Contents February 2020 FEATURES
4 Strap in MATIAS CAPIZZANO
38 Keep it sane Get it right and there is another way to keep your pre-owned TP52 plenty busy. ROB WEILAND
Glory days Eleven challengers fronted up for the 32nd America’s Cup in Valencia to take on Cup holders Alinghi, the most teams since Fremantle in 1987 when 12 teams fought to challenge Iain Murray’s Kookaburra 12 Metre team. Both events had worked hard to be as inclusive as possible of new teams – in 2007 the event was structured so well that each team took home a substantial dividend from the organisers Alinghi when the regatta returned a financial surplus (seems incredible looking back from 2020, doesn’t it, investing all that money to challenge, working your nuts off and then being recognised as one of the key contributors to the show… with hard cash). Both of these Cups shared one important feature, the Fremantle Match was the last to be held in 12 Metres after 30 years of continuous evolution while Valencia 2007 saw the final appearance of the ACC class after 15 years’ service; in fact, Alinghi launched ACC no
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for their successful defence (seen to windward of Team New Zealand in the Cup Match itself). By Fremantle in 1987 and Valencia in 2007 there was a generous stock of good used boats suitable for the competition, the biggest factor in getting new hopeful challengers off the ground. Certainly some were making up the numbers in 2007 but all contributed to a spectacle that generated real business- to-business opportunities (as opposed to today’s wilder claims). The America’s Cup must always move forwards but in the last four editions we’ve seen four different types of boat. If, as many expect, Team NZ defend this time the AC75s should see more use – but constantly changing classes is a certain way to keep the America’s Cup a small private affair
COVER: Carlo Borlenghi
40 The revolutionary No better way to describe DAVID RAISON who talks scows, foils… and obsolescence with FRED AUGENDRE
44 The greatest sailor you’ve
never heard of – Part I All that infrastructure and organisation didn’t get there by chance. CLARE MCCOMB looks at the life, times and extraordinarily far-reaching achievements of a little-known sailing influencer
50 Dave Perry: winning in life Olympian CAROL CRONIN catches up with someone else who has done more than most to influence the sailing success – and enjoyment – of world champions and enthusiastic newbies alike
54 Balance of power WILLIAM JELBERT explains how a pragmatic but scientific approach allowed a fast breed of weight-sensitive big cats to take practical gains from new ideas in the field of fossil-free power
56 The perfect versus the good With a little help from Voltaire America’s Cup and Volvo racer KEN READ puts forward some dramatic – but surprisingly obvious – proposals to rewrite the concept of ‘on-the-water value’
60 Giving back GRANT SPANHAKE is one of the best-known faces on the grand prix circuits – now he has found a way to get all that experience out there for a wider audience. He talks to DOBBS DAVIS
REGULARS
8 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update The black hole that is the 36th America’s Cup, the mule delivers value for money, a new force to be reckoned with in singlehanded ocean racing. Plus DON MCINTYRE’S latest round the world venture could do wonders for the brokerage market in raceboats. ROB KOTHE, GIULIANO LUZZATTO, AMBROGIO BECCARIA, TERRY HUTCHINSON, JACK GRIFFIN
22World news
Now this really will be interesting… as MANUARD’S Imoca finally breaks cover.
Dongfeng team keeps on winning, FRANÇOIS GABART maintains radio silence, dodging bullets with Oscar… a new Kiwi toy for 2020, the word according to CLOUDS and a new Pacific match race. DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, ROGER BADHAM, PATRICE CARPENTIER, PETE BURLING AND CHARLES CAUDRELIER
34 Rod Davis – Redacted Five different ways to lap a racecourse faster that you’ve never thought about (OK… most of you)
36 ORC – Looking good DOBBS DAVIS is pleasantly surprised how many ‘non-Anglos’ plan to join him in Rhode Island…
65 RORC news – On the move And of course everyone’s got an opinion… EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
66 TechStreet 67 – Technology 70 – Design 76 – Events
73Seahorsebuild table – Karma it is GIULIANO LUZZATTO AND MARK MILLS
82Seahorse regatta calendar
107 Sailor of the Month More gold medals than you can count
‘I think I might have hit something,’ said the new holder of the record for the longest 24-hour run in a Series Mini 6.50. We think that you very well might have done! Florian Quenot finds the reason his IDB Marine Maxi 650 Raison design was taking in water in the closing stages of the Mini Transat as he slipped down the order to finish 13th. Quenot’s mark translates to an average speed of 12.1kt on a 22ft production boat… in mid-Atlantic
CHRISTOPHE BRESCHI
GILLES MARTIN-RAGET
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