June 2019

FEATURES

Oops
JESUS RENEDO

One hundred years later
Let’s focus on what can be achieved and then leave people to do their jobs. ROB WEILAND

Taming the talent
It takes time but eventually the full picture emerges of most of the great sporting heroes. And so we learn that CHARLIE BARR was not an easy man to manage. JOHN ROUSMANIERE

Orphan child no more?
Did the code zero really first appear on the dock in Southampton at the start of the 1993/94 Whitbread Round the World Race or was it a re-boot of something that had been around for quite a while? BRIAN HANCOCK

(Truly) something else – Part II
Turning the Eagle 53 foiling cat and its Hybrid Wing into reality was not the work of a moment. PAUL BIEKER, RANDY SMYTH, STEPHEN ROBERT, WOLFGANG CHAMBERLAIN

The new norm – Part II
If we are to plough on into the world of foiling Ultims we are going to be relying increasingly on the quality of the maths. RENAUD BAÑULS

Time to catch up
This may well be the most important Seahorse article you ever read. EDIT OLASZ HARKEN

Too good to refuse?
Rhode Island’s long love affair with the America’s Cup shows no sign of easing up. ERIC HALL

TECH STREET

Making the harder stuff easy

Under the radar

Humbling?

Beneath the surface

It’s about cost (not price)

Waxed cotton (not so much)

REGULARS

Commodore’s letter
STEVEN ANDERSON

Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Surely things cannot go on like this… can they?

Update
Of business and billionaires, some things just don’t work out, an unwanted rocky start… and it’s (truly) a Laser fiasco. Plus it takes a lot to persuade us to do a book review, but sometimes… JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, WILL HARRIS, ROB KOTHE, RODNEY PATTISSON

World news
Massive Macif, getting it together in Ultim world, GABART’s little ‘sprint’, TONY RAE’s determination not to go sailing, taking it (very) seriously with BLUE ROBINSON. Plus Charleston rocks (yet again). PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, BIANCA COOK, DOBBS DAVIS, CHARLIE DALIN

Rod Davis – cause and consequence
Hitting the right performance at the right moment

52 Super Series
All-carbon gatecrash. ANDI ROBERTSON

ORC – A more pragmatic approach
... is paying dividends. ANDY CLAUGHTON

Seahorse build table – Crowdfunding
We’re in if you guys are. UMBERTO FELCI

RORC news –Man overboard
EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month
Recognising all the talents