THE RACE
Dominant...
The performance of the Dalton/Proffit team aboard Club Med and the Multiplast design and build team led by Gilles Ollier and Yann Penfornis. Few people would have put money on all three of Ollier's 
mighty cats making it around the planet - but they did

Somehow...
"We did it!" The words of Bruno Peyron as Club Med was met by a massive crowd at the finish of The Race in Marseilles. PEYRON talks with TIM JEFFERY about his feelings of relief, and of his plans for 
the future

Design comparison
JACQUES TAGLANG and FRANCOIS CHEVALIER look beneath the paintwork of Club Med and explain why Ollier's technical success is even more notable than it might first appear

Nature's best
ERIC GOETZ has long supported the use of balsa cores in composite structures, and he feels the case for nature's wonder-material is now better than ever. Plus KEN READ puts the 'client' view

Fresh start - Part III
FRANK BETHWAITE looks at how a better understanding of sailing dynamics has pushed forward 'wet-boat' apparent wind sailing. And BUDDY MELGES offers some thoughts on how we're shapin' up against the iceboaters...

Learn, learn, learn
ORC Special Regulations chairman ALAN GREEN looks at the detailed lessons of the two official reports into the 1998 Sydney-Hobart tragedy

Regulars

Commodore's letter - PETER RUTTER

Editorial - ANDREW HURST

Update
CAM LEWIS reports in as Team Adventure nears Marseilles, sailing says farewell to Bob Bavier, Admiral's Cup tribulations and Francesco still woo's the (female) crowd in Auckland

World news
Home for Patrice and 'Little Yellow', and for a hungry Yves Parlier, Ian Cook and Yachting Developments test fresh territory in Auckland, a new home for Shockwave and a report from the Acura SORC. 
PATRICE CARPENTIER, ROB MUNDLE, DOBBS DAVIS and IVOR WILKINS

Paul Cayard
Great to be back in Stars, but the immaturity of the America's Cup organisation is still gnawing

Seahorse letters
A look at some of the latest autopilot development in Holland and some words of appreciation from a shipmate of the great Olin Stephens

Olympic and small boat news
Sydney Olympic gold medallist MAGNUS LILJEDAHL offers his personal perspective on the 2001 Bacardi Cup in Miami