Yachts & Yachting — March 2018

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IN BRIEF

New Cowes director

Awarded Four time Paralympian

Hannah Stodel has been awarded the

RYA Yachtmaster of the Year 2017 for

her fi rst class sailing skills and

empathy for others when passing her

RYA Yachtmaster. She was presented

with the award by HRH The Princess

Royal at the London Boat Show.

Enter Entry is now open for all

Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC)

races, including the Season’s Points

Championship comprised of 14

races, as well as the highlight of

the UK Solent season – the IRC

European Championship and

Commodores’ Cup.

Underway The modified MOD70,

Maserati has set off on its attempt to

set a new Hong Kong to UK record.

The team left Hong Kong on 18

January and will need to cross the

finish in London before 1 March to

beat the record.

Support A new charity has been

setup in Poole. Leading Lights, run

by Ormiston Trust in conjunction with

Trinity House, was created to inspire

the next generation of female

business leaders through sailing.

Turboed The Ultime trimaran,

Macifhas gone into the Keroman

Technologies yard in France for a

five-month refit. The boat, which

recently set a new solo round the

world record with skipper Francois

Gabbart at the helm is widely

rumoured to be getting hydrofoils.

GREAT READING

This month our sister

magazine, Sailing Today,

tests the radical design of

the Beneteau 51.1 – and in a

Mediterranean special, Rod

Heikell demystifies the

Mistral, and other Med

winds. Meanwhile, Classic

Boat’s Nigel Sharp reports

on the Admiral’s Cup

Regatta in Sydney, while

Rob Peake writes about

the Tore Holm Bermudan

cutter, Havsörnen. Finally

the Blackwater Sloop is

CB’s ‘affordable classic’.

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Paralympic return?

The International

Paralympic Committee

(IPC) has announced

that Sailing, along with

Cerebral Palsy Football,

Golf, and Powerchair

Football, have all

progressed to the next

stage of the application

process for Paris 2024.

This means the four

sports will be up for

inclusion on the Paris

2024 Paralympic

programme. But the

decision from the IPC

does not mean the four

sports are guaranteed

to feature in the French

capital in six years’ time.

This is far from the

fi nal hurdle, but getting

over this fi rst hurdle to

be included in the

sports potentially

making it to Paris is a

positive sign that

changes in Paralympic

sailing are having the

desired effect.

Boat Show boosted

The newly changed London Boat Show, which this

year took place over five days for the first time, has

been hailed a success by industry members and

featured a star-studded evening for the Y&Y Awards

presentation 2018.

The 14 winners of Y&Y Awards were presented

with their trophies on the evening of Thursday 11

January in front of the packed crowd at the show’s

Legends’ Theatre. “It’s an honour to even be

nominated among these huge names in sailing, let

alone win,” commented Alex Thomson on receiving

his award for Pro Sailor of the Year. RICHARD LANGDON; C/O LENDY COWES WEEK; BENEDETTA PIT SCHEIDER; ALEX IRWIN

Laurence Mead has been announced as the new

regatta director for Lendy Cowes Week.

The director’s responsibilities are to lead all

on-the-water aspects of the regatta and Mead

will join existing management team members

Kate Johnson and Andrew Rayner.

Laurence is no stranger to Cowes Week

having raced at the world-famous regatta for

the fi rst time in 1982. He has competed in

everything from Flying Fifteens to IRC Class 1

and was also class president of the Etchells.

He brings a range of business expertise,

having headed up a number of companies as

CEO. Laurence says his principal aim is to work

hard at modernising the regatta – while also

being mindful of the event’s heritage.

8 Yachts & Yachting March 2018 yachtsandyachting.co.uk