Admiral’s Cup royalty… near as damnit. Peter Harrison’s updated 2015 Botín-designed TP52 Jolt 3 will compete in the Admiral’s Cup in July as a member of the team from Yacht Club de Monaco. Her all-star crew in Cowes includes multiple America’s Cup and Volvo Race winner Robbie Naismith, while the team’s smaller entry, the Carkeek 40 Jolt 6 (renamed Rebellion), will host other well-known faces including Imoca skippers Boris Herrmann and Will Harris as well as recent Team Malizia recruit Cole Brauer. And the royalty… Rebellion will be skippered in Cowes by Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi – son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
Of these designs the new Beau Ideal was designed specifically
for the Admiral’s Cup and is currently nearing completion at Carrington Boats in the UK. We worked closely with Gavin Brady
and his Beau Geste team to optimise the boat for the new Admiral’s Cup format within the Class 2 TCC limit. We have left no stone unturned, and the initial commissioning process should benefit from the team’s experience building custom IRC racers.
Max Klink’s Caro returns from Australia ready to defend the Fastnet Trophy which they won in 2023. This boat was further optimised for the latest Sydney Hobart race and the team is currently setting up a new base in the Solent to properly prepare for the Admiral’s Cup. Caro will be a very strong contender as always. The 56ft Black Pearl was the overall winner under IRC of the 2024 Aegean 600, has also been extensively optimised for the
Admiral’s Cup and will represent the NYYC. As the fleet’s largest yacht, if she can get her nose out in front early she could prove very competitive particularly in the inshore races. The new Wally Rocket 51 Django, owned by Giovanni Lombardi and skippered by Vasco Vascotto, will be making its international debut and the Italian team is currently busy preparing in Valencia. This new racer is extremely light for a 51-footer, adding water ballast for righting moment as required.
Moving up a notch
The Maxi circuit is growing every year and all IMA events are also now raced under IRC. Here too we have been busy designing and optimising Maxis for both Class 1 (TCC above 1.700) and the Grand Prix Class (TCC between 1.600 and 1.699).
The Grand Prix Maxi Class includes the Maxi72 racers and our office is looking forward to the launch of a new 70ft racer for the Django team. Based on the many optimisations we have carried out to our Bella Mente and Jolt 72 (ex-Cannonball) designs over the past seven years, we came up with a completely new and lighter IRC Maxi solution for Mr Lombardi’s team.
The Jolt 72 team has also carried out an extensive winter refit, upgrading many areas of the boat, while our 2023 world champion Bella Mente 72 will also shortly return to the Med. In the Maxi 1 Class we have been working very hard with further optimisations to Wendy Schmidt’s 85-footer Deep Blue. When we designed Deep Blue in 2018 there was hardly any other modern inshore/coastal racer of that size, but now Class 1 has grown considerably with new builds and with all of the Wally Centos now fully upgraded. The Maxi 1 Class will continue to expand as the racing is extremely tight and good fun for the owners. The IMA circuit is also particularly well organised, adding a new Caribbean event in North Sound that has proved a great success.
But the ‘big one’ is still the classic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup held every September in Porto Cervo, for which all our teams are training hard. Across the world in Grand Prix IRC divisions, no matter the size, competition is very healthy with more and more owners actively designing and building new yachts to the rule. Nevertheless, the existing fleet continues to age well, as boats that were designed specifically for IRC are being kept competitive with regular well thought out upgrades.
This is a huge credit to the IRC rule management through the years, keeping the rule stable while carefully correcting when nec- essary to make sure that any typeforming goes in the right direction. We need new racing boats to be designed that promote fast features and incorporate new technologies to keep improving the pedigree of the fleet, and this has been happening consistently within IRC since 2003. Fast is (always) fun!
Adolfo Carrau, Botín Partners SEAHORSE 37
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