The new offshore racing world, after IOR

Yacht Racing Performance Coach Stuart Greenfield provides the final part of a three part series about what’s happening to offshore racing:

At the end of Part 2, racing certificates had begun to rule everything.

IOR had given offshore racing a golden age. It had produced the Admiral’s Cup at its height, Ton Cup battles that felt like design warfare, and a generation of naval architects who had to think harder than almost anyone before them. Carter, Peterson, Holland, Farr, Frers, Dubois, Jones, Humphreys and others had learned to draw in two languages at once. One language belonged to the sea. The other belonged to the rule.

The problem was that, by the end, the rule was speaking too loudly.

Part 3 begins when that single argument starts to break apart. – Full report