A quiet year?
For Moth World Champion, America’s Cup helm and Olympic gold medallist Nathan Outteridge 2018 did not pan out quite as expected… as Andy Rice discovered
Nathan Outteridge started out 2018 looking as if he didn’t have too much on his agenda. With Artemis Racing winding down operations after Bermuda and no obvious prospect of being signed up by another America’s Cup campaign, the Australian was wondering how he was going to fill his year. It started with the SuperFoiler circuit in
Australia which he dominated alongside his equally formidable crewmates Glenn Ashby and Iain ‘Goobs’ Jensen. Then his career took him in an unexpected direc- tion. Seahorse caught up with Outteridge at the end of a busy 12 months… Seahorse:Nathan, you started the year
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campaigning the SuperFoiler in Australia, and you dominated the circuit… Nathan Outteridge: I got a call from Jack and Bill McCartney and I was half inter- ested in perhaps doing it. But it wasn’t really until I had a chat to Glenny [Ashby] and then we talked about racing together along with Goobs; in the end it was a lot of fun to be able to race some high-perfor- mance boats down this side of the world. SH:What was it like sailing with Glenn? Obviously you’ve been teammates in the past on the Olympic team, but you were rivals last year in Bermuda for the America’s Cup… NO: It was good. We went to the Beijing Olympics as teammates, him in the Tor- nado and me in the 49er, but that was a good 10 years ago. We’ve always wanted to try to end up on the same boat at some stage but it never panned out. We’ve spent a lot of time racing against each other so it was really cool to sail with Glenn – and also pick his brain on how things panned out for them with the America’s Cup! And
it’s always awesome to sail with Goobs. The three of us did have a great time… on and off the water. SH: The SuperFoiler looked extremely difficult to sail and pretty hazardous at times… NO: For sure, a challenging boat to sail and a few things on the design side that probably were not perfect. Then you’re doing it all on the trapeze, which again adds another layer of difficulty. It required a lot of skill and experience that the three of us had collected over the years. For sure we had an edge on the fleet, but as each event went by the others were catching us up. Season two should be closer again. SH: Then later in the season you jump into a Nacra 17 just to help out your sister Haylee with a bit of coaching and end up doing a full-on Olympic campaign with her! Not only that, but you seemed to be front-of-fleet competitive almost straight away… NO: Haylee and I had done a bit of train- ing in Australia, and we learned a lot from
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