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t’s a great honour to make a return visit to this wonderful magazine and to contribute to the celebration of its 50th birthday. The very word ‘anniversary’ usually gives a RORC
administrator the heebie-jeebies. There are now many of them and we often get asked to up-end our
carefully deliberated annual race schedule to divert to some genial port to mark its club’s happy event. The bolder ones ask for a transatlantic race. Cue more brain- racking to cram a plethora of races into an overflowing programme. We must decline many but squeeze them in where we
can – next year’s Royal Cork Tricentenary meriting a race from Cowes and an IRC European regatta. Of course, it’s not just because they’re Irish – although it does help! The Seahorse50th has triggered some long-forgotten
memories of 1969, a very special 12 months for those of us lucky to be alive then and lucky now to remember them – the first moon landing, Woodstock, Midnight Cowboy, Concorde’s and Boeing 747’s first flights, Suhaili’s RTW with RK-J; and the less than happy events, the last Beatles appearance, Chappaquidick, the Manson murders, Biafra and the Vietnam War protests. Many personal memories too of carefree times at uni-
versity in Dublin and the short few miles to race in Dublin Bay. Modesty prevents me from mentioning the loss of my you-know-what after a high-jinks wedding in Helsinki. Remarkable as these happenings were then, little
noted was the birth of what has become one of the finest publications of our sport – there to record heroic feats of adventure and there to anticipate the extraordinary changes in yacht racing, equipment and performance carried out by admirable and colourful men and women, some still with us, too many gone, some lost in the oceans that they loved. How joyous still the gentle thud in the letterbox and
the lively writing of the regular contributors and the bright newcomers providing great stimulus and delight (assuming that you can wrest your copy from your usually agreeable co-habitant). Towering above us all is our highly gifted and reliable editor, guardian of Seahorse’s excellent content and style, corralling his wayward authors, writing with deep knowledge, humour and insight, clear about his and our sport’s values, directing barbs where they should go and paying due tribute to the accomplishing ones of our sport – the entire effort enlivened by perfectly chosen photos. Fifty years means getting on for 500
issues, on time every time. Bravo, Seahorse, Andrew and your
great team. Warmest gratitude. We are all deeply in your debt. Here’s to the next 50 years.
Michael Boyd, RORC Commodore 2015-2018
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