Contents April 2018


FEATURES 4 State of the ‘art’


32 It gets no easier Gentlemen and players... ROB WEILAND


34 On to the next one It won’t be there in Japan but it may very well be there when you get to Paris. ROB KOTHE


Back to monohulls A big reason Challenger of Record Luna Rossa pushed Team New Zealand hard to get the America’s Cup back onto one hull was to get more sailors involved sailing the boats. The ACC monohulls used from 1992-2007 carried a crew of 17 with the grinders playing other roles when necessary. In Bermuda the biggest complaint was not that the stunning AC50s sailed with a crew of only six – though that was always going to be unpopular with the sailors – it was that four of the six were only onboard an America’s Cup yacht to deliver hydraulic pressure. Setting aside Michael Fay’s failed Big Boat challenge of 1988, the meaty 12 Metres (seen here) used before 1992 had also demanded a high work rate from all of their 11 crew with even the tactician having a pair of top-handled runner winches to deal with (wire back then, great fun). Eleven crew and the same number of sails as the subsequent V5 ACC boats, simple maths demonstrates how involved those 11 got when the wind blew. And while the physical demands of the AC50s were extreme, the races were only 20-30 minutes long – the final Cup in 12 Metres in Fremantle pictured here saw races of over two hours sailed in 20kt plus using 27-tonne boats with big overlapping genoas. It’s a fair guess that the total energy expended in those long races was no less than we saw in short bursts in Bermuda... the record in Fremantle being set in a crucial race between Chris Dickson’s Kiwis and Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes with 54 tacks up the last beat of a windy Louis Vuitton Cup race. Foiling monohulls will be different – different to anything in fact – but having more crew will be a better look for the America’s Cup


COVER: Gilles Martin-Raget INSET: Easy Ride


38 The multihull era The time of the monohulls has passed. Now it is the time of the multihull... or it was. ERIC HALL


47 It’s not just business The man in ultimate charge of Dongfeng’s Chinese-backed Volvo Race programme GUILLAUME SEMBLAT explains the limitations of the purely commercial model to TOM MULLEN


50 Essential staff PETER HARKEN has few doubts about the identity of some of the most important contributors to the ongoing Harken story


52 The great Victorian ... and a gentleman yachtsman with a very, very long name. JOHN ROUSMANIERE


REGULARS


6 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON


11 Editorial ANDREW HURST


12 Update The flying Banque Populaire IXin detail; don’t buy it use it; let’s ditch the (damn) triangle; running a Cup campaign is some kind of a job. Plus be in no doubt... we are going to capsize.


JACK GRIFFIN, SCOTT DICKSON, PETER HEPPEL,TERRY HUTCHINSON


18World news ARMEL LE CLEAC’H is a happy man, the Class40 is still nuts, a lot of truth in the Kiwi legend, BILL MACARTNEY’S latest TV spectacular gets underway. Plus this time we will to make it to Bermuda (really). PATRICE CARPENTIER, BLUE ROBINSON, DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS


28 Rod Davis


– Just the three When you finally get right down to it, it really is that simple


30 ORC


– A new experience (for all) And a time to learn... as the ORC and IRC fleets compete together at long last at the Hague


58 Design – Job done Last summer Turkey’s Provezza Team added the Dragon world title to their trophy cabinet. Coach and technical co-ordinator RON ROSENBURG was there for every step of a long, ambitious, complex and faultlessly executed journey...


60 TechStreet Where to begin... but it’s all pretty cool


76Seahorse regatta calendar


78 RORC news And a celebration of sorts! EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN


79Seahorsebuild table


– Flashing it up And it’s swanky new foils for an ‘old’ favourite


109 Sailor of the Month You don’t have to be a spring chicken, you know!


As we start a new America’s Cup cycle using what is at first glance an outrageous new monohull it’s worth remembering how far multihulls advanced during a brief 7-year stint in the Cup. Compared with an AC50 Oracle’s giant high-tech Deed of Gift tri is a bit of a bus. Massively bigger, massively slower


GILLES MARTIN-RAGET


RYAN BREYMAIER (AND RUBY)


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