Prada tactician and Sydney bronze medallist Torben Grael was back in action in his starboat to win a windy European Springs title in Marseille.

Features

Enter stage right...
Beginning our regular coverage of the 2001/02 Volvo Ocean Race we look at some of the recent VO60 launchings and talk to round the world race veteran, but first time skipper KEVIN SHOEBRIDGE

At the hub
He played a major role in bringing us the offshore one design classes that have changed the face of the sport, but he remains very determined that we somehow find a way to keep development class racing on the boil. In the light of the cancellation of this year’s Admiral’s Cup (right) we catch up with Farr International president GEOFF STAGG

To the Barn Door and beyond...
This year’s Transpac classic sees the introduction of a new, simple set of rules that have already produced three new 52 footers. There are lessons there for a wider audience perhaps... DOBBS DAVIS looks at the new TP41/52 rules and at some of the front runners for the 2001 race

The biggest issue - Part II
‘S2KV is based upon a vortex lattice formulation with a novel method of integrating a viscous boundary layer solver in a more direct method’. OK, so to get the bigger picture of one of the most important areas of current IACC development now turn to DR ROB RANZENBACH’S detailed explanation 

Regulars

Commodore’s letter
PETER RUTTER

Editorial 
ANDREW HURST
Time to take a step back - and for ISAF to start baring its new offshore teeth?

Update
CHAY BLYTH is still on the hunt for more events for his growing Challenge Business. Plus Californian singlehander Bruce Schwab launches his innovative - and very different - new Tom Wylie designed Open 60 Ocean Planet

World news
New tris prove fragile in the Challenge Mondial Assistance, Alain Gautier and Marc Lombard interviewed, Cunningham is back for a shot at 50 knots plus, Bond is back, Team New Zealand’s (favourable) mid-term report, the Simpsons go sailing with News Corp, Philippe Kahn - an unstoppable force in US sailing. ROB MUNDLE, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS

Seahorse letters
Dalton under fire, ‘balsa is not the only answer’, and the Schock 40 - legal or not?

Olympic and small boat news
PETER BENTLEY looks back over the opening months of the 2004 Olympiad and at the technical issues that look set to dominate at least two of the classes for a little while yet...

ORC column
Life is pretty good, if you are a Latin IMS sailor, says ORC councillor EMILIO FELIU SERRA

Design
Chronicle of the early New Zealand small boat history 

America’s Cup - Schadenfreude!
The only way to describe how the ‘alleged’ turmoil rocking certain America’s Cup syndicates is being greeted by some of the rival teams...   TIM JEFFERY

Seahorse raceboat build table

RORC news
A look at FICO and at the RORC’s involvement

Seahorse calendar
And the Seahorse Sailor Of The Month

Seahorse raceboat build table

RORC news

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