Contents August 2016 FEATURES
4 Find the good problems With NATHAN OUTTERIDGE on the team BRIAN CONOLLY is not short of good feedback
24 A delicate balance But TP52 and Maxi72 manager ROB WEILAND is just the sort of benign dictator to pull it off...
Step up Italian entry Tarantella has a moment during an inshore race at the 1971 Admiral’s Cup; reviving the greatest offshore team event continues to cause grey hairs for those who keep the torch alight. Rob Weiland makes the interesting point in this issue (pg24) that there is certainly no less money nor in reality time around these days than 45 years ago, so is it the lack of a universal rating system that prevents owners getting excited about representing their country? Just in the UK, 27 boats entered the 1971 Admiral’s Cup team trials of which 15 boats were built new that year just for the event. The introduction that year for the regatta of the IOR rule had also prompted a jump in entries from 33 boats in 1969 to 51 boats arriving in Cowes for the 1971 edition. Certainly today there are now two rules in common use around the world, divided by geography; meanwhile the Admiral’s Cup – back at the RORC’s London clubhouse – only sees daylight when it’s brought out of storage for polishing. There are always ideas in the air for a Cup revival, with growing numbers suggesting it is now time to just put the trophy up for international challenge by a boat or boats, initially using existing Cowes Week races together with the Fastnet. You can’t ever relaunch an event at the top but if the prize is prestigious enough you will eventually get there. Today what is encouraging is that while the ORC and IRC remain different rules, the boats produced are finally converging. The best ORC boats are still heavier than a modern IRC racer but the two are getting closer. It will only take a few more boats to win trophies under both systems and the designers will deliver a solution that the rulemakers struggle with
COVER: Jonathan Eastland/Ajax/DPPI INSET: Daniel Forster
28 The life of a sails man Of course there is a great deal more to three-time America’s Cup winner TOM WHIDDEN than that – as SEAN MCNEILL finds out
32 It had to happen Reichel/Pugh make their long-awaited move into large offshore performance multihulls. TONY BEALE
34 Changing guard, changing
philosophy? As MARK TURNER settles in as Volvo Ocean Race CEO, race-winner IAN WALKER puts forward some thoughts about future editions
38 This game has changed As the World Match Racing Tour follows the Cup onto two hulls, ANDY RICE finds that some of the old-school moves can still come in very handy
40 How fast? BRUNO ZIRILLI and ROB WEILAND debate the battle for supremacy between TP52 and Maxi72
44 Growing story – Part 2 BRITT WARD, CHARLES BERTRAND and BRETT BAKEWELL-WHITE offer some designer opinion on the Dynamic Stability System
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter MICHAEL BOYD
9 Editorial ANDREW HURST
10 Update
With events slipping on and off the AC World Series programme JACK GRIFFIN looks at logistics and practicalities, PETER HOLMBERG is a big fan of ‘not broke-don’t fix’ and TERRY HUTCHINSON on filling the America’s Cup void
14 World news
The last pre-Vendée dance, Cowes awaits this year’s rosbif vs froggy shuffle, ‘Anarchy’ strikes in Auckland, Newport shrugs off those supposed rating dilemmas and skiff champion DAVE WITT prepares for the next (rather big) challenge. DOBBS DAVIS, IVORWILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER
22 Rod Davis
Don’t expect to make too many friends when you’re in charge of the selection process for your country’s Olympic sailing team
26 World Sailing Keep looking forwards. RICHARD ASPLAND
27 ORC column And the world of offshore handicap racing seems to be in surprisingly rude health. DOBBS DAVIS
47 Design – Elegantly targeted Two-handed offshore sailing is one of the biggest growth areas in the sport and so the Ofcet 32 shorthanded IRC racer is a timely new offering. YANN DUBE, ERIC LEVET and JOE LACEY
50 Seahorse regatta calendar
52 Seahorsebuild table – Everywhere you look ROLAND GAEBLER joins the foiler revolution
56 RORC news EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
75 Sailor of the Month Different eras but two extraordinary yachtsmen
Julien Pulvé
crosses the line in Guadeloupe to take 2nd overall in the Series division in the last Mini Transat. The first two Series finishers were Ofcet 650s (pg47) designed by Marc Lombard. Pulvé finished 3hr behind class winner Ian Lipinski’s own Ofcet 650. The first Proto covered the 4,000nm course a little over two days faster than Lipinski’s Series division winner
CHRISTOPHE BRESCHI
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