| Seven UK crews, seventeen US K6’s to race, breeze between ten and twenty five knots, twenty degree sunshine, fifteen races in three days, a rugby world cup final, and all within sight of the Manhattan sky line…quite a cocktail.
The American Yacht Club chose the K6 as it’s new one design dinghy class after a rigorous selection process. You’d expect rigour from a club that counts more than one America’s Cup challenge in it’s history and has a string of the 2007 launched New York Yacht Club Swan 42’s sitting on it’s mooring trots. The rigour paid off with seventeen new boats in a season, and real pedigree in the fleet – super-yacht designer Bill Tripp (who penned the achingly gorgeous 143ft Wally ‘Esence’ amongst others) and Drake Sparkman (son of Drake Sparkman Snr from the legendary S&S design partnership) are both owners. ...more |
