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Alinghi wins appeal at NYC!! CNEV Valid CoR..!?

on July 29, 2008 Labels: AC33, alinghi


ISAF Youth Worlds Championships: Multihull France dominates ISAF Youth Multihull World Championships raced in SL 16.
The new youth multihull makes its debut on ISAF Wolrds and none other than French youth took the cup home, followed by South Africa and Great Britain.
Brazil was also present.

©David Kneale/Volvo Ocean Race/onEdition

on July 21, 2008 Jul 14, 2008

Ishares Cup: F18 sailors racing VX40

iShares Cup sailors fight for world title
Several of the iShares Cup crew made the trip to Galicia, Spain last week for the Formula 18 world championships — one of sailing’s most competitive catamaran trophies — and they put in a great showing, proving that the iShares Cup teams are amongst the best in the world.

iShares crew: Hugh Styles, Adam Piggott, Gerhard Van
Geest and Andrew Macpherson
Sabine Albers / OC Events Legendary French cat sailor Franck Cammas was runner-up in the event, and will soon be heading to the UK to sail in the iShares Cup at Skandia Cowes Week onboard one of BMW ORACLE Racing’s two boats. Last year he sailed ‘Groupama’ in the 2007 iShares Cup, winning the Marseilles event.

At this year's F18 worlds Dutch sailor Mischa Heemskerk, Holmatro’s main trimmer and tactician, was just one place Cammas behind in third overall.

In fifth place were the British iShares team duo of Hugh Styles and Adam Piggott, who had a great run in the middle of the event scoring two race wins in a row. Hugh skippers the iShares Extreme 40 catamaran and 19-year-old Adam is bow on the iShares boat. And in ninth place was Australian Andrew Macpherson, who will be joining Hugh and Adam on the iShares Extreme 40 in Skandia Cowes Week for the third event on the circuit next month.
on July 14, 2008 Labels: F18, F18 worlds 2008, isharescup, vx40

Jul 13, 2008

F18 Worlds 2008: Onboard video

ARG 11 - Cruz Smith and Ian Rodger racing at Nigran
 Labels: F18, F18 worlds 2008, video


F18 Worlds : Brand Championship, Final results

Infusions took 1st and 2nd and Capricorn manages to get 8 boats inside the top 20!
Tigers got 3,4,6 and 10.

The class provides fair racing, and crews always make the difference but a trend is rising, 'wave piercing' designs are fully dominating the scene in this WC.
15 boats out of the top 20 are Infusions and Capricorns.

on July 11, 2008 Labels: F18 worlds 2008

F18 Worlds Championship 2008 Awards Jeremy Lagarrigue receiving 2nd place for him and Cammas
© J-P Guillou / Groupama
 
F18 Worlds : An Era has ended On June 8 we wrote: "Take a good look to the boat that has ended the Tiger domination in the most popular performace cat class, must confirm in next F18 Worlds in Spain though... "

After a tough fight in Nigran, the Tigers ended a full domination of the sport in a good manner, as Misha almost nailed it and some may note that Bundock wasn´t there, but I firmly think this is an inflection point for the F18 world and the status quo of the F18 market.

Now the Infusion is King confirmed by de Koning and Cammas as 1st and 2nd in the 2008 F18 World Championship.

"The king is dead, long live the King" http://catsailingnews.blogspot.com/2008/05/ Labels: F18, F18 worlds 2008, infusion

F18 Worlds Championship 2008 Final day 
F18 Worlds Final Day: Results
 
F18 Worlds Final Day: Cammas 2nd place Overall

Excellent performance for Franck Cammas and Lagarrigue.
Without previous experience together in a F18 major Championship they've achieved more than they expected and only 2 point short of being World Champs.

Cammas: "If they'd offered us this ranking at the start of the week we'd have snapped it up" said a delighted Franck Cammas who continues: "We really battled hard though it's a shame that we missed out on the title by just two points. That's the name of the game though and we're proud of the result. I think it's been a long time since a French team has achieved such a good result".

Alongside him, Jérémie Lagarrigue is happy: "It's great. We are vice champions of the world. Franck and I got on really well and had a lot of fun. He is really talented".

These two french sailors will continue racing F18 Worlds, being so close the 1st time, only makes them want the Championship title just a "little" more.
 
F18 Worlds Final Day: de Koning World Champ

1 Coen de Koning
2 Cammas
3 Heemskerk
 
F18 Worlds Day 4: Tough Conditions Photos and report: Cruz G Smith - Strong winds with 15-30knots gusts changed the whole championship scenario.
Some crews in the gold fleet couldn´t manage the hard conditions and others in the Plate were flying!
40 degrees wind direction changes made a tactical regatta but also boat handling was critical as we had really strong gusts.
Lots of broken masts, daggers and even boats due to collisions. We have a good performance with a 7 , 29 (we were 8 50 meters from the finish line when a 30knots gust took us down!) and a 13th with a re start for us for being ocs.

We kept wondering what could have happened if the 1st three days we've had this conditions, as many in the Gold fleet were too complicated. But that´s something you can´t manage so next time we'll be prepared! This is our 1st regatta with more than 10 boats and we've sailing F18 only 6 months!
Regards, Cruz.

Some photos of the carnage: Photos: Cruz G Smith 

F18 Worlds : Brand Championship

Inverted bows are dominating the show, at least in numbers, although the 1st 2 days the Tiger had the lead, it was closely chased by the inverted bow brothers, the Infusion and Capricorn that from day 3 took the lead with Cammas and now with de Koning.

Nice presence of AHPC Capricorn from Australia in the top 20. Not having the economic resources of the two giants (Hobie and Nacra) , Greg manages to place his boats in Europe and put 7 of them at the top 20 crews of the main F18 event of the year.
This simple analisys tell us that the Capricorn is for sure a "high class" performer.
Way to go Greg!!

on July 10, 2008 
F18 Worlds Day 4: Landy, Cammas and de Koning at the start line Our favorites in the same picture:

AUS 308 Landenberger Capricorn/Landenberger
FRA 1 Cammas Infusion/Performance Sails (Peter Vink)
NED 3 de Koning Infusion/Performance Sails (Peter Vink)

And of course I cannot leave behind to the Master itself: Mitch Booth! Tiger/Ullman (Soldano) Labels: Andrew Landenberger, F18 worlds 2008

F18 Worlds Day 4: Results Plate First timers from Argentina and only South American team, Cruz Smith and Ian Rodger, had a really good day of racing.
With a 7, 29 and a 13th place the crew went from 96 yesterday to 83 in the gral and 17th in the Plate group.
Argentina has recently created an F18 fleet from scratch where Cruz and Ian had few chances to train in numerous fleets.

The 1st day with light weather they finished 37 and 40, for a 75 overall, 2nd day with ocs for a 88 , 3rd day again with light weather for the rather heavy pair and a bad day with 47 and 57 place.
Short on making the gold fleet the argetinean team needed serious weather to get better results, and today they just got what they wanted, a little late though, 15/20knots and an incredible recovery for an inexperienced crew.

Their Laser racing history is quite large so for sure they can apply their knowledge, but cat racing is another sport and they managed to get a really good performance overall till now, even more thinking of their best results in heavy weather when the F18 gets more technical.

So cheers for these 1st timers at an F18 Worlds, they-ll bring back home all things learned to provide enormous feedback for the homeland fleet.
