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12MYC January 2019 E-News
12MYC January 2019 E-News
12MYC January 2019 E-News
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January 2019
The growing list of participating Vintage, Traditional, Modern and Grand Prix 12s reads like a
roll call of Olympic and America's Cup history. This auspicious fleet, crewed by an
international who's-who of racing sailors, will represent Australia, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, Italy, Norway and the United States. You will find the current competitors' list
here.
It is with equal measure of excitement and gratitude that I announce contributions from two
private foundations that have joined us in support of the 2019 12 Metre World
Championship. The Pitt Foundation has donated $25,000 in general support of our 2019
events and the Vetlesen Foundation, of Norwegian heritage, has granted $50,000 to
assist with the expenses of the Baltic fleet 12s coming to Newport for the Worlds. The
Vetlesen family was the original owner of Vema III (N-11).
Thanks to our 12MYC media and fundraising specialist, Chris Meigher, our 12mR Worlds
bars will be stocked with Stella Artois and Chateau d'Esclans wines including
Whispering Angel rose'. Chris is finalizing many other partnerships AND he has offered
deeply discounted advertising rates to our supporters in the July 2019 issue of QUEST
magazine, which will include the official 12mR Worlds programme. See details below.
Finally, to welcome our International 12mR compatriots to the 12 Metre Yacht Club, we
have sent each 12mR owner / skipper an embroidered blazer patch to enhance their dress
mess jackets while in Newport. (Additional patches will be soon available through our
website.)
The 2019 12 Metre World Championship, now just 166 days away!
Sincerely,
Jimmy Gubelmann
Commodore, 12MYC Newport
and your 12MYC Newport Station Friends
p.s. Please consider joining or renewing your 12MYC Annual Membership; with your help,
we'll continue to support the 12mR Class!
The Easterner team is in need of a practice spinnaker, please email Scott if you are able to assist.
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KIWI MAGIC (K-7) CREW: Fighting Fit and Ready for Newport!
"Look at all the trouble you've caused us," he yelled at the crew.
For British sailors, the main trouble with the America's Cup is that, despite countless challenges in
the intervening 150 years, they have failed to win it back.
But that did not stop the Royal Yacht Squadron, in conjunction with the New York Yacht Club, from
organizing an ambitious Jubilee regatta to commemorate that first race in the same waters in which it
was sailed.
And in cool, blustery conditions this morning on the Solent, the current-swept waterway that
separates mainland England from the Isle of Wight, the racing started for more than 160 boats in 15
divisions.
Conspicuous by their absence, however, were the 36 yachts entered in the three marquee
12-Metre classes, and the nine boats scheduled to race in the International America's Cup
Class fleet. With a building breeze that leveled off at a fresh 25 knots with gusts over 30, the
conditions were deemed too boisterous for the relatively delicate twelves.
As the day unfolded, it appeared that in the case of the 12-Metres, discretion may well have
triumphed over valor. Some 22 yachts retired from the racing, many with blown-out
spinnakers or damaged mainsails or jibs. In that respect, it was a good day to be a
sailmaker.
The best of Stephen's series of models provided the hull lines for Constellation and with that
conclusion the first and biggest of his headaches was over. The construction has to be supervised.
Rig, sails and gear arrangements have to be made. But a Twelve-Metre's function is entirely speed- to
comply with the rule and win races- and the designer doesn't have to make the compromises instead
upon by cruising boat owners.
Human, Fallible Crew He doesn't have to worry about- though he probably will- the time to come
when Constellation will be out of his hands and in those of a human, fallible crew. Crew- brilliant on
Weatherly, middling on Columbia- was a big reason why a Stephens boat did not defend the Cup in
1962. There is always a chance that his boat may have the edge inherent ability, and the helmsman of
the opposing craft emerge as a Vanderbilt or a Mosbacher.
These anxieties, at any rate, are premature. They concern the late summer days in the Brenton Reef
swell of Newport, and not the winter mornings, twice a week when Olin Stephens and his brother Rod,
the firm's field engineer, drive out to City Island to call in at Minneford's the yard where Constellation is
building.
Minneford's has in addition to its own men many of the skilled craftsmen who built Columbia at the
now shut-down Nevins yard next door. Paul Coble, who was Stephen's man-on-the-spot at Nevins in
1958 is assistant superintendent at Minneford's. Nils Halvorsen who lofted Columbia, is doing the
same for Constellation. He is a small, elderly Norwegian, springy and close-grained, a man who has
spent a long life in company with good wood.
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