Yachts & Yachting – August 2019

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Editor Rob Peake

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News and Digital Editor Chris Rosamond

Art Editor Gareth Lloyd Jones

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Clubs & Classes Editor Paula Irish

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Contributors: Bob Fisher, Rupert Holmes,

Paula Irish, Rob Kothe, Mark Rushall, Sue Pelling,

Andy Rice, Andi Robertson

Cover image: Scarlet Oyster, photographed at Antigua

Sailing Week 2019 by Ed Whiting/fromtheblue.co.uk

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WRITERS THIS MONTH INCLUDE...

Flying high

T

he SailGP series, in its young life, has

attracted probably about the amount

of coverage that founder Larry Ellison

hoped for – tons. Like any idea that

shakes things up a bit, that coverage

has not always been partisan, but while the

traditionalists stand around being sni y, Larry’s

one-design F50s are out there putting on a hell

of a show. In August the show comes to Cowes,

having wowed thousands of onlookers in Sydney,

San Francisco and most recently New York, where

the GBR team were lucky to be back racing shortly

a er a high-speed capsize.  e Solent should

be slightly easier than the narrow con nes and

unpredictable gusts of the Hudson River, but the

Solent ain’t that easy. Watching these precarious

machines screaming along at near 50 knots just

yards o the green is going to be something to

remember. As o cial media partner of SailGP

Cowes, we preview the event in full on page 28.

 e debate of the moment is the America’s Cup

and even Mr Bertelli has joined in on this one,

letting o steam in the Italian press. Are the boats

too radical, will anyone be able to sail them, let

alone race them, will they break, should we have

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Rob Peake, Editor

Musto Ski

sailor, Andy

Rice, has an

unparalleled

knowledge

of the dinghy

scene from

grass roots

sailing to

Olympic level

Saskia Clark

sailed in three

Olympics in

the 470 class,

winning silver

and gold

with Hannah

Mills. Saskia’s

new book is

out now

Stalwart of the

Solent racing

scene, Rupert

Holmes is a

successful

sailor, RYA

keelboat race

coach, and

freelance

journalist

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had a more traditional format, should we have stuck

with the boats from the last Cup, is it all getting too

expensive? Each one of these points has been hotly

debated before every America’s Cup going back to

Herresho and beyond.  e Cup attracts madness

and magic in equal measure – long may that be the

case. Bob Fisher gets the Cup latest on page 15.

Writing this, I’m back in the o ce a er a Round

the Island Race that was both eventful and non-

eventful. We made it to Ventnor before zero wind and

not much dinner on board persuaded us to pack it in.

I was sailing with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust

and despite the retirement had one of the greatest

days on the water that

I’ve ever had. My full

report is next month.

Meanwhile we cover

the results on page 6.

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