How Time Flies - 38th Rolex Ihlabela Sailing Week - 10 Soto40s - Hundred of Yachts

Birth place of the Soto40 is the Rolex Ihlabella Race Week 2008. Now the class has grown to almost 30 boats and heading to another continent, Asia. 

Commotion at S40 promises to be one of the fiercest competition on this coast will be sailing from Brazil, Argentina and Chile The organization of the 38th Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week has confirmed the registration until moment of the ten boats for the class S40. The largest sailing event in Latin America will get crews in Brazil, Argentina and Chile to the races in the category, one of the fastest growing in the world ocean sailing. In the current champion of the event, the Pajero, the fleet will have the Brazilian Creole, Carioca Mitsubishi / Gol and Loyal.The Argentines will be represented by sailing in Ilhabela Noryema and Patagonia. As for the S40 will be Chile's Pisco Sour, Mitsubishi and Nuevo Acuario II Maestra.  "Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week was fortunate to find the way by bringing a class of large monotypes Ocean to Brazil and it has been the big star event in recent years." 


Eduardo Souza Ramos skipper/owner of S40 Pajero said, "The growth of the S40 class is evident in South America. Chile is has the highest number one country with ten S40s. In Brazil there are six boats, four in Argentina and Uruguay one. The class also exists in Europe (Audi MedCuP Circuit) with five boats and one in Asia", (launching in Japan in July). 


Said the director of sailing the Yacht Club de Ilhabela, José Nolasco, "The S40 has the best technology currently sailing on the ocean in the world. Therefore, the Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week encourages the class, who was born in Yacht Club Ilhabela, in a project set in 2008. Brazil takes a step forward in making the best ocean sailing of the continent to play the event on equal terms.  The importance is even greater because it will be decided on the South American Championship of S40 of the season, which first stage was held in January in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and the second is now in the Yacht Club de Ilhabela," . 


International level up in the trials - the main competition Latin America is breaking new ground and will have trials of protests in the water with 10 referees accredited by ISAF and the S40 class HPE25. The system is also used at events like the America's Cup and Match Race and TP 52. The group of umpires will follow the race closely and will judge the applications of protest in time, thus avoiding post-race settings in the Yacht Club de Ilhabela. 


Measurements of S40 - The boat is 12.3 m long, 3.75 m in breadth, 2.60 m draft, and displaces only 4,200 pounds. The crew is ten sailors. The Yacht Club de Ilhabela receive the Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week in period of 3 to July 9, 2011. The classes are confirmed: S40, ORC, PEH 25, J-24 and BRA-RGS.


The event is supported by the Navy of Brazil, the Brazilian Confederation of Sailing and Motor (CBVM), ORC Class, S40, and HPE25 BRA-RGS, and partnerships of the Yacht Club Argentino (YCA), the Municipality of Ilhabela (PMI) Brancante and Insurance. The organization, thirst and achievement are the Yacht Club de Ilhabela