Route des Princes starts on 5th of June, promo video

Teaser Route des Princes by routedesprincesTV

America's Cup update, Sail Racing Magazine interview with Grant Dalton of ETNZ

Sail Racing magazine have published an audio interview with Grant Dalton of Emirates Team New Zealand on the America's Cup.

http://www.sailracingmagazine.com/blog/episode-9-grant-dalton-emirates-team-new-zealand

America's cup update, Artemis Racing Team return to training in San Francisco

The Artemis Team have conducted their first training session since the tragic loss of Andrew Simpson in the teams AC72 accident.  Great to see them back on the water in their foiling AC45.

North West Multihull Association meeting, 4th June 2013

Bit of a late reminder, but NWMA is meeting this evening at Puget Sound Yacht club (2321 N. Northlake Way) at 7 PM.  the program tonight is a slideshow and discussion of Net Attachment details, featuring examples form the world of french multis, the latest Farrier approaches, and some local boats.

Bring your ideas and experience!

More details at the NWMA's website:

America's Cup videos, the teams practicing out on San Francisco Bay

John Nava has taken some excellent video of the America's Cup AC72's out in action on San Francisco Bay

You can access his Youtube channel below:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5wLSD_i4SwcgiBENqJ2b_g

Samui Regatta, update on race day 4

From the following article submitted to Sail-World by the Samui Regatta event media

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Close-racing-in-challenging-conditions-on-Day-4-of-2013-Samui-Regatta/110048

At the 2013 Samui Regatta, following a day off for some well-earned rest and relaxation, the sailors were back in action today with two races – a windward leeward and around-the-cans – starting in an eight knot building breeze off Chaweng Beach.

read more here

UK JP Morgan Round the Island race 2013, multihull category race results

Race results by multihull category for the recent UK Round the Island Race.

MOCRA multihulls

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?map=rir13&style=std&ui=rir4&override=&section=results&page=results2013&classrequest=500&submit=

bridgedeck multihulls

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?map=rir13&style=std&ui=rir4&override=&section=results&page=results2013&classrequest=510&submit=

Grand Prix multihulls

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?map=rir13&style=std&ui=rir4&override=&section=results&page=results2013&classrequest=520&submit=

Also a couple of articles from Sail-World on the race. Not mentioned in the article's but of interest the absolute record for the Round Island course is still held by the MOD70 trimaran Foncia.

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Round-the-Island-Race-records-broken/110079

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/The-day-that-Round-the-Island-Race-records-tumbled/110084

2013 Palby Fyn Cup, video of the race

Some video is available of the 2013 Palby Fyn race on Livestream.  The most multi content seems to be in the video 'Palby 3' which gives us a good look over the Carbon 3 trimaran and some of the other multis in the event.

Red Bull Youth America's Cup update, the US team "The Force" on their training for the upcoming event

From the following article on Sailing Scuttlebutt:

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2013/05/31/video-putting-in-the-time-red-bull-youth-americas-cup/

San Francisco, CA (May 29, 2013) – The American Youth Sailing Force (The Force) has been practicing hard on the AC45 and making significant fitness progress with the help of Oracle Team USA’s trainers. They know you can’t win without both of those elements working in sync.

The AC45’s demanding nature requires time on the water practicing in conditions like those that will be present during the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup (RBYAC). Team Manager, Ian Andrewes notes, “The boats are pretty wild in all wind conditions but when the breeze is on, the boat becomes a different animal. You have to be on top of everything and the forgiveness factor is way down. One small mistake can ruin everything.”

read more here

Palby Fyn Cup 2013, SAP Extreme 40 team narrowly edge out Carbon 3 race team for line honors

The Palby Fyn Cup ended up a two horse race between the SAP Extreme 40 team and the Carbon 3 race team.  The SAP Extreme team won the event by about 10 minutes the Carbon 3 team took the handicap corrected time win.

full results are here:

http://www.bs-sejlerskolen.dk/fyncup/results/fyncup-2013-Løbsresultater.htm

2013 JP Morgan Round the Island Race, video highlights

Auckland to Musket Cove race update, Team Vodafone powering up in stronger conditions

From the following article on Sail-World submitted by Zoe Hawkins and Richard Gladwell:

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Auckland-Fiji-Race:-Big-trimaran-finds-breeze-and-takes-second-reef/110076

The ORMA60 trimaran, TeamVodafonesailing has found the breeze in the Auckland Fiji Race. But the Ray Lodge designed and owned, Wild Card, leads fleet on handicap, on the second day of the classic race.

Emailing this afternoon from a location 210 nautical miles North-East of Cape Reinga, and nearly 300 nautical miles from the startline at Westhaven Marina in Auckland, TeamVodafone Sailing have reported breezes of up to 20 knots, and boat speeds of 23-26 knots. They set their first reef and trinquet at 1000hrs today, and have now added a second reef.

read more here

New Farrier F-33 trimaran design

Ian Farrier has posted some details on his F-33 design.  The first example is under construction in the Phillipines at Multihulls Direct.

http://www.f-boat.com/pages/trimarans/F-33-2013.html

Photo courtesy of Farrier Marine

photo courtesy Multihulls Direct

JP Morgan Round the Island Race

The JP Morgan Round the Island Race has been run with a new outright record set by Ben Ainslie who finished the race in 2 hours 52 minutes 15 seconds on an AC45 catamaran.  This new time improved Francis Joyon’s 2001 time by 16 minutes and takes the record time to less than three hours.

The JP Morgan Round the Island Race website is here

Thanks to "Blackburn" for the heads up on the video and results.

Palby Fyn Cup 2013 closely fought endgame between SAP Extreme 40 and Carbon 3 race team

This race incorporates a multihull division and racing this year is the very impressive Nigel Iren's designed Carbon3 trimaran.

In the closing stages it's turned into a two horse race between the SAP Extreme 40 team and Carbon 3 race team.  The very light conditions are suiting the Extreme 40 slightly better at this stage and they are leading.

The tracker is here:

http://germanmaster.traclive.dk/events/event_20130529_PalbyFynCu/index.php?raceid=b54dbba6-c96a-11e2-932d-10bf48d758ce