In this Issue:
Fastnet: Which is the Fastest 60?
New Posey Sailing Simulators
Neal Petersen has plans after fire
S2 7.9 Internationals
Sears/Bemis/Smythe Area K Results

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Fastnet 60 VS. 60 VS. 60
    In a recent column for Yachting World
Magazine (available in the Torresen Marine Ships Store)
British Yachtsman Sir Robin Knox Johnston wrote: "Because
of the high speeds they can achieve with a single crew,
it has been taken as an article of faith that the fastest
monohulls afloat are the Open 60's. Unfortunately they
have never been raced against other yachts of a similar
size designed for full crews, such as the Whitbread (now
Volvo) 60's so the real truth of this assertion has yet
to be tested."
    The recent biennial Fastnet race did provide at
least a partial test of the speed capabilities of the
Open 60 monohulls and the Volvo 60's. Also in the race
were several 60 foot Open Trimarans.
    While the Fastnet is not a truly scientific test,
it is a 605 mile offshore race. A look at who sailed the
course at what speed gives us some idea of which type
fastest.
    First amongst the 60's were the trimarans.
In fact Fujicolour with French mariner Loick Peyron
calling shots set a new outright race record. The
60-foot trimaran sailed the course in 1 day 16 hours
an average speed of 14.96 knots. Only 14 minutes back
of Fujicolour was Broceliande which actually led at
the Fastnet Mark Rounding.
    Next amongst the 60's came Whirlpool-Europe 2
skippered by Catherine Chabuad. Whirlpool sailed the
course in 2 days 5 hours at an average of 11.39 knots.
    However the races 2 Volvo 60's finished up next.
Ilbruck which was formerly one of the EF boats posted an
elapsed time of 2 days 5 hours or 11.26 knots average.
    One can see that the Open 60 did edge the Volvo 60.
However, this is Whirlpool's initial season meaning the
Marc Lombard design is newer than the Farr designed Ilbruck.
    Next in the finishing order was Yess a Volvo 60.
This was part of Grant Dayton's stable for the previous
Whitbread. Yess finished in 2 days 7 hours.
    Yess' time was faster than the next Open 60 the
Italian boat Rivier di Rimini which sailed the course in
2 days 9 hours. Although there were only 2 Volvo 60's
the race did have a 3rd Open 60 entered.
    The 3rd Open 60 was Group 4 sailed by Mike Golding.
Group 4 sailed the course in 2 days 23 hours. Also, in the
race was Goss Challenger II Pete Goss' Open 50, which
completed the race in 3 days 3 hours.
    So in the Fastnet environment a new generation
Open 60 edged a past generation Volvo 60 by just 20
minutes. This would seem to indicate a very narrow speed
edge to the Open 60. But it will be very interesting to
see how the next generation of Volvo 60's performs.
    It should also be noted that several other fast
monohull types sailed the Fastnet. The Adeco Maxi One
Designs sailed as the last race of their championship
series. Ross Field sailed his 80 footer across the line
in 2 days 5 hours faster than either type of 60 foot
monohulls, an average of 11.39 knots. Also in the race
were 4 ILC maxis. First amongst these the Freres designed
Boomerang in a time of 2 days 7 hours, 11.04 knot average.
So, the extra waterline of the Adeco 80 footers did get
them home a bit faster.
    At the beginning Sir Robin Knox Johnston stated
that perhaps the Open 60's would gain speed from being
fully crewed. From the results of the Fastnet, it looks
as though they need to keep gaining speed to be known as
the world's fastest monohull.
    Below find a results table with the first 2 of
each type of boat along with an average speed for the
fastest of each type.

Yacht Name Type D H M S Speed
Ross Field Yachting Maxi 80 OD 2 5 8 51 11.39
Whirlpool-Europe 2 Open 60 2 5 22 59 11.33
Skandia Maxi 80 OD 2 5 27 00
Ilbruck Volvo 60 2 5 43 05 11.26
Boomerang ILC Maxi 2 6 48 33 11.04
Alexia ILC Maxi 2 7 6 49
Yess Volvo 60 2 7 30 24
Group 4 Open 60 2 23 11 09
Goss Challenger Open 50 3 3 37 14 8.00    

Torresen Sailing Site offers Updated Posey Simulators

    Recently Torresen Sailing received a shipment of
the latest addition to the line of Posey Sailing Simulators.
Torresen Sailing site offers the full line of Posey
Simulators along with the Sail 2000 simulators by Vivid
Simulations.
    The first of the new simulators is Posey's Sailing
Dynamics Instructor 2000. This simulator is a superb
choice for beginning and intermediate sailors who want
to learn the basics of sailing and sail trim. As your
skills grow Sailing Dynamics will teach in depth sail
trim and racing basics.
    Among the new features of Sailing Dynamics 2000
are: sound effects, and a 32-bit application for Windows
95,98,NT or Power Macintosh with Power PC.
    Sailing Dynamics Instructor is available from
the Torresen Sailing Site for $ 54.95. For more see:
http://www.torresen.com/pyd/sdi.htm
    The second new Posey Simulator is Coastal
Cruising Simulator 2000. The coastal cruising allows
you to enhance a variety of seamanship and navigation
skills as you simulate up to a 3-day cruise.
    You can practice skills such as: anchoring,
docking, night sailing, tides and weather forecasting.
    Coastal Cruising 2000 features a wide choice
of boat types. They include: sailing catamaran, single
screw or twin screw trawler yacht.
    Coastal Cruising Simulator 2000 is available
from Torresen Sailing Site. You can learn more at:
http://bsd.torresen.com/pyd/cc.htm.
    Should either of these simulators interest
you we have a special one time offer for Around the
World of Sailing readers. To take advantage of
this offer you must place your order by 1500 eastern
time Thursday 12 August. All Coastal Cruising and
Sailing Dynamics ordered by that time will be placed
in a random drawing. The winner of the random drawing
will be choose from either free UPS Next Day Air shipping
or a free copy of the Posey Catamaran Race Challenge
Simulator Macintosh version.
    You can see the entire line of Posey Simulators
at: www.torresen.com/pyd. You can order
Sailing Dynamics Instructor and Coast Cruising Simulator
at: http://bsd.torresen.com/pyd/posorder.htm

Neal Petersen suffers land-based setback
    Charleston based sailor and motivational
speaker recently had a day worse than any he experienced
while sailing the Around Alone. Last Tuesday, his South
Carolina home burned. Along with the structure; trophies,
pictures, clothing and a lot of memories from his sailing
career were destroyed.
    Petersen had recently moved into the house on
St. John's Island in the Charleston area after completing
the 1998-99 Around Alone Race. In the process of
rehabbing the property Petersen burned some brush.
Before leaving the property Petersen hosed the pile down
to cool it off. Apparently it was not cool enough and the
flames reached a propane tank. The fire spread from there.
    Speaking to Petersen this week, he said it was a
set back but not at all a permanent one. This despite the
fact that he lost all his trophies from Around Alone, and
a book manuscript. In a real life demonstration of his motto
"In life there are no barriers only solutions" he plans
to move back into a rebuilt structure in a month.
    Once he gets his land base of operations rebuilt
he will move onto a new phase of his career. He will be
taking a sabbatical from ocean racing. Neal will focus
on building a new corporation he has founded, No Barriers
International. A main focus of this company will be
motivational speaking engagements with Neal as the featured
speaker. One of the themes he uses to motivate corporations
and their employees is risk. If he can risk all to sail
Around Alone they can take risks to engender business
success.
    Although racing plans are on hold, Neal will
continue to sail. As part of his motivational enterprises
he will charter boats for corporate team building exercises.
    Another of Petersen's projects will be a documentary
video of his sailing career. He hopes to complete this by
the end of September.
    In fact Petersen feels that completing Around
Alone allowed him to deal with the setback of the fire.
During the race, for 9 months, his life was daily at risk
as he sailed the oceans alone. The race toughened him and
he views the fire with a what does not kill you makes you
stronger attitude.
    You can learn more about Neal's story and his
presentations at: http://www.no-barriers.com

S2 7.9 Internationals
    The 1999 S2 7.9 Internationals were sailed August
4-6. Host was Macatawa Bay Yacht Club in Holland MI.
Holland MI is the location of S2 yachts the builder of
the 7.9.
    Spike races were sailed with 5 different boats winning
contests. Spike Boston won the regatta's initial race.
Although he wouldn't win another race Boston sailed the
rest of the regatta in the top 5 to win by nearly 14 points.
2nd place went to John Musa of Dillon Colorado. Dillon
struggled the first 4 races before winning the final 2.
Perhaps being from Colorado it took Dillon awhile to
acclimate himself. 3rd was Parrot Head, sailed by Steve
Tepel. Home town sailors Jeff and Doug Padnos finished
.25 points back in 4th.
    Complete results are available on the Torresen
Sailing Site at:
http://www.torresen.com/races/997.9int.htm

Junior Sailing Results
    Courtesy of Columbia Yacht club here are results
for the US Sailing AREA K elimination's for the Smythe
(Laser) Bemis (420's) and Sears (J22's) championship
elimination's. Winners go onto race the 14th through the
18th in Hawaii.
    Columbia Yacht Club's website is at:
http://www.torresen.com/columbia.
   
1999 Area K Sears/Bemis/Smythe - Columbia Yacht Club

Sears - J22s
Place Name Points
1 Lake Geneva YC 10
2 Columbia YC (Chicago) 14
3 Macatawa Bay YC 14
4 Chicago YC 18
5 Little Traverse YC 18

Bemis - 420s
Place Name Points
1 Julie Papanek/Lindsey Duda 14
2 Evan Thompson/Pat Hitchins (Columbia YC) 24
3 Craig Thompson/Paul Taylor (Columbia YC) 25
4 H. Rathlif/Nicole Rothstein 37
5 E. Opper/N. Ryan 47
6 Jess Willis/Lisa Ezaki (Columbia YC) 47
7 L. Leffingwell/A. Leffingwell 76
8 J. Turney/K. Heitzinger 76
9 C. Clement/Ben Carr 77
10 M. O'Malley/E. Adams 77
11 Chris Williams/William Kalmbach 92
12 D. Jerominski/V. Jerominski 104
13 S. Leomporra/A. Leach 107
14 S. Eisenhardt/G. Smail 116
15 C. Beckham/A. Beckham 120
16 Joi Kamper/Laura Schmidt 127
17 H. Pfeifer/M. Craig 136
18 C. Earl/B. Rupp 154
19 R. Grow/M. Ivanovic 178


Smythe - Lasers
Place Name Points
1 J. Cote 21
2 W. Lotocha 28
3 B. Crouch 34
4 J. Porter 43
5 C. Smith 54
6 K. Thompson 56
7 K. Blackwood 60
8 E. Ruehl 73
9 C. Strahl 82
10 D. Radin 85
11 T. McGrath 86
12 D. Rummel 82
13 C. Muller 97
14 M. Duda 100
15 N. Breighner 123
16 S. Stricker 141
17 C. Reanis 151
18 C. Helmkamp 155
19 K. Munson 157
20 G. Bradfield 162

    The website for the Smythe
and Bemis regattas can be found at:
www.hawaii.rr.com/smythe-bemis