FEATURES
Back in the day
PHIL UHL
Five hundred not out
BLUE ROBINSON shares a little of the magi
Reaching through history
It takes quite a lot to get ROB WEILAND excited about any new yacht race… but this one is unusually special
Just the nine lives?
Spend long enough on the ocean and eventually you will encounter a rather special NIGEL IRENS-designed catamaran… one that is now well into its 38th ‘season’. NIC COMPTON
The sum of the parts
ANDREW MCDOUGALL gave us the first and since then the majority of competitive production built Moth foilers; now he has a new one. ‘Amac’ has also helped hundreds of more impecunious sailors share the foiling life. BLUE ROBINSON
Setting the standard
Whitbread and AC racer DAWN RILEY is truly indefatigable… as CAROL CRONIN finds out
Stunner
ANDY RICE was in Enoshima where he got to watch the unforgettable ‘Four Medal Race Day’
We’re back!!!
Thanks to incredible perseverance and hard work this winter we are going to have a proper Caribbean racing season. CAROL BAREUTHER
SUPER YACHTS
Blue water super cruiser
ROLF VROLIJK, JOHAN SIEFER, ELISABET HOLM AND KIERAN FLATT tell the story behind Vrolijk and Baltic’s latest superyacht, Path
TECH STREET
Tested formula (spectacular) new solution
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
JAMES NEVILLE
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
First words, a rough start, back to Archimedes, brokerage hindsight, follow that (Cup) money, half a million sea-miles and the final freedom. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, HALVARD MABIRE, ØYVIND BJORDAL
World news
Travels through times and designs in southern California, old faces big impact, upwind or down… that typical old Transpac dilemma, knots for the dollar. Also Vendée Globe bangfor- the-euro, Class40s, Imocas, Mini 6.50s all going nuts, PR games in Auckland… and peace at last for BELCHER AND RYAN. PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBINSON, VICTOR KOVALENKO, GRANT DALTON, MICHAEL BLACKBURN, IAN LIPINSKI, YANNICK BESTAVEN… Plus some nice final words from PATRICK TEARNAN in Tokyo
Rod Davis – Bad taste
There’s little appetite in evidence outside the gates of Team New Zealand for the possibility of the America’s Cup defence being sold off overseas
ORC – Notes from a regatta
An interesting new design from MATTEO POLLI and a tidy win for fellow designer MARK MILLS
RORC – Falling close to the tree
JEREMY WILTON
Seahorse build table – (Genuinely) fit for purpose
And PAUL BIEKER’s got us another one
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Where did we say that we’d make it easy for you?