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Flyer with details of New Zealand Regatta 2012.
Marseille is the capital of Provence, second city in France and the main
European port based on the Mediterranean.
Each year, between 30-40 wooden boats compete in the Classic Wooden
Boat Regatta which runs from the Old Port in Marseille around the islands
and along the coast in the beautiful Mediterranean waters – for 4 single
days competition (no offshore). All yachts competing in this Regatta must
have been built before 1949 in order to qualify. They are a sight to be
seen, and being a crew member is like being on a movie set!
See attached PDF for further info.
NEWSLETTER CLASSIC BOAT SHOW 2011 – 1
Classic Boat Show, 15th Edition: Keeping up the spirit
This year will be the 15th edition of the Classic Boat Show. It all began in a sports centre in Spakenburg in 1996 and has been a great success from the start. Then, moving around from Lelystad to Enkhuizen and Medemblik, the Show found its homeport in Enkhuizen. This traditional Herring City is easily accessible for the 75 participating ships. They can all moor on the Enkhuizer pier, the Gependam, which was built for chartering. For all these years, suppliers, craftsmen, motor traders and shipping assurance companies have found their way to Enkhuizen.
A huge marquis on the pier of Enkhuizen will accommodate over 150 exhibitors. Everything revolves around Classic Boats: a DIY kit for a Scottish sloop, and a wide variety of vessels inspired by traditional craftsmanship, from Lemsteraak to Kamper Kogge. You will find information about restoring, refurbishing and modern techniques for traditional shipbuilding. If you are interested in purchasing a vessel, you can view various models on site and take a trip to test the waters. Professional brokers can show you the ropes. And if you are interested in something brand new, you must visit the ship designer. The Classic Boat Show has it all.
Classic Boats: the beginning of the future
In this third jubilee year we are not just looking back but we look to the future. Professional and enthusiastic boat people are still restoring traditional ships, keeping our heritage at sea, so to speak. What we have been doing and promoting for years has become a hot item in world heritage that now has a National Re-designation Program. There may not have been such an impressive operational traditional fleet if it had not been for our visionary “spirit of tradition”, including classic boats made of wood, steel or polyester, aluminum or epoxy. This requires a good infrastructure, as well as our professional show. Therefore, this year’s show will focus on mooring facilities for traditional ships, costing and practical examples of passing on the tradition, skills and crafts to the next generations. The infrastructure includes many organisations for the preservation of traditional Dutch vessels and classes of boats and these organisations are, as always, the backbone of the Classic Boat Show.
Reassessing the National Register for Traditional Ships in Operation
The Dutch National Register (NRVM) has been assessing and classifying ships for over two decades. A crew of volunteers of the Federation of Traditional Dutch Ships (FONV) meticulously assess new vessels on traditional class criteria. The register already includes an impressive 2500 vessels. However, the assessment is not an easy matter and some vessels that have clear traditional value will not pass the test. To avoid this, more details should be taken into account. This complex and controversial issue is the topic of an informative FONV presentation of their polices: Saturday, November 5th at 14:30 on board of the ferry ‘Friesland’.
The Opening and Awards Ceremony
This third jubilee edition of the Classic Boat Show a special opening ceremony. We have the honour of welcoming the former Minister of Education, Culture & Science, Mr. Ronald Plasterk to officially open the 15th Classic Boat Show. His policy paper stated that mobile heritage – including maritime heritage, of course – is relevant for an integral heritage policy and proposes the modernization of the Dutch Heritage organization.
Spiegel der Zeilvaart-Classic Boat Challenge Trofee
The “Spiegel der Zeilvaart – Beurs Klassieke Schepen Challenge Trofee” will be awarded for the fourth time. This prestigious wooden cup is awarded to Marijke de Jong van Cadhead. De Jong has made an exceptional contribution to the leading role of the Dutch sailing tradition with her expertise in legislation, rigging and stability calculation. She was involved in the design of the rigging and throughts stands of the clipper ‘Stad Amsterdam’, and the ‘Kaatje’ of the Enkhuizen Maritime College, and more recently, she was responsible for the rigging design of the ‘Germania Nova’ and the ‘Wylde Swan’. De Jong developed a creative and efficient alternative stability calculation model for large and small charter boats. She teaches shipbuilding for large vessels and stability at the Enkhuizen Maritime College.
Liars corner, film and more exciting things to do
In this special jubilee edition of The Classic Boat Show we have a varied educational and cultural program. The traditional film barge rocks your imagination with its continuous program of maritime documentaries and fiction movies. Liars Corner is situated in the midst of the exhibition area and is a meeting place for our resident journalist Stephan Kraan and Sane van Eeghen who will be talking with maritime writers, captains, sailors, craftsmen and other water folk.
Full program details are available on our website www.klassieke-schepen.nl
BEURS KLASSIEKE SCHEPEN
ENKHUIZEN
4, 5 and 6 November 2011
Opening hours 10:00-18:00 hrs
Fairground next to the NS-Railway Station, Enkhuizen
Free parking facilities at the Zuiderzeemuseum carpark. From which a ferry will take you to the exhibition area on the Gependam
Entrance fee: € 10
For further information and the latest news: www.klassieke-schepen.nl
We look forward to welcoming you in Enkhuizen on 4, 5 and 6 November.
With kind regards,
Thedo Fruithof and Wim de Bruin
Regatta Report
The Fourth Metre & Classic Keelboat Regatta
Cowes Classics Week
Today saw the classic yacht Rawhiti launched at Auckland’s waterfront.
See link for more pictures, http://classicyacht.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1391
Non-Solent Classes Join the Metre & Classic Keelboat Regatta
Year-on-year this regatta has welcomed more classes and more boats to sail at Cowes. Last year the Yarmouth One Designs and Dragons attended for the first time. This year, in another milestone, two classes that are not Solent based will attend – the Mylne One Designs from the Royal Mersey Yacht Club and Loch Longs from Aldeburgh and Cove. The fact that boats now want to travel across the country to attend is a testament to the appeal of an event that brings together sailors with a shared passion for these boats. In the past, almost every major yacht club would have had their own one-design fleet and these boats live on and are celebrated through this community.
This year’s celebrations include the Centenary of the X One Design Class and the 50th Anniversary of the Daring class, so plenty to celebrate. The XODs will race for the Royal Victoria Cup which is awarded by the Royal London Yacht Club to any class with a significant anniversary to celebrate
Also new for 2011 will be a menagerie fleet – not all classes can always attend in force and some boats are one-offs, so this provides the means for any classic keelboat to race.
The 4th Metre & Classic Keelboat Regatta will be held 25-29 July 2011 in Cowes
Full details at www.cowesclassicsweek.org
Contact: David Elliott – david.elliott@cowesclassicsweek.org
Click below for the February 2011 edition of Sheerlines from CYANZ
Mystic Seaport Museum and Herreshoff Marine Museum announced today that they have entered into an agreement in which the Herreshoff Marine Museum and Mystic Seaport will become affiliated.
Mystic Seaport and the Herreshoff Marine Museum are entering into a broad collaborative relationship because each museum’s mission, assets, programs and aspirations are complementary with the other. The agreement provides both Museums with new opportunities to tell the broad story of the American maritime landscape. Both Museums will continue to operate independently with their existing assets, but will serve as resources to the other as needed and as agreed.
Under the agreement, Mystic Seaport and Herreshoff Marine Museum will work closely together in a number of important areas that will capitalize on Mystic Seaport’s well established expertise in areas such as collections management, curatorial and custodial support, and exhibitions. In addition, the Herreshoff Museum has named Mystic Seaport as its exclusive partner in developing exhibitions related to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame.
The Metre yachts and Flensburg Fjord have always had a very special relationship, and next year it will reach new heights at the eighth Rolex Baltic Week, when both the Robbe & Berking 12-Metre World Championship and the Eights’ world cup will be held here. The event will even see His Royal Highness Harald V of Norway take part at the helm of his 8-Metre yacht “Sira”.
In conjunction with Kieler Yacht-Club (KYC), Flensburger Segel-Club (FSC) will welcome the crème de la crème of these classic vessels – including those participating in the Robbe & Berking 6mR Sterling Cup – from 28 June to 3 July 2011. The 12-Metre owners first staged their World Championship in Gluecksburg in 2008 after the 8-Metres held their Euro Cup there in 2005.
The first official entry for a sailing regatta is always very special, but when that entry is filed by a member of a European royal family, it instantly brings a little extra gloss to even a top class event. King Harald V of Norway, who has been known and loved for decades as an excellent offshore sailor and passionate competitor, will come to Flensburg Fjord from his Oslo Fjord home waters. Besides being the owner and helmsman of a number of top notch regatta boats named “Fram”, the Norwegian monarch will pay tribute to his love of classic boats by taking “Sira” (launched in 1938) with sail number NOR 33 to the starting line. Boat captain Kjell A. Myrann was responsible for dispatching the entry form for the seven-man crew skippered by the King, and he also announced a support boat. Whether it will be the Royal Yacht “Norge” who will come to the Rolex Baltic Week, remains as yet open.
Norwegian insiders have let on that as many as three 12-Metre yachts might accompany their royal team to Flensburg. The competition for the Twelves – an America’s Cup class from 1958 to 1987 – will take place on familiar waters for Gluecksburg’s two gems. Both “Sphinx”, built 1939 and relaunched in 2008 following extensive restoration, and “Anitra” (1928), which has been returned to its former glory after an equally lengthy makeover, have chosen Flensburg Fjord as their home ground. This means that in the midst of this top-notch fleet, we will see an exciting intra-club duel in this majestic class.
However, the number one favourite is “Nyala” (1938), with the American sail number US-12, which took the prize back in 2008. Owned by the Italian Prada boss Patrizio Bertelli, the Twelve is usually crewed by a professional team with America’s Cup experience. At the event two years ago, the fashion tsar beat “Trivia” (1937), belonging to Hamburg-based internet pioneer Wilfried Beeck. In 2010, “Trivia” won the Robbe & Berking 12mR Sterling Cup ahead of both “Sphinx” and Patrick Howaldt’s “Vanity V” (1936) from the Royal Danish Yacht Club Copenhagen (RDYC) in a thrilling conclusion to the Rolex Baltic Week.
Also expected to go head to head are Hamburg’s “Heti” and “Erna Signe” from Sandefjord in Norway. Both ships belong to the “Antique” division, meaning they date back to the early days of the Metre classes. The grand old lady from Norway will be celebrating her 100th birthday next year. What could be better than taking part in the World Championship to mark the occasion? Not to be outdone by “Heti”, “Erna Signe” is a mere 99 years old. “Heti’s” design and gaff rig sail plan alone give away her age, however, as the vessel has undergone years of restoration by the Hamburg Maritime Association as part of its youth training project “Jugend in Arbeit”. She has been back on the water with her historic rigging for several years.
Flensburg won over the race organisers from the International Eight Metre Association (IEMA) to be selected as their World Championship hosts, ahead of bids from France and Italy. “The 8-Metre class association was delighted to accept the FSC’s offer to host the World Cup. We were very impressed by our positive experiences both back in 2005 and at the Euro Cup during the Rolex Baltic Week 2010,” said Andreas Lochbrunner from Lindauer Segler-Club, who welcomed the fleet of Eights in 2006 for the World Championship on Lake Constance. He also praised the smooth collaboration between the two host clubs, FSC and KYC.
Lochbrunner, who is the owner of the 8-Metre “Elfe”, expects a large fleet of at least 15 boats to enter the Flensburg Fjord event. “With the Twelves holding their World Championship at the same time, the only problem is that it is more difficult for some owners to take part as they are active in both classes. We will do our best to organise charters to help out,” Lochbrunner promises. He certainly plans to enter with his unusual boat – the smart Abeking & Rasmussen design is the only double-masted Eight. The ketch also features a rare wishbone rig.
Once again, “Elfe” will face Richard Gervé’s “Sposa” in a Lindauer SC intra-club contest. Like “Elfe”, the gaff-rigged yacht was constructed in 1912 and is therefore classed in the First Rule division (vessels built between 1907 and 1919). Following the Rolex Baltic Week 2010, “Sposa” stayed up north, meaning she will be ready to race in 2011 without the need for land transport. Andreas Lochbrunner hopes that other First Rule division yachts will enter the competition. They could include “Lucky Girl”, built by William Fife III, which was completed in 1910 and is now shipshape again following refurbishment. Owned by Siegfried Buss, she sails under the British flag but is berthed on Lake Constance. Another candidate, “Edit” belonging to Wilhelm Wagner from Bodman, will turn 100 next year. She was also built in Finland in 1911 based on a design by Alfred Mylne for the Olympic Games, which wer e held in the Swedish capital Stockholm in the following year.
“Classic” Eights (vessels built between 1920 and 1966) will make up the largest division. “We fully expect to see a number of ships from Scandinavia. There are lots of classic Eights in Finland alone,” explains Lochbrunner. It goes without saying that the “Modern” 8-Metre yachts (built between 1967 and the present day) are expected to be the fastest on the regatta course. The organisers expect a field of three or four modern vessels in this attractive, classic design to pit themselves against their historic predecessors. Favourites include the Swiss “YQuem II” owned by Jean Fabre, which triumphed at the 8-Metre Euro Cup in summer 2010 during the Rolex Baltic Week in Kiel. Her greatest competitor is expected to be Iris Metten’s “Aluette” (constructed in 1995 and also from Switzerland), which bagged a third World Championship title in Toronto, Canada in 2010 – assuming the yacht is transported back to Eu rope from North America.
Approximately 20 Eights could line up under starter’s orders in Gluecksburg. They will sail windward-leeward courses within sight of the shore. The ORC World Championship races in September 2010 showed that the idyllic inner fjord between Germany and Denmark is an ideal venue. Both the Robbe & Berking 12-Metre and 8-Metre World Championships are due to consist of nine races, which will commence on 29 June. The FSC’s Principal Race Officer Claus-Otto Hansen is already looking forward to the competition: “The Rolex Baltic Week 2011 will be an outstanding event which will further establish Flensburg Fjord’s good reputation as a championship venue.”
The Royal Southampton Yacht Club and the J Class Association are pleased to announce details of the Regatta Programme planned for July 2012. With the possibility of six, or even eight J Class yachts racing, this is expected to be an outstanding regatta, both for the competitors and spectators.
A three-day competitive round the cans race Series is planned in and around the Solent on 18-20 July 2012, which can be viewed from the many vantage points along the shore and on the water.This Series will culminate with a prizegiving at the RSYC Clubhouse in Ocean Village, Southampton on Friday 20 July.
On Saturday 21 July, the fleet will assemble in the central Solent, again under the flag of the RSYC for the start of the Hundred Guinea Cup – a race around the Isle of Wight over the original course of the America’s Cup in 1851. Clockwise and without a time limit, this time it will include the Nab Tower.
Peter Armitage,Commodore, Royal Southampton Yacht Club, said: “With strong tides and complex navigational decisions, the 2012 Solent Regatta will be a great challenge to the Captains and crews. RSYC is looking forward to running the racing for the largest J Class fleet ever seen on their ‘home waters’ of the Solent and planning is already well under way. We also look forward to welcoming everyone at our Ocean Village Clubhouse – which will boast a fully-staffed media centre – and at our Gins Clubhouse on the Beaulieu River.”
Finding suitable deep-water berthing and appropriate shoreside facilities for such a large fleet is often a challenge. Solent Refit, the new superyacht base on Southampton Water, has been selected as it is ideal and importantly, can berth all the fleet together. For spectators, the yachts can be viewed from the seaward side, together with their many beautiful support vessels.
Just 10 J Class yachts were constructed, six in the USA and four in England. There were other designs produced but not built. During this period there were never more than four J yachts racing together. Only three originals survived the Second World War – Shamrock V, Endeavour and Velsheda. They rested and rotted in mud berths, until their rebuild and rebirth as 21st Century racing superyachts.
With the formation of the J Class Association (JCA) in 2000, the possibility existed for replicas from history to be built and race again. New yachts have been launched and some are under construction. Most of these projects are expected to be completed by 2012, creating a fleet of the biggest, finest racing yachts the world has ever seen. Rainbow is expected to launch in 2011 and could line up against Endeavour, repeating the historic races for the America’s Cup of 1934.
Southampton, Shamrock Quay, the Hamble River, Gosport, Cowes and the Solent all feature prominently in the rich history of this Class.