Contents October 2016 FEATURES
26 Keep a lid on things Collisions and draft limits –ROB WEILAND
30 The one great yachting improvement – Part II And off Long Island the tide is turning –JOHN ROUSMANIERE
34 Bienvenue Just perfect
Has one image ever better described Olympic sailing success than that of Giles Scott as he realises that he has secured the Finn gold medal in Rio with a day to spare. Scott would have been odds-on for Olympic gold at London 2012 too, had he not lost out in the GBR selection process to Sir Ben who duly delivered in his place. It’s been a long wait since that summer for Scott, who has won all but two of his major regattas in the intervening four years – in both of which he finished 2nd. It’s a dangerous thing to go to the Olympic Regatta as the sure-fire favourite, witness Australia’s six-time 470 world champion Mathew Belcher and crew Will Ryan who were beaten to gold in Rio by their always improving Croatian rivals... but Scott closed the deal. Meanwhile in the Finn fleet things continue to develop, as being unusually tall is added to the target winning criteria, along of course with great skill and enormous fitness (and Giles Scott is very, very fit, as his gym partners will attest). It is remarkable that, just like the Star before it, with the invasion of the Finnistes in 2001, a boat that has been around as long as the Finn can continue to see tangible jumps in performance. But as the sailors have got taller and the rigs even more sophisticated so the weight necessary to win in the Men’s Heavy Singlehander has drifted downwards, which is very healthy. Ben Ainslie was relatively light during his Finn career in the mid-90kgs (sometimes less) but now that is the norm. It’s a lot less demanding carrying a bit more ‘reserve’ on your frame upwind, but just watch the lighter, more agile sailors pump away into the distance after the top mark. Sixty-seven (sic) years on, the Finn still nicely defines Olympic sailing
COVER: Richard Landon INSET: Rosenfeld
Little-known outside his native Argentina it’s time to turn the spotlight on designer SEBASTIAN CARLINI... It’s worked here before
38 Citius – Altius – Fortius JUAN GARAY and PAUL HOBSON have long been at the heart of the UK’s extraordinary and enduring Olympic success in the Finn class. They talk sails with DOBBS DAVIS
42 TechStreet Star Sailors League, JUAN KOUYOUMDJIAN’s new ClubSwan50, TOM WHIDDEN and MICHAEL LEVITT have it all covered, Aston Harald widen the net. Plus networking in Malta
50 New bat new balls It’s not just about the new, more agile and faster America’s Cup cats, everything else is going to be different in Bermuda, in particular how the AC50 crews actually ‘sail the course’ – as BAR head of technology ANDY CLAUGHTON explains
52 Trickle up... MISCHA HEEMSKERK won all seven races at the A-Class world championship in a 118-boat fleet. Fair reward for three years of intensive development creating and then perfecting an all-new rig system
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter MICHAEL BOYD
9 Editorial ANDREW HURST
10 Update
America’s Cup the business, the sweetness of a home win, a grand prix week. Plus harassed in Porto Carras (hmm...). JACK GRIFFIN, BLUE ROBINSON, SIR BEN AINSLIE, TERRY HUTCHINSON, CARLOS HUERTA
14 World news
(Another) win for France, development is not always swift, round and round in Auckland, the shoreside challenge of the Cup and the welcome return of the Wizard of Santa Cruz. BERNARD NIVELT, IVORWILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS
24 Rod Davis With Olympian timing... this gold (and silver) medallist strongly believes that put simply the best should never be enough
28 ORC column – Deciding your champions
It’s not always easy to meet championship criteria... even for the organisers
29 World Sailing – Nothing like it Having survived intact CRAIG LEWECK offers an illuminating Rio perspective...
56 Design – Most of the fun
(less than) half of the price The quick success of the Fast40+ has prompted some interesting rivals. JAVIER SOTO ACEBAL
58 RORC news EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
60 Seahorse regatta calendar
62 Seahorsebuild table – Every detail Olympic success really does mean leaving no stone unturned – REMY BALZE, HDS-DESIGN
87 Sailor of the Month Extraordinary and extraordinarily influential
It’s not all sun, cocktails and Porto Cervo being a yacht racing photogra- pher... as Ingrid Abery reminds us with a shot from the IRC Europeans in Cork. This event had been kept on ice since 2003, but with plenty of fresh interest a much larger regatta is now scheduled for Marseille next summer
INGRID ABERY
PAUL WYETH
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