Early drawings also showed a winch pedestal for handling gennaker trim, but that was later taken off. The carbon Hall Spars rig includes halyard locks to reduce the need for jammers at deck level. Dubbed a YD37, Anarchywas immaculately built at Yachting Devel- opments, who finished her in record time – to meet the deadline of competing in the Jack Tar Regatta in March. ‘We completed the build in about 12 to 14 weeks,’ says managing director Ian Cook. The boat was an upturned shell on a Monday and fitted out and launched the Saturday of the same week. There was then one brief sea trial on the Thursday night before the regatta started the next day. Given the rush, nobody was looking too closely at results, and indeed Anarchy had to sit out a couple of races with teething troubles. But there were promising glimpses of potential; Anarchyhad periods in 12kt of breeze where she seemed to hold pace with her bigger TP52 rivals. And up against 40-footers in her own division, she was right in the mix.
Windward-leeward racing is not necessarily the prime purpose of this boat, Andrew Reid having a preference for offshore passage racing and two-handed events. Once the boat is commissioned and the requisite crew bonding has taken place, a fuller assessment will be possible. Meanwhile, the waterfront is pleased to welcome a new addition and will hope that others follow. Marketing it at about $NZ600,000, Cook says he is fielding enquiries from within New Zealand and abroad, but there will probably be the usual period of wait-and- see before potential owners reach for their pens to sign up… Ivor Wilkins
SPAIN
We met Pepe Ribes at the end of the Barcelona World Race. Ribes and Alex Thomson were the pre-race favourites on Hugo Boss, but they were once again reminded that to win you must finish... Seahorse: So what happened? Pepe Ribes: The 22mm shaft on one of our furlers failed. It hurts because two months before the race we paid for an expensive check of all metal components, including the furler, and they said it was OK. We have a lot to learn, because suppliers are still not able to give you much information about fatigue. The riggers warn you when to replace your rigging, but not everyone is as diligent. I was left with the feeling of having thrown away a year and a half. SH: How was that long preparation period? PR: It was in the UK which was new for me. It was not as easy as previous projects, a new country with rather different weather, food and a non-Latin character, but also being separated from my family because Imoca budgets do not allow your family to travel with you. SH: If you could, what would you change? PR: More training and testing. And we had practised a lot, probably more than anyone else in this race. But as a professional I always want more. Maybe then the piece would have broken before the start… SH: What was the worst thing about the breakage? PR:That you stop learning. You cannot check if your technical decisions were correct or not, like the sail plan configuration. You lose a cycle and in the Imoca class the cycles are long…
Guillermo Altadill (second overall on Neutrogena) SH: What about those radical new ice gates… GA: Those stages are now like 1,000nm sprints. It’s a new format, for sure, and it demands new strategic solutions. The gates require a margin to the ice of at least 1,000nm, so the course also becomes more northerly than before. SH: Are you happy with your result? GA: Yes, very! I owe a big debt to this race. I am from Barcelona and I began sailing here. I took part in the first Barcelona World Race, created by Andor Serra, Tomas Gallart and Joaquin Coello. All the big races are very important, but this one is really special for me. My aim was to finish the race without stopping and get in the top three. We finished in second place, but we had to stop in New Zealand. We even had a (slight) chance of winning. After the retirement of Hugo Bosswe were up with Cheminées Poujoulat– the difference then was only 190 miles. But what was impossible was to recover the difference lost when we stopped; in real terms that cost us four or five days due to the anticyclone when we restarted. SH: The best bit of this BWR?
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