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SCUTTLEBUTT EUROPE #1561 - 14 JULY

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TP52 'CAM' SINKS DURING X TROPHY S.M. REINA-COPA ROLEX The leader during the three days of competition, "TAU Andalusia" of Cantabrian Jose "Pichu" Torcida has finally captured the Trophy. The Andalusian boat secures its first triumph in this regatta and this class since 2005 when it competed in the IMS 600 class.

The sad note of the day has been the sinking of the "CAM" in front of El Saler. Taking in water from the bow during the final race, the situation got worse very quickly, and in spite of all efforts and assistance from the fleet and race committee, the boat sank. Luckily there were no injuries; the crew were all rescued safely.

Near Miss, the Swiss GP42 yacht flying the colors of the Societe Nautique de Geneve, dominated the 3rd event of the Quebramar GP42 Cup. After a total of 7 races the Swiss come first, followed by Roma GP42.2 and AIRIS. Desafío is still leading the Quebramar GP42 Cup but Near Miss grabs 2nd place from AIRIS

Tom Schnackenberg, Navigator on Near Miss, winner: There was no secret in our victory although some times you need some luck. You obviously have to sail well and take advantage of all opportunities. The boat is going better now and we had a good regatta. Consistency was not a feature of our sailing in the past, we had some wins but also some very low places. Here in Valencia we never finished worse than 4th and that is good. Now that we have passed the midpoint of the Quebramar GP42 Cup we feel we are in the top group, we just have to keep improving and see if we can win again. We have the potential to improve, as does the rest of the fleet. It's amazing how the fleet is improving after every race. We see some boats improve and the ones that don't do so well, in the next race they are better. I'm very impressed with the sailing skills of the whole crew, they are top level and I learn a lot each time I sail with them. It's a top French-Swiss boat but I talk to them in English…

Podium positions:

TP 52 1. Tau Ceramica Andalucía, Jose M. Torcida, 9 points 2. CAM, Luis Doreste, 13 3. ONO, Inaki Castaner, 14

GP 42 1. Near Miss, Bertrand Pace, 14 2. Roma GP 42.2, Paolo Cian, 22 3. Airis, Sandro Montefusco, 23

ORC 670 1. Navantia, Jesus Pintos, 11 2. Vindio, Fernando Pombo, 12 3. Tuvvik XIV, Javier Serrano, 13

ORC 570 1. Telefonica, Axel Rodger, 11 2. Ícaro, Carles Rodríguez, 12 3. Power Plate-Hempel, Gustavo Martínez, 12

Complete results for these and other classes at http://www.trofeoreina.com

IGNACIO CAMINO RODRIGUEZ IS NEW J80 WORLD CHAMPION The winner of the Tutima J80 Worlds comes from Spain. Ignacio Camino Rodriguez and his "Nextel engineering" Crew took the title despite the fact that the Spanish crew was black flagged in the last race. Only two points ahead Ignacio Camino Rodriguez saved his lead and was happy that race officer Mandus Freese did not start the twelth race because of strong winds. All three days before of Tutima J80 Worlds the Spanish team was on first place in the daily rankings. First time skippering a J80 in a Worlds the president of the J80- Class, Jeff Johnstone, USA sailed into the second place, just two points behind the winner. With the boat chartered from a German trader and equipped with sails of the Kiel sail makers Faber and Munker the 48-year-old sailor needed a couple of races to get used to the conditions in Kiel, but showed then with three day wins and further rankings in front.

The fleet of 63 Boats and crews from 12 nations was dominated by, besides the Spanish crews, especially teams of France, Great Britain and Sweden under the top ten of the fleet. After all, French sailor Patrick Bot could achieve four wins in the daily valuations. But after some worse places unfortunately rank 4 was left for the French team. Although rarely worse than 15th, Kevin Sproul, GBR), sailed himself into the total rank 5.

The hosts and initiators of the Tutima J80 Worlds Uli Munker and Peter Hecht finished as best German team. Temporarily being on rank three finally the Kiel ones have to be satisfied with place nine.

Final top ten results:

1. Ignacio Camino Rodriguez/Alberdo Padron Gomez Jose Luis/Armando Gutierrez, ESP, 52 2. Jeff Johnstone/Bo Teichmann/Stella Mau/Florian Foh/Henning Mittelmann, USA, 54 3. Carlos Martinez/Chencho Ortega/Eugenio Pedreno/Juanma Barrionuevo, ESP, 63 4. Patrick Bot/Frederic Denis/Matthieu Durand/Frederic Hauville/Agathe Brucelle, FRA, 71 5. Kevin Sproul/Yoann Richomme/Robert Gullan/Aarian Gray, GBR, 75; 6. Javier Padron/Juan Gonzalez/Abelardo Queuedo/Cesar Obregon, ESP, 79 7. Ingemar Sundstedt/Jorgen Stromquist/Olof Detlefsen/Anne Tempelmann/Mikael Linquist, SWE, 79 8. Jonathan Lobert/Félix Pruvor/Thomas Le Breton/Benjamin Diouris, FRA, 81 9. Ulrich Munker/Philipp Schon/Willem Geertz/Erik Hecht/Peter Hecht, Kiel, 87 10. Luc Nadal/Francois Meesmaecker/Pierre Mousselon/Gilles Curcaud, FRA, 106

http://www.j80-worlds.de

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COWES - DINARD - ST MALO RACE Mike Slade's 30 meter Maxi, ICAP Leopard was the first to finish the race in the early hours of Saturday morning, breaking the race record. After a few hours sleep, a jubilant Mike Slade was enjoying a good lunch in St. Malo of Moules Mariniere and chips and toasting his team's fourth record of an impressive season with a glass of Rose; "I know it is a bit of a corny choice of fare but it was just what I fancied after a great race to St. Malo. I can't believe it is eight years since we broke the record but all credit must go to the crew, it was a lumpy beat all the way to Les Hanois but the boat is strong, we have proved that. However, we did have a big issue when the webbing between the top of the main and the headboard failed. It took about an hour to make good a temporary repair, we were well behind record time at that stage. Two reefs was not an ideal sail plan but thankfully the wind kept up at about 15 knots, any less and it would have been a major issue.

In all it took us about ten hours to cover the first half of the course but once we cleared Guernsey, we were power reaching at 18-20 knots and covered the last half of the race in under four hours. It was a magnificent finish to a great race, thanks to the Royal Ocean Racing Club for the event."

ICAP Leopard may have beaten the race record but Class Super Zero was won, on corrected time, by the Open 60, Artemis Ocean Racing with Johnny Malbon on board.

Gery Trenteseaux's First 45, Lady Courrier, claimed the overall prize, winning the Edward VII Cup, Gery, like Mike Slade was also enjoying a meal in St. Malo and was very satisfied to find out that they had won the race overall.

"Perhaps it is a bit of revenge for not keeping the Rolex Commodores' Cup!" He joked with a cheeky grin. "We had a new boom to replace the one we broke last week and the boat was very fast, also our tactical navigation was good, we decided to go to the west of the course and we had a very good lay line to Les Hanois and flew our spinnaker all the way to the finish." When asked how his team would celebrate Gery commented; "We have some beef and a very good Chateau Neuf du Pape, at exactly 40.5 degrees." -- Trish Jenkins

Full results at http://www.rorc.org

ROLEX ILHABELA SAILING WEEK Ilhabela, Sao Paolo, Brasil: Today's perfect sailing conditions of 12-15 knots of breeze, sunny skies, and gorgeous verdant backdrop were a suitable finale to a week of close ORC International competition at Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week. By an incredibly close margin of 15 seconds in corrected time, Eduardo Souza Ramos' Judel/Vrolik 57 Mitsubishi Motors/GOL defeated Nicolas Ibenez's B&C 46 Stella Artois in today's final race to win the ORCi 500 class in a tie-break with Ernesto Breda's Touche Super.

Ironically, Breda and his team did not have to finish better than the average of their excellent results accumulated all week, but a poor start by the red B&C 46 put them in a position to have to fight for everything on the 11.6 mile windward-leeward course. While they did a credible job of climbing out from being very deep in the pack, they were not able to get back the 2 minutes needed to climb into 3rd place for the race and thereby have a 4th to throw off the scorecard to win the class. And lurking only one point back in third overall was Stella Artois.

Renato Cunha on his Beneteau 40.7 Ventaneiro must have also been feeling the pressure of having the lead going into today as they very nearly lost the ORCi 600 class when also finishing today below their weekly average. Having used their OCS-earned 15 points as a throw-out yesterday, Cunha and team could manage only 5th today among the very competitive Beneteau's, but that was just enough to finish one point clear of Jose Alberto Bereti's runner-up Triksu-Pier 2, a sistership to Ventaneiro.

It was a very different story in the ORC Club 600-670 class, where Fabio Fillipon's Skipper 30 Katana II remained untouchable at the top of the class in a week of impressive sailing. Having in hand enough of a lead to not sail, Katana opted for earning their throwout 25-point DNC score for today, but still win the class by 12 points.

And it was the same story in the ORC Club 700 class, where Luciano Gubert de Oliveira's J/24 Meubarconovo chose to stay ashore and earn their throw-out DNS points to still win the class by 11 points.

Seahorse International Sailing's USA Editor Dobbs Davis, observing the event on behalf of ORC, commented "The quality of the race management, competition, venue, and overall ambience is certainly impressive at this event, and its no wonder that with close to 200 entries this is the most popular of its kind on the continent. I think it ranks high with other international race weeks around the world."

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VOLVO YOUTH SAILING ISAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Arhus, Denmark: There was an international feel to day two of racing at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Arhus, Denmark where sailors from Europe, Oceania and Africa occupy the leaderboard top spots.

The British team lead the charge in the 29er with two strong performances in both the girls and boys fleets, while the Cyprian sailors carried on dominating in the Laser and Boy's RS:X. The strong winds returned to the Bay of Arhus today keeping the sailors working hard on the second day of the event.

There was a change at the top of the leaderboard in the SL16 multihull fleet with the ISAF Athlete Participation Programme (APP) sailors from South Africa taking the top spot from the Danish team. Matthew Whitehead and Micheal Ovenstone who were in fourth after the first day found their form on the water with a first and second.

In the Laser Radial class the Australian defending champion Gabrielle King now leads the pack with a consistent top five positions as the Canadian sailor Isabella Bertold falls to second only two points behind. The Finnish competitor, Heidi Tenkanen posted a first and a fifth to raise her from sixth to third overall.

Pavlos Kontides (CYP) carries on leading the boy's Laser fleet with another two first places, making it look very easy out on the water in the big breeze. American Luke Lawrence also showed consistency with two second places lifting him to second place overall and pushing local Arhus sailor, Thorbjoern Schierup into third.

The top three places in the Boy's RS:X fleet have remained the same with the Cypriot windsurfer, Michalis Malekkides posting a first and fourth. This is his second Youth Worlds and he was looking for a top six place before he came but now thinks he can do better.

Laura LINARES (ITA) carries on leading the girl's fleet with a second and first place with Poland's Maja Dziarnowska and Greece's Anastasia Davrou swapping places below her.

Racing continues in Arhus Monday, with the first races scheduled for a 12:00 local time start.

Live online race tracking: http://sportcasting.org/home/

Event site: http://www.youthworlds2008.org

* Everyday this week tune into http://www.Sailing-tv.tv to watch daily highlights from the 38th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships.

71ST WARNEMUENDER WOCHE Warnemuende, Germany: During the second weekend of the Warnemuender Woche 15 classes showed their skills in sailing conditions that had a lot to offer - from light wind and sun to thunderstorm and rain. The challenging weather provided shifty conditions and forces up to eight Beaufort on Saturday. This Sunday proved to be sunny and light winds gave a smooth farewell to all the sailors.

The Medal Race in the Olympic star boat class went to the Danish team Joergen Svendsen and Jens Jurlander. But Alexander Hagen with his crew Frithjof Kleen took the title, scoring a second in the finals. "We have sailed a constant series and started pretty relaxed into the last race", 53- year old Hagen from Hamburg/Germany said. "I did not race here often, but it is a great place to sail championships", the two times world champion added. The Danish team became second, leaving Johannes Babendererde and Manuel Voigt (Hamburg/Germany) on third.

In the Olympic surfing RS:X class the German Championship went to Toni Wilhelm (Kiel/Germany) in the men's ranking. Romy Kinzl from Kiel, who is hoping for her Olympic nomination on Tuesday, won the woman's ranking.

Jan Kurfeld sailed an impressive series on the last day of racing in the Olympic Finn Dinghy class. He scored four bullets on his home waters in the fleet of 55 boats to win.

On Saturday a dream came true for Karl Purdie from New Zealand. He could win the OK-Dinghy World Championship for the first time, leaving three times World Champion Nick Craig from Great Britain on second place. "It was a long way to win the title and I still have not realised that I achieved it", Purdie said. The Australian Andre Blasse took bronze in the fleet of 90 boats.

All in all 15 classes started into the second weekend. When a dark front brought heavy winds and rain in the early Saturday afternoon, racing had to be stopped for the day.

Schedule, results and further Information: http://www.warnemuender-woche.com

MARC GUILLEMOT IS CHANGING ALL THE APPENDAGES ON HIS SAFRAN Four months from now, the Vendee Globe will be just a few days old. It is certainly not far off and it is time for the final summer refit for Safran, Marc Guillemot's monohull. To make further improvements to the monohull, all the appendages are going to be changed… and as always with the help of some of the Group's companies.

"We're not building a new boat, but it is almost as if we were." Obviously, Thierry Brault, the head of the Safran Sailing Team was joking, but underneath the surface there is a certain degree of truth in what he says. Work began on her after her return from the United States and the Transat. She was taken out of the water in late June and now Marc Guillemot's monohull is benefiting from an important overhaul. All of the appendages or almost are going to be changed. Thierry Brault explains: "We're fitting new daggerboards, new rudders, a new boom, a new keel." While there is no new mast, the running and standing rigging are also to be replaced by new. Everything was studied by the designer, Guillaume Verdier, with the calculations being carried out once again by companies inside the SAFRAN Group.

Work on Safran will continue throughout July, the goal being to relaunch the boat at the end of the month on 26th or 27th. "The overall idea is to reduce the weight on top to add some below," thus stepping up the performance, explains Thierry Brault. "Having a lighter boom enables us to transfer weight into the keel." The rudders will be made of a "3D weave", a technology coming from the group, which is used for the blades in jet engines. "By weaving carbon in this innovative way, we obtain better resistance to shock and above all it prevents an impact developing into serious damage, as can happen with traditional methods of construction," summed up Pascal Chadail, Safran's project leader.

Safran will be put into true round the world single-handed mode. For example: fuel tanks, which have to be larger than for a transatlantic race need to be installed. A desalinisation unit producing fresh water will be connected up. Solar panels are going to be fitted and the entire computer sytem checked over. Special arrangements are being be put in place to make manoeuvres easier and improve the skipper's comfort. Thus, alongside the two "cable cars" making it easier to move equipment from one side to another during a gybe), "we're going to be installing extra boxes and bags and additional storage facilities." Marc Guillemot will of course, be taking on board many more supplies and more equipment for this three month round the world voyage than for a twelve day Atlantic crossing. "We're also going to be giving him a sort of tent in the living quarters, to reduce the interior volume and allow him to heat the space up more easily in the difficult month he will be spending in the deep south where it is not likely to be very warm."

The modifications to the keel and appendages will require Marc Guillemot to carry out another qualifying passage, which he will need to do before 1st September. So it will be in August that the yachtsman from La Trinite will carry out this task.

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