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Tom Slingsby was not a happy camper after Oracle lost the America’s Cup. Now he wants to win it back – but for Australia
Sue Platt & Lizzie Ward EUROPE
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery
Rob Weiland
Torbjörn Linderson Andy Rice
Giuliano Luzzatto Jocelyn Blériot
Frederic Augendre
USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis
Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis
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Ian Lipinski has had an incredible run of success in the Mini 6.50s, though his Transat victory was harder fought than he expected
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Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe Rob Mundle
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COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis Ken Read
Simon (SiFi) Fisher is one more addicted Volvo racer. This time around he is navigating on early front runner, Vestas 11th Hour
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Mark Towill is competing in his second Volvo race as co-skipper on Vestas after finishing 5th last time on the ‘kids’ boat’ Alvimedica
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Rolf Vrolijk is back in the TP52 game with two new designs this year. It’ll take a lot to cap his two Cup wins with Alinghi, however
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Commodore’s letter
20 months – two each way – and there is plenty of ocean in races like the Volvo Round Ireland Race and the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, both scheduled for 2018. Thoughts about our oceanic orientation were stimulated
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recently by some early Christmas reading of the rattling yarn about the world’s first yacht race across the Atlantic – the sensational three-boat contest from New York to Cowes in December (?!) 1866. Sam Jefferson’s lively book – Gordon Bennett and the First
Yacht Race Across The Atlantic – tells the story of the race among three New York YC schooners, Fleetwing, Vesta and Henrietta. The race was conceived on a drunken evening at the Union Club on Park Avenue and required each owner to commit to a wager of $30,000 – a prize pot of $1.35 million in today’s terms. Jefferson describes well the context of the race – taking place just after the US civil war during a period
Sid Briggs in later life. Briggs was the new skipper of George Martin’s Jolie Brise when she crossed the Atlantic in 1926 for the Bermuda Race. Briggs had a healthy respect for seafaring traditions and would not leave port on a Friday – ‘or the trip will be fraught with sailor’s horror’. Fastnet Race winner Martin was now the first commodore of the just formed Ocean Racing Club
of unfettered economic growth. Bennett’s family owned the New York Heraldand often created the news that they reported. Henrietta carried a stowaway Herald reporter. The first race had everything – a very tough long wintery
course, severe danger – no fewer than six men were lost off Fleetwing – and a close finish, the second-placed Vesta sacrificing her position to Fleetwing due to pilot error off the Isle of Wight, with Henrietta winning the race. RORC traces its own origins to this race and America’s sub-
sequent embrace of ocean racing; 150 years later we are offer- ing repeat experiences, but in smaller, drier and safer boats. Our programme includes the annual RORC Transatlantic
Race from Lanzarote to Grenada – underway at the time of publication. It has attracted two dozen entries and now benefits from four-year partnerships with Camper and Nicholsons and the Government of Grenada. The return passages will include the Atlantic Anniversary Regatta with the NRV of Germany, from Bermuda to Hamburg, starting in July. This race marks NRV’s 150th anniversary and already has over 30 pre-entries. Then there is our quadrennial Transatlantic Race from New-
port to Cowes in June 2019, organised jointly with the New York YC, the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club. By coincidence this race also marks the 175th for the NYYC. We should not underestimate the extent of the preparations,
organisation and commitment that go into participating in these great races, nor the significant personal achievement in completing them. Safe passages to all skippers and crews! My successor may transmit his initial epistle
from the transatlantic racecourse – an impossible task in 1866 and a possible first in this column. It would be interesting to know if he has a meaty wager on the race…
Michael Boyd Commodore
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ir Robin Knox-Johnston, to drop a name, has been known to joke that we should really be renamed the Royal Coastal Racing Club. Perhaps a glance at our race programme for the next couple of years may give the great man pause for thought. We have no fewer than four transatlantic races over the next
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