Contents June 2021 FEATURES
4 Still here ELOI STICHELBAUT
38 No-brainer? And there are more considerations around that offshore medal than you think. ROB WEILAND
Busman’s holiday With the America’s Cup over and the prospect of a more promising season this year, many Cup sailors will be looking at the superyacht programme to help pay the school fees. Other major series also look good, with a delayed but healthy TP52 Super Series and the Maxi fleets equally determined to make a success of 2021. The UK is fortunate to currently be enjoying the easing of restrictions, the result being a storm of racing activity which will soon hopefully be reflected elsewhere. With no new Maxi racers or TP52s launching, a lot of design focus is on a steady stream of new superyachts hitting the water – including a very ‘desirable’ Baltic 146-footer to follow their spectacular DSS 142ft Canova which we will see a lot more of this year. With ‘small’ yacht development presently focused around the Imoca, Class40 and IRC fleets, there is plenty of meaty technological development continuing in the superyacht classes with some ever more fascinating and efficient sailing systems. Making life even more interesting is that, with IRC and ORC taking steps to encourage smaller crews on the biggest yachts, while this is obviously less favourable for the same pro sailors, it will speed up the drive towards more and better automation to help sail these powerful sailboats both faster and more easily. And on that subject… after years of trying, the AC75s gave us a practical, reefable wing sail, generating huge power but still capable of being dropped on a halyard (or two). There’s something for ambitious superyacht designers to ponder on over a glass or two of Cristal at the next launch
COVER: Carlo Borlenghi INSET: Gilles Martin-Raget
42 A formidable influence When discussing the great and influential yacht designers some names are often easily overlooked. IVOR WILKINS has been learning more about one such talent with the help of BRUCE FARR and GEOFF STAGG…
49 Careful what you wish for Volvo winner and two-time medallist IAN WALKER is very enthusiastic about offshore racing being in the Olympics… or is he?
52 The great divide – Part II Now the two sides – north and south – slowly begin to join forces. CLARE MCCOMB
58Missing piece – Part III It’s time to build Dogzilla… TIM SMYTH, MARK TURNER, MIKE DRUMMOND, ROGER VAUGHAN AND JIMMY SPITHILL
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update The $64 million Cup question (if only $64 million
still cut it), Luna Rossa’s ‘bravura’ performance, SailGP grows up and speeds up. And we lose a fine yachtsman few of whose deeds we even know of. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, RUSSELL COUTTS, ROB KOTHE
22World news The (worthy) Multi 50s try again, FRANÇOIS GABART and his Post-it notes, from Imoca to Rustler… of wind and personal relationships, from Auckland to Enoshima and back again, a ridiculous Fastnet, giving credit to the quiet guys, and the amazing and continuing successes of that fellow RANDY DRAFTZ. DOBBS DAVIS, CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, DAMIEN GUILLOU, PATRICE CARPENTIER, BLUE ROBINSON, GLENN ASHBY, ROGER BADHAM, MIGUEL SANCHEZ LUNA,
36 Rod Davis – Cup truth Cut to the chase and certain things will always be true, while others are just window dressing
40 ORC –Worth some effort Staying upright, that is. ANDY CLAUGHTON
64 RORC – Au revoir EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
65 Tech Street
69Seahorsebuild table – Splash! Now, children, this is really all getting a bit silly 78Seahorse regatta calendar
103 Sailor of the Month And without them nothing would ever happen
‘Why would anyone want to cruise his boat here?’ asked one onlooker, with a serious look, as the new 94m Feadship Viva passes through this Dutch village on a barge on the way to Amsterdam for sea trials. ‘It does take a long time,’ said photographer Tom van Oossanen, ‘they didn’t want to scratch the paint’
TOM VAN OOSSANEN
CARLO BORLENGHI
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