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‘Those guys are freaks,’ wrote Ivor Wilkins – in the nicest possible way – in an email to our office when Pete Burling and Blair Tuke took their fifth 49er world title in Auckland in December, while also working full-time down the road developing Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC75 ahead of the AC World Series in April. As for the first still elusive Volvo/Olympic gold/America’s Cup triple – well, Sir four-golds Ben first needs to get in the game with a quick Cup win in 2021 before donning his ocean drysuit; while another Olympic Finn gold medallist and four-time Cup-winner Sir Russell Coutts had a very narrow escape when Burling (Brunel) and Tuke (Mapfre) each oh-so-nearly won the 2016-2017 Volvo Ocean Race. You can only be the first ever once… time to say hello to the new favourites
Oscar Developed by BSB Marine, a young company based in Port La Fôret, is a box located at the top of the mast that carries three cameras: two for night vision and one for day vision. The cameras send a video stream to an onboard computer that detects any floating objects that are in the ship’s way. Once detected, an alarm alerts the skipper to change course. Many Imocas are equipped with Oscar, but only one of the four Ultims was during the Brest Atlantiques: Macif. ‘When Macif’s main rudder was damaged in the collision with a UFO, Oscar was not on duty,’ a man from BSB Marine told us! Patrice Carpentier
NEW ZEALAND The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has launched an exciting new foiling monohull concept for a prospective Youth America’s Cup, to be included in the programme for the Auckland summer of 2021. Commodore Ian Cook, who has always fostered a strong commitment to the development of youth sailing, personally under- took the challenge of coming up with a practical concept that would attract interest in competing in a Youth America’s Cup. The result was unveiled on 12 December, when it was revealed
a prototype is already under construction at Cook’s Yachting Devel- opments yard in Auckland. The prototype is expected to be launched in February. ‘There has been considerable interest in offering a Youth Amer-
ica’s Cup in Auckland,’ said Cook. ‘We have been fielding a lot of questions from around the world about what we are planning to do. The concept is for a 9m four-person foiling monohull. The stipulation will be for a mixed-gender crew of two women and two men aged between 18 and 25. The format will be match racing only. ‘We did the design work in-house at Yachting Developments
under the direction of Bob Graham,’ said Cook. ‘The construction is an all-carbon light-displacement boat. In some respects the concept is modelled on foiling monohulls used on lakes in Europe.’
26 SEAHORSE The concept drawing shows a 9m monohull with a ram bow and
a bowsprit extending 2.7m. There is a large, open cockpit with a ballasted daggerboard, high-aspect T-foil rudder and two large L-shaped foils angling outboard alongside the mast. With both foils down the wingspan is a considerable 7.2m. The sailplan features a double-spreader mast supporting soft
sails. ‘The initial idea is to build five boats so we can have two match races running simultaneously with one spare boat,’ Cook said. Entries will be open to yacht clubs, as opposed to national bodies, widening the opportunities for participation. On formally registering their interest, yacht clubs will be required to lodge a deposit and there will be a schedule of payments and milestones through to the actual regatta. ‘Ideally we would be looking for nine or 10 teams to make it viable,’ Cook said. The first Youth America’s Cup was staged during the 2013 San
Francisco Cup series and attracted 10 teams. New Zealand youth crews skippered by Peter Burling and Will Tiller claimed first and second places. In Bermuda in 2017 12 teams competed in the Youth America’s Cup, which was won by the British crew skippered by Rob Bunce, with New Zealand’s crew led by Logan Dunning-Beck second. Both the San Francisco and Bermuda regattas were spon- sored by Red Bull, but Commodore Cook said sponsorship arrange- ments for an Auckland Youth America’s Cup were yet to be finalised. The youth AC announcement followed shortly after Auckland
hosted the 2019 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships. During the lead-up to the regatta a symbolic moment occurred when Pete Burling and Blair Tuke’s two worlds briefly collided as Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC75 foiled past a group of 49ers practising for the regatta. While their 49er rivals, both international and local, were putting
in the final hours on tuning and technique, the Kiwi Olympic gold medallists were clocking up more training and development time on Te Aihe, in preparation for the America’s Cup defence in 2021. If the pair are burdened by the twin Olympic and Cup responsibilities
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