Contributors EDITOR Andrew Hurst
DESIGNER Stephen Stafford
Santiago Lange may well have been the story of the Olympic Regatta, coming through the toughest of times to take Nacra gold
SUB-EDITOR Sue Platt EUROPE
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery Rob Weiland
Torbjörn Linderson Andy Rice
Giuliano Luzzatto Jocelyn Blériot Brice Lechevalier
USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis Dee Smith
Nick Bice was just getting ready for the big VO65 refit in Lisbon when news arrived that there was now a new boat to build
JAPAN
Yoichi Yabe Ken Toyosaki
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Mundle Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis
Grant Dalton is expecting a lot more than the media figure of $5million for having the Auckland AC World Series cancelled…
AC TECHNICAL Terry Hutchinson David Hollom Steve Killing Andy Claughton Jack Griffin
ACCOUNTS AND CIRCULATION Kirstie Jenkins & Wendy Gregory
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Philippe Poupon had won pretty much all there is to win in solo racing but his rescue in the first Vendée Globe was still a highlight!
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growing following. It is a pure form of competition, with reduced costs but new personnel challenges, and the unique benefit of a sturdy autopilot… often given a friendly nickname. The club has moved quickly to demonstrate our practical endorsement of the Olympic idea and will, during our 2017 season, offer a series prize for mixed double-handed crews and a special prize in the Rolex Fastnet Race. Of course, our move is not without self-interest. We hope that prospective Olympians will use our programme as a proving ground and that numbers of women participants will increase over time – adding to the number of mixed couples already racing en double with us, often with great success. We also hope that existing regular female crew, some currently racing on the all-women boats, will ‘graduate’ to the mixed two-handed discipline.
The selection of Olympic sailing classes has often been a cause of great controversy – we won’t get involved, as we don’t have a vote, but we will follow closely the selection process. Many detailed questions will remain – boat selection, the format, the duration and the course. If our experience is any guide, followers around the world will be glued to their trackers for the full duration. Imagine that – and an Olympic event taking place in the dark. Roll on 2020 or perhaps 2024! Meanwhile, lucky sailors are heading south – to the Rolex Middle Sea Race, our Transatlantic from Lanzarote to Grenada and the RORC Caribbean 600 in February 2017. We look forward to seeing them off… and welcoming them safely back! (PS We mentioned the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race above – race entries will open at 10.00 on Monday 9 January.)
Michael Boyd Commodore
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Commodore’s letter
stute followers of the post-mortems on the 2016 Olympic Regatta may have read the interviews with Carlo Croce and Andy Hunt of World Sailing, as well as that with Mark Turner of the Volvo Ocean Race. These authoritative sources raise the prospect of possible different classes for the next and subsequent Olympics, including foiling dinghies and a mixed double-handed offshore category. This latter idea had been proposed at one stage by Bruno Troublé, the French America’s Cup skipper and current RORC race participant on the very successful Pintia.
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The World Sailing concept envisages that sailors competing in other Olympic classes could also take part in the offshore races – opening up the possibility of double medals in our sport for the first time.
For obvious reasons RORC is very excited by the heady prospect of offshore racing in future Olympiads. We see many benefits to our sport, notably the rare guarantee of truly equal participation for women. It represents a great tribute to two-handed sailing, a seduc- tive aspect of RORC racing that is attracting a devoted and
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