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8 News
Cowes blaze; register to watch the AC;
RNLI rescues; DIY antifouling threat
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John Charnley, Discovery Yachts founder
32 Win radar!
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Do you turn left or right at Land’s End?
73 Books & apps
96 Letters
97 What’s on
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98 Dispatches
CRUISING
18 Med idylls
Malta, Mallorca and Northern Cyprus
35 Blue note
36 Chichester Harbour
The south coast’s last wilderness
50 Gull’s Eye
Guide to Titchmarsh Marina, Walton
58 Pilot’s picks NEW
North Spain in a Westerly Corsair
BOATS
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14 New boat news
44 Dehler 46
Tested and reviewed - at 12kts!
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Keeping a digital eye on your boat
68 Launched - new gear
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How to check out an uncharted
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74 What sailcloth
Dacron or laminate? Pros and cons
80 Keel design NEW 74
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COVER IMAGE: HEADING UPWIND IN THE DEHLER 46 IN
SOUTHAMPTON WATER, BY JOE MCCARTHY
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Transat sunset
PHOTO BY THEODORE AITKEN
A tranquil amber Atlantic sunset, tame ocean waves and
steady Trades combine to form ideal downwind passage
conditions. Theodore Aitken, on Hoek-designed Truly
Classic 75 Braveheart of Sark, managed to capture
the essence of the perfect ocean crossing during the
latest ARC, proving that bluewater sailing is not always
hard work and battling the elements - sometimes
everything comes together in one fl awless moment.
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Ebb and flow
EVENTS | GOSSIP | NEWS FROM THE SAILING COMMUNITY
BOOT IS BOOMING
Rounding off the major winter boat shows, Lagoon’s new 42 catamaran was there;
Düsseldorf’s Boot again proved the high Bavaria had nearly a whole hall to itself,
water mark for new boat launches. No with the new 34 and 52 Cruiser models
fewer than 14 sailing world premieres for viewing. Then there was the Jimmy
were at the show, which attracted 247,000 Cornell-inspired Exploration 52 from Garcia
visitors from 52 countries. Turkish builder Yachts, the Italia 12.98 performance cruiser,
Azuree had its bright new 33C on show; Solaris’ sleek new 47 and the Dehler 42.
Luxury UK boatbuilders were well
represented with the Gunfleet 58, Oyster’s
new 575 and a stand from Discovery.
In total there were 340 sailing boat
brands at the show and hundreds of sailing
boats on display across the 17 halls.
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coming from countries outside Germany. H
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By comparison, January’s London Boat
Show saw a decline of 2 per cent
to 90,000 total visitors.
CRUISING AWARD
British sailors Tom and Vicky
Jackson have won the Bluewater
Counting the cost of Cowes blaze
Medal from the Cruising Club
of America for their extensive
cruising and racing over 34 years.
The couple, who met 45 years
Fire crews and local sailing and businesses and Cowes the Solent and witnesses
ago while crewing, and who
businesses are counting Corinthian Yacht Club reported hearing explosions.
have sailed ever since, began
the cost of a large fire that was set up by the Isle of At the height of the
serious worldwide cruising after
broke out in Cowes. Wight Council as a temporary blaze, the fire covered an
retirement in 1997, including an
The blaze began in a car on shelter. No one was injured. area of 100m by 100m, the
80,000nM circumnavigation
a workshop ramp at Medina Red Funnel halted some fire service said, and 40
via the five capes on their
Village, near the West Cowes ferries to the mainland firefighters were involved.
40-footer, Sunstone.
end of the chain ferry, at and the Cowes chain ferry The fire service has since
lunchtime on 25 January, the also stopped. Thick black confirmed that the fire
Isle of Wight Fire Service said. smoke was visible across started accidentally.
The area is busy with boats
on the hard and neighbouring TITCHMARSH
units contained about 50 MARINA in Essex has
glassfibre boats, cars and
installed an array of solar
cylinders of flammable
acetylene gas. The fire panels, which will provide
service said it removed
250kW of electricity –
about 30 cylinders from the
area. Some classic yachts enough to power all of
under restoration, a few X
the yachts berthed
One Design boats and a fleet
there. For more on
of Etchells were destroyed.
Residents and people OTT Titchmarsh, see Gull’s
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GOING UP
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SUPPORT FOR VOLVO PENTA owners,
after the action service advice line was
extended 24/7 across the world
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POLAND’S BOATBUILDING industry
got a boost after the government
Register boats to view ACWS announced it would exempt shipyards
from paying VAT up front on each boat
Skippers who want to watch the America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth AGES
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event from their own boats are being asked to register their details. NCE I
In 2015, over 25,000 spectators watched the racing on-board private and DEFE
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chartered boats. For this year’s event from 21-24 July, the race course will be MO
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smaller and will feature an exclusion zone controlled by Portsmouth Queen’s VE C
Harbour Master. A notice to mariners will be published three weeks earlier. CREATI
Marshals on the water will help spectators to get the best views THERE WERE NO attempted attacks
by Somali pirates in the whole of
but also tell them how to stay out of the zone. Skippers are being asked to 2015, according to IMB fi gures
email their name, size of boat, type and number of expected guests to
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Missing cat adrift in Atlantic
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that went missing on a delivery from South O
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Africa to Th ailand a year ago, with the loss of PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING for a
three crew, has been spotted – then lost again. pair of US sailors rescued seven times
after setting out from Norway to the UK
Th e cat was reported by a Brazilian navy
vessel off South Africa in mid January.
Authorities tried to tow the yacht but
GOING DOWN
it broke free. Sunsail said a hull plate
number appeared to identify the vessel A
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as the missing 444 catamaran but that R
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it had not been formally confi rmed. NS
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The charity, which RE
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helps young people
recover their confidence YACHT CHARTER
after cancer, through COMPANY Kiriacoulis
sailing, was given
has opened a new base
£200,000 by the People’s
Postcode Lottery. in Corsica. Its Oceanis 54,
Dame Ellen said the
Dufour 412 and 405, and
money would be used
to buy a new yacht for Bavaria 37 are available
its Scotland base. for charter out of
Propriano, in Valinco Bay.
Bonifacio, Lavezzi,
Turkey charters hit
Porto-Vecchio and
M
DO Solenzara are all in reach
AFREE would not release figures briefs all charterers in these of a bareboat cruise.
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CC/SY relating specifically to yacht areas of how to react if
Y. charters, the company as a they come in contact with
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NS/TI whole said bookings were refugees who are in distress.”
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MM down 40 per cent this year. UN figures released
VE CO Sunsail pointed out that last month stated that RNLI IN ACTION
REATI its base in Goçek is 2,000km children now make up The RNLI rescued 7,973 people in
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away from the Syrian border. over a third of migrants trouble from coastal waters last
Yacht charter bookings in A Sunsail spokesman said: making the sea crossing year, new figures show.
Turkey are down for this “The Foreign Office hasn’t from Turkey to Greece. The charity said 348 of those
summer as tourists fear issued any warnings for Advice to cruisers who see people would otherwise have
trouble from migrants the area we operate in. As migrants trying to cross is to died. Southend-on-Sea was the
trying to make their a charter company whose call the coastguard on VHF busiest coastal station, launching
way into Europe. customers are travelling Ch 16 and to help people in 142 times and rescuing
While Tui, owner of along the Lycian Coast and immediate danger if you can 120 people.
Sunsail and The Moorings, in the Aegean Sea, Sunsail do so at no risk to yourself. Lifeboats were launched to
help sailing boats 1,579 times
(19 per cent of the total),
including rescuing the crew of
AMERICAN CRUISERS Bill and Judy Rouse have just completed a a yacht being pounded on to
rocks outside Dublin port.
10-year circumnavigation, arriving back in the Caribbean on BeBe
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destinations on the Amel THE ROUSES ARE NOW
Super Maramu 2000, with looking for another couple
Vanuatu a close third. Pictured to take over the boat,
THEY SET OFF FROM THE BVIS in May 2006 and is Fatu Hiva, French Polynesia who they can show “the
sailed 35,000nM through the Caribbean, Panama, THEY PLAN TO CONTINUE to enjoy the Caribbean joys of sailing and living
Pacific Islands, Asia, Europe and north Africa and are particularly excited to be able to visit Cuba our lifestyle on BeBe”
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