1st District Newsletter December, 2008
Schoonmaker Cup
November 8-9, 2008
Biscayne Bay
Fifteen boats gathered together in Miami to begin the Florida winter sailing season. Five of the boats were from the Tri-District area. One of them, sailed by Jud Smith and Stuart DeLisser from the Cape Ann fleet, won the event. The five race series was primarily sailed in under 6 knots on Saturday with the winds picking to 8 to 14 for the final two races on Sunday. So, with that, “Let the games begin!”
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1st District Newsletter December, 2008
Schoonmaker Cup
November 8-9, 2008
Pl. / No. / Skipper / Crew / Fleet / R1 / R2 / R3 / R4 / R5 / Points1 / 8177 / Jud Smith / Stuart DeLisser / CA / 2 / 1 / 7 / 8 / 1 / 11
2 / 8250 / Andy Macdonald / Brian Fatih / NH / 4 / 3 / 1 / 5 / 4 / 12
3 / 8286 / Henrik Dannesboe / Edward Forey / Sem / 1 / 9 / 5 / man / 5 / 12.5
4 / 8323 / Eric Doyle / Rick Peters / SDB / 3 / 5 / 6 / man / 10 / 15.5
5 / 8157 / Arthur Anosov / Rick Burgess / SL / 5 / 6 / 4 / 11 / 2 / 17
6 / 8235 / Larry Whipple / Mark Strube / PS / 6 / 4 / 3 / 13 / 6 / 19
7 / 825 / Brad Nichol / Mike Nichol / Sun / 12 / 11 / 9 / 3 / 3 / 26
8 / 8318 / Dan Coughlin / Harri Palm / WLIS / dns / 2 / 10 / 4 / 14 / 30
9 / 8143 / Brian Cramer / Matt Johnston / WLOC / 7 / 8 / 8 / 9 / 7 / 30
10 / 8087 / Kevin McNeil / Arnis Baltins / AN / 10 / 12 / 2 / 14 / 9 / 33
11 / 8077 / Jack Jennings / Stew Hall / LS / 11 / 10 / 11 / 6 / 8 / 35
12 / 8217 / Mike Phinney / Brad Balmert / SLE / 8 / 7 / 14 / 12 / 12 / 39
13 / 7964 / Charles Kohlermann IV / Charles Kohlermann III / NCB / 14 / 14 / 12 / 7 / 13 / 46
14 / 8245 / Joe Zambella / Jim Pickering / BH / 13 / 15 / 15 / 10 / 11 / 49
15 / 7999 / Tiani Hausen / Tiziano Salinas / BisB / 9 / 13 / 13 / dns / dns / 51
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1st District Newsletter December, 2008
Trophee Pinatel
November 8-10, 2008
Report by Romain Andrieux:
Allow me first to repeat the good words from the President of CVP at the crew dinner: "The Pinatel 2008 regatta is really the icing on the cake for this year’s 150th anniversary of the Cercle de la Voile de Paris"!
Last year, I promised you a great event and I think we did not fail thanks to the race committee and regatta support.
First, this year the famous Pinatel regatta brought together many participants, both sailing and helping on shore. On the water, there were twenty-one Stars, among them German, Swiss and Franco-American crews. Also taking part were Jacques Puissegur, President of the ASPROSTAR, from Nice, Regis Berenguier, 2007 French Star champion from Hyères, and Xavier Rohart, twice Star world champion Star and Olympic Bronze medallist (Athens), from Marseille, accompanied by his likely new teammate Pierre-Alexis Ponsot.
We also appreciated the on-water dedicated security team and we were pleased to have six Stars from CVP and six Stars from YCIF sailing. This is for us a promise that the Paris Star fleets are indeed strong and are reviving to active racing. The wind also was great! Light and uncertain south wind on Saturday, medium and stable west wind on Sunday and south-west strong and gusty on Monday, We saw all facets of our Olympic sailing area!
I also must mention the fireplace, restaurant, bar, which pleased our visitors, the signing of the “Gold Book” by Xavier Rohart and Jacques Puissegur and the presentation of the CVP burgee to them!
Finally, the race itself which created a magnificent view for the spectators. Eleven races, a great winner announced, boats planing in winds of at least twenty knots, some participants from afar a bit lost on the first day, a dismasting on Sunday and a dismasting on Monday, and a doping control official of the AFLD mandated by the FFV: What a regatta!
All this led to an excellent podium by our visitors who quickly figured out the complexities of these waters with Xavier Rohart/ Pierre Alexis Ponsot finishing first in front of Thierry de La Villehuchet / Guy Gurney and Jacques Puissegur / Martin Tenconi.
I could write an account much longer as there are things to say and share. We took great pleasure in running the 28th Trophy Pinatel which was also the second round of the 2008 French Star Championship!
Martin Tenconi / Jacques Puissegur; Xavier Rohart/ Pierre Alexis Ponsot; Thierry de La Villehuchet / Guy Gurney
Some additional thoughts on the
Trophee Pinatel Regatta
by Guy Gurney
I would like to add that this was the best Star regatta that I've attended in a long time. It was a week to remember thanks to Thierry de la Villehuchet, who introduced me to the delights of river sailing on the Seine and tolerated my dubious crew work. He has two identical Follis, one of which he keeps in Connecticut, the other in France.
One may not think of the Star as a river racing boat, yet the fleet of 20 boats showed they were well suited to the purpose. At the Cercle de la Voile de Paris (CVP), an attractive club that is 150 years old this year, and the neighboring Yacht Club de L'Ile de France (YCIF), there’s a good combined fleet of Stars as well as Solings and other racing keelboats and dinghies. They enjoy a relatively broad, tree-lined stretch of the Seine on the outskirts of Paris where prevailing westerlies provide good racing. You do have to watch out for commercial barges, known as peniches, which ply back and forth along the river, each preceded by a man in an inflatable dinghy who toots an air horn to warn sailboats out of the way.
Best of all was the warm reception from our French hosts. Everyone was friendly and welcoming, showing that special French humor and spirit. Jacques Puissegur (a legend in French Star sailing), the charming Loïc Eonnet, and the double world champion Xavier Rohart and his crew Pierre were all particularly friendly, and spoke good English. I lost count of the number of sailors, French, German and Swiss, who shook my hand and congratulated me for having elected Barack Obama. I gave up trying to explain that I am still a British citizen, so couldn't vote, and that Thierry, politically speaking, is somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun.
As for the racing, boatspeed was not the main criterion for success. It was all about positioning the boat on the river to make best use of the wind patterns. Hence plenty of older boats with sail numbers in the 6000's were perfectly competitive because their skippers knew how to use the river. Thierry used to sail here before moving to the US some 25 years ago, and was able to use his old knowledge to good effect. Still we had to fight hard for our second place. Xavier Rohart, on the other hand, used the first two races to learn the waters, thereafter earning an unbroken string of bullets and making it look easy. Only one hiccough with an OCS in one race showed that he was human after all. What a great guy -- unfailingly helpful, and happy to share technical information after racing.
If you ever get a chance to sail here, you should jump at it. Something tells me the CVP will be doing this for another 150 years.
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1st District Newsletter December, 2008
Trophee Pinatel
Pl. / No. / Boat / Skipper / Crew / Fleet / R1 / R2 / R3 / R4 / R5 / R6 / R7 / R8 / R9 / R10 / R11 / Points1 / 8107 / -- / Xavier Rohart / Pierre Alexis Ponsot / NI / 2 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / ocs / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 10
2 / 8068 / Claudina / Thierry De La Villehuchet / Guy Gurney / Mid / 5 / 5 / 8 / 3 / 3 / 7 / 2 / 4 / 2 / 5 / 3 / 32
3 / 7649 / Asteria IV / Jacques Puissegur / Martin Tenconi / NI / 3 / 1 / 3 / 2 / 4 / 9 / 8 / 9 / 3 / 3 / 10 / 36
4 / 6698 / Pieric 5 / Philippe Burban / Paul & Valentine Burban / IF / 7 / 9 / 6 / 5 / 5 / 6 / 6 / 8 / 5 / 2 / 4 / 46
5 / 6426 / Vivere / Philippe Courteaud / Thibaud Courteaud / IF / 1 / 6 / 15 / 12 / 8 / 10 / 1 / 3 / 4 / 8 / 6 / 47
6 / 8093 / Starnatic / Marko Hasche / Dutmas Hobbie / HF / 4 / dnf / 7 / 8 / 9 / 2 / 3 / 7 / 9 / 6 / 2 / 48
7 / 7714 / Etoile de Mai / Regis Berenguier / Laurent Bernaz / FdeM / 16 / 11 / 12 / 7 / ocs / 5 / 4 / 2 / 7 / 4 / 5 / 57
8 / 7527 / Cosmos II / Romain Andrieux / Olivier Guerin / FdeP / 10 / 4 / 2 / 14 / 2 / 12 / 9 / 10 / 8 / 10 / 8 / 63
9 / 6276 / Elsee / Loïc Eonnet / Victor & Louis Eonnet / IF / 9 / 17 / 4 / 4 / 7 / 4 / 10 / 11 / 6 / 9 / 11 / 64
10 / 7259 / Paris-Brest / Guillaume Poli / Didier Richard / IF / 8 / 2 / 10 / 13 / 15 / 11 / 5 / 6 / 11 / 12 / 9 / 74
11 / 7898 / Just for Fun / Klaus Bode / Alexander Bode / IJs / 6 / 13 / 19 / 9 / 14 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 10 / 7 / 7 / 95
12 / 7776 / Two Non Blondes / Beat Sauter / Benedict Strud / BSL / 18 / 10 / 11 / 6 / 10 / 8 / 11 / 13 / 14 / 13 / dnc / 96
13 / 7536 / Tschwabisadrbar / Robert Rauss / Marc Bloch / BSL / 17 / 8 / 9 / dnc / dnc / dnc / 7 / 5 / 12 / 11 / dnc / 113
14 / 7850 / -- / Hervé Godest / Jean-Brice Lagourgue / -- / dns / 7 / 18 / 10 / 6 / 3 / 13 / 14 / dnc / dnc / dnc / 115
15 / 7268 / XXL / Laurent Parquet / Nicolas Fruchaud / IF / 14 / 14 / 14 / 16 / 12 / 15 / 14 / 12 / 13 / 15 / dnf / 123
16 / 7208 / Heb-Ken / Noel Roland Le Berre / Kristof Le Berre / FdeP / 11 / 18 / 5 / 19 / 17 / 17 / 12 / 15 / 15 / 17 / dnc / 127
17 / 6160 / -- / Alain Boullier / Nicolas Coant / -- / 13 / 12 / 13 / 11 / 16 / 13 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 16 / dnc / 127
18 / 7682 / Objectif Lune / Vincent Piel / Laure Le Saux / FdeSA / 15 / 15 / 16 / 15 / 13 / 18 / dnc / 18 / 17 / 14 / 12 / 135
19 / 7011 / Virginia / Edouard Poullain / Martin Chaufour / FdeP / 12 / 16 / 20 / 17 / 11 / 19 / 17 / 19 / 16 / 18 / dnc / 145
20 / 6862 / Last but not least / Patrick Raffard / Guerin Lellio / IF / 19 / 19 / 17 / 18 / 18 / 16 / dnf / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / 173
21 / 7362 / -- / Patrick Bezat / FdeP / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / dnc / 198
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1st District Newsletter December, 2008
INO
A Star converted to a cruising boat
by Jacques Puissegur
Star #1762 was built in 1939 in Algiers where my family had lived since 1907. My family originally came from Bordeaux. My grandfather founded in Algiers a wine business and my father was in the business of green tea and many other foods. My father and his brothers learned sailing on the 14-meter (46ft) gaff-riggedsloop of my grandfather.
Stars appeared in Algeria In 1929, and many boats werestronglybuiltin mahogany by the famous shipyardJean and Maurice Bertin Brothers. The original name of 1762 was Ouragan (Hurricane). I begancrewing on this Star in 1949 when I was 12. At this time you could reduce the mainsail area with a reefing boom, but in competition against the new red cedar boats 1762 was handicapped since she was 100 kilos heavier!
In 1953 my fatherdecided to convert the Star at a shipyardtoa cruising boat. The topsides were heightened about 40cm at the middle of the hulland a newstembolted onto the original one. The transom was cut off and the stern lengthened by 50cm with a new inverse transom. The overall length of Ino was 7.5 meters (24.6ft) andthe maximum beam 2 meters (6.56ft). The deck had a smooth inversesheerline and a full-width cabin topof 2 meters length at the maximum beam. Inside you now had 1.30 meters of height under the roofbeams.
Jacques’ father standing in the hatch of Ino
in theold harbor of Antibes
In the cockpit the seats ofvarnished mahoganywere about at the level of the former deck of the Star. The rudder postwas moved back by one frame. The tiller of the Star was the same. The wooden mast was cut in two pieces and a piece of woodof 4cm was gluedall along it toobtain a stronger new mast. The mast was moved back by one frame. The length of the boom was reduced to 3.40 meters (11.15ft). The rigging was a cutter rig with a forestay to the head of the mast, allowing a huge genoaof 17 sq.m (183 sq. ft.), and a parallel inner forestay for the Star jib.The main sailnow was 14 sq.m (150 sq.ft.). The running backstays were removed, leaving only a fixed backstay on the new transom.
Inside the cabin, to starboard was a chart table 60 x 60 cm with locker below;to port the same dimensions for the galley and locker below. There were two berths and, if necessary, one man could sleep between the berths on an air mattress. Forward of the berths there was an open bulkhead to give access to the storage area for sails and anchors. A hatch opened justin front of the cabin top so you can easily hoist or reef the sails standing up on two little boxes. The cockpit was comfortable, about1.7 m in length. All the added weight of these modifications pressed the hull deeper in the water, thereby increasing the waterline length. The weight of Ino was now about 1000 kgs, the waterline5.90meters in length, draft1.08 meters.
Jacques, age 17, at the tiller of Ino in the Algiers harbor
Nobody could imagine after she was converted that Ino was built on a Star hull. The construction cost was cheaper than any sailing boat of this size. The speed was surprising. In light wind we went faster than anysamesize cruising sailingboat, and the rating was good because of her strong construction (there were 19frames in a wooden Star).
In strong wind Ino was always well balanced with reefed main. Sheneeded two men only to sail her, but was faster with four persons hiking. Ino was French Mediterranean champion for many years when she was in Antibes, her new mooring after Algiers.