Contents February 2021
FEATURES 4Miraculous
36 Imagine ROB WEILAND is doing his level best to look on the bright side with some cautious predictions
42 An ingenious mind C RAYMOND HUNT – famous for his racing powerboats but, as TOM PRICE says, prodigious too in creating fast and innovative sailboats
Dynasty? That’s what they are talking of at Team New Zealand should they defend the Cup in March. And why not… There were some rare signs of nerves on display on Te Rehuti during the World Series in December, but in their existing configurations none of their rivals ever consistently matched the Kiwis’ straightline speed. And the other big prize… the Concours d’Elégance – after a strong early bid by Prada Luna Rossa, when the New Zealand raceboat appeared, with its combination of such an intense yet sleek focus on minimising the aero-drag, hull lines to die for and an immaculately executed colour scheme that screams winner from top to bottom, the result became a foregone conclusion. Interestingly, seen from above, the second Kiwi boat bears some external similarities to Sir Ben Ainslie’s first AC75 – significantly in the ordering of the deck with its convex central section (adding free mainsail area and possibly even a little downforce and thus righting moment) and with crew kept out of the airflow. There are also the same mirrored ‘work stations’ on the first UK yacht, with the crew split into two teams on each side of the boat – as the sailors got to grips with the AC75 the rotation between port and starboard personnel on all the boats steadily reduced and is now close to zero. But while other teams did hide their sailors more in their second boats, Team New Zealand has a history of backing themselves and typically went much further, their sailors buried deep in three pairs of foxholes and invisible from off the boat. Except for Pete Burling… he enjoys special privileges
COVER: Gilles Martin-Raget INSET: Alamy
48 Ee by gum! ANDY CLAUGHTON is looking forward to the world’s biggest ever eSailing Regatta down in Auckland
50 Divide et Impera Computational fluid dynamics, so easily quoted so rarely understood. MANUEL FLUCK
54 It’s all in the mind – Part II DAVID MUNGE talks to PROF VINCENT WALSH about doing the little things better…
60 Neck on the line Who’d volunteer to be an America’s Cup pundit, especially among the tense, dark swamps of AC75 design? DAVE HOLLOM, obviously
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update Match racing round the world, are foilers the answer (or is it the wrong question), CHARLIE DALIN master boatbuilder, serious times in Kiwi, with a lot still to learn… and are we all heading up
a blind alley? PATRICE CARPENTIER, JEAN LE CAM, MRS LE CAM), JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, ROBERT LAINE
20World news Miracle in the south, foils good cassettes bad, BEYOU’s lonely odyssey, and SAM’s inspirational one, the hidden speed of YANNICK BESTAVEN, how Team NZ built threeAC75s… campaigning through uncertainty. Plus the beautiful KEVIN BURNHAM, GLENN ASHBY, STEVE BENJAMIN, LISA DARMANIN, DAN BERNASCONI, IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBINSON
34 Rod Davis – Party time The games begin… Plus the good, the bad and the plain incomprehensible
38 IMA – Reset time ANDREW MCIRVINE
40 ORC – A tough job More people are spending more money and are making (much) more effort to race big multihulls competitively so it’s only right that the scoring too should be more accurate. DOBBS DAVIS
66 TechStreet 72Seahorse regatta calendar
78 RORC news – Due process EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
81Seahorsebuild table – Pocket rocket Thirty-foot, potential for homebuilding, fast as a scalded cat and foxy to boot. KEVIN DIBLEY
105 Sailor of the Month Two ‘works in progress’ but they’ve done enough
Inset: Team New Zealand may only have built the one AC50 to win the last America’s Cup but they had already got their money’s worth by adding this long gantry to convert their AC45-turbo into a ‘virtual AC50’ test-mule. Left: heading into the Prada AC75 Christmas races all the teams bar Ineos featured a sharp keel skeg (Patriot, here, and Prada) or add-on vortex strip (Te Rehuti) down the centreline to reduce aero loss beneath the hull
GILLES MARTIN-RAGET
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