Contents October 2019 FEATURES
4 Behind you... CARLO BORLENGHI
32 On the sea Are wind-powered vessels returning to their historic operating habitat? ROB WEILAND
38 The impossible journey Windjet to Saildrone to oceanic data harvesting, a remarkable 20 years. RICHARD JENKINS
Glory days The late Raul Gardini’s Maxi Il Moro di Venezia glides past the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. Gardini’s Il Moro campaign would later go on to win the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup in San Diego before losing the America’s Cup Match to Bill Koch’s US Defender America3
43 Crossing an ocean Transpac by DSS was great but there were bigger lessons beneath the speed and glamour. GORDON KAY
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Two tycoons facing off against each other (sort of… Koch’s is largely family wealth and it later transpired that Gardini’s sponsorship by chemicals giant Montedison was not entirely what it seemed). But there is a useful point: 25 or so years after Il Moro’s losing battle against Koch’s science driven team, which produced the first narrow and slippery IACC yacht, the Cup has gone full circle again. During the years since there were many attempts to make the Cup commercially viable enough to encourage some more teams. The peak was Valencia 2007 when we had a brilliant Cup with 11 challengers, after which each team received a slice of a substantial financial surplus. Valencia was a flash in the pan… Most of the Cups in this period were private affairs between wealthy individuals with no prospect of financial payback; many of those individuals battled for personal prestige as much as national honour. Further, with every change of America’s Cup class yacht costs escalate and chances for new teams shrink, no existing boats to buy, no existing designs to develop. The 2021 Cup will be little different from America’s Cups of the 1920s and ’30s, private money funding some spectacular technical advances and with less reason than ever to share the drama with the outside world. Still, the boats themselves just continue to get more amazing. You can’t have everything… but knowing more about it would be nice
COVER: Carlo Borlenghi INSET: Maxime Horlaville
46 Foiling toiling The numbers continue to stagger the imagination but the market will always remain limited… ANDY CLAUGHTON
51 Friendship plus talent VINCE BRUN is the speed king. And the speed king is one of the most popular and respected racing sailors on the planet… CAROL CRONIN
55 A Vendée amuse-bouche A couple of tonnes of water where it really shouldn’t be… whatever. SAM DAVIES
58Multiple challenges How much new ground should you ever try to take on in a single project? NORBERT SEDLACEK talks to MATT SHEAHAN
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
9 Editorial ANDREW HURST
12 Update The America’s Cup’s steady march back in time, Maxi gestation, a special yacht is no more, back to the Candy Store and synchronised capsizing in Cowes… DON STREET, BOB FISHER, ANDY RICE, JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON
18World news The (flying) Imoca rush begins, an extraordinary gift for design, LOÏCK PEYRON tries something ‘new’, teach foiling while racing… not easy. Plus how has America missed the ‘boat’ yet again? CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, CHARLIE DALIN, PHIL ROBERTSON
30 Rod Davis – A lot going for it And he did literally write the book
34 ORC – Time to work Get off the beach and tell it like it is. MATTEO POLLI and MAURIZIO COSSUTTI
36 Super Series – Still king of the hill Twenty years later and the premier Grand Prix class is still exactly that. ANDI ROBERTSON
60 RORC news – Never a dull moment And a trip across the water with a difference EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
61 TechStreet
75Seahorsebuild table – Doing it yourself MATS BERGRYDis not a man to compromise
78Seahorse regatta calendar
103 Sailor of the Month A Fastnet tribute edition
Will Hugo Boss start next year’s Vendée Globe without any facility to steer in the open air? It’s an interesting idea from an innovative team; and potentially as significant a break with tradition as a bow that doubles as a snowplough. On Apivia Charlie Dalin (inset) turned down the extreme isolation; having spent years at the top of the ultra competitive Figaro circuit he could not conceive of nudging his boat along in light airs without his hand on a tiller and his eyes on the clouds. Hence the question
MARK LLOYD
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