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• Updated: December 18, 2013

J/88: Best One-Design

The sweet spot for J/Boats has always been the 30-foot range , and in years past they’ve had great runs with models like the J/29, the J/30, and the J/105. To meet the demands of owners today to be able to haul and store themselves, the team at J/Boats has come up with a design that’s more versatile than any like models before it. It’s not revolutionary, the judges say, but when it comes to practicality, it’s perfect. At roughly 5,000 pounds, the J/88 has a deck-stepped rig and a single-point lift so it can be hauled with a hoist and parked in the driveway—or put on the interstate for the occasional class championship.

The J/88 was originally conceptualized as a daysailer, says J/Boats president Jeff Johnstone, but that market got overpopulated so they seized an opportunity to revisit their range with a design that Johnstone says is a “family boat with high-performance traits.”

“The stability and sailing comfort are right there,” says Chuck Allen. “They really got this one right. It’s big enough, yet small enough, to do a lot with. For a boat its size, there’s a big interior, a really comfortable cockpit, and there’s nothing intimidating about it. Upwind, the thing just locks into a nice groove. It practically sailed itself.”

Tom Rich praised the quality continuing to come out of Bristol’s CCF Composites (also the J/70 builder). “I think it’s an incredibly well built boat,” says Rich. “There’s nothing negative we can say about it.”

Greg Stewart agreed, noting that the helm has great feel upwind and downwind. The interior, he adds, has plenty of sitting headroom, a lot of volume for a family to weekend, and the construction, right down to the finish, is excellent.

With a Hall Spars carbon rig and a low vertical center of gravity, the boat is plenty stiff. The cockpit is set up for shorthanded sailing and efficient buoy racing. To get the ergonomics right, they built a plug and fussed over hardware placement so the T-shaped cockpit is obstacle-free and uncluttered with lines.

Johnstone’s philosophy is to not immediately promote a new model as a one-design, but they were at hull No. 39 in the order book as of press time, and one-design class rules were in development.

“One-design doesn’t happen out of the box,” says Johnstone. “For us, it’s about matching a boat to people’s lifestyles, and right now that’s primarily beer-can racing. At some point soon, however, we will have J/88 racing happening.”

The boat will ideally be raced with a crew of five, or three couples, he adds, and the provisional PHRF rating of 87 seems like a reasonable starting point.

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DEHLER 38: Best Crossover

The Dehler 38 is one of those boats that will catch you off guard. It blends in at the marina or the mooring field, but on the racecourse, with good sails and a crew on the rail, it will catch the attention and the envy of your club competitors.

The judges agreed after their test sail that this 38-footer, built by Hanse Yachts in Germany, is the perfect crossover package for an owner looking for a boat with which he can do anything. It delivered on aesthetics and performance. With a clean, functional interior, and a reasonable price, the judges deemed it the best of the crossovers and best value of the entire BOTY fleet.

“The interior is amazing,” says Allen. “There’s really good quality throughout the boat, no cheap stuff on it whatsoever. But what really sold me was how well it sails.”

The Judel/Vrolijk team is responsible for the Dehler 38’s slippery shape, and while it’s modern and fast below the waterline, its beam gives substantial volume to the boat, which allows for standing headroom and a three-cabin layout. A few space-saving ideas help, including a nav-station desk that slides fore and aft, and a cabin door to the port side head that can be closed two ways. One way creates an enclosed head and the other creates an aft master stateroom.

“I felt like this is exactly the sort of boat that you could take anywhere and race,” says Stewart, “especially in the local overnight races that are popular these days. It sailed with a really nice groove, and I like the cockpit layout; everything is placed where it should be for a helmsman and his trimmers to do their jobs without getting in each other’s way. It’s wide aft and really clean. The steering system is nice and light, and I could see the telltales well from the helm.”

The competition version comes with a carbon rig and a deeper T-bulb keel. The test boat the judges sailed had the standard keel, and while they were impressed with the performance, they felt the competition model would be even better. “It’s a nice rounded shape that’s not submerged,” says Stewart. “That, combined with its powerful bow profile, makes it a boat that behaves really well.”

Deck hardware is all Harken, and the boat has masthead symmetric spinnaker gear, with the option to mount a sprit for an asymmetric. Either downwind setup will get you around the track quickly, and back to the club to collect your hardware.

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RS CAT 16: Best Dinghy

I f the America’s Cup inspired you to try catamaran sailing, RS Sailing , of England, has the boat to do it. The RS CAT16, a triumph of rotomolding technology, is not just another plastic beach cat. It’s plenty high-performance. This is one for adults and kids alike to get hooked on the stoke that comes with two hulls.

The biggest challenge with polyethylene boats, especially catamarans, is rigidity where the beams meet the hulls. To address this, RS designed the hull with a deep channel that runs the length of the hull. The beams are bolted through molded hull tubes, rather than directly fastened to the deck. This makes the hulls watertight.

The CAT16 is the first in a series to come and is available in two versions: the standard has a jib and main, and the XL, which the judges sailed, has a gennaker, as well as a single trapeze (a second trap is optional).

“It’s a great boat,” says Tom Rich. “I thought it was incredibly responsive, stiff, and well laid out.” Allen agrees, and adds, “With more breeze you’d be laughing, but what’s really amazing is the build and how well it’s all put together—amazing.”

At 300 pounds, it’s not the lightest beach cat, but RS wanted strength and longevity over weight, given the abuse beach cats get. The aluminum alloy rudders kick up, and there are no daggerboards to destroy during beach or dock landings. Long hull skegs are deep enough to minimize leeway.

RS aims for simplicity in every system, and that’s true with the CAT16; the mast easily pins to a ball on the forward beam, every halyard runs externally, and there’s minimal hardware. Trampoline pockets hide unused sheets and halyards, and there are proper safety elements, too, including a righting line and flotation in the mast.

It’s built using the same process they’ve used for more than 10,000 units: The outer layer has a UV stabilizer in the polyethylene, the middle layer is foam core, and the inner layer seals the whole thing.

The boat can accommodate four people, but it’s ideal for two. The RS CAT16 is also a boat on which one adult can go it alone with the main, jib, or gennaker and let their inner Spithill soar.

CATALINA SPORT 275: Best Recreational Racer

Catalina Yachts has built more boats than most builders could ever dream to —at least 75,000 at their last count. Over the years they’ve literally come up with everything from cruising boats to small trainers, but nothing ever with a sprit-flown asymmetric spinnaker. Adding a sportboat to their lineage was a long time coming. With the Catalina 275 Sport they’ve taken a big step toward catching up with the rest of the sport, but fear not Catalina enthusiasts. This may not be your grandfather’s Catalina, but it’s one we can assure you he’d happily own.

The design concept from Gerry Douglas, the builder’s long-standing in-house designer, is that of weekender, club racer, and daysailer. His vision was a first boat for young families, or a low-hassle boat for experienced owners downsizing from a larger boat. To get there he came up with a design that’s true to the Catalina ethos: simple, functional, and affordable.

The boat has accommodations to comfortably overnight or weekend, with a settee table up in the bow that drops to convert to a double berth. A galley to starboard with a drawer that fits a big cooler and an enclosed head to port bring it one level beyond roughing it. A cavernous starboard aft berth, says Douglas, was designed to fit a stand-up paddleboard—now that’s some California thinking. But the marquee feature, he adds, is the cockpit’s long bench seats, which are all about maximum-capacity harbor cruises and casual weeknight PHRF races. The standard rig package is an aluminum mast with a self-tacking jib. The retractable asymmetric spinnaker pole, which is bolted on the foredeck through Delrin collars, is optional but highly recommended.

“There’s a lot of boat for 27 feet,” says Tom Rich. “It was comfortable to sit there and drive from inside the boat, where you feel protected by the high cockpit coamings. It’s a bit on the heavy side [5,000 pounds], but it slipped along just fine.”

The test boat, which was not 100 percent finalized, was tested with a 4-foot-5-inch winged keel, which helped it track well at lower speeds but took away some responsiveness in the turns. Douglas said he would be changing it to a fin keel, which will help. Regardless, the judges were impressed with how well it sailed in their light-air test.

“Honestly, it sailed better than we thought it would, by a lot,” says Allen. “With the 15-horsepower Yanmar it motored really well, too. It’s a great little boat that does exactly what they set out to do—it’s a family boat that you can do a lot with.”

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TIWAL 3.2: Best Innovation

The “first high-performance inflatable sailing dinghy” from Tiwal, in Vannes, France, was the interesting new standout of the BOTY fleet. Any reservations the judges had were scuttled on the water. “The thing was a blast,” says Chuck Allen. “I couldn’t believe how well it sailed. You could have some serious fun with this, especially in big breeze.”

With a high-pressure hull the boat has remarkable stiffness for a 10-foot inflatable. An aluminum hiking frame attaches to the deck, and the 110-pound boat, rig, and foils pack into two bags. It retails for $6,250 with the larger, 75-sq.ft. sail.

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Xp 44: 2014 Boat of the Year

When an owner spends roughly half of a million dollars on a sailboat, he will expect it to be worth every hard-earned or inherited penny. He’ll want to admire it. He’ll want to stay aboard every chance he gets, and show it off to his mates at the club. Most importantly, though, he’ll want to know it’s built like a half-million dollar sailboat should be. And if it’s the Xp 44, he’ll want to race it hard, too.

Full credit for the boat’s seriously high quality goes to the designers, engineers, and craftsmen of X-Yachts in Denmark. The Xp 44, the judges agreed, is the real-deal big-boat crossover. Yes, it’s luxurious for a raceboat, and yes, it’s a performance cruiser at its core, but the elements that make it a great cruiser are the very same elements that make it a great boat to go the distance, in more ways than one.

“It’s amazing. This thing has the feel of a 60-footer,” says veteran Boat of the Year judge Chuck Allen. “The keel is nice and deep, and even though we tested it with delivery sails, it sailed awesome. It sailed the best of all the boats.”

With more than 30 years in the production boatbuilding business, X-Yachts has a cult following, especially in Europe, so it’s no surprise they’ve delivered more than 51 Xp 44s since the boat’s European launch in 2011. We’re told they have orders through hull No. 72. Top results in European handicap races against Swan 42s, TP52s, and the like confirm that given a good team and a proper sail inventory, the boat can easily be pushed beyond its rating (a preliminary Long Island Sound PHRF rating is a kind 31).

“I walked up to it, and it looked like a great yacht,” says naval architect and judge Greg Stewart. “It has an excellent profile and a bigger feel because it has that nice, wide, modern shape aft.”

Just shy of 44 feet overall—with a maximum beam slightly over 13 feet and light displacement of 19,000 pounds—it feels like a substantial boat. It’s conceived to sail “superbly” in all conditions, says X-Yachts dealer Bob Rogers, “which is what makes X-Yachts race winners and enjoyable fast cruisers as well.”

In a weight-saving change to its building technique, X-Yachts now uses a composite grid structure in the hull instead of a stainless-steel grid as they did in the past. “All that extra weight went into the T-bulb keel,” says the BOTY panel’s resident boatbuilder Tom Rich. “You can really feel it in the boat.”

For their test sail, representatives presented the boat with a full-batten delivery main and non-overlapping jib, and there was no spinnaker gear onboard. I was sure the absence of a proper downwind inventory would turn off the judges immediately, but not so. They were sold on its upwind performance alone.

“It has a great setup,” says Stewart, who has a keen eye to the efficiency of cockpit layouts. “The winches on this boat aren’t oversized, and they’re set up perfectly at the helm. The powered hydraulic backstay is huge for controlling this rig. An owner doing a lot of racing might find it better to put on three-speed winches to speed up the jibes.”

Belowdeck, the boat is open, bright, and airy, and designed such that the ends of the boat are relatively empty and light. The boat has a traditional three-cabin layout—forepeak and two aft with pipe cots if need be—and convertible amidships settees. The starboard nav station is on tracks and can be shifted fore or aft depending on its intended use. The salon table can also be easily removed for racing.

On deck, the boat’s versatility makes it ideal for distance and point-to-point racing. Configured to race with masthead symmetric spinnakers, the fixed bowsprit puts any asymmetric inventory well away from the effects of the mainsail. Sheeting angles and adjustments on the headsails are excellent, says Allen, and the powered backstay gives sailors a wide range to work with the rig. There was one electric pit winch on the test boat, which the judges say is a must for a cruising boat of this size.

The appearance of the Xp 44 is close to the X-Yachts “look” designer Niels Jeppesen has developed over the years, the judges say. That too is a positive, especially for loyal X-Yachts owners.

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2014 West Wight Potter 15 Sailboat Features Fully retractable keel adjustable kick-up beaching rudder teak cabin hand rails Comes with trailer & Honda 2.3 motor.

Equipment: 2014 west Wight Potter 15 Premium Package, full options interior/exterior. Full batten main, 130% lapper jib, genoa, upgraded sail control hardware, all running rigging, safety required equipment, trailer included, Honda BF2.3DH motor included. Extra hardware.

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SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

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As the details of the agreement became clear, many in Taiwan’s civil society warned that the deal would advance economic absorption by China and compromise the island’s political sovereignty.

How later resigned and supported student activists nine months later after the bill was rushed through the legislative review process by Ma’s China-friendly KMT. That student movement became what is now known in Taiwan as the Sunflower Movement, or the 318 student movement, commemorating the day the 23-day occupation of the legislature began.

The movement helped pave the way for the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential and legislative victories in subsequent elections and reinvigorated the island’s politics with a new, younger generation of politicians and parties.

But in this year’s election, many former activists and movement parties lost in their districts. Ko Wen-je’s Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), which proved popular among Taiwanese youth as a pragmatic, anti-establishment choice beyond typical political divides, replaced the Sunflower-era New Power Party as the third most-represented party in the legislature with eight seats.

So what has changed in Taiwan since How alerted the public to the CSSTA? In his new book, Taiwan Unbound: A New Chapter, How explains the dissonance between generations in Taiwan as a metaphor for the island nation’s obedient, unmoving mountains and the adaptive, unconfined sea.

How, a child of Chinese immigrants to Korea, moved to Taiwan when he was 18 and built a successful career in the publishing industry. Today, he is the founder of the award-winning publishing house Locus Publishing, chairman of the Taiwan International Book Fair Foundation, and a passionate participant in initiatives across civil society. And despite his support of young activists and his previous tenure under Ma, he says he has no loyalties to any party.

“I’m a citizen. We are the owners of this country,” he said. “So we have to monitor [the government]. Otherwise, who will watch them?”

Al Jazeera spoke with How on the movement’s 10-year anniversary to learn more about contemporary Taiwanese politics and the resonance – or lack thereof – of the Sunflower Movement with Taiwan’s youngest generation.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Al Jazeera: Why did you decide to alert the public about the CSSTA?

Rex How: It was June 2013. I read the newspaper and I found there was news that the government is going to allow mainland China printers to come to Taiwan, they could invest in Taiwan to do printing. So I was very surprised. And at that time, I was the adviser to President Ma Ying-jeou. I never heard that he had such a plan and no one in the government mentioned that they were going to sign a special agreement with China. So I wrote a letter to the president and CC’d the letter to the foreign minister. I told them that it was a totally wrong decision. And it’s very important that I need to talk to them, I want to let them know why it’s so dangerous for Taiwan publishing and even freedom of speech. But I didn’t get any reply from President Ma or anyone in the cabinet.

And then again, I read news that said very soon, our government will open many doors for different areas of Chinese industry to invest in Taiwan. I got so anxious, so I kept asking. And one day I had a talk with the minister of culture at that time with some other publishers. We asked her, what is this agreement about and what is going to happen? And she said even she didn’t know.

And then I spoke with the minister without portfolio and I asked when it was going to be signed. He said in Shanghai, on the evening of the 21st of June of 2013. So I saw that there was nothing I could do. I can only write an article to post on my Facebook and alert the people that there are only 24 hours left for us to express our disagreement with the government. So I wrote that article, and it got a huge response. But it didn’t work. They didn’t listen. So people came out to the streets to protest and that was the beginning of the anti-CSSTA movement.

Al Jazeera: What kind of impact do you think the Sunflower Movement had on Taiwan in the long term?

Rex How: The Sunflower Movement was a summary of all the social movements that happened in Taiwan before. The KMT was the target, but actually, it gathered all the momentum of other social movements in the past years, including the environmental one, including ones about the media, land justice, human rights in the military, and so forth.

So keeping Taiwan’s independence economically from China was on the surface. But at the bottom, in the depths, I recognised that the movement was about a generational gap. The new generation’s acknowledgement of the world, of economics, of Taiwan, everything is different from the generation before. Today after 10 years, the DPP seems to be away from the younger generations. And that’s why Ko Wen-je claims [he is] taking more care of the younger generation.

Al Jazeera: Tell me a little bit about your new book, Taiwan Unbound: A New Chapter.

Rex How : My book started actually 10 or 12 years ago. At that time, I saw that so many social movements began against the government and almost every movement was either initiated or participated [in] by the young people.

At that time, the KMT government [saw] that all these movements against them were supported by the DPP, so they thought that the young people were manipulated by the DPP. But I didn’t agree with that because I watched all these movements evolve. And what I believe is that there’s not a conflict between political parties. There are conflicts between generations.

[I saw] these differences between the generations as a metaphor: the changes on the land seem like the changes of the mountain and valley, the desert and grass. The mindset is different from mountain to valley, from grass to desert, but they have something in common: They are on the land. Until a certain point in time, that was the difference between every generation. But at a certain point, the changes of the generations become totally different. So I use metaphors like from land to sea. I saw that in Taiwan that point of time was 1987 because that year, we lifted martial law and Taiwan became a democratic society or country.

The meaning of the lifting of martial law is the media became free – we had newspapers booming, TV stations, cables and especially radio stations. We can hear, we can listen, you can watch and you can read so many things that were taboo, that were prohibited before. So it’s a completely different world, Taiwan after 1987. I thought people born after that were like people in the sea. The way to live and survive in the sea is different from the way to live and survive on the land. On the land, you have to exercise your legs. But in the sea, you have to learn how to swim, how to sail a boat, not only to run up the hills or walk in the desert. So since 10 years ago, I felt all these kinds of protest movements have happened in the sea.

So the real thing is how to listen to these kinds of voices, which were different from the previous generations’; how to acknowledge their needs, how to acknowledge their anger. The KMT didn’t notice this. They didn’t accept this, they only thought that all these young generations were risen by the DPP. So eight years ago, in the election, they just collapsed. They had a big loss to the DPP at that time.

Al Jazeera: 10 years after the Sunflower Movement, many members of [the post-Sunflower movement party] New Power Party (NPP) joined the DPP. And in this election, the DPP tried to present itself as representing the young people by running these Sunflower-era politicians. And they weren’t all successful. Do you think now there’s even a disconnect between the Sunflower generation and the new young generation?

Rex How: Yes. If we continue to use my metaphor of land and sea, 10 years ago, the sea was shallow. But after eight years, after two elections, there is a deeper sea. People born after the year 2000  are different from the people who were born in 1987 like [those in the] Sunflower Movement.

Al Jazeera: So they are harder to reach?

Rex How: They are different. Just like Lin Fei-fan [a former Sunflower Movement leader] told me, he doesn’t understand what young people under 30 are thinking because they are using different media. KMT, they use media like newspapers or TV; DPP, Sunflower Movement, the main media they use are blogs and Facebook. Today, young people are not using blogs and Facebook, they’re using IG, YouTube, short videos, TikTok. When you are using different media that means that you are in a different world … in my metaphor, young people are in the deep sea, and they are crying for help that someone could help them to sail a boat, help them survive in the sea. And nobody came to them besides Ko Wen-je.

All the other candidates didn’t show [up] in the media that they are using. What Ko Wen-je did was sail a boat to the deep ocean, but he kept on changing his costumes to play different roles. You never know who he really is, what he really believes. What he said in the evening is different from the morning. Sometimes he says [President] Tsai Ing-wen is a troublemaker, but sometimes he says he will follow her diplomatic policies. But for the young people, he is the only candidate that they can reach, they can see, they can watch. And the tactics of Ko Wen-je are very clever. In my book, I mentioned that he hired six to seven YouTubers to help him decide what he would say today. The only thing he is thinking about is volume on the internet. So he doesn’t mind if he’s saying something different. As long as the volume can be raised, he’s happy to do that.

Al Jazeera: Do you think that is enough for the TPP to stay relevant in politics? He also campaigned on being this anti-establishment figure. But now, the TPP has eight seats in the legislature. They’re becoming part of the establishment, and they’re going to have to define their values and vote on things. Maybe that will turn some voters away because they heard him say something different?

Rex How: As you saw, Ko got the least votes in Taipei City. So all the citizens in Taipei, they knew what he did, who he was. So he can only mesmerise people outside of Taipei. There is a saying that “all of the Ko haters were once Ko fans”.

I don’t know if he will last. I only know that I don’t think it’s really a party. It’s a one-man party or one-man show of Ko Wen-je. In the long run, I really don’t think [the TPP will last] because of Ko Wen-je’s mindset, he has an emperor’s mindset. He admires Mao Zedong – you know that, right? And when he got elected the first time 10 years ago as Taipei mayor, he went on a pilgrimage to Yan’an. He has a very friendly mindset toward China.

Al Jazeera: There haven’t been many big student movements in the past several years. There hasn’t really been something similar to what happened in Hong Kong in 2019, or in Taiwan in 2014, this kind of immediate existential threat to Taiwan, unlike during the Sunflower Generation. Do you think that may have also helped Ko Wen-je and hurt the DPP?

Rex How: People are very easy to forget. So some young people today, maybe they forgot, or they even didn’t know what happened in Hong Kong four years ago. Another reason is that because the DPP won the election four years ago by elaborating on this point, some people are criticising them like hey, you don’t know anything else, maybe the DPP is good at using kind of fears but they didn’t pay that much attention to the young generation.

But I think that’s a mistake. We should always let people know that every election in Taiwan is related to China . There is always an invisible candidate – China – that’s always invisible but participating. Twenty years ago, in 1996, they used bombs, missiles to threaten us. And then they tried to use the money to buy us like what they did in Ma Ying-jeou’s government. And now, they’re using cognitive warfare. Cognitive wars were omnipresent in this election.