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Yesterday,\u00a0we had the pleasure of crewing aboard SAVANNAH, an “Esprit de Tradition” yacht in the Voiles St Tropez<\/strong>. Esprit de tradition yachts are traditional sailing yachts that have been upgraded to use all modern technology available while still retaining their original hull.\u00a0 Savannah, was refit in 1997 by Concordia from an\u00a0old hull\u00a027 meter hull in Savannah, Georgia. She\u00a0is owned and raced by Ciaran Caulfield and Hugh Morrison.<\/p>\n

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The Voiles St Tropez<\/a> is a glorious event, held the first week of October each year.\u00a0\u00a0Over 300\u00a0of gorgeous classic sailing\u00a0and modern sailing yachts (and an entire class of Wallys) converge on St Tropez to race, discuss sailing, party and generally oogle the beautiful yachts as they close out another summer in St Tropez.<\/p>\n

The weather for Saturday was predicted to be stormy, but the crew woke up to glorious sun pounding through the haze of late night partying at the “Cave” (St Tropez’ most exclusive nightclub).\u00a0 The sight of hundreds of racing yachts readying for the final race is amazing to behold – all in their yacht’s uniforms as they prepare the sails and discuss tactics for the day.<\/p>\n

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SAVANNAH’s braintrust, Hugh and Ciaran,\u00a0planning the tactics for the race.<\/p>\n

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The weather was quite calm, so once on the water, there was little to do but cruise around, check the sails again\u00a0and watch all the other beautiful yacht cruise by.\u00a0 At noon, the appointed start time, there was barely a breeze, so the race was delayed.\u00a0 The wind began stiffening, as it does so often, any by 1:00 there were 8 knots of wind.\u00a0 We got the warning gun at 1:07, signalling 9 minutes to start. Sails up, jockyeying for position – the calm was now a buzz of activity.<\/p>\n

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The typical pre race chaos ensued, and we crossed the starting line at 1:18 pm. Here we are as we cross the start.<\/p>\n

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It was not the best of starts, and our nemesis SHAMROCK, although starting behind us, had greater speed and better position, and soon passed us while covering our wind.<\/p>\n

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With gennekers up heading down the first leg, no other boats in our class (Esprit de Tradition) could keep pace with SAVANNAH and SHAMROCK – \u00a0it would clearly be a two boat race.\u00a0 Here you can see two of our class that we left behind.\u00a0 At the first mark, we were a minute arears of SHAMROCK.\u00a0 We began closing as we sailed back up toward St Tropez, but couldn’t cut the lead to less than 40 seconds.<\/p>\n

We crossed the finish line just over a minute behind SHAMROCK.\u00a0 The official results, with adjusted times were not live on the web site at the time of this writing (probably a result of too much partying last night), so we’re still waiting to see how we ultimately ended up.\u00a0 We had been 3rd in the overall, and were hoping to retain that spot!<\/p>\n

After the race, we took part in the traditional post race festivities, which included hitting the bar at the Cafe de Paris, and cocktails aboad the beautiful Hallowe’en classic yacht.\u00a0 When last seen, the crew of SAVANNAH were preparing for dinner\u00a0and another night at the Cave to close the club for the year.<\/p>\n

If you have a chance to visit St Tropez during the first week of October, it is highly recommended!\u00a0 Thanks as always to Ciaran Caulfield for letting me crew on his gorgeous yacht!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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