Contents April 2019 FEATURES
4Winging it GILLES MARTIN-RAGET
28 Fun (aka value for money) Maybe it’s time at last? ROB WEILAND
32 Life in the cheap seats As one fortunate Vendée Globe hopeful has it all land in their lap Germany’s best solo ocean racer is still fighting on like a dog… JORG RIECHERS
Worth another go? … racing at one of the last Kenwood Cup events in Hawaii nearly 20 years ago. Very interesting that in his column this month Rob Weiland floats the idea that the world may be ready to explore again the concept of a small number of professionally run international events for offshore yachts. It is too soon to attempt to recreate the fixed venue format of historic events like the Kenwood Cup, as well as the Admiral’s Cup itself, though we believe there are reasons that some of those events might reappear one day in modern guise, but first the concept of international racing itself needs to be revived. The most prominent big-boat grand prix classes are the TP52 and Maxi72, both founded on regatta schedules that respect the wishes of the owners in terms of format, venue and timing. Both classes are proof that if the package is the right one for the target market then money ceases to be a limiting factor and instead it becomes a question of time and the availability of professional crew. The critical takeaway from the TP52 and Maxi72 is that the owners are involved from the start. By making it clear (unlike what happened in some of the historic events) that it is those owners not the sailors who are the clients, then the TP52s in particular have benefited from being able to call on some of these owners to invest in the class as much as in their own programmes. And so by approaching a rotating group of senior yacht clubs, based in suitable venues, it is possible that local interest could be followed by local backing. Once a seed is sown then the ‘customers’ begin to pitch their peers overseas to come and join the party. It’s a nice idea at least…
COVER: Andrew Woodley/Alamy INSET: Jean-Marie Liot/DPPI
37 Coming of age Oak trees and acorns indeed but the small handful of finishers in the 2018 Golden Globe Race should be seen against the early entries that are already in for the next race in 2022. ROB KOTHE talks to the race’s creator DON MCINTYRE
40 Vision When Baltic Yachts and the Farr office agreed to throw their weight behind the biggest DSS project yet they did not hold back. The result is certainly going to be watched unusually closely. GORDON KAY, SOREN JANSSON, SIMON EVEREST, KEN READ, BAS PEUTE, BILL FAUDE, JAMES WILKINSON, BRITT WARD and DOMINIQUE PEDRON
48 A winner No other way to talk about the most successful IRC skipper anywhere, GERY TRENTESAUX shares ‘a few’ of his secrets with his sometime crew and sometime rival FRED AUGENDRE
52 Too easy People often talk about the Stephens/Burgess designed Ranger as the ‘Super J’ with a hull shape that no one could compete with. DON STREET argues that is really just a small part of the story
REGULARS
8 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
12 Update That spirit of friendly competition, why looking backwards is rarely a good look (especially if you’re over 84kg), first (Figaro) impressions and a racing success that stands out above most others. JACK GRIFFIN,WILL HARRIS, TERRY HUTCHINSON and MIKE WOODHEAD
18World news Happy ‘blue’ birthday (amazing, really), the gods are smiling on CLARISSE CREMER, BILOU’S three boats and counting, multitasking with a vengeance from SHARON FERRIS, steady start fast finish for SailGP… and for TOM SLINGSBY. Plus the world’s smallest 65-footer is back in action. HALVARD MABIRE, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS,
BLUE ROBINSON and DOBBS DAVIS
26 Rod Davis –Where exactly? Before taking sailing ‘forwards’ we first need to work out which way forwards actually is…
30 ORC – For the next trick Time to lose the lead… LARRY ROSENFELD and DOBBS DAVIS
55Seahorsebuild table
– Italian Magic Designer MARK MILLS is pretty happy with what just came out of the shed at Maxi Dolphin
58Seahorse regatta calendar
60 RORC news – Encore EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
61 TechStreet
99 Sailor of the Month But not for the more obvious reasons why you might have expected this duo to be nominated
What will be the largest aluminium yacht in the world when launched this winter being turned at Royal Huisman in the Netherlands. The naval architecture for the three-masted 266-foot schooner is from Gerry Dykstra and a vast interior space is being filled by Mark Whiteley. Design and initial engineering took a full year – but the project only began in mid-2017 so a far from slow build… and many welding rods
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