Sailing World on Water News January 15.21 Prada Cup Preview, ETNZ Capsize, Boris, Armel, RORC more

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Well if’s Prada Cup Eve, and the Press Conference has happened, All three teams say that they have all made big changes since their first races and promise a great series.

The skiff boys from the defending club are treating their 75 footer like it’s a 49er and have rolled it in again. They couldn’t have broken much, as they were out again the next day. The Burling-Ashley combination sure takes the boat to another level, and all accounts are, they have more in their saddle bags.

The huge French Foiling Trimaran, Edmund De Rothschild is once again headed out to break the records of the Trophy Jules Verne. We wish them better weather patterns than those experienced by the big Vondee Globe fleet.

Boris Hermann on Day 64, in Sea Exchange Yacht Club De Monaco, gives his Week 9 review.
Tom Ehman of Sailing Illustrated, had his statistician Clarke Chapin, do a chart on who would have won the race yesterday, with the Time Redress applied to their times.
And THE WINNER IS?

In all this French offshore racing one face is missing. Armel Le Clearck is busy building a new, HUGE foiling 32 metre Maxi-trimaran, to break many sailing time records.

What a weapon.

We look at Richard Gladwell, editor New Zealand of Sail dash World Dot Com’s preview of the Prada Cup.

The RORC’s Trans Atlantic race got off this week and the highly fancied, new yacht, Black Pearl, had to retire and return the Lanzarote.
The RORC Caribbean 600 was also cancelled for 2021, and the Fastnet Race’s, 400 boat entry level, was reached in 60 minutes.
The Finish of this race is in France.

and The Melges 15 Class fleet had their Winter Series in Sarasota, Florida.