Ocean Racing 12 by Adilson Pacheco

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A America's Cup conta com seis equipes - incluindo em matchs para definir os semifinalistas e depois de CLE. Nas regatas estão: Emirates Team New Zealand Groupama FRANCE. Todos com campeões olímpicos

Lembra do Groupama? Aquele que venceu a Volvo mos franceses. Franck Cammas, que foi o comandan dante do barco da França. Dessa vez, porém, eles ter se.

E por falar em Volvo Ocean Race, já temos um bras estará no time da Holanda na regata de Volta ao Mu vamos falar muito dessa prova

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Até a próxima, pessoal

considerado um dos três maiores eventos de ean Race. Disputada de quatro em quatro anos, eta, datada de 1851. As regatas são disputadas ace. Milhares de dólares são investidos nas ermudas.

e explicar uma coisa. O vencedor da America's der seu título. As regatas que são transmitidas ra ver quem será o desafiante ao trono. Nas do comandante Jimmy Spithill. O Brasil não tem uatro anos pra ver.

o os norte-americanos! As equipes se enfrentam essa fase sairá apenas um pra enfrentar o ORAd, Land Rover BAR, SoftBank Japan, Artemis e s e mundiais a bordo dos catamarãs voadores.

Ocean Race de 2011-12? Pois bem, são os mesnte naquela volta ao mundo, é o mesmo comanrão de suar sangue pra conseguir passar de fa-

sileiro pra torcer (por enquanto). Joca Signorini undo. Faltam menos de 150 dias para a largada e

para assistir a Semana de Vela de Ilhabela, maiequipe mais uma vez na raia paulista.

ith just over 50 days until the start of the 36th Copa del Rey MAPFRE, 130 teams and 23 different nationalities have already formalised their preregistration. Palma- The Bay of Palma will host the 2017 edition of the Copa del Rey MAPFRE from 29th July to 5th August. The event traditionally gathers a wide representation of the best professional and amateur sailing teams on the international circuit, attracted by a promising programme, that includes six days of competition on the water, and an intense social agenda back on shore. The 36th edition is already promising to break records. With still 53 days until the start, there are already 130 teams and 23 nationalities pre-registered (in 2016, 125 boats competed from 19 countries). This year at the Real Club Náutico de Palma there will be flags from Germany, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, United States, France, Holland, Hungary, England,

Italy, Japan, Monaco, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. In accordance with the Notice of Race, the fleet will compete in a dozen different classes, including six one-designs. Sailing in real time will be the ClubSwan 42, ClubSwan 50, Swan 45, X-35, J80 and GC32, the spectacular flying catamarans, which made their début on the Bay of Palma last year. This year the Copa del Rey MAPFRE will be their third scoring event in the GC32 Racing Tour 2017. The regatta will also be scoring for the Maxi 72 Overall Trophy 2017, the international Maxi 72 class circuit. The 36th Copa del Rey MAPFRE is organised by the Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Real Federación Española de Vela (Spanish Sailing Federation), is sponsored by MAPFRE, and with the institutional collaboration of the Govern de les Illes Balears (Balearic Islands’ regional Government), Palma Town Hall, Autoritat Portuaria de Balears (the Balearic Islands’ Port Authority) and the Federación Balear de Vela (Balearic Islands’ Sailing Federation

he agreement between the two signed this morning at the club RCNP President Javier Sanz, and pe, owners of the Balearics Sotheby’s In All showed much excitement and satis tunity of the three-year collaboration, w Sail Racing PalmaVela and the 36th Cop ganised by the RCNP from 29th July to 5 As such, Mallorca Sotheby’s Internatio their commitment to the sport of sailing es of consistency, effort and team work Alejandra Vanoli, Director of the Balea onal Realty stated, “this agreement with de Palma is an excellent opportunity to ting the values of sportsmanship and co both entities share”. The Copa del Rey MAPFRE is without a prominent sailing competitions in Europ referential sporting events in Palma de

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has been held in the waters on the Bay of Palma, hosted by the RCNP and boasts the highest levels of sailing competition in the Mediterranean. Mallorca Sotheby’s International Realty, will also lend their name to one of the competition classes, “reinforcing the prestige of the Copa del Rey, since it represents one of the most wellknown real estate agencies in the world, for its prestige, quality and continual search for excellence”, concluded Javier Sanz, President of the RCNP. About Mallorca Sotheby’s International Realty Mallorca Sotheby’s International Realty belongs to the international real estate network of Sotheby’s International Realty®, with over 880 agencies in 61 countries across the planet. They offer services in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera in the sale and purchase of prime real estate properties; houses, luxury villas, attics, exclusive

panish brand Ana Marttin has signed an agreement with the Copa del Rey MAPFRE as the official footwear for the 36th edition of the regatta, to be held from 29th July to 5th August in Palma. Located in Palma de Mallorca, Albacete, Murcia, Corato (Italy), Prague (Czech Republic) and Doha (Qatar), the brand has a signature Mallorcan design, and is manufactured in Elche (Alicante). A limited edition of sports shoes (to be revealed in the next few weeks) is already in production. Ana Martínez, the true heart and soul of the company, explained, “Our family has been dedicated to the design and creation of footwear for over 40 years. Ana Marttin is a very personal brand, which incorporates the passion

for elegant, unique shoe design, and vouches for a quality ‘Made in Spain’ product”. Likewise, Martínez also emphasised, “For Ana Marttin, the Copa del Rey MAPFRE is a perfect launch pad. The Balearic Islands in general, and Mallorca in particular, are of huge importance for us, since the design of our shoes is Mallorcan, and there is no better event than this regatta, for us to showcase our brand.” Renowned for their elegance and attention to detail as artisans in the creation of all their shoes, as well as their extensive catalogue, Ana Marttin stands apart for offering the possibility to elaborate and/or personalise each model of shoe, adjusting to the preferences and requirements of all clients, and as such obtaining an absolutely unique, one-off product for the individual.

ill the young participants of the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup impact the future of the sport? Just ask three of the world’s most decorated sailors. “I think it already has had an impact,” says two-time America’s Cup Champion Jimmy Spithill of ORACLE TEAM USA. “The winning New Zealand team from 2013 has graduated several sailors to Emirates Team New Zealand for this Cup, including the helmsman Peter Burling. There’s at least another half dozen on other teams. Cooper Dressler made our team and has become one of our best athletes, and it’s safe to say we wouldn’t have known about him without the last event.” Double Olympic gold medalists Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher masterminded the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup because they saw a gap in the career path for sailing talent. Spithill explains, “Before, I could never give an

explains, “Before, I could never give an answer to kids when they asked me, ‘How do I get involved in the America’s Cup?’ Now the answer is pretty straightforward: this is the closest thing we have to a development league, where youth sailors can test their skills and compete in an environment that closely matches the America’s Cup.” The solution didn’t lie in simply creating a regatta, but in providing training on sophisticated big boats. In the 2017 Red Bull America’s Cup, national teams have learned to sail AC45F foiling catamarans – the same boats used by America’s Cup teams in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series. What’s more, those senior teams have taken the youngsters under their wing. “We’ve been working with both TeamBDA and Next Generation USA, and it’s been rewarding,” Spithill declares. “I’ve spent time on the AC45F with them, and we’ve had the teams working out in our gym and over for breakfast. Our coach Philippe Presti has been through our playbook with them along with a couple of our sailors. They’re very enthusiastic.

They’re eager to learn and they have a lot of talent. It’s been a great experience.” Sailing right under the noses of the top teams also gets young sailors noticed. In the lead-up to this year’s event, SoftBank Team Japan were so impressed with two of the candidates vying for selection in the youth regatta that they’ve already hired them for their professional effort. “It’s a great endorsement of what the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is doing for youth sailing when things like that happen,” Spithill notes. “All of the America’s Cup teams watch what happens in these events very closely, so we can pick the top talent and add it to our team.” Steinacher points out that the sport’s leaders have seen that the young generation in particular are a great match for today’s cutting-edge boats. “The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup has changed the whole America’s Cup world – the age group that’s sailing on the boats dropped by about 10 years,” he reckons. Hagara adds, “I’m looking forward to seeing where they’ll take the sport in the future.”

he Volvo Ocean Race has solved the question of whether its future should be monohull or multihull – by opting for both. The introduction of a foil-assisted 60-foot (18.29 metre) monohull for the ocean legs plus an ultra-fast 32-50 foot flying catamaran for use inshore will elevate the race to the ultimate all-round test in professional sailing. The Volvo Ocean Race has solved the question of whether its future should be monohull or multihull – by opting for both. The introduction of a foil-assisted 60-foot (18.29 metre) monohull for the ocean legs plus an ultra-fast 32-50 foot flying catamaran for use inshore will elevate the race to the ultimate all-round test in professional sailing. The race announced the next generation of One Design boats – to be introduced in 2019 and designed for use over at least six years -– as the centrepiece of its vision for the next decade which significantly raises the game in both sporting terms and commercial value. “We had a lot of debate about multihull versus monohull – strong arguments in both directions. We decided on three hulls – a monohull plus catamaran!” Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner revealed at a special event at the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg, home of the race’s coowners Volvo Group and Volvo Car Group. This new formula for the Volvo Ocean Race will, for the first time, test worldclass sailors at the top-end of both aspects of the sport – in what remains our core DNA offshore ocean racing on foilassisted monohulls, plus inshore racing during the stopovers employing the latest ‘flying’ multihull technology. Mark Turner - “We’re using the best tool for each discipline. It’s going to push the sailors, and sailing teams overall, to levels they have never previously had to perform at in order to win one of sailing’s ultimate prizes.” To win the Volvo Ocean Race in the future will demand expertise in both monohull on the offshore ocean legs and multihull racing in the In Port Series, as both platforms will be raced by essentially the same crew. Currently the In-Port series counts only as a tiebreaker in the case of equal points at the final finish line – in 2014-15 it actually changed the overall positions for two teams, confirming that it was already critical to do well even as a tiebreaker. In the future, the In-Port series will take slightly more importance again, but without changing the fact that it’s the ocean legs that count for the lion’s share of the points. France’s in-demand Guillaume Verdier is designing the new monohull, which will use the very latest in foiling technology and is essentially a turbo charged IMOCA 60. The boat will have an option built in to the design for the platform to be convertible, relatively quickly and inexpensively, to a short-handed rules-compliant IMOCA boat, able to compete in other major events on the IMOCA circuit such as the solo Vendée Globe and two-up Barcelona World Race. A tender process opened today for the design and build of catamarans (32-50

foot; 10-15 metre) which will be built to a strict One Design rule like the monohulls, permitting much of the very latest ‘flying’ technology to be built in, but at relatively low cost. “The America’s Cup, one of the other pinnacles of our sport, will always be at the absolute cutting edge development wise, with incredible technology leaps that we will see first-hand in Bermuda next week which are quite stunning,” said Turner. “We have seen the same technological advances in the IMOCA class with the introduction of foils in the recent Vendée Globe. Our goal with the Volvo Ocean Race is to set the bar as high as we can within the confines of existing campaign budgets, and within the context of One Design – where one is obliged to lock the technology level for each race cycle. Initial builds will be 8 of each mono and multihull, and will be made available to teams on a lease basis, thereby removing the asset purchase barrier that often prevents teams start-up, with sponsors involved in the upcoming 2017-18 edition getting first option. The first of the new boats will be completed by January 2019, with the whole fleet ready by the middle of that year. Persico Marine in Bergamo, Italy will lead the construction of the new monohull and the race’s own team of boat builders and experts at The Boatyard will complete the final fit-out, at a location to be confirmed as part of the Host City Tender process. While it will be strictly One Design, there will be a lot to play with and learn on these new machines – plenty of scope for ‘tinkerability’ by the teams in terms of the way the boat is set up to race. Possible evolutions in between editions will be built in as far as possible to the concept from the start. “The new boats will be delivered on a lease

basis, and along with the growing package of benefits provided centrally by the race, we expect budgets to be at a similar level today,” explained Race CEO Mark Turner. Those team budgets are at an average of 10-12m euros spread over two years, including several million normally attributable to activation costs. “The provision of central services and equipment allows the sailors to concentrate on winning the race on the water, rather than duplicating costs across the campaigns,” Turner continued. “Teams and sponsors are going to have to act quickly because we do expect these exciting new boats to sell out quickly. The Notice of Race, Commercial Partnership Agreement, and Boat Lease for the next edition will be published before this upcoming 2017-8 race starts in October.” Verdier, who is currently finalising plans for the next generation boat alongside his team of designers, said: “I’m extremely excited to be trusted with the task of delivering the next generation of Volvo Ocean Race boat. Volvo Ocean Race sailors have a reputation as relentless athletes who push extremely hard and the future boat design reflects that. “For that reason, it’s important to retain a certain level of safety in the design, which is especially key due to the places the fleet races through, such as the Southern Ocean. “Given their reputation, we know that Volvo Ocean Race sailors are unlikely to retract the foils, and where many singlehanded sailors might slow down, they won’t. “With that in mind, it’s a huge challenge to design a machine that is both extraordinary to sail, but also safe at the same time.” Crew numbers will be between 5 and 7, plus the OnBoard Reporter, and rules will continue to include incentives for mixed

male-female crews and youth sailors. Speaking about the key decision on boat design, Turner also said that in the longer term, the race could even go fully multihull. “Following our detailed discussions this time around, there is no longer any kind of conceptual barrier to the Volvo Ocean Race going multihull offshore in six years’ time, a decision to make just 3 to 4 years from now. We came very close to going that route this time. “In the next decade, it’s very possible that we’ll see multihulls from the new French Ultime class racing across the oceans, most of the time flying above the water, rather than on it – a significantly greater challenge than doing so inshore in flatter water. "But ultimately, we felt that it was too early in the development curve, especially when building a large One Design fleet, to jump in to this now. Modifying an entire fleet with every technology step is not realistic."

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