Another 3 new owners during the month of July with

- Marc, on USA 208 in Redwood City, CA. Marc raced last week and already got 1st place! Congratulations !!

USA 208

- Peter, on USA 278 in Westhampton Beach, NY. Peter’s boat is currently being delivered from LA to NY. The driver, as we update the news is driving through Oklahoma. Peter’s boat will be delivered on Friday and will most likely be sailing over the weekend!

USA 278

- Diane on USA 279 from Marina Del Rey, CA. Diane’s boat is coming out of the factory on Thursday. Diane will be soon practice on her orange 5.70 out of Marina Del Rey. Diane, will you be all dialed in for the Harris Series at the end of August?

USA 279

Welcome to you all ! Enjoy the boat, the fleet and sail fast!

The International Open 5.70 Class organized from July 25th to 27th its first ISAF World Championship. In spite of summer vacations in France, 20 boats participated under the heat and mistral wind of Martigues, near Marseille, by the Mediterranean Sea. Teams from France, Spain and the USA competed with winds from 8 to 25 knots with major wind shifts during the entire event.

The U.S. this year were represented by:

Team Open Sailing / D.I.S.C. (Jerome Sammarcelli, Nik Vale, and Fabien Briola).
After finishing 12th in last years Coupe d’Europe Jerome & Nik returned hoping to build on it’s success and finish even higher in the overall rankings. Team Open Sailing was sponsored by D.I.S.C Sport & Spine Center – an invaluable resource and supporter of the Open 5.70 fleet here in the USA.

Team Open Sailing racing on USA 251, "D.I.S.C"

Team Festa (Rich Festa, Tony Festa, and Greg Dair)
This team recently won their second Pacific Coast Championship. They were also at the Coupe d’Europe last year and were fully aware that they needed to bring their A game to compete against the European teams.

Team Festa racing on USA 250, "X-Atlantic"

Team Tranquillo (Gimmy Tranquillo, Dylan Porter, Chris Slaggerman)
After recently relocating to Italy from Marina del Rey Gimmy traded in his Viper 830 for a good looking black Open 5.70. Every one on the team is an experienced sport boat sailor but since this was their first regatta on the Open 5.70 it was always going to be a real challenge.

Team Tranquillo racing on USA 224 "Catalina"

Martigue is known for it’s good breeze and racing took place on the Etang de Berre, a protected inland body of water, which meant that conditions were close to ideal for the Open 5.70. The winds in the area are driven by large and complex weather systems which makes them very unpredictable. As well as thermal wind from the Mediterranean there are also synoptic winds and “Mistral” conditions – the later two can be very strong, blow all night, and build or die very quickly. (more…)

The 3rd day started early and based on the previous day’s breeze we weren’t optimistic about their being enough wind to start racing at 11 – fortunately we were proved wrong and the breeze was up, way up, early. (more…)

Conditions on Sunday started light and as the 20 Open 5.70s made their way to the start line around noon a fresh thermal breeze of 8 – 10 knots began to fill in. (more…)

Registration opened at 10am and the first start was scheduled for 3pm. The wind was already blowing a good 20 knots from the North by the time we got to the yacht club. The wind continued to build as the race committee braved the conditions in the power boat to go out and take wind readings. (more…)

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The wind from the last couple of days had been blowing all day and all night and by this morning it had blown itself out completely and it was dead calm and ridculously hot. (more…)

The morning was spent rigging the Open 5.70s and making them race ready. Team Open Sailing also took the time to thank their sponsors by putting various decals on their boat. (more…)

Team Festa and Team Open Sailing arrived in Martigues, France earlier today. After visiting the yacht club, “CV Martigues”, it looks like it’s going to be a challenging weekend with what appears to be interesting European launching facilities and “Mistral” winds (Southern Frances equivalent of “Santa Anas”) blowing in the low to mid twenties.

Now that Open 5.70 has become an ISAF recognized class and with fleets growing all over Europe and here in the US it is only right that there should be a “World Cup“. The event is being hosted in the Open 5.70s country of origin – France. The racing will take place on the “Etang de Berre” in Martigues which is just to the west of Marseille. This body of fresh water lies adjacent to the Meditaranean and is perfectly suited to the Open 5.70 – relatively flat water with consistent thermal breezes which typically build to 15-20 knots everyday by the early afternoon.

3 teams from the US will be making the trip to test their skills against the best Open 5.70 sailors from around the world. Open Sailing’s own Jerome and Nik will be racing together trying to improve on last years 12th at the European Cup held in Saint Malo, France. Team Festa (Rich Festa, Tony Festa and Greg Dair) will be trying to carry some momentum from their Pacific Coast Championship victory across the Atlantic in order to claim some recognition on the world stage. The third US/Italian team will be skippered by Gimmy Tranquillo (a Marina del Rey favorite that recently moved back to Italy) with Chris Slaggerman and Dylan Porter (both Marina del Rey sailors and friends of the Open 5.70 fleet) as crew.