Sail Racing Magazine | maj 2013
Finns att ladda ner här. Nyheter om nya Oracle, VOR-teamen och en bra intervju med Fredrik Lööfs coach, Mark Ivey.
Knut Frostad: preparing for 2014-15.
There are still 19 months to go to the start of the next Volvo Ocean Race, but at the Alicante HQ in southern Spain the race organising team have been working flat out since before the last race ended in Galway in 2012.
We caught up with Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad shortly after the course for the 2014-15 race was officially confirmed.Richard Brisius: Team SCA Update.
Few people can draw on more Volvo Ocean Race campaign experience than Team SCA managing director Richard Brisius. He competed twice in the Whitbread days and went on to run campaigns for Intrum Justicia (93-94), EF Language/Education (97-98), Assa Abloy (01-02) and twice for Ericsson (05-06 & 08-09).
Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm spoke to Brisius recently from Sweden to get an update on the Team SCA campaign.Sam Davies: the life of a Team SCA new recruit.
Britain’s Samantha Davies is arguably the most high profile female sailor around right now and it came as no surprise that after crashing out early in the Vendee Globe Race with a broken mast, she was almost immediately snapped up by the SCA all-women’s campaign for the next Volvo Ocean Race.
When we interviewed Davies recently from the SCA training base in Lanzarote, she told us that being able to immerse herself in a new campaign so quickly had helped to soften the blow of her early exit from the Vendee Globe.Paul Goodison: Olympic time out.
British Laser sailor Paul Goodison went into the London 2012 Olympic Games as defending champion with high hopes of claiming his second gold medal on home waters. However, a painful back injury early in the series effectively ended his medal defence hopes.
In this exclusive interview with Sail Racing Magazine, Goodison tells how he expunged some of the misery of that Olympic disappointment with a world championship victory in the Melges 32 class and explains why he has not yet decided whether to try for Olympic glory again in Rio in 2016.Charlie McKee: US Sailing High Performance Director.
By their own high standards, the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team turned in a lacklustre performance at the London 2012 Olympics.
Despite fielding serious contenders in several classes, the squad failed to reach the podium in any class – a result which has prompted a serious rethink by the US Sailing authority.
Earlier this year, American professional sailor Charlie McKee was appointed as High Performance Director and tasked with rebuilding his country’s Olympic sailing squad into a potent international force. McKee is well respected on the pro-sailing circuit and has two Olympic bronze medals of his own (in the 470 class in 1988 with John Shadden and in the 49er in 2000 with his brother Jonathan). He also coached the U.S. windsurfers in 1992, when Michael Gebhardt won silver and has been involved in two America’s Cup campaigns.
In our interview with McKee, we quiz him on what his new job entails and find out what he thinks it takes to transition from aspiring Olympian to standing on the Olympic podium.Mark Ivey: Gold Star coach.
The London 2012 Olympic regatta produced some spectacular racing with the all important double points medal races held in front of an enthusiastic capacity crowd overlooking the tricky Nothe race course.
When the top ten in the Star class lined up for their medal race decider, all eyes were on the expected head to head battle which pitched British defending Olympic champions Ian Percy and Andrew Simpson against world champions Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada from Brazil.
The race did not go according to the script however, as it was the Swedish Star veteran Freddie Loof and his Olympic newcomer crew Max Salminen who won the medal race and in doing so snatched the gold medal from under the noses of the favourites.
The first person to congratulate Loof and Salminen and confirm their victory was American sailing coach Mark Ivey who had spent the previous 12 months helping to mould the pair into a gold medal winning crew.
We caught up with Ivey near his home in Sausalito, California to find out exactly what had gone into that gold medal winning performance.Sam Goodchild: takes on the French.
Twenty-three year old British offshore sailor Sam Goodchild is deep in preparation for his third attempt at the iconic French solo race Le Solitaire du Figaro which takes place this June.
A graduate of the British Artemis Offshore Academy which aims to help aspiring UK sailors make their mark on the grand prix offshore scene, Goodchild is now managing his own campaign and has secured financial support from a number of sources, including a private backer who has paid for the purchase of a boat for the 2013 edition of the Figaro.
We tracked him down at his training base in France’s Port La Foret to find out more about how he intends to take on the French in their own back yard. First off, we asked him to explain what the almost 2000 mile race was all about.Clipper’s new 70 footer.
As the old fleet of Clipper yachts get a major upgrade for the 2013-14 Clipper Round the World Race, UK journalist Will Carson was among the first to test the new Clipper 70.
Is talent enough? asks Ian Gotts.
I am sure you have great sailing skills. You are a natural. Your boat handling skills mean that you always hit the line with pace when the gun goes. You can sense that left hand shift coming. You are able to hook into that wave pattern better than all those around you.
But is it enough to make it in the rarified atmosphere of professional sailboat racing? And if not, what other skills do you need?Pilote Media: ‘Get Sponsored’ webinar series.
Five years ago, marketing consultant David Fuller started a blog about sponsorship in sailing. His aim was to help the sport of sailing recognise best practise and showcase some of the ways in which brands like Hugo Boss, Banque Populaire, Rolex and others leverage sailing to promote their products and services.
Now he has come up with an interesting new initiative – a series of online webinars designed to give sailors the skills they need to compete with other athletes on a different field of play – the corporate boardroom.
We caught up with Fuller recently to find out what his webinars series were all about.Michael Menninger:American Youth Sailing Force.
The San Francisco based American Youth Sailing Force are one of two teams selected to represent America’s Cup holders Oracle Team USA in the inaugural Red Bull Youth America’s Cup this summer.
Very much the local team in the event, the core AYSF squad is comprised of sailors from the San Francisco Bay Area, nearby Santa Cruz and Seattle.
Their helmsman Michael Menninger, however, is a newcomer to the crew and we tracked him down in San Francisco to find out more about the team and their preparation for the big event this July.Chris Cameron: shooting the big cats.
The new generation of America’s Cup 72 catamarans have changed the face of sailing’s oldest and most high profile competition in innumerable ways; none more so than the potential for some truly spectacular photographic output.
The advent of the new boats has forced sailing’s elite band of professional photographers to up their game accordingly to keep ahead of the performance curve and they develop new techniques and tricks to capture the high speed on-the-water action.
We quizzed Emirates Team New Zealand official photographer Chris Cameron to find out how he has faced up to the challenges of photographing the AC72s in training and how he plans to shoot the boats when they are racing.Russell Coutts: Oracle Team USA launch second boat.
With four America’s Cup victories to his name, Oracle Team USA CEO Russell Coutts knows a thing or two about how to put together a winning campaign.
We cornered Coutts at the launch of OTUSA’s second AC72 at the end of April to get his assessment of where the defending team were up to.
Coutts told us his team had come along way since the dark days of the catastrophic capsize of their first boat at the end of 2012 and even suggested that in some ways they had benefited from the incident.