Seahorse Magazine Home Page


 

SEAHORSE MAGAZINE
CURRENT ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2003

LOUIS VUITTON CUP

Hi boys!
Afloat Ernesto Bertarelli's team have been beating up on anyone that gets close. Ashore it seems OneWorld were being beaten up be anyone who got close to them. TIM JEFFREY

The king of cool
JESPER BANK looks back at his first Cup experience with neither awe nor regret. Just as a multiple Olympic gold-medallist would...

They said it
And here it is to haunt them

Even cooler
RUSSELL COUTTS has been very careful to distance himself from all the controversy. But then he's in New Zealand to win the America's Cup...

FEATURES

Not for the faint-hearted
NIGEL IRENS takes a frank look at the multihull dramas in the recent Route du Rhum

New wave?
DOBBS DAVIS talks to JIM BURNS of DynaYacht, plus JOHN REICHEL and JIM PUGH about the fundamental appeal of CBTF

No blue blazer
GLENN BOURKE finally got to sit in the CEO's chair for the Volvo Race late last year, but he is confident the right changes will still be made

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - PETER RUTTER

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
IVOR WILKINS explores the underwater intrigues of the Viaduct Basin, DEE SMITH reports on another successful Farr 40 Worlds and incoming RORC Commodore CHRIS LITTLE has an update on Admiral's Cup developments

World News
Ellen does it again, as does Michel Desjoyeaux, Peyron (B) stirs things up around the globe, old hands go for the new Figaro one-design, Emma Richards heads south in Around Alone, 'Stars in a Bottle' in Auckland, Hobart organisers face a recession of their own, MaxZ86 goes CBTF and Terra Nova Key West Race Week preview. IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, TIM JEFFERY, ROB MUNDLE

Rod Davis
Bad news if you're not with the Alinghi Challenge

Seahorse readers' letters
ROB WEILAND pops out of the woodwork

Olympic and small boat news
PAUL BIEKER has not only been helping draw new ACC boats for Oracle BMW, he's also found time to create an all-new International 14 design

Design - Shockwave
ROB BROWN looks at Neville Crichton's supermaxi, and its unusually 'impressive' ballast system

Seahorse Raceboat Build Table

RORC News

Seahorse Race Calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
And where the hell have all the men gone?