Contents December 2018 FEATURES
4 Man and machine CHRISTOPHE LAUNAY 30 Done and dusted
That one was a battle. ROB WEILAND 34 One for the route
LOÏCK PEYRON talks to JOCELYN BLERIOT about overcoming his transat phobia…
You’d kill for one? If Charal skipper Jérémie Beyou was hoping for a drier ride on top of his new boat’s super-long foils he was soon disabused. Charal has been engineered for speeds of up to 40kt, at which point staying dry once you step beyond the cuddy is never going to happen. However, the new deck layout the latest Imoca is trialling looks good, with a secure cockpit and low cuddy that mean you are never out of reach of something substantial to hold onto. As can be seen here, the length of that (light) canopy also means far more of the incoming water washes over the top and straight out the back, rather than filling a shallow and more exposed cockpit as was the case on many of the previous Imocas. Closing off the transom and adding the large aft deck, combined with heavy deck cambers throughout, have allowed the finished hull, deck and internal structure of Charal to come out at a little over 2-tonnes – remarkably light for a boat designed to sail through the Southern Ocean, let alone at such high speeds. Now fast-forward two years and while that relatively snug looking working area looks ideal for the multi-faceted singlehanded sailor, it begs the question of how you will ever accommodate 5-6 Volvo crew when these boats are used for the next edition of that race in 2021… and that’s before you factor in that the living area below on Charal covers just 4m2
. Meanwhile, in terms of where we go from here, until a maximum foil length (or overall maximum beam) is introduced following the 2020 Vendée Globe, teams and designers can go as long and as wide as the structural engineers will let them. With five more new Imocas in build and two years of improvement left before the Vendée Globe Charal 2018 is just the start…
COVER: Yvan Zedda INSET: Harry KH
36 Faster faster
If all goes to plan the SailGP series’s new F50 foilers will leave the AC50s of Bermuda trailing in their wakes. MIKE DRUMMOND, NICK HOLROYD and JAMES BOYD
40 Rodeo time – Part I
This Rhum should make some people very happy… and others rather sad – especially in their pockets. VINCENT LAURIOT-PRÉVOST, QUENTIN LUCET, DANIELE CAPUA and JOCELYN BLERIOT
44 A head for sailing
Time to get serious. GORDON UPTON 48 Flying the flag
Former Luna Rossa helmsman CHRIS DRAPER was one of the first to be recruited by the new SailGP programme. He talks to JAMES BOYD
50 Come fly with me
Man, this one’s been a while. DAVE HOLLOM and MIKE LENNON give you the ‘Thinnair’
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
9 Editorial
ANDREW HURST 10 Update
Different rules, interesting times, suited and booted… plus the man on the stick. CARLOS PICH, JACK GRIFFIN,TERRY HUTCHINSON, GUILLERMO PARADA, BLUE ROBINSON
16 World news
The ‘Mega’ du Rhum, (Cup) money starts to arrive in Auckland, a remarkable (TP52) history, one of the true nice guys. Plus time to take off all the wrapping… DOBBS DAVIS, NACHO POSTIGO, PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, MARCUS BLACKMORE
28 Rod Davis – Fact from fiction America’s Cup 36… sit back and enjoy the show
32 ORC – Positive signals Actually it all went rather well. BRUNO FINZI
57 Seahorsebuild table – There is a choice
It’s not only about the big multihulls (though they can be quite pleasant). TOM HUMPHREYS
60 Seahorse regatta calendar
62 RORC news – Truly classic EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
It’s getting close to ‘check your broadband’ time 63 TechStreet 99 Sailor of the Month
The American Civil War… Hmm, not exactly
Something for the weekend, sir… that’ll definitely do very nicely. The gleamingly gorgeous new Bella MenteMaxi72 has its maiden sail (good too to see a modern racer in classy, old school colours). There may only be a handful of 72s but intense racing over a mix of inshores and short offshores has driven their speed-for-rating up to the point that they are very hard indeed to beat under IRC. A TP52 would threaten them on a ‘banane’ but it’s been a while since a TP cracked sheets to reach over the horizon
AMORY ROSS
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