Contents February 2016
FEATURES 4 A driver of innovation
Maritime chess... JOHN ROUSMANIERE looks ahead to the 50th Anniversary Bermuda Race
28 Kite strings
It will soon be 10 years since we first experienced the ‘boosted’ string-drop. MARK WISS
Good precedent
If the popularity of the Farr 40 during its first 10 years is any guide then the innovative new ‘Fast 40’ class in the UK has a decent shot at success. Around 150 Farr 40s were built in total, enjoying strong events even when campaign budgets started to escalate in the late ‘noughties’. Forty-foot is a good size for inshore and offshore racing; it is big enough to not scare off dubious offshore competitors but not so big as to demand prohibitive levels of expenditure. The model for the Fast 40 is the UK Quarter Ton fleet, where a large group of different designs enjoy the best of handicap racing by being forced into a narrow rating band. Handicap racing works best among similar boats and the Fast 40 follows this theme. Using IRC, small allowances will be given between different designs but the closeness in ratings should over time see handicap results mirroring the order on the water. This initiative will almost certainly be a local success on the UK south coast, with 8-10 existing boats and two or three more on order. If the racing looks good then other skippers looking for racing that is more serious than regular IRC handicap competition will join in. Of course, like the HPR40s in the USA, the whole thing will be blown apart by someone coming in with a new purpose-designed Fast 40 and a top programme. This is more likely than not and the whole thing will need very diplomatic management to survive such an assault. The bigger question is could such a class find traction elsewhere; at best the answer is ‘perhaps’. Every nation has different taste in keelboat racing and to ever bring everybody together inevitably still means a single international rating system
COVER: Luca Villata INSET: Jonathan Eastland/DPPI
30 Shock and awe – Part 2 A day at the races... that was pretty much all of the on the water action for STEVE CLARK at the Little Cup. But there were compensations...
34 Lots of horsepower Going big... in fact very big indeed
35 A sport of idiosyncracies –Part 2
Who would have guessed that foiling superstar BORA GULARI is also a very handy guy to have along when you go Scow racing. DOBBS DAVIS
38 Best of both worlds JESPER BANK keeps his focus upon usage
39 Happy 10th birthday MERF OWEN looks back on 10 years of success for one of the most important offshore classes
42 Busy guy
One man continues to fight to bring the different offshore cultures together... ROB WEILAND talks with a hyperactive ANDREW MCIRVINE
46 Closing the gap How well does CFD simulation really stack up against high quality empirical testing? JIM TEETERS and DOBBS DAVIS try to find out
50 Shine a light
Will solar power taken from your sails get you around the world? ALAIN JANET believes so
56 Welcome to M32 World Why one small corner of Sweden will never be quite the same again. ANDY RICE
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter MICHAEL BOYD 9 Editorial
ANDREW HURST 10 Update
JACK GRIFFIN on feedback, TERRY HUTCHINSON hits the buffet, ANNA CORBELLA opens the doors and Italian memories of VALENTIN MANKIN
14 World news LOÏCK PEYRON feels safe (at 30kt), FREDERIC DENIS in his Mini cave, the strong views of LUCA DEVOTI, (Maxi) kit of parts and Key West 2016. IVORWILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON,
PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS 22 Rod Davis
It’s not just about trying to win, it’s about trying to show everyone else why they are going to lose
24 ISAF Column ADRIENNE GREENWOOD
26 ORC column SHAUN CARKEEK and DOBBS DAVIS
52 Design – New horizons And Farr Yacht Design are (successfully) trying something a little different. EMERSON SMITH
55 RORC news EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
58 Seahorse regatta calendar
60 Seahorsebuild table – (Pretty) fast
Plenty of sail and plenty of righting moment. And plenty of style... UMBERTO FELCI
83 Sailor of the Month Two of our best performers – afloat and ashore
Powerful boats yet beautiful detail. The pit on Hugo Boss (left) is a pianist’s dream; bobbles control the numerous concealed clutches. Above: Merf Owen’s new Class40 Longbow features this immaculate rotating carbon sprit with integral clutches for the two tack lines
CLEO BARNHAM
BILLY BLACK
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