Ed Baird checks in from the 44Cup’s first event (in a long time) in Portorož, Slovenia, where the racing is about to get underway; Jonathan McKee downloads on the J/70 North American drift-fest and Gary Jobson tries to explain the New York YC’s surprise Challenge protocol issued last week and Peter Isler’s getting ready for a summer packed from Classics in the East to Transpac in the West.
