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America\u2019s Cup racer<\/strong>\u00a0turned commentator, one design keelboat champion turned\u00a0two times Volvo Ocean Race skipper<\/strong>,\u00a0Ken Read<\/a>\u00a0is President of North Sails and was in Antigua last week sailing in the\u00a0J Class<\/strong>. Tip & Shaft caught up with Read.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken, we are back seeing a resurgence of interest in the J Class which you love, describe their special magic for you compared to other big boats you sail?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWell for start the minute you stop and you don\u2019t look around and think \u2018Jesus Christ this is one of the nicest boats that has ever been built\u2019 then you\u2019re doing yourself a disservice. And\u00a0you see owners smiling all day<\/strong>\u00a0so that\u2019s where our job is, we are in the entertainment business. The minute you think this is just another big race boat race is the minute you fail, so there’s so many more factors.<\/p>\n

But will the J Class always be cyclical, owners\u2019 interests in high level racing ebbing and flowing?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI do think so because I think in the nature of boats like this, owners cruise them, some race them, some do a little of both. Some want the Med in the summer, some want East Coast USA, some want West so\u00a0to get them all together in one place is hard sometimes<\/strong>, and that is for all the right reasons. They want to use their boats and use them the way they want.<\/p>\n

But is there not an element of owner\u2019s egos involved, some guys are not used to not winning in their world?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t think its egos. For example the Lionheart (world champions) folks, they cruise with their families. I’ve seen Velsheda out cruising with the family. So it just depends on how you use it.<\/p>\n

How important is this J Class and the big performance superyachts to North\u2019s business?<\/strong>
\nQuite important. And it kind of goes back to 2007 the last AmericasCcup where there were a lot of (Cup) boats and a lot of sails. After the Americas Cup stepped away from sails for a while\u00a0we needed something to fill in the gap and fortunately the J Class and performance super yacht sailing came in<\/strong>\u00a0and did just that, so it\u2019s been huge for us and huge for our company.<\/p>\n

And in terms of these big performance superyachts where is that side of it going?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI think it\u2019s really good to split the rules up the way they are, the real performance end of it and then the fun point-to-point end of it. But we have to keep emphasizing the fun side of it. It\u2019s easy for people like us to lose sigh of that.\u00a0It\u2019s the entertainment business<\/strong>. We can\u2019t lose sight of the fact that we just want people to use their boats and we can\u2019t put pressure too much onto the performance side of it because then we lose sight of the important part which is getting these things off the dock and getting them sailing.<\/p>\n

Where is the biggest growth for North in terms of revenue?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s still boats like this.\u00a0If we have a good year with big boats then it\u2019s a good year for our company<\/strong>. We build 30,000 sails a year and a lot of those sails are dinghy sails so from the smallest of small one designs all the way through to\u00a0<\/strong>Aquijo over here, an 80 metre two mast boat. I don\u2019t think we prioritise one over the other. We try not to because one design is such a part of the heritage of our company, but at the same time this (here) is a performance driver for the company, no question.<\/p>\n

Are you close to the limits of technology with these big performance superyachts?<\/strong>
\nNo I don\u2019t think so, again the 80 metres over here, when that boat was built there was certainly some head scratching but it\u2019s all about improvements in the software.\u00a0We can build anything with the 3Di process<\/strong>. We are reliant on the software though and the software has to adapt to bigger, stiffer, faster, more loads, more righting moment and everything else. As long as the software keeps up with the whims and wishes of clients then we\u2019re in great shape and I think we have the smartest people in the industry working on that at all times.<\/p>\n

Presumably the software developments come to you from the Cup still?<\/strong>
\nNo question, I mean a guy like let\u2019s say Michael Rickleson who is really our lead software guy\u2026. For\u2026.. forever. Many people would say he\u2019s the smartest guy in the business, understated and quiet but he\u2019s with Prada and for all the right reasons. We shove our best and brightest out to Cup campaigns whether it\u2019s wing mast or not because everything we do improves because of the interaction with those teams. Those teams are spending ridiculous money on the most miniscule details and we want to be part of that.<\/p>\n

Will these new Cup twin skin rigs trickle down to the market?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a good question. The twin skin mainsails, there’s certainly hope, I would say they\u2019re still in their elementary stages. I talk to the teams all the time and ask how it\u2019s going.\u00a0There’s some sceptics, some critics and some real positive responses too. It\u2019s just a bit finicky to get up and down,\u00a0it\u2019s not quite as easy as I think they\u2019d hoped<\/strong>. They\u2019re getting the lift from them in many conditions like they\u2019d hoped but I think it\u2019s just like anything, just some ways to go and just more development.<\/p>\n

And the French IMOCA market is a big development area for North?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s evolving like a bat out of hell. Some of these guys \u2013 some of these teams are much more well funded than they\u2019ve been in the past, IMOCA\u2019s have always been \u2026\u2026I wouldn\u2019t call it the poor sister to the Volvo programmes but\u00a0the budgets themselves are dramatically less<\/strong>. A few of these teams are quite well funded and doing some real interesting stuff. Of course the VPLP\u2019s and the Verdiers and Juan K\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>of the world, these guys are just smart and they are making boats go faster and faster all the time and\u00a0just keeping them in one piece. That\u2019s my only fear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Will we see a quantum leap in terms of a key development this time, one race winning sail maybe?<\/strong>
\nThis time there’s really different aspect ratio changes some of the teams are doing, they\u2019re doing\u00a0more triangular sails versus than high aspect sails<\/strong>. I think that\u2019s a big difference from how they sail the boat. Some of them are sailing more like the Volvo Race last time where they are essentially going downwind on that 65 footer with the big genoa up. Others are sailing with A4\u2019s still so there’s radical differences still in how they\u2019re setting the boats up and how they are deciding to sail the boats so there’s a long way to go but that\u2019s going to be fascinating in the end.<\/p>\n

And the IMOCA business is big for you?<\/strong>
\nWell in France it\u2019s massive<\/strong>. Our French loft, you could make a case that I would say it\u2019s primary. It\u2019s almost like the feeder system through the Figaro\u2019s, Mini\u2019s all the way up to all the double handed stuff up, this groundswell of double handed up to the IMOCA\u2019s then the Ultimates. Really when you look at it it\u2019s quite an interesting natural progression for a lot of these younger French sailors so sure enough our French loft is a) really good at it and b) really focuses on it for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n

So there is a lot the world can learn from France!<\/strong>
\nOther than how to race offshore? (smiles) There is the general trend which started there to sail short handed. That\u2019s why\u00a0I started sailing double handed<\/strong>. I just did the Fort Lauderdale to Key West race on a Jeanneau 3300 with a girl named Suzie Leach and I can tell you that I haven’t had that much fun sail boat racing in a long, long time. It comes from England, France, other European countries \u2013 that\u2019s not to say there isn\u2019t pods of double handed sailing spread all around the world.<\/p>\n

It is happening everywhere, in the USA?<\/strong>
\nNo question, well hopefully everywhere. It falls into the same original principle we were talking about here which is getting people off the dock. Two crew versus 10 on the same size boat, a smaller inventory, a much more specialised inventory, boats that aren\u2019t going to break the bank, to get more people off the dock and out there sailing.\u00a0I think it\u2019s a natural progression and I’m going to keep doing it<\/strong>\u00a0because hopefully people can use maybe a bit of this publicity and think \u2018Wow, that looks kind of fun, let me go try it\u2019.<\/p>\n

But you don\u2019t fancy racing solo?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t like myself enough to go solo<\/strong>. That is clear to me. It\u2019s close enough, I see myself solo when maybe Susie\u2019s down below getting some food and it\u2019s a beautiful night and I’m up there on deck by myself thinking \u2018wow this is really cool, this is really fun\u2019. I think\u00a0the double handed side of it is really fun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So you are a fan of\u00a0 mixed offshore for the Olympics<\/strong>?
\nNo question, that\u2019s a really great instigator, an impetus to getting this all going, there’s no question in my mind so\u00a0I’m going to keep trying to do it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Were you involved in the campaign to get it into the Olympics?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWell Stan Honey (who is on the World Sailing offshore committee) I talk to all the time. There’s no question that I was a supporter of it, I love coastal sailing and I love coastal offshore sailing, I always have.<\/p>\n

And so the age range offshore at the Games could be broader than any other class\u2026.<\/strong>
\nMassive,\u00a0you could have 20 year olds and 60 year olds<\/strong>\u00a0there’s no question in my mind. It is\u00a0 going to be really fun. The more it starts churning up interest the better it is for sailing around the globe.<\/p>\n

And your thoughts on the new AC75 Cup boats are you a fan?<\/strong>
\nI am, I think any time something new comes around I think it\u2019s good for sailing in general. Something that looks on paper so insane, we got all the sketches and thought \u2018what?!\u2019 and then all of a sudden you see these guys zipping around like they\u2019ve actually got everything under control.\u00a0I think like any Cup, sailors are going to figure it out<\/strong>. The best sailors in the world will figure it out and we are going to see some good racing.<\/p>\n

But the reliability and complexity seem to be an issue right now?<\/strong>
\nAgain, they\u2019re going to figure it out, you don\u2019t want to start heavy. Start light, break it, fix it, make it a little stronger and then go. It looks and feels like a real natural Americas Cup progression to me.<\/p>\n

But the costs this time really are prohibitive and unsustainable? Should it not be in a boat which is more accessible and promoting a Cup with eight or ten teams, say? \u00a0<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s not for me to say, I don\u2019t know if we could go back to standard keel boats at this stage because I think our best young sailors around the globe are now hooked and addicted to this stuff. You could not tell the next generation that they can\u2019t follow through on what they\u2019ve been training for their whole lives.\u00a0The Cup is never going to be cheap, it\u2019s never going to be easy<\/strong>, never going to be without controversy, ever. But let\u2019s keep making the boats harder.<\/p>\n

But there are three only three challengers?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMy question to that would be do we really have to have it be a successful Cup with 10 teams, I don\u2019t know. Any initial new boat Cup is always going to be hard and could they have stayed with the 50\u2019s for another Cup? Maybe. But it\u2019s the Americas Cup, it\u2019s supposed to be hard, that\u2019s the way it works.<\/p>\n

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