Contents May 2023 FEATURES
4 I make it eight? NICO MARTINEZ
38 Admiral’s Cup!! At last the manager of the Dutch team that won the last ‘real’ Admiral’s Cup, ROB WEILAND, believes that this time it is going to happen…
Star of the future? When Will Harris wanted a reliable person to work with at the top of the mast of Ocean Race Imoca Malizia, which had suffered a major tube failure, it did not take him long to work out his favoured combination of skill, agility, light weight and calm demeanour to join him aloft. Young Dutch sailor Rosalin Kuiper would fill the role very well, thank you very much. The damage to Malizia’s rig was near catastrophic and also spells concern for every other Imoca skipper who is also using the class-standard one design rig. After a sheave failure on the front side of the mast, the modern and virtually indestructible fibre halyard sliced down through the front of a seemingly sturdy carbon tube like the proverbial knife through butter. Had it been spotted any later the rig would almost certainly have split and fallen down. Harris and Kuiper completed a very major piece of composites craftsmanship at the top of the rig, as Herrmann’s crew did everything possible to minimise the movement of the platform beneath them. After laying up the necessary new components below, to use in the repair, the two then had to complete a 100 per cent reliable laminating process up aloft, while also ensuring an acceptable cure; all while hanging from a chair 100ft in the air rolling around deep in the Southern Ocean. Other comparable derring-dos aloft… Francis Joyon reattaching Idec’s shroud to the top of an Ultim rig during a solo round-the-world record, and Jerry Kirby not falling off EF Language’s topmast during a full-on 90-degree Southern Ocean wipe-out in the pitch dark in the 1997 Whitbread. Harris and Kuiper are now up there too
COVER: Antoine Auriol
44 Green and greener? When it comes to sustainability initiatives it is time that the focus was on the elephants rather than on the rabbits MANUEL FLUCK
50 Enfant terrible JUAN KOUYOUMDJIAN never disappoints when it comes to sharing outspoken views supported by clear unarguable logic. CARLOS PICH
54 A life on the ocean wave – Part II WILL OXLEY tells BLUE ROBINSON how you safely survive racing onboard the most powerful generation of ocean racers the world has ever seen
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update Cup uncertainties, deliberate or not? Time to start the day job in Pensacola, some of the best yachting just slipped through our fingers, home from home for the deplorables and ‘just the Cup’. Plus a good man with a clock. FRANCESCO BRUNI, ALAIN JOULLIE, JACK GRIFFIN, ALAN GREEN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, CRESSIDA ROBSON
23 World news GROUPE FINOT are back and certainly not following the herd, YOANN RICHOMME knows just what he wants, as does DAMIEN SEGUIN, King of Miami… GBR’s other Finn legend, lots of sailing time (and driftwood) in New Zealand… a dose of brutal honesty from SIR BEN AINSLIE and old skills at the heart of new tech. ED WRIGHT, IVORWILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBINSON, MAGNUS WHEATLEY
36 Paul Cayard – Life A time of change and a time for reflection
40 ORC – Steady as we go Let’s try this with a real live example ANDY CLAUGHTON
42 TP52 SuperSeries 2023… and perhaps a time for youth 56 TechStreet
61 Seahorsebuild table – How did it begin (again) It began with ‘my perfect boat’, but the perfect boat became rather popular. Now Dutch wizard GERARD DIJKSTRA is trying it all over again…
66 RORC – The likes of whom SYD FISCHER and PETER BOWKER. Two true giants of ocean racing, now they are both gone
70 Regatta calendar 98 Australian newcomer…
99 Sailor of the Month Brilliantly fast and brilliantly reliable… or both
There are all sorts of ways to become a legend in the Finn class. You can be like Brazilian sailor Pedro Trouche and acquire a reputation by sailing round the Finn Gold Cup course making loud duck noises, or you can just carry on sailing the backside out of your boat into your late-80s like Gus Miller (inset)
ROBERT DEAVES
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