Contents June 2019 FEATURES
4 Oops JESUS RENEDO
32 One hundred years later Let’s focus on what can be achieved and then leave people to do their jobs. ROB WEILAND
Attention to detail Although it’s not easy to spot there really is an open sail hatch under there (a hatch within a hatch) from which the next headsail is emerging. As much as the design and build of performance sailing superyachts gets better with every launch, so do all the tiny details so well incorporated into these boats that most of them are hard to identify without very close inspection. Mooring fairleads which disappear, high load-bearing folding cleats, apparently seamless expanses of flush teak deck that on the press of a couple of buttons open up to reveal tenders, jacuzzis and on the largest yachts the occasional bathing pool. The brief to the designers, engineers and builders usually carries a similar introduction: ‘please deliver a beautiful yacht, a fast cruising yacht, a superbly comfortable yacht, one that motors well and has an easy motion at sea, a yacht that when cruising requires the minimum number of professional crew, a yacht that with a bit of work on the dockside can quickly be reconfigured and go out and win races on the competitive superyacht regatta circuit – of course without requiring unsightly special equipment. You must also incorporate the most advanced sails and rigging – for reasons of performance under sail, minimal rolling motion at anchor and under power, and also, of course, because this is not only superyacht world but also superyacht-owner world where it is important to stay one piece of trick technology ahead of everybody else.’ The only thing that turns this potential nightmare of customer demands into the world’s most fun technical playground is that there is usually a reasonable budget to work with… just as well
COVER: Carlo Borlenghi/Alea
36 Taming the talent It takes time but eventually the full picture emerges of most of the great sporting heroes. And so we learn that CHARLIE BARR was not an easy man to manage. JOHN ROUSMANIERE
38 Orphan child no more? Did the code zero really first appear on the dock in Southampton at the start of the 1993/94 Whitbread Round the World Race or was it a re-boot of something that had been around for quite a while? BRIAN HANCOCK
40 (Truly) something else
– Part II Turning the Eagle 53 foiling cat and its Hybrid Wing into reality was not the work of a moment. PAUL BIEKER, RANDY SMYTH, STEPHEN ROBERT, WOLFGANG CHAMBERLAIN
46 The new norm – Part II If we are to plough on into the world of foiling Ultims we are going to be relying increasingly on the quality of the maths. RENAUD BAÑULS
50 Time to catch up This may well be the most important Seahorse article you ever read. EDIT OLASZ HARKEN
56 Too good to refuse? Rhode Island’s long love affair with the America’s Cup shows no sign of easing up. ERIC HALL
REGULARS
8 Commodore’s letter STEVEN ANDERSON
11 Editorial ANDREW HURST Surely things cannot go on like this… can they?
14 Update Of business and billionaires, some things just don’t work out, an unwanted rocky start… and it’s (truly) a Laser fiasco. Plus it takes a lot to persuade us to do a book review, but sometimes… JACK GRIFFIN,TERRY HUTCHINSON, WILL HARRIS, ROB KOTHE, RODNEY PATTISSON
20World news Massive Macif, getting it together in Ultim world, GABART’s little ‘sprint’, TONY RAE’s determination not to go sailing, taking it (very) seriously with BLUE ROBINSON. Plus Charleston rocks (yet again). PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, BIANCA COOK, DOBBS DAVIS, CHARLIE DALIN
28 Rod Davis – cause and consequence
Hitting the right performance at the right moment
30 52 Super Series All-carbon gatecrash. ANDI ROBERTSON
34 ORC – A more pragmatic approach ... is paying dividends. ANDY CLAUGHTON
59Seahorsebuild table
– Crowdfunding We’re in if you guys are. UMBERTO FELCI 62Seahorse regatta calendar
64 RORC news –Man overboard EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
65 TechStreet
101 Sailor of the Month Recognising all the talents
We are always on the case looking into proposed new ways to recycle at least a proportion of all the GRP that is littering the world. In the BVI (left) there are today still dozens of wrecked yachts lying around after Irma, many now pushed out of sight in coves. Globally there are good initiatives appearing but all on a small scale. Until there is institutional interest we will just carry on tinkering around the edges
INGRID ABERY
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