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2024 Mallorca Six Metre Series
You are invited to participate in the 2024 Mallorca Six Metre Series, which will feature five regattas from March to July 2024 including the Trofeo Princesa Sofia and the Palmavela Regatta. To find out more about the series please contact Helena Paz on hpcornes@gmail.com for further information.
Celebrate the Centenary of the 1924 Paris Olympics
We are pleased to announce that the 1924 Olympic Games Centenary Regattas will be an opportunity to honour Louis-Charles Breguet, Bronze Medal winner of the 1924 Olympic Games in 8mR.
Charles-Louis Breguet is the common point that brings together all the Yacht Clubs of this centenary:
– The Cercle de la Voile de Paris as a member,
– The Société des Régates du Havre, for the 1924 Olympic Games,
– The Yacht Club de France as a member and vice-president.
He was also President of the Société des Régates de Dives and Founder and President of the Yacht Club de Deauville.
Industrial aircraft manufacturer, co-founder of the CMA (Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes), which would become Air Union and then Air France, descendant of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the prestigious watchmaking house, the engineer Louis-Charles Breguet owned:
Namoussa : 8mR – F3 Bronze medal in 1924.
Doris: 12 mR: – F1
Nitchevo : 6mR – (ex Virigine Heriot, Aile IV)
Namoussa II: 6mR – (first 6M with a separate rudder)
Namoussa III: 6mR – F62.
Namoussa IV: 6mR – F60
Namoussa V – 6mR – F83.
Magazine, documents and exhibition will be in place during the 1924 Olympic Games Regatta Centenary to present his work around the Metric Rule in the service of performance, demonstrating the link with the contemporary world of regatta
I am pleased to announce that the following cups will be created at the Centennial Regatta Awards:
8MJI – Louis-Charles Breguet Cup .
6MJI – Louis-Charles Breguet Cup.
These prestigious cups are put into play according to written rules.
To find out more about participating in the Centenary Regatta please visit https://www.centenaire1924-regate.fr/
INTERNATIONAL SIX METRE ASSOCIATION – OFFICIAL STATEMENT – 2024 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP VENUE
Dated: 19th of January 2024 – 5:17pm – UTC+1:00
This message is to advise members about a change of location for the 2024 European Championship.
This year’s European championship, which was originally planned to take place on the Ile de Porquerolles in late September and early October 2024, will now take place in Sanxenxo on dates as close as possible to the original dates planned for Porquerolles. A copy of the offer from the Asociacion Española Seis Metros to host the event, in conjunction with the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, is attached below. A Notice of Race (NoR) will be issued as soon as possible.
In planning for an event at Porquerolles, ISMA has been well aware of the need to publish a Notice of Race and started discussions last year with members of UF6mJI (the French Fleet) to agree suitable wording. UF6mJI were liaising with the Yacht Club de Porquerolles (YCP), and we agreed we had enough detail to pass the text to the YCP by the middle of December. YCP responded with a proposed NoR on 8 January, at which point UF6mJI commented: “this document only partially reflects the work that we have carried out together and for which YCP has always been informed”. ISMA identified a number of issues to be resolved which were passed to YCP on 12 January.
In subsequent exchanges, it became clear that YCP were unable or unwilling to make the changes requested or to discuss the matter further. In an e-mail sent at 1451 on Tuesday, 16 January, the President of YCP said: “We regret to inform you that we will not be organizing the 6 mJI European Championship scheduled to take place in Porquerolles from September 27 to October 2, 2024. Following all our exchanges, and unable to respond favourably to all the technical requests made to ensure the quality of welcome required for this event, we will not be able to ensure the organization of this event.”
The ISMA President was unable to contact the President of YCP until a telephone call on the afternoon of Wednesday, 17 January. In that call, it became clear that YCP’s decision was final and there was no room for further discussion.
Since YCP’s position became clear, ISMA officers have worked to identify urgently the safest alternative option, matching as far as possible the dates planned for Porquerolles to avoid further programme disruption. They have concluded that the most practical and certain alternative is to accept the offer from the Spanish Fleet.
Best wishes
Tim Tim Russell Louis Heckly
Executive Secretary ISMA President ISMA
FOR SALE – FIN36 – JOY
6mR “JOY” is looking for a new home!
During golden 30’s Tore Holm designed several six meter regatta winners. 6mR “JOY” is one of them with typical Tore Holm lines. These boats are very competitive when sailing upwind. With 6mR “JOY” you do not have to worry who is next to you at the starting line.
Year 2011 ended the 1st phase of the extensive restoration program of 6mR “JOY” which was done in M-Yachts, Loviisa. Everything was checked and no compromises were made. The syndicate wanted to restore the speed and glory of 6mR “JOY” as the first owner Hilding Silander planned when purchasing the drawings from Tore Holm and selecting the Wilenius Båtvarv as the builder. Even after the renovation 
project 6mR “JOY” still has some of the special characteristics of this magnificent boat which could be seen in pictures from 30’s like special shape of the aft opening and long rudder with special bronze fitting.
With current set-up and top condition 6mR “JOY” has proven been fast and competitive. Several regatta wins and even more podium positions in the large and competitive Finnish Six Meter fleet in the last ten years. For the World Cup 2019 in Hanko 6mR “JOY” got the new mast and the complete new set of Grand Prix quality DOYLE Stratis sails. Modeling of sails, rig and boat were done with most modern design programs in Doyle in New Zealand. In the
hands of even more competitive crew the result could have been even better than 8th out of 32 boats.
This summer 2023 6mR “JOY” came back from Cinderella’s four years dream and participated in the Finnish Championships. The final position was 6th out of 14 boats in the tough Finnish 6mR fleet.
Sail garderope:
– Main Sails: 2 * racing, 2 * cruising (Doyle, North Sails, UK Sails)
– Genoas: 4 * racing, 3 * cruising (Doyle, North Sails, US Sails)
– Spinnakers: 3 * racing, 1 * cruising (North Sails, UK Sails, WB)
– The form/shape and details of the Doyle sails (2019) were superb, but the canvas material was not 100%. Therefore, Doyle made complete new set of sails for JOY (Main, Genoa 1 and Genoa 2). These new sails are not used in any regattas yet.
Full TackTick Race Master wireless system for wind, speed, depth with two displays units and with two separate underwater probes (one for each tack)
Harken, Lewmar and Antal hardware.
Running rig almost 100% Dynema
Removable mounted GPS for cruising.
Build year: 1935
Designer: Tore Holm
Builder: Wilenius Båtvarv, Porvoo, Finland
Main dimensions as in the Certificate of Rating (August 11th 2023):
Overall Length 11,61 m
LWL 7,26 m
Sail Area 43,33 m2
Weight 4220 kg
Asking price: 50,000€
Contacts:
Ismo Hentula
ismo.hentula@procope.fi
mob. +358 40 8338002
Kari Loukola
kari.loukola@gmail.com
mob. +358 40 5040755
Sami Sailo
sami.sailo@kolumbus.fi
mob. +358 50 4872169
6mR ”JOY” is located in Kantvik – Kirkkonummi, Finland
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