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January 2019

Message from the Commodore

James Gubelmann

Dear 12mR Friends,

On behalf of the 12 Metre Yacht Club I wish you a

Happy New Year! It is with great anticipation that we
look forward to a spectacular summer of 12mR
racing at Newport including the 2019 12 Metre
World Championship and NYYC 175th
Anniversary Regatta.

The growing list of participating Vintage, Traditional, Modern and Grand Prix 12s reads like a
roll call of Olympic and America's Cup history. This auspicious fleet, crewed by an
international who's-who of racing sailors, will represent Australia, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, Italy, Norway and the United States. You will find the current competitors' list
here.

It is with equal measure of excitement and gratitude that I announce contributions from two
private foundations that have joined us in support of the 2019 12 Metre World
Championship. The Pitt Foundation has donated $25,000 in general support of our 2019
events and the Vetlesen Foundation, of Norwegian heritage, has granted $50,000 to
assist with the expenses of the Baltic fleet 12s coming to Newport for the Worlds. The
Vetlesen family was the original owner of Vema III (N-11).

Thanks to our 12MYC media and fundraising specialist, Chris Meigher, our 12mR Worlds
bars will be stocked with Stella Artois and Chateau d'Esclans wines including
Whispering Angel rose'. Chris is finalizing many other partnerships AND he has offered
deeply discounted advertising rates to our supporters in the July 2019 issue of QUEST
magazine, which will include the official 12mR Worlds programme. See details below.

Finally, to welcome our International 12mR compatriots to the 12 Metre Yacht Club, we
have sent each 12mR owner / skipper an embroidered blazer patch to enhance their dress
mess jackets while in Newport. (Additional patches will be soon available through our
website.)

The 2019 12 Metre World Championship, now just 166 days away!

Sincerely,
Jimmy Gubelmann
Commodore, 12MYC Newport
and your 12MYC Newport Station Friends

p.s. Please consider joining or renewing your 12MYC Annual Membership; with your help,
we'll continue to support the 12mR Class!

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12 Metre World Championship Press Release: January 23, 2019

Olympic Medalists Grael and Bank
to Battle Head-to Head at 12mR Worlds
Brazil's Torben Grael and Denmark's Jesper Bank, who have
eight Olympic sailing medals between them, will face off in the
2019 12 Metre World
Championship, joining
sailing royalty from around
the globe for the largest-
ever gathering of 12
Metres in the U.S.
Scheduled for July 8-13 in Newport, R.I. the
12 Metre Worlds is hosted by Ida Lewis
Yacht Club, the International Twelve Metre
Association (ITMA) America's Fleet and
the 12 Metre Yacht Club and takes place on
the same waters where the America's Cup
was held in 12 Metres from 1958 to 1983,
adding further historical significance to this
fleet racing competition planned for two
dozen teams representing seven countries in
four divisions.

Grael, winner of five Olympic medals (two

golds and two bronzes in Star class and one
silver in Soling class) will skipper Italian
Patrizio Bertelli's KA-12 Kookaburra II in
the seven-boat Grand Prix Division while Patrizio Bertelli and Torben Grael
Bertelli's second boat, US-12 Nyala, will (Carlo Borlenghi photo)
defend its
World Title from Barcelona 2014 in the four-boat
Vintage Division.

"I am looking forward to some action in these

beautiful and historical boats and to sailing them in
a special place like Newport," said Grael, whose
past 12 Metre experience includes winning the 1999
12 Metre Worlds in Saint Tropez with KZ-7 Kiwi
Magic (also competing in the Grand Prix Division)
and sailing Nyala in the America's Cup Jubilee in
Cowes in 2001.

Jesper Bank And while Grael adds relevant 12 Metre experience

to his accomplishment of being one of the
(photo courtesy of Jesper Bank)
most successful sailors in Olympic history, he
nevertheless has enormous respect for Bank's sailing accomplishments. "I know
Jesper well; we have sailed Solings against each other on many occasions. He is a
great sailor."...read more

SAVE THE DATE!

Your invitation to the best event of the summer will soon follow!
 Click here for details.
Click here to email Dinner-Dance inquires.

AMERICAS FLEET UPDATE: by Peter Gerard

WOW! Twenty-four plus teams have indicated their intention to
compete at the 2019 12 Metre World Championship! This will
make the Worlds the largest-ever gathering of 12s in the
United States.

Five days of great racing, great parties and a spectacular

Dinner-Dance will make for a fun-filled week.

Our friends at Helly Hansen Newport will soon be posting

their updated regatta gear catalog; this will be the time to order your official World
Championship logo branded team gear.
I'd like to thank Commodore Gubelmann and all of the 12 Metre Yacht Club officers
and members for their support and help. And in particular, we want to thank Kate
Gubelmann for organizing what we believe will be the social event of the year, the 12
Metre Dinner-Dance at Marble House.

Click for list of anticipated 12mR Worlds Contenders as at: 1/22/19.

Follow 2019 12mR Worlds blog for updates to your in-box

12 Metre Yacht Club Supporter:

EASTERNER (US-18): Gets A New Deck

Recently, Easterner owner, Scott Bernard checked in to let us know that US-18 is wintering indoors
next to Heritage (US-23) at Bridgeport Boatworks where she is undergoing a deck replacement.

The Easterner team is in need of a practice spinnaker, please email Scott if you are able to assist.

12 METRE WORD CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM

For a limited time, QUEST magazine, official
media partner of the 2019 12 Metre World
Championship, is offering deeply discounted
advertising rates to local businesses and
supporters of the12 Metre Class.

66% OFF
1/4, 1/2 & full-page ads

QUEST's July 2019 issue will contain the

official 12mR Worlds Program and feature
Newport-centric editorial content.

In print for more than 33 years and with a

monthly readership of 653,700 in print and
1.2 million online, QUEST is the monthly
journal of New York's new "400," covering
their causes and careers, the passions
that drive them, and the unions that unite them. It is a family magazine devoted
equally to shining a light on the glamour of past generations as it is to admiring
the sun rising over a new generation of readers and viewers. QUEST is widely
distributed in Greenwich (CT), The Hamptons, Palm Beach, Miami, Charleston,
Nashville and of course, Newport.

Click to e-mail QUEST Publisher, Chris Meigher for details;

but don't wait discounted space is very limited!

Charlie Morgan's Heritage: 1970

by Stephen Lirakis, 12MYC Historian

1970 was a very active year for me.

After returning from Nationals at the
completion of my college sailing
career, I joined the crew of that year's
Bermuda Race winner Carina. After
that, it was time to find a job! Paul
Coble offered me a position on
Heritage's shore team and I joined a
number of my former college sailing
competitors on the crew.
Williams & Manchester Shipyard, Heritage's 1970
home
 Charlie Morgan not only designed, built and skipped
Heritage (US-23), he also built the sails! Morgan
was the first to install a hydraulic lift in order to dry
sail his wooden 12 to minimize water-weight gain.
Unfortunately, Heritage suffered from the same
malady as Valiant (US-24). The trend was to
continue increasing displacement particularly aft,
remember the famous bustles? Even Intrepid (US-
22), re-designed by Brit Chance had moved in this
direction.

I was recently asked why I do not have more photos

from 1970. Well one day upon Heritage's return to
the dock after racing, I set down my camera to
handle her lines and never saw that camera again. --
SL.

12 Metre Yacht Club Supporter:

From the 12 METRE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BLOG:

IDA LEWIS YACHT CLUB: World-Class Volunteers

It was standing room only in the Clark e Cook e House's Candy Store for the Ida Lewis Yacht Club's
January gathering and 12 Metre World Championship Volunteer Recruitment event.

more photos

KIWI MAGIC (K-7) CREW: Fighting Fit and Ready for Newport!

12 Metre Yacht Club Supporter:

IT'S ROUGH ON SAILS AND SAILORS AT CUP JUBILEE

The New York Times: SPORTS, by Herb McCormick

Monday, August 20, 2001
(transcribed text below)
 ;
COWES, England, Aug. 19 - Shortly before setting out today in its capacity as the official flagship for
the America's Cup Jubilee, America, the 130-foot replica of the schooner that won the first Cup race in
1851- was hailed by a local sailor passing by on a small sloop.

"Look at all the trouble you've caused us," he yelled at the crew.

For British sailors, the main trouble with the America's Cup is that, despite countless challenges in
the intervening 150 years, they have failed to win it back.

But that did not stop the Royal Yacht Squadron, in conjunction with the New York Yacht Club, from
organizing an ambitious Jubilee regatta to commemorate that first race in the same waters in which it
was sailed.

And in cool, blustery conditions this morning on the Solent, the current-swept waterway that
separates mainland England from the Isle of Wight, the racing started for more than 160 boats in 15
divisions.

Conspicuous by their absence, however, were the 36 yachts entered in the three marquee
12-Metre classes, and the nine boats scheduled to race in the International America's Cup
Class fleet. With a building breeze that leveled off at a fresh 25 knots with gusts over 30, the
conditions were deemed too boisterous for the relatively delicate twelves.

As the day unfolded, it appeared that in the case of the 12-Metres, discretion may well have
triumphed over valor. Some 22 yachts retired from the racing, many with blown-out
spinnakers or damaged mainsails or jibs. In that respect, it was a good day to be a
sailmaker.

But it was a trying day for... read more

12 Metre Yacht Club Supporter:

 CONSTELLATION:
America's Cup Formula Includes Money, Genius, Craftsmanship, Patriotism
part 4

New York Herald Tribune

Paris, Friday, March 13, 1964 - pg.9
(part 4 ~ transcribed text below)

By Anthony Bailey- from the Herald Tribune Bureau

part 4: Olin Stephens continues...

Computers in Future "Soon I intend to start using a computer. Of course, you have to know what
questions to ask a computer or a tank, and the tank isn't perfect- it makes mistakes, which might lead
a designer astray. And it can't possibly show you every condition a yacht gets into. Although we have
rough water arrangements at Hoboken, they provide primarily for taking the seas head-on and that isn't
entirely satisfactory."

The best of Stephen's series of models provided the hull lines for Constellation and with that
conclusion the first and biggest of his headaches was over. The construction has to be supervised.
Rig, sails and gear arrangements have to be made. But a Twelve-Metre's function is entirely speed- to
comply with the rule and win races- and the designer doesn't have to make the compromises instead
upon by cruising boat owners.

Human, Fallible Crew He doesn't have to worry about- though he probably will- the time to come
when Constellation will be out of his hands and in those of a human, fallible crew. Crew- brilliant on
Weatherly, middling on Columbia- was a big reason why a Stephens boat did not defend the Cup in
1962. There is always a chance that his boat may have the edge inherent ability, and the helmsman of
the opposing craft emerge as a Vanderbilt or a Mosbacher.

These anxieties, at any rate, are premature. They concern the late summer days in the Brenton Reef
swell of Newport, and not the winter mornings, twice a week when Olin Stephens and his brother Rod,
the firm's field engineer, drive out to City Island to call in at Minneford's the yard where Constellation is
building.
Minneford's has in addition to its own men many of the skilled craftsmen who built Columbia at the
now shut-down Nevins yard next door. Paul Coble, who was Stephen's man-on-the-spot at Nevins in
1958 is assistant superintendent at Minneford's. Nils Halvorsen who lofted Columbia, is doing the
same for Constellation. He is a small, elderly Norwegian, springy and close-grained, a man who has
spent a long life in company with good wood.

Read more now or tune in next time for Part 5.

12 Metre Yacht Club Supporter:

2019 AMERICAS FLEET EVENTS

June 8 LEUKEMIA CUP

June 14 - 16 *** NYYC 165th ANNUAL REGATTA

June 29 - 30 ***NEWPORT 12mR TROPHY hosted by ILYC

July 6 - 7 *** PRE-WORDS at SAIL NEWPORT Regatta

July 8 - 13 ***2019 12mR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP hosted by ILYC

July 15 - 20 NYYC 175th Anniversary Regatta / 12mR Jubilee

September 20 - 22 12mR NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP hosted by ILYC

*** indicates Waypoints Regatta Series Event

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After several inquires from eager sailors AND in view of 12s
returning to the racing fleet that will need crew...

We are continuing to build our online CREW LIST for the

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Attn: Owners, Captains & Project

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Eleven candidates indicate 12mR racing experience! Click
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GOT GEAR? NEED GEAR?

Do you have extra 12mR gear
gathering dust in a container? Would you
like to sell or lend it to another 12mR
program just getting underway?

or

Is your 12mR program in need of

practice gear?

In either case, email us!

Based on your responses, we will set-up

a webpage at 12MYC.org to list pre-
owned 12mR gear wanted or
available in the Newport area.