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Andrew Hurst DESIGNER
Stephen Stafford
SUB-EDITOR Sue Platt
EUROPE
Bruce Farr is surely one of the great disrupters of yacht design from Cherub dinghies to spectacular Whitbread Race winners
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery
Torbjörn Linderson Andy Rice
Giuliano Luzzatto Jocelyn Blériot
Frederic Augendre
USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis
Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis
Chris Museler Carol Cronin
JAPAN
Ian Walker is another great sailor whose achievements cover the range. He is now focused on a positive reset for UK grass roots sailing
Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe
Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis
Rob Weiland Ken Read
Russell Coutts is one of the many Olympic Finn champions who went on to have an enormous impact across the sport as a whole
AC TECHNICAL Steve Killing
Andy Claughton Jack Griffin
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Geoff Stagg has also played his part. A superb racer and the original force behind today’s offshore one-design movement
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Jimmy Spithill (we try to get them all young…) had one of his finest America’s Cups in Auckland – even if this time he didn’t win
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New wardrobe for the commodore – James Neville’s HH42 Ino trials her new triple-header rig on the way to winning the first RORC race of 2021. This IRC configuration is being seen increasingly this year; even on relatively small boats it may soon become essential kit for coastal and offshore courses
a procession of launches ferrying the lucky few to dinners and parties aboard, the Duke’s distinctive Royal Standard fluttering from the masthead. (I always found it curious that he arrived partway through Cowes Week, until somebody pointed out that 4 August was the Queen Mother’s birthday and HRH quite wisely wouldn’t leave London until after he had eaten a celebratory lunch with his mother-in-law). Prince Philip’s favourite yacht was his Dragon, a wedding
gift from the Island Sailing Club which he raced until 1962. Its current owners very kindly brought it to the esplanade near the Royal Yacht Squadron for the 21-gun salute that marked the Duke’s death, and she was entirely immaculate, decked out appropriately and in exemplary condition. The great man would have thoroughly approved. There is an urban myth, claimed at one time or other
by many of us who raced against him. It involves coming into a mark on a classic sunny Cowes Week day, several classes converging as a light green Sigma 38 approached in a particularly aggressive manner. Incensed by the flagrant barging, one skipper
shouted, ‘Do you think you own the water?’ To which the Duke responded, ‘No. But my wife does.’
James Neville, Commodore q
Commodore’s letter T
he domestic season restarted in the Solent with much anticipation on Good Friday with a sparkling Nab Tower JOG race. Ino does not qualify in JOG and hence we found ourselves out in the eastern Solent testing a new three-sail combination of Blast Reach- ing Zero, J2 and GS which attracted some attention –
as well as some confusion with the new (for IRC) Flying Head- sail concept which it certainly was not. Nothing so exotic. Easter saw the first RORC race of the year: 35 crewed and
16 two-handed boats set off on a downwind start in a cold 20kt northeasterly. Kelvin Rawlings and Stuart Childerley won a close two-handed battle on their new Sun Fast 3300 including a brave excursion inside Gurnard Ledge. On this occasion I no was able to get away and take a first win of the year. The following weekend was similar, still cold but with less breeze. This time it was Ed Bell who won overall on his JPK 1180 Dawn Treader, with the two-handers won by James Harayda and Dee Caffari on their own new Sun Fast. This was also the sad day that the death of the Duke of
Edinburgh was marked with a 21-gun salute at the Royal Yacht Squadron. The Duke was a real ambassador for our sport. A skilled and enthusiastic yachtsman, he was a frequent
visitor to Cowes and a regular competitor at Cowes Week back in the days when HMY Britannia was at anchor in Cowes Roads for the duration. The Royal Yacht was always the epitome of glamour. I fondly remember seeing her lit up every evening,
RICK TOMLINSON
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