BREEZE Magazine July-August 2021 by RNZYS

BREEZE

Issue No. 236 • July — August 2021

Official Publication of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron

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Cover: The new Dehler 30 One Design being put through its paces on the Waitemata Harbour – Photo by Ivor Wilkins. EDITORIAL Please address all editorial correspondence to the Editor, Ivor Wilkins ivorw@xtra.co.nz Phone 09 425 7791 ADVERTISING inklink@xtra.co.nz Phone 09 378-1222. DISCLAIMER The views and opinions expressed in this magazine are purely those of the authors and are not necessarily the official view of the RNZYS, nor of the publishers. PERMISSION Reproduction rights in part or in full of the contents of this publication must be applied for from the Editor. DEADLINES For Sept – October Issue Editorial - 20 August Advertising booking - 20 August Advertising material due - 27 August Magazine posted - 3 September Layout and Typesetting by Ocean Press Ltd Printed by Soar Printing Registered as a magazine at the GPO, Wellington. ISSN 0113-7360

From the Commodore .........................................................................................................................................................7 From the CEO ...........................................................................................................................................................................8 Cruising Report .....................................................................................................................................................................10 Sailing Office Report ........................................................................................................................................................... 14 RNZYS Events ........................................................................................................................................................................16 Megan Thomson takes up the reins as RNZYS Racing Manager ............................................................. 18 Heather Lidgard: Trailblazer for women’s sailing .................................................................................................20 Hard Realities shape the future of NZ’s America’s Cup Defence ........................................................... 22 Covid lockdown inspires a swerve towards a bold future ........................................................................... 26 Small boat on a big ocean: Dehler 30 One Design .........................................................................................34 Hectic start to winter racing season .........................................................................................................................38 Support the Kawau tree planting and reforestation project ........................................................................ 44 Anzac Day Reflections at RNZYS ...............................................................................................................................46 Tantalising treats on Chef ’s new-look Members’ Bar menu ........................................................................ 47 A philanthropic bridging of two worlds ..................................................................................................................48 Great scenes at the RNZYS picnic ............................................................................................................................50 Summer stars shine bright at prize giving ...............................................................................................................52 Celebrating Mothers’ Day at the RNZYS ..............................................................................................................54 RNZYS 2021 Colin Forbes Easter Rally ..................................................................................................................55 Making the SailGP ‘circus’ run on time .....................................................................................................................56 Performance Programme Report ............................................................................................................................... 62 Youth Programme Report ............................................................................................................................................... 63 Classic Yacht Association Journal ..................................................................................................................................64 Marine Scene.............................................................................................................................................................................66 Directory Ads............................................................................................................................................................................68 FLAG OFFICERS Commodore Aaron Young 021 747 470 Vice Commodore Andrew Aitken 027 579 4194 Rear Commodore Gillian Williams 021 540 896 BREEZE MAGAZINE Editor Ivor Wilkins 09 425 7791 ivorw@xtra.co.nz Assistant Editor Debra Douglas 0211 856 846 chaucer@xtra.co.nz Advertising Debbie Whiting 09 378 1222 inklink@xtra.co.nz

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FROM THE COMMODORE After the club’s busiest-ever summer, we now find ourselves with a little more time to catch up and plan for the latter part of our 150th year. Another financial year has now ended and I am very proud to say it was an excellent year operationally and also for our Foundation. This was despite the Covid lockdowns forcing postponements and cancellations, closure of the club for periods and higher costs around the America’s Cup as host and defender. I sincerely thank all members for your support over the year, and also to the whole staff team who worked so hard to ensure we could all enjoy our great club. So many amongst that group go unnoticed, but without them we could not strive for our vision to be the world’s leading yacht club. My congratulations to all the 2020/21 Summer Series prize winners who we celebrated at the annual prizegiving with another great sold-out evening. Thanks to the Sailing Office for their hard work and passion in making all these sailing events happen. We also recognised the Race Management volunteers, who, along with our sponsors, make it possible for our sailors to enjoy the racing. One of my goals has been to grow and enhance club racing, given that’s where sailing starts for almost all of us. We are making progress here with increased winter fleet sizes; a number of new boats; a reinvigorated 40R division; and multihulls sailing with the RNZYS again. Leading on from this, our International Sailing Fund creates opportunities and assistance for

members to travel overseas to international events. Although many have been cancelled this year, we are lucky enough to have an event in Rarotonga that Barry Martin and crew won on the night, after a draw from all the divisional club champions. Club racing continues to be strong. Aside from the Doyle Sails Winter series, we held the Theland National Keelboat Championships; the Barfoot and Thompson Women’s Keelboat Nationals, and the Harken Schools Regatta all during the month of May. We are also about to open entries for our 150th offshore race – 500 miles to Three Kings and back home. Our 150th year is also intended to leave a legacy for the club for future generations and a large planting project at Kawau has just begun. This has involved years of planning and it is so satisfying for so many involved to finally see it become a reality. I encourage all members or friends to buy a tree, a plot of trees, or a family plaque with trees as I have just done myself. Whilst we are working at Kawau, we will also be doing some much-needed maintenance and upgrades to our own Lidgard House facility. By now you will have also all read and heard stories around the next America’s Cup. Indeed, the Cup is all-consuming, especially for the defending club. With the privilege of being Trustee also comes responsibility. We have a very solid America’s Cup committee, which continues to work closely with Team New Zealand and reports through to the Flag Officers and General Committee. The America’s Cup has always been an event driven by money, and in today’s commercial world this is now more than ever the case. Sponsorship for sports teams and events is also probably tougher than ever, particularly in the current world economy; also many contracts now contain clauses around pandemics. As a world leading yacht club, we continue to look at the future of our sport and thus what will give the RNZYS the best opportunity to win the Auld Mug again. In partnership with Emirates Team New Zealand, we have won the Cup on four occasions and going for a “threepeat” next time. Success at the highest level in our sport filters down through our club, and in fact through to all other clubs and

associations involved in boating nationwide. Team NZ continues to be in negotiation with the New Zealand government and Auckland City and we are certainly glad to see their interest and benefit in hosting the next event. Whilst we all enjoyed AC36, both Auckland and New Zealand unfortunately never saw the full benefit of hosting such an event. We all hope that we can see the AC75s race again in Auckland, but at the same time understand that it costs a lot of money to run a major event, let alone run a successful team and defence. 2021 just keeps on giving with more to come this year with the release of our limited edition book by Ivor Wilkins.This is a beautifullyproduced coffee-table edition, lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary images and something all members would be proud to include in their library. Don’t miss out here with every member’s name (as of April 2021) published in the book. We also have our 150th Gala evening just before the AGM in August. Get your tickets now, dress up for what will be our actual 150th birthday, where there will be something for everyone. This is also a moment for me to acknowledge one of our Trustees, Peter Hay, who has decided it is time to resign the position due to ill health. Peter was Commodore from 1994 to 1996 and a Life Member and Trustee. He has given so much to this club over so many years. I know the many Flag Officers and members before me will certainly appreciate his efforts and wish to thank him for his great and long service. We also wish him, Jan and his family all the very best in his retirement. On a final note, as we move towards the shortest day and mid-winter, if you would like to help your club and perhaps wish to volunteer on a committee, please do let myself or the Flag Officers know. Whilst we are a very large club; we are also a very diverse business. However, we are also still reliant on volunteers, so if you’d like to give something back or have a particular skill you think may be helpful, please do make contact. Aaron Young, Commodore

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FROM THE CEO

Winter has now set in and, while we have seen a decrease in weeknight club sailing, we have used this time to catch up on a number of delayed events from earlier in the year and to plan for the winter off-water activities for members to enjoy. The Doyle Winter Series is in full swing with a big fleet and some great promotions – bacon butties, win a Jeep for the summer and some great crew draw prizes and food and beverage specials to name a few. Congratulations to all the 2020/21 Summer Series prize winners that we celebrated at the annual prizegiving on 29th of May with almost 300 in attendance. The prizegiving is growing every year and we are now going to split the summer and winter series to ensure as many people can come along as possible – so lock in October 2 for the Winter Series prizegiving to make sure you get tickets. One lucky divisional winner took home a trip to Rarotonga to participate in a bespoke local regatta set up for us – the only other travel bubble NZ has access to. Our 150-year legacy continues to be celebrated with some big winter projects and events. The largest of these projects being the native tree planting at Kawau. This has involved a lot of planning and in particular the removal of the many pine trees that drop needles and stop any undergrowth. We will be mulching the branches of these and it will be used for planting. Later on we will be milling the main trunks for other uses on the island. I really encourage you to get involved in this project

– there are a couple of options. 1. Buy a tree, plot of trees or a family plaque with a tree, or come to one of the planting weekends that will be happening once all the groundworks are complete. These trees will be there in another 150 years all going well, so a real legacy item. Our 150th Anniversary limited edition book will be available for members in October and thank you to all of those members who have committed to this in advance. Ivor Wilkins has done a fantastic job of capturing some great moments in the history of the Squadron. We will also be publishing a ‘Boaties Cookbook’ before summer that you can contribute your favourite recipes to an online link. Also make sure you check out the ‘Lightly skimming over the surface’ exhibition at the Maritime Museum that captures some small snippets from our 150 years. During winter, we will have a wide variety of Speaker & Chef series events for you to attend, covering interests both on and off the water and a few to delight the taste buds. The 150th Gala evening will be the highlight of these. To be held on August 21, where every space in the club will be themed with various types of entertainment, food and drinks on offer. Get your tickets early as it will be a sell-out! In October we will be hosting a Graduates of the Mastercard Youth Programme Regatta. Going back almost 40 years, this programme has produced some of the best sailors in the world. It’s going to be great to see a few of the older graduates go head to head with some of our more recent rock stars! Entry to this unique event is open now. Our final event of the year will be the members’ cruise to the Sub-Antarctic Islands. There is one cabin remaining, so don’t miss this one if it has been on your bucket list to visit. It is a NZ territory so within the domestic bubble. The other big winter project is the much needed replacement of the deck at Lidgard

House and also some seawall, septic and wharf repairs at Kawau. We intend to have all of these projects completed before the arrival of summer. A new online mooring booking system will also soon be in place for you to use. Planning is also back underway for the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Race due to depart Australia in late Jan 2022. We await government border changes around opening a ‘sea bubble’ to complement the current ‘air bubble’ and are confident this will happen later in the year with lobbying well underway. This will see the superyacht and marine industry benefit with this extra bubble opening. Also underway, with entries soon to open will be a race to the Three Kings. A lot of AC37 talk at the moment and this will no doubt develop over the coming months as funding streams for both the team and the event become more obvious. The AC Committee is ensuring that the best outcome for the RNZYS is achieved to successfully defend the Cup again. Our financial year has now ended and we will present the outcome at the AGM in August. Suffice to say it was another good year operationally and also from our Foundation investments for the club. This was despite the various Covid challenges and additional expenses that came with hosting the America’s Cup – so thank you all for your support. If you have a special event coming up for yourself, or are looking for a venue for a work meeting, please contact our events team – or just make sure you come along to some of the many events on offer for you or join a friend or your crew. It all helps. So winter might feel a bit quieter, but it is all go behind the scenes making sure we keep delivering outstanding experiences on and off the water for you.

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Cruising Rally 6 A refreshing shower of rain greeted us as a forecasted front passed over quickly, creating a drop in temperature when the wind backed south and increased. Nine yachts were in the middle of a start sequence by Mike, Rich, Ray & Jenny (Affinity) on a busy harbour amongst cherubs, lasers, optis, and foiling kite surfers battling headwinds up to the start of the Bridge 2 Bean 150th year RNZYS event. Sadly, a 30+ knot gust caused their race to be cancelled, as we reached for our lifejackets. This made for an exciting downhill sail on course 4, around Motuihe to port, and a challenging short windward beat through Motuihe Passage to finish at Isi Bay. We were rather pleased in hindsight to have been wearing our lifejackets as a situation arose in the middle of a very lumpy Motuihe Channel. I had to run forward to clear the jib sheet which had blown between the reefed main and the mast, then securely looped itself around the leeward bull horn – who’d have thought that could happen! Mike Malcolm expertly delivered the BBQ

Eleanor and Elusive III enjoying the slide. food and refreshments to participants and we all met ashore – except the BBQ which slipped to a watery grave and sadly was unable to be retrieved. Thank goodness for PIC Insurance

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Brian and Tyson Orr (Pink Cadillac) savouring refreshments ashore. Some early birds had already departed. Over in the direction of Auckland, a black cloud cloaked the city, but we were bathed in sunshine with excitement brewing to join the 36 Degrees Brokers RNZYS Annual Picnic at Motuihe in our 150th year. Results: 1st line Terminator, John Faire. H’Cap 1st Platine, Peter Lavelle; 2nd Elusive III,

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From the Sailing Office Now the AC is out of the way we can turn our focus back to the RNZYS Club Racing, with plenty happening over the last part of the season. The annual Colin Forbes Easter Rally to Kawau was yet another success, a true testament to the time and passion put in by the dedicated Cruising Committee. The Coast Etchell National Championships had to be postponed for the second year in a row, this time due to 30 knot winds on Saturday and 0-3 knots on Sunday – talk about one extreme to the next. The Harken Young 88 Nationals saw 15 entries and the return of Dean Barker to the fleet, skippering Danger Zone, which took the win over Waka Huia in 2nd. The Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Keelboat Nationals saw Karleen Dixon defend her title by 1pt over Melinda Henshaw, and in the Theland Open Keelboat National Championships, Nick EgnotJohnson rectified his 6th place performance in 2020 by winning in a star-studded field, over Thomas Saunders in 2nd and Chris Steele 3rd.

The Doyle Sails Winter Series kicked off well this year with 100 boats and 500 free bacon butties delivered on the morning of the first race, followed by 200 free beers back at the club, all sponsored by Doyle Sails and PIC Insurance. The RNZYS is also giving away the lease on a Jeep Compass. One name is drawn out on each race day to go in the draw to drive away in the Jeep at the end of the season. We have just hosted our first rules and tactics evening, which was attended by over 100 people – a great turnout. The next one, on the 6th of July, will focus on boat speed and distance racing. This is a great way to get your crew together to enjoy an RNZYS curry and upskill over the winter. This year, the RNZYS annual prizegiving changed slightly to the Summer Series Prizegiving, which was sold out for the first time and was a great night out for all involved. We have the RNZYS Sailors’ Forum on the 11th of August. The forum invites all sailors to provide feedback to the club on any changes they would like to see in the upcoming season.

Keep an eye out for more details as we get closer to the date. The Three Kings Race is an exciting event this year as part of the RNZYS 150th year celebrations, a 490nm race around the Three King’s islands off the North Island. This is a great chance to experience some long-distance racing to a place not many people venture. Megan Thomson has stepped into Rochelle’s role as the RNZYS Race Manager. Most of you will already know Megan from her time here as the Sailing Office Assistant. Megan is a Youth Training Programme graduate and RNZYS Performance Programme member. She is a very active sailor at the RNZYS, trimming on Aaron Young’s Checkmate and skippering a team in the Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Series. Looking forward to an exciting 2021 and 22 season. Laurie Jury, Sailing Director

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Managing the RNZYS Fleet Story and picture by Debra Douglas RNZYS Fleet Manager – the perfect job for someone who loves sailing, likes to tinker and is a problem solver. Geoff Dawson answered the call and is now ensconced dockside and in the club’s workshop. Geoff (pictured right) is the first to take on the full time Fleet Manager role, brought about with the growth of the RNZYS’s fleet to 23 vessels and the significant increase in the amount of work required to meet the compliance requirements from Maritime New Zealand. The position also means a restructure of the Assistant Training Manager role to now focus on fleet management, allowing the Training Manager to focus on coaching. “My responsibilities are to keep the race, committee and patrol boats as readily available as possible,” says Geoff. “My time is spent on lesser maintenance, for example, on the dock working on repairs to sails and engines which can be fixed on site. The deeper issues, or routine services are undertaken by sponsors and partners.”

Geoff, who previously was with the Royal Akarana Yacht Club helping with a maintenance backlog, has always been involved around sailing. “My dad had a boat in Okahu Bay, a Raven. We had it the best part of 30 years sailing throughout the Gulf. When I was 21 years old, after sailing and racing on a lot of boats locally, I raced to Japan on a Farr 1104. I went on to England on my OE and got sidetracked at Cowes Week. I did the week on a maxi and found myself off to the Maxi Worlds in Sardinia.

By that time sailing was well under my skin.” Next on the agenda was a Trans-Atlantic run for a refit and South America for more racing. Geoff ran a couple of 44-footers in New York for a year or so, then settled down and lived in the United States for five years working in the utility sector. He came home in 1995. Geoff: “Four years ago, I was diagnosed with a blood cancer. It was time to do a stock-take on my life and I realised that I had to spend more time on things I am passionate about. Until then I had an IT and business consulting career, but I wanted more time around boats, which are my true passion. “I own a Moth, but because I had been unwell for a few years, I haven’t got around to sailing it. It is quite an energetic exercise and I am only just becoming confident of my own abilities. Although I’ve been in remission for three years now, I am in my fifties – I think Moths are a young man’s game.” Geoff lives in Grey Lynn with his wife Andrea. He has two children, Kenzie (16) and Zoe (18). Zoe spent three years with the Squadron’s Youth Training Programme and is now at Canterbury University, while also coaching sailing at the Naval Point Yacht Club, Lyttleton. “I am loving being able to contribute to the environment that has already given so much to my daughter. I am very grateful for that. I was very excited when she wanted to continue her sailing here. And so being able to help sustain that environment has its own reward. This job ticks all the boxes.”

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Megan Thomson takes up the reins as RNZYS Race Manager Story & picture by Debra Douglas After four years as an understudy, 23-year-old Megan Thomson has taken on the main role of Race Manager at the Squadron. During her time at the Squadron, Megan gained on-the-job experience as a casual assistant in the Race Office working on regattas and youth sailing, which led on to becoming the fulltime Assistant Race Manager. She also undertook three years on the RNZYS Youth Training Programme and a year with the Performance Programme. Prior to that, she spent three years at university completing a Diploma of Outdoor Recreation and Leadership, as well as a Bachelor of Sport & Recreation, majoring in outdoor education. “That brought me to the club,” said Megan. “I was lucky I could sign off my placement hours here when I started.The attraction was definitely

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Race Manager Megan Thomson the sailing side. For someone like me who is passionate about sailing, I was so lucky to be paid to do something that many people can only volunteer to do.” Bribes in the form of ice-creams introduced Megan to sailing. As a six-year-old her dad, Fergus, promised her a sweet treat if she crewed on his J14 skiff at French Bay, West Auckland. Megan then followed the tried-and-true route of the Opti, Starling and Laser classes before focusing on university studies. Joining the Squadron rekindled her interest in competitive sailing, especially match racing. Megan is now skipper of the RNZYS Performance Programme 2.0 Racing Team. The six-member squad was 3rd at the recent Barfoot & Thompson NZ Woman’s National Keelboat Championships and 6th at the Theland NZ Open Nationals. Megan: “Last year I was selected for the Youth America’s Cup team, but unfortunately that fell over due to COVID 19.” Megan describes the Race Manager role as encompassing a broad range of jobs from participating in strategies to grow the fleets, promoting women’s sailing options, processing race entries and results and helping volunteer co-ordinators pick their teams. “Sometimes I yearn to get out on the water, especially during the Winter Series, as it is a long office day. But we are lucky here in the Race Office, we can cover each other for certain events.” On shore, Megan heads for the hills, or rather the mountains. She lists rock climbing as an interest, which began at university. Although terrified at first, she now enjoys it. Apart from indoor climbing walls, there are not a lot of outdoor climbing opportunities in Auckland, so the crags at Taupo are an attraction. “I am still quite scared of heights, but there is always the challenge of pushing through that.” Back on the ground Megan says she encourages feedback from members. “Feedback is the biggest thing. It is good to know that the racing is as good as it can be on and off the water for the sailors. I want to hear about their experiences – what they enjoyed, what they didn’t and what they would like to see done differently.”

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Heather Lidgard Trailblazer for Women’s Sailing One of the leading lights of New Zealand sailing was dimmed with the passing of long-term RNZYS member Heather Lidgard on May 15. Heather was a pioneer of offshore and women’s sailing, a champion navigator, competitive racer and wide-ranging cruiser, whose many adventures with her husband of 67 years, John, could fill a book of their own. Born Heather Belle Atherton in 1932, she met John at the age of 16, forming a formidable team which would last a lifetime. One of their first projects together was to build a 22-foot yacht which John had designed, which he named after her when it was launched in 1949. They were married in 1953, and initially lived at the Lidgard family’s base at Kawau Island. Over the course of their lives together they covered more than 100,000 ocean miles, with Heather utilising her skills as a self-taught navigator to guide John’s designs to success in many of the Pacific’s significant regattas. Heather was instrumental in supporting John’s design and boatbuilding career, racing and cruising with him and their family around the Hauraki Gulf and the Pacific. Among her most notable achievements was being part of the New Zealand team which won the 1971 Southern Cross Cup, taking the role of navigator aboard John’s design Runaway. In the Sydney–Hobart race, after a fresh run down the Tasmanian coast, conditions became light in the final stages, but with Heather on the helm finished second on handicap, adding to Kiwi first and third placings to win the Cup. The Lidgards also competed in the inaugural two-handed Round

Heather and John Lidgard after the 1987 Melbourne-Osaka Race. the North island race in 1977, then won the cruising division of the two-handed Melbourne–Osaka race in 1987. Following this impressive victory they headed off on an extended cruise across to Alaska and down the coast of California and Mexico before heading home via the Pacific Islands. Heather and John continued to cruise into their later years, although Heather largely retired from racing in her sixties. Family was also key to Heather’s life. Sons Kevin and Duthie frequently accompanied Heather and John on racing and cruising expeditions from when they were children, and both established careers in the marine industry. She also enjoyed the company of four grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Heather will be remembered by all who knew her, not only for her achievements on the water, but also for her calm and generous nature, sense of humour and practicality. While she may not have set out to be a role model, she certainly blazed a trail for female sailors and inspired many with her talent and commitment. By Sarah Ell

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Hard realities shape the future of NZ’s America’s Cup Defence With the Covid pandemic fundamentally changing the international sport sponsorship landscape, the survival of Emirates Team New Zealand would increasingly depend on funding from the America’s Cup venue, as opposed to major corporations. This reality was spelled out during a briefing at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron by Grant Dalton, Kevin Shoebridge and Russell Green as the clocked ticked down on the exclusive negotiation period between the team, the New Zealand government and the Auckland City Council. More than 400 members packed the ballroom to hear an exposition of where the team stands in terms of funding and how the future might unfold. With two days to go before the end of the exclusive negotiating period, it was clear there was still a considerable gulf between what the government and city council were offering and what the team required. Both Dalton and Commodore Aaron Young emphasised that if the exclusive period expired without a deal, it did not necessarily mean the event would go offshore. “The Cup has not left town,” said Dalton. “Everybody needs to calm down a little bit. The end of the exclusive negotiation period does not mean it leaves New Zealand, but it does open up the chance of other bids.” He revealed that following the Bermuda victory in 2017, the team was in a similar situation. Initial negotiations with the government and Auckland had failed to reach agreement and the team was less than an hour away from signing a deal to stage the defence offshore.

At the last minute, however, the government agreed terms and the Auckland defence was secured for 2021. Dalton said the negotiations with the government in the wake of the successful defence earlier this year had been conducted in good spirit. “It is not a question of pistols at dawn, not at all. That is important, because whatever happens next that relationship must stay intact going forward. We both know that.” However, the team’s survival was paramount. Dalton painted a picture of billionaire raiders circling the team as it tried to secure funding for the future in a very tough economic environment. “The world as it was of big money sports sponsorships doesn’t exist any more. It has gone,” said Dalton. Any new sponsorships came with pandemic clauses that hamstrung teams because they could not utilise all the funds in case they had to pay penalties for events that could not take place due to Covid lockdowns. “We are not in a 2003 situation,” he said in reference to the loss of the Cup to the Swiss Alinghi team led by Russell Coutts and a key group of former Team New Zealand yachtsmen. “But we are vulnerable as hell, not just from talent poaching, but from other teams trying to drive through our force field to destroy us financially.” When Covid struck last year, the team foresaw a difficult situation ahead and commissioned an offshore company to pitch for bids from venues to host the next America’s Cup regatta. If no deal was reached for an Auckland defence by the end of the

exclusive negotiation period, those bids would come into play. Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Shoebridge said all the conventional avenues of funding were being explored, but in the new economic landscape the main source of income would depend on the venue fee. “Along with sponsorship and contributions from individuals, the lion’s share will have to come from the venue,” he said. Dalton emphasised that the main mission of the team remained to win the America’s Cup for New Zealand. However, in order to achieve that, it had to survive financially. “I have heard some people say it would be better to lose the America’s Cup in Auckland than to win it offshore. I am dumbstruck how anybody could even say that,” he said to loud applause from the RNZYS members. Commodore Young said afterwards he was greatly encouraged by the enormous groundswell of support he had received from members, who understood the realities of the situation facing the Cup defenders. There was also appreciation over the announcement during the presentation of a new legacy project being worked on between ETNZ and the RNZYS. “It will be a lasting thing for the club from us,” said Dalton. “It is pretty cool.” Although the details remain to be revealed, Young said it was about supporting the future of New Zealand sailing at club and grass-roots level. It will be something for the next 150 years,” he said. By Ivor Wilkins

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Covid lockdown inspires a swerve to a bold future By Ivor Wilkins When COVID-19 brought Belgian entrepreneur Thierry Verstraete’s world cruise to a halt in French Polynesia, he was not content to sit idly by, sunning himself on the foredeck of his custom 18m sailing catamaran and savouring the fruits of his business success. Instead, he seized on the enforced lockdown to completely reappraise his cruising objectives and set about building a new boat. The inspiration came from a fleeting glimpse in Tahiti of one of Steve Dashew’s long, lean bare aluminium expedition-style FPBs (Fast Powerboat). “I was interested in this type of boat, because I was already thinking of making a change along these lines,” he says. “I planned to talk to the owner about the boat, but he left before I could do so.” At these major ocean cross-roads, these encounters are often fleeting as passagemakers come and go. The boat in question, a 70-footer, was on its way to Hawaii and the opportunity was lost. However, Thierry set about researching the vessel online. His search soon brought him to Circa Marine in Whangarei and a conversation began. “After two weeks of communicating by email and Zoom, I signed a contract without ever setting foot in New Zealand.” The Deo Juvante project was under way. “It was the fastest contract we ever had,” laughs Peter Barnard, Circa’s Market Development Manager. “It all went very smoothly.” One quickly gets the sense that speed is Thierry’s default mode. In an earlier life, the 63-year-old raced Porsche and Lamborghini GT3s and Formule Renault cars on the European circuit. He also owned a superbike team. Now he commutes once a week from Gulf Harbour to Whangarei in a Ford F150 Shelby Supersnake truck, capable of 0-100km/ hr in 3.8 seconds. An experienced yachtsman, he has owned six yachts and completed

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Above: Thierry and Circa Project Manager Penny Lincoln discuss the details of the Deo Juvante plans. Opposite Page: a rendering of the LOMOcean design. countries, learning about different cultures and languages,” he says. These musings led to an idea for a fast, rugged, fuel-efficient passagemaker capable of voyaging to remote places including high latitudes, something he and his children could handle alone. The idea is to complete the long passages without professional crew – Thierry is a fullyqualified ship master (STCW500 gross tonnage unlimited) – and then hire locals in various cruising areas, familiar with the locations, culture, and

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Above:: Thierry, Lydivine and their two children, Mazarine (9) and Clement (11). Below: Mazarine and Clement bike to school in Tahiti. Circa 70 FPB and recognised that concept met most of his requirements. matter in a world turned upside down by the pandemic. With Steve Dashew now retired and unable to undertake his With New Zealand ports closed to visiting yachts, Thierry engaged hallmark close personal supervision of every project, he has ordered 36° Brokers to sell his catamaran (to an Australian yachtsman also a halt on any further builds to his designs. Accordingly, Circa engaged stranded in Tahiti) and made arrangements to fly to New Zealand with Auckland-based LOMOcean Marine to come up with new designs with his family as soon as immigration authorities allowed it. By the time they similar objectives for rugged, ocean-capable passagemaking. LOMOcean had completed their two-week isolation and established themselves are no strangers in this area, having designed the futuristic 24m Earthrace ashore, the Circa team was about a year into his build. trimaran, which Kiwi eco-warrior Pete Bethune piloted to a round-theThe first time Thierry saw his project in the flesh, it was already world record in 2008, and the equally ground-breaking 31m PlanetSolar, fully framed, much of the hull plating was in place and fabrication of which became the first entirely solar-powered vessel to complete a the interior joinery was well advanced. The custom interior by Belgian world circumnavigation in 2012. designer Kurt Wallaeys is reminiscent of a Manhattan apartment, with “We have always been about efficiency,” says LOMOcean director high gloss finishes in black, grey and gold. The schedule is to launch by Craig Loomes. We have done long-range passagemakers before, so it is the end of the year. not as if these concepts are new to us. Long, lean, easily driven hulls have Thierry’s arrival coincided with the launch and sea-trials of Mollymawk, been a feature of several projects we have done in the past. the first of the new LOMOcean designs, providing realtime, real-life proof “The Circa project’s form is a development of that work. The shapes of concept. Results, which included a rough-sea passage during the latewe have produced are quite different from their earlier models. We have May weather bomb that hit the North Island, significantly outstripped put more volume in the ends, we anything Circa had seen before. have designed the bow wave to be To comply with European A proud member of the RNZYS out of phase with the stern wave, classification, Thierry’s boat will be which is more efficient. The styling equipped with MAN engines with On arrival in New Zealand, one of the first things Thierry is also quite distinct.” double Mollymawk’s horsepower, Verstraete did was join the RNZYS. “The contact with the When Thierry began his providing a higher top speed and, Squadron was through Duthie Lidgard,” he explains. “He is the NZ enquiries, Circa were busy if anything, a more efficient cruising agent for handling us here. After I did the two weeks MIQ, I had my completing the first of the new consumption. first meeting with Duthie at the Squadron. I saw the America’s Cup LOMOcean-designed vessels, a At 10.3 knots, Deo Juvante will and immediately said I have to be a member of this club.” 25m version for an Australian client. consume just 2.04 litres/nautical Another Squadron connection involved Conrad Gair of 36° That provided a basis for their mile with the two MAN diesels Brokers. Conrad facilitated the sale of Thierry’s 18m catamaran, no email and Zoom discussions as a ticking over at 1200rpm. “That is simple assignment in a world changed by Covid. back-and-forth process of interior not all down to hull form,” says The Deo Juvante team comprises: and exterior customisation resulted Loomes. Owner: Thierry Verstraete in a variant tailored to Thierry’s “A designers’ job is to make sure Naval Architect: LOMOcean Marine, Auckland specification. all the components work together Builder: Circa Marine Two weeks later, in May 2020, for the best possible result. We Interior Design: Kurt Wallaeys, Belgium the Whangarei team swung into use large diameter, slow revving SeaKite System: Yves Parlier, Beyond the Sea, France action while Thierry made plans to propellors with engines that are relocate to New Zealand, no simple

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Thierry’s 18m custom catamaran was sold in Tahiti by 36° Brokers. economical. We have optimised the hull, propeller size, custom highaspect ratio blade geometry, the whole drivetrain all the way to the gearbox. Hull, propeller-speed, engines all add up to a very efficient unit.” Add the Seakite in typical trade wind conditions (20 knots at 120°) and, with the engines still at 1200rpm, the fuel consumption almost halves to 1.21 litres/nautical mile. Turn the engines off altogether and in similar conditions, the boat will achieve speeds in excess of 7 knots under kite alone, according to Loomes’ calculations.

Parlier explains that the Seakite comprises an inflatable frame, like a kitesurfer wing, which is deployed from a short mast on the foredeck. It can soar to heights of 100m and once trimmed to the conditions can be set on auto mode to tend itself. Its operating range is from 10 knots to 40 knots. To retrieve the kite, simply depower it by flying it directly overhead and winch it down. Loomes is a kite enthusiast and is frequently out kite surfing around the beaches of Auckland. “A kite is a sail on a string,” he says. “It is a beautiful, elegant solution in which all the forces are balanced and aligned. You can power a kite up or down. You can fly it at higher altitudes to reach more breeze and you can do it all without the expense and infrastructure of a permanent mast and stays. Pack it away and you have a nice clean motoryacht with clear decks, no windage, no aerial draft issues with bridges and so on.” Kites can be flown in a ‘static’ or ‘dynamic’ mode. In static mode it is set at an optimum angle to the wind, like a sail, and held there by the computer-controlled trim system. In dynamic mode, the kite can be made to fly figure-of-eight circuits, dramatically increasing the apparent wind by a factor of five to six times, turbo-charging its power; this is a phenomenon increasingly used by wind energy companies. It is a highly versatile and manageable source of free power. The Deo Juvante project, born of enforced lockdown ennui, has galvanised an infectious energy in the team of specialists involved. With Thierry’s passion and enthusiasm at its core, there is an ongoing search for more. Now there is talk of introducing a retractable canard into the hull design to improve the kite’s reaching and upwind performance. And,

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Thierry’s on a visit to the Circa Marine yard in Whangarei to inspect progress on the Deo Juvante project. although Thierry claims top-end speed is not a priority, it is hard to imagine he will always be able to resist opening the throttles and deploying all 1000hp at his disposal. So, just in case, there is also discussion about adding rudder winglets to resist stern-squat at full chat – as long as additional benefit can also be demonstrated at the 11-12 knot cruising

sweet spot. “Thierry is one of those great clients who is constantly bubbling with enthusiasm,” says Loomes. “He wants a kite, he loves the idea of foil tips on the rudder, he is totally open to ideas. It is a great thing to work with people like that.” And once Deo Juvante hits the water? A

summer circumnavigation of New Zealand and Stewart Island, then Japan via South East Asia, across to Alaska via the Eleutian Islands, down the Pacific coast of South America and on to Antarctica. “Then call me after two years and I will tell you what we are doing next,” he adds with a smile.

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Small boat on a Big Ocean Words and Sailing Images By Ivor Wilkins An affinity for small boats on big oceans has led Marc Michel and Logan Fraser to bring a new Dehler 30 One Design yacht into the RNZYS fleet with a view to two-handed racing in Squadron and SSANZ events — most notably the 500-mile Three Kings Race, one of the closing events of the club’s 150th anniversary. Intense lobbying for the addition of a mixed-gender two-handed keelboat event in the 2024 Olympic Games saw a number of production yards developing potential candidates in the 30ft range. Those hopes have recently been dashed with World Sailing and the IOC opting instead for two more sailboard classes. While Michel only regarded an Olympic campaign as a “very distant” possibility, the flurry of activity in the market did offer a slate of six or seven boats to consider, which quickly narrowed down to a shortlist of three before settling on the Dehler. “With or without World Sailing or the Olympics, double-handed offshore racing is growing exponentially around the world,” says Michel. “My real goal was to get back to bluewater short-handed racing. “I have an affinity for small boats and big oceans. I have sailed on maxis in the Sydney-Hobart race and the like and they are bloody scary. I think small boats are relatively safer, providing it is the right boat, and a hell of a lot of fun.” Both Michel and Fraser have pedigree in this genre. Australian by birth, Michel was chairman of the Short Handed Sailing Association of Australia and completed many events on the East Coast as well as a Lord Howe Island race. He also finished 3rd in class in the 1991 Melbourne-Osaka race — “in a totally unsuitable Holland 43 with a masthead rig and overlapping, hankon sails”. With Mark Turner, who went on to establish the Extreme Sailing Series, he formed the first non-French pair to compete in the AG2R Transatlantic Race sailed in water-ballasted Figaro 30 one-design yachts. Michel settled in New Zealand in 2000 to head up sales and marketing for Navman and joined the three-way ownership of the Brett Bakewell-White Z39, BMW Yachtsport, before corporate life took him out of sailing for several years. Responding to an urge to return to short-handed sailing, he competed for a while in SSANZ events in another unsuitable boat, before beginning a serious search for something more appropriate. Logan Fraser is a graduate of the RNZYS Youth Training Programme and has campaigned extensively in SSANZ events on the 8m Murray

The Dehler 30 is well-equipped for short-handed racing. Ross design, C U Later. He also competed in the most recent Round North Island Race and competed on the match race circuit in the Kiwi Match team. “The Dehler was just the right mix of technology, safety, comfort and speed,” Michel says. “It is a boat you can push hard, but it will still look after you. A huge amount of refinement and thought has gone into this boat.” Dehler brought Judel/Vrolijk and Speedsailing Rostock into their design team to develop the concept, which Michel says took some inspiration from the Volvo 65 and scaled it down. The result is a sophisticated package. The hull is built in E-glass with the load-bearing internal structures in carbon-fibre. It features pronounced chines aft flowing forward to a heavily chamfered bow reducing weight on deck but retaining considerable volume in hard running conditions. “As it heels onto its chine, it develops the beam and wetted surface stability you need,” says Michel. “Add water ballast into that and you have a potent machine. The only limitation is the crew, not the boat.” The deck-stepped carbon (Axxon Composites) rig is placed well

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BOAT TEST The interior is surprisingly roomy and comfortable, the absence of bulkheads and bright surfaces maximising the sense of space. aft, over a 940kg lead keel and T-bulb, drawing 2.2m. Stability is further assisted with side waterballast tanks carrying 200 litres each. With the removable carbon prod in place, the long foredeck provides multiple headsail options. The swept single-spreader rig is well supported with shrouds to the gunwales.The twin masthead backstays control bend. The underwater profile is shallow and clean, with a “stealth drive” retractable shaft and fixed prop activated from the cockpit. This is a winwin, reducing drag under sail, but providing plenty of bite under power, which, in turn means only a 10hp diesel engine is required. For the sail wardrobe, Michel turned to Evolution Sails which has “invested heavily in supporting double handed racing as an event sponsor.,” he says. “I like what they are doing. They have done a lot of work on reefable headsails that actually work and retain good shape, which is a great asset for short-handed racing.” The approach, according to Evolution’s Josh Tucker, was for a simple inventory with each sail providing a broad working range. “You don’t want to be changing sails for every small change in windstrength,” he says. With foredeck space for multiple headsails, a wide selection of options, combinations and crossovers come

into play. Working from the front, there are two nylon gennakers, both from the same masthead hoist: one is a big running sail, the other, smaller, flatter slightly heavier an all-purpose design. There is also a panelled, triradial code zero built in Technora fabric. The J1 headsail is on soft hanks and includes a reefing point that reduces it to a J3 (from 28.5m2 to 21.5m2). Reefing is simple: pull the tack down to the reef point, attach the sheets to the new clew, roll up the loose foot and it zips away into a tidy solution. “We did a dozen or so of these sails for the Round North Island Race and they worked really well,” says Tucker. A furling J4 jib, which doubles as a storm sail or gennaker staysail, sets on an inner forestay. The two-reef flat-top main and the jibs are carbon and aramid Element membrane sails. Down the track, an offshore mainsail with three reefs will be added to the inventory. Both mains utilise Ronstan ball-bearing cars, as opposed to bolt ropes. Tucker is a SSANZ stalwart with four Round North Island races, a Round New Zealand race and a race to New Caledonia among an extensive racing resume. He is impressed by the Dehler product.

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Upwind in less than 10 knots of breeze on the Waitemata Harbour, the Dehler exceeded 7 knots. “Everything you need for short-handed racing has already been done and comes as factory standard,” he says. “You are good to go. “There are no rating compromises. All the go-fast bits are there,” he adds, citing the long prod, big sails, water-ballast, rig position, twin rudders on a central tiller, good control systems for the sailplan and solid adjustable foot chocks for the helmsman, crucial in offshore conditions. In contrast to all this muscular machismo, the interior is surprisingly spacious, with two large quarterberths aft, a double berth forward and a seating area, complete with table, galley and sink and enclosed head in between. The internal carbon grid system means there are no bulkheads, optimising the sense of space. While the external graphics and sails are all

about black-belt marshall arts, the ambience below is bright and modern. Even the most hardened offshore campaigner would enjoy its respite, while it also fulfils a requirement for comfortable weekend cruising. Mostly, though, it is the performance characteristics that appeal to Michel. “When I was growing up, New Zealand was at the cutting edge of high performance small boats, from quarter tonners up,” he says. “I used to drool over the boats coming out of New Zealand, yet we seem to have lost that except at the very high end of the sport. “When you look at the sub-35ft size range, most of the local fleet is 25 years old. It is quite an indictment, really. It is nice to find a 21st century boat of this size.”

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Hectic start to winter season Words and Photos By Andrew Delves The sailing force was certainly with us at the RNZYS throughout the month of May, with three spectacular national championship regattas and two wintery races to kick off the Doyle Sails Winter Series, all taking place within the space of four action-packed weekends. The fun began with the Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s National Keelboat Championship sailed on the 1st and 2nd of May. Eight allfemale teams were on the bill, including defending and six-time champion Karleen Dixon.

As a contrast to last year’s event where the breeze was as close as you can get to the upper limit, this year it was very light and made for some extremely tricky racing. After an up-and-down first day, Dixon found herself sitting in third coming into the final day and needed to get some results at the pointy end if she were to lift her seventh title. Right in the mix heading into the final day was past-champion Melinda Henshaw, who had finished second at the three previous editions of the event. Also in the running was 2019 champion Sally Garrett, as well as the RNZYS Performance Programme team helmed by Megan Thomson. Dixon and her experienced team came to race on Sunday, and

Breeze Magazine 39 Main Picture: Close action in the Doyle Sails Winter Series. Below: The Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s Keelboat Nationals were keenly-fought and finally won for the seventh time by Karleen Dixon and her crew

40 Breeze Magazine race they did, notching up two wins and two second place finishes to pounce to the top of the standings and secure a seventh title by a slender one-point margin. For Henshaw, that made it four second place finishes in a row as she and her crew couldn’t quite do enough to hold off the storming Dixon. They will no doubt be back again in 2022 for another go. Megan Thomson and her much younger team managed to stay near the front of the fleet throughout the final day, earning a well-deserved place on the podium. “It was a pretty sweet victory,” Dixon said. “Last year was super-windy and it was nice to do it back-to-back in completely different conditions. For anyone who thought we won last year just because it was windy, we showed that we could do it in the light as well, so it was really nice.” Next up in the national championship stakes was another long-standing event, the Harken National Secondary Schools Keelboat Championship sailed in the Elliott 7’s on the following weekend (7th – 9th May), under the watchful eye of Brian Trubovich and his Race Management team. This year saw 18 young crews converge on the RNZYS from right around the country, including from as far north as Keri Keri High School and as far south as the South Island Combined Team. The fleet was split into two qualifying pools, with one racing on Friday and one on Saturday. The top half of each pool then qualified for Gold Fleet racing on Sunday, and the rest moved into the Silver Fleet. With plenty of close racing on Sunday, the Gold Fleet morphed into the now-dubbed ‘Battle of Westlake’, with two Westlake Boys High School teams, led by Brayden Hamilton and Josh Hyde, duking it out for the title. Heading into the fourth and final race, either of them just needed to beat the other over the finish line to claim regatta honours. With the best breeze of the day the stage was set for a Titanic battle between fellow school mates. Hamilton and his crew set off like a bat out of hell off the start, picking the shifts and staying in front of the fleet for the first few legs. Finding form in the clutch time, they built a huge lead and sailed away with the regatta, leaving their school counterparts, and the rest of the fleet, in their wake. As the results were so tight, Hamilton and his team didn’t actually know they had won

Above: The Harken National Secondary Schools Keelboard Championships were won by Brayden Hamilton and his Westlake Boys High crew. when they crossed the line. However, seconds later the news came in that they had in fact won on countback, instigating huge cheers and celebrations on board. Speaking on the dock, Hamilton was thrilled to get the win. “We were so stoked when we found out we had won! It was a great competition out there and to come down to countback in the final race shows how close the racing was. A big thanks to my team, our school, and to the RNZYS for putting on a fun regatta.” After two such epic national championships,

the Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship didn’t disappoint on 15th & 16th May. Like the women’s event, the racing was in the MRXs, and this time 11 keen teams were chasing glory. Nick Egnot-Johnson and his Knots Racing team of Graeme Sutherland, Zak Merton, Alastair Gifford, Sam Barnett, and Bradley McLaughlin were the leaders after sailing five exceptional races on day one, claiming four wins and one third place finish. The Knots Racing team came into the final day with a fivepoint lead over Chris Steele and his Theland

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Brisk conditions made for great racing in the Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championships, won by Nick Egnot-Johnson and his Knots Racing crew. Race Team, but still needed to finish strong in the three races on Sunday to come out on top. The first race of the day was a classic as Steele realised he needed to do something drastic to claw back some points on the Knots boys. Both boats engaged in a match racing dual, with Steele pushing out Egnot-Johnson at the top mark, which in turn allowed other

boats to sail underneath them and overtake. Once they both rounded the top mark, Steele was leading, however Egnot-Johnson found better breeze to survive the onslaught, finishing third, with Steele finishing one back in fourth. The battle came down to the wire, and with a congested fleet for most of the final race, it was still up in the air right up until the

last leg. However, Egnot-Johnson’s crew held their nerve and claimed their second Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship in three years. NZL Sailing Team Laser sailor Thomas Saunders was the big mover on the last day, notching up a first, a second and then powering home in the final race to notch up another

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42 Breeze Magazine win. Saunders was a beneficiary of Steele’s pursuit of Egnot-Johnson, which allowed him to sneak past a couple of times and claim some important points that surged him into second place overall for the regatta – with Steele ending up in third. For any yacht club that may have been enough sailing for one month, but not for the RNZYS in our 150th year. The much anticipated Doyle Sails Winter Series enjoyed two superb races in May, with the first taking place on Saturday the 8th. This season the series consists of a huge 100+ entries spread across 11 divisions, ranging from the fast 40R division right through to the majestic classics. The opening race lived up to the hype, with chilly temperatures, periods of rain and a solid 15-20 knot breeze as the fleet made their way around the track, providing perfect conditions for winter series sailing. Kites were in full flight downwind and boats were nicely heeled on the up-wind stretches of the course. One highlight in the results included Icebreaker and crew taking the handicap honours in the tightly fought 40R division. Icebreaker with new owner Matt Cole on the helm, beat out the other nine boats to take an

impressive win in their first outing. V5, Kaizen, Hysteria, Juniper, Right Angle, Team Sex, Pink Cadillac, North Cert Servers, Attitude and Ariki were the other winners in their respective divisions on race day one. Two weeks later and we were back into it with Race Day Two of the series, this time in light airs, which made for some very congested mark roundings, great viewing if you were watching from the safety of the media boat, but a bit more hectic if you were in the thick of it. Proving how close each division really is, and the quality of yachts and sailors taking part, there was a new winner on handicap in every division compared to race day one. Carrera, Wired, Pacific Sundance, No Worries, Princess, Terminator, Crazy Train and Gypsy were the victors - with the MRX, Young 88 and Sport Boat divisions completing three windwardleeward races instead. Based on the first two races, the remaining seven races in the series are going to be exciting. All in all, sailors were most definitely the winners in our RNZYS 150th May ‘month of madness’, we can’t wait for what the rest of the year will bring.

Team Barker had a ball winning the 2021 Harken Y88 Nationals Adding to the early winter action, the RNZYS also hosted the Harken Young 88 Nationals, which followed hot on the heels of the Southern Champs in Lyttleton a week prior. Both events featured a quality fleet of 15 boats, challenging conditions, world class talent, and much fun on the water and off. The pundits could not agree on the favourite. Would it be three times winner Zane Gifford and the talented crew on Raging Hormones, Team Dean Barker with Jeremy Lomas on the helm on Dangerzone, Nick Gillies and “Team North” on Waka Huia, or Jonny Bell’s heavyweights from the South with John Cutler on the helm of Undercover? The opening day’s forecast looked fresh but manageable and Race Officer Celia Carson kept the fleet in the “home paddock” south of Rangitoto for a bit more shelter. The breeze built beyond expectation with sustained gusts well over 30 knots.

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Discretion got the better of valour and AP over A went up. Next day’s forecast promised lighter and more variable conditions, so we headed out to sea, north of Rangitoto.The breeze moved around enough to keep the volunteers busy, and the crews challenged. Team Barker felt the need for speed so flicked the afterburner switch with Dangerzone posting five firsts, one second and a discard of fifth. “It was great to be back racing in the Y88 class again after so long,” said Barker. I was very fortunate to be able to pull together a number of the guys that I have done so much sailing with over the years, and have a huge amount of fun racing what is still a fantastic and rewarding one design class. “Even better, to have my daughter and her boyfriend racing with us, even, though I am sure they would be a bit surprised at the banter on board the boat! I am looking forward to racing the boat over the winter." At the Squadron prizegiving. Commodore Aaron Young made a dedication and a toast in honour of his grandfather and class designer, Jim Young who passed away last year. First on line went to Dean Barker and crew on Dangerzone. Second and the Tanaka cup for first owner driver went to Nick Gillies on Waka Huia. Third went to Zane Gifford on Raging Hormones. First Corinthian crew (no pros aboard) and first mixed (at least two of the opposite gender) went to Paul McWilliams on War Machine. First on handicap went to Leigh Miller on Voodoo. The Taylor Trophy for sportsmanship went to Richard Ellis and crew on Inner Circle (boat number one) recognising their persistence, fun and rapid improvement.

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Site preparation begins for the 150th Legacy Tree Project at Kawau Island– Cooper Hopman photo.

Support the Kawau Tree Planting and Reforestation Project Our Kawau Island Tree Planting and Reforestation Project is now well underway and a large number of members have already pledged their support of this 150th legacy project on our site at Kawau. We started this a couple of years ago when the 150th committee decided we needed a true legacy project that would still be there in another 150 years. The project will continue for a number of years to come with regular planting weekends for members to get involved in. A plan was put together and began with pest control; there was no point in planting seedlings if they just got eaten by possums and wallabies. This has been highly successful and at last check there was very little evidence of pests on site. Next was a planting plan and budget put together by various consultants under the leadership of General Committee member Peter Boardman. Preparing the site for planting required the removal all of the invasive pines and other trees that drop needles and stop forest undergrowth, secure the plants, begin fundraising and lock in some volunteer planting dates. The total budget for the first year is around $120,000, a large portion of which is in site preparation. An initial clean-up of decades-worth of various waste items into dozens of large skip bags was barged off the island before the diggers and chainsaws (we know this sounds

weird when we are supposed to be planting trees!) arrived on June 3 to prepare the site under the supervision of our facility manager, Cooper Hopman. Nothing will be wasted as the pines and other non-natives will be trimmed and chipped into mulch for planting while the main trunks will be milled onsite and used as building timber for some other projects we have planned. Sustainable practices are our focus with this project. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will be on the island mid-June planting a few trees to kick things off and raise awareness of the project further. Long term, the goal is to upgrade more facilities on the site, including improving the amenity with walking paths and improving ecological value of the landscape, restoring the ngahere mauri (forest life-force) and providing habitat so that the threatened native species such as kiwi and weka that live on Kawau Island can return to the site. Fundraising got off to an initial start with some ‘seed’ money from the Corporate Regatta and will again be the focus this year. Our partners, Mastercard also came on board with a generous contribution from their global ‘Priceless Planets’ programme and we have had a number of successful fundraising raffles at the various member events. This will continue until we hit our fundraising target. A key part of the ongoing fundraising is we encouraging our entire membership

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Anzac Day Reflections at RNZYS

Lest we forget – especially during the Squadron’s 150th Anniversary year. Anzac Day saw the club hold its inaugural commemorative service to recognise the service and sacrifice of the NZ Defence Force and in particular the service of RNZYS members during times of conflict. “The service was one of the most meaningful events I have organised here at the Club,” said Membership Director Kim Bond. “I was especially touched by the Navy connection from Lieutenant Commander John Gresson. Input from Lieutenant Colonel Adam Gordon from the Defence Force was also very much appreciated, as well as from personnel representing the RNZAF, RNZN and NZ Army.” Moving contributions came from the younger generation, including 10-year-old Ben Young, who read the poem In Flanders Fields, Performance Programme member Chester Duffett, whose great grandfather, Capt. Charles Henry Duffett DSO, was incolved in the rescue of escaped Allied POWS in southern Italy in 1943, and Charles Palmer, whose grandather, Commander Charles ‘Bunty’ Palmer DSC & bar, gave distinguished service in command of the minesweeper HMS Cromarty. Others to take part in the service were: Life Members Peter Montgomery and Bill Donovan, Past Commodore Bill Endean, Ivor Wilkins and Alex Kirichuk. Among those who attended the event … 1/ From left, Richard and Judy Wingfield and John Beck. 2/ From left, Gisela Taylor, Andrew and Odette Raven, Bryan Taylor, Flt Lts. Richard and Emma Raven and Martin and Natasha Taylor.

3/ Charles Palmer and Michelle Campbell. 4/ From left, Stephen, Natalie, Peter and Christine Stones. 5/ From left, Noel Vautier, Sally-Lou and Past Commodore John Crawford. 6/ Ten-year-old Ben Young reads the poem, In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae. Story and pictures by Debra Douglas

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From left, Jo Blackman, Emma Outteridge, Nathan Outteridge and Ross Blackman.

A philanthropic bridging of two worlds Story and picture by Debra Douglas Not only was it a book launch, but also a celebration of adventure and altruism when more than 150 family and friends gathered at the Squadron to mark the publication of author Emma Outteridge’s true story, Between Two Worlds. Emma has led the life of a wanderer. She was born while her parents, Jo and Ross Blackman, sailed the Pacific. Ross become business manager for Team New Zealand and Emma spent much of her young life travelling the world of the America’s Cup. In her twenties she worked on high-end international sporting and hospitality events with Louis Vuitton. While the glamorous life mingling with celebrity sailors and billionaire backers had its charms, Emma longed for something more. In 2009, aged 25, she moved to St Paul KAASO, a primary school for orphans in Uganda, naively intent on giving back and ‘saving the world’. This was the start of a love affair. While at KAASO, Emma was asked by a

young student whether she might sponsor the rest of his education. Initially hesitant to make such a commitment, Emma would go on to not only to take up the sponsorship, but she also

founded the Kiwi Sponsorships programme, funding the secondary education of more than 70 children in Uganda. Emma also established the Suubi Sanyu fund, a student micro-loan fund and is the Volunteer Coordinator for KAASO, sending volunteers from around the world to the school each year. Through her work with international events, Emma built up a fellowship with influential and wealthy individuals. Over the years many of these people have become ardent supporters of her cause. Spanning a decade Between Two Worlds chronicles Emma’s journey from wide-eyed volunteer to someone whose life has meant marrying the world of elite sailing with a rural East African village. And as she said at the end of the launch presentation, it is “a story that had to be told.” Emma is now living in Devonport with her husband, America’s Cup skipper and helmsman Nathan Outteridge (Artemis Racing 2013 & 2017) and their two young sons.

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Great scenes at the RNZYS Picnic

The annual 36 Degrees Brokers Squadron Picnic was held on Sunday 18th May on what was a beautiful, but slightly nippy day on Motuihe Island. The temperatures didn’t put off plenty of RNZYS Members, young and old, from voyaging across the Gulf to the island. On offer were sandwiches and drinks to keep the attendees well fed and hydrated. There was a really good turnout of kids, making the tug-of-war, running

races, egg & spoon races and other games a lot of fun, and there were a host of great prizes for the successful little ones. Commodore Aaron Young and the great team from 36 Degrees Brokers were on hand to give out the loot at the prizegiving, capping off another successful Squadron outing at Motuihe. Words by Andrew Delves Photos by Kristian Gilmore Tatarzycki

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The summer stars shine bright at prize-giving The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Summer Series Prize Giving was recently held on the 29th May 2021. This year the event changed slightly to recognise all ‘series’ winners from the RNZYS club racing over the 2020/2021 summer. This included the Doyle Sails Wednesday Series, which is one of the biggest RNZYS series with 100 boats and 800-plus sailors competing; all the weeknight sprint racing, including Nespresso E7 sprints, Y88 Sprints, Barfoot & Thompson Ladies series, Coast Etchells Series, Havana Club Rum Racing and the Stewart 34 sprint racing. In the past the RNZYS Annual prize giving has focused on the 36 Degrees Brokers Commodores Cup racing only. This has proved a successful formula with all 270 tickets sold out two weeks in advance and the biggest prize giving at the RNZYS in the past five or more years. The RNZYS will also have a ‘Winter Series prize giving’ in early October, recognising all the series place-getters from the Doyle Sails Winter Series and other racing over the winter. Another new initiative this season, designed to bring more value to the CBRE Club Championships, is to have all the divisional club champions race off against each other in the fleet of matched MRXs, with the winning team funded to represent the RNZYS at the Seawanhaka International regatta in Long Beach LA. Unfortunately with Covid this year the regatta has been postponed. In its place the RNZYS has been working with the Rarotonga Sailing Club to set up an event of a RNZYS club team to compete in. After drawing the names of all the club champions at the annual prize giving this year, Barry Martin and his crew from Bizzarre, who were the B division club champions (PHS), will represent the RNZYS at this event in August 2021. As always, we need to give a special mention to the RNZYS Race Management team. The RNZYS is extremely lucky to have a dedicated and skilled group of 50 volunteers who run all the racing at the club. They are passionate about what they do, and are without a doubt the biggest asset of the club. Laurie Jury, Sailing Director

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Celebrating Mothers’ Day at the RNZYS Mother’s Day at the Squadron was all about an afternoon of treats and tiers. Tiers of savoury and sweet delights. Handcrafted by Executive Chef Jean Brito and his team, mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers enjoyed a scrumptious High Tea, accompanied by a selection of Harney & Sons teas and Mumm Champagne. Pictured celebrating a very special day were … 1/ From left, Nicola, Zena and Andrew Tait with Shirley, David and Sandy Cornish.

2/ From left, Caro McCourtie, Faye Larsen, Cathy Flavell and Kelly Flavell. 3/ Porteous family from left, Matthew, Yvette (11 months), Corban (3) and Elyse. 4/ Lynne and Don Lindberg. 5/ From left, Katie Kiss, Kylee Kiss-Eynon, Karen Kiss and Jodie Kiss. 6/ David Bevan and Hazel Petty. Pictures by Debra Douglas

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RNZYS 2021 Colin Forbes Easter Rally An early April Easter meant we were able to enjoy a changeable autumn weather pattern with the winds boxing the compass and challenging our knowledge of sheltered anchorages around Waiheke over a very busy holiday weekend. We were delighted to welcome back Martin and Christine Farrand and friends who ably manned MV Moerangi as signal boat and supply ship. Another vessel MV Vanquish owned by Sir Ken and Glenice Stevens accompanied us for the weekend too. Starting off Northern Leading Buoy in a moderately fresh sou’wester on Good Friday, the fleet headed on a zigzag course to finish off, Shark Bay, Ponui Island.. This was true cruising: downwind with no tacks or gybes with Moerangi having to hoist a gennaker/staysail to stay ahead! Line: Terminator – John Faire. H’cap: 1st Merrimaid – Garry Lock; 2nd Eleanor – Steve Gallagher; 3rd Share Delight – Mike Lanigan.

Saturday’s weather forecast was again ideal and the fleet enjoyed a pleasant sail around Pakatoa, Tarahiki (Shag) and Rotoroa Islands before the lovely 10-knot southeasterly petered out. Some on-board relationships were tested while trying to stem the outgoing tide through Ruthe’s Passage, and there was even a mutiny on Katariana to go to a better option of fishing! Eventually, a 5-knot zephyr allowed the yachts to coast over the finish line. Line: Terminator – John Faire. H’cap: 1st Fine Line III – Colin Reid; 2nd Terminator – John Faire; 3rd Hard Labour – Cameron Thorpe Shark Bay was the destination for the Sunday brunch, Easter activities, and even a visit from the Easter Bunny and Cookie Monster! Children headed off for the chocolate egg hunt while the others prepared delicious BBQ bacon and scrambled egg butties, washed down with “effervescent juice”. The onshore breeze slowly increased to 10 knots as we arrived with laden dinghies. Fortunately, a river provided a downwind opportunity to race the Easter Cup Dorys, which was won by Finn from Katariana with his own catamaran design. Everyone joined in for the egg toss and the sceptics soon

learned they were indeed fresh eggs! Thanks to Forbes Packaging, all the volunteers and staff who made the weekend successful. A special event attended by our fab Commodore Aaron Young and family, effusive Vice Commodore Andrew Aitken and Kelly, Past Commodore Richard Endean, and family in our celebratory 150th year of the RNZYS. Hoping to inspire memories of happy people, bays full of boats, and skies full of stars! Series results: Line: Terminator – John Faire. H’cap: 1st Merrimaid – Garry Lock; 2nd Terminator – John Faire; 3rd Eleanor – Steve Callagher. Sheryl Lanigan, Share Delight

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A New Zealand crew led by Peter Burling and Blair Tuke now competes on the SailGP circuit.

Making the SailGP ‘Circus’ run on time By Ivor Wilkins If you are a person who struggles to pack a weekend sailing bag and then still leaves the dock with half the essentials missing, spare a thought for Brad Marsh who has responsibility for the daunting challenge of moving the entire SailGP event from venue to venue around the world under the pressure of immutable time constraints. With the Bermuda and Italian events of the series just ticked off, the second season of SailGP is under way following severe COVID disruption. Marsh, who is a graduate of the RNZYS Youth Training Programme, is operations manager for the series. His role involves packing and keeping track of more than 80 shipping containers, juggling with shipping and transport schedules to deliver them on time at venues around the world, setting up a race village, assembling a fleet of complex yachts in time for pro teams to arrive and race, providing

pit service to support them with maintenance and repair during intense four-day regattas and then packing it all up and moving to the next stop on the calendar. While the COVID interruption was a setback, it also allowed pause for thought and to refine the process and the product. “The past year with Covid has given us an opportunity to go back and data-mine every aspect of the operation to work out what we can optimise around cost, people, resources, operations, parts etc,” says Marsh. “That has been a big part of our analysis.” With the circuit growing to seven venues and eight teams for 2021 – including a firsttime New Zealand crew led by Peter Burling and Blair Tuke – the challenge has grown and will continue to grow towards a target of 10 venues. Marsh, who has worked in sailing and shorerelated capacities in America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race teams, has been in his role with SailGP from its inception in 2018.

His first task was to source and customise 90 40ft shipping containers, each one designed and outfitted to perform specific tasks, from transporting the boats and equipment to housing specialist service teams. “Having acquired the containers, we set up a production line, moving them from one tent to the next at our Warkworth facility, north of Auckland. Some needed major engineering, with doors, internal divisions, internal insulation, lining, electrical and electronic cabling, air conditioning units, specialist cabinetry, work benches, and so on.” Meanwhile, inside the Core Builders Composite facility, initially set up for Larry Ellison’s post-2007 Oracle-backed America’s Cup campaigns, the fleet of 50ft hard-wing catamarans from the 2017 Cup regatta in Bermuda was modified and equalised for circuit racing. “The change from America’s Cup mode to SailGP circuit boats meant a change from something built for a one-off regatta to a circus,

Breeze Magazine 57 where we roll into town, pitch our tents, sail for four days and pack up again. In those short cycles of putting boats together, running them hard and breaking them down again, you inflict the same wear and tear as you would with one month of continuous sailing. “We have spent past two years upgrading everything to make it more fit for purpose, but we frequently get caught out by scale. An America’s Cup team has scale of one or two boats and a team of 100 people. Now we have a team of less than 100 looking after eight boats. With catamarans, the problem multiplies by at least by two. Replacing something across a fleet of eight means you are often looking at 16 items, or if the boat has four or more of the parts involved, it can be up to 80 items, sometimes into the hundreds. “Then there are spares. You are looking at large numbers of individual items that you always need to have on hand. On tour, we have to be self-sufficient with everything.” Every component, including additional new boats, foils and wings, is designed and built in-house at the Warkworth facility. For maintenance alone, in the course of a year, the technical team will replace 1,000 parts. “The machine shop runs full time in Warkworth. That way we control cost, workflow, quality assurance, development and we retain the intellectual property.” Once on the road, each stop on the circuit takes just short of four weeks — three weeks for set-up and pack-up bracketing four or five days of sailing. “We give the infrastructure team a week to get everything set up,” Marsh explains. “That starts with 80 containers arriving on site in a precise formation. They then erect 12 large tents, one for each team, plus additional tents for the wings and technical team. They also erect grandstands, hospitality facilities and a public event village separate from the technical area. “Then the technical team has a week to assemble the boats and calibrate them for that specific venue. Then we are into sailing, after which we pack it all up again and move on.” In the first season, the circuit involved shipping from New Zealand to Sydney, then across to California. After the San Francisco regatta, SailGP chartered two trains and sent the whole shebang cross-country to New York for the third event; then by sea to England, with a convoy of trucks moving the equipment to

Brad Marsh with some of the containers and the transporter that travel around the world. Cowes. For the final event in Marseilles, the containers were split, some going by sea and some by road via the Channel Tunnel. During racing, the technical team operates as pit crew. “Each team has its own people to get them through daily race operations, but anything technical, or involving damage comes back to the SailGP crew under Marsh’s direction. “Within the team, we have different specialist departments: hydraulics, electronics, rigging, boat-building, sail-making etc. That is about 60 people. If there is a major incident, like a crash, we flood resources in to make sure everybody is ready to start the next day. “In Season One, we had capsizes in New York and Cowes, we had wings wiped out in San Francisco and Cowes, we had a couple of serious collisions. But we had a 100% track record of starting racing every day with all the boats in the fleet ready to go.” That often involves the lights burning late into the night. Racing usually goes into the late afternoon, so by the time all the boats are craned back on shore and checked, it is well into the evening before work actually commences. “Of course, we do not have a 100% track

record of all the boats finishing every day,” Marsh continues. “Our job is to present each team with their boat optimised and ready to race in the morning. What they do after that is on them. “These are pro teams operating at a very high level. They push the boats to the limit, so it is natural that there are breakages. There are parameters on these boats and you know that if you exceed those parameters, there is going to be damage.” Keeping a close eye on those parameters is a data team — affectionately referred to as the “geeks and weirdos” — who monitor live data streaming continuously from an array of sensors on each boat and telling a second-bysecond story of the loads incurred and every micro input and trim adjustment made by the crew. If a boat reports an issue, time is of the essence. There are only 13 minutes between each race to fix the problem before the next start sequence. Take the example of a dagger board not going down. The data team can see that the button has been pushed and the electronic actuator has triggered the message to the ram and the ram has tried to work, so probably

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the lock failed to disengage. With the problem diagnosed in seconds, the appropriate specialist team is despatched on the water to fix it. They replace the offending part, test it 10 times and jump off. Alternatively, the data may show that the chain of command never commenced. Maybe the button failed, in which case it is instantly replaced and tested. Maybe, however, it was never properly pushed in the heat of battle. Again, the system is tested 10 times. If it works 10 times, it is operator-error and blushes all round.

“Data is key to everything,” says Marsh. “These boats have an amazing touch point of information analysis coming in all the time. It is instrumental in how the boats are sailed, in how we diagnose problems, and how coaches analyse and debrief sailors. The link in all of that data management is Oracle.” Being on the road for more than 200 days of the year is demanding, as is the stress of keeping the show on the road. “During a regatta, I do not get much sleep,” Marsh admits. “It is a big responsibility. “We have learned that the rigours of

being on circuit is not for everybody. Some are cut out for it, some are not. That human resources side of things is an important aspect of management that I have had to learn about as well.” However, he relishes the challenges that go with the territory and the opportunity to be part of building a high-tech, high-action pro sailing circuit from the ground up. “For me, a large part of the attraction is about legacy and being in at the start of something that my own kids will one day look at and say, ‘How cool is that!’”

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Inflation about to hit the main street. What’s the story?

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Markets will have one and half eyes on inflation points over the rest of 2021 as investors try to ascertain how substantial and sticky inflation pressures are. There is good reason for this intense focus. Inflation pressures ultimately drive the level of interest rates, which in turn have a major influence of the prices of stocks, bonds and real estate. What is driving inflation up? Reported inflation will rise over the coming months as year-onyear price measures compare to the depressed levels in March to May last year. But there is more to the inflation story than just base effects. Several COVID-19 effects, and policy reactions are creating inflation pressures. These include: 1. Too much money – Central Bank monetary policy has led to an enormous increase in the monetary base of nearly all fiat currencies. The number of US dollars in the world has increased by 27% since the beginning of 2020. Said another way, nearly a third of the US dollars in the world, were created in the last year! If more money ends up chasing the same quantity of goods, inflation should rise. 2. Government spending – The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC) saw the bare minimum in fiscal policy, which prevented an economic depression, but did not encourage a fast recovery. This time, governments have spent freely trying to protect their populations from the negative economic effects of government-forced lockdowns. The average developed world stimulus package reached 10% of GDP in 2020 compared to 2.6% of GDP in the GFC. The US alone has spent US$6 trillion in fiscal stimulus. 3. Supply chain squeeze – COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions have constrained various factories and supply chains causing shortages of various products. But this is only half the story. Thanks to the money creation and government stimulus, consumers are sitting on record cash savings levels, which is creating excess demand for various products. As the Northern Hemisphere lockdowns come off, we expect consumer spending to accelerate and shift into different areas such as dining, travel, and entertainment. This will represent money shifting from the financial economy of investments and bank accounts to the real economy of goods and services. From Wall Street to Main Street. These pressures are showing up in commodity prices and various finished products. Iron Ore and Copper prices are up 70% and 50% respectively since the beginning of 2020. And perhaps more concerning for lower income countries is the increase in food prices as shown by corn and wheat prices up 50% and 15% over the same period.

How high will inflation go this year and how long will it last? Market participants all know inflation is going to accelerate

temporarily. The important question is how aggressive it will be and how long it will last. Milford believes that inflationary pressures may be worse than expected over the next six months. Central Banks are pushing ahead with money creation and the government fiscal injections have been larger than the economic hole in most countries. This, combined with an upcoming spending splurge from Northern Hemisphere consumers as they exit lockdown, creates a perfect cocktail for higher prices. Upside inflation surprises are not a sure thing, but it is a likely outcome given where expectations are today. The good news is that most of these inflationary pressures should prove temporary. Pent-up demand will wash through and supply chains will catch up as production normalises. We should also see the level of money creation and government stimulus decline to more sustainable levels as the year progresses. The major uncertainty is to what extent governments continue fiscal expenditure and whether price increases become ingrained in consumer expectations. There is a tail risk that this causes the “transitory inflation” situation to last into 2022, or even longer, which would be a negative surprise for markets. Longer-term, some factors such as ageing demographics and globalisation will become a more inflationary force that may require higher interest rates to keep inflation at a reasonable level. However, the timing of these impacts is very difficult to determine and will, at least in the near term, be overwhelmed by the more immediate drivers discussed above. How Milford is managing the inflation risk and opportunity Milford has been preparing for the transitory inflationary effects since the second half of last year. The main actions taken are: 1. Reducing our exposure to longer-dated bonds by either selling them or taking derivative protection. 2. Investing more in companies that outperform in inflationary environments. These include increasing our holdings in banks, commodity producers, agriculture companies, fixed cost manufacturers, building materials and gold miners. The inflation dynamic is just one of the many factors we consider and manage. We have also retained exposure to structurally growing business and continue to focus on bottom-up stock picking opportunities. But if inflation surprises in magnitude or duration, the actions we have taken will help our portfolios navigate through any volatility.

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Nick Egnot-Johnson and his Knots Racing crew victorious in the Theland Open Keelboat Nationals. Our new RNZYS Performance Programme squad has been announced for the 2021/22 season. The squad includes some returning sailors as well as some new ones who have graduated up from the Mastercard Youth Training Programme. The full list is: Nick Egnot-Johnson, Bradley McLaughlin, Sam Barnett, Zak Merton, Megan Thomson, Chelsea Rees, Serena Woodall, Josi Andres, Anna Merchant, Ellie Copeland, Robbie McCutcheon, Chester Duffett, Sam Street, Jack Frewin, Alastair Gifford, Max South, Frankie Dair, Niall Malone, Rachael Willison, Sam Hume, Ash Edwards. We also had plenty of sailors graduate from the programme in April at a graduation ceremony held at the RNZYS. We wish them all the best with their future sailing endeavours. The honours list included: Lisa Dartnall - 1 year; Hunter Gardyne - 1 year; Will Clough - 1 year; George Angus - 2 years; Mitch Jackson - 2 years; Jordan Stevenson - 2 years; Jake Erson - 2 years; Alison Kent - 2 years; Celia Willison - 2 years; Paige Cook - 2 years; Charlotte Porter - 2 years. Many of the new squad were in action during the busy month of May, including Nick Egnot-Johnson and his team who took out the Theland NZ Open Keelboat National Championship for the second time in three years. Others competing in this event included Robbie McCutcheon and his team, who

finished in seventh place overall. Their result could have been better if it wasn’t for a tough final day, where they recorded two 10th place finishes. McCutcheon and his newly named GCH Racing Team are going to be a solid addition to the squad; they are a keen young team and already have some great match racing and fleet racing experience – and results – to their name. Other members of the squad also took part in the event, including Niall Malone who was the bowman on board with PP Graduate Chris Steele and his Theland Race Team, as well as Alastair Gifford who was part of the successful Knots Racing victory. Megan Thomson’s 2.0 Racing Team had a brilliant result at the Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s Keelboat Nationals, finishing third in a very experienced fleet. They also had a solid result two weeks later at the Theland event, finishing in sixth place overall in what was again a very competitive fleet. In terms of major fleet or match racing regattas, that is it until the summer season begins later this year. However the sailors will be doing plenty of training throughout the winter months on the Elliott 7’s and the newly acquired Flying Phantom foiling catamarans. Many of the squad will also be doing big boat sailing throughout the Doyle Sails Winter Series, gaining valuable all round experience as they push forward with their sailing careers. By Andrew Delves

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Megan Thomson and crew racing in the Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championships.

our current PP team KNOTS Racing helmed by Nick Egnot-Johnson that came away with the win. Mixing it up amongst the fleet was again our women’s PP team 2.0 Racing helmed by Megan Thomson, who claimed 6th place followed by recent YTP graduate and new PP team helmed by Robbie McCutcheon in 7th. Our one and only YTP team helmed by Max McLachlan finished in 9th, showing great promise by collecting a couple of results in the top five over the weekend. We are continuously looking at ways we can offer more training and a broader ranger of skillsets to our sailors. YTP has recently been offered the invitation to participate in our RNZYS Boat Driver Training, which includes learning to safely drive a RIB at night. Another new initiative, actioned by our new Fleet Manager Geoff Dawson, is our evening classes kicking off in June with an expert organised to teach our YTP and PP sailors to splice, followed by a number of other industryrelevant skills. The season ahead is an exciting and busy one with our first inhouse match racing regatta kicking off in June and the Auckland Match Race Championships fast approaching in August. A big thank you to our YTP Race Management team who volunteer their time almost every weekend to provide our YTP and PP sailors with great events on the water. Reuben Corbett YTP Training Manager

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When Larry Paul answered a phone call from the US on April 1, 2019, offering to gift a beautiful 1936 classic sloop, he thought it might be an April Fool’s prank. But it was a genuine offer to return Tangaroa, to her homeland. Larry tells the story ...

Tangaroa completes full circle Designed by John Brooke for Mr Jas. Inkster of Bayswater, Tangaroa’s design was based on an earlier Scandinavian boat (by K Aage Nielsen), which featured in Rudder magazine in 1933. She was built from triple diagonal plank kauri timber by the Percy Vos yard in Hamer Street Auckland and launched on the 2nd December 1936. Pohutukawa was used for her stem, with the interior fitout in mahogany and hatches and skylight in teak. A doghouse was added by a later owner, M. V. Bates, in 1953. While built as a cruiser, Tangaroa regularly and successfully competed in RNZYS events, including coastal races to Tauranga, Kawau Island and the Bay

of Islands. Tangaroa often carried homing pigeons, released at regular intervals with information on the progress of the race yachts. In 1961, she was purchased by a young American couple, Peter and Jo Byam, from then owners Messrs Bates, Stretton and Green of Auckland. The Byams fitted her for offshore cruising and set off to explore Tahiti, eventually arriving in Hawaii in November 1962. Tangaroa was sold the following year to William J. Froome and Robert T. Leary who, after many years cruising around

Edward Printup, in 1977. the yacht to Eric Jonsson’s father, Allan Rey Jonsson, and his sailing buddy, Lloyd Edward Printup, in 1977. Interestingly, her earlier owners, the Byams, had such fond memories of their time in New Zealand that they immigrated to Waverley in South Taranaki in 1978. Peter passed away in 2015, but Jo still lives on their family farm. The Jonsson family enjoyed many years of cruising and racing around Oahu and across to Maui. When Allan Rey Jonsson moved to California to

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be closer to family after his retirement, he passed custodianship of Tangaroa to his son Eric, with the dream of Tangaroa being returned to her home of origin, and back to the company of the wonderful fleet of restored and well maintained classic wooden boats in the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust. Now back to that April 1 conversation with Eric Jonsson in which I told him the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust would be unable to take her on. But the best way to fulfil his father’s wish to see the yacht returned to New Zealand might be to identify an interim local skipper with a passion for classic wooden boats and have them assist in recommissioning and sailing her in New Zealand until a long-term custodian could be identified to care for her. Eric and his Dad agreed and the lengthy process of building a shipping cradle and organising shipping from Hawaii to Auckland was put in motion. Tangaroa left Honolulu some seven months later, early on the morning of Nov 19th 2019 and arrived in Auckland via Tonga on December 8th. Boat Haulage Ltd then trucked her to Horizon Boats in Stillwater, where Wayne Olsen replaced the decks, tidied up the cockpit lockers, rebuilt and repaired the hatches and

The Daring, a 17m schooner built and launched in Mangawhai in 1863 and quickly twice wrecked, has finally returned to Mangawhai – by road. The first time the Daring came to grief was just nine months after her launching, on the bar at the mouth of the Waikato River. Then nine months later she was again wrecked, this time at Te Oneone Rangatira beach near the South head of the Kaipara Harbour. There she remained buried in shifting sands for more than 150 years until her hull was exposed and she was recovered in December 2019 by the Daring Rescue Group, with financial support from John Street. The Daring has now been trucked to a temporary shelter beside the Mangawhai Museum, awaiting completion of the Daring Discovery Centre, where she will be on public display.

skylight and added a galley, head and holding tank. Commissioning skipper Corey Rademaekers has spent considerable time completing the paint work, re-rigging Tangaroa and fitting her out for cruising in New Zealand. Tangaroa was relaunched in September 2020 at Gulf

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A new addition to the CYA launch fleet A new addition to the CYA launch fleet is Waikaro, a 32ft wooden launch designed and built by Roy Parris in 1978 in his shed in Westmere and now owned by brothers Ant and Chris Smit. Waikaro started life as a working boat for a Great Barrier Island family and was then “rescued and somewhat rebuilt” by Geoff Bagnall some 15 years ago. Bagnell remodelled her cabin and cockpit to create a “practical, liveable vessel”. More recently Waikaro underwent another makeover – although she retained her original 120hp Ford engine. The Smit brothers joined the CYA when they bought Waikaro earlier this year for

Harbour Marina, where she is currently berthed, and Corey has built a small racing team to compete in CYA events. He even managed some cruising time with his family over the summer of 2020/21. Eric Jonsson and his good friend Randy Schmitt had hoped to be in New Zealand

family cruising. Longtime yachties, they have made the switch to power. “Launches tend to stay upright, you can just turn on the key and set off, and plus you have no need to look for crew,” says Ant, who is looking forward to CYA launch events – and being out on the water on Waikaro when the classic fleet is racing.

for the relaunch and some cruising in the Hauraki Gulf, but the Covid-19 pandemic put paid to this, with plans to cruise the Hauraki Gulf on Tangaroa currently on hold. A Tangaroa open day was held in May at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, with many great stories

shared over drinks and nibbles. Jo Byam was among the visitors, returning to the yacht an original wooden Tangaroa carving she and Peter had kept when they sold the vessel in Hawaii in 1963. Tangaroa, the yacht and the carving, have come full circle.

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ETNZ exploring hydrogen-driven technology Emirates Team New Zealand have committed to drive Hydrogen innovation in the marine industry by developing hydrogen powered chase boats for the 37th America’s Cup. They have been working with AFCryo, a Christchurch-based innovative company in design, development and manufacture of composite cryostats for the cryogenic and superconducting industries. Currently the Emirates Team New Zealand designers are working on a prototype hydrogen powered foiling chase boat, to be built at the team’s North Shore build facility, capable of supporting an AC75 throughout all aspects of an America’s Cup campaign.

Once launched and verified, and with the support of the Challenger of Record, Ineos Team UK, it is possible that the Protocol for the 37th America’s Cup will contain a provision that all teams must use hydrogen powered support boats. Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton said ETNZ intends to drive the development of new and clean technology in the marine industry. “It is our hope that we can make a seismic shift into hydrogen power and an emission-free statement for the industry.” Elements of the hydrogen innovation will also be assessed and developed into how they can potentially be utilised in the functions of the next generation of AC75’s.

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Volvo Penta is expanding its capabilities, experience, and range by becoming the majority shareholder of Norwegian marine battery and electric driveline solutions supplier ZEM AS. Volvo Penta has announced an exciting new acquisition of ZEM – a company with 12 years of market experience as a supplier of both marine battery systems and complete electric drivelines, and a strong track record in Norway, the most mature marine e-mobility market in the world. Volvo Penta will support ZEM’s growth through its established network, while ZEM’s experience will help Volvo Penta accelerate development projects. The ambition is to reach net-zero emissions through fossil-free, renewable fuels, electric, and hybrid technology while continuing to provide efficient solutions to the marine industry. “Volvo Penta’s vision is to become a leader in sustainable power solutions, where we are driving transformation on land and at sea towards a more sustainable society,” explains Heléne Mellquist, President of Volvo Penta. “The switch from diesel-based technology to electrification will be a key element in our transformation, alongside other new technological advancements,” she says “The electrification journey will be reinforced through strong collaboration with stakeholders – customers, business partners, and like-minded industry experts.”

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Whitehaven Flybridge 7000

Whitehaven launch upgraded Flybridge models Whitehaven Motoryachts have recently unveiled new concepts for the Flybridge 7000 and Flybridge 6000 models. The upgrades have been a collaboration with Misha Merzliakov Yacht Design and will elevate the yachts to a superlative level of luxury. After some inspiring ideas from a long-term Whitehaven customer, the new concept for the Flybridge 7000 includes an exterior design upgrade and expansion of the beam to 19 feet for more onboard amenity. Yet the largest change is the layout of the main saloon and accommodation suites below deck to reflect current market trends. Similarly, the Flybridge 6000 has an exterior

styling upgrade plus subtle yet important changes to the internal arrangement. They are changes which will add to the award-nominated design and most popular Whitehaven model. The reimagined flybridge models continue to offer the signature Whitehaven mezzanine decks that seamlessly link the saloon to outdoor alfresco dining area. This configuration creates ample below deck space for a fully enclosed tender garage easily accessible from the swim platform. This arrangement is one of the key selling features of the Whitehaven range of motor yachts. www.lauriecollins.co.nz.

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Multihull Solutions and The Yacht Sales Co have announced they have joined forces with Ocean Time. Headed by Dominic Lowe (above), Ocean Time has been a highly respected name in the New Zealand brokerage market, and Dominic will continue as the new entity’s NZ general manager. His knowledge of both power and sail vessels is unmatched, and he has extensive experience across the sales, service and technical aspects of the industry.

Multihull Solutions and The Yacht Sales Co CEO Mark Elkington said the new venture was an exciting development, combining highly experienced and professional sales consultants to deliver great service to New Zealand boating clients. “By merging with Ocean Time, we are significantly expanding and strengthening New Zealand’s boating market, and we look forward to offering a huge selection of the world’s finest selection of brands, including Fountaine Pajot, ILIAD Catamarans, Dufour Yachts and more, to the region’s boating enthusiasts,” Mark said. “We are also creating a much stronger market for pre-owned yacht sales, which is currently experiencing unprecedented demand in the region, and both buyers and sellers will greatly benefit from this new collaboration,” he said. The head office for the new operation is located at the gateway to the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland’s ever-popular Gulf Harbour Marina. info@multihullsolutions.co.nz

AksoNobel joins forces for a more sustainable future Creating a more sustainable yacht industry and helping to protect the world’s oceans are the main goals driving a new partnership between AkzoNobel’s Yacht Coatings business and the Water Revolution Foundation. Having already made a long-term commitment to bring positive change to the industry, the business will share its expert knowledge and insight, which has been acquired over many decades of developing pioneering solutions for customers around the world. Established in 2018, the Water Revolution Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works to preserve the world’s oceans by helping the yacht industry to drive down its environmental impact. “We have a natural connection with the Water Revolution Foundation and share the same goals, in that we both want to create a more eco-conscious and more sustainable yacht industry,” explains Jean-Michel Gauthier, Director of AkzoNobel’s Marine and Protective Coatings business, which includes the Yacht Coatings activities. Adds Robert van Tol, Executive Director at the Water Revolution Foundation: “AkzoNobel has shown its leadership in sustainability for many years and we are united in our passion and ambitions to build a more environmentallyfriendly sector.” AkzoNobel has received the highest possible MSCI rating (AAA) for six consecutive years and is part of the Clean 2000 – a ranking of the companies with the highest revenue from sustainable solutions. www.international-yachtpaint.com.

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NEW BUILDS & REFITS

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CUSTOM DECKING SOLUTIONS • Hard wearing, light-weight and easy to maintain • Full templating and install service available • Muiltiple colour and CNC routering options

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0800 114 222

sales@ultralon.co.nz

ANCHORS New Zealand’s leading Safe & Vault specialists.

Bullion Safes Jewellery Safes Cash Safes Modular Vaults & Vault doors

www.safeman.co.nz

Ph: 0800 723 365

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SHIPPING/FREIGHT

DESIGNERS

BERTHAGE

Award-winning race yachts • cruising yachts • motoryachts

KEVIN DIBLEY info@dibleymarine.com • +64 27 593 3692 www.dibleymarine.com

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SAIL MAKERS

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217 Archers Road, Glenfield PO Box 37419 Parnell, Auckland, NZ

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SAFETY EQUIPMENT

PROPELLERS

QUALITY MARINE PRODUCTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

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All types available for both saildrive and shaft installation

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Home of America’s Cup Dress Shirt $185 | Members $166.50

Home of America’s Cup Cotton Cap $45 | Members $40.50

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Home of America’s Cup Basic Tee $70 | Members $63

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Available now instore or online www.rnzys.org.nz

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NEW YAMAHA

OUTBOARD

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LOCAL

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FROM

*Finance to approved personal applicants or commercial applicants with a registered valid NZBN (excludes fleet, government and rental buyers). Weekly repayments are the monthly equivalent of: (A) $264 for a F40LA $11,663 RRP including GST; (B) $300 for a F60LB $13,403 RRP including GST; (C) $343 for a F70LA $15,243 RRP including GST; (D) $414 for a F90LB $18,773 RRP including GST; (E) $462 for a F115LB $21,013 RRP including GST. Offer is based on an interest rate of 9.95% over a 5-year loan term with a $395 application fee and $8.05 PPSR fees. Finance is provided by Yamaha Motor Finance New Zealand Ltd. (YMF) NZBN 9429036270798 FSP 9622. Offer is subject to YMF’s credit and lending criteria. Unit price advertised includes standard rigging (6Y8 two round gauge, 703 remote, control cable 14ft, K series alloy prop). Please ask your dealer for full details. Offer available from participating Yamaha dealers which stocks last from 01/05/2021 until 30/08/2021. Units must be warranty registered and finance contracts must settle by 31/10/2021. Not in conjunction other offers.

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