Paul Cayard Multi-tasking
Paul Cayard
Since joining Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s One Ocean campaign in 2017 as an ambassador I have been wanting to find something concrete to do… to play my part in helping the planet. I think I have found it. You know how sometimes something just strikes you? It can even be something you have been staring at for years
but haven’t noticed. That happened to me recently when I went in to pick up my dry-cleaning! Have you ever noticed the number of plastic bags at the dry-cleaners? Have you wondered what happens to them all? It made me ask the lady if there was a way to get my laundry without the plastic. She said, ‘Yes, just bring me some garment bags and I’ll use them instead.’ I did. Now I have eliminated laundry plastic from my life. It’s a start. Now I would like to work to eliminate all plastic dry-cleaning
bags. Each year 300 million pounds of plastic from dry-cleaners ends up in landfill. Eradicating plastic from laundries would be something tangible and, apart from the actual waste being saved, a visible campaign that could help the global war on single-use plastic. My thought is to start a campaign in San Francisco, my
home town, where I learned my craft and my love of the sea began. Rather than a random approach, my goal is to elimi- nate all such plastic in dry-cleaners in one major US city. Hopefully this would be newsworthy and capable of generat- ing awareness and momentum. Anyone who uses a dry- cleaning service regularly can afford $3 or $4 for an environ- mentally friendly bag that will be used many times. There are companies out there already selling them, but
talking about it and waiting for the public to ‘get it’ is taking too long. I am looking for a partner who believes in this idea, has the resources to make it happen and wants to get busy with me on this campaign. As a man who has lived his whole life on the sea, I would love to get behind a movement like this. You can easily start making a difference today. Simply take
your own garment bags to your dry-cleaners wherever you live – just remember to bring the bags back! Like the shopping bags you have got used to keeping in the back of your car for the grocery store. That’s what’s on my plate off the water. On the water I am joining the crew of Roy Disney’s Pyewacket for the 50th
anniversary Transpac. We have a top crew including fellow Whitbread winner Brad Jackson and veterans Gary Weisman and Ben Mitchell and ‘youngsters’ Mark Towill and Robbie Kane. There will be over 100 entries this year from the older classics to modern yachts like Comanche. It is a happening not to be missed if you are an ocean racer. I just finished racing in two great Star regattas; the
European Championship/SSL Breeze Grand Slam and the 2019 world championship. Ninety-two boats at Riva del Garda for the Breeze Grand Slam and 60 boats from 20 nations in Porto Cervo for the worlds. Robert Scheidt and Henry Boening narrowly won the Grand
Slam over Xavier Rohart while Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Bruno Prada won the 2019 world championship over Augie Diaz and Henry Boening. Henry had a good month! Yours truly got a respectable third in Riva and sixth in Porto
Cervo. The Breeze Grand Slam lived up to its billing with most races in the 15kt range. Seven degrees and rain were good for the local economy with a lot of money being spent on warm clothes and neoprene gloves. Twelve races were held in five days with four on the final day! That’s burning calories. In Sardinia the climate was much more agreeable, and the
regatta was mostly a light-air event. On the final day of racing, as the life of the first ever five-time Star world champion Lowell North was being celebrated at San Diego Yacht Club, Bruno Prada became the second! The Star class is as healthy as ever, thanks in large part to
the energy created by the Star Sailors League. The events, younger sailors from other classes, the media product, the competition, the venues are taking the class to a level of popularity not seen in years. Racing in spectacular venues like Riva and Porto Cervo doesn’t hurt either. Frankly, the Star is possibly healthier than it was as an Olympic class, when full-time campaigners dominated the events. Don’t worry, Finn class, your future just got brighter! Speaking of brighter, has anyone heard anything about the
America’s Cup? Is it still happening? Seriously, I hope someone brings international participation back to that event. Ten nations, 12 teams, spinnakers (remember those?), some of them exploding, dial-ups, one-second finishing deltas. It all seems like a dream now.
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The Star was dropped from the Olympics after London 2012 – just allowing Freddy Lööf to collect a long-overdue sailing gold medal with Max Salminen – but today it is in ruder health than ever. After the briefest of absences the inspired creation of the Star Sailors League in 2013 vaulted the class back to the top of the sport, with every aspiring sailing legend spending time in the boat preparing for the new pinnacle ‘champion of champions’ event. Among those racing in Porto Cervo was Juan Kouyoumdjian (right) who shares Paul Cayard’s lifelong passion for the class – Juan K also designed both the 2008 Star gold medal boat and the 2016 gold medal Finn
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CARLO BORLENGHI
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