Contents July 2022 FEATURES
4 Such promise RICK TOMLINSON
34 Less is more? Not always, says ROB WEILAND. We are all surely delighted with the growth of two-handed sailing but it does come at a cost as opportunities for less experienced sailors inevitably contract
A special boat Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström’s Judel-Vrolijk Maxi72 Rán 2 remains one of only four yachts to have taken back-to-back overall wins in the Fastnet Race since the first edition in 1925, Rán claiming the double in 2009 and 2011. The other three to have done so are Jolie Brise (the only three-time winner), Olin Stephens’ Dorade and Capt John Illingworth’s Laurent Giles design Myth of Malham. Rán’s designers thus sit in exalted company. Rán 2 was followed by a couple of TP52s before Zennström’s (and designer Shaun Carkeek’s) most dramatic boat to date, the Fast40 Rán 7 – which first rewrote the rulebook of how a Fast40 should look… and then added a chapter on how fast one can go. Rán 7 made every previous design obsolete, surviving Fast40s – fab yachts, by the way – now racing mainly in open IRC events where they perform very well (as fast boats generally do in IRC). While keeping his smaller inshore machine for regatta sailing, Zennström recently took delivery of Rán 8, another Shaun Carkeek design but this time a larger 52-footer configured to be equally competitive racing offshore – where water ballast allows this powerful new yacht to be sailed by a smaller crew. The Carkeek 52s are series-built in the UK by Fibre Mechanics with the same dramatic reverse sheer and ‘slashed’ foredeck of Zennström’s Fast40 –a genuine head-turner. So with a new water-ballasted 52-footer Rán head offshore again, no doubt with a third Fastnet win on the to-do list. Three-time race winner EG Martin would be thrilled
COVER: Carlo Borlenghi INSET: Gilles Martin-Raget
38 Neanderthal in a carbon cave Tour Voiles winner, TJV winner, Barcelona World Race winner, yet never quite the Vendée Globe. But there is plenty else to be proud of. OYVIND BØRDAL meets the hyperactive JEAN-PIERRE DICK
44 Master craftsman FEDERICO NARDI and his four other co-owners at the Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario could never have imagined how a single challenging 12 Metre restoration would give birth to an entire new industry. GIULIANO LUZZATTO
50 Champion! For somebody who keeps himself below the radar designer DAVE HOLLOM has been racking up some big titles. His new 5.5 Metre also just went straight to the top of the charts at Lake Garda
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
13 Update Remembering HERVE DEVAUX… without whom a lot of us would still be going a lot slower, Alinghi starts to shop, SLINGERS goes alongside GOODISON as American Magic goes all-in, and
Barcelona starts to buzz… already. GUILLAUME VERDIER, JACK GRIFFIN, DAMIA CALVET, TERRY HUTCHINSON, CARLOS PICH, PAUL BIEKER AND VINCENT LAURIOT PREVOST
20 World news CARL RYVES is the real deal, PAUL MEILHAT gets his 60, Class 30… the talking’s over, back at it (and eating). And remember who pays the bills. GERY TRENTESAUX, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, JO ALEH, GAVIN BRADY, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS
32 Paul Cayard – Out of the drought At the end of the tunnel a light appears…
36 ORC – Head for the sun It took them a while to work it out
57 TechStreet 61 Seahorsebuild table – First of many?
Ladies and gentlemen (provocative…), we bring you the IRC scow. ANTOINE MAINFRAY
68 Seahorse regatta calendar
70 RORC –Words into action It’s working pretty well for them… maybe it can do the same for you? RAY CAMPION
DESIGN
74 The same but different Why Sørvind – the fifth Southern Wind 105 off the stocks – is exactly that. KIERAN FLATT
102 Forty years ago – a proper baddie
103 Sailor of the Month A magnificent match racer and a magnificent two fingers to a repulsive international bully
Not since the loss of our inspiring friend Steve Fossett can we think of an owner who has bet ‘maxi-serious’ dollars exploring a relatively unproven concept as Roberto Lacorte did when he said to his perhaps less than altogether relaxed designer, Mark Mills, ‘OK, let’s go for it…’ But an utterly bonkers idea, taking a Mini AC75 with an amusing little propeller offshore racing, did not look quite so bonkers when Lacorte’s crew flew their offshore foiler – it seems very easily – the first day they put the sails up
FABIO TACCOLA
FLORENCE ARTHAUD – 1982 ROUTE DU RHUM
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120
