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| Location | Cowes, UK |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | Juillet 1979 |
| Original picture | Slide |
| Original picture | Slide |
| Formats | Portrait orientation |
| Era | 1960-1980 |
| Colors | Red |
In the world of race and sailing, he is Rubi. A nickname he owes to Olivier de Kersauson, his shift companion of the first round the world race aboard Pen Duick VI in 1973. On his return, he changed course and took the opportunity to redouble its Cape Horn on Neptune in 1977. Long gone are the maths.
Prof. left teaching to start a nautical journalist activity. In 40 years of reporting, Bernard Rubinstein touches everything to satisfy his passion: the sea and the boats. Racing or cruising, he first tries them in Neptune Nautisme, Neptune Yachting and Voile Magazine. This is a pretext to sail close with the greatest sailors, from Alain Colas to Eric Tabarly, from Loïck Peyron to Armel Le Cleach through Franck Cammas. To face storms, he spends long periods on the Abeille Flandre and then its successor the tug Abeille Bourbon. Enthusiast about lighthouses, his collection on the subject is unique in France.
Besides, this is the time when these sea sentries were still occupied by guards that he landed on all lighthouses of the Iroise sea with a bonus of an eight days stay in the lighthouse of kings, Cordouan. Today, he can claim in all modesty to have lived since 1976, all departures of Transat, those of Rum and of the Vendée Globe. To have written and photographed hundreds of boats. It would be mistaken to think he could draw a certain vainglory from all that. He is Rubi, just Rubi.
Wonderful years, these 80's, where downwind racing yachts under spinnaker could send a strange sail named Big Boy, now relegated to the archives with the arrival in power of asymmetric spinnakers. To fix on its Kodachrome 64 this kind of image, the photographer had to be in total confidence with the rib driver.
His role, positioning the rib ahead and well in the axis of the sailing boats. These two actors, Admiraler's evolving in the Solent during an inshore race held in the breeze.
As such, the 1979 event will be remembered. Every day, over 25 knots for all events and a final, the Fastnet Race swept by a terrible storm causing the death of 15 sailors.
