The Société Nautique de Genève celebrated 150 years with a week of racing and a full social programme this 21-31 July. Moderns mingled with classics on Lac Leman, home to a large fleet of 6-M yachts. This year’s special guests were 24 8-M yachts racing their Worlds.
There was only one modern 8-M racing. The top classic, wooden 8s can make it difficult for a modern but in the end, particularly downwind, a wing-keeled polyester design from 1984 should win, as designer Jacques Fauroux’s did, repeating her world titles of 2015 and 2019. Those times, she faced the fastest modern
