YACHTING YEAR T H E U LT I M AT E S A I L I N G S O U V E N I R
CRUISING | CLASSICS | RACING
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FIVE GO ROUND THE ISLAND The Nutter family – Craig, Kate, Jack, Molly and their Harrison Butler cutter Sabrina – enjoy a day to remember in the Round the Island Race WORDS CRAIG NUTTER
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On the nose The Class 40 fleet blasts its way out of Le Havre at the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre enroute to Martinique. In the end it turned out to be a very truncated start as the fleet was forced to seek shelter in Lorient, Brittany, as northern Europe was battered by Storm Ciaran which brought 50kn winds and enormous seas. The fleet of Class 40s and IMOCAs was forced wait the best part of a week for the storms to subside.
Photo: Jeam Marie Liot/Alea
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FIVE GO ROUND THE ISLAND The Nutter family – Craig, Kate, Jack, Molly and their Harrison Butler cutter Sabrina – enjoy a day to remember in the Round the Island Race WORDS CRAIG NUTTER
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A loch is the key Sailing can mean many things to many people but words that often come up when you talk about our sport are ‘freedom’ and ‘isolation’. Well, what image better sums up that desire to get away from it all than this? Sailing in splendid isolation across Loch Eil in the highlands of Scotland. Now that really is getting away from it all Dave Skinner/Shutterstock. THE YACHTING YEAR 2018 | 11
THE
CRUISING YEAR AHEAD Sam Jefferson takes a look at the events and dates for the diary in 2023 -24 for cruising sailors
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METRE YACHTS AND BIG BOATS REBUILDS AND RESTORATION CONTINUE TO GROW Are we seeing a move back to the restoration of big sailing
1896. She sailed around the world in 1952-4 and plans to do
yachts? It’s almost certainly too early to call it a trend, but
the same when she is re-launched. The metre classes will no
looking back at 2023, we can see a great number of yachts
doubt continue their restoration boom; in fact, the 8-M class is
over 40ft (12.2m) have been rebuilt or restored – the words
undergoing something of a renaissance. In 2023, we saw the
are still nebulous and in contention. Whatever you call it, it’s
rebuilt 8-M Vision out racing after restoration, and she won
likely to continue, not least with the anticipated launch of
the ‘highly commended’ in our 2023 awards in the Restored
Cariad in Thailand, the 106ft composite gaff ketch built in
Sailing Vessel over 40ft category). A few months later, we
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MAIN PICTURE: The rebuilt 8-M Vision INSET ABOVE: The 1896 Cariad 106 composite gaff ketch
heard of the Fife III 8-M Fulmar racing at the worlds in Genoa, also the subject of a complete, recent restoration. There are a number of 10-Ms undergoing restoration simultaneously in Rome, and as for the 12-M class, there’s going to be a gold rush to get them ready for the America’s Cup (see ‘events’ page 32). she’s out of the shed and the mast has been stepped, so we’re guessing 2024 might be the year.
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Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion at the edge of Attica, Greece
St. Paul bay with acropolis of Lindos in background (Rhodes, Greece)
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