Contents May 2022
FEATURES 4 Legend
35 Facts and figures The will is there but the reality remains more challenging. ROB WEILAND
46 In every corner Another of ocean racing’s most influential historic figures who you may never even have heard of. CLARE MCCOMB introduces us to ALGERNON MAUDSLAY
Vulnerable It is obvious to everyone who follows the sharp end of inshore racing that in terms of the share of total fleet numbers, one series badly hit by the sanctions against Russia and Belarus will be the RC44 Cup. Other one design classes like the Dragons and J/70s also have lot of skippers currently banned from competing, but these classes are much bigger and more established and there are plenty enough ‘other’ entries to take up any slack. The peculiar situation in which the RC44s find themselves does beg another question however... These Andrej Justin-designed one design, pocket ACC racers, first conceived and in turn commissioned by Sir Russell Coutts, really are excellent ‘little’ inshore racing boats. Far superior in most respects to many other popular one designs which enjoy big fleets of Corinthian sailors – many of them well enough resourced to fund similar campaigns in a larger yacht so long as the financial step up is not silly. Similarly expensive development classes like the Fast40. So far as we are aware, other than in the very first days of the class, no more effort has gone into promoting the RC44s themselves as excellent inshore racing yachts, relatively easy to maintain for their size, developed beyond any doubts about reliability, fast, high-pointing and exciting downwind. The RC44 Tour quickly became a playground for billionaires (millionaires need not apply) which is a success in itself. But the boat itself is very good... perhaps this is the moment for the class to try to spread its wings a bit?
COVER: Nico Martinez INSET
52 In the palm of his hand Is there a more impressive offshore sailor out there? JOCELYN BLERIOT sits down with the remarkable DAMIEN SEGUIN
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update Lighter, faster, higher... but no less expensive, riding two horses ‘as fast as we can’, catalyst for many, hero to thousands, Mr Pink’s lunch is cut. Plus ROGER VAUGHAN on PETE BARRETT. BARRY PICKTHALL, TERRY HUTCHINSON, JACK GRIFFIN and SIR CHAY BLYTH
20 World news A solo season, ‘Global’ ambition, a heritage worth celebrating, life returns along the seaboards (and the lakes), preserving the (Aussie) gold standard. CHARLIE DALIN, DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, GUILLAUME VERDIER, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DAMIEN GUILLOU, BLUE ROBINSON, MICHAEL BLACKBURN
32 Paul Cayard
– Tradition and excellence Forty-five years in for Paul Cayard and 100 world
championships and counting for the Star Class
38 ORC – Attention to detail Two-handed vs fully-crewed… some of the first hard numbers make for interesting reading. DOBBS DAVIS and ANDY CLAUGHTON
40 IMA – Much bigger questions And even with several of your fleet chained to the dock there is justifiable cause for optimism
43 TP52 Super Series – Stand by And yet again picking a winner before game-time is a fool’s errand. ROD DAVIS, ED REYNOLDS, JORDI CALAFAT and ANDI ROBERTSON
58 TechStreet
64 RORC – Not welcome here JEREMY WILTON
67 Seahorsebuild table
– Proper little big boat Mini Wally, sophisticated weekender or just very stylish day-sailer? Your call. CEES DECKER
72 Seahorse regatta calendar DESIGN
74 Resurgent No Paris 2024 but ANDREJ JUSTIN’S clever L30 design is back on a roll. RODION LUKA
76 Groundbreaking stuff If his new 45-footer hits the sort of numbers (and foxiness) of his head-turning P30s then HANS GENTHE’s market disruption will go up a notch
79 Good to get going It’s been a long time in the making but the new HUGH WELBOURN-designed Infiniti DSS 52 is now putting down markers. STU BANNATYNE
103 Sailor of the Month This one will test your heartstrings
Jean-Marie Liot
Fighting the good fight. Racing his brilliantly innovative Verdier designed, self-conceived 54-footer, Vendée Globe veteran and past Imoca Champion Jean-Pierre Dick sticks it to a 125 footer in the Caribbean 600. An otherwise cool 125-footer but whose name we can no longer repeat in these pages; and which, though registered like so many others of her type in Monaco, does not of course hail from there and so even he who pays the bills is no longer found on our database
RICK TOMLINSON
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