Sailing World on Water Sept 17.21 Flying Foiling IMOCA, Amazing! NYYC, Maxi Yachts, Finn, 49er, Nord

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Well this is the highlight this week in the sport of Sailing. Look at this 7 Ton, 60 foot  yacht, flying above the water at high speed just like a little foiling Moth.

Yesterday the 14 IMOCA boats set out from Lorient racing around the North Atlantic. If they all had T Rudders imagine the look of that fleet. Then flying around the world in the Vendee Globe and to Martinique in the Transat Jacques Vabre? And think of the boatbuilders who will have to retro fit the boats?
We’re excited as it’s the best thing we’ve seen for ages. And that includes the America’s Cup. Who by the way are having troubles finding a venue for the 37th.
Valencia and Cork have withdrawn their offers leaving host city Auckland, another unannounced Spanish contender, and the city at the entrance to Mecca, Jeddah, the only visible contenders.
But there may be others, it has happened before.
But Louie has hit the jackpot with his lifting T rudder. This is what we’ve been waiting for, flying mono yachts! We never thought that we’d see that and we love it!

Imagine an America’s Cup in 2024 with a fleet of 72 foot flying Imocas?
Now, that would be a BOAT RACE.

Over to this week’s Sailing World on Water.

At the mid-point of the 31st Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, and after three days of racing, the cream is rising to the top as crews assert their claim to their respective class title.

There are strong starts to a regatta and then there’s the day on the water, put in by Royal Thames Yacht Club to open up the racing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup.  The British team  finished second in the first race, repeated that feat in the second, and then tacked on an emphatic win in the day’s final contest.

On the 6th of September, the legendary Nord Stream Race started in Kiel, taking the five national teams via Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki to Russia, where they are expected to arrive today, the 17th of  September. The sailing teams each represent the best national sailing clubs from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia and compete for the title “Best Yacht Club in the Baltic Sea”.

Akos Lukats has won the 2021 Finn European Masters at the Tihanyi Hajós Egylet in Tihany, Hungary, after no more races were possible on the final day. Bas De Waal, from The Netherlands, took second with Taras Havrysh, from Ukraine, third.

Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, triumphed at the end of a thrilling final day at the TF35 Scarlino Trophy. After four days of racing, Clerc and the team were head-to-head with Alinghi until the last race in sparkling sunshine off the Tuscan coast.

The 2021 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup featured a 44 boat fleet which, divided into five principal classes based on size, and potential, the winners were: Velsheda (Supermaxi), Magic Carpet Cubed, Maxi, Cannonball, Mini Maxi 1; Capricorno, Mini Maxi 2 and Lyra, Mini Maxi 3.
Next it was time for the 2021 Formula Kite and “A’s” Europeans, where there was 149 competitors from 29 nations on 5 continents. They were “pumped” to start on Day 1.

The 49er European Championships, just after they featured in the Olympics in Japan, went full tilt in Greece, and the Schultheis sisters had a storybook start to their first ever European Championships winning all three races.

After two full years of hiatus in the title events, the International Melges 24 Class returns to assign a main title: it was October 2019 when in  Perego’s Maidollis was crowned World Champion for the second time, and after that moment the pandemic stopped everything.