Right
An all-British
podium at the
2016 Worlds
in Japan saw
Goodison take the
win ahead of Rob
Greenhalgh (left)
and Chris Rashley
Below
Of the start in
Bermuda;the
trend towards
deck-sweeping
mainsails can
clearly be seenwas closing him down, losing to the
Australian by just a length at the inish.
“hat was pretty much the most exciting
racing of the championships, trying to
claw him back. And then the last race I
managed to win by quite a big margin
again. It was quite a stressful day though.”
Goody said thank you to a lot of
people who had pitched in to help him
get back on the water earlier in the day.
“I couldn’t have done it without my
girlfriend Julia and [USA competitor]
Brad Funk’s coach Brett and then the
team at Maguire who were on their
way to help put it all back together
and get me out there. I owed a lot
of people drinks that evening!”AN EARLY WRAP
hat would prove to be the end of the
regatta as the wind refused to play for
the remaining days. A bit of a damp
squib, but a resounding victory for
Goodison all the same. he winning
scores were 1,1,DNC,1,2,1. Jensen might
have come second but for two gear
failures, only one of which he could
discard. His scores of 5,DNC,1,2,1,DNC
relegated Goobs to 10th overall.
While the Australian was using the
same hull and foil package by Exocet,
designed and built in Britain by Kevin
Ellway and Simon Maguire respectively,
GoodisonkeptacloseeyeonJensen’s
new rig set-up from North Sails. He
wasoneofanumberoftopsailors
experimenting with the increasingly
popular trend in deck-sweeper rigs thatrace track in Bermuda. But now it’s a
good 18 months until the next Worlds
due to take place in Perth, Western
Australia. Plenty of time for things
to move on in leaps and bounds.
Goody hopes to be back to see if
he can become the irst ever sailor to
achieve four back-to-back world titles.
But all that depends on whether his
new employer gives him the time out
from America’s Cup duties. At the time
of writing, the 40-year-old had signed
the contract but wasn’t at liberty to say
which Cup team had hired him. Bearing
in mind that the new AC75 concept
lookslikeagiantMothonsteroids,could
there be any better choice for the next
America’s Cup than Paul Goodison,
three-time Moth World Champion?try to ‘end plate’ the air gap between
rig and boat. It’s becoming popular in
high performance multihulls but there
are a number of practical problems
that remain diicult to solve. A lack
of training time during a particularly
cold winter at Lake Garda, Goody’s
residence of choice these days, made
him decide to stick with what he knew
fromthepreviousyear.Goodyhas
worked closely with Mike Lennon and
CST masts to produce a rig package that
lattensoutnicelyupwindbutisalsovery
efective at deepening up and generating
more power for the ofwind legs.
It’s that versatility and variability
of sail depth that rivals have been
struggling to emulate. Goody had little
to fear from new developments on theWatch the round
up video online
yachtsandyachting.
JUNICHI HIRAI/ BULKHEAD MAGAZINE JAPAN; BEAU OTTERIDGE co.uk
July 2018 Yachts & Yachting 45