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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 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 , 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 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 '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 rivalsAlingh i and Emirates 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 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 -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 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 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... practical liinits of various current CFD techniques but a great footballer bounces back in style, J-P's Virbac flirts with 'mobile hull shapes', Barker 35 Wiio dares wins (just) holds off rising star Minoprio in New DAVID HOLLOM explains why at a high level Zealand, Skandia Geelong on a roll and another of technical competition, such as in ACC design, blinder from Peter Craig's team at Key West. it is pointless to try to pair up a modest budget PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB with a conservative approach MUNDLE, IVOR WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS Encore This was the second use of the IRC system at Key West Race 38 2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race 24 Rod Davis Weeic and this year 26 good Rod Davis is another (see pg35) who thinks that boats were split across three - Mean performers smaller might also be faster in the Cup game... IRC classes, and in none of Dutchman PETER DE RIDDER has assembled a those classes did the winning mighty powerful technical group to support his margin exceed a single point! first round-the-world racing campaign 26 Olympic and small boat news Not bad. There are now numerous new IRC boats -High fives under construction in the USA 39 Quiet but polished Team USA are beginning to flex their muscles... where the system is taking a ACG have been around a while, ahhough as ANDY RICE reports from Miami firm hold among the more their profile has always been kept low. serious racers who have Maybe Alinghi, SpaceShipOne outgrown - or grown tired of (inset) and McLaren Fl know 29 America's Gup - PHRF. Ironic when you something, however... DR JOHN Games from PATRIZIO BERTELLI remember that when IRC was NIXON gives a potted history (of course) and plus first introduced as the Channel •.a status report as the Cup teams arrive Handicap System many years ; back 'in town'. TIM JEFFERY ago, the object was to provide a 43 New toy club-friendly system that fitted Seai:iorse ACC technical contribu­ beneath the lOR and then IMS. tor CLAUDIO FASSARDI has '46 Design-Quantum leap It seems that the whole cycle DAVE BARNABY of Southern Spars looks at has now begun once again and launched his new -scanning system IRC looks set to host some very for more accurate real-time sail analysis "the recent design trends among IMOCA 60 spars hot boats and some very hot comperition in the next few 48 Seahorse raceboat build table years. The IRC rule is also REGULARS gaining an important 4 Gommodore's letter - A new face at the door footing in historically IMS TANGUY LE BIHAN has incorporated many DAVID AISHER regions including northern of the most recent advances in IMOCA 60 design Europe, where the system is into his first creation for the thriving Class 40 being tried this year at several major regattas as well as for 7 Editorial this simmier's HSH Nordbank ANDREW HURST 50 RORG news Transadantic Race - which has already attracted a good entry 8 Update including several canting- COUTTS and CAYARD go public... TERRY 65 Seahorse regatta calendar keelers from New Zealand. HUTCHINSON - and extended family - set sail Most important, however, is the fact that more and more of for Valencia, time for old ideas in rig-management. 66 Sailor ofthe Month Seahorse is dominant on the (icy) track and the USA is looking at or indeed (Fast) beauty or (equally fast) experience! implementing IRC for race programmes, with the From lab to inaugural Pacific Coast IRC factory and very Championship this August at nearly to the the St Francis YC promising to seabed. The sad be just one of many popular story of Titouan and well-attended new events. Lamazou's1992 However, far more significant Bouvet-Petit than getting hung up on which design TAG rule is finding favour, one Heuer-which international rule has finally broke on its approached a point where, maiden trip-is a after a gap of many years, we reminder of a might once again celebrate the point that crops principal offshore racing up through this regions all sharing a common issue: it's no use rating system. And after the working to high fragmentation of recent years, material specs just how promising is that! based upon lab tests if you can't reproduce them COVER: Sally Colllson on the shop INSET: Thierry floor. TAG was Martinez/Alinghi cut up for scrap (Contents liiRflgjilikll

FEATURES 10 Update STAMM the magnificent is into the final stages... 32 Surprisingly unpredictable - Part I until next time, TERRY HUTCFUNSON and ROLF VROLIJK and DIRK KRAMERS take the Emirates TNZ settle back into Valencia, a little first of an extended two-part look at the evolution aerial skiffing, an outstanding 'first' Acura of the ACC fleet as well as at the key areas of Miami Grand Prix, the Sleds make their way back - narrow - difference that will distinguish to (in bulk)... and news from the ORC the latest generation of boat's in Valencia 16 World news 35 2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race Orma 60s fight on, as does BRUNO PEYRON (of -Master craftsman course), Harken goes all Kiwi, Damm goes around KILLIAN BUSHE - the man behind both of the the world, Castellón mislays its event, MARCELO L'aventiire ABN Amro VO70s and illbruck's successful BOTIN has enjoyed the ETNZ experience, IRC Sailing is big in France, but not Volvo 60 - is looking forward to another Juan K gets serious in Oz, Harold goes skiff sailing... and nearly as big as 'I'aventure'. epic with the first new boat for Team Ericsson... Sjamboli starts to hit the home runs. PATRICE And if it involves sailing then CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB all the better - and the bigger. MUNDLE, IVOR WILIGNS and DOBBS DAVIS So when Maud Fontenoy 36 New wave - Part I dropped her rig on L'Oréal Even SHAUN CARICEEK of Botin & Paris (formerly Jean Luc Van Carkeek has been surprised by the 26 Olympic and small boat news - den Lieede's ageing Hade- instant success of the latest box rule (More) golden children designed 'cigar') on 10 - the GP42 - with at least 15 new February with less than 1,000 Team GBR's tough, turn your back and boats expected in the Med for the miles to go on her quest to sail another potential star has your lunch. class's race-series debut this year solo aroimd the world the Will 2007 be the year of 470 champions (inset: the first B&C GS42) wrong way, the consequent NIC ASHER and ELLIOTT WILLIS? media coverage in France was big. After all, what a great story of what might have been. But 38 Walk on the wild side 29 America's Gup the plucky and spirited French -Parti TV good, security heavy, P&L promising... adventuress was not done yet; As a successful designer of lOR champions plus the latest news from Origin's KEITH MILLS upwind 1,000 miles? No problem, a jury rig plus a lot ROB HUMPHREYS was known for his fresh of patience while waiting for thinking: his latest IMOCA Open 60 proposal 46 Design-Buzzin' - radical but typically well-researched - shows favourable winds and currents. FRED BARRETT is recovering from the After all, once you've rowed that he has lost none of that flair for innovation MoviStar experience with two neat new designs the Adantic and the Pacific solo it is clear that boredom and patience have both already 42 Where now? 48 Seahorse raceboat build table been adequately dealt with! Talk of Farr Yacht Design and you think first of The 29-year-old skipper finally founding partners RUSSELL BOWLER and - To a purpose reached her start point of BRUCE FARR. But the pair are thinking ahead While closely watching the sled 'revival', ALAN Reunion Island, after a total of with a new generation of Farr-honed talent on ANDREWS also has this clean-looking and 151 days at sea, vrith a boat the way... with BRITT WARD at the forefront light new 39ft cruiser-racer going afloat shortly that looked as if it really could not have made it very much further... paint peeling and even REGULARS 50 RORG news the jury rig begirming to come apart as Fontenoy covered the 4 Gommodore's letter last few miles. As she landed DAVID AISHER 65 SeahorsevegaWA calendar the media interest in France exploded, dwarfing that of six weeks before. Charmingly, the 7 Editorial 66 Sailor ofthe Month young skipper regularly spoke ANDREW HURST They really are taking over, chaps... during the trip to her predeces­ sor on the course. Dee Caffari, ^ Michael Coxon though Fontenoy is at pains to (inset), Aaron point out that 1 am simply an Links and adventurer. Dee is a true Nathan Ellis on champion!' Fontenoy's Team Fiatvjon motivation in her expeditions is this year's big to communicate with young JJ Giltinan skiff people, especially with children, title in Sydney in and her trip involved regular a32-boatfleet radio seminars \vith a group of and with a race French schools to discuss her to spare. In an experiences in 'real time'. Hers impressive is a genuine message, one that second was is fortuitously being refleaed in Seve Jarvin's the very human stories taking young crew on place at the same time in the Gotta Love It 7, Velux 5 Oceans. Again more managed by lain adventure than Grand Prix Murray, and on contest, but what adventure their new Van Munster-built boat-featured COVER: R Bouhet/AFP In Seahorse INSETS: OnEditlon January 2007 (Contents BUILgsl^JBlita

FEATURES VMM 030^3 Jeantot batdes on... a good Spi Ouest for the 34 Surprisingly unpredictable 'management', busy times in Spain (and for -Partll Pedro Campos, of course), JIM FARMER finds ROLF VROLIJK and DIRIC KRAMERS are fast yachting just got cheaper, Australian 'Cup' confident in their work in 2007 but feel that by the gloom and US rule shenanigans on both coasts... next event the ACC Rule will have run its course PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB MUNDLE, IVOR WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS 36 On the right track-Part I ALLEN CLARKE looks at the story so far and 24 Rod Davis at the choices made in the success of the Class 40 And it's showtime for another Cup epic

They're off 40Walk on the wild side-Part II 26 Olympic and small boat mm Especially Vincenzo Onorato's team wliich scored ROB HUMPHREYS concludes his explanation - Aim high a snmning result on the first of an 'alternative' approach to IMOCA 60 design That is exactly what the women's sailing lobby difficult day of the round is doing in its quest to secure a new Olympic robins with a 15-second win 44 New wave - Part II skiff. ANDY RICE reports over Emirates Team New Zealand. By the time the 2007 15 boats on the line for event Nol; finally SHAUN CARKEEK of Boti'n & 29 America's Gup Carkeek thinks that for the GP42 began, some four days late, High drama in Valencia... except afloat, nerves around the docl< in the best is yet to come... that is, where a lack of wind consigns Valencia were rattling and early upsets were expectecL schedules to the bin. PLUS Alinghi design However, Onorato's team 45 2008/9 Volvo Ocean notes from GRANT SIMMER and have been a popular tip for Race - Runnin' hot ROLF VROLIJK, and a look at the Cup the fourth semi-final slot; of betting with GRANT DALTON... note was the praise the team After a taster onboard Ericsson in received last year from the last race KEN READ now has a veterans of Dennis Coimer's campaign of his own for the next 46 Design - No stone unturned 2003 campaigfi,, for the speed Volvo Ocean Race The never-ending quest for tlie ultimate ACC the Italians were wringing out spar (inset) with STEVE WILSON and ROB of DCs old, narrow ITA 77, McELWEE of Southern Spars which had a reputation for REGULARS being tough to sad and also not particularly fast. The 4 Commodore's letter 48 Seahorse raceboat build table suggestion was that Onorato's DAVID AISHER technical team had got to - Another winner? grips with the original, very BERNARD NIVELT describes his (already rushed Reichel-Pugh design, 7 Editorial successful) A40 for the Archambault Shipyard and had made some effective ANDREW HURST changes. If so, then the speed of Mascalzoae's new Harry 50 RORG news Durming designs should not 8 Update surprise. There is another Patience is the key, says TERRY HUTCHINSON, interesting point here: you 'keep pushing' is the way for BERNARD STAMM, 65 Seahorse regatta calendar have to go back to 1983 to 'commit' has been a successful watchword for find the last time the Cup was match racer and USTRC moves 66 Sailor ofthe Month won by a 'non-sailing' team to further increase the attractiveness of its system CEO. Since AustraUa IPs Not 'emerging' talent for very much longer... famous win for Alan Bond the head of every Cup-winning What a remarkable life... team has been either skipper Olin Stephens {inset), who or actively involved onboard. recently celebrated his 99th Onorato is a top Group 1 birthday, will be enjoying sailor with plenty of successes the steady progress being of his own; similarly Ernesto made by Alain Thébault's Bertarelli; similarly Grant Hydroptère team who Dalton, who has a few racing recently added an outright miles under his belt. Could it sailing record over one be that, with the complexities nautical mile of 44.5kt to of a modern Cup campaign, a their growing list of good sailor-leader brings the achievements. Thébault's additional insight and team are also now active in awareness to give a team a a project working alongside small but vital edge, in Alinghi partners EPFL, in response and prioritisation in Lausanne, with a new lake particular. If you subscribe to foiler in the pipeline... our theory then there are cc interesting conclusions to be drawn in the coming weeks in

COVER: Chris Cameron a INSET: LLI 1 N FEATURES record and the Bermuda Race battles on with ORR. CARLOS PICH, ROB MUNDLE, 34 Magic in the air SUZIE MCFADDEN and DOBBS DAVIS If there is one focal point for technical speculation in Valencia it is the subject of 2007 ACC rigs. Alinghi engineers KURT JORDAN and KIRST 24 ORG Column FEDDERSON discuss development in this cycle Now it's the GP33s that are set to start rolling 36 The Story SO far 25 Paul Cayard VPP-based rule exponent JIM TEETERS has been Good sailing, not so good regatta management delving deeper into the science of rig aerodynamics :r Olympic mm] imali bml SI8Ü@ That's better! 412008/9 Volvo Ocean Race -(Even) faster spars The racing in Valencia is MATTHEW SEARLE of CST Composites in stunning in its competitiveness - Buy one get one free Soon after confirming a local entry for the next Austraha discusses the development of some and intensit)', especially as we of the world's fastest dinghy and skiff masts move into the 'serious' stages round the world race there was more good news of the 32nd America's Cup, for the eastern US seaboard - DOBBS DAVIS but isn't it great to be 29 America's Gup reminded how much better 42 On the right track - Part II TIM JEFFERY looks back at the rapid removal sadboats look when there is of the bulk of this year's Louis Vuitton Cup some wind! The debate over MERFYN OWEN looks at the contestants... and talks with 'potential, the choice of Valencia will run development of Owen-Clarke Design's maybe, possibly, future' America's on following the loss of an first production Class 40 designs unprecedented number of Cup designer ADRIAN NEWLY 9 CO days' racing to lack of breeze, I- but in most other respects this REGULARS O fine Spanish City has put on a 44 Design-Birth of a ir great show; aiready repaid to 4 Gommodore's letter LU a very large extent with the UJ DAVID AISHER BRETT BAKEWELL-WHITE has been awarding of an Fl Grand cn Prix, something that would successfully turning his talents towards have been impossible had the 7 Editorial an even faster direction... infrastructure around Port ANDREW HURST America's Cup not been in place. The value of an Fl 48 Seahorse rsLGBhml buM taie event will dwarf anything 8 Update - More at 40 discussed m terms of the Top man... TERRY HUTCHINSON finds time Latest designer to come forward with a new America's Cup, so perhaps - on race morning - for another Valencia diary, 40-footer for IRC is MARK MILLS with the there is now a chance of a RUSSELL BOWLER gives his six-pennies worth King Marine built Summit 40 new Cup venue? Perhaps for on that 'who-drew-USA 98' tussle, BERNARD Valencia the Cup has done its work? Whatever the pros and STAMM reports on (yet) another round the world 50 RORG news cons, it is harder now to shrug success... plus remembering Francois Chalain off the protestations of Coutts &C Co when they lobbied hard 65 5eatee regatta calesidar for Cascais and its reliable 16 World news Atlandc winds and big rollers. Spain is all set to go again... as is the remarkable Maybe we have gone too far , John Swarbrick does not get his 66 Sailor ofthe Month already, and maybe the pound of flesh, nor does Tony BuUimore get his It's definitely age versus beauty this month... America's Cup is now a corporate stage around which 'important guests' can be Not quite the perfect finish the team had been hoping for... Mini 6.5-to-Maxi designer Brett Baltewell- entertained in style and White's latest racing powerboat S/eepy/teadscreams past the inverted hull of its predecessor, now comfort (i.e. flat water) while renamed Pro Floors, which barrel-rolled at over lOOmph in the final round of the 2007 New Zealand watching sailboats, but if Championship. Up until this 'setback' Bakewell-White's designs had been running 1st and 2nd overall, there is a chance of getting the although the latest Sleepyhead had already sewn up the national title before the start of this final heat' Cup back to an environment a little closer to that clearly being so ridiculously enjoyed on our cover by Figariste Corentin Douguet, then surely that is worth pursuing. Who knows, we may even find that put back in its proper setting sailing really does have that unique, visual draw that we keep fooling ourselves is being delivered by the wafting around that we have been watching in the waters off Valencia this spring

COVER: Jacques Vapillon/DPPI INSET: Sally Collison (Contents August2007

FEATURES Larry Ellison and halibut... (read on), and VPLP's KATRINA KELSHALL (happily) goes much 26Epic! slower than she's used to back home in Tobago Emirates Team New Zealand came good at exacdy the right time to glide through the final of the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. TIM JEFFERY 14 World news A Farr 1-2 in the Calais Round Britain, another record for Cammas, another campaign for Agustin 29 Like Plioenix from tlie ashes Zulueta (and perhaps Iberdrola...), shopping for FRANCESCO DE ANGELIS did a terrific job in Marcelo, record-busting in Takapuna, (a teensy reviving Luna Rossa after their bruising defeat in slice of) America reels after Oracle's departure and Auckland in 2003. Sadly it wasn't quite enough... the A-Class still sets the pace... CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, SUZIE MCFADDEN, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE The big question 33 Making her fly-Parti What we know going into the Alinghi's , WARWICK 32nd America's Cup is that in FLEURY AND MIKE SCHREIBER discuss 22 Rod Davis NZL 92 the Emirates Team 20 years of America's Cup sail development Time to prepare for the 32°"' America's Cup... New Zealand design team, managed by Andy Claughton and led by Marcelo Botm, has 37 Timely 24 Olympic and small boat news produced a very competitive What better occasion to remember the ACC design. In fact, we even remarkable life and times of - (Even) faster spars - Part II know that it is at worst the than while the 32nd America's Cup is MATTHEW SEARLE looks at taking third best ACC design in the finally being decided off Valencia. the gains of filament winding up the scale world. That is the enduring BLUE ROBINSON fascination of the America's Cup: no one knows until the 40 2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race first leg of the first match 41 On the right track News from the top - GLENN BOURKE whether the challenger is Q actually any good compared - Part III O 43 RORG news Q to the defender. No one MERFYN OWEN discusses CCD's knows whether we will get a latest custom Class 40 designs good race or a one-sided contest. There have been clues 44 Design-Innovation galore ^ during last-minute skirmishes PAT SHAUGHNESSY applauds the rampant between Alinghi and the REGULARS development that still flows out of IMOCA 60s challenger camp; in fact, we think it is regrettable the way 4 Gommodore's letter both Desafio and then Luna DAVID AISHER 48 Seahorse raceboat build table Rossa piled in out of blatant, -Why not? undisguised self-interest to San Francisco-based designer BROOKS DEES help Alinghi, having ifiitiiial answers his own question with this new GP26 themselves been eliminated ANDREW HURST from the Louis Vuitton Cup. But then of coinse Emirates 65 Seahorse regatta calendar TNZ had trialled with Ahnghi SUpdate some weeks before so were in Ciao, Italia, now it's time for the 'big match' - no position to complain. But TERRY HUTCHINSON'S Valencia Diary, 66 Sailor ofthe Month at this high level practice 'news' from the Northumberland Straits Class, A distinguished and rather classy choice! skirmishes are of limited use to those taking part, even less Funny to think use to those watching from that as New the outside. Famous examples Zealand's (and of sandbagging in the run-up 's) to the Cup are now well original 12-Metre enough documented to know plastic fantastic, not to trust what you see until KZ 7, joins her the racing counts; even in modern team­ 2007 look at how ETNZ mate for an stepped up in pace for the afternoon off Louis Vuitton final as they Valencia, not started to pull their best sails very many miles out of the store. No one doubts along the ETNZ's sailing team are now Mediterranean at least a match for the Swiss, coast the most which is a fine achievement, famous Cup but what neither Alinghi sailor of all time technical director Grant is preparing for Simmer nor Andy Claughton an afternoon's know until Race 1 is whose sailing on his exhaustively detailed box of lovely restored tricks contains the real magic. 1925 Q Class, The America's Cup, long and Cotton Blossom drawn-out, but ultimately II. Even today It absolutely fascinating! is not quite the Q full America's g COVER: Thierry Cup when i- Martinez/Alinghi Dennls Conner is D somewhere else S ^•n]iu:jn<^3September 2007

FEATURES debrief on the 32nd America's Cup Match. Plus DOBBS DAVIS risks (and enjoys) a little 32 As good as it gets light shorthanded sailing... and Sarah Ayton's The 32nd America's Cup Match was one to crew prove their powers of recovery en route to savour. TIM JEFFERY reports on the celebration a rather important world title down in Cascais... of sailing that was Valencia in June and July 2007 14 World news 37 Phew! 'A very remarkable transformation' - we look Alinghi skipper BRAD BUTTERWORTH has inside Emirates Team New Zealand in those final had easier sailboat regattas in his long career; days, Anglo Saxons move in on Le Vendée Globe, and at times he was clearly not afraid to let the TP52s kick off with a home win, a (another) new world know his feelings... Spithill on the block, Blue Yankee and IRC roll forward together across the USA. CARLOS PICH, Ultimate pain PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR -WILKINS, In the end Emirates Team 38 New protocol, new controversy DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE New Zealand went home in TIM JEFFERY looks at why a prompt protocol the knowledge that this series atmouncement for AC 33 has thrown a large was just about wiimable. non-Alinghi contingent into a tailspin of anger 25 Paul Gayard Before the 32nd Match most observers would tell you that, 'Terrific Cup - very poor follow-through', how though they hoped for a close 38 Term report and why did the defenders get it so wrong... contest, the reality was the Valencia 2007: the good, the bad and the ugly cards lay with the defence. After one race the Kiwis were 26 Olympic and small boat news still talking a good game, 41 Making her fly - The perfect America's Gup venue? nonetheless they'd lost the - Part 2 ANDY RICE left Cascais as one ofthe many opener. Then they levelled at 1-1, sailing beautifully and Alinghi's MIKE SCHREIBER, WARWICK to be overwhelmed by the potential of the allowing the Swiss no room FLEURY and SIMON DAUBNEY discuss 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championship venue for the shghtest slip. Half a mainsail shapes and the use of Sail Vision length was enough in this 28 The ORG Golumn America's Cup, just the way STEN EDHOLM and NICOLA SIRONI Emirates' tactician Terry Hutchinson likes it. Onboard Alinghi, Butterworth started 312008/9 Volvo Ocean Race the series with enough And a design race itwill be... TIM JEFFERY confidence to make those big plays, quickly stamped on by ETNZ. Alinghi did have a 2« 42 RORG news sHght edge in this tightest of pairings; Butterworth believes 43 Graceful... but (very) fast 46 Design - Not just faster looking this to be the case and he DOBBS DAVIS visits Reichel-Pugh in San Diego should know. That said, it is a AXEL DE BEAUFORT feels that many more to see what makes such a relatively small firm matter of huge praise for designers and builders should be leaning on the such a big player (with even bigger ideas - inset) and liis boys that real limits to modern cruiser-racer performance they still kept it so close. It will be easy, on the flight home, to reflect on each small REGULARS 48 Seahorse mehoul build table what-if, and in particular on that awful spinnaker failure. 4 Gommodore's letter - (Loads of) bang for the buck They were close enough and DAVID AISHER Designer Marc Lombard's Tunisian-built good enough that, yes, they Akilaria Class 40 is flying off the shelves... could have won a best-of- seven series against SUI 100, 7 Editorial but, given the relative ANDREW HURST 65 Seahorseregaita calendar performance of the boats and crews, they might win once in 9 Update every three or four such series 66 Sailor ofthe Month From the coal face: TERRY HUTCHINSON's they sailed. And, of course, And it's an all-Aussie line-up this month... the spectators were torn, This year's apart from those thronging must-have in the 'wool shed'... As sailors the superyacht the majority rooted for the world is the perceived underdog, but few underwater ignored the better prospects Illumination pack for the event if it stayed in for use dockside. Europe. Big tip for future Meanwhile, the challengers from far shores: pressure in the commit in advance to a superyacht and widely popular defence venue maxi series that should you win, that way you decorates the will have more support than Mediterranean at you'll believe possible... this time of year is as tough as > ever, note {inset) SJ COVER: Luca Viliata the crew of < INSET: Kurt TIketitan-here Q Arrigo/Rolex hard on the wind g off Palma Z October 2Ö07

enjoys some gentle exposure to La Belle France... 28 No sailing today... The America's Cup is back in court (well, the Cup 14 World news Un. Be. Lieve. Able... the transatlantic sailing has been mostly about sailing for some 20 years). record goes below lOOhr for the first time. Class TIM JEFFERY reports on another legal beanfest 40 'Mondial', and Cayard grabs another Copa. Plus, will this be 'the' boat for Mike Golding, IRC 33 Setting the record straight goes fixed keel in Oz and the Transpac kids do OK. GRANT SIMMER is popular with staff, friends CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR and rivals alike, and he is also one of the giants of WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE the America's Cup, having won the event both on (1983) and off (2003,2007) the boat. The now managing director of Alinghi was, therefore, a 24 Rod Davis Some beast! little put out by some of his team's recent press Never mind ructions in the America's Cup... Just when we suspected the what about the idiosyncracies of Chinese life? Imoca 60 fleet had plateaued at the start of the last Vendée 36 More trial less error Globe, for the latest edition of CLAUDIO FASSARDI and KARSTEN 26 Olympic and small boat news this great solo contest the HOCHKIRCH have applied new - (Happy) legend newest boats have taken what methodology to the wave-making JON EMMETT talks to Tornado 'appears' to be a quannim drag of canting-keel bulbs supremo DARREN BUNDOCK leap forward in power and refinement. What we don't yet know is whether the 40 Keep moving on 44 Design-Maturing rule dramatically wider, taller and Even a manufacturer one-design can way more expensive new succumb to Olympic pressure when it maturing class Open 60s are actually much comes to managing tolerances; ^ SIMON ROGERS has just launched the faster around the track. We JULIAN BETHWAITE and SIMON first of his office's elegant new Class 40 know they are faster in certain designs, built at CMI in Thailand conditions, with some 15 per WATIN have been studying 'the latest' cent more power they have to 49er (inset) hull shapes... be, but being wider they may 47 RORC news have other weaknesses. While REGULARS JULIAN EVERITT remembers DAVID MAY Michel Desjoyeaux frightened his Imoca rivals by winning 4 Commodore's letter first time out with his new DAVID AISHER 48 Seahorse mehont build table Farr-designed Fonda, he reckoned that his closest rival 7 Editorial -Sleek and sprightly was actually Jean Le Cam's GEOFF VAN GORKOM celebrates the ANDREW HURST refined 2003 Marc Lombard launch of his first Hungarian lightweight flyer design VM Matériaux. Maybe it won't be the walkover for 9 Update the new boats most predict? Emirates tactician TERRY HUTCHINSON is 65 Seahorse regatta calendar On the other hand, with at straight back into the 'office' for the Copa del least 16 new launchings for the 2008 race, we beheve at Rey, CHRIS LAW is remembered by fellow 66 Sailor ofthe Month least one or tvvo will prove Oudaw DOBBS DAVIS and BLUE ROBINSON And we're still in the Southern Hemisphere... spot-on, leaving the older boats to fight for the pickings. The jump in sophistication Is Philippe Kahn the ultimate sailing enthL this time is particularly Whatever your opinion, Kahn is a man» impressive, with several loves sailing his boats and who is note well-known grand prix pitch himself against any opponent in s builders such as Paul Hakes Here is Kahn, who among other innov and Neville Hutton joining us the camera-phone (hmm- bl. the Open Class party with Hawaii with Pegasus team-mate Ric new ideas and superb finish in the two-handed Transpac dhrision, on his standards more typical of the immaculately refitted Owen-Clarke^Open 50 best inshore classes. And design has jumped ahead: while previous Imoca 60s generally had around four ballast tardcs, some of this year's boats have now got as many as 10 separate tanks. One other thing we do know for sure, though, when you ask power-enthusiast Jean-Marie Finot for 'a really fat and super-powerful boat', then you get exactly that... as Alex Thomson is finding out with the imposing new Hugo Boss

COVER: Mark Uoyd INSET: Ivo Rovira/Alinghi November 2007

FEATURES PICH, PATRICE CARPENHER, IVOR 32 Go west WLKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE How long will the 33rd America's Cup be stuck in the wastes ofthe New York courtrooms? 22 Paul Gayard TIM JEFFERY tries to see behind the bluster TP52 MedCup news excellent, 33rd America's Cup development... painful and unnecessary 36 Old as the Ark (almost) Eleven years before carbon fibre first appeared in 24 Olympic and small boat news a Formula One Grand Prix car it was already -A personal view being employed on an America's Cup Defender. Three-time 470 World Champion HAMISH So where did sailing drop the ball? ERIC HALL WILLCOX applies his formidable coaching experience to the subject of the Olympic classes Ships to savour As the northern hemisphere 40 Attitude! racing season starts to wind JULL^.N BETHWAITE and SIMON WATIN 26 ORG Golumn down, so the round-the-world develop their full-scale analysis of skiff Watch out TP52s, the GP42s are coming up fast record boys start to wind up performance with some fascinating conclusions from astern. PAOLO MASSARINI for a busy few months. With three mind-expanding new REGULARS Targe' trimarans now afloat, 29 Do not underestimate Groupama 3 [above) for 4 Gommodore's letter Frank Cammas and his fully DAVID AISHER -2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race crewed Jules Verne challenge, As the Volvo Race heads to Russia for the first and Idee and Sodebo for time TIM JEFFERY looks at the implications Francis Joyon and Thomas 7 Editorial for a fast-expanding competition Coville respectively, both ANDREW HURST getting ready for an ultknate solo adventure, there will be 44 Design - An influential force some oceanic excitement SUpdate SoCal designer ALAN ANDREWS come this winter - sufficient, TERRY HUTCHINSON comes talks to DOBBS DAVIS about we hope, to marginalise the up against the world's fastest ice his homegrown success and his increasingly dry debates and cream salesmen, ANDY ^ preference for 'practical' product arguments over the next CLAUGHTON looks forward to CE America's Cup. Interesting it working closer to home again... is to note here how many Cup >- and with a young new America's 46 RORG news cr crew from Valencia have been cc trying to get on a committed Cup team, CHARLES DUNSTONE Volvo Ocean Race VO70; tries hard to keep the head ruling the heart 48 Seahorseracebodil build table clearly those endless days of and the ORC does its best to start to promote two-boat testing at httle more 'normal'-shaped boats once again - Multifaceted than 9kt have left some holes Alinghi CFD speciahst MANOLO RUIZDE in the soul among Valencia's ELVIRA and design partner MANUEL LOPEZ America's Cup refugees. 12 World news have come up with an impressive new lift-keeler Setting the Volvo to one side, Michel Desjoyeaux starts another ominous run of the other 'big race' offshore success, Scandinavia hangs onto IMS, hard tactics fleets seem to have distilled in Porto Cervo, a (significant) new force enters the 65 Seahorse regatta calendar down into maxi-multi record match racing fray, Hamilton Island exceeds its breakers and IMOCA 60 monohulls; somewhere having own expectations and impressive performances 66 Sailor ofthe Month fallen through the cracks are all-round in Rochester, New York... CARLOS Two (very different) offshore legends slug it out the last vestiges of the once shining Orma 60 trimaran Yann Eliès fleet, most of which are now gives a very actively for sale. With the dramatic Orma class having tried to demonstration raise interest recently in a new of the heel 70ft one-design tri (from 'limit' for his VPLP), it now seems certain canting-keel that the few big teams still Finot design with Orma 60s are going to Generali. Of abandon the boats after the course getting forthcoming Transat Jacques the bulb out of Vabre two-handed race. For the water is now at least the IMOCA vs the obvious Orma 60 battle has gone next step in decisively in favour of the canting monohulls, with their wider technology... range of application, greater Above, inset: user-friendliness and generally Isabelle better durability. The Orma Joschke 60s will be a sad loss, though continues her the new giant tris are pretty successful run good by way of compensation in the Minis, winning the first stage of COVER: Amory Ross this year's INSET: Eric Hall Mini Transat to Funchal (Contents December 2007

other events also benefit, as well as lose out, new Banque Pop stops the traffic, LAURIE 31 Love is in tlie air DAVIDSON on Alinghi's SUI 100, Cup roller- Was TIM JEFFERY being previous in taking coaster in Oz, no third podium for ALEX PELLA, confetti to the New York court, plus how long is and last-gasp Canada's Cup success for the USA. the legacy of that nasty httle Blackheart effort... CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Having won the 2007 Star Worlds and pre- 23 Rod Davis Olympics, eight Laser world tides and three And a lot of life lessons can be learnt out there... Olympic medals, Brazil's ROBERT SCHEIDT is maintaining his scoring rivalry with nemesis . And now there is Qingdao to deal with 24 OI)fmpic and small boat news Will it, won't tt... - Chinese puzzles As we close for press a good TIM JEFFERY and ANDY RICE look at the proportion of the sailing 36 Contrast challenges posed by the Qingdao Olympic venue community were still hopeful Having watched one of his TP52s, Mean Machine, the 33rd America's Cup could dominate the 2006 MedCup, New Zealand be kept out of the courts and boatbuilder PAUL HAKES set about creating 27 Back on the block got going before the year is the ultimate Imoca 60 for Mike Golding out. But even if there is an -2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race 'out-of-court' settlement, in After an absence of over 10 years, champion New York or elsewhere, a 40 Result raceboat designer ROB HUMPHREYS great deal of damage has The production-built Bladerider (inset) is back in the Volvo Ocean Race game already been done to the Cup dominated a fleet of custom designs at once again with a new boat and much of the goodwill this year's Moth Worlds on Lake towards the event, particularly among the Garda. Bladerider's designer and 44 Design-A lighter international corporate world, original builder ANDREW has been squandered. As the MCDOUGALL tells how it was done solution key protagonists inched to GUILLAUME VERDIER explains their first court date there was REGULARS the design development of the new a nodceable change in mood Imoca 60 Safran that he co-designed among many challengers, 4 Commodore's letter with multihull experts VPLP whose previous seeming DAVID AISHER slavish support for ACM (and Alinghi) had disappeared, 48 Seated raceboat build table with new documents 7 Editorial confirming how they, too, ANDREW HURST - Most unexpected were deeply dissadsfied with BRUCE FARR's new Farr 11 was not at all what ACM's proposed Protocol. many people were expecting... to the good! Why the change in mood? 9 Update The reason is simple: by the TERRY HUTCHINSON on the good, the bad 22 October hearing in New and the damp, BRUCE FARR looks ahead to the 50 RORC news York, many 'teams' had had time to soimd out their next America's Cup and reflections on ERIC sponsors and had met a cool HALL'S 'Intrepid tales' from Newport 1970 65 Seahorse regatta calendar response. Siding with Alinghi and ACM early in the skirmishes had seemed a 13 World news 66 Sailor of the Month no-brainer, given the sweeties The Vendée Globe is still the ultimate draw, but Winners all, and Corinthians to boot on offer, real or perceived. But with ongoing campaign costs The latest to cover, the sound of cheque converts to books being zipped shut soon the Class 40 focused the mind; perhaps are Giovanni cute polidcal positioning was Soldini and not as important as it had at Figaro star first appeared. An eye for nol Pietro D'Ali, and the need to raise money seen here on very smartish became the maiden paramount if these teams voyage of were to survive. Onorato and Soldini's new his associates are correct: Guillaume without a good name in the Verdler design money market, the sums Telecom Italia, needed for a Cup campaign recently are not there. By carelessly launched at allowing that first Protocol to FR Nautisme's see the light of day, with no shipyard amid real attempt to sell it, what Lorient's followed was inevitable forbidding z World War II 3 submarine 0; COVER: Luca Viliata pens. Next up § INSET: the TJV, where w Van Malleghem/ more than 40 ^ Safran/DPPI Class 40s are 8 now entered! ^