FEATURES

New baby
Experienced round the world solo racer and now Velux 5 Oceans race director DAVID ADAMS has more of the details of the new Eco 60 class

A step taken
Following the verdict of the new York Court of Appeal we look at the options going forward and at the winners and losers in the tortuous and ongoing game of the 33rd America’s Cup

A bravura performance
TIM JEFFERY made absolutely certain that he would be in Rio to greet MAGNUS OLSSON as sailing’s supreme ambassador made one of his most spectacular landfalls... to date

Speaking from experience
RICHARD BRISIUS and his business partner JOHAN SALEN have been responsible for a large share of recent Volvo and before that Whitbread round the world entries. Who better to ask how to move ahead with a big race in a tightening economy...

Fireside tales – Part 1
PETER HARKEN talks with LOUAY HABIB about the extraordinary journey that has been the story of Harken performance equipment

The next (big) step?
DOBBS DAVIS talks with batten guru ROMEO ROBICHAUD about the coming revolution...

Kite-smokin’
GINO MORRELLI is already looking way, way beyond the next generation of high performance multihulls, as he explains to ROB MUNDLE

REGULARS

Commodore’s letter
ANDREW MCIRVINE

Editorial
ANDREW HURST

Update
TERRY HUTCHINSON is ‘pleased’ there is a verdict... ALESSANDRA PANDARESE settles on today’s ‘winning’ side and KNUT FROSTAD believes that to move ahead first we need to reconnect with the history of the Volvo Race

World news
Who pays is a key question following the Vendée Globe, Alex Pella moves up the ladder, Cowie and Davies do some bailing, Agustín Zulueta stays wary and Neville Crichton has a score to settle. DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, ROB MUNDLE and PATRICE CARPENTIER

Rod Davis
A return to Long Beach prompts a review of changes... good and bad

Olympic and small boat news – Pretenders required
At the Princess Sofia pre-Olympic regatta in Palma Ben Ainslie’s would be usurpers took to the stage... while Britain’s relentless medal machine keeps rolling on

Design – Chariots of fire
The free hand of an America’s Cup DoG match is not such a simple problem. DAVE HOLLOM

Seahorse raceboat build table – Real world solutions
Normally bristling with unidirectional high modulus carbon, we take a look for a change at a thoroughly modern but more accessible technical solution with rigging specialist JOHN FRANTA

RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN OWEN 

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month
Two new and brightly shining stars!