Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2017 i Sailing Today

‘Dangers are greatly overestimated by cruising sailors and especially by yachting editors’ The latest annual crime report from the Caribbean Safety and Security Net (CSSN) marks a rise in criminal activity in Caribbean waters, with a 17 per cent increase in both violent (assault, piracy, robbery) and nonviolent (burglary, theft, vandalism) crimes. A total of 90 incidents were reported across the region by sailors – a rise of 13, according to the volunteer organisation. Announcing the figures, CSSN partner noonsite.com said: “2016 was busier than anyone would have liked incident-wise, with more security incidents, involving more weapons, with more violence across more locations than prior years.” Three countries accounted for more than half of the total incidents: Grenada reported 24, St Lucia had 12 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines…

Saare 46 £397,000 Although Arthur Ransome did all he could to put Estonia on the sailing map with Racundra’s First Cruise, this beautiful Baltic state is still not noted as a yachting hub. Yet since 2007, Saare Yachts has been turning out an impressive range of high-quality cruisers. The company owes a heavy debt of influence to Stig Nordblag, founder of Finngulf yachts, which older readers may recall as a Finnish brand which built a succession of fast cruising yachts. Nordblag helped to set up Saare Yachts and much of the expertise from the Finngulf yard migrated across to Saare’s Estonian base. The Finngulf influence in its ethos is clear. The first 46 was launched in 2016 and was heavily customised. The UK agents say the owner to order hull…

‘I started buying charts but I didn’t tell my parents; I was thinking of sailing across the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic’ You have to have a certain kind of personality to want to sail around the world – especially if you want to circumnavigate solo non-stop, and most particularly if you want to do it solo, non-stop, three times in a row covering 71,000nm and spending 678 days at sea, alone. And then, having done that, to want to go out and do it again, and again, and again… Such a personality belongs to Australian Jon Sanders: he recently (October 2016) set off on his tenth circumnavigation of the globe, which, if he completes it, will give him the record as being the oldest person to have done so.…

‘At the beginning of July, most of the locals shut up shop and go on holiday’ It’s what I tell everyone and it should be tattooed on my forehead: high season summer is no time to go cruising the coasts of Italy and France. At the beginning of July, most of the locals shut up shop and go on holiday. A lot of them have boats of one sort or another and so the coasts and islands are busy with everyone who has something that floats out on the water. So just what was I doing there in July and August? The usual excuses apply. We had work to finish off. A friend was ill and needed comfort. And when we finally got out to Skylax in Greece, the job…

X-YACHTS XP-38 €229,500 Bigger than the J/112E, with more comfort below as a result, the sleek Xp-38 is fast, with a similar beam. Comes with two cabins or three, and a choice of bowsprit. craftinsure quote: from £921.58 x-yachts.com RM 1070 £135,000 Built for speed, the RM weighs less and carries more sail than the J/112E thanks to its plywood hull. The interior is minimalist and white, but has the key creature comforts. craftinsure quote: from £619.63 parkstonebayyachts.com ELAN E4 £106,948 Elan’s performance line has chines, double rudders and a T-keel. She sets out to please short-handed and family crews. Also in two- or three-cabin layout, craftinsure quote: from £393.26 elan-yachts.com…

The waters around Mylor are some of the country’s most scenic, inspiring sailors and sailing writers for generations, and Mylor Yacht Harbour makes an ideal base for exploring them. To the north, the Fal estuary meanders 10nm or so up towards Truro, the county town of Cornwall. Numerous navigable creeks and tributaries make exciting high-water anchorages for a lunch stop or, in some cases, a jaunt to the pub. Favourites include the Pandora Inn on nearby Restronguet Creek, which has moorings and a dinghy pontoon for visitors. Beware, though: its low beamed snugs, real ales and excellent local fish dishes make it a far-from-undiscovered treat. On the other side of the Fal, St Just in Roseland offers shelter in an easterly, although access is harder because of shallower approaches. It…

iCom M605 radio Unveiled at last year’s METS show, the new iCom DSC radio is bursting with features, including active noise cancelling technology and a last call recording function. It also packs an integrated AIS receiver that can plot other vessels directly on to the unit’s 4.3in colour LCD screen, and It is compatible with a remote command mike and foghorn/deck speaker. Will network with NMEA 0183 and 2000 systems. Available through all good marine electronics suppliers. • £900 • icomuk.co.uk 3M Perfect-It gelcoat compound New in the hull care portfolio of American giant 3M is this range of gelcoat cutting and polishing products. Applied with an orbital sander or buffer, pick a weight of cutting paste to suit the degree of powdery oxidation on your gelcoat, then…

LONDON ON WATER SHOW ST KATHARINE DOCKS, 8-11 JUNE Back for its third year, London’s summer boat show is being broadened to include dinghies and a ‘mariner’s village’ with chandlery, clothing and more. It will also feature live streaming to a big screen of the America’s Cup Qualifiers and Challenger Playoffs from Bermuda. The show is ticketed, with free access to the shoreside events and pontoon access costing £5. londononwater.com PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR MULTIHULL SHOW HASLAR MARINA, GOSPORT, 9-11 JUNE Featuring top-quality multihulls, including the Nautitech Open 46, Discovery 50 and Dazcat 1295. There’s also special World Cruising Club forum from 1500-1700 on Saturday 10 June and a barbecue on the Haslar lightship afterwards. portsmouthmultihullshow.com NORTHERN BOAT SHOW RIVER MERSEY, 23-25 JUNE Three-day boat show in Albert Dock at the heart…

In honour of our departing Editor, Sam Fortescue, we’re looking towards his next port of call, Germany. This image depicts just one of the many stunning coastal and inland cruising opportunities Germany has to offer the cruising sailor. Beautiful Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria is 79.9 square kilometers of deep blue water, set against the backdrop of the snow-capped peaks of the Alps. Though landlocked, there are several yacht clubs dotted along its shores from which you can hire a yacht and start exploring.…

‘I told the crew we would soon retire to Yarmouth and they were disappointed. Fortunately I allowed myself time to contemplate this further…’ Ceilidh Westerly Regatta 370 LOA: 37ft 4in (11.4m) LWL: 31ft 11in (9.7m) Beam: 12ft 4in (3.8m) Draught: 6ft 0in (1.4m) Year built: 1994 In the June edition last year I shared my novice perspective on preparations for the classic Round the Island Race. My wife Rachel and I had just had our first few days sailing on the south coast with Ceilidh, our then newly purchased Westerly Regatta. We had not raced our previous boat and were about to train with three novice crew. Angela and Mark had never sailed before and it was several years since Julie had been on the water. We were looking…

‘Clearly wishing to be alone to enjoy the majesty of his own company, this guy decided to sigh and tut’ We are just about there. The weather can always have a few tricks up its sleeve and spoil an early summer’s day with a shower of snow, but I think we can safely declare the new season well and truly open. The first of January means little to me; my New Year starts somewhere roundabout now. So I am going to make a New Year’s resolution and do what my granny always told me, and vow that in all circumstances in the coming sailing season, I will remember my manners. I shall be a bit more giving with a smile of thanks, I will behave with due courtesy to all…

A good reason for using a little-known anchorage is to enjoy the tranquillity and beauty it usually provides, but also to have the chance to meet yachtsmen who avoid marinas, often with a story to tell. Cape St Vincent was once the end of the known world and a springboard for the great Portuguese voyages of discovery. It is wild and windswept, sometimes visible for miles out at sea but, even in summer, often heard before being sighted. Just 18nm further north is a bay at Arrifana surrounded by dramatic cliffs giving shelter from north and east. The ruins of an old fort stand on the cliff to the north with a cairn, Pedra da Agulha, to the south. Beneath both are rocky islets. Those under the fort are lumpy…

MYLOR BRIDGE There is a well stocked village shop here with local meats, cheese, fish and other treats. Count on a 20 minute walk WELL SERVICED Fuel and visitors’ berths are on the east arm of the marina; the laundrette is in the Mylor YC building, and shipwrights are in the sheds west of the main office DRY STORAGE A wooded goyle winding up behind the boatyard offers storage for up to 500 boats in cradles RESTRONGUET With a deep water anchorage just outside the point, Restronguet Creek also offers the Pandora Inn CHANNEL Dredged to at least 2m, the narrow channel through the moorings is well marked, but lit only at the east end Much more than a marina, Mylor is a refit centre, holiday destination and a Cornish…

Summer sailing holidays are just a few short months away. We thought we’d inspire you with our annual roundup of sailing toys to take with you. This time round we focus on inflatable and folding dinghies, kayaks and stand-up paddleboards – all suitable for launching from and stowing on the boat. They are all just-about portable, and roll up for easy stowage aboard. And many of them rely on advanced drop-stitch technology to make the planing surface stiff enough to rival solid wood or GRP for performance. INFLATABLE BOATS Ever since the Tinker Tramp in the 1970s, there have been efforts to create a versatile inflatable boat that can be sailed. There are a number of different approaches to this ideal, from the traditionally recognisable DinghyGo 3 to the racy…

The past four years has seen a convergence of the technologies sold for cruising yachts and those aimed at the mainstream racing community. Navico group led the way with the original B&G Zeus multifunction display (MFD), which incorporated layline (the most efficient sailing track to a point on the course), wind graph and calculated tidal stream info that was previously only available on expensive very high-end systems or PC-based race software. All the other major electronics manufacturers quickly followed suit, while startline functions were also added in later versions. Whatever system you run it’s worth updating the software as the latest versions tend to have more of these features. These advances in navigation systems, together with the adoption by many of cruising laminate sails, has made a huge impact on…

ALL CHANGE AT LBS The London Boat Show team has revealed seismic changes to the 2018 event. The once 10-day event has now been slashed to five, and organisers have decided to shake things up with new interactive entertainment and, rather intriguingly, themed catering. Next year will also see the addition of the Boating & Watersports Holiday Show, in an attempt to broaden the range of interest across the sporting and leisure world. The move follows disappointing turnout in both exhibitor and attendee numbers in recent years, and a pushback from exhibitors on the length of the show. As Murray Ellis, who manages the show said: “Having gathered and listened to feedback from visitors and exhibitors, we knew we needed to make some changes.” The show was pulling in numbers…

More 40 £151,000 More Yachts came into being via a rather unusual path. Essentially, More Charter, a Swedish company operating out of Croatia and specialising in performance yachts decided to build its own charter fleet tailored to its clients’ needs. The results have been intriguing, with the More 55 already launched and this More 40 set to follow. The Maurizio Cossutti design is certainly stylish, and she looks like she will be a fast, fun boat to sail, with good comfort across three cabins. more-boats.hr Brooklin Spirit of Tradition 82 c£3.7m US-based Brooklin Boatyard has a fine reputation for turning out handsome Spirit of Tradition style yachts and its latest 82ft (25m) cruiser promises to uphold that reputation. Unusually for a yacht of this size, she’s cold-moulded in laminated wood.…

‘When a yacht sailing fast under autopilot rounds up in a hurry, one of four things has happened’ Not so long ago I was bound for the eastern Caribbean from Lanzarote on a 60ft sloop with a carbon aerorig. Mike, the owner, was a switched-on sailor whose mantra was to hope for the best while preparing for the worst. We were rattling along at over 200 miles per day in trades that were now blowing stoutly after a bit of a hiccup and the yacht was only 700 miles from Martinique when we sailed through one of those afternoons that begin innocently but end up packed with interest. The first event was landing a couple of dorados fat enough to feed us for several days. This provided a useful boost…

‘When was the last time you welcomed a friend to stay and had to say to them, “OK so try not to use too much water”?’ It’s hard enough to pin down cruisers to committing to a plan of when you can visit them and where. The first year that we lived aboard, we were moving around so fast and so much that, when my folks booked a flight in advance to meet us somewhere, we simply guessed that by then we’d be somewhere on the coast of Costa Rica. As we were in the east Caribbean at the time we simply hadn’t researched far enough ahead to realise that all of Costa Rica’s yachting activity is on its Pacific side – Caribbean Costa Rica is all wild surf beaches,…

‘A yacht for those who value the sense of fun and achievement you get from sailing a thoroughbred’ • SAIL PLAN North's Norlam sails combine woven polyester with a Mylar film for fast cruising • BOWSPRIT Retractable unstayed carbon bowsprit for flying asymmetrics and reaching sails • ROD RIGGING The fractional rig has twin swept-back spreaders and discontinuous rod rigging for stiffness and light weight • SPEED SPEC Halyards come in Dyneema as standard, with adjustable cars and size 40 Harken winches • OPEN TRANSOM There is no option for a heavy drop-down bathing platform – just a removable swim ladder • LOW COAMING There’s better protection at the front of the cockpit; further aft it's about ease of access While J-Boats has a strong track record of innovation, it…

Just beware the isolated danger of Black Rock, well marked (Fl(2) 10s) in the middle. Once in Carrick Roads, the only hazards to be aware of are the extensive mudbanks that choke the Fal estuary north of Mylor Creek. The winding channel up to Truro is well marked, but boats turning west out of the deeper water towards Mylor should take care to stay within the marks. Pick up the port and starboard channel entrance markers half a mile east of Mylor harbour – lit with flashing lights at night (Fl.G. 4s and Fl.R. 5s). The rest of the channel marks are unlit. A large, dense mooring field surrounds the marina itself, and the fairway leads through the middle to the marina entrance. Marina manager Culum Matheson says that light…

‘Check the weather out on the water, not in the shelter of the marina and reef the mainsail if necessary’ If your ambition is to beat Ben Ainslie around the cans you will need help from a higher authority. However, if you are regularly frustrated by the sight of similar boats leaving you in their wake, then read on. There are a host of small but important sail trimming tips which can help you to up your game and show the competition your transom. BEFORE YOU GO Telltales are pretty much essential for obtaining good upwind sail trim. Three pairs should be fixed on either side of the headsail about 20cm back from the luff, and on the trailing edge (leech) of the mainsail. It is best if the green…

JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 33I | DANIKA Broker, Trafford Yachts, describes Danika as an exceptionally well presented example of the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 33i. Designed by the renowned French architect, Marc Lombard, this family cruiser is well appointed and easy to sail singlehanded. Her sloop rig has a deep batten mainsail with two auto reefs brought back to the cockpit, a lazy jack sail pack away, coupled with a furling Genoa. She benefits from a leather-covered steering wheel, electric anchor windlass, teak laid cockpit sole and seats, and a full cockpit tent enclosure. She also has a full Raymarine electronics suite, including linear drive autopilot, multi-function display and DSC VHF. Below decks, the two double cabins and large saloon are furnished to provide home-from-home comfort. The galley boasts a…