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• 30 Oct 2009 06:27

  Slim Shady We jump on projects like this and here's what it is... 4 years ago the sailing machine ”Lunne” was presented at the Gothenburg Boat Show. Now it is time for the sophisticated follow-up ”Tejst”. Concept Tejst (Black Guillemot) was designed with multi-purpose use in mind. The clients’ wishes were for a fast, easily operated, habitable boat that also could be raced. Further more this boat should be single-handed, trail able and with a minimum of maintenance. The design should appeal to younger as well as older sailors. To full fill these demands the solution became to design the boat according to the newly revised D-Canoe rule. The sailing canoes have always been innovative and fast boats. In Sweden about 170 boats are built to the D-rule and about 300 to the E-rule. However this is the first time for a series production of a D-canoe. Result During 2008 four boats were built. The tests prove that the boats could, with margin, fulfil the customers’ expectations. This is how Gustav von Heine, 70, expressed himself after the first seasons trails “During the summer I was out sailing about 40 times. This is not about nostalgia…. Tejst is a wonderfully boat, which both the experienced racing sailor and the “just for fun” sailor can enjoy”. Performance The hull is slender and easily driven, the chine facilitate planning. The rig with carbon fibre spars is efficient and powerful. 13 sqm sail area for a displacement of just 360 kilos is fair. To achieve a good righting moment there are 180 kilos of ballast, 150 kilos internal and 30 kilos in the centreboard. Add to this the effect of the hiking boards and you get a really stiff boat. Tesjt has shown itself to be not just stiff it is also really fast, manoeuvrable and well balanced. Comfort You can stand in the cockpit when hoisting the mainsail. There is a furling jib with the mechanism below deck. The jib is self-tacking thanks to the deck-sweeping “Hoyt boom”. The cockpit is spacious and could easily accommodate two persons. All trim lines are within easy reach. The centreboard is retractable and the rudder is collapsible which gives a depth of just 16 cm. Besides you can reach places where no one else dare to go, the centrebord function makes the boat easy to get on to a trailer. Company Both Lunne and Tejst are designed and built by Sörvik Båt & Trä in Gothenburg/Sweden. Sörvik Båt & Trä have a long experience of High-tech building as well as traditional building methods. We are now looking for dealers. Contact and more info: Pelle Fälth Tel. +46 31 760 29 16, pelle@lunne.se, www.lunne.se 10/30/09

  viddy Tracks Kiwi wunderkids Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are about to head over to Australia to do some training with the current 49er World Champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen.  To rest up before big trip they decided to take a break from their normal training and race their 49er 130 miles along the coast of New Zealand against the 100ft supermaxi Alfa Romeo in the HSBC Coastal Classic.  Their Velocitek SpeedPuck captured this track for the epic nine and a half hour kite ride from Auckland to Russell.  See if you can spot the pitchpoles... Peter says there are four." 10/30/09

  race report Devo The finishing positions in the Devoti-One International Regatta on Lake Garda remained uncertain until the competitors had drifted across the line of the final race. With the grand finale race counting for triple points, Andrea Gianmarini’s speed in the dying breeze off the Torbole shore proved decisive, as his race victory converted to overall victory in the regatta. It was a similar story for Alberto Ferrari who seized the advantage when two of the series leaders fell into a windless hole just metres from the finish. Ferrari screeched - or rather ghosted - past local Olympic Star sailor Silvio Santoni and British visitor Andy Rice who had gone into the final race level-pegging for the lead. In the end Santoni and Rice were relegated to third and fourth overall. The regatta was a first test for the weight equalisation of the D-1 boat, with Gianmarini and Ferrari both weighing in at just under 80kg while Santoni and Rice were 94kg and 88kg respectively. The gennaker requires sailors to hike out downwind in any more than 6 knots of breeze, meaning the lightweights don’t generate much of a speed advantage while upwind the wider wings keep them in the hunt alongside the heavyweights. British competitor Adrian Brunton was the heaviest competitor at 102kg, and he won one of the lightest races of the weekend, although he too fell victim to the vagaries of the final run in the all-important triple points race. With 20 sailors having competed in Torbole this past weekend, class founder and builder Luca Devoti anticipates fleets of 40 to 50 boats for the five-regatta Tour of Italy series being planned for 2010. “Sailors are responding well to the boat and to the format. Fewer races means you don’t have to be Superman to win in the D-1 class, and I’m really pleased by the spirit of fun that people have shown here in Torbole. This winter we will be hard at work building and selling more boats throughout Europe, and we are just about to ship our first boats to the USA, so the D-1 looks set for worldwide popularity.” For more information about anything to do with the Devoti-One, contact info@devoti-one.com 10/30/09

  community How It's Made When we see things like this, it makes us know what good things can be done when people put their energies together. This is the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center and they are expanding their facility and growing their community sailing outreach programs. The growth of our sport can only really happen if endeavors like this happen. Bill Mosher, Sales & Marketing Director at Forespar is a mover of this particular effort, and applaud all involved. At SA, we are working with some industry leaders to see how we can help grow the sport in some new and inventive ways. As always, stay tuned... 10/30/09

  the biz How It's Made It is no surprise to long-time readers that for a number of reasons, we are not big fans of North Sails, and they are not exactly fans of ours. However there is a TV show that might be a fairly interesting look at their 3DL making facility. "How It's Made" will feature a look inside the North Sails 3DL manufacturing facility in Minden, Nevada, and will air October 30, at 9 PM Eastern Time. 10/30/09

  local knowledge The Cult We are so late with this, but wanted to get it up as not only is the Laser 28 a cool little boat, it is almost cultish in terms of its' owner's enthusiasm. We dig it. There's been some really good racing the last couple weeks in the Laser 28 Class. The Canadian Championships were held in Magog on September 18-19 with 21 boats and the North American Championships were held in Montreal on September 26-27 with 14 boats. Colibri successfully defended both titles again this year. Have a look at the results page to see all the scoring. Photos - Laser 28 2009 Canadian Championship. Thanks to Uncapped Superhero for the love. 10/30/09

  SDOTW From anarchist John: "I snapped this photo shortly after finishing the log Distance Pursuit Race of the Great Pumpkin Regatta put on by Richmond Yacht Club. As this crew shows, we were in perfect sun tanning conditions for the trip home." You sort of know this was inevitable, right? While it may or may not become a regular feature, here is, ahem, this week's Sailor Dudes Of The Week. And of course, now let's have some of you chicks send in your submissions for SDOTW. This should be fun! 10/30/09

  Up Cup I read with interest about One Design racing and the struggle to keep it alive. Here in China, starting this coming Friday the China Cup has a significant One Design happening. 30 Beneteau 40.7 will take to the startline off Hong Kong’s Steep Island for the passage race to Longcheer Yacht Club, Shenzhen. When the fleet gets there they will enjoy 2 days of windward – leeward racing and a round the island race. Race management will be under the experienced eye of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club race officer’s team led by Russ Parker. The fleet is a combination of international teams including Team GBR who were the 2006 British Champions in the class and a South African team peppered with world champions and other sailors of note and local teams, some making a return to the event or owning their own 40.7 and some literally thrown together with less than 10 days to go to the event. While the Beneteau 40.7 may be considered an aging design with even the building of new boats discontinued the prospect of thirty identical 40 footers with crews of such mixed ability on a start line does get the juices flowing. Not a continuous One Design series but another small piece in the growing jigsaw that is the Chinese Sailing Scene. Little by little the regattas get a little less rare and keenness to compete grows. For example in China Cup itself last year a number of the 40.7 were made available to local teams for free as they hadn’t been taken up. With this in mind some teams held off this year hoping for a similar offer only to find all boats had been successfully chartered. - Shanghai Sailor 10/30/09

  J/120 Sinks - Update We've heard from two sources that the J/120 J/World, sailing in the Baja Ha skippered by our friend Wayne Zittel has sunk today somewhere off of Ensenada. All on board are thought to have escaped to a liferaft but we don't know anything else. 6:41 AM - Hey All - Thanks for all the good thoughts. Yes, the boat has sunk but everyone is safe and sound. The boat was heading south in the Baja-Ha-Ha with two instructors (Eugenie and Barry) and three students on our annual cruise south to our Puerto Vallarta location. They put into Ensenada briefly for some minor repairs (a loose wire in the wiring harness seems to have been the culprit), then headed back out Tuesday morning. I got an email from them in the evening reporting that all was fine and they were making good time. They made the scheduled roll call in the AM. Here is what I know from the brief conversations I have had with the crew: about 10am, they came across a pod of whales. Their behavior was described as 'erratic.' One or more of the whales struck the boat repeatedly, and the boat began taking on water at a rapid pace. It sounds like, not surprisingly, most of the damage was around the rudder. They made an attempt to bail the boat and get a distress call out on SSB, but it was clear that the boat was a loss. They activated the EPIRB, boarded the liferaft, and the boat was reportedly gone within 7 minutes of the strike. As I understand it, the boat did not capsize in any way. I was in contact with the the USCG from the time the EPIRB went off. They did an absolutely stellar job. Within four hours, they reported that they had safely lifted all five sailors into the helicopter and were returning to San Diego. Eugenie has a bruised hand, but there were no other injuries. I personally am in shock... this is the stuff you read about but you think will never really happen. You can make all the preparations in the world, load boat with experienced sailors, and still have unexpected consequences. A bit humbling, to be sure. We all need to remember that when we go sailing, we really go to sea in every sense. I know we will get a good debrief from the crew, and we'll be sure to post more info and some 'lessons learned,' but I am tremendously relieved that everyone is safe. All of us here at J World are in deep gratitude to the folks of the USCG. Man, they run a great operation. Here's the video of the rescue. Anyway, that's the latest report from here... we can put to rest the questions of keels and structural failure and all that... the boat was a great boat. She was hull #9, the ex-Gannett, ex-Crosswave, now known simply as "J World." We sailed her some 10,000+ open ocean miles per year, and raced her in San Francisco and Mexico, not to mention subjecting her to all the abuses that students can dish out, and she took it in stride. Anyway, thanks again to all of you out there for the support... All the best, Wayne Zittel J World Performance Sailing School San Francisco Bay | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

  Weary At The Worlds, II After 1 hour of sleep, 9 hours on the water, and 5 hours on interviews and general producer-type duties, I'm spent, and just have almost nothing left for this front page piece - see Petey's Day 3 Highlight Reel for more on this - it'll make you laugh.. Suffice to say that our old pals on Joe Fly have moved into the lead by one point over local Chris Larson with his all-Canadian crew, but the fleet is piled up on points and the slightest misstep can change everything. Fortunately, Katie is young and can carry both our weight.  Please be sure to check out the live feed starting at 1030 EST, and today is the beginning of the Velocitek contest, so use the Day 4 thread to register your pick of the top 3 spots for the Worlds - winner will get a brand new Velocitek Speedpuck (you can see pics of this great product in the Day 3 thread) Thanks again to Latis Yachting Solutions, Velocitek,  Point Loma Outfitting, Ullman Sails Newport Beach, Saving Sailing, RBS Battens, Ocean Sailing Academy, Eastport Yachts, Charleston Harbor Access, and Justin.TV for making this coverage possible. Katie Report Well it was a beautiful day for us out here in Annapolis today, but it's too bad I can't say the same on behalf of the competitors in the Melges 24 fleet. It might have been sunny and relatively warm ... but the wind was where, exactly? To the Northwest, apparently. After sitting out on the course for an hour plus, RC finally dropped the AP flag, and we moved into sequence to start our third day at the Melges 24 Worlds.  Here are the things we did while waiting for the races to kick off: Fix stuff. Program stuff. Untangle stuff. Set up stuff. Plan stuff. Talk about stuff. Drink stuff. Take pictures of stuff. Talk to other boats about stuff. Talk on the phone about stuff. Joke about stuff. Film stuff. Look for stuff. Write stuff. Drink more stuff. And I challenged Petey to a dance-off but he didn't accept. I would have won, though.  Anyways, the racing finally got off, and despite the wind sucking at life, the RC was able to get two races in for the day. Chiefly, I really need to talk about something called fleet inversion. In day 3, we saw some of the weirdest stuff. There were a lot of positions gained and lost on every leg, with teams starting aggressively and not quite staying that way, and the other way around. Teams like Quantum were able to progressively make their way up in the standings on each leg, gradually moving from the 20's to an 8th place finish in the 1st race of the day, and then from mid-fleet to 13th to 7th in the last race. Talk about a climb.  There were plenty of other position reversals, and we got all of it on video for you to watch. We put everything up in short clips so it is easy to load and watch when you have a couple of free minutes at the links Clean posted above.  With over a thousand people watching the live feed simulataneously at times and over ten thousand hits on the Day 3 thread, we were very engouraged to keep up the tough work of providing live video, recorded video, commentary and photos that people were beating us up about earlier in the week.  So thanks for that, and personally, I'm still learning how to do this - By the moon and the stars, for better or worse ... oh wait, that was something completely different ....  Much Love Katie Photo by Meredith Block. 10/29/09

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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