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The Boys are Back in Town!

After storming nights in 2022 & 2023, the Boys are back in Jersey for 2024

Sunday 5th May 2024

This powerful show has everything you need for the ultimate ladies night out in this fantastic tribute to Magic Mike!

Get ready for a wild one and experience the atmosphere of a fun Vegas strip show with all the sounds of the best 90’s & 00’s R&B Classics.

Expect back to back sexy dancing, playful interactions and a whole variety of action from our talented Magic Mike Tribute Show!

Ladies! You’re in for a treat!

Doors open 7pm / Shows starts at 8pm

£37.50 – Stage Area

£30.00 – Raised Area (GENERAL ADMISSION)

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At The Royal Yacht, a truly memorable experience awaits you. Modern decor with a cosmopolitan flair flows throughout the hotel, restaurants, and spa, complemented by tasteful nautical elements. With an award-winning spa, three diverse restaurants, four bars and a gym, at The Royal Yacht you've got everything under one roof, as well as two amazing penthouse suites for the ultimate in sunset views.

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Published on January 7th, 2022 | by Editor

American Magic and NYYC reunite

Published on January 7th, 2022 by Editor -->

Newport, RI (January 7, 2022) – American Magic, which represented New York Yacht Club in the 36th America’s Cup, revealed today that they will continue this alliance against the field of challengers and the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand for the next edition in 2024.

Normally, this would hardly be news if not for what preceded it.

The USA team famously flamed out in 2021, showing much early promise before poor tactics and a hull crushing capsize had them as the first eliminated challenger. This was not what anyone anticipated, certainly not the club which launched the America’s Cup and was returning after a decade and a half away.

Motivated to influence the direction of the competition, New York Yacht Club couldn’t have done much less.

After the successful Kiwi defense, it was four months later when New York Yacht Club surprised American Magic (literally!) and formed an alliance with the Stars+Stripes team founded by members Mike Buckley and Taylor Canfield for the 37th America’s Cup.

As American Magic owned all its own assets, this shift had the appearance of a club seeking to be more in control. New York Yacht Club remained eager to help shape the future of international sport’s oldest competition, and saw this new partnership as how to do it.

The Stars+Stripes team had partnered with Long Beach Yacht Club for the 36th America’s Cup, yet a lack of funding failed to get a boat in the water. But Buckley and Canfield were not quitters, and with the support of the New York Yacht Club, maybe everyone could get what they wanted this time. Following that announcement in July 2021, it was another three months later when New York Yacht Club decided against contesting the next America’s Cup . Again, this caught their team by surprise (this time, Stars+Stripes) which now needed a club to enter. So did American Magic.

With the entry period to open December 1, NYYC was not content with the clarity regarding the venue, timing and rules for the 37th America’s Cup, and feeling as if the clock was running out for a successful defense, they pivoted so as, in their words, to act in the best interests of the membership.

It’s hard to say if there is more to the story, as not long after that October 2021 announcement, there was the rare occurrence wherein New York Yacht Club Commodore Christopher J. Culver would not be serving the second of his two year term. And now with Paul M. Zabetakis, M.D. as the Commodore, the New York Yacht Club is back in the game.

“We are extremely excited to continue our quest to regain the America’s Cup with American Magic,” said Zabetakis. “Upon receiving the Protocol for the 37th Match, we were pleased to find that it contains elements advocated for by the Club last spring .

“In addition, the Executive Committee recently received a new proposal from Doug DeVos and Hap Fauth, American Magic principals and Club members, that warranted reconsidering our earlier decision to pause our pursuit of AC37.”

A renewed mutual desire to have American Magic sail on behalf of the Club and commit to a campaign for at least two consecutive America’s Cup cycles, prompted the Club and team to join forces for the 37th America’s Cup.

“While the result in Auckland was not what we had hoped for, skipper Terry Hutchinson and the entire team were tremendous ambassadors for the Club and displayed exemplary sportsmanship throughout the campaign,” says Zabetakis.

“The America’s Cup remains the highest peak in sailing and one of the most difficult challenges in the world of sport. The lessons learned during our previous campaign, combined with American Magic’s physical and intellectual assets and a commitment to multiple cycles, will ensure this challenge a strong chance to claim sailing’s ultimate prize.”

While it is uncertain as to the status of the Star Stripes team, American Magic has stayed the course since their defeat, building on that experience to put forth a better effort in the 37th America’s Cup.

“We intend to compete in AC37 and are hungry and highly motivated to be the most innovative team on and off the water,” remarked Hap Fauth, Principal for American Magic. “We are proud of how our team rebounded during AC36, but we have unfinished business and are committed to investing in technology, design, innovation, and talent so we are best positioned to bring the America’s Cup home!”

Following the publication of the AC37 Protocol and AC75 Class Rule on November 17, the entry period opened December 1, 2021 and runs until July 31, 2022, but late entries for the 37th America’s Cup may be accepted until May 31, 2023. The Defender is to announce Match Venue and approximate event dates on March 31, 2022. – https://www.americascup.com/en/home

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Magic Miles

Magic Miles is a beautifully crafted and impeccably maintained luxury cruiser/racer sloop hailing from Tasmania. From the drawing board of renowned French designer, Philippe Briand, she was built in 1985 and underwent a major refit in 2007-2008. Owner Mike Crew owns the Theatre Royal Hotel in Hobart.

Primarily used for corporate match racing on the Derwent River in Hobart and for select private charters in the southern waters of Tasmania, Magic Miles is the same design as another Hobart based yacht, Dr Tony Fisher’s Helsal IV, which last raced to Hobart in 2008. The heavy yacht, more designed for creature comforts and cruising, finished 67th out of 92 on line. In last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart she finished seventh in PHS Division 1.

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The famous cutter Westward will join Black Magic in leading the fleet.

The historic cutter Westward will lead next Saturday’s Opening Day fleet on the River Derwent to mark the upcoming 75 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race,  joining Bellerive Yacht Club Commodore Graham Mansfield’s Black Magic at the head  of the expected fleet of more than 200 boats,  ranging from kayaks to ocean racing yachts.

The following Monday, Westward will be moored at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and the RYCT’s launch of the 75 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.   She may also be on station off Castray Esplanade for the finish of the Sydney Hobart Race.

Now part of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania’s floating exhibits in Constitution Dock, Westward won the 1947 and 1948 Sydney Hobart Races as well as the inaugural Maria Island Race in 1947. 

Originally owned by George Gibson, Westward was designed and built by the legendary Jock Muir who was sailing master in her ocean racing victories.

The Huon pine-built 42-footer is the only Tasmanian yacht to have twice won the Sydney Hobart Race, making her debut on the Derwent on Opening Day 1947, 72 years ago this month.

Queensland yachtsman Stan Field owned Westward for 55 years, cruising the Pacific,  before he gifted her to the Museum.  A crew of Museum members, headed by Captain Mike Webb, sailed her from Maryborough back to Hobart in 2010.

Saturday’s Opening  Day Parade of Sail will start at 2.00pm from off the Hobart Regatta Grounds, with the fleet proceeding under sail and/or motor into Sullivan’s Cove where the Governor of Tasmania, Her  Excellency The Honourable Professor Kate Warner AC, will take the salute from aboard the motor launch Egeria.

The fleet, usually ‘dressed ship’ with colourful pennants and ensigns, will then sail to a rendezvous for the traditional raft-up, signalled at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Derwent Sailing Squadron and Bellerive Yacht Club according to the weather forecast for the afternoon.

The first race of the season, the RYCT’s 20 nautical mile Channel Race, will be held the following day, Sunday, 6 October with the first Combined Clubs Summer Pennant race day the following Saturday, 12 October.

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Mike Sanderson: Three decades of racing Maxi’s

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From New Zealand Endeavour to Bella Mente: Mike Sanderson on his three decades maxi racing.

In yacht racing circles he is best known for skippering  ABN AMRO One  to victory in the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race, and more recently in the industry as the new owner of Doyle Sails, but, as a sailor, for almost three decades Mike Sanderson has been involved in more consistently top level maxi racing yacht projects than perhaps anyone. Moose, as he is known, spoke to the International Maxi Association about his trail-blazing career.

There was some consternation when in 1988 a 17-year-old Sanderson quit the top public school he was attending in his native Auckland a year prematurely in order to become a sailmaker. This, he rightly anticipated, would be step one towards his ultimate aim of becoming a professional sailor. His inspiration came through this being the first halcyon era of Kiwi yachting: the Chris Dickson-led Kiwi Magic had proved an exceptional challenge for the 1987 America’s Cup, comfortably winning the round robin stage, while offshore Peter Blake was mounting his  Steinlager  campaign that would go on to win every leg of the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race.

Having been perpetual runner-up to  Steinlager  with his Fisher & Paykel, skipper Grant Dalton was not going to be outgunned again and for the 1993-94 race entered the ultimate (and final) Whitbread maxi ketch,  New Zealand Endeavour . Recommended to Dalton by his former navigator Murray Ross, a 21-year-old Sanderson managed to hitch a ride as a trimmer/driver, in awe at sailing alongside many of his heroes from  KZ7  and  Steinlager . At the time, the round the world race was still relatively untainted by safety measures such as ice gates or commercial pressures to visit Asia, but uniquely, for anti-aparteid reasons, was the one race to miss Cape Town – instead its second leg was a giant from Punta del Este, Uruguay directly to Fremantle, Australia. As Sanderson recalls: “We ended up really far south with icicles on deck and the wind gear freezing and very early Gore-Tex type wet weather gear which leaked like a sieve. And we broke the mizzen on that leg. We still led for a long time but finally we got mowed down by Merit coming into Fremantle.”

Despite the new spritely water ballasted Whitbread 60s nearly beating them on the water, loudly sounding the death knoll for the IOR maxis, it was nonetheless a fantastic end-of-era experience for the impressionable Sanderson. “We did something like 26 knots, but the maxi ketches were ridiculously contorted slave ships! We had around 23 sails on board, five or six different mizzen staysails alone, so it was a constant peeling frenzy all the way around the world, with guys out on the end of the spinnaker poles, dip pole gybing and some very nice Kevlar panelled sails!”

Alongside another Whitbread with Dalton again four years later on the Whitbread 60 Merit Cup when, aged 26, he was watch captain, the late 1990s were an intense period for Sanderson’s maxi yacht sailing. With Dalton he continued on to the relatively short-lived Grand Mistral/Maxi One Design circuit – initially an attempt by Swiss round the world maxi skipper Pierre Fehlmann to set up a one design oceanic racing circuit in identical water ballasted Farr 80s, the fleet eventually owned by Ernesto Bertarelli prior to his America’s Cup involvement.

Sanderson sailed on board the all-black Frers 93 Stealth while she was in the USA, training for a transatlantic record attempt that ultimately never happened. At a time when her owner, the ‘King of Italy’, renowned Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli, was regularly on board: “It’s been amazing watching these Ford versus Ferrari documentaries recently and seeing what a legend he was.” He also got a taste of Californian turbo sled competition, competing on board Robert McNeill’s Reichel-Pugh 75 ULDB  Zephyrus IV , which not only won but set a course record for the Cape-Rio Race in 2000.

Significantly in 1999 he was part of the crew, led by Chris Dickson, on Larry Ellison’s all-conquering Farr 79 ILC maxi  Sayonara ,  consecutive winner of the Maxi Worlds between 1997 and 1999 – also at a time when Ellison was regularly competing.  Sayonara  was Ellison’s first boat after he had been introduced to Bruce Farr and Geoff Stagg, plus Team New Zealand by David Thompson, a Kiwi sailor living in San Francisco who went to the same gym as Ellison. This was how many of the Kiwi legends such as Brad Butterworth ended up racing with Ellison between their victorious 1995 and 2000 America’s Cups. Aside from her star crew,  Sayonara ’s success says Sanderson lay in a very well run program by Bill and Melinda Erkelens, working with the Farr office to optimise her IMS rating from regatta to regatta. It was allegedly while having dinner aboard Ellison’s superyacht  Katana , while at Antigua Sailing Week that Team New Zealand’s Tony Rey (aka Trey) first suggested to Ellison that he should get involved in the America’s Cup. “Larry was most put out because lots of our guys went to sail at Oracle, but not Trey, who stayed at Team New Zealand…”

Racing on  Sayonara  led to Sanderson getting the position of main sheet trimmer on Oracle BMW Racing, Ellison’s first challenge for the America’s Cup in Auckland in 2003.

But Sanderson’s most consistent maxi yacht program, which began at this time, is Robert Miller’s Mari-Chas. In 1997, Miller was in the process of graduating up from his Frers 92  Mari-Cha II  (subsequently Bristolian) to a new 47m Briand ketch,  Mari Cha III . At the time she was in construction at Sensation Yachts in New Zealand and the story goes that Miller’s long term project manager and boat captain Jef d’Etiveaud had phoned North Sails in Auckland and the receptionist had called out to the boss Tom Dodson “I’ve got a guy on the phone who’s building a 47ft ketch”. Believing it to be a more modest craft, Dodson had passed it on to Sanderson as their ‘ketch expert’. “I didn’t say anything to anyone but I got in my car and drove out to Sensation to meet Jef and here, 23 years on, the rest is history!”

The  Mari Cha  campaign was especially attractive for Sanderson as it was both inshore and offshore. Following his Whitbread on Merit Cup, Sanderson and leading Kiwi bowman Richard Meacham, found themselves the lone English speakers, alongside the owner Robert Miller, on  Mari-Cha III  when she broke the monohull transatlantic record, from New York to the Lizard, in 1998. Given his credentials, despite still only being in his 20s, Sanderson from then on became  Mari-Cha ’s racing skipper and he was able to become deeply immersed in the design team that created Miller’s next, even more extreme maxi. While his previous yacht had a full luxury interior, the new 42m long yacht was stripped out, fitted with a canting keel (and a 10 tonne bulb) and rigged as a schooner. At the time of her launch at JMV Industries in 2003,  Mari-Cha IV  was the world’s longest (and soon to be fastest) racing monohull.

“That was a very cool project,” recalls Sanderson. “One of the key drivers at the time was how big we could build 3DL mainsails – so we had the option of a 100-110ft sloop or a 130-140ft schooner.” Running simulations on the transatlantic record course it became very obvious that longer was faster. Most impressively, just two months after her launch in France,  Mari-Cha IV  demolished the monohull west to east Transatlantic record setting a time of 6 days 17 hours 52 minutes and 39 seconds (18.2 knots average) that would stand for another 13 years. “The stars aligned for us at every point,” Sanderson recalls. “We had a fantastic crew [including many of the French Vendée Globe and multihull sailor rock stars], the owner had a great time, we didn’t break anything of any substance. All in all it was a roaring success.”

During the record she had also set a new monohull 24 hour record of 525 miles, becoming the first monohull to break the 500 mile/day (20.8 knot) barrier – although today monohulls are achieving this sailed singlehanded!

Mari-Cha IV ’s collosal size also held other benefits. Sanderson recalls: “If we got caught without being able to peel or if we’d broken something and we had to do a bare-headed change that boat would still happily tick along at 17 or 18 knots while you were getting ready.”

Miller and his crew subsequently went on to win the Rolex Transatlantic Race from New York to the Lizard and on to Cowes in 2005, marking the centenary of the New York Yacht Club’s famous race for the Kaiser’s Cup, won by Charlie Barr and the three masted schooner  Atlantic .

While  Mari-Cha IV  has long since sold (now renamed Samurai, she has been detuned and refitted by Royal Huisman with a superyacht interior), Miller, albeit now well into his 80s, continues to race and cruise with his family and his long standing team, including Sanderson, on board  Mari-Cha III.  The slippery giant ketch received a significant make-over in 2017, which involved adding 3m extra to the main and mizzen masts and fitting square-topped mainsails, EC6 composite rigging and halyard locks. “The boat is now an ORC weapon in my opinion,” says Sanderson. “We were very unlucky not to win the Superyacht Cup in Palma that year.”

While Sanderson made a brief foray into the IMOCA 60 class, with a new boat designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian and backed by Andrew Pindar, his greatest achievement as a sailor came when he was recruited to skipper  ABN AMRO One , the Dutch-flagged Volvo Open 70 in the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race. He recalls: “There was a lot of pressure, but we were also given every opportunity – we wanted for nothing, we had no restrictions on crew, we could train wherever in the world we wanted to, we could build two boats, we had a great sail budget and a great, great bunch of people right from the start.”

ABN AMRO One  dominated the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race, the first for the new generation Volvo Open 70s, winning six of its nine legs. But it was also a rollercoaster of highs and lows – on the one hand getting married to Emma Richards with his crew all acting as grooms at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, on the other the sad sad loss of popular Dutch crewman Hans Horrevoets from on board the ABN AMRO ‘youth boat’ during the Transatlantic leg, something which he admits haunts him to this day.

In part two of this article – to be published on Monday May 10  th  – Sanderson discusses his part in Hap Fauth’s multiple Maxi 72 World Championship winning  Bella Mente  campaign, his acquisition of Doyle Sails and how he believes the pandemic is going to affect the pro sailing world.

(By James Boyd / IMA)  https://bit.ly/2WcLUQ6