Contents December 2015
FEATURES 28 From the top
The Maxi72s have come of age and the TP52s… three years ahead of the curve! ROB WEILAND
31 The Ullman magic – Part II More championships (now with lead attached) and sailing blindfold offshore. TOM LINSKEY
Brighter... may dazzle After several seasons of fluctuating regatta entries, interest in racing proper big boats is on the rise. From TP52s up to 100-foot plus supermaxis, more boats are being built and more owners are back on the campaign trail. There is also an encouraging if gentle pick-up in smaller one-off IRC designs making their way into the Seahorse Build Table, though this is compromised slightly by today’s irritating obsession with secrecy – hard to keep secret the building of a racing yacht, yet too many people for our taste pressure designers and builders to stay schtum. Privacy and Superyachts we totally get, privacy and a mid-size raceboat confuse! Anyway... many readers will remember the predictions of doom for the TP52 class less than two years ago; ‘had their time’, ‘good boats but it’s over’ and so on. Well they were all wrong, as Rob Weiland and his gang steered a real grand prix class into a new era, recruiting as they went. Similarly, but obviously growing more slowly, the Maxi72s are now breeding and already deliver very high quality competition, not at the TP52 level but steadily getting there; the prospect of seven or eight Maxi72s reaching the weather mark overlapped TP52-style and at full chat is as exciting as it is scary. Finally, more ‘medium’ size Superyachts are now joining in the fun at big regattas, which is good news all round; this size of boat sails relatively better than its much larger cousins and is also sufficiently manoeuvrable to dispense with staggered-start pursuit racing in favour of proper shared startlines. More real raceboats and more properly raceable large cruiser-racers are today visibly bulking up events like the Maxi Worlds. In fact it may all be starting to look rather good...
COVER: Ingrid Abery INSET: Ian Roman
34 A moment to reflect TIM JEFFERY and a fascinating introduction to the new America’s Cup establishment’
40 The Machete manifesto With generous foresight DAVID ‘Son of Cogito’ CLARK has just about persuaded us to get out the chequebook. Now see what you think...
43 Moving on
The first 10 years have flashed by; now there are not one but two new foiling cats on the horizon for the Extreme Sailing Series. ANDY TOURELL
REGULARS
4 Commodore’s letter MICHAEL BOYD 7 Editorial
ANDREW HURST
8 Update JACK GRIFFIN on the oil crisis hitting the AC50s, TERRY HUTCHINSON gives the nod to a good (young) man, a cruel month for Italy’s ANDREA MURA, welcome back SORC, plus HERBERT PEARCEY and not flying on modern aeroplanes
14 World news Twenty (sic) Imoca 60s come out to play, MARC VAN PETEGHEM on moustaches, first 100ft solo tri gets rolling, the prolific JIM YOUNG, SANDY OATLEY and those not so minor changes to The Oats…plus approaching the end of the tunnel. IVORWILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, DOBBS DAVIS
22 Rod Davis
ISAF, Rio 2016 and why things are not always as simple as they sometimes appear from the outside
24 ORC column
Good progress, but is the ORC rule yet to be tested in anger? DOBBS DAVIS
26 ISAF Column
And why empty fuel cans will no longer meet offshore flotation regulations. STAN HONEY
47 Design – Wings work! Many words have already been spoken but in Argentina NICOLAS GOLDENBERG and a strong technical team have been busy turning some of those words into deeds…
50 Seahorsebuild table – Forza! And MATTEO POLLI has come up with the latest iteration of the Italian racer-cruiser model
54 Seahorse regatta calendar
56 RORC news EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
75 Sailor of the Month Tenacious… and generous
The Herreshoff America’s Cup winner Reliance speeds past the Brenton Reef lightship in 1903. This extraordinary design was the biggest of the America’s Cup giants, measuring a majestic 201ft LOA but just 90ft on the waterline – as per the Deed of Gift. But look how easily Reliance’s waterline increases with heel – here she is already using nearly all of her hull length to achieve intimidating performance
NATHANIEL LIVERMORE STEBBINS
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