{"id":29653,"date":"2018-01-03T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29653"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:40:29","slug":"guillaume-verdier-the-frenchman-who-is-designing-the-future-of-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/guillaume-verdier-the-frenchman-who-is-designing-the-future-of-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillaume Verdier: The Frenchman Who is Designing the Future of Sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yacht design has evolved rapidly in the last decade with the development of swinging keels, foils, wing sails and much more. And one designer has left his creative fingerprints all over these astonishing new boats.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, the last major yacht race of 2017,finished on January 28, and this already has been Guillaume Verdier\u2019s year.\u00a0Verdier, a velvet-voiced Frenchman who likes his desk messy and his conscience clear, remains eager to deflect credit elsewhere, but his creative streak has contributed to quite a winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>He does not trim the sails or man the helm, but yachts he helped design have taken 2017\u2019s biggest prizes, from the grueling Vend\u00e9e Globe solo round-the-world race to the America\u2019s Cup, won decisively by Emirates Team New Zealand in Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuillaume is right there with the best of the best because he has earned it,\u201d said Ken Read, the veteran Cup skipper and president of North Sails. \u201cNo razzle-dazzle. He\u2019s simply smart, creative, a bit nuts and works extremely hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verdier, 47, is also putting his imprint on the future of sailing. He has been commissioned to lead the design of the next generation of yachts for the\u00a0Volvo Ocean Race\u00a0and is one of the central figures behind the radical\u00a0new America\u2019s Cup class\u00a0that was revealed in November: a\u00a075-foot foiling monohull without a traditional keel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/24\/sports\/sailing\/guillaume-verdier-yacht-racing.html\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yacht design has evolved rapidly in the last decade with the development of swinging keels, foils, wing sails and much more. And one designer has left his creative fingerprints all over these astonishing new boats. &nbsp; The Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, the last major yacht race of 2017,finished on January 28, and this already has been Guillaume Verdier\u2019s year.\u00a0Verdier, a velvet-voiced Frenchman who likes his desk messy and his conscience clear, remains eager to deflect credit elsewhere, but his creative streak has contributed to quite a winning streak. He does not trim the sails or man the helm, but yachts he helped design have taken 2017\u2019s biggest prizes, from the grueling Vend\u00e9e Globe solo round-the-world race to the America\u2019s Cup, won decisively by Emirates Team New Zealand in Bermuda. \u201cGuillaume is right there with the best of the best because he has earned it,\u201d said Ken Read, the veteran Cup skipper and president of North Sails. \u201cNo razzle-dazzle. He\u2019s simply smart, creative, a bit nuts and works extremely hard.\u201d Verdier, 47, is also putting his imprint on the future of sailing. He has been commissioned to lead the design of the next generation of yachts for the\u00a0Volvo Ocean Race\u00a0and is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}