Contributors EDITOR
Andrew Hurst DESIGNER
Stephen Stafford
SUB-EDITOR Sue Platt
EUROPE
Tapio Lehtinen and his ailing yacht completed the 2018 Golden Globe 111 days after the winner. In 2022 he sank… Tenacious
Patrice Carpentier Carlos Pich Tim Jeffery
Manuel Fluck Andy Rice
Giuliano Luzzatto Jocelyn Blériot Øyvind Bordal Franck Cammas Magnus Wheatley
USA & CARIBBEAN Dobbs Davis
Peter Holmberg Cam Lewis
Chris Museler Carol Cronin
Dan Bernasconi…is the chief magic-man behind the curtain at TNZ. And the first to decide that one foil in the water will do it
JAPAN Yoichi Yabe
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Ivor Wilkins
Blue Robinson Rob Brown Rob Kothe
Julian Bethwaite
COLUMNISTS Paul Cayard Rod Davis
Rob Weiland Sam Goodchild
AMERICA’S CUP Steve Killing
Keith Musto OBE…you know his clothing, perhaps once his sails. A fast sailor who sums up everything that is best about his sport
Andy Claughton Jack Griffin
Terry Hutchinson Dave Hollom
DESIGN & HERITAGE Clare McComb Julian Everitt Nic Compton Dan Houston
TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS Kieren Flatt & Lizzie Ward
ACCOUNTS & CIRCULATION Kirstie Jenkins & Liz Beeson
Rob Humphreys led the counter-attack when yacht design was first subsumed by the French, Kiwis and Americans in the 1980s
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It often takes that little love tap to prove your point. The 2024 Bermuda Women’s Match Race series was won by Pauline Courtois’ Normandy team Match in Pink… by winning the final event of 2024 they also secured the Women’s World title for a fifth time. Sweden’s Johnny Berntsen took the Men’s round in Bermuda but the USA’s Chris Poole won the 2024 tour overall
Mediterranean this year and the data shows significant increases in CAPE in the region over the past 10 years. The three young two-handed RORC teams currently racing
around Italy in the 1,500nm Nastro Rosa Il Veloce race will be wise to keep a good look-out for squalls. This challenging race from Venice round to Genoa, sailed in Figaro 3s, is a fantastic opportunity for our six young sailors from the UK, Netherlands, Italy and the United States. We wish them luck and thank our partners at Nastro Rosa for the opportunity. The ultimate offshore yacht race – the Vendée Globe – will
be well underway when this column is published. The race is bigger than ever, with 40 entrants, and the standard of com- petition will be intense. This year the race will feature biodiversity protection zones, keeping these foiling boats out of important breeding and feeding grounds for cetaceans, plus 25 of the 40 skippers will support scientific research during their voyages. Having hit a whale one night during a transatlantic passage, I commend the Imoca fleet on this initiative. Closer to home, our Admiral, Michael Greville,
stands down at the end of this year after 22 years of service as a RORC committee member, trea- surer and flag officer. I shall miss his wise coun- sel. Our volunteers may no longer spend days in the lighthouse on the Fastnet Rock, but I thank all who give their time to our sport.
Deb Fish Commodore
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s I watched yachts start the Rolex Middle Sea Race in Valetta’s beautiful harbour I wished I was racing. Twenty-four hours later I wasn’t so sure. The fleet was hit by an intense thunderstorm and waterspouts causing winds to increase from 15 to 60kt in minutes. Sails were shredded, masts
lost and rudders damaged. Even experienced sailors such as Géry Trentesaux had never seen conditions like it before. So congratulations to all who completed a challenging race, particularly Carl-Peter Forster and his young mixed crew on Red Bandit, overall winner under IRC. Around a third of the boats already entered for next summer’s Admiral’s Cup were also competing in Malta. The excitement is building. Many sailors feel that they are observing changes to our
climate, whether it be more severe weather or the vast blooms of sargassum in the Caribbean. The ingredients for thunder- storms are moisture, instability (Convective Available Potential Energy, CAPE) and a trigger – something that causes surface air to lift to the point where moisture starts to condense. Severe thunderstorms (and waterspouts) also require large changes in wind speed and direction with height. It is impossible to attribute any single extreme weather event to climate change, but record sea surface temperatures were observed in the
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