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"4. Have a surf and leave immediately, don't chat with mates in the car park. Call them on your phone."
Surfing Australia delivers highly anticipated Covid-19 guide: "Don't change in the parking lot. Wrap your towel around yourself and go home!"
2. Wax up and prepare at home.
Common sense is hard to come by these days, what with toddlers being arrested for standing on the beach in South Africa and the police opening fire on surfers in Costa Rica but the fog of pandemic may be starting to lift all thanks to Surfing Australia.
The southern hemisphere nation's official governing body just released its highly anticipated guide for surfers to survive, even thrive, without endangering each other or other overweight 80 + diabetics with underlying heart conditions.
We have been embroiled in this pandemic for roughly three-months, now, but quality takes time and without further ado, let's learn how then to surf in the time of Coronavirus.
1. Surf the spot closest to your home ONLY.
2. Wax up and prepare at home. Put on your wetsuit, boardies and other gear at home before driving to the beach.
3. Follow physical distancing at all times coming and going to the beach. For example, if you have a narrow path to the beach wait an extra minute for it to clear before you walk down.
4. Have a surf and leave immediately, don't chat with mates in the car park. Call them on your phone.
5. If the surfing spot is overcrowded – don't go out
6. Don't paddle next to someone like you would normally. Give them more space.
7. CRITICAL CHANGE – take it in turns. Do not paddle back over to the peak after catching a wave. Wait your turn patiently on the shoulder.
8. Don't change in the parking lot. Wrap your towel around yourself and go home.
Very common sensical but a few quick questions.
What if your car is very hot and doesn't have air-conditioning and all the wax melts off on the way to the beach? Simply tough luck?
What if your mates have left their phones at home and/or aren't teenaged girls?
What if everyone becomes too polite and patiently crowds the shoulder?
Might hospital emergency rooms become overwhelmed with surfers developing yeast infections due wearing wetsuits in very hot cars?
Just a few thoughts and I'm wondering if Surfing USA will address when it releases its guidelines?
Watch: Progressive equal opportunity sharks surround paralympic swimmer out training; inspire a record-smashing 100 meter dash!
"I think they were the 100 metres where I most put my heart and soul into swimming in my life."
Inspiration has been difficult to come by in these days of our Covid lives. Distanced from other people, forced behind masks, living in a pixilated Zoom world that once felt futuristic but now feels like a collaboration between Max Headroom and Bill Murray's Groundhog Day.
Rough times.
Lines of poetry gone unfinished.
Potentially masterful works of art collecting dust on easels.
Well, we always have the animal kingdom when our humanity needs a spark and thus we travel to Spain where a brave teenaged paralympic swimmer was training off Costa Brava.
The Rough Coast.
Ariel Schrenck Martinez, who has one arm and one leg, and a member of Spain's paralympic B-Swim Team was going through the paces, trying to find some incentive, with his mother on the beach filming.
Suddenly she saw not one but two shark fins, tracking her boy.
Like any good mother, she began screaming loudly.
Martinez told TV channel Antena 3 Deportes: "My mum started to shout like a crazy woman that there were sharks in the water.
"At that moment my body started panicking terribly and I started swimming like a madman."
"I think I was 100 metres from the shore. I think they were the 100 metres where I most put my heart and soul into swimming in my life. I'm not in top shape and I almost died sprinting to the shore."
Video footage that Martinez crushed the previous 100 meter paralympic record of 47.68 held by Ihar Boki of Belarus and there is little doubt that he will be bumped up to the A-Team in time for the 2021 Tokyo Games and surfing's grand debut.
Now it is your turn. Take the wonderful story of Ariel Schrenck Martinez and use it to fuel the best Zoom call of your life today, in turn inspiring one of your colleagues to really smash it tomorrow.
Eventually all of humanity will be back to doing what we do best.
Doing Zoom calls in person.
Let's give 'er hell!
Happy Great White, caught, tagged and released a click out to sea, at Tuncurry. | Photo: @nsw_sharksmart
Miracle: The Australian "Great White superhighway" where sharks happily co-exist alongside surfers and swimmers!
Come to a joint crawling with Whites and where no one gets hurt…
A week ago, "terrifying" and "chilling" drone footage emerged of two Great Whites swimming under three surfers at Tuncurry, a pretty little fishing town with an occasionally good beachbreak four hours north of Sydney.
(Watch here.)
A local drone pilot regularly patrols the skies above the main beach in town and what everyone thought but couldn't prove until he got his little chopper into the sky, was that the place is crawling with Great Whites.
I've riffed on it here; Chas did it here.
What recent headlines ("Death lies beneath!") miss, I think, is the obvious conclusion from recent events.
Great Whites, at least the squad that patrols this stretch of beach, find little of value in the bones of human beings, something the surfers involved in the rumpus were quick to realise.
"We could hear a drone going and I'm like 'where is that coming from?' And we turned around and there's a dude running down the beach to come wave us out of the water yelling 'there's two Whites behind you!'"one of the surfers told Channel Nine's The Today Show.
"I actually found it quite reassuring that they're not interested in us, they were just swimming past and happened to run into us," said another.
"I reckon it happens on a near daily basis here," said the third.
He ain't wrong.
A recent six-month smart drum line trial run along the area's beaches caught, and released, sixty-five Great Whites, two Tigers, no Bulls, and seventeen "non-target" sharks including five absolutely stunning thresher sharks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZxUaJBm_J/
And, still, not a bite, a nudge, nothing, in Tuncurry.
Unlike at Boomerang Beach, a few clicks south.
This story'll put the wind up ya, as they say in these parts.
Water, precious as hell, as always.
Revealed: The staggering cost to fill a wavepool with water!
Seventy-eight million litres or twenty million gallons of precious raindrops…
You ever wonder how much water goes into a wave tank 'cause they big, yeah?
How much you think it costs to turn the hose on and fill the hole?
The Morning Bulletin, a daily newspaper that services Central Queensland, which includes Yeppoon, home of an experimental wavepool powered by a giant plunger, has reported of an imbroglio between the pool's owners and local council over whether the pool should continue to receive a discounted rate for water.
The numbers are pretty wild.
See, from 2017 to last September, Surf Lakes and the Livingstone Shire Council had an agreement that gave Surf Lakes cheap water ($1.30 per thousand litres or 0.004 cents a gallon) because the company said it "could bring substantial future economic activity and benefit to the region".
The pool, which takes seventy-eight million litres to fill, or "over nine times the average daily water consumption for the entire shire", paid $102,078.60 for the initial fill, a saving of fifty-grand from the usual commercial rate
Since September, however, that rate went up to a little over two bucks.
As the Morning Bully reports,
"It would appear the reasons relied upon by Council to support the initial request are no longer relevant, or at least significantly diminished," the April 2019 LSC council report read.
The unlikelihood of the facility ever opening to Capricorn Coast surfers has made the project a point of community contention.
The newly formed council with new Mayor Andy Ireland confirmed the newly formed council will re-assess the agreement later this year.
The Slater pool in dusty ol Lemoore, meanwhile, takes sixty-eight mill litres to fill; the Wavegarden tanks in Bristol and Melbourne, twenty-two mill.
Great news USA! We have signed an exclusive territory agreement in Tennessee so we look forward to bringing waves and the beach to the country. Enjoy the stoke! #USA #surflakesusa #wavepool #stoked
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No one knows the etiquette, no one wants to follow rules, it's all about the escape and don't fucking tread on me in the process. Hit that pipe. Click that Amazon purchase. Post that comment. Bring that soft top into waist-high mush. Endorphin rush all day long – living the dream, baby.
Report from hillbilly USA: "More bigotry, meanness and narrow-mindedness towards others in the water, especially if they have no idea how to surf!"
By Derek Hynds Missing Fins
"Hit that pipe. Click that Amazon purchase. Post that comment. Bring that soft top into waist-high mush. Endorphin rush all day long – living the dream, baby."
I live on a one-bridge on, one-bridge off barrier island that is open to the tidal ebbs and flows, and for a few months each fall the hurricanes, of the Atlantic.
There are hundreds of these islands that run from North Carolina down into Florida. Many were, and some still are, the sea islands known for being homes of Gullah Geechee peoples, descendants of enslaved Africans brought to port near where I live.
This suggests that at some point these islands used to have soul.
Today, though, it's a chaos of white people whiting at the beach.
You see, for two months the island was accessible only to locals or workers, enforced by a checkpoint at the bridge.
No ID or papers? You're not getting on.
It's a local municipality, so the council and mayor can make these decisions on behalf of the safety of the taxpayers that live here.
Funny thing, though — it seems keeping people locked up for two months and then letting the beach back open because our state governor thinks it's a good idea to spread the virus some more brings out the masses.
Two months of bliss out here — no footprints on the beach. No trash. No light pollution. No bass booming from tinted windows as wannabe white gangsters drive by.
No Pan-Asian chicken salads.
And the only surfers? Those who live on the island.
And we still need to add the secret ingredient, a result of the island selling its own soul beginning about twenty years ago. All the old hippie and biker shacks that were affordable for food and beverage and college folks and single moms and artists to rent — flipped for million-dollar mansions that house either retirees or are letted out weekly for Airbnb.
Take away this Airbnb traffic and it's a ghost land.
Like going back 30 years. Abundant wildlife. Quiet.
No footprints on the beach. Paradise on an island.
But open it all back up, and it's chaos.
Made worse yesterday and today because of a for these parts fun little hit of south swell. Water now up over 70 F, and the outside temp at about 85 F and sunny.
And every aspiring surfer cooped up for the past two months in the region now out in front of my house.
Cigarette butts and beer cans on the beach. Parked tourist cars jammed all up in yards. Plastic beach toys littered everywhere. Dolphins and rays and pelicans scared away.
And in the water? SUPs, boogies, soft tops, longboards, shortboards, even a fucking foil board.
The problem with gentle waist-to-stomach-high lappers in warm water is there's no scare factor, nor requisite level of surfing skill.
Nathan Fletcher once said anyone on an 8'6" can paddle out at ten-foot Pipe and try to get a wave, because there are so few takers.
Not here. It's the opposite.
Because it's possible to walk into the lineup, people do.
And they're clueless.
It's a microcosm of the macrocosm of our world right now — no one knows the etiquette, no one wants to follow rules, it's all about the escape and don't fucking tread on me in the process.
Hit that pipe. Click that Amazon purchase. Post that comment. Bring that soft top into waist-high mush. Endorphin rush all day long – living the dream, baby.
For about two months, some of that old soul I remember snuck back into what's left of my community.
Felt like the 1990s all over again, before cell phones and when there were only about 3.5 billion people on this planet, give or take.
It was even possible, if my wife and I had sex anymore, to have snuck onto the empty beach at sunset and had a thirty-second root as the pelicans flew by.
All for naught.
That great wordsmith of letters Mark Twain opined: "It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction."
Well, Mr. Twain, you've never been out in the lineup with five hundred kooks packed shoulder to shoulder, all who traveled to my home during a pandemic.
After two months of a touch of soul creeping back onto this sea island, I'm all for a bit more bigotry, meanness and narrow-mindedness towards others in the water, especially if they have no idea how to surf.
For my opinionated, self-conceited sanity, please stay home, and keep your nine-foot weekend warrior board, your trash, your shit music, and your COVID germs with you.
Surfing Australia delivers highly anticipated Covid-19 guide: "Don't change in the parking lot. Wrap your towel around yourself and go home!"
Miracle: The Australian "Great White superhighway" where sharks happily co-exist alongside surfers and swimmers!
Report from hillbilly USA: "More bigotry, meanness and narrow-mindedness towards others in the water, especially if they have no idea how to surf!"


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Greasing Up The Third Eye / 4:01
Little Carnivores / 9:57
"Best record I've heard in a long time - each song wrapped in it's own unique foil of odd old colors that get brighter each time you hear - every song worth a good long soak." – M. Ward
"10 seconds to collapse is brilliant - Tim Rutili and Craig Ross make music of unhinged genius and bruised beauty" – Mark Lanegan
"Melancholy humor, playful messy bombast - it gets the car running then drives it into a ditch to stagger naked into the woods. This is a vast and unpredictable ride. Listen loud ." – Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater)
On their previous effort, 2016's Guitars Tuned To Air Conditioners, songwriters Tim Rutili and Craig Ross built a long-form drone, a study in electricity and tension. Their followup LP, 10 Seconds To Collapse takes a different tact: its seven songs employ deconstructed pop melodies, blown-out folk rock, and woozy psychedelia. A true collaboration — Ross and Rutili split songwriting, lyrical, and instrumentation duties — it rings with a melodic complexity befitting its skewed, sidewise narrative, black comedy rumination about the end of the world, prisons, desert cities, and errant gods.
"When we were making the record, a lot of our humor came out, these very apocalyptic, dystopian jokes," Rutili says. "I think that that found its way into the music."
The two began working together on Stitches, the 2013 album by Rutili's long-running collective Califone. Applying the equal division of labor that defined Guitars Tuned To Air Conditioners to mutated sing-song melodies, 10 Seconds To Collapse was assembled over a long stretch, with Rutili visiting Ross' Austin, Texas, studio over the course of two years.
"We'd get together in small batches of time…we'd sit and make sound and record and write and then not see each other for six months," Ross says.
Initially, Rutili conceived the record as a collection of Ross' songs. "Craig's got all this unfinished, beautiful little pieces of music…loops and sounds and things," Rutili says.
But quickly the recording sessions began to represent something more, a chance for artist communication and an opportunity to wriggle free from imagined constraints.
The two tore into their compositions, rearranging and breaking them down, navigating the spaces between familiarity and experimentation. While the duo shared a vocabulary of pop references — you can hear evocative strains of AM gold in songs like "Choke" and "The Day Before the Peaches Rot," and gorgeous balladry on "Back to the Plow" and album closer "Little Carnivores" — it was in the untangling of familiar themes that they found the resonant strangeness that defines the record, that makes it as rollicking as it is apocalyptic. Like the album's cover art, which features pop art cut-ups by Shane Swank, it recontextualizes fantastical images in surprising, daring ways.
"We really tried to fuck some things up," Rutili laughs. "To fuck something up that would have been more traditional made it more personal."
TIM RUTILI is the founder and principal songwriter for Califone & Red Red Meat
CRAIG ROSS is a producer, songwriter and collaborator who has worked with Shearwater, Lisa Germano, Spoon, Patty Griffin, Robert Plant, Daniel Johnston.
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The History of the Original Single-handed Transatlantic Race
The founders of the OSTAR 1960
The Creation of the OSTAR
In 1956 Blondie Hasler became interested in the challenges of offshore singlehanded sailing – "one man, one boat, the ocean…". Over the next few years he conceived of a transatlantic race against the prevailing winds and currents whose purpose was to develop the necessary seamanship, equipment and techniques.
He had interested several competitors, but was unable to find an organiser or sponsor willing to move from the familiar full-crewed or 'cruise in company' racing to such a dangerous sounding innovation. His press release of November 1959 proclaimed "Described by one experienced yachtsman as 'the most sporting event of the century' a transatlantic race for single-handed sailing boats will start from the south coast of England on Saturday 11 June 1960 and will finish off Sheepshead Bay, in the approaches to New York, at least a month later".
Blondie and Francis Chichester agreed that should no sponsor be found they would go ahead with the race anyway and each competitor would wager half-a-crown; winner take all. But Blondie persevered and, with Francis, approached the RWYC and got a positive response from the Rear Commodore Jack Odling-Smee.
With a yacht club of repute to take on the organisation of the race, Blondie obtained the sponsorship of The Observer newspaper and so the RWYC Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race for the Observer Trophy, or OSTAR, came about.
With sponsor and organiser in place, the half crown wager was no longer required but its proposal was recognised later when the Half Crown Club was created to honour the intrepid sailors who have competed in an OSTAR.
OSTAR Records & Results
1960 – The first STAR, the birth of singlehanded transoceanic racing
Over a hundred declarations of intent were received by the organisers and in the end eight boats entered but only five boats crossed the start line off Plymouth, and remarkably all five reached New York on the other side of the 'pond'.
Self-steering gear was in its most basic homemade form, roller-reefing sails were just a dream and there were no satellite navigation systems or weather routing, just hand-held compasses and sextants.
The five pioneer yachtsmen took very different options, with Blondie Hasler (Jester 25ft) opting for an extreme Northern route, Francis Chichester (Gipsy Moth III 40ft) and David Lewis (Cardinal Vertue 25ft) on the Great Circle route and Val Howells (Eira 25ft) and Jean Lacombe (Cap Horn 21.5ft) on the Azores route.
Little was heard from the competitors during the race (the boats had been provided with short-range radio transmitters but these were of little use) and fears grew for their safety but, finally, after 40 days Chichester arrived. "Every time I tried to point Gipsy Moth at New York the wind blew dead on the nose" said Chichester. "It was like trying to reach a doorway with a man in it aiming a hose at you. It was much tougher than I thought."
Hasler reached New York in 48 days but second place was no disappointment. He had proved that his self-steering system was more than efficient to handle the 25ft Jester with a single Chinese lugsail on an unstayed mast, and claimed he had only had to take the tiller for one hour of the entire journey.
Jean Lacombe was the final skipper to arrive, in 74 days, having started 5 days after the others. His Cap Horn was the smallest boat in the race and he had been delayed in Le Havre by bad weather. With an earlier east-west single-handed transatlantic crossing (in an 18ft boat), Lacombe (a Frenchman living in New York) was possibly the most experienced oceanic competitor on the race.
Three other yachtsmen had entered but were unable to start. American yacht designer Arthur Piver sailed his trimaran (Nimble, 30ft) across but did not arrive in time. Walter Kaminski, from Berlin, suffered damage to his yacht (26ft cutter Sayonara) while being shipped to England. Mike Ellison withdrew his 34ft cutter (Blue Haze) considering it not ready for the crossing.
1960 OSTAR Entries
Started 5
Nationalities 2
1960 OSTAR Winner
Winner Francis Chichester
Nationality GBR
Yacht Name Gipsy Moth III
Hull Type Mono
Time 40d 12h 30m
1964 – A legend is born
The second OSTAR in 1964 was the launch pad for one of the most influential figures in the history of single-handed sailing, the development of sailing as a sport in France and in offshore race boat design. In 1960 Francis Chichester had managed the crossing in 40 days, then a 32 year-old French naval lieutenant Eric Tabarly won the 1964 race taking just 27 days aboard his 44ft ketch Pen Duick II.
A total of seventeen yachtsmen entered the race. All those who sailed in the first race were back again, though only Francis Chichester and Blondie Hasler were sailing the same boats. Val Howells sailed a 35 foot steel cutter, Akka, a production yacht he was delivering to America; David Lewis switched to a catamaran Rehu Moana, one of three multihulls in the race; and Jean Lacombe had moved from the 21 foot Cap Horn to his new 22 foot glass fibre sloop Golif. Mike Ellison, who failed to start in the first race, was back in a larger boat Ilala(36 ft).
Two yachts were unable to compete: Arthur Piver was unable to deliver his trimaran from the US in time and so missed his second OSTAR; Charles McLendon, an American living in London, suffered a fire on his 48' ketch Morna – which would have been the largest boat in the race.
Two changes were introduced for the second race: the finish line was switched from New York to Newport, Rhode Island, so the competitors could avoid the marine traffic at New York; and a prize was awarded for fastest monohull on corrected time (using a handicap based on waterline length).
Two event occurred that were to be repeated in future races – two collisions, one with a spectator boat and another with a whale. Val Howells (Akka) was rammed by a spectator boat after the start and had to return for repairs. Five days out while contestting for second place a few miles behind Eric Tabarly, Derer Kelsall (Folatre) struck what he presumed was a whale, damaging a rudder and daggerboard. He returned to Plymouth for repairs then restarted finishing a creditable 34 days later.
Publicity from the first OSTAR turned the second race into a media circus with a number of the 15 competitors signed up by national newspapers to provide regular progress reports by radio. The crowds at the start brought about the first collision between a spectator boat and a competitor, Val Howells, who had to return for repairs.
Tabarly, the only Frenchman in the race, was the sailor's favourite for the race with the advantage of sailing the largest boat and the only one purpose-built for the event. He had also carried out an in-depth study of the weather and physically was very fit. On a route close to the Great Circle and without the strong storms that had characterised the first edition, he reached Newport three days before Francis Chichester.
Arriving in Newport, Rhode Island he had no prior knowledge of his win – he had not used his radio during the race – and almost as a passing comment let slip that his self-steering system had only worked for the first 8 days of the 27 days it took him to complete the course.
At a depressed time in France, Tabarly became an overnight hero and for his endeavour was presented with his country's highest honour, the Legion d'Honneur, by President de Gaulle. France's love affair with solo offshore racing had begun.
Started 15
Finished 14
Winner Eric Tabarly
Nationality FRA
Yacht Name Pen Duick II
1968 – Storms and the introduction (and banning) of weather routing
The race became truly international with a total of 35 competitors from as far afield as Sweden, Germany, USA and South Africa to add to the usual British and French entries. The starters included the 1964 winner Eric Tabarly, in his revolutionary trimaran Pen Duick IV, the first woman entrant, Edith Baumann from West Germany in her sloop Koala III, and the Frenchman Joan de Kat in his sloop Yaksha. Of these three, Tabarly retired at the end of the first week; de Kat's yacht broke up, and he was rescued after a vast air and sea search lasting three days; and Edith Baumann was rescued off the Azores.
This race that proved what a tough proposition the OSTAR can be. During the race the North Atlantic was swept by a massive depression bringing with it 60 knot, storm force winds. Many competitors hove to, dropping all but a storm jib to sit out the terrible conditions.
Only one competitor made a significant gain by taking advantage of the rules, which had not outlawed weather routeing (at that time it was not considered viable for solo skippers). Before satellite communications, on board internet access or web-based weather sites, Geoffrey Williams racing the monohull Sir Thomas Lipton was the first to use weather routing. Via a hefty high-frequency radio, Williams would communicate with meteorologists at Bracknell who were running weather models using a very early computer and would provide him with forecasts. Warned of the storm, Williams sailed north missing the brunt of it and gained an estimated 300 miles over his competitors in the process. Williams went on to win the race despite some controversy at the end when he sailed the wrong course – Williams missed a vital part of the skippers briefing when an amendment to the sailing instructions was issued to round the Nantucket Light Vessel on approach to finish. As the Race Committee had not published the amendment in writing, grounds for any protest were weak. In a display of great sportsmanship, no other skipper protested him. Weather routing was banned from subsequent races.
While one multihull had entered in 1960 (but was unable to start) and three had competed in 1964, in 1968 there were no fewer than 13 multihulls (although only five completed the course), including a 65ft (20m) "monster" (Pen Duick IV) entered by Eric Tabarly. But his trimaran lacked preparation following the social unrest of May 1968 in France, forcing him to retire. The best multihull was a proa Cheers designed by an as yet unknown American, Dick Newick, and raced by Tom Follet who finished in an amazing third place.
This edition was a sign of a new era to come.
Winner Geoffrey Williams
Yacht Name Sir Thomas Lipton
1972 – The multihull age
After 1968 a 500-mile qualification passage became obligatory. 55 boats qualified for the fourth edition of the race.
Eric Tabarly's Pen Duick IV had retired from the 1968 race, but in the intervening years prior to the 1972 OSTAR she had been tested and developed and then sold to former crewman Alain Colas, another icon of early French single-handed sailing.
In contrast to the 1968 race the North Atlantic threw up only one brief gale and it was perhaps due to the light conditions and skill of her skipper that Colas was able to steer his 67ft trimaran across the line first in the remarkable time of 20 days and 13 hours – five days faster than Geoffrey Williams' four years earlier. In the process, Colas beat the giant monohull Jean-Yves Terlain's 128ft Vendredi Treize by 16 hours. With Colas' victory and other multihulls taking third, fifth and sixth places, the future of ocean-going racing catamarans and trimarans was sealed. With the exception of the 1976 race, all the subsequent single-handed transatlantic races have been won by multihulls and today they are the undisputed champions of the ocean.
Developed by the pioneering Tabarly, Pen Duick IV was a boat well ahead of her time, despite her aluminium construction and beams that appeared to have been made from scaffolding. Tabarly had been inspired to commission her after sailing on board Derek Kelsall's trimaran Toria, winner of the first two-handed Round Britain and Ireland race in 1966. With no keel for ballast, a racing multihull's lightweight requires less power to drive it and is therefore easier for the single-hander to manage. Rigged as a ketch, Pen Duick IV was originally fitted with rotating masts to improve the flow of air over her mainsails – a prelude to the rotating wing masts that would become standard on future trimarans.
As for Colas this same boat would take him around the world single-handed and into the history books the following year. Tragically, while competing in the first Route du Rhum in 1978, both boat and skipper were lost for reasons unknown.
Marie-Claude Fauroux (Aloa VII) was the first woman to finish the course coming 14th after nearly 33 days at sea, while her fellow colleague Anne Michailof racing PS was the last to cross the line, finishing just a few hours before the time limit of 60 days.
Nationalities 10
Winner Alain Colas
Yacht Name Pen Duick IV
Hull Type Tri
1976 – Bigger boats and bigger fleet, controversy and tragedy
Even before the start, the storm was brewing. Controversy exploded around the entry of Alain Colas' gigantic monohull Club Mediterranée that measured in at 236ft (72m). Few believed that a boat this size could be sailed safely by one man without being a risk to himself and others at sea, and many saw the race as getting out of control. A total of 125 boats crossed the start line in a shadow of sadness at the death of one of the competing skippers wives. Mike McMullen, an ex-marine commando, had bought Three Cheers from Tom Follet and had tragically witnessed his wife accidentally electrocute herself as she helped prepare the boat just days before the start. Sadly, McMullen and Three Cheers disappeared during the race.
Five low pressure systems followed each other one after the other, relentlessly generating an average wind speed of 35 knots and a raging, chaotic, short, crossed sea for over a week. The fleet were decimated with the well-chronicled retirement of Yvon Fauconnier (ITT Oceanicpreviously Vendredi Treize) and the break-up of Jean-Yves Terlain's 70ft catamaran Kriter II. Two skippers were lost at sea in the storms – Mike Flanagan and the recently bereaved Mike McMullen. Only 73 of the 125 starters finished the race within the time limit.
Eric Tabarly racing his 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI had at one stage considered turning back when his self-steering gear failed. But the 1964 winner found new strength and crossed the finish line first in dramatic circumstances. With no sight or sound of Tabarly since the start concerns had been growing for his safety but he appeared out of the fog in Newport just as the French navy were on the verge of launching a full-scale search operation. Alain Colas' Club Mediterranée stopped in Newfoundland for repairs to the rigging and then also had to take a penalty for accepting a tow that relegating him to 5th place overall, although he crossed the line in second. Another amazing performance came from Canadian Mike Birch on the "tiny" 31ft trimaran, The Third Turtle. He crossed the line in third but was finally awarded second place. Multihulls had staked their claim in storm-force windward conditions – there could be little to stop them now.
Started 125
Yacht Name Pen Duick VI
1980 – The Americans oust the French
Under pressure from the 'experts of the day', and concerns of possible intervention by the Board of Trade, the organisers had imposed a restriction on length (56ft) and on the number of entries (110 boats) following the 1976 edition. The race committee chairman, Jack Odling-Smee announced that the decision had been reached for three reasons, the final one being "We have set the class limits to try to adhere to the original concept of the race, which is to defeat the ocean rather than the other competitors."
However the use of the expensive ARGOS tracking system, primarily for safety reasons, resulted in the sponsors (the Observer and radio station Europe 1) using the regular position reports to reinforce the competitive nature of the race. A number of the new transmitters failed during the race causing some concern over the 'missing' yachts – a problem that continues to the present.
Many potential competitors had to be turned away and, in the event, ninety competitors started. Incidents came immediately. Most unfortunate was Florence Arthaud who lost her mast before even reaching the start. Tom Grossman (Kriter VII) collided with Garuda but after hurried repairs to a float managed to restart the following afternoon.
There was a noticeable drop (26 to 16) in French participation who, upset by the restrictions in force, favoured the new solo transatlantic race, the Route du Rhum, created by Frenchman Michael Etevenon. Only one French skipper, Daniel Gilard, appeared in the top 10 finishers; although in 14th was a new rising star Olivier de Kersauson on Kriter VI. What did dominate the top 10 finishers, were the multihulls including the unofficial entry of Marc Pajot racing Tabarly's "futuristic" foiler Paul Ricard. Tabarly had to withdraw from the race due to a skiing injury and Pajot, unable to complete the qualification in time, raced as an unofficial entry crossing the line in fifth. In fact, the top five slots were filled with multihulls but it was, above all, the "American Multihull School" that emerged victorious with the veteran of the race, the 100% 'Corinthian entry' Phil Weld (Moxie) who finished in 17 days, 23 hours and 12 minutes, plus Phil Steggall (Jeans Foster) and Walter Greene (Cassettes Olympia).
Phil Weld had carried a detailed study of North Atlantic weather and, balancing this with the known abilities of Moxie, he came up with his own route: south of 45°N 35°W and through 43°N 50°W – the Weld Waypoints.
The weather conditions were ideal at the start with a northerly flow for almost ten days enabling the leaders to sail more than half the course with the wind abeam, an extremely favourable situation for the trimarans. Seventy-two boats finished and the course record dropped by six days in one go – it was fast approaching the two-week barrier.
Winner Philip Weld
Yacht Name Moxie
1984 – The French return
Ninety-one boats started in a strong south-easterly and the multihullswere quickly away, but within six hours the first was out – June Clarke (Batchelors Sweet Pea) pitchpoled and was rescued by lifeboat. In the early stages of the race it was two catamarans of Patrick Morvan (Jet Services) and Gilles Gahinet (33 Export) that dominated until they were forced to retire through damage to the hull and mast problems, respectively.
The competitors had been warned of large numbers of icebergs drifting further south than usual, but it was whales that caused more problems. Class IV winner Luis Tonizzo sighted several and sailed over one that lifted his boat out of the water "I was very lucky it didn't touch the rudder otherwise it would have broken off". Not so lucky was Henk van de Weg whose boat Tjisje sank and David Duncombe who retired after hitting whales.
But it was the capsizing of Philippe Jeantot (Credit Agricole) in the middle of the Atlantic that was the talk of the town posing a problem at the finish. Philippe Poupon (Fleury Michon) was first to finish in Newport in a record 16 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes (which was increased by 30 minutes for his start line penalty), but Yvon Fauconnier (Umupro Jardin) was declared the winner after standing-by Jeantot for 16 hours. His finish time of 16 days, 22 hours and 25 minutes were reduced by 16 hours to 16 days, 6 hours and 25 minutes. Philippe Poupon on hearing the news during the middle of his victory press conference, could not disguise his immense disappointment and broke down in tears. At the prize giving Fauconnier received the overall winner prize and Poupon was awarded a special Line Honours prize.
Two other boats, Alan Wynne Thomas (Jemima Nicholas) and Bertus Buys (Sea-Beryl), received time allowances for assisting other casualties.
The first 11 boats finished within 24 hours of each other and of the 10 only two skippers were not French and only the 10th placed boat was not a multihull. 13 skippers beat the record time of 17 days 23 hours set by Phil Weld in the previous race.
The French were back and the race was fast becoming a transatlantic multihull sprint.
Winner Yvon Fauconnier
Yacht Name Fleury Michon
1988 – Record breaking downwind race
With 95 entries, the trend was towards on board electronics, weather files and automatic pilots. It was no longer enough for the solo sailor to be an excellent mariner and a tough racer, he also had to be a computer wizard and manage his tactical and strategic options on board.
1988 proved to be a record-breaking race as multihull designer Nigel Irens stated: "The record is bound to be broken. The evolution in multihull design is taking place at a phenomenal rate. Today's 60ft trimarans have 25% speed advantage over boats raced four years ago." Philippe Poupon's (Fleury Michon) demonstration was exemplary with exceptional conditions on the Atlantic allowing the Breton to virtually sail a direct route the whole way. Mike Birch (Fujicolor) and Olivier Moussy (Laiterie St Michel) were sailing similar Nigel Irens-designed trimarans. But, unfortunately, Birch hit a whale, while Olivier Moussy had problems caused by a late launch. Philippe Poupon set a stunning new record of 10 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes or the equivalent along the Great Circle route of 11 knots average speed. Florence Arthaud (Groupe Pierre 1er) became the fastest woman finishing in 13 days 10hr 58m.
Nic Bailey (MTC) set a phenomenal Class 4 record for the course, finishing 12th in 16 days 17 hours – faster than all of Classes 2 and 3.
An exceptional disaster befell skipper David Sellings on board his monohull Hyccup. A pod of whales, up to 50 or 60 at one point, had surrounded his boat for three days and finally attacked, holing the boat. Sellings only had time to grab a few belongings and inflate his liferaft before Hyccup sank.
Another loss was that of Jester. On her eighth OSTAR, having competed in every race, she was knocked down in heavy weather and lost her starboard hatch. Mike Richey was unable to stem the flow and was taken off. Jester was taken in tow but had to be abandoned.
Winner Philippe Poupon
1992 – Choose a course
Sixty-seven boats started the Europe 1 STAR. Loïck Peyron (Fujicolor II) was just one of the many favourites with the French now completely dominating this side of the sport. Amongst them Florence Arthaud (Groupe Pierre 1er) fresh from her victory in the Route du Rhum, Philippe Poupon (Fleury Michon) the title and record holder, Laurent Bourgnon (Primagaz) the rising star, Philippe Monnet back from his single-handed sail round the world, Paul Vatine (Haute Normandie) on the 1988 winning trimaran, Francis Joyon (Banque Populaire), Jean Maurel and Hervé Laurent.
Weather conditions were unpredictable and not very favourable and the fleet quickly scattered across the Atlantic – Joyon headed north, Vatine south and Bourgnon and Peyron took the middle course. It took almost a week to sort out the lead. Bourgnon, in the lead, broke his mainsheet track, Arthaud capsized off Newfoundland and Poupon had long dropped out because of a broken daggerboard. There remained just one, Peyron, lying in wait for half the distance. He put his foot down near the finish and came in with more than a 24-hour lead over the second boat. He said on his arrival that he could have sailed much faster, but was not very familiar with the boat (he had taken over as skipper of Fujicolor from Canadian Mike Birch).
The new generation 60ft monohulls specifically designed for the Vendee Globe surprised all with their performances. Yves Parlier (Aquitaine-Innovations) flirted with the 14-day barrier for crossing the Atlantic.
Mike Birch and David Scully were using the event to match race their two new Irensdesigned 40ft trimarans. The plan was to make a class of 40ft trimarans, a stepping stone into the 60ft multihull class, which would fill the void left by the demise of Formula 40s in the late 1980s. But it was Fort Lauderdale-based Etienne Giroire who took 11 hours off Nic Bailey's Class 4 record, again beating all the Class 2 and 3 entries. Despite claiming sustained speeds of 21 knots in 12 knots of wind, Birch finished over a day and a half later, having taken the southerly Azores route.
A replica Jester, after the original was lost in 1988, was sailed keeping up the tradition of sailing in every race.
Winner Loïck Peyron
Yacht Name Fujicolor II
1996 – Northern route wins
By now multihulls no longer hit the headlines and the Europe 1 STAR had turned into a French battle, at least for overall victory. There were no new trimarans except for Banque Populaire. The 60ft IMOCA monohulls shunned the event to concentrate on the Vendee Globe. Amateurs took advantage to come back in force in the smaller classes while observers already knew that the podium would be a contest between Peyron, Bourgnon, Vatine and Joyon. But it was the latter who created the surprise by choosing a route not used by anyone since Blondie Hasler in 1960, the Northern route. Joyon went far to the North passing over the top of the centres of the depressions that were slowing his adversaries on the direct route. He had more than a 300-mile lead by the time he had reached the Newfoundland Banks and nothing seemed capable of stopping him from breaking the record for the crossing. But it was without counting on the unstable breezes that knocked him down just over 400 miles from the finish. A similar fate befell Laurent Bourgnon.
Loïck Peyron was able to savour a second successive victory, with a time very close to Philippe Poupon's 1988 record in spite of significantly less favourable weather conditions. Paul Vatine came in just four hours behind the winner.
Devon pub landlord Peter Crowther was rescued when, on his fifth race, his junk-rigged Galway Blazer hit an object and sank.
2000 – Battle of the giants
While seven 60ft trimarans engaged in the 2000 Europe 1 New Man STAR, the more remarkable fleet was that of the Open 60s of which a phenomenal 24 were entered. The reason for this incredible growth was because many were using the event as both a shakedown and a qualifier for the Vendee Globe the following November.
In the end the race produced two surprise winners. First trimaran was Francis Joyon's Eure et Loir. Joyon had been leading the 1996 race until it came to a premature end following the pitch pole of his trimaran. Come 1999, the burly French man had lost his sponsorship from Banque Populaire who had passed the reins over to Lalou Roucayrol and were building a new boat especially for the 2000 race.
Coming into the 2000 race, Joyon was the least favourite of the six trimarans to win, having just scraped together enough sponsorship to charter his old boat back. Pre-race he worked on his boat tied up to a mooring as the heavily sponsored, high profile boats with their full shore teams enjoyed the convenience of the marina. However, it was with some irony that Joyon went on to win the race, while once again the Banque Populaire trimaran experienced a capsize.
In the Open 60 fleet, picking a pre-race favourite was hard with a line-up including solo sailing heavy weights such as Thomas Coville, Michel Desjoyeaux, Yves Parlier, Mike Golding, Roland Jourdain and Dominique Wavre. Who would win? In the event it was none of them. Sailing a brand new boat in its maiden race, few were betting on a 23-year-old English girl. However, on day nine of the race Ellen MacArthur monitoring the weather like a hawk, spotted a lull ahead and by taking an unfavourable tack north neatly sidestepped it putting 75 miles on her competition that she would hold until the finish. This result was a defining moment in MacArthur's career, the first occasion when the sailing world realised that she was not out there simply to take part, but despite her tender years she had the ability to win.
By coincidence both Joyon and MacArthur went on to take up single-handed record breaking, Joyon setting an extraordinary new record time for sailing solo non-stop around the world then eclipsed by MacArthur.
Winner Francis Joyon
Yacht Name Eure et Loire
2005 – Return of the Corinthian ethos
Following the decision by the Royal Western Yacht Club to split the OSTAR into two races, the 'Corinthian' race for yachts up to 50 ft was held in 2005 continuing the OSTAR name and traditions.
The return to the Corinthian spirit of the original singlehanded transatlantic race brought out an entry of 42 (32 monohulls and 10 multihulls). Many of the skippers were experienced OSTAR competitors back for more; including Peter Crowther sailing his seventh OSTAR, Bertus Buys on his fifth, and Franco Manzoli for his fourth trip. This race also saw the reintroduction of handicaps with the classes determined by IRC/MOCRA ratings with separate classes for Open 40 and 50 yachts.
34 yachts came to the start but a collision with Chivas 3 forced Jacques Dewez to retire Blue Shadow from his third OSTAR attempt. Hannah White made a good start in her Open 40 Spirit of Canada, setting a challenge to Lia Ditton and Anne Caseneuve for youngest finisher and first female honours. There was interest also in the seven strong Open 40 class – how would the new Class 40s perform against the unlimited 40s of the experienced Ronnie Nollet and Michel Kleinjans – and whether the North Atlantic weather would favour the smaller boats.
The light conditions favoured the smaller boats on the first day but the wind then increased on the nose and the first retirements soon came. Anne Caseneuve was leading the fleet when her dream of breaking the 50ft record was shattered by a fall which badly damaged her knee. Roger Langevin in the remaining Open 50 (Branec IV) became favourite, but Pierre Antoine in the 43ft Spirit and Franco Manzoli in his 40ft Cotonella would prove strong contenders for the multihull honours.
Over the next few days six of the Open 40s retired with a variety of failures leaving just Nico Budel to win the class. Hanna White's retirement due to autopilot failure left Lia Ditton in the small 34ft tri Shockwave as the sole female competitor. Two storms later, when halfway across the Atlantic, damage forced Michel Jaheny (Chivas 3) to become the last of the 16 retirements from the 34 starters.
The race settled down as predicted with Branec just leading Spirit and Cotonella, and the 50ft Olympian Challenger well ahead of Atlantix Express and Hayai. At the finish Langevin and Antoine went south but Franco Manzoli held course to the north and passed the other two to take line honours. Olympian Challenger came fourth to be the first monohull finisher. Lia Ditton crossed the line in eleventh place to become the youngest female finisher. Mervyn Wheatley (Tamarind) led the Eira class, the only class not to have any retirements.
Quest II's arrival in sixteenth place was greeted warmly. Gerry Hughes is profoundly deaf and overcame many problems to finish (including the loss of electrical power which restricted his ability to text his position).
Cees Groot completed the arrivals finishing just before the time limit some 41 days after he started.
Winner Franco Manzoli
Nationality ITA
Yacht Name Cotonella
2009 – Strong winds
They say the major achievement of any OSTAR competitor is to get to the start. There were 67 potential competitors for OSTAR 2009 but in the end just 31 boats crossed the line on the 25th May. This was during the worst financial recession for a generation when sponsors and money were almost impossible to raise. Younger skippers found it difficult to take such a long break from their jobs. One even resigned his job when refused leave and faced an uncertain future after the race. Skippers had to complete a 500 nm qualifier. Some only achieved this after more than one attempt. Among the starters was a Class 50 trimaran and a junk rigged monohull which were expected to be first and last to Newport.
At 1130 UT on 25th May HRH ordered the two Vendèe skippers Mike Golding and Dee Caffari to fire the start guns and the OSTAR fleet was off. After 24 hours the Class 50 trimaran was in the lead and the junk was, as expected, at the back. Gale force winds then came as the fleet entered the Atlantic as a result of which the two trimarans suffered damage forcing retirement together with two monohulls and the junk. Pip Hildesley put into Southern Ireland for rigging repairs and Jacques Bouchacourt took up the lead in his Futura 50 but later turned round and headed back to France for reasons unknown. Pip bravely rejoined the race and started her own campaign to overhaul the back markers one by one. She overtook seven yachts before arriving in Newport.
Unusually, in this race there were strong easterly winds for about a week as the fleet sailed north of a depression resulting in some fast and exhilarating surf sailing. Records were for the taking. As the fleet approached Nova Scotia there was a deep depression resulting in severe gale force winds and big seas. Ice was further south than usual and many competitors found themselves being squeezed between the depression to the south and ice to the north. As usual, most competitors had to contend with calms which are more difficult to bear than gales.
In heavy seas 300nm south east of Halifax Gianfranco Tortolani's boat rolled 360 degrees. He had been hand steering for a week. The mast broke but the boat righted itself although it was awash. His EPIRB had been set off automatically some hours earlier by a big wave so the coastguard in Rome and the race office were alerted. The EPIRB had been left on so when he requested help his position was known from both it and his tracker. A C130 aircraft found the boat and was able to divert a US container ship, Maersk Missouri, bound for Newark, New Jersey which rescued Gianfranco at midday Newport time. His Adventure Open 30 Città di Salerno was abandoned. It subsequently created some alarm when it was found by a fishing boat who mistakenly reported it giving Huib Swet's identification number – he was by then sailing home via the Azores but was eventually able to confirm he was safe.
Some great results were achieved:
Oscar Mead in King of Shaves, aged only 18 years, became the youngest person ever to finish the race.
Katie Miller in bluQube, aged 22 years, became the youngest woman ever to finish the race.
Hannah White in Pure Solo had a great sail and nearly broke the 35 foot record set by Mary Falk in QII in 1996 of 19 days 22 hours and 57 minutes. She missed it by 1 hour and 25 minutes.
JanKees Lampe in his Open 40 La Promesse broke the 40 foot record set by Simon Van Hagen in Seatalk in 1992 of 19 days 11 hours and 19 minutes with a fantastic time of 17 days 17 hours and 40 minutes becoming the first Dutchman to win the OSTAR.
Winner JanKees Lampe
Nationality NED
Yacht Name La Promesse
2013 – Stormy race
In early January there were doubts about whether OSTAR 2013 could go ahead. There was no sponsor and only five possible entries. The Race Director had resigned. The core of the OSTAR 2009 Committee stepped in and convinced the Royal Western Yacht Club Board to proceed. Luckily, there was considerable financial and other vital support from the Mayor and City of Newport without which we have struggled.
In the end we received 25 potential entries of which 21 became confirmed. Charlie Storr came through very bad weather on his qualifier off Sicily and withdrew. Maarten Ruuschen was half way from Holland to Plymouth days before the start when he was recalled to his office. Kass Schmitt and her boyfriend Rupert worked extremely hard to prepare Zest but conceded defeat when Rupert injured himself. Kass gallantly sailed down from Southampton to Plymouth to join us for the start.
So, on 27th May there were 18 boats on the start line.
Olbia and Vento di Sardegna, sailed by Christian Chalandre and Andrea Mura, came flying around the start frigate HMS Somerset's stern on starboard tack to find Peter Crowther's Suomi Kudu static on the start line. Olbia went upwind but there was a minor collision between Vento and Suomi. Fortunately, both yachts still managed to reach Newport without repair.
It appeared that Asia's Pajkowska's catamaran Cabrio 2 had gone aground in Jennycliffe Bay. In fact her steering system had failed due to loss of hydraulic fluid. She was towed back to Plymouth and restarted later.
When the Race Officer shouted "Gun" there was total silence for 20 seconds. HMS Somerset's ashen faced Gunnery Officer reported that his salute gun crew had suffered two misfires. Nonetheless, no yacht had crossed the line early.
James Taylor had struggled to get Anarchy ready for the race and made a very mature decision to retire. Subsequently, he completed a Jester race to Ireland.
Three boats went inside the Eddystone Lighthouse, which was a mark of the course, but all returned to round it eventually. AIS tracks proved they had.
Keith Walton in Harmonii suffered a torn mainsail and returned to Plymouth. He set off again only to tear the replacement sail and retire. Jonathan Snodgrass's junk rig Lexia broke a mast off the Lizard. It is of much credit to him that he got into Falmouth without assistance. He did restart weeks later only to retire due to sea sickness.
Christian Chalandre had a great race in 2009 but sadly was forced to retire back home to France with a wind generator problem. Ralph Villiger in Ntombifuti put into Brest to fix a defective bilge pump. He restarted a few days later and completed the course.
In 2009 the fleet enjoyed a week of easterlies. Not so in 2013. Boats remaining in the race had to fight all the way across the Atlantic against contrary winds, several times up to gale force.
By tradition the OSTAR winner is the first boat to Newport. Therefore, the primary interest was to see if Roger Langevin's 50' multi Branec VI could get there before Andrea Mura's 50' mono Vento di Sardegna while the three classes raced against each other on handicap. Roger took a more northerly route while Andrea went further south as he was suffering from the boat's motion as she pounded through rough sea. In the end the mono got to the finish line in 17 days, one day ahead of the multi. Andrea thereby added the OSTAR to his TwoSTAR win in 2012. Roger beat his previous OSTAR by one hour. Nico Budel, at the grand age of 74, came in third finishing three days later in sec.Hayai beating his previous OSTAR time by one day.
Within two of the classes there was keen competition. Luckily for Geoff Alcorn, the other boats in Eira retired one by one leaving him to battle with the Atlantic for 58 days as he struggled to finish by the deadline. Asia on her third Atlantic crossing this year in her catamaran Cabrio got across in 26 days. She became the first Polish woman to complete two OSTARs.
In the Gipsy Moth Class Spirit, the smallest boat in the race sailed by the tallest skipper, Jac Sandberg, had a close race with Richard Lett in Pathways to Children coming in only 14 hours behind. Spirit's time was only one day outside the record for a 30' boat.
Jester Class comprised the cruising boats. Peter Crowther completed his 9th OSTAR in a graceful 30 days. Charles Emmett in British Beagle and Mervyn Wheatley in Tamarind both had equipment failures which required putting into Halifax thereby incurring 24 hour penalties. Krystian Szypka managed to finish in 28 days.
However, Jester Class was led all the way by Jonathan Green in Jeroboam. Jonathan had a tough Atlantic crossing from Newport to start the race but had a faultless passage back again in 23 days. He became the OSTAR 2013 IRC Overall Winner. Richard Lett came 2nd in this class.
Winner Andrea Mura
Yacht Name Vento di Sardegna
2017 – The OSTAR's 'Perfect Storm'
The fifteenth edition of the Original Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, the OSTAR, was unique in several respects. For the first time the Royal Western Yacht Club ran both its transatlantic races in the same year, with the singlehanded OSTAR and the doublehanded TWOSTAR starting together. Then both fleets were hit by one of the worst storms experienced in the long history of the OSTAR – the OSTAR's "Perfect Storm". From a combined start of twenty-one boats ten retired, four were abandoned and only seven finished the race.
After a few days the weather built up with a series of lows bringing strong winds and heavy seas. But, as veteran OSTAR competitor Mervyn Wheatley commented, it was nothing unusual for the OSTAR. However even this was too much for some boats and failures, usually of rigging, mounted. Breizh Cola (Christophe Dietsch) was hit by a large wave and suffered rigging damage, taking on water, Opole (Andrzej Kopytko) also had rigging problems and retired. Ricardo Diniz on Taylor 325 was thrown by a large wave hitting his head again and had to retire on medical advice. Lionel Regnier (One and All) also retired with wind-pilot failure.
Then, in the early hours of Friday 9th June, 60 knot winds and 15 metre seas were experienced by competitors, caused by a very low depression (967mb – 15mb lower than the terrible Fastnet storm). These extreme conditions caused damage to many boats with 3 emergency beacons (EPIRB) triggered. The Canadian coastguard in Halifax immediately reacted to the situation sending ships and air support to all the boats in distress.
Tamarind (Mervyn Wheatley) suffered a knock down and flooding and was forced to abandon and sink his beloved Tamarind when he was rescued by the Queen Mary 2. The TWOSTAR boats Happy (Wytse Bouma and Jaap Barendregt) was dismasted and Furia (Mihail Kopanov and Dian Zaykov) struck a floating object causing severe flooding and leaving it sinking. Their crews were also rescued by nearby ships. Illumia 12 had sustained keel damage and when it became worse Michele Zambelli decided to abandon and was picked up by helicopter from Halifax. This brought the number of yachts abandoned to four.
Other boats suffered significant damage and decided to retire. Harmonii (Keith Walton) had mainsail and track damage and headed for the Azores. When his engine failed managed to set up a sail and continued under jury rig. Suomi Kudu (Peter Crowther) also had mainsail problems and elected to return to Plymouth. The American, Kass Schmitt, in Zest had rigging damage but the subsequent loss of her wind pilot forced her retirement. David Southwood in Summerbird also had sail failures, losing both foresail furlers, and damage to his forestay and retired to the Azores.
Seven yachts remained racing – Vento di Sardegna, Bam, Mister Lucky, Olbia and Solent 1 in the OSTAR, with Rote 66 and Midnight Summer Dream in the TWOSTAR. The competitors and the race committee were unanimous in their appreciation and praise for the way the Halifax JRCC personnel, and the ships and aircraft in the area, had responded to the emergency situation. The Coast Guard commented on how well the fleet had acted, heaving to and riding out the storm.
Shortly before the finish Andrea Mura also suffered problems and had to stop off Nova Scotia to fix his keelbox hydraulic system. This eliminated his chance of beating the OSTAR 50ft record held by fellow Italian Giovanni Soldini.
On 15 June Andrea Mura in Vento di Sardegna crossed the Castle Hill finish line in Newport, Rhode Island, at 12:06 local time to take line honours in the 2017 OSTAR. He crossed in an elapsed time of 17d 4h 6m, and a corrected time of 24d 05h 28m 50s, beating his previous elapsed time by 7 minutes. Andrea's success following his win in the 2013 OSTAR makes him only the second competitor to win successive OSTARs, the first being Loïck Peyron (1992 and 1996.
Four days later Conor Fogerty finished in Bam, taking second place in OSTAR and winning the Gipsy Moth class on corrected time. Australian Mark Hipgrave sailing the other SunFast 3600, Mister Lucky, finished in third place 3 days behind Bam.
The other two OSTAR finishers were in the smaller Jester class – Christian Chalandre coming first in Olbia (in his third OSTAR) ahead of Neil Payter in Solent 1.
The 2017 OSTAR was sailed in what was probably the worst weather since the 1976 race. Fifteen boats started, five finished, eight retired and two were lost with their skippers rescued under the control of the Canadian joint rescue services.


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Formerly unfashionable thoroughbred stallion Zed has left his mark on station bred horses in New Zealand's South Island.
North Canterbury endurance rider is one of just two New Zealanders aiming for this year's FEI World Equestrian Games.
Research proposals are being called for to address the priorities of the Australian thoroughbred industry under a new program by AgriFutures Australia.
Are we saddling horses with the raw end of the deal?
Is respect for the horse being lost in pursuit of the prize?
3* winner powers home on locally bred horse to take title for first time.
Christchurch woman in bid to get horses to the South Island.
Dubai must surely be the centre of the equine world in the Emirates.
"The sky's the limit", says creator of new teams competition.
A look at recent developments in the breeding of these special horses.
Entertaining book on the racing "rocking horse" from the early 1900s.
Crabbet enthusiasts got together for their 2013 convention in Britain.
Badminton served up an eventing spectacle, akin to the early days of the sport.
Event harks back to times of old, when an average dressage test could still win.
Selenium – poison or miracle?
It's a necessary element – but too much or too little can be harmful.
Young colt expected to cross well with Vollrath Stud's existing dressage and jumping lines.
Latest overseas Aussie winner started out life as a dressage horse in New Zealand.


Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.
A meeting of the New York State Department of State's Hudson Valley Regional Board of Review will be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m. at the Town of Cortlandt Town Hall, 1 Heady Street, Cortlandt Manor, NY. The public has the right to attend the meeting.
WHEN: Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.


In the middle of November, the Glen Lake High School Envirothon team and coach/science teacher Karen Richard found themselves in something of a spot. The team wanted to build a solar array at the school, and they needed a total of about $30,000 to do so. The team had secured $10,000 from the school board for the solar array and about another $10,000 from various grants, but the team was still short $10,000. Adding to the pressure, some of the grant money had to be spent by the end of school in June 2019.
Coach Richard had heard of Groundwork's newly developed SolaRISEcrowdfunding platform that helps nonprofit organizations raise money for renewable energy projects. After explaining the crowdfunding idea to the school administration, she invited Groundwork to discuss it with her and the Envirothon team.
At the meeting, the Lakers learned that SolaRISE was so new, it hadn't even gone live yet. The Glen Lake High School Envirothon team would be the first organization to test drive it—always some risk in going first.
Glen Lake's 2018 State Championship Envirothon team at the national competition. Last year's team launched the solar array project and this year's team is taking it over the finish line. From left: Carson Reay, Emma Karagas Spencer, Sonja Stairs, Stella Young, and teacher Karen Richard (teammate LuAnne Dreves not pictured).
The team and Richard decided they were OK with being the test pilot, but a bigger issue that concerned them was the school schedule. Thanksgiving break was the very next week, and the extended Christmas break was just a few weeks beyond that. The whole school would empty out for a two-week vacation just about the time the Envirothon students would be ready to announce the crowdfunding project.
Showing the same determination that had propelled them this far, the team decided they would commit to trying SolaRISE and announce the fundraiser drive at halftime during a basketball game on December 19. Two days later, the school would shut down for two weeks, and the students wouldn't return until January 2, just eight days before the January 10 deadline the students chose for closing the crowdfunding campaign.
At the basketball game halftime show, the Envirothon team took the floor—the latest of a team that had won eight state championships in the past 15 years—and made their pitch to the crowd. Out in the hallway, for good measure, stood a table with a jar for donations—a time-tested technique, for sure.
And the crowdfunding campaign was on!
In a true show of community support, donations came forth in following days; some donations were more than $1000, several donations were less than $100. Businesses donated. Individuals donated. A person with a family foundation donated. It all added up.
As the deadline drew near, Coach Richard was not worried, but she concedes she did start hatching Plan B's. "I started thinking about other fundraiser ideas for after the deadline, and I did apply for another grant," she says.
But with three days to spare on that tight, Christmas vacay–impacted deadline, the Envirothon students not only hit their goal, but exceeded it!
As for the school board, "They supported the solar panel right from the start," says longtime board member Patrick Middleton. He owns a software development firm, and an aspect of renewable energy that really resonates with him is it's one of the few technology fields that has rural job growth as part of the formula. "I think that is huge," he says, with the economic futures of Glen Lake students in mind.
Unlike one-size-fits-all crowdfunding platforms like Go Fund Me, SolaRISE offers participating schools, churches and other nonprofits a range of support services. Ric Evans, project leader, ran a small renewable energy company for more than a decade, and can help clients determine the size of the system they need, assist with putting out bids and choosing contractors, and offer technical advice all the way through installation. SolaRISE also provides assistance on the publicity, marketing and fundraising. In Glen Lake Schools' case, the Envirothon team had been so thorough (part of the reason they'd won state championship the prior year with the solar project!) that they had already spec'd out the system and received bids from three vendors.
We love how smart and thorough the Glen Lake Envirothon team's Powerpoint presentation was when it laid out the justification for installing a solar array at school. Give it a read (and share with your school's decisionmakers).
Students can use data from the system as they study energy in physical science, physics, and math classes.
Problem solving skills can be developed and used as students continually investigate how to improve and increase the system.
Students can gain information about how renewable energy can be used and developed.
Students can learn about changes in the amount of insolation our area of the earth absorbs throughout the year and can learn the optimal angle to tilt the panels to absorb light.
Students can be actively involved in changing/adjusting the tilt of the panels as the angle of the sun's rays change throughout the years.
Students can also learn about how the angle of the sun's rays change through the changing seasons.
Students can gain a sense of environmental stewardship while taking care of the solar panel and understanding how it benefits the planet!


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By Delivery, August 4, 2019 in Open Mic
Lilllabettt 3,689
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
11 hours ago, Josh said:
Once again I agree with Mark Shea:
Freak Show: This has nothing to do with race, Trump or guns.
Me: F u c k you, liar. We are done letting you imagine you are an equal partner in dialogue. The moment you say that is the moment we walk over you and leave you behind to go work to end this. You play defense. You try to keep up with us. We are here to kick your ass if you try to stop us, not have
Mark Shea.
He positively spits himself unconscious about the need for gun safety laws, laws protecting immigrants, the poor, minorities, and so on. There is a dire need, ITS AN EMERGENCY.
When he is done laying in the street in protest for these things, he drags his morbidly obese body into a sitting position quick enough to say "the law" is not the right way to deal with abortion. "The law" never changed hearts and minds, you see.
Isn't that convenient.
Prenatal people are the only people for whom protection via force of law is the wrong approach. I wonder why that is???
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Cordial Non-Catholic
Sadly, the US won't do anything effective.
Politicians are busy trying to score political points or defend against political hits.
Extremists are arguing between no guns at all or no new restrictions at all.
There will be no way a reasonable compromise of tightening restrictions, discussions on mental health, or discussion of cultural desensitizing of violence from media and games.
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Part of The System
23 hours ago, little2add said:
F- bomb, really. Please be a little more civil with your words
Profanity and personal attack. Warning issues. -dUSt
little2add 914
Chummy Commoner
14 minutes ago, Josh said:
Go F *** yourself. Stop talking to me or replying
very mature
PERSONAL ATTACKS
A post or comment that has nothing to do with the topic, but is specifically meant to upset or criticize another person or group of people. This includes, but is not limited to, calling people "heretics" (used in a derogatory manner), "democrooks", etc.
"Never reprimand anyone while you feel provoked over a fault that has been committed. Wait until the next day, or even longer. Then make your remonstrance calmly and with a purified intention. You'll gain more with an affectionate word than you ever would from three hours of quarreling. Control your temper." – St Josemaria Escriva
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BarbaraTherese
6 hours ago, Lilllabettt said:
Feeling guilt and shame is 100% appropriate for women that kill their innocent kids. Abortion should be extremely stigmatized and guilt inducing.
An objective to induce guilt and shame in another person........ is contrary to what Jesus has asked of us, it is contrary to The Gospel, and is 100% morally wrongful, as is abortion.
Guilt and shame related to abortion is appropriate. Abortion should be stigmatised and trigger guilt along with all moral failures. The most serious sin of abortion can be forgiven and the offender returned to a state of Peace. Laudate Dominum.
36 minutes ago, little2add said:
You'll gain more with an affectionate word than you ever would from three hours of quarreling. Control your temper." – St Josemaria Escriva
BarbaraTherese reacted to this
People are very angry. Mitch McConnell and people like him should be nervous out in public and have good security. A ton of blood is on their hands. And people are about to snap.
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Watching a documentary on Japan in the early days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the Second World War. It is preceded by the rise of nationalism and racism in Japan.
5 hours ago, Josh said:
Are you describing yourself? Check yourself into a hospital.
little2add and dominicansoul reacted to this
My apologies, to Josh, you and the forum. sometimes I rub people the wrong way.
I never meant to provoke
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On 8/3/2019 at 7:57 PM, Josh said:
This is an absolute lie. Complete propaganda. We haven't had 249 mass shootings this year. The only way you can get that number is if you include the overwhelming majority of incidents that are gang-related that certainly don't evoke the image of a "mass-shooting". The majority would be cases where there was a specific target and a few people were accidentally injured. A number of these would be cases where nobody dies. And other countries showing 0 in this list have had terror attacks that killed more than a few people. Maybe that's ok because they didn't use guns?? (Even though a number of them did) Maybe they also had mass shootings but they weren't reported as much so they don't end up on this fake list.
On 8/4/2019 at 9:16 PM, cruciatacara said:
Berb - the election isn't until November 2020.There is a good chance that things might happen over the next 15 months that could stop him from winning again.At least some of us hope so.
Given that it's either him or someone on the left, I sincerely hope he does win.
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Opioid overdose and suicide statistically is way up in the United States far more deaths occur than deaths from mass shootings.
The problem is largely ignored and is a greater evil by far
fides' Jack and BarbaraTherese reacted to this
The difference is:
Drug overdose and suicide involve something chosen directly or indirectly.
Mass shootings (gun violence) involves straight out murder of innocent people including children at times. This is not pro life! Be it one dead or fifty dead. Be it one mass shooting or five hundred or more.
No matter the statistics, false or not, I near on go into shock every time I heard of mass murder in the USA. These incidents are surreal, bizarre. God forbid the day I do not go into near on a state of shock.
I have heard the argument that guns do not kill, people do. It is guns for the purpose of murder which people choosing murder can apparently easily acquire in the USA - in order to commit mass murder of innocent people and children.
57 minutes ago, fides' Jack said:
If the above is correct, what a terrible decision America is facing in my book.
Edited August 6, 2019 by BarbaraTherese
I am filled with horror when I hear of mass murder in the USA, which does seem to happen with regularity. It is the violent death of innocents that shocks as well as the regularity of the terrible crime, the refusal/inability to address the whole problem effectively.
These are people and children being murdered and apparently in the USA upholding the right to own guns is more important than human life to some? A lack of meaningful empathy?
......next step is? Or is it already fait accompli?


Top > Supports > What is GLONASS?
GLONASS, acronym for Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System, is a radio-based satellite navigation system operated for the Russian government by the Russian Space Forces. It both complements and provides an alternative to the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS), the Chinese Compass navigation system and the planned Galileo positioning system of the European Union.
The operational space segment of GLONASS consists of 21 satellites in 3 orbital planes, with 3 on-orbit spares. The three orbital planes are separated 120 degrees, and the satellites within the same orbit plane by 45 degrees. Each satellite operates in circular 19,100 km orbits at an inclination angle of 64.8 degrees and each satellite completes an orbit in approximately 11 hours 15 minutes.
The ground control segment of GLONASS is entirely located within former Soviet Union territory. The Ground Control Center and Time Standards is located in Moscow and the telemetry and tracking stations are in St. Petersburg, Ternopol, Eniseisk, Komsomolsk-na-Amure.
The first GLONASS satellites were launched into orbit in 1982. Two Etalon geodetic satellites were also flown in the 19,100 km GLONASS orbit to fully characterise the gravitational field at the planned altitude and inclination. The original plans called for a complete operational system by 1991, but the deployment of the full constellation of satellites was not completed until late 1995 / early 1996. GLONASS was officially declared operational on September 24, 1993 by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
In the early 2000s, under Vladimir Putin's presidency, the restoration of the system was made a top government priority and funding was substantially increased. GLONASS is currently the most expensive program of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming a third of its budget in 2010.
By 2010, GLONASS had achieved 100% coverage of Russia's territory and in October 2011, the full orbital constellation of 24 satellites was restored, enabling full global coverage. The GLONASS satellites designs have undergone several upgrades, with the latest version being GLONASS-K.


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The Case for Heavier Trucks on Interstate Highways
It has been more than 25 years since the U.S. addressed the question of federal interstate highway truck weights. Tom Carpenter, director of logistics for North America with International Paper, believes it's time to revisit the issue. Since that time, he says, the country has seen technological advancement, economic growth, severe congestion on the roads and major challenges to logistics productivity. All of which adds up, in his opinion, to the need for higher weight limits on the interstate.
Bills pending in the Senate and House of Representatives seek an increase in the maximum gross weight of trucks from 80,000 to 97,000 pounds - but only on vehicles equipped with a sixth axle. Carpenter says the measures address the current "patchwork quilt" of rules and regulations on state highway limits, "that makes the U.S. very confusing from a weight-regulation standpoint."
Under the proposed law, states would have the opportunity to opt in to the higher limits. They would be able to sit down and review the issue with state department of transportation leaders. "Each would be able to make an informed decision," says Carpenter. He believes that once most states review the research, and realize the opportunity to increase truck productivity, they will adopt the new federal rules. "We think it would be a pretty easy decision," he adds.
A 2010 pilot program in Maine bore out the feasibility of the idea, according to Carpenter. It gave heavier trucks, which were already allowed on the state's highways, access to the interstate. The results, he says, were improved safety and increased fuel efficiency.
Even with a new law, Carpenter doesn't expect the shift to happen overnight. While some states would adopt it quickly, trucking companies would have to invest in vehicles with the additional axle. The trucks wouldn't be larger, he notes, only heavier - by 17,000 pounds at their maximum.
The number-one predictor of highway safety is total vehicle miles traveled, Carpenter says, adding that the use of heavier trucks would reduce that number, leading to a drop in fatal accidents. There were 14 fewer accidents in Maine during the state's pilot program, he notes. Moreover, he says, the additional axle maintains the braking performance of the five-axle truck, even with a significantly heavier load.
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