Sailing World on Water March 24.23 Paprec IMOCA, Malizia, Spindrift, SailGP NZ, Kirsten GGR, INEOS

Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of sailing in the last 7 days.
Recently we showed the launching of the new Paprec Arkea Team IMOCA. Now it’s time to test it out.
It’s a magical moment, as it is the culmination of 18 months of work, and the IMOCA Paprec Arkéa, took off for the first time last week, from their Lorient Base, with Yoann Richomme and the Paprec Arkéa Team on board.

This is your weekly Sailing Global Highlights show, the World on Water for March 24, 2023.

Heading towards the lonliest place on earth, Point Nemo, where your nearest other human is on the Space Station, Rosalin Kuiper is sent up the mast on Boris Herrmanns’ Malizia for some inspection checks, while Antoine Auriol gets some beautiful drone shots of the scene.

Last week we visited Donna Bertarelli and Yann Guichard, skippers of the huge 30 by 30 meter Spindrift Racing Trimaran as they stood by to break the world circumnavigation speed record, The Jules Verne Trophy. This is Part 2 of their wait for a favourable weather window.

Canada became the fifth different team to win a SailGP, Season 3 event, with a thrilling victory over New Zealand and Australia, in the ITM, New Zealand, Sail Grand Prix, in the Christchurch event final. In front of SailGP’s biggest sell-out crowd to date, New Zealand born driver of the Canada team, Phil Robertson, produced a masterful display to lead the final, almost from start to finish, in a desperate battle with Peter Burling’s home team.

As the INEOS Britannia team pushed ever harder on the Bay of Palma, the inevitable occurred as a rapid-fire bear-away at the windward mark saw the team hurtle off downwind, before throwing a fast gibe, and, losing the rudder on a wave, cause the boat to nosedive, and screw into the inevitable capsize. It’s all part of the game now in the America’s Cup in these small foilers, and Giles Scott, always sublime in interview, was nonplussed by the one-water shenanigans.

Kirsten Neuschäfer in the Golden Globe Round the World race here is shown in the Atlantic heading south on the cape town leg when actually, today it’s Day 199, and she is leading the fleet in the doldrums heading north towards basically in the same spot in the Atlantic as before, and the finishis 3,163 nautical miles away in france.
She is a game solo sailor, as she climbed overboard, and had a swim in the Atlantic, while sailing fast. Would you do that?

Matoko Sato wins on home waters to lead Women’s Wave PWA World Tour.
With the forecast unfortunately not looking promising at all for the remaining days of the 2023, Spicare Omaezaki Japan World Cup, the decision was to officially end the event, meaning that all results stand, as they were after the opening day. Within these final days we caught up with some of the riders as they experience a traditional Japanese blessing, beach clean ups, and the closing ceremony!