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Simon Van Velthooven began boat racing at about the time ETNZ started their last Cup campaign. Exactly the same time as it happens
Sue Platt, Lizzie Ward EUROPE
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery
Rob Weiland
Torbjörn Linderson Andy Rice
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USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis
Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis
Chris Museler
Armel le Cléach’h could eventually enjoy some deferred gratification after waiting for the delayed launch of his latest toy…
Terry Hutchinson JAPAN
Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe Rob Mundle
Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis Ken Read
Bruno Dubois is among the most accomplished of team managers; now he’s urging on Dongfeng in her match race with Mapfre…
AC TECHNICAL Steve Killing
Andy Claughton Jack Griffin James Boyd
ACCOUNTS AND CIRCULATION Kirstie Jenkins & Wendy Gregory
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Charles Caudrelier is also back with Dongfeng for a second race as skipper alongside his trusted first officer Pascal Bidégorry
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Eric Hall has had an extraordinarily long and broad relationship with the Cup including building all of Alinghi’s winning spars
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Stoic: readers may have missed the earthquake that hit Port Talbot in Wales last month measuring 1.1 on the Richter Scale. ‘The tremor decimated the area causing nearly £30 of damage. Three streets of historic burnt-out cars were disturbed but lootings, muggings and car crimes were unaffected and carried on as normal’ – local news (not us, ffrindiau)
Commodore’s letter
to younger people. Good progress has been made by the energetic new Griffin group and a programme agreed for this season. Our new racing manager, Chris Stone, has described the formidable programmes run in Australia and New Zealand, models of excellence that inspired David Franks to pursue a further initiative with the UK Etchells fleet for 2018. I look forward with confidence to further developments. The Volvo Ocean Race continues to inspire and amaze. The
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level of media feedback from the boats now gives an insight into life onboard which has not been possible before. Asking the competitors to live with this amount of media scrutiny must create its own issues, but it does demonstrate to a wider audience the level of physical and mental toughness required of crews when you mix a demanding type of boat with the increased pressure of one-design competition. I think in common
with many I have always found it difficult to describe with any real meaning to non-sailors the experience of an offshore race with the challenges it brings. The Volvo reporting is one of several strands now available that are enabling a wider audi- ence to engage with this area of the sport. Meanwhile, our new
rating director Jason Smithwick has now watched his first certifi- cates being issued under the Spinlock 2018 IRC rule. IRC is subject to
continual review so that design developments are quickly accommo-
dated and as usual a few minor tweaks to the calculations have been introduced for this year. The pace and magnitude of developments in yacht and sail design are such that this is no easy task; the technical work is carefully co-ordinated and I have been impressed by the passion and commitment of both the Lymington rating office and its counterpart, the UNCL Centre de Calcul in Paris. Much has been written encouraging yachts to continue to
come to the Caribbean, participate in the regattas and visit the islands. I repeat that encouragement having just visited Dominica en route to the Caribbean 600, where the welcome was as warm as ever but the need for visitor revenues is very obvious with the huge clean-up and rebuilding programme that is underway. The start of our domestic season is also getting
closer with the Easter Challenge training regatta at the end of March, now with the benefit of our Cowes clubhouse where we look forward to welcoming all our competitors and visitors.
Steven Anderson Commodore
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he success of the Scaramouche 2017 Fastnet campaign reverberates with Montel Fagan-Jordan being nominated for Seahorse Sailor of the Month. Youth sailing has been a hot topic at the RORC
recently, with the club looking at its support for youth sailing and the accessibility of offshore racing
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