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THIS MONTH
APRIL 2015
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OPINION
66 How to win: Trapeze techniques
Step-by-step guidance from 470
6 News Olympic medallist Stuart Bithell
Hot topics from the racing scene
EQUIPMENT AND TRAVEL
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NEWS
ETNZ drops
Barker for AC35
Dean Barker has been dropped would be perfect for and that is
from the sailing squad of the role he has been offered.”
Emirates Team New Zealand Clearly this is a view Barker
as the team is forced to face does not share and says the
up to financial pressures position he can best serve
heading towards the 35th the team as a sailor is being
America’s Cup in Bermuda. part of the sailing team.
The announcement on 26 For some it had seemed
February came one week after obvious Barker would struggle
the story was leaked to the New to hold on to his position as
Zealand national press, where skipper following the hiring by
Barker claims he first heard about the team of high-performance
the move. “Well, unfortunately wonderkid, Pete Burling.
last week through a leak to the But to be bumped from
media I found out that I had been the sailing team altogether
dumped as the sailing director of is a surprise and brings into
Team New Zealand and today sharp focus more significant
I found out that was the case,” worries for the team.
commented an almost tearful “The world changed for us
Barker on New Zealand TV. when Bermuda was announced as
Barker has, instead been the venue for the next America’s
offered a coaching role, which cup,” explains Dalton. “We
Grant Dalton, the team’s have had to have our budget
managing director, says is cut. Until that time we had been
essential. “Oracle Racing was looking at three boats, two test
able to improve in San Francisco platforms and a new 62-footer.
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VOR final day thriller
Stand-in skipper, Xabi Fernandez steered
Mapfre to an impressive victory in leg four
of the Volvo Ocean Race into Auckland.
Fernandez was skippering the boat in the
absence of long-term sailing partner Iker Martinez
who has been due to miss a number of legs
owing to his Olympic sailing commitments.
For the best part of two days, the Spanish
boat had been in a tussle with Abu Dhabi and
Dongfeng for the honour of winning the 5,264nm
leg four from Sanya to the ‘City of Sails’.
In the end, they pipped Ian Walker’s Abu
Dhabi crew by four minutes 25 seconds, with the
Chinese boat, in turn, hot on the Emirates boat’s
heels in a showdown to the wire for second. Ian
Walker later pointed out that the boats were
closer than the in-port race finish in China.
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RORC posts race record
They said…
The course record for the RORC on every point of sail than the
Caribbean 600 has fallen as previous Rambler, but the weather
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70, really didn’t work for us this “I am gutted by the way I have been treated by Team New Zealand and the
Phaedo3 blasted across the year,” he said after the finish. management during this process. If that was the offer on the table last year I would
finish line in 1 day, 9 hours, “[She] is an exciting boat to race, not have rejoined the team.”
35 minutes and 30 seconds. powerful and really wet on deck.” Dean Barker is less than impressed with his new job offer from Team New Zealand
The team beat the record, set Meanwhile away from the
during the inaugural 600-mile lap records, it was third time lucky “Absolutely [Dean] knew there would be change. We have been
of the Caribbean islands set by for Hap Fauth’s American JV72 discussing a potential move since November.”
Claude Thelier and John Burnie’s Bella Mente who won the race Grant Dalton sees things rather differently
ORMA 60, Region Guadeloupe on handicap. The Maxi 72 has
by an impressive six hours 35 finished second overall for the “I drew a big eye [on the mast], looking down on the boat,
minutes and 35 seconds. past two years and this year was and then I wrote ‘one world, one strength’. If the crew works
During the opening stages of so nearly a disaster too: “Friday, together as one they will have more strength and they will
the race, it looked as though the before the race start, we had a prosper in the race.”
monohull course record might structural problem with the boat Miss World, Rolene Strauss, gives her top tips for winning in the
also fall to the newly launched and limped home from practice Volvo Ocean Race
Rambler 88. However this was to assess the problem,” Fauth
not to be as George David’s says. “We took the boat apart “If a boat is within the AIS range Pascal makes sure that he or one of
team struggled on a tight reach and for two days the shore team the crew is sitting at the desk with the microphone in hand, relaying
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“I changed my cereal. Someone told me Weetabix and bananas were the way
forward so I had Weetabix for breakfast and had a banana just before going out.
I had a shave too, so I am not sure what it is really: cereal, banana or shave.”
Michael Coxon of Thurlow Fisher Lawyers explains how his team beat the, until
then, unbeaten Gotta Love it 7 in race five of the 18ft Skiff JJ Giltinan Trophy
”I’m absolutely delighted. I’m not sure the winner has ever been a cat before so that
is ground-breaking stuff and I’m pleased that the cat has come of age. I’ve preached
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PHOTO: TIM “Being an empirical system, the PY [Portsmouth Yardstick] is not able to fully cater
for the nuances of each club’s fleets, sailors and boats which are squeezed together
into a national average for each class.”
This season’s hottest ticket
Bas Edmonds, RYA technical and racing services manager reiterates the RYA’s
encourgament for clubs to adjust PY handicaps for their own use as the 2015
This summer’s must-have Paid tickets will provide access numbers are revealed
tickets for The America’s Cup to the official event ‘Fanzone
World Series, Portsmouth Arena’, providing an ‘immersive’ “Ben Ainslie’s base was amazing. I can’t believe it’s been built that quickly.
(ACWSUK) officially went on America’s Cup experience, It doesn’t seem like a year ago that he was in Downing Street with some pictures
sale on Monday 2 March. while enjoying prime views of and some ideas that the government should help fund and I think it’s remarkable
Up to 500,000 visitors are the racecourse and access to how fast it’s gone.”
expected to attend the four-day exclusive event entertainment. PM, David Cameron, is impressed by Ben Ainslie Racing’s progress in Porstmouth
spectacular (23-26 July 2015) The free-to-view area will be
providing the opportunity to located on Southsea Common, to “I am getting ready to start training for Bart’s Bash this year. I know Ben Ainslie and
watch the world’s best sailors be named the Waterfront Festival Iain Percy are training hard as well because they are not happy that I beat them in
battling it out on high speed Arena, where only pre-registered last year’s Bart’s Bash.”
AC45 foiling catamarans. The ticket holders will gain access. Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill starts the pre-event fighting talk
spectator experience will cater Tickets are available early for 2015’s biggest event
for all tastes with both paid through ticketmaster.co.uk/
ticket and free-to-view options. ACWSPortsmouth
April 2015 Yachts & Yachting 7
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News
‘Bev’ Moss
In brief
With the news of the untimely
■ Team Alvimedica has launched a global death of Beverley ‘Bev’ Moss,
children’s heart health charity push. the world of dinghy racing has
become something of a quieter
■ Crewsaver has announced a partnership with place, as his ready smile and
Warsash Sailing Club, organisers of the Brooks wonderful and never-ending
Macdonald Warsash Spring Series. supply of jokes have now been
lost, writes David Henshall.
■ The fi rst-ever RS Aero Nationals has been As a teenager it looked as if
renamed National Championship and he might become a cricketer, but
International Open, thanks to the donation of instead it would be dinghy racing
charter boats for overseas sailors. that claimed his attentions. After
starting out in Merlin Rockets,
Bev was given a chance to crew
in a 505, which he immediately
knew was what he wanted
to do. Although a reasonable
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■ Calshot Activity Centre is to host the Sailing successful career. In later life he
Forum on Friday 22 May, bringing together moved into race management and Regatta at Weymouth in 2012. Bev Moss: top crew and top
forward thinkers in sailing, and those who are was on the team at the 505 and Our sympathies go to Sue, man, ashore and afl oat
passionate about the future of the sport. Laser Worlds, then at the Olympic Tracy and all the family. September 1941-February 2015.
■ Venue sign-up has opened for the second
Dinghy Show success
Bart’s Bash, due to take place on Sunday
Great
20 September.
The event many see as the marker for the start of the UK
reading
■ The fi rst Elvstrøm UK Authorised Dealer has season, the RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show in association with
been announced as Nickys Canvasworks and Sail Yachts & Yachting proved a roaring success in its traditional
Clinic, based in Brighton Marina. location of Alexandra Palace, North London. This month, our sister title
As ever the event was awash with new kit and new boats as well Sailing Today looks at
■ Fed Week is to be renamed Chichester as old friends meeting up before the season gets into full swing. innovative antifouls, reviews
Harbour Race Week for this year’s 52nd edition Attendance fi gures were impressive with some 9,500 visitors the Rustler 37 and gets to
of the August regatta. to the site and a 20 per cent increase in pre-sold tickets. grips with the art of drying
As usual, a number of awards and celebrations took place, out against a harbour wall.
■ Brightlingsea Sailing Club has been including the RYA Regional Youth Champion Awards (pictured). Meanwhile Classic Boat
awarded the RYA’s Club of the Year at the For information about the RYA Suzuki Dinghy concludes its look at the rise
RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show. Show go to yachtsandyachting.co.uk of the bermudan rig, goes
cruising in wooden boat
■ The RS200 class association has voted to heaven in Maine, USA and
update the sailplan and deck moulding. The new brings you its annual
sails will be available from May. eevveennttss gguuiiddee..
■ The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation has
awarded the National Schools Sailing Association
a grant of £23,000.
■ Chilgrove Gin has been named the offi cial gin
partners of Cowes Week 2015.
■ Sunsail is to become the offi cial sailing
partner and event sponsor of the Associated
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News Spotlight
DREAMS
DESTROYED
With Paralympic sailing removed from the 2020 programme, Toby Heppell investigates its future
The International hovered at much the same level, IFDS stating that this was a first
Paralympic Committee from 22 nations in 2000 to 23 draft of the submission and that
(IPC) announced the final nations in 2012 - statistics the IPC the federation had since gone back
tranche of sporting events will see as a significant indicator to the IPC. “IPC had requested all
to be included in the 2020 of the sport’s global reach. international federations to answer a
Paralympic Games in Japan Paralympic sailing for much of this comprehensive, complex questionnaire,
on 31 January 2015, significantly time has fallen under the remit of the which a small working group within
missing sailing from that list. International Association for Disabled IFDS produced by the 28 July 2014
Sailing was first introduced to the Sailing (IFDS). But in November deadline,” he stated. “Most of the
Paralympics as a demonstration sport 2014 a merger had brought disabled items of this initial document came
in 1996 and has seen an increase in sailing firmly into the ISAF camp. back flagged orange or red [indicating
ABOVE Helena Lucas won classes from one initially, to two in With reference to the decision by moderate or significant concern
Britain’s first Paralympic 2000 and three from 2008 onwards. IPC, IFDS stated that it “responded in respectively], as can be seen on the pdf
gold in sailing in 2012 And at the London 2012 Paralympic a timely and comprehensive manner document that is circulating. IPC was
Games the event drew the highest to queries from IPC, with details of insufficiently explicit in describing their
BELOW The IPC view number of Paralympic sailors ever. sailors that participate regularly in expectancies, and the general nature
all three classes as Significantly, however, the number international regattas or national of the answers lacked appropriate
‘individual sports’ of nations attending the regatta has championships, on Paralympic boats”. examples and irrefutable data. Both
A few weeks after the decision the completed questionnaire, and
was announced, though, a pdf copy IPC’s response were preliminary
of what appeared to be the result of working documents and it is both
IFDS’s presentation to IPC surfaced, misplaced and destructive to criticise
which did not make for easy reading. IFDS based on these documents!”
The document contains a number of Within that communication
seemingly basic omissions in terms of Destrubé goes on to explain where
data provided by IFDS regarding the sailing remained unfeasible (in the
global reach of the sport and concludes: eyes of the IPC) for inclusion in the
‘Quality of the application: Generally Paralympic Games going forward.
poor with very little information Four areas remained of concern
provided, claims not backed up by including rules and regulations,
data, some questions not answered.’ finances, quadrennial competition
10 days after this, a response programme and worldwide reach.
came from Bernard Destrubé at the On this final point Destrubé told
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