World on Water Oct 14.22 Foiling Off-Shore Maxi Flying Nikka, TP52, TF35, AC40, Middle Sea Race

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It’s Day 5 in the Lay Voiles de Saint-Tropez, and we see the the future of long distance maxi racing. It’s the Mark Mills designed, foiling, mini-maxi, Flying Nikka. It goes Up-wind at 20 knots, and Down at 30 knots. It’s a weapon.
The owner is Roberto Lacorte, and he is no ordinary owner. He’s Vice-president of the International Maxi Association, he is the founder of the popular 151 Miglia regatta, and a hugely successful owner-driver with a string of high-profile victories to his name, including the inaugural season’s trophy in the foiling, Persico F69, one-design.

This is the weekly Sailing World on Water, for October 14, 2022. We feature highlights of the sport released in the last seven days.

Where do you start in learning how to sail such a cutting-edge, and high-performance yacht? A good place is this ‘How to sail the AC40’ video, with Emirates Team New Zealand Helmsman, Nathan Outteridge.

An impressive international fleet of over 100 registered yachts from 25 countries are set to contest the 43rd edition of the renowned Rolex Middle Sea Race. This year also marks twenty years of the partnership between Rolex, the race, and its organizers the Royal Malta Yacht Club. .

Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing, won the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES, Scarlino title in Tuscany Italy, their third regatta triumph of the five event, 2022, 52 SUPER SERIES season. They overturned a one point deficit to triumph by five clear points ahead of Takashi Okura’s Sled, and now carry a five points lead going in to the 2022 season big finale, in Barcelona, in three weeks time.

The 800 sailors and 46 Maxis competing in week two, of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, managed to stay focused as they waited for the Eeasterly wind to pick up, and when it did, the teams of Georges Korhel, and the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, immediately sprang into action to launch the day’s race. Setting sail on a 20-mile, double looped circuit around the gulf.

The stage was set for a grand finale day of racing on the last day of the M32 World Championship. As all boats headed to the course the top 6 boats had clear intentions of spraying champagne and taking the trophy home as winners. Cascais delivered perfect conditions for the show with a solid north-westerly breeze of 16-20 knots.

In few weeks, 138 solo sailors will set sail for an Atlantic crossing between Saint-Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre, that they have been dreaming of for months, some for years. The Race is against the elements and race for time, La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe will crown the fastest in each category.

Winner of the TF35 Trophy overall is Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi Red Bull Racing, whose victories at the Swiss events in Mias and at the Genève-Rolle-Genève, followed by a second place last month in Malcesine northern Italy, gave them the points gap needed to win the 2022 season with an event to spare.

The salt has dried enough to get Emirates Team New Zealand’s Land Yacht, Horonuku, back out on the lake for another round of testing. The team managed to get four runs squeezed into the afternoon in a breeze of 15-18 knots which was good enough to clock 156kph.