd and Dirty Burger in 3rd. A fun weekend!
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Breaking News
Canada Takes FOUR Medals in PanAm Sailing – Best Since 2003
Canadian sailors added two medals on the last day of the sailing competition at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games bringing the haul to four. Saturday delivered a gold medal in men’s Sunfish for Lee Parkhill and a silver medal in ILCA 6 for Sarah Douglas. Canada leaves Santiago with a total of four medals in sailing, the country’s best haul since it came up with the same total at the Santo Domingo 2003 Pan American Games. Importantly, Canada won three medals in Olympic classes (ILCA 6, 49er and 49erFX) in Santiago, which represents the best result for Canada at the Pan American Games in that respect since 2003.
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News
Be Water Positive Sailing Team Withdraw from Transat Jacques Vabre
The Be Water Positive Sailing Team returned to Gosport late on Thursday, November 9th in order to seek further medical advice for Skipper, Scott Shawyer. After consultation with medics and his technical team, they have made the difficult decision to withdraw from racing in the Transat Jacques Vabre. We are assured Scott will make a full recovery. Scott Shawyer upon returning to the dock had the following to say. “Well, this is disappointing. We have been working so hard to get the boat and ourselves in the best shape and sometimes fate just hands you a bad card."
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Racing
PanAm Lightning: A Fight to the End
Before diving into a recounting of the actual event, it seems worthwhile to reflect on the journey to arrive at the starting line. This year’s PanAm journey started in February with my trip to Pensacola, Florida, to secure Canada a berth in the Sunfish Class. Canada had a strong contingent in the Sunfish, and after winning a spot at that event, I eventually lost the trials to Lee Parkhill at the North Americans Championships a few months later. In fantastic fashion, it came down to the last race, we fought all the way around the course and finished tied on points.
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Regatta Report
True North Captures Silver at Oakcliff Halloween Invitational
On Halloween weekend, Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, New York hosted the final Oakcliff Match Race regatta of the season aboard their fleet of Swedish Match 40s. With nine teams invited from the US and Canada, the crews competed for valuable points for the World Match Race Rankings during the Oakcliff Halloween Invitational Grade 3. Skippers included Chris Poole (world ranking: 1), Cormac Murphy (world ranking: 12), and top Canadian Peter Wickwire (world ranking: 28). The other Canadian team was the True North Sailing Team, a young team skippered by Alec Coleman of West Vancouver Yacht Club.
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New Boats
Beneteau First 36
I had the chance to spend quite a bit of time with our new Beneteau First 36, Hull #16, from the minute it arrived in Buffalo this summer. I like being part of the commissioning of new boats because that is where you learn the most about a boat. There is a lot of running rigging on the boat but it was clearly designed by racing sailors who understand deck layout and how a crew moves around a boat. The helm stations with carbon wheels on pedestals are further aft than we are used to, but it allows for freedom of movement from the team in front.
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The Big Picture
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Sailing Shorts
November 15 2023
• Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester, N.S., came up with their best performance this season by finishing 10th overall in the 49erFX class at the 2023 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships which ended on Monday in Vilamoura, Portugal. A total of 110 athletes took part in the 49erFX event including seven of the nine teams that medalled at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the 2022 49erFX World Championship and/or the 2023 Sailing World Championships. • The Wichard Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ronstan.
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The Rules Guy
Tacking II
In the last article we started a discussion about tacking. In that article we discussed Rule 13 “WHILE TACKING”. This time we will talk about rule 18.3 “Passing Head to Wind in the Zone”. In older versions of the rules this was called “Tacking in the Zone.” In the diagram we see Red, on port tack approaching Green and Yellow on starboard tack. Red decides to tack in front of both of them. This starts out being very similar to the first diagram in the last article. This time however, Red passes head to wind within the zone of the mark, that is within three hull lengths of the mark.
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Keven’s Understanding Sails
Triradial vs Crosscut Mainsails – Part 1
I had a very interesting conversation with a client just yesterday. They have a popular one design class that limits mainsail cloth to woven polyester (PET – polyethylene terephthalate) in a minimum weight of 300g/m2. The client also believed that the class mandated crosscut panel cuts because “all of the other sailmakers” were only making the mains in crosscut layouts. Some classes do have such rules, quite a few in the United Kingdom, but a careful reading of the class rules showed no such limitations.
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Speed & Smarts
Sportsmanship and the Rules
Competitors in the sport of sailing are governed by a body of rules that they are expected to follow and enforce. A fundamental principle of sportsmanship is that when competitors break a rule, they will promptly take a penalty or retire – Basic Principle. Should you file a protest? In the sport of sailing, the racing rules are enforced primarily by the competitors. When you think that another boat broke a rule, ideally you should file a protest and ask the jury to make a decision. But in real life it’s not always that simple. When you are considering whether or not to file a protest, there are many things to consider.
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