Just passing through
A few years ago on his Jules Verne-winning cat Orange 2 Bruno Peyron completed the UK’s Round the Island Race as first finisher, then dropped off his guests, took onboard new VIPs and went around again. When he finished the second time he was still mid-fleet. This winter’s 2020/21 Vendée Globe threatens something similar, Patrice Carpentier predicts
To use as a reference the chronometers on the speed runs of the Défi Azimut held in Lorient in mid-September, we deduce that the Imoca fleet now demonstrate very considerable differences in speed with, on the one hand, one-mile covered at more than 23kt by L’Occitane, the record of the day, and on the other hand the modest 15.71kt average for V&B Mayenne, the fastest of the conventional sailing boats with boards.
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Behind the scenes
Three-time world champion in 470s Hamish Willcox moved on into a successful career as an America’s Cup and Olympic coach and met man… while with wife Ulrika producing two children each Olympians and in two entirely different disciplines. As Andy Rice explains, for the man the Oracle sailors called their ‘Weather Padrone’ the big successes continue to pile up
Who bursts on to the scene and wins an Olympic class world championship at their first attempt? Especially at the age of 21.
Hamish Willcox, with fellow young Kiwi David Barnes, achieved just that when they embarked on their 470 campaign and competed at the 1981 World Championships in Quiberon in Brittany. So how did two young New Zealanders fly from the other side of the world to beat so many legends in their first senior international championship?
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They rewrote the rulebook
Illingworth & Primrose – a yacht design house bestriding the ocean-racing world alongside and equal in influence to Sparkman & Stephens in the early years of the breakthrough period for ocean racing and yacht design that has led us to where we are today… in the age of flying foilers. Julian Everitt is let loose on one of his favourite topics
Ocean racing is a relative newcomer to the world of racing yachts, of mixed sizes, against one another. True, the Bermuda Race was started in 1906 by the then editor of Rudder Magazine, who believed that a yacht didn’t need to be over 80ft long to be safe at sea. The concept of a race across the open ocean to Bermuda from mainland America proved to be immediately popular, but it wasn’t until 1925 that the second classic ocean race was born in the form of the Fastnet. Sadly yet another world war had then to take place before the third offshore classic – the Sydney to Hobart Race – was born in 1945.
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