Contents July 2023 FEATURES
4 Three’s a crowd PHILIPPE PLISSON
42 Hit them with a feather BLUE ROBINSON finally tracks down JOHN WINNING – the giant of Australian sailing who does it all while trying his best to go unnoticed
Some result Those following Patrice Carpentier’s insights into the preparation and then the performance of competitors in Don MacIntyre’s second Golden Globe Race may have picked up the emerging respect this multiple Vendée Globe and Whitbread Race veteran was increasingly displaying for the eventual South African race winner. Without hyperbole, Patrice was clearly becoming quite impressed with not just the effort but also the thinking that had gone into Kirsten Neuschäfer’s 18 months of preparations and training. From diligently researching the routes and logs of the old clipper ships, which had sailed the since rarely used routes she would be navigating in the Golden Globe, to taking an early decision to sail her yacht Minnehaha from Cape Town to Les Sables in one leg, as both practice and acclimatisation for herself and to double-check her yacht and all its equipment. And as the race itself would demonstrate, it is impossible to test and train too much for such an unpredictable race, one that due to strict limits on electronics puts its competitors through much harder conditions than any other modern race around the world expects to see. Note the sinking of Tapio Lehtinen’s yacht, refitted, rebuilt, reinforced and then refitted again; a proven yacht with many racing successes in its original incarnation and now with half a million euros spent on making her reliable enough for surely even the toughest circumnavigation? You’d have thought so, but Tapio’s yacht went down under him, suddenly and unexpectedly and for reasons that he still can’t understand to this day
COVER: Oliver Blanchet/ALEA INSET: Daniel Forster
50 Nailing it – Part I The media and sporting success of his second Golden Globe Race has brought DON MACINTYRE out of the shadows and shoved him firmly into the light. At last… DAN HOUSTON
54 More than you think When serious illness ended DEE SMITH’S big boat racing career he subsequently went looking for another avenue to apply all that knowledge and experience in making boats go fast
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
10 Editorial PETER HARKEN
15 Update Every foil under the sun, the 5.5 Metres get their skates on, yachting’s greatest contributors and practitioners, GUILLERMO PARADA is soon back in the saddle, flashback to technical Olympic days and a better second time around for CHRIS POOLE and Team Riptide. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON AND CARLOS PICH
22 World news There’s a new star in town, SIMON CURWEN…
speedy but broken, so close for AMBROGIO BECCARIA, big build little time for Multiplast, hardy New Zealand race hardy New Zealand racers, tweaking the Nacra. Plus the many fine contributions of CHARLEY MORGAN. IVOR WILKINS, MAGNUS WHEATLEY, KIRSTEN NEUSCHAFER, NACHO POSTIGO, YANN PENFORNIS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBINSON, IAN LIPINSKI
34 Rob Weiland – Even better! Time to celebrate a younger and more diverse Super Series fleet… but let it happen naturally
36 Paul Cayard
– Solving the puzzle So SailGP is well on the way but there are still some pretty key issues that need to be resolved… AKA paid for
39 ORC – Double trouble Of penalty clicks and happy clicks.
ANDY CLAUGHTON 56 TechStreet
63 Seahorsebuild table – Past perfect Fair, smooth, uncorrupted design is nothing new
70 RORC – Open for business JEREMY WILTON
74 Regatta calendar 104 30 years ago
105 Sailor of the Month Jeez, this thing gets hard… but last time around some 3,000 of you thought it worth the effort…
Bad news for Holcim and Guyot when they were dismasted during the second half of The Ocean Race. But worse news perhaps for the Imoca class. After the Imocas’ move onto supplied one-design rigs the new spars showed better reliability than the previous one-off solutions. Then with bigger foils loads spiked up again; but more important is this is the first time these rigs have been pushed by a full crew. Every Imoca in The Ocean Race has experienced rig troubles of one form or another…
ALAMY
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