<strong>MAINSAIL</strong> u ISSUE <strong>10</strong> 06 Cover Story Contents CUTTING EDGE HEALTHCARE INNOVATION One-to-One with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Healthcare Dr Chris Fearne Creative Q&A FORTUNA IS STILL MY FAVOURITE Exclusive with Italian designer Tommasso Spadolini 14 30 Interview of the Month ON BOARD WITH JOHN CAUDWELL Owner of 73m superyacht Titania and man on a mission 2019 Rolex Middlesea Race RMS 2019 Entries on track 32 39 London Boat Show ON BOARD DURAN DURAN’S ICON: Panerai’s Eilean docks in London
Sailing Narrative 16 A RETURN TO WINNING WAYS Ineos Team UK takes to the race course MBR Features 20 HIGH VISIBILITY We find out about the best underwater drones to visit the depths One-on-One 26 WHAT ELSE CAN ONE POSSIBLY WANT? The Editor’s latest transponder GT54UHD-TM TRANSDUCE Sailing Regattas 42 TOP MEDITERRANEAN REGATTAS The best places to race a sailing yacht, from Sardinia to St Tropez Ocean Risk Initiative 44 PARTNERING FOR PROGRESS ON OCEAN RISK When people are invited to stop what they are doing and think about the ocean, what it means to us, and what we can do to help protect it Quote of the Month What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. – Thomas Merton Editor’sNote Another stifling, hot summer is upon us. I am planning on a holiday break in London and Paris, as well as a sailing adventure around the Aeolian Islands, while I am writing this editorial. Rising out of the cobalt-blue seas off Sicily’s northeastern coast, the Unesco-protected Aeolian Islands (Vulcano, Lipari, Salina, Panarea, Stromboli, Filicudi and Alicudi) are a little piece of paradise, a seven-island archipelago offering a wealth of opportunities for relaxation and outdoor fun. Stunning waters provide sport for swimmers, sailors, kayakers and divers, while trekkers can climb hissing volcanoes and gourmets can sip honey-sweet Malvasia wine. My favourite hot spot is Panarea, the smallest and most fashionable of the Aeolians, attracting international jetsetters and Milanese fashionistas for a taste of dolce far niente I shake my head when I am at one of the few local yacht clubs on the Island, watching the kids get ready for their junior sailing program, and there are a bunch of parents rigging the boats. As a kid, we would have been incredibly humiliated if our parents had rigged our boats for us. It was something we did together, helping each other when necessary but taking responsibility for getting the job done by ourselves. My mother’s total involvement was to hand me my favorite floppy hat and some pocket money and tell me to have fun. I had no one to protect me from doing something stupid, like getting fingers in the way when attaching a boom or lowering a centerboard. And because no one shielded me from difficulties or disappointments, I learned to stand on my own. Trust me, I only held a fully loaded spinnaker halyard once as I released it when dousing the chute. Smoked my hand, learned a lesson, as I was growing fast. If I forgot to pack a sandwich or, more likely, forgot to stow it someplace dry, I was the one with a soggy sandwich at lunch. There was no mommy-boat to fix things, and I learned to carefully waterproof anything I wanted to eat later, and it wasn’t a plastic bag back then, it was multiple layers of wax paper with a rubber band. One of the special qualities of sailing is that it really does train kids to become functioning adults. Sure, soccer and football and other sports help instill teamwork, but that’s about it. Not much use in your adult life for bunt or place kick. Sailing teaches you stuff you will use forever. I used knots I learned on the water to tie some lumber securely to the roof rack of my car recently, and I have a lifetime of familiarity with tools, paints, adhesives and the other stuff that kept my boats together and afloat. Sailing prepares kids for life. Sailing is a training ground that turns kids into adults, as long as adults leave them alone. Let them win or lose on their own merits, not with someone snowplowing their life. 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