20 place between Dover and Havre on Saturday 19th July! The «Europe» days are still 25 and 26 July, open for all international R classes and the French national 6.5 class. Prizes of great value both in terms of trophies and cash are offered. The biggest yachts can also compete for an overall points win, here getting <strong>10</strong>,000 francs. One must say there seems to be almost a fixation amongst the amateur sailors and gentlemen yacht owners about the prizes, but I suppose that they, like owners of race horses, must have hoped to defray some of their vast expenses by emerging victorious. The trophies in silver were worth a lot, but the challenge cups had to be given back. The following competitors are mentioned in SEILAS: <strong>10</strong> metres NOREG ex ADORNA ex MAGDA VII, belonging to the Norwegian consul at Nantes, Carl Gutzeit, and TONINO, owned by King Alfonso. Schooner: the English MARGHERITA. 15 metres: King Alfonso´s HISPANIA and Ludvig Sanders´ PAULA III (Germany). 8 metre class: the Norwegian TAIFUN (Th. Glad), and finally the 6 metres Norwegian MOSQUITO (Magnus Konow and her rival the English CREMONA. MOSQUITO had lost to CREMONA in the recent one ton cup competion. However, when we look at the result list published by SEILAS (opposite) in early August, some of these boats are not mentioned at all. Only the results of the <strong>10</strong> m, 8m and 6 m classes are given, perhaps because Norwegian yachts are competing? In the aftermath there is no further news from SEILAS, no summing up or comments about the success or otherwise of the event. The big mystery is KLASSISKE LINJER NR.<strong>10</strong> MAI <strong>1999</strong> why no French yachts came up to Norway for Europe Week 1914. If they had competed at Kiel Week, as the English 15 metres did, the sail up to Horten would not have been an insurmountable distance. Was it the feeling of total Anglo- Saxon dominance that put the French off? After World War I had all but crippled France, the 1920 sailing olympics in Ostende only attracted a French entry in the 6.5 m class; their yacht was defeated by the Netherlands. There then followed the Norwegian challenge in the Coupe de France. I quote from my article in CLASSIC LINES November 1997 (No.7). «At this time, 1921, Johan Anker is on a family visit to France and meets French yachting representatives who suggest Norway should make a challenge. In 1922, when the challenge had been sanctioned by KNS, Johan duly visits Le Havre, and his 8 metre BERA beats Madame Heriot’s L’ÁILE 2 designed by Arbaut. The following year there is a return match at Horten: RANJA beats the challenger NAMOUSSA, and then beats COQ GAULOIIS and L´ÁILE 4 in 1924 and 1925 respectively. But in 1926 France finally gets her revenge; CUPIDON beats Ingar Dobloug’s ROLLO 2. Our club has this regatta on videotape, with film of Madame Heriot as a judge on her enormous schooner L’ÁILEE. In KL 4/96 Gustav Dietrichson gives an account of the challenges in Norwegian.» France, then, was a significant factor on the international yachting scene in the 1920s, culminating in the great victory of Virginie Heriot´s team on her yacht L’ AILE 6 in the 8 metre class at Zuidersee, the Amsterdam olympics of 1928. How about the 1930s? France was represented at Sandhamn Mme Heriot talking to her Norwegian host at Hankø, 1920s. in 1930, at the KNS 50th Jubilee in 1933 (see table of competitors in that article) and in the 1936 olympics. In 1939, in the Coppa d´Ítalia, again at Sandhamn, France reached the final with LE GAULOIS against ILDERIM, but the French boat broke her mast in strong winds. We may conclude, then, that French yachting remained at a top level until the Second World War. Even one or two Norwegian yachts were sold to France during this period (e.g., VINETA ex FIGARO 2, owned by Frank Guillet from 1935 onwards, see separate article). The history of the leading French designers remains to be told in English, but I am proud to present an article by our French ECYU representative in this issue, which is a start at any rate in opening up the French yachting world to those who cannot benefit from the no doubt copious French literature on the subject. Madame Heriot on her schooner L’AILEE.
Madame Virginie Hériot, died 1932. KLASSISKE LINJER NR.<strong>10</strong> MAI <strong>1999</strong> 21
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