Contents August 2021 FEATURES
4 Showing the genes RICK TOMLINSON
41 Poles of contention ROB WEILAND is entertained by all the froth created by an archaic piece of sailing equipment
Double down The crew of the Frers design Flyer II during the 1981/82 Whitbread Round the World Race when they took both line honours and the Whitbread Trophy for the corrected-time victory; what was especially impressive about the handicap victory is that the Dutch entry began the final fourth leg from Mar del Plata to Portsmouth with a corrected-time deficit of a full 92 hours to Alain Gabbay’s lighter Gilles Vaton-designed Charles Heidsieck III. Fortunately a westerly choice for their Doldrums passage saw Flyer pop out into the perfect weather system, leaving her reaching towards the finish as her rivals behind battled headwinds. Flyer is still in immaculate condition today, having been very well converted for long-distance cruising. The first few Whitbreads saw a plethora of today’s familiar names get their first taste of round the-world racing – among the impressive crew Conny van Rietschoten assembled for his second race were Kiwis Erle Williams, Joey Allen and Grant Dalton, who all went on to win this race again, along with the America’s Cup, while also aboard for the race was the American navigator and later professional router Bill Biewenga. Seen during a snow storm in the Southern Ocean, the early races were utterly different from their modern equivalents. It would be many years before an ice gate was employed in a round-the-world race, so many skippers headed deep into the southern latitudes where the heavy IOR designs also ensured that they spent longer while going slower. Then there was the clothing of the time, which today you wouldn’t choose for a wet dog walk
COVER: Onne van der Wal
46 Clicks of chance Not bad… CAROL CRONIN catches up with ONNE VAN DER WAL, the first onboard reporter and a Whitbread Round the World Race winner
54 Crazy Jack His words not ours… PATRICE CARPENTIER discovers what it means to be the famous JACK SETTON
60 Cents on the dollar The editor has been dreaming up some initiatives to try to arrest the drain of teenage sailing talent
64 Getting here Turns out that it has always been the foils, not the hulls, not the sails, not even the trophies that have kept JULIAN BETHWAITE awake all these years
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update Cork, Cowes, why not Lausanne… currently the very last place that looks likely to be hosting the next America’s Cup is Auckland, New Zealand. A très promising-looking new offshore initiative and some weird (British) goings-on in Bermuda…
JOE LACEY, YVES GINOUX, JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, ROB KOTHE, JIMMY SPITHILL, BEN AINSLIE, PHIL ROBERTSON
24World news A (very) careless Imoca, Fig 3s pass the (latest) test, the rapid new generation of Class40s fight it out (between them), why the Multi50s are finally looking sustainable, STEVE DASHEW wouldn’t but luckily there is someone else who will, the long fight back from the trauma of Beijing and a very classy Annapolis story begins a new chapter. THOMAS COVILLE, YOANN RICHOMME, CARLOS PICH, TOM SLINGSBY, DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, SAM GOODCHILD, LUKE BERRY
38 Rod Davis – Things I wish I’d known! Move on from the pursuit of perfection, for one
44 ORC – First impressions A small but extremely upmarket fleet was trying out the new ORC multihull rule in Porto Cervo. ANDY CLAUGHTON and DOBBS DAVIS
68 Tech Street 72Seahorse regatta calendar
79 RORC – Getting there JEREMY WILTON
85Seahorsebuild table – Innovation goes ‘wild’ Wild as in yachts plucked from nature, that is…
103 Sailor of the Month And another face-off between the colonies, chaps
Does anyone have any ideas? Australia’s SailGP team, skippered by Tom Slingsby, pause for thought after capsizing during training for the first round in Bermuda. The twist to the tale is that after technical issues with their own F50 foiling cat the previous day Slingsby’s crew have borrowed Jimmy Spithill’s USA boat for this session. Spithill was unamused when he found out what had happened to his craft and became positively grumpy when told it had to go in the shed for repairs before he could get it back
UGO FONOLLA
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