Contents October 2021 FEATURES
4 Back in the day PHIL UHL
20 Five hundred not out BLUE ROBINSON shares a little of the magic
38 Reaching through history It takes quite a lot to get ROB WEILAND excited about any new yacht race… but this one is unusually special
BUILT FOR IT With a good French crew the rough opening of this year’s Fastnet Race did not present any challenges for Eric Tabarly’s aluminium Whitbread racer Pen Duick VI, launched in 1973 and, having been completely restored, now skippered by Tabarly’s daughter Marie. In the final reckoning Pen Duick ended up 161st overall in an IRC fleet of 350 – not dishonourable for a much travelled lady who is now getting on a bit… The 50-year-old Mauric design also ended up 140th on the water, finishing in among the 30 to 35-footers that made up the bulk of the 2021 race’s huge double handed entry. Given that this powerful 73-footer will always be at her best in exactly the rough conditions that featured for around 50 per cent of the latest race, that is some reminder of the progress made in yacht design and construction in those 50-odd intervening years. In fact, Marie Tabarly crossed the finish line in Cherbourg 11 minutes astern of Patrice Carpentier and François Moriceau racing two-handed on their little JPK 10.30 and a couple of minutes ahead of another fancied two-handed entry, the Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300 Fastrak XII. In the wider picture it was encouraging to see a few of the early hopefuls for the still-born Olympic offshore medal come to the line in Cowes, including Henry Bromby and gold medallist Shirley Robertson – second overall. Others have already canned their campaigns but even a brief glimpse of the Olympic flame gave the two-handed movement another fillip and some of those attracted by the tantalising prospect of an Olympic medal may yet stick around. Perhaps LA 28 is still an outside possibility?
COVER: Rick Tomlinson
42 Just the nine lives? Spend long enough on the ocean and eventually you will encounter a rather special NIGEL IRENS-designed catamaran… one that is now well into its 38th ‘season’. NIC COMPTON
49 The sum of the parts ANDREW MCDOUGALL gave us the first and since then the majority of competitive production built Moth foilers; now he has a new one. ‘Amac’ has also helped hundreds of more impecunious sailors share the foiling life. BLUE ROBINSON
54 Setting the standard Whitbread and AC racer DAWN RILEY is truly indefatigable… as CAROL CRONIN finds out
58 Stunner ANDY RICE was in Enoshima where he got to watch the unforgettable ‘Four Medal Race Day’
67 We’re back!!!
Thanks to incredible perseverance and hard work this winter we are going to have a proper Caribbean racing season. CAROL BAREUTHER
SUPERYACHTS
86 Blue water super cruiser ROLF VROLIJK, JOHAN SIEFER, ELISABET HOLM AND KIERAN FLATT tell the story behind Vrolijk and Baltic’s latest superyacht, Path
REGULARS
6 Commodore’s letter JAMES NEVILLE
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST
14 Update First words, a rough start, back to Archimedes, brokerage hindsight, follow that (Cup) money, half a million sea-miles and the final freedom. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, HALVARD MABIRE, ØYVIND BJORDAL
22World news Travels through times and designs in southern California, old faces big impact, upwind or down… that typi- cal old Transpac dilemma, knots for the dollar. Also Vendée Globe bang- for-the-euro, Class40s, Imocas, Mini 6.50s all going nuts, PR games in Auck- land… and peace at last for BELCHER AND RYAN. PATRICE CARPENTIER,
IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBIN- SON, VICTOR KOVALENKO, GRANT DAL- TON, MICHAEL BLACKBURN, IAN LIPINSKI, YANNICK BESTAVEN… Plus some nice final words from PATRICK TEARNAN in Tokyo
36 Rod Davis – Bad taste There’s little appetite in evidence outside the gates of Team New Zealand for the possibility of the America’s Cup defence being sold off overseas
40 ORC – Notes from a regatta An interesting new design from MATTEO POLLI and a tidy win for fellow designer MARK MILLS
62 Tech Street
66 RORC – Falling close to the tree JEREMY WILTON 74Seahorse regatta calendar
83Seahorsebuild table – (Genuinely) fit for purpose And PAUL BIEKER’s got us another one
119 Sailor of the Month Where did we say that we’d make it easy for you?
The violent storm that hit the 1996/97 Vendée Globe in the Southern Ocean led to three of the ‘great escapes’ recorded in our first 500 issues. Tragically it also took from us Gerry Roufs – a wonderful yachtsman and a good friend of this magazine. Fortunate survivors of those awful hours included Thierry Dubois, Tony Bullimore and Raphael Dinelli (left) who was heroically saved by Pete Goss
PETE GOSS/ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE/PPL
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