Contributors EDITOR
Andrew Hurst DESIGNER
Stephen Stafford
SUB-EDITOR Sue Platt
EUROPE
Mark Reynolds is one of several San Diego Star World Champions, along with Vince Brun and of course Mr Dennis Conner
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
David Raison will never be challenged as the inventor of the modern ocean racing (and now cruising) Scow. Hell of a clever sailor, too
JAPAN Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe
Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis
Rob Weiland Ken Read
Jörg Riechers pioneered a new wave of German ocean-racing talent such as Boris Herrmann and, most recently, Melwin Fink
AC TECHNICAL Steve Killing
Andy Claughton Jack Griffin
Terry Hutchinson James Boyd
TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS Kieren Flatt & Lizzie Ward
ACCOUNTS AND CIRCULATION Kirstie Jenkins & Liz Beeson
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Paul Bieker is at the top of the ‘who ya gonna call?’ directory for panicking Cup teams. An exceptional free-thinking designer too
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About time… the world’s most successful women’s Olympic sailor is now Hannah Mills OBE after being honoured by HM the Queen in the New Year. Also gonged-up is Mills’s Tokyo 2020 crew Eilidh McIntyre, new 49er gods Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell, together with Team GBR’s latest extraordinary team manager Mark Robinson. All of them received MBEs
We have had similar communications incidents in our own
offshore races where we have not been able to raise yachts, in not dissimilar circumstances, including in the last Fastnet. James Dadd wrote an excellent article on safety which covered exactly this subject in our recently published Year Book. Before Christmas I had the opportunity to visit Paris for the
boatshow and the RORC and UNCL dinners. It was great to spend time with our partners at UNCL as my good friend Anne de Bagneaux-Savatier completed her term as president and successful RORC racer Géry Trentesaux started his term. We work together on a number of projects; UNCL have
recently been taking the lead on the development of a new 30ft one-design offshore raceboat. This will be offered in two versions: the Club version and a Grand Prix version which will enable one-design racing as well as being competitive in IRC. Enough deposits have been received to enable us to move to the next phase which is the development of detailed construction plans with the aim of launching the first boats in early 2023.
James Neville Commodore
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Commodore’s letter
by a Covid-induced lack of race training. Still a dropout rate not dissimilar to our own Fastnet Race and certainly a subject for us, as race organisers, to ponder on. The main prize for the race is the Tattersall Cup for the first boat in IRC, which went to Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban for an incredible third time, but this time only after the initial winner, Sam Haynes’ Celestial, was penalised for failing to maintain a listening watch. It certainly seems that Celestial were unlucky, especially
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considering the phenomenal race both they and Ichi Bansailed. The circumstances have been well reported: a personal EPIRB was set off on Celestial that led to a chain of events that was generally well handled and followed correct procedures. The EPIRB was deactivated before the organisers had to call out the emergency services. It is questionable, though, whether the safety services and organisers over-reacted in that it would have been clear that the EPIRB was on the yacht making an emergency unlikely. But once a call did go out and Celestial failed to respond the race committee and jury had little choice but to take action.
fter last year’s cancellation it was great to see the Rolex Sydney Hobart start as usual on Boxing Day. Seventy-one starters had a short reach out of Sydney Harbour strait into a tough beat with big seas. There were 31 retirements, the majority caused by the tough conditions and not helped
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