10 Amazing Arizona Experiences From A to Z
Want to know what the A and Z in AZ stand for? Arizona has it all, so we’ve covered 10 items, from A to Z, that you’ll want to see on your next visit.
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Monaco, Thursday 30th March 2017 – It was at the first Monaco Ocean Week, organised 30th March to 4th April 2017 by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in partnership with Rolex, that Bernard d’Alessandri, General Secretary of the Yacht Club de Monaco and Marco Casiraghi, the man behind the project, presented the Monaco Solar & Electric Boat Challenge being held 13-15 July 2017.
For four years now, the Yacht Club de Monaco has been giving space to energy sources of the future by organising a meeting for solar and electric powered boats.
Organised in collaboration with the UIM (Union Internationale Motonautique) and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, this event is a chance for engineering students to let their imaginations and talent run free. These are youngsters determined to put the event on the map, as a benchmark to raise public awareness of clean modern technologies in the battle against climate change.
Monaco Solar & Electric Boat Challenge
Unique in the Mediterranean it is the first and only competition to bring together on the open sea, in one race area, solar and electric powered race boats. An endurance fleet race, timed slalom and one-on-one duels are again on the programme this year, testing boats to the limit.
“The Yacht Club de Monaco wants to build the future with this dynamic new generation of engineers who are enthusiastic and motivated to design and build the motorboats of tomorrow. It is very much in line with HSH Prince Albert II’s environmental policy. A reminder that over a century ago other pioneers came to Monaco to present their latest powerboat developments – a tradition that continues today,” said Bernard d’Alessandri.
For the first time since its launch, the event includes a 25-nautical-mile offshore course between Cannes and Monaco for a new class of boat, the YCM Offshore Class. Brainchild of the Yacht Club de Monaco, the boats will be breaking new ground in being able to take three people on board.
Monaco Solar & Electric Boat Challenge
“With this new class, the ambition is to encourage universities and boatyards to design and build solar and electric race boats that can be marketed and sold in the future,” explains Marco Casiraghi, himself an engineer and the man behind the project.
Rendezvous 13-15 July 2017 when the Principality once again blazes a trail for the future of yachting.
Information and results: Yacht Club de Monaco website: ycm.org
Press contacts: Yacht Club de Monaco – Tel: +377 93 10 64 09 – Email: presse@ycm.org
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Hamilton Island faces a massive five-month rebuild but will partly reopen for business next Saturday after “all hell broke loose”. Exclusive pictures obtained by The Sunday Mail shows the “apocalyptic” scale of destruction to privately owned homes, luxury hotels and yachts at ground zero in the cyclone-ravaged Whitsundays.
Hamilton Island chief executive Glenn Bourke yesterday told almost 600 staff of the massive task ahead to clean-up and rebuild the island resort that has played host to celebrities Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey. The former Olympian paid tribute to the “resilience” of staff and hit back at “erroneous” comments on social media by some of 3000 stranded tourists when the monster storm scored a direct hit, packing 260km/h winds, on Tuesday.
Mr Bourke addressed a packed community meeting of the island’s nearly 2000 staff and 500 residents and business owners, quoting poet Dorothea MacKellar’s famous lines of “I love a sunburnt country” suggesting she might have added “cyclones and the atrocities we’ve all endured”.
“What we’ve already proven is we’re a tough and resilient community who in the Australian vernacular are always here to help a mate,’’ he said. “We want to celebrate the fact we had no loss of life, celebrate the actions of so many of you, and celebrate the resilience we have shown. What we faced was both terrifying and demanding in epic proportions. We know the structure of the roofs let us down, once the roofs were released, all hell broke loose.”
Hamilton Island owner Sandy Oatley, whose late dad Bob bought the resort for about $200 million in 2003 and spent $350 million on its redevelopment, has been on the island in the cyclone’s aftermath and guaranteed no staff will lose their jobs.
Airlines will resume up to two flights a day from next Saturday for the peak Easter holiday period. Luxury Qualia resort will be shut down for two months and be completely refurbished with its hotels fully occupied and fully operational by August in the week before Race Week.
Nikki Phillips, the island’s longest-term resident of 35 years, said the Whitsunday island resort had been through fires, airline strikes, bankruptcy and more than eight cyclones since it was built by developer Keith Williams. “This will be our biggest test yet. We will come back bigger and better than ever,” she said.
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603 nautical miles
Alongside the Sydney- Hobart, the Fastnet race is one of the truly iconic yacht races. The race is only held every two years and, despite being the largest by far of the world’s classic 600-mile offshore races in terms of participants, race entry is always massively oversubscribed, making it that much harder to tick off the “bucket list”.
The 47th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, will start in the Solent from Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Sunday 6th August, finishing in Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock, the symbol of the race, located off the southern coast of Ireland.
All 340 of them!
In the first minute, 222 boats entered and by 12:04:24 the 340 boat limited had been reached, which thankfully included the MYC entry.
Entrants from 28 different nations have signed up and include; Great Britain, France (who have dominated the event in the recent years), Netherlands, Germany and USA, with an entry from Korea as well as from Australia and New Zealand. The race has attracted the usual diverse fleet of yachts, from beautiful classics to some of the world’s fastest racing machines – and everything in between, racing in IRC or selected offshore classes such as IMOCA60, VOR65, Class40 and MOCRA Multihull.
Cowes Week is the largest sailing regatta of its type in the world. It is a key highlight of the British sporting summer and has been held in early August every year since 1826, except during the two world wars.
Cowes & Fastnet Info Sheet
The regatta has evolved enormously since 1826 and now between 800 and 1,000 boats in up to forty different handicap, one-design and multihull classes race every day for eight days. Around 8,000 competitors now participate, ranging from Olympic and world class yachtsmen to weekend sailors. The spectacle that the racing provides, together with the vibrant festival atmosphere, attracts ver
100,000 visitors to Cowes during the event.
We have chartered Sailplane 1, a race-prepared First 40 Carbon Edition. ift.tt/2nxjtZF
We take possession on 28 July 2017 and return her on 12 August 2017.
Sailplane 1, a Beneteau First 40, designed by Bruce Farr to replace the iconic First 40.7 cruiser/racer, is available for corporate and racing charter at events such Cowes week, Cork week, the JP Morgan Round the Island race and the Rolex Fastnet Race.
She has an extremely good racing history having represented France at the 2010 Commodores Cup. She also has race wins to her name in many inshore and offshore races.
Sailplane is built to a very high specification including Carbon Mast, Carbon Boom, Carbon Rudder and wheel. She boasts a full suit of high tech sails with both symmetrical and asymmetrical spinnakers.
| 3 racing mains to choose from (kevlar/carbon)
New 1 2 3 (Doyles?) Storm jib and trysail |
6 spinnakers to choose from including:
· Code 0 · Asymmetrical · ¾ Oz symmetrical · Heavy spinnaker |
The boat can take 10 offshore and 12 inshore (i.e. Cowes). We also have the option of taking the yacht’s owner, Rob, in the unlikely event that we don’t get to 10 crew for the Fastnet, but we may be well advised to actively consider taking him for Cowes to gain the benefit of his local knowledge of the Solent.
We have 10 crew confirmed (see table below) with a further one person for Cowes. As far as possible, we want to make this an MYC boat so that we can proudly fly the club burgee.
Cowes & Fastnet Info Sheet
Importantly, six that have committed have sailed together offshore a number of times and therefore we are confident that we have the beginnings of a happy, harmonious crew that will have fun together, competing successfully and safely.
Muir is the current nominated Person In Charge for the purposes of the charter and race entries but, once we know the final crew list, we can decide together who will fill the usual roles of skipper, navigator, watch leader, etc.
| Name | Comment |
| Brett Eagle | Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero crew in 2014 S2GC; navigator on Chancellor in 2016 S2H; ex-skipper of racing yacht in the US |
| Grish Stromov | Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero skipper in 2012 S2H; |
| Sandy Farquharson | Competitive sailor |
| Marike Koppenol | Women’s Challenge 2017: Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero crew in 2012 S2H; participated in Millennium Round the World race |
| Muir Watson | Co-skipper on Moonraker; Local Hero crew in 2012 S2H |
| Tomas Kliman | Co-skipper on Moonraker; Local Hero crew in 2014 S2GC |
| Chloe Tetlow | Co-skipper X40; multiple Hobarts |
| Keith Thomas | Participated in Millennium Round the World race |
| Peter Bennell | Skipper Misky |
| Steve McKeogh | Hobart 2014; Hamilton Island race week; Multiple harbour races |
| Tanya Stromov | Doing Cowes week only |
If you’d like further information, please call Muir on 0407 229 667 or Marike on 0434 692 294.
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603 nautical miles
Alongside the Sydney- Hobart, the Fastnet race is one of the truly iconic yacht races. The race is only held every two years and, despite being the largest by far of the world’s classic 600-mile offshore races in terms of participants, race entry is always massively oversubscribed, making it that much harder to tick off the “bucket list”.
The 47th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, will start in the Solent from Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Sunday 6th August, finishing in Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock, the symbol of the race, located off the southern coast of Ireland.
All 340 of them!
In the first minute, 222 boats entered and by 12:04:24 the 340 boat limited had been reached, which thankfully included the MYC entry.
Entrants from 28 different nations have signed up and include; Great Britain, France (who have dominated the event in the recent years), Netherlands, Germany and USA, with an entry from Korea as well as from Australia and New Zealand. The race has attracted the usual diverse fleet of yachts, from beautiful classics to some of the world’s fastest racing machines – and everything in between, racing in IRC or selected offshore classes such as IMOCA60, VOR65, Class40 and MOCRA Multihull.
Cowes Week is the largest sailing regatta of its type in the world. It is a key highlight of the British sporting summer and has been held in early August every year since 1826, except during the two world wars.
Cowes & Fastnet Info Sheet
The regatta has evolved enormously since 1826 and now between 800 and 1,000 boats in up to forty different handicap, one-design and multihull classes race every day for eight days. Around 8,000 competitors now participate, ranging from Olympic and world class yachtsmen to weekend sailors. The spectacle that the racing provides, together with the vibrant festival atmosphere, attracts ver
100,000 visitors to Cowes during the event.
We have chartered Sailplane 1, a race-prepared First 40 Carbon Edition. ift.tt/2nxjtZF
We take possession on 28 July 2017 and return her on 12 August 2017.
Sailplane 1, a Beneteau First 40, designed by Bruce Farr to replace the iconic First 40.7 cruiser/racer, is available for corporate and racing charter at events such Cowes week, Cork week, the JP Morgan Round the Island race and the Rolex Fastnet Race.
She has an extremely good racing history having represented France at the 2010 Commodores Cup. She also has race wins to her name in many inshore and offshore races.
Sailplane is built to a very high specification including Carbon Mast, Carbon Boom, Carbon Rudder and wheel. She boasts a full suit of high tech sails with both symmetrical and asymmetrical spinnakers.
| 3 racing mains to choose from (kevlar/carbon)
New 1 2 3 (Doyles?) Storm jib and trysail |
6 spinnakers to choose from including:
· Code 0 · Asymmetrical · ¾ Oz symmetrical · Heavy spinnaker |
The boat can take 10 offshore and 12 inshore (i.e. Cowes). We also have the option of taking the yacht’s owner, Rob, in the unlikely event that we don’t get to 10 crew for the Fastnet, but we may be well advised to actively consider taking him for Cowes to gain the benefit of his local knowledge of the Solent.
We have 10 crew confirmed (see table below) with a further one person for Cowes. As far as possible, we want to make this an MYC boat so that we can proudly fly the club burgee.
Cowes & Fastnet Info Sheet
Importantly, six that have committed have sailed together offshore a number of times and therefore we are confident that we have the beginnings of a happy, harmonious crew that will have fun together, competing successfully and safely.
Muir is the current nominated Person In Charge for the purposes of the charter and race entries but, once we know the final crew list, we can decide together who will fill the usual roles of skipper, navigator, watch leader, etc.
| Name | Comment |
| Brett Eagle | Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero crew in 2014 S2GC; navigator on Chancellor in 2016 S2H; ex-skipper of racing yacht in the US |
| Grish Stromov | Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero skipper in 2012 S2H; |
| Sandy Farquharson | Competitive sailor |
| Marike Koppenol | Women’s Challenge 2017: Multiple Hobarts; Local Hero crew in 2012 S2H; participated in Millennium Round the World race |
| Muir Watson | Co-skipper on Moonraker; Local Hero crew in 2012 S2H |
| Tomas Kliman | Co-skipper on Moonraker; Local Hero crew in 2014 S2GC |
| Chloe Tetlow | Co-skipper X40; multiple Hobarts |
| Keith Thomas | Participated in Millennium Round the World race |
| Peter Bennell | Skipper Misky |
| Steve McKeogh | Hobart 2014; Hamilton Island race week; Multiple harbour races |
| Tanya Stromov | Doing Cowes week only |
If you’d like further information, please call Muir on 0407 229 667 or Marike on 0434 692 294.
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Confused by SPF’s? It’s easy to calculate how long you will be protected by using the following process.
To Calculate SPF protection:
First estimate from your own experience how long it takes your unprotected skin to feel burnt. In the case of a person with very fair skin, this can be as little as 10 minutes in strong sun, where ‘unprotected skin’ would suffer from pinking or mild burning. This is known as ‘burn time’.
Using this formula: Substitute the value for your own estimated ‘burn time’, and multiply by the SPF stated on your sunscreen packaging – and that is the duration of protection the product claims to offer.
SPF formula calculator,SPF formula © Richard Gladwell
In the above equation, a 10 minute burn time (fair skin) is extended to 300 minutes (five hours) by using an SPF 30 sun screen.
For serious outdoors and sports people, you will want to choose long lasting sunscreen that is capable of ‘maintaining an effective SPF’ for the entire time you are exposed to sun. This is especially true for sailors in windy, wet and strong sun conditions.
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Blitz, the King 40 owned and skippered by Peter Corr (USA), took first in CSA-Racing 1 (Three points); Team McFly-Joanna, the Beneteau First 40 skippered by Tony Mack (GBR) took first in CSA-Racing 2 (Three points); and the C&C 30 Don’t Panic, owned and helmed by Julian Mann (USA) sits in first (3 points). 86 boats representing 17 countries enjoyed great conditions, starting in a 12 knot easterly which built to 15 throughout the day. Boats raced a combination of two long and one windward-leeward race.
‘Racing was really fantastic,’ said Dave Brennan, Principal Race Officer, ‘We were able to start off Nanny Cay and I sent my committee boats on three different race courses which worked out really well. The racing was good, conditions couldn’t have been better and racers got to enjoy a lot of the real beauty here with courses that took them around the scenic rocks, Deadman’s Chest, Salt and Ginger Islands.
A veteran of Spring Regatta, Corr is racing a new boat, Blitz this event. He’s spent a lot of days optimizing it to be race ready for this week which appear to have paid off nicely.
‘The courses were fun, the first course was long and the wind was a bit light to start, but picked up on the downwind leg,’ Corr said. ‘We found conditions really shifty particularly upwind and were constantly getting headed so keeping the speed we wanted and hitting our targets was tough.
Racing in CSA Jib & Main, John Evans’ Little Harbor, Jasmine and Keith LiGreci’s Jeanneau 40 Sun Odyssey, Girasoli © BVI Spring Regatta
We had a bad start on our third race, we got pushed to the pin and had to jibe to come out putting us on port which turned out to be the right side so we were able to make up for our mistake at the start. We got good speed up with some good tacking in – three races, three bullets, love it!’
Skippering with one hand did not stand in the way of a clean sweep for Mack and his crew. Mack underwent rotator cuff surgery just three weeks ago and has been finding it just a bit tough steering the starts, ‘I can’t spin the wheel fast enough!’ he smiled. Fortunately, Lucy Jones from Performance Yacht Charter is on board helping him steer starts.
This is Mack’s fourth consecutive year chartering boats to race Spring Regatta and he says he doesn’t necessarily expect to win on a charter boat…but he’s won Spring Regatta every year so far. He’s racing with pretty much the same team that he sails with at home on his J 111.
‘I’m quite proud of them really,’ Mack said. ‘All our starts today were good, the first race was a long beat which was fine, and the windward leeward race was pretty close – it does seem that once you get in the lead it is so much easier than trying to get there! There were more shifts today than we would normally expect, but our tactician Jeremy Smart did a great job of playing them.
In just his fourth Regatta ever, Julian Mann (USA), owner skipper of the C&C 30 Don’t Panic, also helmed his crew to three bullets today. ‘Everything just fully clicked and came together,’ Mann said. ‘We’ve had a couple of solid days training in mid to light air and that really showed in our transitions today. Last week in St. Thomas we were really just racing ourselves, but we committed to do today exactly what we’ve been practicing and it paid off.’ Pete McCormick, project manager and main trimmer on Don’t Panic noted that racing the C&C 30 is very technical, ‘It’s huge for our program to have made this kind of progress and to be competing at this level.
The wonder of ELVIS: Jason Caroll’s Gunboat 62 racing in the Offshore Multihulls class © BVI Spring Regatta
Another boat taking two bullets in two races today was Piglet, the smallest boat in the Spring Regatta Fleet. Racing in CSA-Multihull, the Teegull 2300, was helmed by owner skipper Joe San Martin, and crewed by David Walworth and his wife Michelle, all from St Croix. Walworth says that there’s a lot of disparity in speed in their class so they really have to focus on sailing the boat to its full potential.
‘It makes it hard to judge against the other boats so we’re always figuring out a way to make sure we aren’t getting complacent,’ he said. ‘We positioned ourselves well on the starts today which worked for us. We’re always looking to improve our boat handling and reading the weather better, tacking on the shifts when we can, that’s a big one for us. But, it was a lot of fun and a great day out on the water.’
Racing continues on Saturday for all classes, with a first gun at 1000.
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