January 2004

FEATURES 12 World news ^HFaailin g at the last - 2003 Mini Transat, Looking ahead .V' Veendé e Globe goes up for sale, Transat Well, the ORMA fleet got to u»Jacques Vabre, VDH {left) sets out intact (this time), but i^P again, Spanish solo success. New trimaran expert NIGEL IRENS still J^r Zealand celebrates its 'first' Maxi launch, believes there is work to be done " 2003 Hobart Race preview, and (winning) on his holidays... PATRICE 35 Challenging CARPENTIER, FVOR WILKINS, CARLOS Mari-Cha IV was the most dramatic offshore PICH, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE racer to go afloat in 2003 and FRED LOUARN and GIOVANNI BELGRANO were charged 22 ORC Column A iMg day indeed! with maldng it as stiff and as light as possible... The positive reception to the A fresh start - and it looks like it's for real! first significant announcement about a new Grand Prix Rule 39 Why ever not? 24 's Cup news was greeted with relief all Groupe Finot's new series-built 40-footer is round. Had there been signs of ISAF collars its 'million', Gilmour takes Bermuda tortuous political resistance about as perfect a real offshore racer-cruiser as Gold Cup nail-biter and DICKSON speaks out then those who are funding the we have yet seen. PASCAL CONQ explains development of the new rule and putting in the legwork 26 Olympic and small boat news could have been forgiven for 43 Too much conflict, too many TORBJORN LEMDERSON describes Marstrom walking away. It was always misconceptions - Part I Boats' beautiful 'follow-up' going to be touch and go As Offshore Challenges moves into race whether the rule would be organisation, director MARIC TURNER looks at presented at a time when 28 Seahorse letters resistance was weak. As it the tough issue of global event co-ordination Simplified IMS can do a good job - even in current transpired, the complete domi­ nance of Botin & Caikeek's new IMS creations this sum­ REGULARS 46 Design - Little beauty mer seems to have knocked the JUAN KOUYOUMDJfAN'S elegant mini-ACC stuffing out of some who might 4 Commodore's letter one-design racer for K-Yachting is turning heads have been expeaed to cause CHRIS LITTLE mischief. Certainly many IMS raceboat owners are now 48 Seahorse raceboat build table facing the certain need for a 7 Editorial new boat. In Barcelona some ANDREW HURST And a true Caribbean gem from Trinidad kind of easy peace seemed to break out: the ORC will con­ tinue to run IMS, effectively as 8 Update 50 RORC news a class association, while still STUART QUARRIE of the RWP explains the offering its technical services to philosophy of the proposed new Grand Prix Rule offshore racing in general. The with initial feedback from JIM PUGH. Plus TIM 65 Seahorse rucB calendar ORC is also a key stakeholder JEFFERY catches up with TRACY EDWARDS, in the Rule Working Party, one who can now put petrol in her car once again... whose support will certainly 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month speed things along and help in And not for the last time, we strongly suspect... selling the new rule to a wider audience. That it has been made clear that no one wants the new rule to formally replace IMS has helped to get Mediterranean sailors more on side. If the new GP Rule flies they can join in as and when they wish. In the meantime they can carry on racing specialist (IMS) boats that are more suitable for light air venues than they are for more windy parts of the world. Oh, and the picture... that was taken from aboard Australian racer Savoir-Faire while return­ ing from Hamilton Island Race OK, shorthanded Week. The boat photographed, is generally the Sayer 38 Belle, was caught more about the sailors than by this breaking swell while the boats; but you can be certain crossing Wide Bay Bar at the that a chill wind ran through the IIWOCA southern tip of Fraser Island. fleet after the first and currently tlie only Belle was on autopilot at the Farr Open 60, Vi'rbac, won its first race, time... a set of four large waves the , in the hands just popping up out of a of Jean-Pierre Dick {inset at right) and relatively calm sea - as they do! Nicolas Abiven. Note the tidy but strongly-built lifting-rudder cassettes {above) and the immaculately executed COVER: Dan Jenner and well-sheltered control pod {left) INSET: Pierrick Contin February 2004

FEATURES short, plus a round-up of the ISAF/ORC annual meetings 30 Honey I'm home! Within minutes of 's 12 World news conhrmation as the 2007 America's Cup; no no Areva, America's Cup venue it seemed as Jean-Pierre Dick - a man on a mission, if all of had been braced to Valencia celebrates, as does Galicia, Neville welcome the new arrival. TIM JEFFERY Crichton's thoroughly excellent year, new CBTF maxZ86 maxis kick out, plus 2004 Terra 35 KISS Nova Key West Race Week preview. PATRICE 'Keep it simple, stupid' runs the old adage, and CARPENTIER, FVOR WILKINS, CARLOS GEOFF STAGG thinks that the Rule Working PICH, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUISIDLE A safe bet Party would do well to heed the advice In Barcelona during the last ISAF meetings politicldng 23 began over the choice of 39 Gonfiicts and misconceptions Prada Challenge 2003 (or hero to zero) Olympic classes for in 2008. One class that need have - Part 2 no fears about being dropped MARK TURNER looks beneath the surface of 26 Olympic and small boat news is the , wliich has brought the French professional offshore scene and finds MARK PIVAC and MII-CE CARTER have news a new level of spectacle and that all in the garden is not entirely rosy. Plus a of a foiling 18-footer that is already flying high performance not just to small look at the revised 'The Transat' solo classic in Oz monohulls, but to sailing in general. Out of the 49er have been spawned the and 43 Go with the flow-Part I 28 Seahorse letters more recently the 59er - a very The aerodynamics triumvirate of DENIS And MERF OWEN and others beg to differ... classy and quick non-trapeze design (by Frank Bethwaite). OGLESBY plus DAVID and ANDREW Relative to dinghies of even just HOLLOM start a detailed look at the science 46 Design - Sweet! 15 years ago these new designs of improving foil performance in air and water Swiss designer SEBASTIEN SCHMIDT'S Psaros are light years ahead. The 59er 40 Lake Racer is not only proving fast but also will give a or REGULARS unusually rugged - testament perhaps to a 5o5 a good fight around the deliberately forgiving structural configuration course in light to medium airs - only in heavy air will these 4 Gommodore's letter fastest 'conventional' trapeze CHRIS LITTLE 48 Seahorse raceboat build table designs pull consistently ahead. Dinghy sailing has definitely And it's a long way from a famous 1/4 Tonner changed for ever, and for the 7 Editorial better, and the 49er is a model ANDREW HURST 50 RORG news example that should be on The RWP is doing sterling work, but now it's time show at the Games. But 49er to bite the bullet and risk upsetting a few people aside, the rest of the current A Special Regulations 'Inspector' writes... Olympic classes 'appear' to struggle with ISAF's new 8 Update selection criteria (see Update). SCOTT MACLEOD on the developing Swedish 65 Seahorse race calendar These criteria, however, have Match Tour - and 'that man' at ISAF, LOICK historically been the founda­ PEYRON on French sailors selling themselves tions - the fall-back - for the 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month selection battles themselves. One for our Spanish readers - or rather two! With a lack of viable alterna­ gives a cheery wave from the new tives do not be surprised if the Pyewacket as three years of research and Olympic line-up stays exacdy planning finally come to fruition with the the same for the next cycle. first-launched of this new breed of CBTF Possibly the may be at maxZ86 designs. The powerful combination risk from one of the better solo of slender waterlines and a deep swing-keel skiffs, but it is hard to see the were dramatically demonstrated when being threatened, with its Pyewackefs unrivalled claim to egalitarian- was tested(oS79 ism. More dramatic was Paul launched at McCon Henderson's successful move to abandon discards for the Olympic Regatta: most we have spoken to favour this change, provided there are plenty of races in a series. The lot of the media and the specta­ tor will certainly be improved - and rescoring recent Olympic Regattas suggests that, either way, the best man or woman will still win. No change there!

COVER: Annemiek van Kinderen INSET: Andrea Francolini/DPPi FEATURES flyer' goes afloat, Bob Oatley goes CBTF (again), as Hobart goes IRC, El 32 Faster, faster ^ Rito fights for its euros, Cookson (Mick) With record-breaking experience on gets himself a groovy new toy, and new Maiden 2 PAUL LARSEN knows that his records are set at Key West. PATRICE next target, the outright sailing speed record, CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, IVOR will take some doing. But confidence is high! WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE 36 Pirelli Regatta 2004 26 Rod Davis A look ahead to one of the most important And our two (sic) America's Cup events in the Mediterranean calendar columnists get to team up for a change... Historic Tliere have been two truly 38 Lessons for all - Part II 28 America's Gup news historic sailing circiunnaviga- TORBJORN LINDERSON moves on to look at TIM JEFFERY looks at the all-new terms of tions in the past 25 years: the dynamics of modern multihull rigs engagement and HEATHER PRENTICE has a Bruno Peyron and his tiny crew round-up of Cup developments in , where aboard Commodore Explorer Vincenzo Onorato (top) is again in the frame when they broke die 80-day 43 Go with the flow-Part III mark for the first time, and this DENIS OGLESBY and DAVID HOLLOM look year's success by Francis Joyon. at that most critical of all 'boundary layers', 30 Olympic and small boat news That is how great an acliieve- And is it comeback time for America's ment Joyon's was. To those where theory meets practice... who have not read diem. great Olympic comeback kid? Seahorse would commend the REGULARS books written by Cam Lewis 42 Seahorse letters (English) and Bruno Peyron 4 Gommodore's letter (French) about their original GEOFF ROSS puts an Aussie owner perspective Jules Verne voyage, completed CHRIS LITTLE on a boat originally builr as a 46 Design - Bang bang lightweight Adantic sprinter, 7 Editorial and widely regarded at the They just can't build 'em fast enough... two time as too light and overpow­ ANDREW HURST exciting new production Mini 6.5 designs. ered for the Southern Ocean. PASCAL CONQ and PIERRE ROLLAND Read either book and you will 8 Update realise that both prognoses News of a welcome French initiative in the were correct; Peyron's crew 48 Seahorse vdiceboat build table only survived their great storm turbulent offshore rule arena, things are certainly when approaching Cape Horn going on at ISAF... plus feedback from Secretaiy ROBERT HICK has another 'no-rule' special by a mixture of courage, good General ARVE SUl^HEIM. Also GRANT fortune and an excellent under­ DALTON reviews progress at Team standing of their fragile craft. and a reUu'n to our pages for PETER DE RIDDER 50 RORG news Similarly, Joyon's achievement is all the more remarkable because of the unsuitability of . 14 World news 65 Seahorse race calendar his heavy, powerful 90-footer Joyon, Joyon, Joyon, of course, but there is also for singlehanded sailing, let plenty else going on right now. Yves Parlier's new alone in the deep south. Both 66 Seahorse ^aWor ofthe Month voyages are a triumph of great Two very golden (not so) oldies... seamanship as well as excellent racing skill; very appropriate. Like Peyron, Joyon nursed his boat with great care throughout, still managing to maintain a breaditaking pace. How many professional racers would contemplate a round- the-world voyage using a predominandy 10-year-old sail wardrobe; more to the point, how many could have brought that sail wardrobe back pretty much intact? We respectfully suggest the answer is very few indeed. Joyon has now raised the bar so high: remember that he rejected weather routeing on the grounds of principle - that unless B&Q is incredibly fortunate widi the weadier, nothing smaller than a Club Med-generation maxicat will threaten his mark for a very long time. This one really could stand for years and years... It its bést oHshoréxïn; should be efficiently COVER: Bluegreen brief life of Team-Phllfps, more cor\\ienii jsll^away upwind in light air. A^^big fihgefs"ct (Contents

FEATURES Maiden resumes building and IRC lands - firmly - in the USA. PATRICE 30 Genesis ;ARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, GUILLAUME VERDIER describes the FVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS design path that led Yves Parlier's team and ROB MUNDLE to their unusual solution to the Orma equation 22 Olympic and small boat news 37 Wild 's third Knn Gold Cup victory ROB MUNDLE talks to SEAN LANGMAN and leaves his rivals gasping. TIM JEFFERY reports ANDY DOVELL about the replacement for Langman's 'Open 66' Gnindig Xena. Radical is too small a word, or are we old-fashioned? 27 America's Gup news Ben Ainslie - South enters the players' circle and a fifth winner 2002,2003, 2004 'syndicate' pops up over the parapet in Italy Several Finn sailors can claim 40 Finding the baseline three Gold Cup victories, but In the first of a new series looking at advances % Seahorse\%i\&v% only the late, grear Brazilian in the engineering of composite raceboats, yachtsman Jörg Bruder has And it was no no, Nicorettel taken three in a row. Bruder, of MARK SAUNDERS considers the state of play course, was lost, along with die in the ACC fleet - and at how we got here original Finn Gold Cup, in the 46 Design - Production madness terrible Paris air crash of 1974, REGULARS SEBASTIEN SCHMIDT's latest one-design so we will never know whar project is a real head-turner, and eight boats other great triumphs he was are already on order... capable of. However, as with 4 Commodore's letter motor racing and other CHRIS LITTLE sporting fields that mix human 48 Seated raceboat build table and technical endeavour, 7 Editorial Revolution - TOM COWAN looks at comparisons across the ages CBTF structures are poindess. The standards in ANDREW HURST all sports rise with time, as do the benchmarks of success, but 50 RORG news no competitor can ever do 8 Update reports on a first ever European Understanding the beast - SIMON ROGERS more than compete with his revisits the new VO 70 Rule present-day rivals. What we do victory at the 77th annual in Miami, know, however, is that at 27 news of two new Volvo Race entries, plus the com­ Ben Ainslie is already the new petitive debut of the world's first two CBTF maxis ^5 Seahorse VRce legend of small-boat sailing. He has won gold and silver in the calendar Laser Class at the Olympic 14 World news Games and, barring VDH finally gets his 'wrong-way' solo record, Le catastrophe, seems likely to Défi inches ahead of its French Cup rivals, Dubois Seahorse SdiWor of take a second gold medal in the sees a 'giant' future in performance sailing, - the Month Finns in - certainly Hobart loosens the reins, IMS leaves , many of his rivals accept that And has Ben's time finally come. only some drama or technical mishap for GBR's representative will leave anything better than silver to be fought over in August. Together with Sydney 2000 Firm gold medallist , Ainslie is one half of UK sailing's "perfect pairing', now actively on alert for the right America's Cup opportunity. To find two such talented rivals, who are good friends and keen to work together, is as rare as it is exciting. Ainslie has aheady had some Cup experience with OneWorld, while Percy has sensibly declined previous oppormnities with 'non-winning' Cup teams to consolidate his position in Olympic history. To beat you first have to beat Coutts, Butterworth and Schiimann. One day, and somewhere, this may prove to be a good place to begin... During the development of Yves Parlier's new planing catamaran much use was made of radio-controlled models to evaluate the effects of trim as well as design variation. This Is the last model tried, 2.4m in COVER: length and built on the final tank test hulls. Sailing models were used a great deal In J-Class development in the last century, but have been less popular in recent years as designers have concentrated on tank Rick Tomiinson/RYA and more recently on VPP and wind tunnel work. However, a comeback looks likely, particularly with INSET: experimentation into more radical ideas - such as CBTF - as opposed to finer detail work. The IVIari Cha Andreas Hanakamp design team trialled a number of RC models in Gosport during early design development two years ago FEATURES i> 13 Worid news - The Vendée is right on schedule, Spi 31 Winning formula Ouest de 2004, financialmoo d The results of Alinghi in the last Cup swings in Spanish America's Cup circles, suggest that their testing and simulation the image backlash (finally) reaches Kiwi were without equal. Technical partners yachting and new life for the SORC. PATRICE FLUENT and EPFL (Lausanne) look back over CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, IVOR their work WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE 35 Taking care of the customer 22 Olympic and small boat news CHARLES DERBYSHIRE of Offshore at last gets to report on his Challenges explains the media-supply systems stonking! own successful bid for Olympic selection onboard the offshore trimaran Castoratna B&Q Phileas Fogg must be jumping up and down - where will tliis aUend? 50 days, 45... 40? 24 Rod Davis 38 Go with the flow-Part IV Some good advice for those 'Oppi parents' Acnially, for a while at least, it DENIS OGLESBY and DAVID HOLLOM look probably ended when Cheyenne crossed the imagi­ at some popular current foil design techniques 27 America's Gup news nary finish line between Ushant and the Lizard. The criteria for A review of the Challenger meetings in Valencia 42 Spend today... and news from ACM's MICHEL BONNEFOUS a successful rotmd-the-world Carbon doesn't have to mean more expense, attempt are a good boat and crew, and fortune widi die especially in the long term; TORBJORN weather... and more fortune LINDERSON argues the case for better 3D ORG column with the weather! The odds technology in production multihull construction A new dawn for the Rule Working Party aren't great. But Fossett's crew got the lot, and they had earned it after months waiting REGULARS 46 Design - (Yet) another swinger on standby for their various DOBBS DAVIS talks to ALAN ANDREWS record attempts. Patience pays 4 Gommodore's letter about his new swing-lceel maxi sled Magnitude off in tfiis game, as does having CHRIS LITTLE plus rig comment from BEN HALL pockets deep enough to wait, and preferably no sponsor yelling at you for some aaion. 7 Editorial 48 Seahorse raceboat build table Bruno Peyron knows this all ANDREW HURST Something for the people... DUDLEY DIX has a too well; like EUen MacArthur, nice-looking Mini 6.5 design for home-building being forced to cheer on Francis Joyon as he put one of 8 Update her own major goals well out STEVE FOSSETT describes 'that lap', HEATHER 50 RORG news of imminenr reach, Bruno PRENTICE talles to solo star GIOVAMSH Peyron must have winced as SOLD INI about his Transat preparations and Cheyenne's time dipped below CHARLES DUNSTONE talks to MAGNUS 65 Seahorse me calendar the 60-day mark. Orange II is WHEATLEY about racing in the maxi class and certainly potentially a faster about commercial sponsorship. Plus a reader in 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month boat than Cheyenne, especially Austtalia puts us straight on the new Hydraplaneur over medium disrances; but Let our global gladiators duke it out... Fossett's well-tested boat just kept piling one good daily run on top of another. And it proved strong enough to survive three major equipment failures that would have ended the efforts of many rivals. Thirty tonnes Cheyenne may be, compared to the 17-18 of the Club Med generation, but once she got moving it seemed nothing could slow down the tough Morrelli-Melvin design - strongly built, like so many other successful raceboats by Cookson Boats. Lil

COVER: Thierry Martinez INSET: Inset: so now you know just how effective ' tip was many Benoit years ago to oversheet a little as you roll over someone... a graphic example Sticiielbaut/DPPI of the junk flowing off a stalled mainsail - and the 'hole' in between. Above: sorry, but It's just so ugly... German Frers' 'optimal' IMS 600 (Contents

FEATURES 13 World news USA goes it alone (at pace) on the new 31 Mr Must-have grand prix rule, new Hawaii speed limits Not many big sailing records seem to beckon, a 'close encounter' in the Transat be happening these days without the AG2R, another French Cup team... Chris involvement of BRIAN THOMPSON. We ask ' Sayer goes back to the lion's den in Kiwi, first the Cheyenne watchleader what the future holds 2004 IMS designs launch in Spain, and Crichton (finally) joins the rush to CBTF. PATRICE 34 Battleground CARPEIMTIER, CARLOS PICH, IVOR The America's Cup family is fairly unanimous in WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE the opinion that rigs and sails are going to hold the key to the 2007 event. PETER HEPPEL 22 Olympic and small boat Biews No warm shower tonight explains why there will always be further to go Sebastien Josse presses on with PAUL CAYARD and TIM JEFFERY his Finot Open 60 VMI {ex-Sodebo) in preparation for 38 Result! 25 Paul Gayard first this montli's Transat, and JOHAN SALEN and RICHARD BRISIUS have Bruising but learning. then the Vendée Globe which turned themselves from case-by-case project starts on 7 November. 18 Open 60s will line up for the managers into a major force in sailing events Transat, now run by Offshore 27 America's Gup news Challenges, an impressive Good news starts to emerge from Team NZ and turnout of top racers by any 42 Finding the edge - Part I a talk with Toscana's GUALTIERO PANTANI standard. Add to this 12 Orma MARIC SAUNDERS takes a two-part look at multihulls, including Yves recent advances in Finite Element Analysis and Parlier's innovative hydra­ examines the practical implications for engineers 30 5eatee Letters planeur, and the new Transat 'That move' by US Sailing is here in full! organisers can be relieved that their investment in the race, REGULARS seen by some as a gamble, 46 Design - Building on success should at least now be secure. 4 Gommodore's letter And MANI FRERS is well advanced on design It is worth reflecting on one CHRIS LITTLE work for the 2005/6 Volvo Ocean Race aspect of the Imoca 60 Rule itself during the current debate over a new grand prix rule; the 7 Editorial 48 Seahorse raceboat build table Open 60 Class is principally ANDREW HURST SAMUEL MANUARD is the latest with a new controlled by a simple box design for the fast-evolving Jauge . rule. That is not die whole point here, rather the fact diat 8 Update many argue against the concept GLENN BOURKE has no doubt that the 2005/6 50 RORG news of such a rule on the basis of Volvo Ocean Race is going to be successful, STEVE the speed of obsolescence; and VIITCHELL reports from Gaeta on an extraordi­ yet the exact opposite has been nary 2004 Star Worlds and SIR JAMES HARDY 65 Seahorse rdiCB calendar the case with the Imoca fleet. adds elegant support to the stoty of Many of today's boats are far and the Not the America's Cup Hall of Fame... 66 Seahorse^aWor of the Month from the first flusho f youth - Plus an early glimpse of a very cool new Baltic Yacht VMI is in its seventh (sic) sea­ 'Hurdegurdies' and the astronaut... son. As long as it is built well, it has proved a lot easier to keep an Open 60 competitive over the years than it has for, say, the owner of a seven-year- old IMS (or previously an lOR) design. There are few tricks to gain extra waterline length with a box rule - and waterline length is stiU the most powerful factor under most systems. Perhaps the biggest perceived flaw of such a box rule is actually its biggest asset? Meanwhile, for the Imoca fleet itself the story is one of contin­ ued steady growth. The boats have proved durable enough to last many seasons, and fast enough to keep sponsors and sailors interested at a variety of levels of expendimre and aspiration... clever stuff

COVER: Benoit Stichelbaut/DPPI Australian offshore multihull sailor Paul Larsen has now launched his extremely inshore Sailrocket INSET: record challenger. Built primarily by Larsen and fellow Maiden 2 crew Helena Darvelid, the all-carbon Christian Fevrier design (see Sealiorse April2004) will initially trial with a soft sail, though a rigid wing is in the pipeline. At high-speed Sailrocketvj'iW be steered using the air-rudder that can be seen behind the 'pilot's' head (Contents August 2004

FEATURES J3 World news 32 Evolution or revolution •' The five lessons of the Transat, Spain ALEX VALLINGS and FRASER turns to the Transpac 52 fleet for the BROWN of C-Tech in New Zealand hiture, relief all round along the Auckland describe the remarkable progress made waterfront, Wharington sets his VO70 build recently in high-performance batten technology date (regardless), and 'that' transatlantic divide shows signs of widening further. PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, P/OR 36 Why not? WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE Politics aside, there are several groups currently hard at work to ensure that the Little America's Cup is not consigned to history. Team Invictus 22 Olympic and small boat news Quietly does it... founder NORMAN WIJKER explains the plan... SPA 2004 and a 'careers' discussion with Athens No drama for Micliel prospects IAIN PERCY and BEN AINSLIE... Desjoyeaux, whose big wins tend to become less dramatic as 40 Taking the strain (accurately) m Davis he gets better at his craft. TIris ANDY RICE looks at the growing range of And there is a whole new world to be discovered pupil of the late Eric Tabarly applications being found for the latest must be gratified to have lightweight fibre-optic strain-sensing technology secured one of his mentor's most important trophies. 27 America's Gup news Desjoyeaux's successes bring a 42 Finding the edge - Part II Team NZ are back in the game, Italian news welcome breath of fresh air for MARK SAUNDERS continues his examination and a Valencia update from JOSE SALINAS students of petformance yacht of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) with a look at technolog)'. Le Professeur, as he is popularly known in some of the practical methods currently in use 30 Seahorse Letters French sailing circles, brings In defence of canting keels (but not race juries) considerable cerebral energy to REGULARS the disciplines of shorthanded sailing; his boats brisde widi 46 Design - Fast out the 'box' iimovation and his feedback to 4 Gommodore's letter RUSSELL BOWLER can already see great boat designers is nonpareil. It is CHRIS LITTLE potential in - and for - the growing TP52 Class notable that his major victories are usually achieved with the minimum of margin over 7 Editorial 48 Seahorse raceboat build table rivals. Not for Desjoyeaux the ANDREW HURST Farr Yacht Design are also fighting back on the boat-breaking, media-hugging - - - - Mediterranean IMS circuit with the new CAM sprint followed by lengthy downtime as the 'offshore 8 Update rebuild' programme kicks in II.NI JEFFERY went to Newport to watch some 0Ü nORU UOWS (again). Always well-prepared, ACC racing, but he soon found himself in front of - — - - — - - • Desjoyeaux sometimes gives an Mr Bertarelli hstening to a sad story of deteriorating SOBhOrSO raCO CaleflCJaf impression of playing with his relations with Ainghi's former star sldpper. rivals, always taking care not to push his boat harder than Plus JOFIN BERTRAND spends some time with _ _ . _ T, • necessary. Tliis technique, of sailing's favourite boyhood hero and MICHEL bb beanOrSO bailOr OT WË MOntll course, only works when the DESJOYEAUX on technolog)'... and 'thinking solo' And where would one be without the other... intrinsic speed is there - as it generally is in this case. As well as running his own projects, Desjoyeaux has been in steady demand by other campaigns, from Open 60 rivals to French America's Cup challengers keen to draw on his technical skills. In international terms, at least, diere remains scepticism as to the ultimate sldll level of some of the solo stars com­ pared to their inshore rivals. Just as Jacques Villeneuve and Juan Pablo Montoya saw part of their role in moving from Indy to Fl as being to set the record straight about US race- car drivers, so it would be good to see Desjoyeaux immersed in a Volvo project, doing his bit for the shorthanded fraternity!

COVER: Benoit Stichelbaut/DPPi INSET: Team Invictus/ It was a good time for famous daughters at the start of the 2004 Transat in Plymouth, where Orma 60 Airbus Industrie competitor Karine Fauconnier {left), daughter of 1984 race winner Yvon, was watched by, among many others, Marie, daughter of the late, great two-time race winner and French national hero Eric Tabarly [Itj.l^^jfj^^M September 2ÖÖ4

FEATURES 13 World news Joubert goes to K-Challenge, Karine wins intense 28 Desperately seeking solution Quebec-St Malo, 23 Vendée racers, TP52s JIM DONOVAN takes a close look at the work­ acquire wings in , cool new Kiwi racer, ings of the TP52 Rule, which seems to be gather­ Ludde's new maxi and an unusual Bermuda Race ing pace faster than Michael Jordan's trainers (dominated by those darned TP52s). PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, WOR 34 Unstoppable? WILIONS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE Can Alinghi - or anyone else - catch up with BMW Oracle in the race for the 2007 America's 23 Olympic and small boat news Cup. TIM JEFFERY talks to , has his final IAN BURNS and And still three years to go pre-Olympic Regatta report from Athens Alinghi have never lost an ACC regatta under Russell 41 Holding on - Part I 25 America's Cup news Coutts and they have never Ropes and rope-holding technology have moved As BMW Oracle walk the UBS Trophy won one without him. At on at breathtaking speed in recent years. The Newport for die UBS Trophy, BMW Oracle took anodier SPINLOCK SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM 27 Paul Cayard scalp off their deadly America's take a two-part look at the latest innova Cup rivals when new recruit tions now or never and there is a tricky Peter Holmberg - diough regatta in prospect trying liis best and putting up a great fight - was unable to 44 Everyone's at it... reverse the tide in favour of the DOBBS DAVIS talks to DR \ 46 Design - designing to the Swiss team. What pressure ROBERT RANZENBACH and DR (narrow) box now on Alinghi CEO Ernesto ZHENLONG XU about progress in JUAN KOUYOUMDJIAN'S new Bertarelli from both liis home integrating FEA and CFD tools Mader Starboat design {inset left) nation and his corporate sponsors to try to patch things up with Coutts? It could rea­ REGULARS 48 Seahorse raceboat build sonably be regarded as a little careless to have the most suc­ 4 Commodore's letter table cessftil America's Cup skipper CHRIS LITTLE PHIL GARLAND has been busy developing of all time under contract but And solid news of Admiral's Cup 2005 some race-winning new TP52 spars fail to have him steering your boat as intended. No matter, the task for neither man in this 7 Editorial SORORGnews increasingly public dispute is ANDREW HURST easy. Success such as Courts's Changes afoot in safety screening procedures can only lead to an inflated sense of self-worth, while for 8 Update Seahorse someone used to dealing at the Remembering the great CLARENCE FARRAR, 65 race calendar financial levels of Bertarelli, it is BERTARELLI and COUTTS on that 'disagreement', entirely believable tiiat he news of the Coutts-Cayard masterplan and two 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month simply cannot understand his more VO70s are coming to the line for 2005 New Zealander's problem! Employer vs employed (well, allegedly employed) Meanwhile, over in the US of A Larry Ellison, despite polite expressions of concern, must be falling off his chair. How often have we seen the 'tough­ est' opponent in the volatile world of America's Cup egos do for their own chances? How often was this accusation laid at EUison's own door in the 2003 event? No one under­ estimates the dangers ahead for Ellison's team, only a fool would suggest his senior personnel lack a degree of, shall we say, 'unpredirtability' in personnel management. At least Ellison must be wide awake to the armoury he has at his disposal and on guard against 'turbulence'. And then of course there is die reinvigo- rated of Left: 'unbelievabubble', the out-the-mould Grant Dalton. Bet against them finish on the new Farr IIVIS 54 CAM, built by at this stage... no way, José Richard Gillies at Torres in Spain in a CNC- machined female mould, the first of its kind. It was an understandable source of regret when COVER: sponsor requirements called for some paint. Thierry IVIartinez Above: not today, Morning Glory owner INSET: SPA Regatta Hasso Plattner has just pulled out of Week and his duel with sistership Pyewacket October 2004

FEATURES game, Rolex Commodores' Cup, GRANT WHARINGTON interviewed and a stunning new 26 Relentless - Part i Swedish Match Tour event for The foil-borne revolution came of age when ROHAN VEAL won the 2004 European 13 World news title on a foiled design to add to his Australian So nearly for US team in the Tour, Caudrelier national tide. DR IAN WARD has a chronology takes 2004 Figaro, Tirade's Copa del Rey of the evolution of the genre and VEAL hat-trick, as Spanish Cup hopefuls slug it takes a look into his own crystal ball... out, Dalton on fire in Auckland, Murray says it in style and TP52s 32 Business as usual! f^^^^ sprouting everywhere. PATRICE Yet again Team GBR made the CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, 87 and counting... opening rimning in Athens, but for IVOR WILIONS, DOBBS DAVIS With a combined age of 87 / and ROB MUNDLE years, the tenacity (and endur­ Finn champion BEN AINSLIE it was ing fimess) of US 470 duo Paul a 'truly remarkable adventure' Foerster and Kevin Bm-nliam is 20 America's Gup news one of die stories of the Adiens Olympics. Both already have 36 To be fast... and to last It's gettin' bloody just about everywhere... silver medals, from 470s and GUILLAUME VERDIER recently completed the FD class, but as we close design development of a new Open 60 fot Jean 22 Rod Davis for press the two Americans Maurel in partnership with multihull exponents And some sage words on how to make the are about to start their last race VAN PETEGHEM-LAURIOT PREVOST showdown widi their some­ very most of your Olympic experience what younger Team GBR rivals, Rogers and Glanfield, 40 Where now... 24 ORG column for their first gold. As three- DEE SMITH has had 'big fun' with the CBTF And the IMS door's open for swingers... time Olympic medallist Maxi Morning Glory but thinks it's now rime to is always set down some rules to tighten the comperition quick to remind people, the 45 Design - The rules of engagement Olympics is different, and you have to have experience, 43 Holding on - Part II Faster by 0.02kt... DAVID HOLLOM looks at the possible motives behind the America's Cup performance and emotional The SPINLOCK SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM management's move to ACC Version 5.0 strength in hand to succeed m a look at current developments in rope holding regatta where most, if not all, the fleet will be sailing below and also at post-treatment of modern cordage par because of the unusual 48 5eatee raceboat build table pressure. More experienced REGULARS PATRICE CARPENTIER reports on another sailors do tend to win more at new Class 40 Jauge design from France die Games than they do 4 Gommodore's letter between Olympics; certainly the early sailing medals in CHRIS LITTLE 50 RORG news Athens went in large part to An interview with Russian Commodores' Cup those who had already tasted ? Editorial skipper SERGUEI KOTSIOUBA Olympic success in the past. It's ANDREW HURST a lot easier to treat the Olympic Regatta as 'just another event' 65 Seahorse vRce calendar if you really have been dirough 8 Update it all before. For some, pain The 2005 Admiral's Cup is confirmed, OWEN- 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month and anger can also motivate at CLARKE & CLAY OLIVER join the TP52 the Games: Pattisson in 1968 East meets west... and now Ainslie in 2004 have created legends out of coming back from first-day disqualifi­ ,4063 cations to dominate a regatta diat theoretically should have become impossible. Similarly, taov Milce Mclnryre capsized in tlie light opening race in LA in 1984, as favourite in the Finn class, only to come back with a surprise Star gold medal in Korea four years later. And, most famously, the USA 'Dream Team' of 1980, denied a certain haul of gold by die west's contentious partial boycott: of die Moscow Games, came back \vith fire in their eyes to utterly dominate the 1984 Games in

'What's that hanging off your bow, son?' {above). At the 2004 Moth COVER: Europeans In Weymouth, , a much wider sailing world had Ciive Mason/Getty their first real insight into the progress made in the foil-borne Moth Images fleet. This was the second major championship of the year won by a INSET: Owen Clarke foiled Moth, the boats proving manageable (with some practice), extraordinarily quick (20kt plus)... and impressively stable once up [di^.lLUji^M November 2004

FEATURES challenger SALVATORE SARNO, plus IsIEVILLE CRICHTON explains his move to CBTF 28 Case study Tornado builder and rig specialist TORBJORN 13 World news LINDERSON describes a promising new More silverware for Michel Desjoyeaux, and for offshore trimaran rig configuradon Karinne Fauconnier, 700-mile day for Bruno Peyron, new 'bolt-and-go' canting keel package 30 Brava Brazilia! from New Zealand, Thwaites finally gets Week one in Athens was all about Team Zana out in front, and the growing GBR, but in week two the South f \ US footprint of IRC. PATRICE Americans came charging back - and \ CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, in some style. TIi\4 JEFFERY ,rVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS Never! Ever! Ignore him! and ROB MUNDLE Two Olympic gold medals, two bronze and one silver. 37 Relentless - Part II , crewed as usual In the second part of his examination 23 Paul Cayard by liis close friend , was the toast of the of foiler history and development gPAn extraordinarily difficult regatta, Olympic centre after DR IAN WARD studies the successful but fifth feels less painful a few days on.. 'comfortably' dominating the strategy of the Moth Class in managing change most difficult possible of 24 America's Gup news Olympic Regattas in the Star class. In a fleet in wliich 50 per 41A remarkable story Boats falling over, Coutts and Bertarelli start cent were former Srar World With the next Vendée Globe just weeks away the lashing out (meanwhile the BMW Oracle Champions, to win with a race BARRY PICKTHALL describes the extra­ Team win yet another ACC regatta!) to spare was an exceptional ordinary history behind this magnificent event performance by any standard. Once the shifty and liglit 46 Design - Rapido conditions had moved in for A mouthwatering new pocket trimaran from the the second week of racing in REGULARS board of MARC LOMBARD Athens most in the boatpark were united in expecting such a 4 Commodore's letter competitive class to produce a CHRIS LITTLE 48 Seahorse raceboat build table high-scoring result. They were right, apart from Grael & Contrasting new designs from KEVIN DIBLEY Ferreira who just kept banging 7 Editorial in top-five finishes, race after ANDREW HURST race. Bear in mind that this was 50 RORG news an event in which current world (two-time) and 8 Update European (three-time) IRC siu'vives , as do the TP52s... 65 Seahorse race calendar champion Freddy Loof finished TERRY HUTCHINSON repoits on a second Farr 12th; in which double world 40 world title for Barking Maci, South African Cup champion and outstanding 66 Seahorse ^aWor of the Month light airs sailor Alex Hagen Quality, true unadulterated quality... finished 16rh. Having seemingly been out the frame in die run-up to Athens, and \vith some very patchy results over the preceding 12 months, the weeks following the Games saw Grael's phone ring off the hook. Bodi the Alinglii Team and Grael's former Prada boss, Patrizio Bertelli, are now vying for the Brazilian's services in their respective America's Cup campaigns. First, however, there is the intensely important matter of leading Brazil's first ever Volvo Ocean Race So you think you challenge, die tide sponsorship have a tough job for which was also confirmed as a bowman? in the hectic days after Athens. This sequence Russell Coutts broke one duck was taken as for Olympic gold medallists by IVIartiai Salvan winning the America's Cup (as and Joans 'sort of did Buddy Melges, of Wackenhuth course). But no gold medal- wrestle to prepare winning skipper has won die the gennaker as premier crewed round- 's the-world race - yet VPLP tri Sodebo approaches the windward mark at COVER: over 17kt Carlo Borienghi/DPPI during the recent INSET: PPL Archive Orma Grand Prix de Fécamp ritj»!;^if:j;^/.-lDecember 2004

FEATURES the rapidly developed D35 Class and TRACY EDWARDS explains to 28 A worthy feast TIM JEFFERY just how she got The 32nd America's Cup in lierself quite so much media coverage Valencia got off to a flying start with the successful conclusion of ^ World news Louis Vuitton Acts 2 and 3. As did -''^'•'(^•' Vendée Globe preview, Cammas com- 3 Grant Dalton's 'new' Emirates Team pletes the job, Gautier passes the baton, more o- New Zealand Cup turbulence in Spain, TP52s keep spreading, 'another' 100-footer (inset). Skiff birthdays in Oz, 32 Another league and Transpac rules open up (slightly). PATRICE With his fifth Olympic medal, won in Athens, CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, WOR That was a nish... TORBEN GRAEL has elevated himself above WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUl^LE Emirates Team New Zealand that group of merely great Olympic sailors dragged everybody including the office cleaners into the task 24 Rod Davis of getting NZL-81 finished and 38 A tasty way to spend the summer And Rod starts work with a very different onto a plane for Valencia. And America's Cup team for his next campaign having got to Spain, the boat TORBJORN LINDERSON and CALLE wasn't the only thing to then HElNlNIX explain the well-researched, be thrown together; ETNZ's commercially backed race series created for 26 ORC Column new afterguard had yet to sail Marc Lombard's rapid SeaCart 30 trimaran KEN WELEER says farewell to tumblehome together. But, as is so often the case when a good team is put under pressure, the boys in 38 Like a phoenix 27 5eatee letters Four C-Class cats travelled to Bristol, RI, this black (new and old) rose to the Athens was good, but it wasn't perfect... occasion to win Act 2 (match fall, for the 'new' Little America's Cup. Much racing), finish as runner-up to was learnt... but STEVE CLARK's remarkable Alinghi in Aa 3 (fleet racing), Cogito won again! PAUL LARSEN reports 44 Design - Could long be wrong? and accumulate enough points Or, why did it take so long for ACC designers to push BMW Oracle down to to find the right corner of the 'new' Cup rule... second overall (by just Ipt) in REGULARS dre official'2004 ACC Championships'. Rarely can a 4 Commodore's letter 48 Seahorse mehodX build table CHRIS LITTLE relatively incidental victory They're both 38ft, but that's as far as it goes have felt more sweetly won. Now, of course, the real work begins - it was design and 7 Editorial 50 RORC news engineering that underpinned ANDREW HURST the disastrous namre of TNZ's faUru-es in the 2003 Cup, and IRC comes to the USA. TINK CHAMBERS so far we have only seen 8 Update evidence of a resurgence by the PAUL CAYARD reports on the first Swan Gold sailing team. But Grant Dalton Cup, GLEN BOURKE brings us up to speed with 65 Seahorse race calendar and Tom Schnackenberg have Volvo Ocean Race developments, SEBASTIEN put some excellent people in SCHMIDT reports on a successful first season for 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month place in their technical group, both in terms of managing East meets west... well, it would hav'It'se beegoond oncto e design development and of be the King!' ensuring that the next boats HRH Juan they enter for an America's Carlos lends Cup don't fall apart. This looks his support to like a team that - unlike its Alinghi during previous incarnation - will a match steadily build in strength, wliile against several of their rivals look to be Emirates TNZ the ones increasingly likely to -Alinghi lost. come under self-imposed However, pressure to chase that elusive, Alinghi won and often dangerous, design plenty of other breakthrough. Meanwhile, matches in ETNZ's tvvo biggest rivals, Valencia to Alinghi and BMW Oracle, now show more have troubles of their own. strongly than Alinghi's are obvious and pub­ at other recent lic. Oracle's seem more myste­ events. Both rious - but fewer of the Cup Murray Jones commimity now feel ready to and Peter bet on this powerhouse team, Holmberg look however great their resources. delighted with Who would have said that just their new a few months ago? recruit... and those are big shoes that COVER: he's filling. Thierry Martinez (With thanks INSET: J-M Liot/DPPI to Mel Brooks)