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(Contents February 200? 15 World news Phil Sharp flies the flag for the Class 40 (and 29 Case for the defence Pomland), Desjoyeaux and Gautier are go with a We launch our new monthly update from Alinghi new three-year programme, while Bruno stalls, with a discussion of ACC build techniques with party time in New Zealand... and another new DIRK KRAMERS, BERTRAND CARDIS, KURT star, of Fischer, Abrahams... and cockatoos in Oz, JORDAN and MICHEL MARIE plus the 20th anniversary of Key West Race Week. PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB 37The 2008 Volvo Ocean Race MUNDLE, IVOR WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS - Bowels of the beast - Part II GREG WATERS talks about the practicalities - 24 Rod Davis and practical limits - of current canting-keel Keep your mind (completely) on the long game It's great to be liefe„. systems {inset)... and the price Japanese bowman Kazuhiko Sofiiku - 'Fuku' to his friends 26 Olympic and small boat news - celebrates another day out 40 Heads held high -Long road back training widi BMW Oracle iu VINCENT RIOU's new PRB may Team USA continue to score well in the blue skies of an Auckland have lost its rig early in the Route (5 summer. BMW Oracle have the Olympic medal stakes, but not as (O du Rhum but project manager LU now 'joined' Emirates Team well as it did a few years ago and Q New Zealand in New Zealand GREG METZ explains why the •definitely nowhere near as well as team's confidence in their new Farr US Saihng's Olympic supremo Ü for a final few weeks of training < ahead of returning to Valencia, IMOCA 60 design is undimmed t)EAN BRENNER is planning > perhaps for the last time, in cn March. Although Oracle's focus in Auckland was initially 44 The (new) miracle cure 33 America's Gup on rigs and boat-handling, as -Parti LARRY speaks... and IAIN PERCY on the we went to press it looked Is Dyneema's latest incarnation, SK78, the tricky balance of keeping 'everyone' happy increasingly likely that the American team's second new answer to a race sailor's prayers? DOBBS DAVIS ACC design would be flown 48 Design-A new big beastie out for early trials before being REGULARS RUSSELL BOWLER talks to DOBBS DAVIS returned to Europe. BMW about the challenging goals of the new Leopard 3 Oracle are neither the defender 4 Commodore's letter of the Cup nor the highest- DAVID AISHER ranked challenger, following a 50 Seahorse raceboat build table mixed conclusion to their 2006 European season, but their 7 Editorial - Simple but smart latest boat is the most eagerly ANDREW HURST How long have we tolerated fiddly-locking winch awaited of all new launchings. handles... too long, says MATT JOHNSTON The reason, Volvo 70 supremo Juan Kouyoumdjian is believed 10 Update to have been given a much TERRY HUTCHINSON is reHeved to have got 52 RORG news enlarged role in the design of through the winter storms intact, ALEX the second Oracle boat, which THOMSON and MIKE GOLDING are relieved to The world according to HAROLD CUDMORE is understood to be nothing like its predecessor in concept. Two have got through the Southern Ocean (well some of golden geese or two boats so it), the 'Gilmour-MacLeod show' reigns supreme in 65 Seahorse regatta calendar different that, as in the failed Malaysia and there is akeady a high-powered GBR campaign of 2003, the contest brewing for the next Volvo Ocean Race team find themselves with two 66 Sailor ofthe Month boats poorly-matched for Two very 'honourable' candidates this month development. It is unlikely in More detail of the Bayiis & ^ the extreme that on the back of Bieker gybing board system w such a massive and ranging on the top 3 boats at the 2006 w R&D effort Larry Ellison's 1-14 Worlds. Slider plate (A) ÜJ team are far off the mark, but controls gybe angle up to 4° g whether or not they have come ^ each side; can be adjustable rc up with that somedung 'special' and set to lock foil on centre- that their chief designer Bmce • line as the kite hoists. On the Farr, in particular, has sought ' 'coffin' gaskets (D & E) the for so long in the America's pivot is 2/3rds aft on the foil. Cup arena, well, that just Teflon-skinned neoprene remains to be seen. What is seals the gaskets to the hull certain, however, is that elsewhere Cup rivals Alinghi and Emirates Team New Zealand have both been moving forward steadily from the firm foundations of their excellent results in 2006... COVER: Gilles IVIartin Raget INSET: Thierry Martinez/Alinghi (Contents MapGh 2007 14 World news Class 40 gets a full 'dual-purpose' review, Spain's 33 Full scale full power Olympians start to wind up towards Beijing 2008, During the previous America's Cup cycle Alinghi how the custom boats are still making the running took the lead in full-scale evaluation of new ACC in New Zealand, the history behind a memorable design ideas, chopping their boats about more Hobart win (inset), ladder technology infiltrates - and more successfully - than any of their rivals. the maxi fleet... and the left and right US coasts LUC DUBOIS and MANOLO RUIZ DE team up for the Pacific Cup. PATRICE CARPEN ELVIRA explain how the team maintain the TIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB MUNDLE, IVOR correlation between full scale and the tank WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS 36 Verwrong! 24 ORG column Plenty of people thought that given a GP42s hit double figures... already I Pushing ttie envelope tough upwind Sydney-Hobart the What a Hobart Race this was, slender canting-keel maxis would as tough - but not extreme - come unstuck. Well, it didn't turn out \ upwind conditions Icnoctted [25 Paul Gayard out several heavily-backed quite as expected... Hola! And we're off to Valencia... runners and produced a most popular victory for the 40-year-old S&S designed 39 2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race ^6 Olympic and small boat news Love & War which was owned - Winners! - Shining brightly from its original launch right Italian engineering maestro GIOVANNI JON EMMETT sits down with 49er World up until his own passing, last CARIBONI explains what it took to make sure year, by much-missed Champions CHRIS DRAPER and SIMON Australian yachtsman Peter his Volvo Race clients' keels all worked without HISCOCKS as they prepare for Qingdao Kurts. A tough race also any problems. Plus JOHN KOSTECKI on why provided vindication for the 'this' Ericsson campaign will be different... 29 America's Gup combined technical talents of A very different GBR is back in the Cup game designers Reichel-Pugh, boatbuilders McConaghy and 42 The (new) miracle cure - Part 2 courtesy of the drive and determination of the hydraulics specialists Central DOBBS DAVIS takes the latest Dyneema SK75 UK's 2012 Olympic bid CEO KEITH MILLS Coast Hydraulics, whose and SK78 products and compares them with collective product. Wild Oats their market rivals in a real-life context XI, not only flew upwind to 48 Design - Decisions decisions Tasmania but did so widiout TORBJ0RN LINDERSON explains how any technical issues; this in spite REGULARS Marstrom Composites took a new approach in of experts who have been building their first Orma 60 trimaran mast predicting trouble the first time 4 Gommodore's letter that one of these big but slender DAVID AISHER CBTF designs was forced to 50 Seahorse raceboat build table beat into a big sea offshore. On her first trip to Hobart 7 Editorial - Total beauty Oats suffered mainsail ANDREW HURST Mike Brennan's new Reichel-Pugh 45 Sjambok problems (and hit several large was not built strictly to any particular rating mammals) but these have now 8 Update system... but it flies anyway. DOBBS DAVIS been eliminated and the boat GEOFE ROSS finds himself a surprisingly satisfied was well-tested before the latest Hobart start; much credit is new customer of IRC, more details are confirmed 52 RORG news due here to owner Bob Oadey's for the next Volvo Ocean Race, DAVID AISHER skipper, Mark Richards, who explains the changes for the next Rolex took advantage of every Commodores' Cup, a word on 'those' growing 65 Seahorse regatta calendar opportunity in the weeks before regatta management costs, and MAREIKE GUHR the race to take his 100-footer on why Germany has gone IRC for the 2007 66 Sailor ofthe Month out to sea to try to break it. Nordbank Blue Transatlantic Challenge It is doubly-ironic that while Youth versus experience...' Oats kept going it was the •none of his brief Volvo Race winner ABN Amro diversions from taking One that was dismasted in fine photographs of steep seas off the New South the marine world in Wales coast on the first night of general and sailing the race. Grant Wharington's competitions in 100-footer Skandia also particular Thierry suffered - with a sheared Martinez recently took forward canard - but no one his camera to Hawaii would pretend Skandia is on a to capture some of the technical level with the likes of always frenetic Wild Oats XI. No doubt some mid-winter activity. thing big wih break soon on These shots are of top Bob Oadey's complex maxi... US professional in the meantime she is a credit windsurfer Levi Siver to those who put her together (far left) and France's Baptiste Gossein - he's the upside-down COVER: Carlo one, of course... Now Borlenghi/Rolex it's back to Valencia INSET: Daniel for the America's Cup Forster/Rolex action-as Alinghi's official photographer FEATURES SEBASTIEN JOSSE looks at the contrasts between shorthanded sailing and his time with 32 Pragmatism ABN Amro Ttvo in the last Volvo Ocean Race In this month's report from the Cup Defender MICHAEL RICHELSEN, JIM BUNGENER and MANOLO RUIZ DE ELVIRA discuss the 14 World news The decline and fall continues for a fine sailor..