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Maxi yacht rolex cup 2022. strongest ever fleet.

One of the largest, most competitive and innovative maxi yacht fleets ever assembled will tomorrow start five days of racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. First held in 1980, this event will, as usual, will run from Monday until Saturday with Thursday a layday/reserve day. 50 yachts have gathered for this annual pinnacle of the maxi racing calendar, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and the International Maxi Association (IMA). This is the event’s second largest fleet ever since 2016’s 53. The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is also the penultimate event of the IMA’s Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge (MMIC). Defending champion, IMA President Benoît de Froidmont and his Wally 60 Wallyño , currently leads the 2022 MMIC by just one point from Alessandro Del Bono’s ILC maxi Capricorno , with Peter Dubens’ North Star and Sir Peter Ogden’s Jethou close behind. “I will try and focus on this regatta and there is another inshore after this. We have a good chance of success here - the crew knows the boat very well now,” said de Froidmont. As President of the International Maxi Association he added of this year’s fleet: “I am extremely impressed by the quality, the number and the level of the competition. We have reached a level we have never seen before.”  

Wallyño will be racing in the ten boat Mini Maxi 3 + 4 class against Riccardo de Michele's Vallicelli 78 H20 , a repeated past class winner here, although beaten by one point last year to Luca Scoppa's Dehler 60 Blue Oyster. Also back this year are Luigi Sala's Vismara Mills 62 Yoru and Aldo Parisotto's Mylius 65FD Oscar3. This class’ other half comprises Swans including two original 65s, Anthony Ball's Six Jaguar and Giuseppe Puttini's past class winner here Shirlaf, plus the 651 Lunz am Meer, campaigned by Marietta Strasoldo and the more modern 601s, regular competitor Gerard Logel's @robas and Les Amis of Valter Pizzoli.

From the old to the brand new: Stealing the show this year will be Roberto Lacorte’s new FlyingNikka racing alone in Mini Maxi 0. This will be the first event for the world’s first fully foiling maxi with AC75-style flip-up T-foils, but the price is a stratosphere IRC TCC of 3.866.

Also new is Pier Luigi Loro Piana's My Song , the first example of Nautor’s ClubSwan 80. Loro Piana has been racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup since the early 1990s. “The event is getting better and better,” he says. “Happening at the end of the season is perfect. Rolex does an incredible job and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is the best place to race out of.”

Of his new My Song , he adds: “I feel very good - it is exciting. This boat has more things to adjust and the canting keel and daggerboard are new for me. It is important the boat is competitive against other boats of the same size although it would be fantastic to start a one design class.”

Longest here are the Js, whose fleet has doubled in size with Velsheda and Topaz joined by the ‘Super-J’ Ranger, now with a new American owner, for whom this is his first yacht. Following a substantial refit she raced for the first time at this year’s St Barths Bucket and won. Similarly Svea , now campaigned by a trio of Swedes, also won the Superyacht Cup on her first outing with her new team.

Calling tactics on board is round the world race veteran Bouwe Bekking, who previously raced in the J aboard Lionheart and whose last J Class event was winning the IMA-backed World Championship in Newport, RI in 2017.  “Js are always a challenge to sail,” says Bekking. “On Svea there is a nice mix of pros and guys with normal jobs who are good sailors and enjoying their Swedish heritage.” Svea was originally designed by Swede Tore Holm in 1937, but back then was never built. Around 80% of the crew are Swedish. “This has a really nice layout. The Js are all so similar and they are all sailed very well, so you need a good start.”

Among the Super Maxis (LH = 30.51+m) is once again the modern classic Spirit 111 AC Geist of Christian Oldendorff, which will be up against the Wally 107 Spirit of Malouen X (ex-Hamilton/Open Season), now belonging to TP52 campaigner Jean-Luc Petithuguenin, plus two Swan 115s: Shamanna, while Juan Ball has exchanged his Swan 90 Nefertiti for Moat 1 (ex- Highland Fling XV ).

As in 2021, the competition in the Maxi class (LH: 24.09-30.50m) will be fierce. It is also the biggest class with 13 entries. For the first time the Wallys joined the Maxi class last year and their 100 footers filled the podium: Sir Lindsay Owen Jones' Magic Carpet 3 , Claus-Peter Offen's Y3K and David M. Leuschen's Galateia . After winning the first two races, victory had came close for Lord Irvine Laidlaw's Reichel/Pugh 82 Highland Fling XI until her forestay broke. All four return along with the Dutch-owned Farr 100 Leopard 3, Charif Souki’s WallyCento Tango and Andrea Recordati's newly acquired Wally 93 Bullitt.

Offen has been competing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup since 2000. Today, he says “it is more professional and the boats, are much faster, but the quality of both the boats and the crew has increased significantly.” As to whether he can repeat his second place... “that was amazing given that we have a comparatively old boat. It was a combination of doing a good job and a little bit of luck.”

This year they will line up against the pure maxi racers, including Rambler 88, now in the hand of former Lucky Maxi 72 owner Bryon Ehrhart and Wendy Schmidt’s ever improving Botin Partners 85 Deep Blue. Some of the best looking yachts here are the Southern Winds, including the 90 All Smoke, Canadian Will Apold’s 96 Sorceress, which debuted here in 2017, and Massimiliano Florio’s 82 Grande Orazio, the 2018 winner.

As usual, the toughest here will be the six out of class former Maxi 72s, still racing together under IRC in Mini Maxi 1. Favourite is Cannonball, winner of the last two editions but gunning for her is Hap Fauth's Bella Mente now 74ft long. However Cannonball too has stepped up and she is now 75ft, with a deeper keel and also water ballast. Rating-wise Cannonball and Bella Mente are the same, but two points ahead of the 77ft Jethou. American regulars Jim Swartz's Vesper and George Sakellaris' Proteus, which finished second and third respectively last year, have a similar rating with Peter Dubens' North Star lowest of this group.

“The level is getting higher and higher,” says Cannonball strategist Michele Ivaldi. “We know that Bella Mente has improved a lot. Cannonball is a brand new boat now and we are learning her again - it is like having a new toy.”

Returning is last year’s complete Mini Maxi 2 podium: Alessandro Del Bono’s Capricorno, Luciano Gandini’s Mylius 80 Twin Soul B and Jean-Pierre Barjon, with his newly acquired Botin Partners 65, Spirit of Lorina. They are joined by Carlo A. Puri Negri and his Farr/Felci 70 Atalanta II, winner of last year’s Aegean 600 and the two Wally 80s, Rose of Sven Wackerhagen and Jean Philippe Blanpain’s Ryokan II, and the Vismara 80 MoMi of Angelomario Moratti and Nicola Minardi de Michetti.

Racing gets under way at 1200 tomorrow with a light forecast, conditions expected to build later in the week potentially to Mistral level.

(by James Boyd / International Maxi Association)

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Maxi Racing to the Max

• By Kimball Livingston
• February 21, 2023

Maxi racing in the Med is hot. Call it a lesson in the value of getting your act together. The game has grown and changed dramatically—and deliberately—with fleets of 50 as the new normal. Ten years ago, none of this was ensured. The secretary general of the International Maxi Association, Andrew McIrvine, tells us, “Rapid change was needed, or it was going to just die.”

How it didn’t “just die” is a story worth telling, and we lean on McIrvine for that. “The International Maxi Association was originally a social club for the owners of 80-footers. That generation was going out as I was invited in,” he says. “The racing had categories that were impossible to define, so people were always gaming it. What’s a racer-cruiser versus a cruiser-racer? And could we ever have effective class splits based on hull length?”

The answer to that, as proven, is no he says. “The categories are now performance-defined, using a single-number IRC rule that includes an accurate weight measurement, not a calculated weight. We photograph the interiors so we know who’s stripping them out. The database includes 155 boats, and it has checks on people who fly too close to the rules. That gives other people the confidence to come out and race.”

The 2023 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge offers a series of six events, wrapping up in August with the Palermo-Montecarlo Race. That’s 500 miles from Sicily to the Champagne at Yacht Club de Monaco—not to forget the fly-through gate at Porto Cervo along the way and the option of leaving Corsica to port or to starboard. It’s a sporty race in a sporty calendar.

“I truly believe the IMA has made a difference. We’ve attracted a new, younger membership. We’ve added events, and the compass has expanded from the Med to the Caribbean . Whereas we used to have a big mini-maxi contingent and not many boats 80 to 100 feet, in 2022 we suddenly had 12 of the 80- to 100-foot maxis racing, and racing on proper terms. At least two of the current owners are building new boats, which I believe is the sign of a healthy class.

“Then there are the Maxi 72s that have all been modified outside the box they were designed for, but they still race together. They’re more optimized than the other boats, so no one outside their group wants to race against them—they’re a threat—but we can usually give them their own sandbox to play in.”’

And what of the Wallys that seems to have disappeared?

“We gave that up. Wallys come in different sizes, different speeds. I can’t think of a single case of twin Wallys. Now they’ve rejoined according to their ratings, and I think, frankly, the Wally era is over. Luca Bassani’s success with Wallys is such that all designers have copied his concept. When he started, big race boats were neither ergonomic nor pretty, and the decks were bristling with winches. If you go aboard any boat now, it looks like a Wally.

“You could also go the way of Rambler and Comanche, where you pay more and more money to be more and more uncomfortable. Down below, you’re sitting in a carbon-black hole (black because paint adds weight) beside an engine that runs to power the canting keel and the winches. On deck—and it’s true with the Maxi 72s—you find they are exhausting boats to sail because they’re fast upwind at steep angles only. They’re on the edges of the hull to keep the wetted surface to a minimum. The hulls are so wide at the stern, all the crew is hiked hard at the aft end of the boat. And then, in a tack, you’re going from 45 degrees to 45 degrees, and if you don’t get it right running across the deck, you’re in trouble. On a clean deck, there’s nothing to grab on to.”

Placing itself somewhere in between the extremes of the grand-prix set and the ­leaning cruisers, Nautor has a new ClubSwan 80 it’s touting as a one-design class. Loro Piana brought Hull No. 1 to the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup last year at Porto Cervo, and the boat performed well. Weighing the odds of developing a successful one-design, it’s worth remembering that the ClubSwan 50 had its skeptics, who were proven wrong. But the 80 is a take-no-prisoners statement. It’s a major turn for a company whose classic racing events feature boats with furniture. Now we’re talking all carbon with a canting keel, a tacking daggerboard, push-button controls, twin rudders, design by Juan K, and construction in Italy by Persico—very fashion-forward. I’m sure you had a look at that boat.

“It’s a fascinating project, and it looks extreme, but it has, theoretically, cruising potential,” McIrvine says. “Inside, it’s all black carbon—artfully crafted—accented with strips of mahogany veneer. No furniture, but you have the option of adding interior modules for cruising. And we shouldn’t overlook the carbon-fiber bidet in the owner’s head.”

Clearly, Nautor thinks the IMA has a good thing going, and it wants a bigger piece of it. Beyond rational class definitions, one very important thing is resonating, McIrvine says. The owners are driving.

“Our rule is critical, and we are strict about imposing it, with rest breaks allowed,” he says. “Generally, it takes a lifetime to amass the wealth to race a big boat. By the end of a day race, most owners are exhausted. Which is not to say that amateur drivers are on their own. An astonishing number of names you know show up to whisper, ‘A little higher, sir, a little lower.’ That keeps the standards high, and it’s a reminder that being a pro sailor is a dodgy profession. There are only 10 TP52s in the Med, for example, only nine SailGP teams in the world and five America’s Cup teams. However, we don’t restrict driving in the superyacht group at all.”

The other boat debuting at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup was FlyingNikka , which raised the concern of foiling monohulls threatening the order. “ Nikka showed that she can sail in the fleet safely, so at St. Tropez we put her in a class where her rating was absurd. The boat would do 35 knots in the right conditions, but they couldn’t keep her on foils going upwind. Tacks were agonizingly slow. What Roberto Lacorte is looking for is line honors in longer races.”

The venues where maxis can and now gather are also a draw. The Caribbean was the inevitable expansion opportunity beyond the Med, where it’s obvious that people like to go to St. Tropez, Capri, Sorrento, Giraglia and so on. Neither coast of the United States can accommodate such a fleet.

“Water depth is a huge challenge for race committees,” McIrvine says. “A lot of the Bay of Naples is 1,200 to 1,500 feet deep. Off St. Tropez it’s much, much deeper. We’re using MarkSetBot, which is promising. It’s not 100 percent reliable, but an upside beyond remote control is that you can’t wrap your keel around an anchor line because there is no anchor line [on a GPS‑directed robot mark].

“Our people are selective about where they choose to race. One owner told me it costs him $750,000 to take his boat, team and containers to Porto Cervo for five days. No one wants to spend that kind of money on a badly run regatta, so it’s a conservative bunch.

“The IMA has a small board of directors backed up by a dynamic, insightful team. IMA costs are supported by membership subscription except for Rolex, which has been fantastic. When I started with the IMA, the Rolex people told me, ‘We’ve been giving you money, but your people just put it in the bank.’ I said, ‘I’m sure I can fix that,’ and I have. There is a lot of travel now, a much more glam yearbook, a lot of publicity. About half the boats racing last year were flying the IMA flag.”

So, everything is coming up roses? “There are still supply-chain issues around securing building materials. Outside of maxi racing, the 30- to 40-foot range is falling off a cliff, except for shorthanded distance racing. Looking ahead, we still don’t know if we are in a recession or a hiccup, but in previous recessions, maxi racing has gone on, looking good for two or three years longer than you might expect. Then the boats stay on the dock.”

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Maxi 72 Worlds: A Gathering of Giants

September 3, 2016 By Bella Mente Leave a Comment

 As ever a major feature of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is the Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship. This year six examples of the ultra competitive, owner-driven, grand prix racers will be lining up, their challenge being to dislodge Hap Fauth’s dominant Judel Vrolijk design, Bella Mente. The reigning Rolex Maxi 72 World Champion goes into this year’s Worlds straight from victories at Copa del Rey MAPFRE and the inaugural Maxi 72 North American Championship held in Newport, RI in June.

“This is our favourite regatta,” commented Fauth, who is President of the Maxi 72 Class, which is affiliated to the IMA. “There will be six 72 footers and competition will be fierce. It is always challenging conditions both for the around the buoys and the coastal race. It is normally all you want.”

As to Bella Mente being favourite for a third World title, Fauth added: “We have the oldest boat and I am the oldest helmsman, but we have got a very good team. Our execution over the course of a regatta has been good and if there is one reason why we might have a small advantage it is because of that. But it is a very small advantage: The margin of victory in this fleet is two or three seconds – the boats are very close.”

Read the full release by the International Maxi Association below:

A record-sized fleet of the world’s largest performance yachts is readying itself in Porto Cervo, Sardinia for next week’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. Organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and the International Maxi Association (IMA) with Rolex as title sponsor, this year’s event takes place September 4-10 and has 52 entries.

In terms of length, the fleet spans the giant 49.7m Ohana to entries at the shorter end of the IMA’s permitted size range – 60 footers such as Gérard Logel’s Swan 601 @robas and the Wally 60 Wallyño.

The biggest class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will once again be the Wallys (an associated class within the IMA), which features 13 examples of the modernist high performance luxury yachts. Leading the charge off the Costa Smeralda will be the two Wallycentos, Sir Lindsay Owen Jones’ Magic Carpet Cubed and the latest example launched last October, David Leuschen’s Galateia, plus the elongated version, (now 32.7m) Open Season of International Maxi Association President, Thomas Bscher.

The Supermaxi class has a formidable line-up including Irvine Laidlaw’s new Swan 115 Highland Fling 15, plus two Baltic Yachts-built high performance carbon fibre one-offs: the Nauta 115 Nikata and the Javier Jaudenes-designed Win Win – both making their Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup debuts. This year sees the return of Sir Peter Harrison’s Farr 115 ketch, Sojana, following a lengthy refit.

The Js are back this year. Lionheart and Velsheda will match race their way around the race track.

The Maxi class (79-100ft) will see two high profile yachts making their Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup debuts. Best known for her offshore program, Mike Slade’s Farr 100 Leopard 3 has travelled to the four corners of the earth to compete in races such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart, the RORC Caribbean 600 and the Fastnet Race, in which she has twice scored line honours victories.

Despite only being two years old, George David’s Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed Rambler 88, also has notched up thousands of sea miles. This year alone she has won the IMA’s annual Volcano Race (from Gaeta, Italy, south around the volcanic Aeolian Islands off northeast Sicily) and last week claimed line honours in the Palermo-Montecarlo race, the fourth and final event of the IMA’s inaugural Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge.

The Maxi class also includes four entries from Southern Wind Shipyard, including the Farr-designed 100ft Blues and Michael Cotter’s Windfall. There are two SWS 82s: Massimilano Florio’s Grande Orazio was winner of the IMA’s Volcano Race in 2015, while Ammonite is brand new, campaigned by leading Australian skipper Marcus Blackmore.

As ever a major feature of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is the Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship. This year six examples of the ultra competitive, owner-driven, grand prix racers will be lining up, their challenge being to dislodge Hap Fauth’s dominant Judel Vrolijk design, Bella Mente. The reigning Rolex Maxi 72 World Champion goes into this year’s Worlds straight from victories at Copa del Rey MAPFRE and the inaugural Maxi 72 North American Championship held in Newport, RI in June.

The Mini Maxi class (60-79ft) also has a strong line-up. Roberto Lacorte’s Mark Mills 68 Supernikka returns to defend her title, while she will be up against another Mills 68, the more thoroughbred racer, Prospector, which as Alegre and then Caol Ila R was one of the most competitive boats in what is now the Maxi 72 class. Also to be watched will be American Bryon Ehrhart’s Reichel Pugh 63, Lucky. Winner of last year’s Transatlantic Race, Lucky in her previous life was Loki, winner of the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart.

In 2015 the Mini Maxi Racer-Cruiser class had one of the tightest finishes and the top four boats return this year, including winner, Riccardo de Michele’s Vallicelli 80 H2O, which finished on equal points with Giuseppe Puttini’s Swan 65 Shirlaf (which this year will face stiff competition from new IMA member Marietta Strasoldo’s Swan 651 Lunz Am Meer.)

Andrew McIrvine, Secretary General of the IMA commented: “It will be an exciting year with a number of new boats competing, especially in the SuperMaxi division where a new generation of more race-oriented boats are appearing. The challenge of manoeuvring these huge craft around the tight courses around the islands of the Maddalena makes for a great spectacle and keeps so many sailors coming back year after year.”

Racing will take place over a mixture of windward-leeward and coastal courses.

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The original Bella Mente Racing campaign kicked off in 2006 with Key West Race Week, and since then owner and skipper Hap Fauth has had three additional racing yachts in the program.

Launched in September of 2018, the current Bella Mente is a Maxi 72 designed by Botin Partners in Spain and built by New England Boatworks in Rhode Island.

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Published on September 8th, 2018 | by Editor

Season closes with Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

Published on September 8th, 2018 by Editor -->

Porto Cervo, Italy (September 8, 2018) – The final day of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship enjoyed brilliant sunshine and 10-15 knots westerly winds.

Among the 41 competitors, the Wally classes got to race two final windward-leewards as everyone else sailed a course up ‘Bomb Alley’, with all but the slower Mini Maxi class rounding Spargi before returning back the way they had come past the La Maddalena Archipelago.

As the pinnacle event in the maxi yacht calendar, the most remarkable victory was that of the Wally 77 Lyra (above leading J One) in the Wally class, despite this being the first ever regatta for her owner-driver, Chinese Canadian Terry Hui. With her 2-1 today, Lyra’s scoreline comprised five wins and two seconds.

“It was a very pleasant surprise, a superb experience to be in Porto Cervo, one of the best harbours in the world, and sailing with some of the best sailors in the world,” said Hui. “The Wally owners are an interesting, friendly group, so I’ve been very lucky. The real story is that all the crew compensate for all of my mistakes!” Hui only decided to start sailing two and a half months ago, but bought the Lyra campaign from James Murdoch complete with the majority of her crew.

“It’s not a bad way for Terry to start his sailing career!” observed Lyra’s tactician Hamish Pepper, adding that the ground work for the campaign had already been laid when they won Les Voiles de St Tropez last year. As to why the two Wally 77s (Lyra and Jean-Charles Decaux’s J One) have done so well this week, Pepper observed: “The three Wallycentos have been fighting and slowing themselves down and we have been just a click ahead of J One, so after the first five or ten minutes we have been able to sail our own race.”

Lebanese American Charif Souki’s Wallycento Tango claimed today’s first windward-leeward Wally race held in 12-13 knots, the wind increasing to 14 knots for race two. Tactician Thierry Peponnet explained: “We had a very nice first race – winning it from the start. We wanted to be to leeward of our opponents, because we were expecting the wind to go left and that was a good option. The second was all in the start and we had a fantastic one. We got better and better over the week.”

A 1-2 for Tango enabled them to beat Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones’ Magic Carpet Cubed to the Wallycento overall win by a mere half point.

Wally Yachts President Luca Bassani was pleased with how the racing had gone: “It has been a lot of fun with very tight racing between the three Wallycentos. The big surprise was Lyra winning so many races – that’s never happened before in the Wally class.”

The J Class claimed the top three slots in the SuperMaxi class, with Topaz sealing the deal by one point, despite Ronald de Waal’s Velsheda winning today’s race. “I believe we punched above our weight,” said Topaz helmsman Peter Holmberg. “I’m really proud of our guys and I think, seeing as we were the underdogs, we did a great job to win the regatta.”

However, victory had nearly slipped through their fingers with Svea hounding them, on their transom, as they returned down Bomb Alley. “We had to work really hard to keep them behind,” recounted Holmberg. “It came down to the bottom mark where we did a Mexican drop – all credit to the bow team as they got the spinnaker on-board and cleaned up, so we could turn the mark.”

In the Maxi class, victory today for Argentinean Miguel Galuccio’s Vera was not enough to displace Massimiliano Florio’s Grande Orazio from the top spot after his Southern Wind 82 finished third today to Lauro Buoro’s Wally 94 Inti 3 under IRC corrected time.

Of his victory, Florio commented: “We had the best conditions we could expect for our boat and had great co-ordination between the crew. My compliments go to tactician Lorenzo Bortolotti, who always chose the right layline. We didn’t make mistakes in the manoeuvres, even when the winds were light.”

Florio dedicated his victory to Southern Wind Shipyard’s founder, Willy Persico who died in May.

In the faster Mini Maxi class, Roberto Lacorte’s Vismara 62 SuperNikka scored four bullets and two seconds to claim his third Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup victory. “This is thanks to the huge work carried out by my crew, not just during races, but before for this event too,” he said. “This is our main event annually and this result gives us so much satisfaction – the reward for all the effort and work we carried out over the winter.”

Riccardo De Michele’s Vallicelli 80 H20 scored straight bullets in the slower Mini Maxi class while Guiseppe Puttini’s Swan 65 Shirlaf scored all seconds with the exception of today, when they were beaten by Anthony Ball’s Swan 65 Six Jaguar.

“I am very happy that the competition in our class was much the same as last year,” said De Michele. “Last year it was much harder difficult to beat them. They improved this year, but our boat improved a lot too, as has the crew.”

German Dieter Schön’s Momo yesterday retained her Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship title with Dario Ferrari’s Cannonball, the local favourite, claiming second and George Sakellaris’ Proteus third.

Proteus finished strongly today with a second on the lap of Bomb Alley. Afterguard Tommaso Chieffi described their day: “There was a lot of action in the pre-start as we tried to go for the pin, but we didn’t make it because we had two boats in between. We did force Cannonball eventually to tack and they got a penalty for a port-starboard with Momo right after the start. At the top mark we were fifth with Cannonball behind, but we got a clear lane and got into second and were slowly getting into Momo. On the way back, before the inflatable mark, we were almost on their transom, but they stretched away on the last run.”

Bryon Ehrhart, sailing his first Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup with his new Maxi 72 Lucky (formerly Bella Mente), admitted he and his team are still learning the boat having graduated up from their Reichel Pugh 63 and TP52. “For our first year with this boat we have learned a lot. We will try to move it up again next year. It’s been good sailing all season long. It is hard not to enjoy racing here.”

The 29th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup & Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship was held from September 3 to 8.

Event details – Results – Photos

Source: James Boyd, International Maxi Association

Tags: Maxi 72 , Maxi 72 World Championship , Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

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Final days of prep in porto cervo.

Alessio Razeto is the North Sails Italy sales manager, and this week he is pulling double duty as he gears up to sail on SuperNikka in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. In fact, the whole North sales and service team in Italy is working hard to make sure our clients are fully prepared when they hit the start line in Porto Cervo.

We spoke with Alessio in advance of Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and learned that the local team is busy with sail deliveries, inventory checks, and getting their head in the game for what he calls “a world yacht show.”

“ This is a special race,” he says, “because you have a collection of the biggest, most competitive sailing boats in the world. Onboard and on the docks you’ll see top industry boat designers, yard managers, boat captains, and pro sailors.

“Yacht Club Costa Smeralda provides incredible hospitality and an exceptionally high standard of race management,” Alessio explains. Racing is set against the backdrop of the rocky coast and when the Mistral shows up it’s just the best possible conditions.”

Asked for his predictions on results, Alessio shrugs. “There are many classes and it’s really difficult to predict a possible winner, especially racing under IRC where wind conditions are not affecting the handicap; if the wind increases or drops, the final score could be flipped upside down. This is a mixed regatta, both windward-leewards and coastal racing, so all the boats are set up to the lightest displacement and boat handling will be the key.”

Sail selection is vital at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Alessio adds. “We must have the boat set up for coastal racing and that means being strong all around; up and downwind as well as reaching angles. We will face quite long legs with 90-100 TWA if the Mistral comes, and carrying on the proper A0 or jib top can make a huge difference in speed. All the North Sails representatives are working with their teams, looking at best boat VPP in order to get the boat sailing at 110% of target polars.”

The company invests a lot of time and resources to be at this event, he continues—as do our clients. Minor sail problems will be addressed to make sure customers are competing at full potential. “We’ve got 25 years of providing overnight regatta service in Porto Cervo, and North Sails will have a pop-up loft throughout event. We have a big temporary loft with a van outfitted with a crane to make sure we are able to properly service all the yachts. Maxi racing requires a maxi structure!”

The days before the regatta is a madhouse, he says. “The North service team is working at full potential getting sails checked over and delivered. Sardinia is a big island and we’re 100% committed to making sure both new and repaired sails get to Porto Cervo in time so our clients are race ready.”

With most of the racing starting off Porto Cervo and heading to Bonifacio between Maddalena and Caprera, there are huge variations in wind conditions during each leg. “You’ll see the fleet starting with a medium jib which they’ll stick with as the wind builds throughout the day,” Alessio predicts. “3Di is the perfect fit for this race as it carries through a wide wind range. Most of the North boats will not switch out their jib, and that is the biggest advantage of carrying a North sail because that maneuver and loss of boat speed comes at a huge cost.”

With Helix sails such a hot topic, we asked what part they will play in Porto Cervo.

“There are a lot of discussions about Helix and Load Sharing Technology on the dock,” says Alessio. “There is a clear advantage in terms of performance, weight saving, and the reduced load on tack and head. North 3Di technology gives the best potential benefit to push this concept to the limit and I expect it will be integrated into other sails in the near future.”

Once racing starts, Alessio will be part of team SuperNikka , a Mills 62. “It’s my ‘baby’ as I have been involved since the boat was a drawing on white paper. Our team has been together for a long time. We are constantly looking at ways to improve, and all the small changes have led to a massive performance increase. Sails are one of those improvements, and our North Sails IRC rule inventory includes a 3Di RAW main, jib and A0. We are also planning to test some special features on a reaching sail. We really work together, and our consistent results over the past five years are proof.”

Good luck to Alessio, his team SuperNikka , and all North Sails clients competing at 2019 Rolex Maxi Cup.

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17 Maxi Yachts Set to Compete in the IMA’s 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge

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• The International Maxi Association's 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge starts this Saturday with the Rolex Middle Sea Race.
• 17 maxi yachts of 60+ft LH are entered for the race.
• Among the monohulls, Bryon Ehrhart's Lucky is the scratch boat.

The International Maxi Association’s 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge kicks off this Saturday (October 21) with a strong line-up of top-quality maxi yachts participating in the Royal Malta Yacht Club’s Rolex Middle Sea Race. 17 maxi yachts of at least 60ft LH, plus Alexia Barrier’s MOD70 trimaran, are entered in this year’s 44th edition of the 600-mile race around Sicily. The race features a diverse fleet, including the 100ft Leopard 3, Bryon Ehrhart’s Lucky, and the 107ft Paprec Sailing Team. The race conditions are expected to be light and upwind. This is the first event in the Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge.

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After seeing victory slip through his fingers in 2022 when his Maxi 72 North Star was becalmed on the final run into the finish of the last race, today owner Peter Dubens, tactician Nick Rogers and the North Star crew were vindicated: Having started the last day of racing at the International Maxi Association’s European Championship second overall, their performance today squeezed George Sakellaris’ Proteus from the top spot to win the regatta by a mere quarter point after discarding their worst result.

Held out of Sorrento, Italy, the IMA Maxi European Championship was organised by the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (CRVI) in conjunction with the IMA, the body officially tasked by World Sailing to administer and develop maxi yacht racing internationally. It was supported by Rolex as Official Timepiece and Loro Piana.

With its combination of offshore, coastal and windward-leeward races, the IMA Maxi Europeans provides a complete test for competitors thus making it one of the hardest titles to win in the maxi yachting calendar. North Star got off to the best possible start claiming last weekend’s Regata dei Tre Golfi offshore race. After a disappointing day for all of the former Maxi 72s on Monday when conditions favoured the smaller boats, North Star followed this with a consistent series, her worst result being a fourth.

“It was the English weather – I loved it!” Dubens quipped as to the reason for his team’s biggest victory in 14 years of campaigning. While rain has been a dominant feature of the weather all week, the maxi fleet was at last granted a reprieve from it today.

While Sir Peter Ogden’s 77ft Jethou was the star performer today, the lower rated North Star had been hanging on to her larger rival’s coattails. Dubens continued: “Today was very tense. We had to put a boat between us and Proteus and it wasn’t easy, especially when we had to do a penalty. We were lucky to get out of that.”

All was going well until the final mark rounding off Punta Campanella, explained tactician Nick Rogers: “There was a big lift on port into it and an easy lay line, but then the wind disappeared and suddenly we weren’t laying and we had low boat speed and we had to tack. We couldn’t get behind My Song and suddenly Vesper did what she had to do and we ended up doing a penalty turn just after the mark. But all the crew and Peter were mega-focussed and we got really good lanes of pressure into the finish.”

As to the IMA Maxi Europeans itself, Dubens added: “This is a fabulous event – I really love it, sailing around Capri and Sorrento.” His yacht was originally Niklas Zennström’s supremely successful double Rolex Fastnet Race winner Rán II, since been converted to ‘push button’ permitting her to race inshore this week with a crew of just 13. At this afternoon’s prize-giving Dubens was not only awarded the IMA Maxi European Championship trophy but also the trophy for the best-placed IMA member.

After today’s final coastal – a course set by PRO Stuart Childerley, zigzagging around the southern Bay of Naples, between Capri and Punta Campanella – the former Maxi 72s claimed the five top spots overall in the Championship: Dario Ferrari’s Cannonball was third while Jim Swartz’s Vesper beat Sir Peter Ogden’s Jethou, also by a quarter point after Vesper didn’t sail on Tuesday and Jethou was disqualified from a race yesterday.

Following the Maxi 72s, in sixth place overall was Riccardo de Michele’s Vallicelli 78 H20 ahead of Pier Luigi Loro Piana’s ClubSwan 80 My Song and IMA President Benoît de Froidmont’s Wally 60 Wallyño, which put in a superb performance today finishing fifth overall.

H20 finished less than two points from fifth in the overall championship results: “Today the wind was lighter than the previous days and we suffered because H20 doesn’t enjoy winds lighter than 10-11 knots,” explained de Michele, whose daughter Cecilia sailed onboard all week. “I must say that the whole week was very good for us, despite the rain – but this is part of the game. I found the logistics to be excellent, the hospitality top – for sure we’ll come back.”

Loro Piana and his My Song crew are still finding their feet with their radical and still relatively new canting keeler. According to tactician Ken Read since Monday they have gained a knot of boat speed upwind. “The week has been very exciting,” said Loro Piana. “We had three days of heavy rain, but also good wind so we could work on the boat and try out many ideas. Little by little we are learning how to manage it. This part of the Sorrento coast is so beautiful with Capri, Punta Campanella, Li Galli, etc – there are so many things to discover, which is a huge reason to come here and race.”

Outside of the Maxi 72s, in sixth in today’s race and finishing miles ahead of the next boat, was Belgian Jean-Philippe Blanpain’s Vismara-Mills 62 Leaps and Bounds 2.”It has been very nice, having offshore, inshore and windward-leeward races,” said Blanpain. “Today we had nothing to lose against the rest. It was all about starting well.” Tactician onboard was Andrea Casale, who was pleased that their plan to start to windward of the fleet paid off and they had even been able to bounce away the all-powerful Maxi72 Cannonball.

Other teams have been treating this event as a means of mixing some serious racing with visiting this exotic corner of Italy and soaking up its extensive apres-sail. Winning the prize for the furthest travelled was Craig Clifford and his crew on the Marten 72 Aragon who herald from Tasmania and the UK. “We had a great week. It was very enjoyable with good comradery. The weather was a challenge but we finished on a great day,” said Clifford who has raced considerably down under including his own Farr 40. “The crew got on very well together and we hope to keep the team together and do other regattas around the world.”

Of this week’s IMA Maxi European Championship, IMA Secretary General Andrew McIrvine commented: “Despite the rain, the weather conditions have permitted some exceptional racing this week and exceedingly tight racing. A worthy winner has been produced in Peter Dubens and North Star – and what a final result! I would like to thank the CRVI as well as our partners Rolex and Loro Piana for their help with laying on such a superb second edition of our Maxi European Championship.”

The IMA’s Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge continues on 1 June with the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar offshore race from Livorno to Punta Ala, via the Giraglia Rock.

2023 IMA Maxi Europeans overall:

1: North Star/Peter Dubens (GBR) 2: Proteus/George Sakellaris (USA/GRE) 3: Cannonball/Dario Ferrari (ITA)

IMA Maxi Europeans class awards:

1: (Loro Piana Challenge Trophy): North Star/Peter Dubens (GBR) 2: Proteus/George Sakellaris (USA/GRE) 3: Cannonball/Dario Ferrari (ITA)

1: Leaps and Bounds 2/Jean-Philippe Blanpain (BEL) 2: Cippa Lippa X/Guido Paolo Gamucci (ITA) 3: Tilakkhana/Pascale Decaux (FRA)

1: H20/Riccardo de Michele (ITA) 2: Wallyño/Benoît de Froidmont (BEL) 3: Shirlaf/Giuseppe Puttini (ITA)

Line honours  – Coppa Gustavo d’Andrea: Jethou/Sir Peter Ogden (GBR)

Overall 68th Regata dei Tre Golfi IRC Maxi:

1: North Star/Peter Dubens (GBR) 2: Jethou/Sir Peter Ogden (GBR) 3: H20/Riccardo de Michele (ITA)

Inshore races:

Maxi 1-2: Proteus/George Sakellaris (USA/GRE) Maxi 3: Leaps and Bounds 2/Jean-Philippe Blanpain (BEL) Maxi 4-5: H20/Riccardo de Michele (ITA)

2023 IMA Maxi European Championship:

Inshore trophy – 1st:  Proteus/George Sakellaris (USA/GRE)

IMA trophy – best placed IMA member:  North Star/Peter Dubens (GBR)

Mylius Trophy:  Cippa Lippa X/Guido Paolo Gamucci (ITA)

Nautor Trophy:  My Song/Pier Luigi Loro Piana (ITA)

IMA Maxi Europeans line honours trophy – Coppa Roberto Garolla di Bard:  My Song/Pier Luigi Loro Piana (ITA)

Corinthian class – Coppa Guido Imperiali di Francavilla

1: Shirlaf/Giuseppe Puttini (ITA) 2: Manticore/Franz Baruffaldi (ITA) 3: Aragon/Craig Clifford (AUS)

For more information about the IMA Maxi European Championship and Tre Golfi Sailing Week visit  www.tregolfisailingweek.com .

Full results available here .

For more information on the International Maxi Association visit  www.internationalmaxiassociation.com .

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Sergei Ryakhovsky (Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky) a Soviet-Russian serial killer known as the Balashikha Ripper and The Hippopotamus. Ryakhovsky was convicted for the killing of nineteen people in the Moscow area between 1988 and 1993. Ryakhovsky's mainly stabbed or strangulated his victims, he mutilated some bodies, mainly in the genital area. Allegedly Ryakhovsky carried out necrophilic acts on his victims and stole their belongings. Ryakhovsky standing 6’5" tall and weighting 286 pounds, gaining him the nickname, The Hippo. Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 from untreated tuberculosis while serving his life sentence in prison.

Sergei Ryakhovsky Serial Killer Profile

Serial Killer Sergei Ryakhovsky (aka) the Balashikha Ripper, The Hippopotamus, was active for 6 years between 1988-1993 , known to have ( 19 confirmed / 19 possible ) victims. This serial killer was active in the following countries: Russia

Sergei Ryakhovsky was born on December 29th 1962 in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union. He had a physically defect. During his education he had academic, social or discipline problems including being teased or picked on.

Sergei Ryakhovsky a necrophile male citizen of Russia.

Prior to his spree he had killed, commited crimes, and served time in jail.

In 1988 (Age 25/26) Sergei Ryakhovsky started his killing spree, during his crimes as a serial killer he was known to rob, commit acts of necrophilia , torture , strangle , rape , mutilate, and murder his victims.

He was arrested on April 13th 1993 (Age 30), sentenced to death by firing squad at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. He was convicted on charges of murder and other possible charges during his lifetime.

Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 (Age 42), cause of death: natural causes, untreated tuberculosis at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.

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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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