Contents November 2022 FEATURES
4 Buck bang INGRID ABERY
28 Fundamental changes Where have all the big boats gone? ROB WEILAND
Took a while In 2021 Irvine Laidlaw’s Reichel/Pugh 82 Highland Fling was on course to win the Maxi world title in Porto Cervo before the rig came tumbling down at the end of the regatta. This year things went more to plan and Laidlaw’s regular, very experienced team finally topped the scoreboard. This particular Highland Fling – one of the many in the Fling stable spread liberally around the world – is now 14 years old; next year the same team will compete in Sardinia with their brand new 80-foot Gunboat cat. With Fling on two hulls next year and Flying Nikka showing the way with some breathtaking laps in Porto Cervo, albeit usually around a private course all of her own, inch by inch there is a small but growing coterie of Maxi owners looking beyond the conventional. It’s still early days, and we do not expect to see more than a smattering of the more maverick entries for a good few years, but things are stirring gently. One very competitive owner who went the other way in Sardinia was Skype founder Niklas ‘Rán’ Zennström who left his new Carkeek 52 and his all-conquering Carkeek Fast40 under wraps in the UK, instead joining two other Swedish sailors to campaign the ‘modern’ J Class Svea. With experienced J Class veteran Bouwe Bekking on as tactician, Zennström continued his winning form, Svea winning four races straight to easily win the J Class title ahead of Ranger. With a Fastnet to plan for on the team’s 52-footer, more pot-hunting on the world’s best Fast40 and now a J Class as well, if you see Zennström’s loyal project manager Tim Powell maybe offer to put the kettle on…
COVER: Ingrid Abery
36 Circus minimus – Part I With others like BUDDY MELGES, OLAF and PETER HARKEN, PETE BARRETT and the GOUGEON brothers, BILL MATTISON was one of the towering figures at the heart of US iceboat racing. And that was just the start of it… CAROL CRONIN
42 Building a boat Last winter GAVIN TAPPENDEN built his first 5.5 Metre. Nine months later it is the 2022 World Champion
46 Kings of the hill – Part I Sparkman & Stephens, Madison Avenue New York, Intrepid, Flyer, Courageous… a stream of consciousness that could run for ever. And JULIAN EVERITT was a part of the story…
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
12 Update Sometimes it just doesn’t go your way, Cup teams test the waters of Barcelona. Plus one-designs – the same car but still an old car… DAVE HOLLOM, TERRY HUTCHINSON and JACK GRIFFIN
16 World news A life of enthusiasm, the Imoca floodgates open,
while philosophies vary markedly, round the world on a donkey boat, now it’s the ladies’ talent factory, beautiful times in Oz. Plus back to ‘The Bay’ at last. JIM DAVERN, KEVIN ESCOFFIER, PAUL MEILHAT, MAGNUS WHEATLEY, DOBBS DAVIS AND IVORWILKINS
31 Paul Cayard
– Spanning generations No sooner has the 100th Anniversary Worlds ended than it’s inland for the Star class Vintage Gold Cup. The 1988 world champion enjoys an emotional ramble through class history
34 ORC – A little offshore? An offshore world championship that very rarely goes out of sight of land… enough already. DOBBS DAVIS
54 TechStreet 61 Seahorsebuild table
– Changing face Something a bit special for one’s fearless leader? SHAUN CARKEEK
68 Regatta calendar
72 RORC – Fairytale ending JEREMY WILTON
102 T-minus 30 Lessons from a tragedy. DAVE SCULLY
103 Sailor of the Month Fast, furious, tough, enduring… it’s all here
SUPERYACHTING 74 No compromise One hundred and ten feet of experience. KIERAN FLATT, MALCOLM MCKEON, KIM KOLAM
Miguel Fernandez Vasco of Spain is suitably happy as he crosses the finish line in the final race to win the European Finn Open title by 7pt from Italian runner-up Giacomo Giovanelli. Like the Star the Finn continues to turn out large regatta entries after being dropped from the Olympics, with boat values similarly staying steady. There are also many initiatives by the class to encourage more young sailors to try the Finn – Giovanelli himself recently bought a second top boat purely to loan it out at regattas to possible new recruits
ROBERT DEAVES
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