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Andrew Hurst DESIGNER
Stephen Stafford
SUB-EDITOR Sue Platt
EUROPE
Nick Craig eschewed the Olympic trail… then won a ludicrous number of big titles, all while doing great things for junior sailing
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery
Manuel Fluck Andy Rice
Giuliano Luzzatto Jocelyn Blériot Øyvind Bordal Franck Cammas Magnus Wheatley
USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis
Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis
Chris Museler Carol Cronin
Harold Cudmore… much bigger boats these days and only the best venues, but winning is winning all the same. So the same Harold
JAPAN Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe
Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis
Rob Weiland Ken Read
AMERICA’S CUP Steve Killing
Paul Bieker did not allow those Cup teams to knock the edges off his constantly questioning approach to design and engineering
Andy Claughton Jack Griffin
Terry Hutchinson Dave Hollom
DESIGN & HERITAGE Clare McComb Julian Everitt Nic Compton Dan Houston
TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS Kieren Flatt & Lizzie Ward
ACCOUNTS & CIRCULATION Kirstie Jenkins & Liz Beeson
Mike Sanderson…a Volvo and Maxi Worlds winner who is just as likely to be found blatting around the bay on the family Cherub
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Apple, tree. Tufts students Trevor Davis and Rees Tindall collect some decent metal after winning the USA Under-30 Snipe Nationals. Dobbs tried hard but failed in all his efforts to avoid grinning. Great works, guys – we’re proud of ya too
expected shift did not materialise until it was too late for us to avoid a wide rounding of the island. With light, variable winds all the way to Gozo we gracefully slipped out of contention. Of course the story of the race was the 24-second margin
separating overall winner, Andrea Recordati’s 93ft Wally Bullit, and the runner-up husband and wife duo of Christina and Justin Wolfe on their little Sun Fast 3300 Red Ruby (two fast RORC members). It’s not hard to imagine how, with the big boats safely moored up, the atmosphere in the Royal Malta YC club- house grew increasingly tense as it became clear that the much smaller 3300 was romping through the Camino Channel towards the finish at a pace that was going to make the final outcome a very close-run thing. In the end it was congratulations to Andrea and his crew
who won by the slimmest of margins; Andrea was, however, magnanimous enough to invite Christina and Justin onto the stage at the prizegiving to share the trophy. His sportsmanlike gesture earned another round of applause, though the loudest cheers went to Christina and Justin and their incredible perfor- mance. Yet again we see our IRC rating system effectively enabling very different boats to compete closely as well as fairly for the same trophies.
James Neville Commodore
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we set off on the long starboard before gybing for Sicily. Aware the wind was forecast to head us, we were careful
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to stay far enough off the Etna volcano to ensure we got through the transition east of the island. Once through the entrance to the strait, the trip through Messina was largely uneventful… until the wind died at the exit causing a major compression in the fleet. This seemed to be the story of the race for us on Ino Noir as we chased down the TP52s and Cookson 50s ahead while trying to stay far enough ahead of the slippery Ker 46s and older TP52s behind. The highlight of the race was a fantastic two-sail reach in
20kt+ and 2-3m sea from Favignana to Pantelleria – when I decided that an extended stint on the wheel was required! At Pantelleria we chose the offshore route, which we quickly realised was a mistake as we watched our rivals sail up inside us. Things only got worse as we came into Lampedusa, as the
here was a very typical start to this year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race as we all hit the line in front of the Saluting Battery searching for wind in Malta’s spectacular Grand Harbour. However, once we got clear of the entrance we could get our spinnaker up and after rounding the first mark off St Julien’s
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