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FEATURES 7 Editorial ANDREW HURST 18 Staying ahead is tasiced with supervising the IJiMirrte saihng and also the rig programme for 's moves back to ACC lake-racer-on-steroids... He's also enjoying RAK boats after a bruising time at the Melges 24s, DOBBS DAVIS looks at the ISAF 'discussions' 23 Counting down and ROB WEILAND draws parallels between With less than two years to go to the start of the KNUT FROSTAD's work at Volvo and his own second Barcelona World Race things are rolhng efforts to steer the TP52s forward into a new era

Two sides 28 The long road back to the water 12 World news The first edition of the Louis -Parti Mission aecomphshed (in some style) for Vuitton Trophy series for NEVILLE CRICHTON, Spain - and Pedro - push invited ACC teams offered DAN PRIMROSE has travelled a fascinating hard into the oceanic arena. Plus Van Oossanen some good spectacle and high-technology path since graduating in yacht and pastry... does it make for an opera house? gave many sailors and shore design in the mid-1990s. Now he is bringing IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, ROB crew a welcome opportunity some of his recent experiences back 'home' again MUNDLE, DOBBS DAVIS and CARLOS PICH to earn some money doing what they do best during the cmrent America's Cup 32 Frightening 21 imbroglio. A mixed bag of -Parti A trip back in time {inset), a lobby for the grass weather - expected in Nice in roots followed by a swift return to the day job November - meant that not GRANT SIMMER explains to BLUE every day's racing in the ROBINSON why a day out with any modern lengthy schedule produced Deed of Gift multihull is not something 24 America's Cup-Living big much in the way of action that you ever want to treat lightly ANDY RICE catches up with BMW but the bulk of the original Oracle engineering co-ordinator and programme was achieved; though the abbreviation of 34 Seamless solution : strategist MIKE DRUMMOND as the second round robin did ERIC HALL shows DOBBS DAVIS the wing gets going in earnest... not help those teams who the fruits of his company's research were just starting to hit their into a lighter and also a cleaner 26 Olympic and small boat stride against the 'old-timers'. way of standing up a modern spar Of wider significance, news-Mind yer backs however, those who have jammed the blogosphere with 36 Generation three ANDY RICE has also been busy closer to predictions of the America's home looking at what the future holds for Skan­ Cup being sidelined in favour -Parti dia Team GBR as well as for its opponents... of this 'new' circuit need to MERFYN OWEN looks at the next step for his think again. On the one company's Class 40 designs with his co-designer 44 Design - Only a matter of time hand, you have the dramas of CLAY OLIVER and engineer JOHN LEVELL BMW Oracle unveiling the A man who has had a year of quite remarkable biggest wing rig the world success, both as a sailor and as a boat designer, has (yet) seen and quickly 39 Enigma JO RICHARDS introduces his 'new' lake racer taking it , and on the other Alinghi stepping their -Part II own next larger rig and DAVE HOLLOM develops his look at the 46 5ea/r(7rs6 build table promptly hull flying physics of foiling into the contrasting issues of - Just a little better (please) Alinghi 5 in what appeared lifting - and improving - the modern mukihull to be a flat calm. Throw in JAVIER SOTO ACEBAL is asked for a 52ft IRC the undesirable but inevitable flyer to outperform a good TP52... in fact, to beat ongoing legal fights, plus the 42 Stronger still! the client's very own TP52 world champion interventions of at least two DIRK KRAMERS reveals yet another of those possible Cup venues and you litde aces that Alinghi (as ever...) had up their 48 RORC news - A good match have a real story; pictures sleeve during the last America's Cup in , of now rather dated and and MARCEL ALBERT gives the background slow-looking "V5 ACC yachts EDDIE WARDEN OWEN gently wafting around the Baie des Anges did not cut it by comparison. The 33rd REGULARS 66 Seahorse regatta calendar Cup is going to be a huge story, whatever shape it 4 Commodore's letter finally takes (Valencia in ANDREW MCIRVINE 67 Sailor ofthe Month February looks promising, Prediction... this will jam the server but we would not yet put Jean Le Cam {left) down much money on it). Inspects the And while the power of the destroyed main bow BOR 90 is looking scary, for of the new Verdler- us that silvery Swiss spider designed 50-footer still looks dannn slippery... Actual (see Nov 09) after it flipped following the start COVER: Gilles Morelle/ of the Transat gillesmorelle.com Jacques Vabre, INSET: Gilles Martin- almost certainly Raget/BMW Oracle after striking a submerged object «tfrormnFebruary 2010

FEATURES GIULIANO LUZZATO enjoys the return of the , as does MAURO PELASCHIER, 23 A first peek ADAM MINOPRIO takes the match race crown, and time to check sorhe of our sport's 'progress'? As the fkst new boats are confirmed JOCELYN BLERIOT looks at what's in and what's out in the line-up for the second Barcelona World Race 14 World news TANGUY DE LAMOTTE and BERNARD 24 Setting the scene STAMM both have a 'very good' Chocolat, knows that come JEAN-PIERRE DICK is making the most of his Valencia next month and he is going to be in the time in , America's Cup activity fight of his life to defend the America's Cup blossoms in Oz. Plus DOBBS DAVIS catches up on the back-story of BMW Oracle's mighty wing The show with BEN HALL. IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE Paul Campbell-James's 30GunfightattheOK Coral CARPENTIER, ROB MUNDLE, CARLOS PICH Muscat-sponsored Extreme DAVE HOLLOM has been increasingly 40 makes a fine sight racing impressed with the thinking behind modifications at night in Singapore as OC made to BMW Oracle's America's Cup monster 20 Events take their successful Another one to cut out and keep from the man series into the Far East during who recentiy gave the RC44s a good kicking... the European winter months. 34 The long road back to the water This tightly packaged series has continued to attract -Part II 26 ORC Column sponsors and a good pubhc DAN PRIMROSE has seen the future and asks ALLESANDRO NAZARETH audience even though the whether or not we are ready to embrace it... costs of competing have inevitably risen. We talked 27 Olympic and small boat news last month about the need for 38 Generation three -A pervasive influence sailing to spend more time -Part II working backward from its ANDY RICE talks to New Zealand target market, and expend JAMIE WATERS, STEPHANE skiff sailor PAUL ROE about the fewer resources chasing FAUVE and ALIX SIZER reflect on now-foiling R-Class two-handers dreams with little thought of the reality of getting the latest OCD how they can be paid for. Class 40s to the startline This is exacdy the approach 44 Design - Squeezing out followed by OC with their multihull series; it may not 40 Frightening the box always be the greatest saihng PAT SHAUGHNESSY and JIM but it is keeping young sailors -Part II SCHMICKER explain the science behind employed and people - and BLUE ROBINSON talks to GRANT SIMMER Farr Yacht Design's latest GP42 offering for 2010 sponsors - are getting on Deed of Gift sail design... and safety pleasure out of watching the racing. Knut Frostad is 46 Seated build table taking the same top-down 42 Another (Kiwi) household name approach with the next TIM JEFFERY drops in on the headquarters - Eccentric Volvo Ocean Race; he has of the expanding Southern Spars empire TOM HUTCHINSON offers another akernative made a careful judgment on to the ubiquitous and ageing rigging turnbuckle how many entries are needed for a good race and how REGULARS many companies can justify a 48 RORC news-The keel thing specific level of investment 6 Commodore's letter The limitations of ever-deeper drafts. Plus and he has repriced his event ANDREW MCIRVINE offshore lifelines... if it ain't broke why fix it? accordingly. With the recent EDDIE WARDEN OWEN signing of Groupama and talk of at least one more big 9 Editorial French racing team, plus ANDREW HURST 66 Seahorse regattdi calendar various Spanish and other entries that are in the pipeline, Frostad looks to be 10 Update 67 Sailor ofthe Month on track for a good race TERRY HUTCHINSON lines up a busy 2010, The young... and the brave starting in November 2011. Meanwhile, in its marvellous Christmas exclusive: madness the America's Cup we feel a lot better has provided a big boost to (inset) about the the chances of these truly former British PM commercial events, providing now he's Invested both with a ready source of some of his filthy personnel and a free run at lucre In a good foiler. available media space. But in /Wa/n ptioto: gaining its madness hes its appeal ground In South - there will only ever be one America are the America's Cup. Wannabes Soto Acebal S40 one- need not apply designs, with three sailing In Argentina and two In Brazil. COVER: Thierry Fast and relatively Martinez/Sea&Co Inexpensive, the INSET: Gilles Martin- lightweight S40s Raget/BMW Oracle (4,200kg) are a big hit with their crews (Contents tihnïïü^ÈdiknD

FEATURES 7 Editorial ANDREW HURST 24 The final sprint GRANT SIMMER puts the finishing touches 8 Update to his most extraordinary Cup campaign yet TERRY HUTCHINSON warms up ahead of the Florida Tour, a plethora of twin-wire 27 Restructuring the home team contests, Monaco reflections and some early It really is all change for the Spanish Barcelona lessons from the Flinders Islet tragedy. ANDY Race entries, as JOCELYN BLERIOT finds out RICE, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

29 Crazy? 12 World news Keep the faith How did it all look 10 years ago and what can Banque Pop V prepares to go, as do CAMMAS To our European readers, in that tell us about where we are now heading... and Groupama 3, the L/ow roars... into Tasmania particular those not in easy ANDREW HURST fires up the crystal ball (ahem - ed), the mighty Alfa ends bullish talk of reach of the slopes, the sun is Goliath (as David scores), Hobart triumph still out there and shining. and Roy Disney remembered. Plus Oatley's still Not only does the current 32 All to play for (probably) got Hamo, eh! IVOR WILKINS, ROB MUNDLE, small-boat generation get thinks so, certainly... but PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH fantabidous boats like the he's not entirely convinced we're going sailing yet 29er, 49er (jealous, jealous, jealous - ed) and the latest Moths and Cherubs in which 36 A softer approach 23 Paul Cayard to abuse their bodies, but How do you improve a proven winner? Looking ahead... and is this the moment to they also get to race them SIMON ROGERS and JAMES DAY take a little time? during the northern winter at try to work it out with Rogers Yacht venues like the Bahamas Design's newest Class 40 [above) for the '9er' worlds 46 Design-Team effort and Sydney for the Int 14s. MARK MILLS and ROBERT Meanwhile, as we close this 38 Ahead of time RANZENBACH have a new kid in issue tfieir predecessors are at Suddenly in the spotlight, SIMON [town... it's a big step up (and also least enjoying the unmatched ROGERS has been knocking down hopefully a major step forwards) conditions of Rio for the 2010 worlds... a little doors for a while. LOUAY HABIB payback perhaps, while many explores the history SeahorseM\A table further along the road are in Key West for Race Week. - Hawaii on a budget Life in sailing is going on 40 A question of balance JIM ANTRIM did not quite get his all-singing, At the heart of every truly great design is an easy- all-dancing carbon baby, but a good-looking and - despite what you read. to-sail boat... DAVE HOLLOM looks back at Indeed, many owners of race innovative new canting-keel 49-footer has two early scientific exponents of a key principle yachts seem to have now emerged from the California stable nonetheless decided, fortimately, that since 'this is how it's going to 44 Nailing a moving target 50 RORC news be', for a while at least, ERIC STEINBERG is finding good demand maybe it's better to turn among 'position-hungry' crews for his latest GPS things around and spend a EDDIE WARDEN OWEN little more time doing things that may not be economically REGULARS productive, but which are at 66 56ata6 regatta calendar least fun. You really don't 4 Commodore's letter need a new boat every year to ANDREW MCIRVINE 'enjoy' your racing... and this 67 Sailor ofthe Month is especially true if the rest of Skiffles all... the world is working along Simpler times? similar hnes. The continued success of well-prepared takes time out older offshore designs and during training in good production boats - see Hawaii with Sydney-Hobart - means that Stars&Strlpes In for the vast majority time is 1986. But within (still) much better spent on 8 months the water improving sailing Conner, having skills rather than obsessing recaptured about that elusive magic the Cup with ingredient that will allow you a brilliant to leapfrog the pecking order. campaign, would Sailing is a 'doing' sport, and also be embroiled most of us use our boats in a Deed of Gift much less than we should. controversy, with For now, perhaps leave the Michael Fay. big shop to those Cup teams Conner, the Cup - they are doing plenty for , won everyone... that one using a cat... Read into COVER: Friedrich Elliott that what you INSET: Christophe like! Inset: happy Launay birthday, Andrew (CÖntëntsEHfflEilD

blessing... and gets yet another new Open 60, FEATURES DICKO keeps smiUng (as weU he might), as does THOMAS COVILLE, the flying bulbs reach 32 Choices Australia... and Key West reflections. As expected the 33rd America's Cup was decided IVOR WILKINS, ROB MUNDLE, PATRICE before the first start gun finally sounded. But at CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, DOBBS DAVIS rimes it was closer than expected... or was it? 22 Rod Davis 34 Preparing the ground Getting started... time for the reality check ANDY RICE sat down with BMW Oracle's MIKE DRUMMOND and JAMES SPITHILLto unravel some of those rather good early decisions 25 Barcelona Worid race - Hola, professor! Plus 9a change Weeks before an America's 35 The 34th America's Cup JOCELYN BLERIOT catches up with the Cup match Dennis Conner Messrs COUTTS, ELLISON, ONORATO world's greatest offshore soloista... was fond of saying how 'the Cup is already decided'. 26 ORC Never was Conner's insight 36 Case study more applicable than in the Life's not so different at the other end The mighty Lola is officially now 33rd edition, when two sides of the sailing spectrum. MARTIN a two-pronged beast built superb platforms but WADHAMS and PAUL HANDLEY only one pressed home for look at how a leading manufacturer 29 Olympic and small boat maximum rig advantage. sets about researching the decisions While science now allows needed to create a successful new small news performance to be predicted boat class from scratch more accurately with a solid -Déjavü than with a soft rig, the best What it takes to win the Int 14 worlds... twice. technical team of the last two 40 3Di unmasked ANDY RICE and ARCHIE MASSEY Cups (by some margin) this DOBBS DAVIS talks to DAN NERI and time somehow got it wrong. JB BRAUN about the commercialisation of We are certain BMW Oracle 44 Design - Rise ofthe machines the original Alinghi Black Sails project planned a wing virtually JAMIE MARINA takes us into the fast-growing from the start - we often said world of full-scale CNC mould production so. But until late 2009 we REGULARS also suspected Alinghi had something similar brewing. 4 Commodore's letter 46 56ato6 build table When no wing appeared the ANDREW MCIRVINE conclusion was that the more -A world of fun experienced multihull team Tornado supremo GÖRAN MARSTRÖM has were convinced of the weight 7 Editorial another (cool) new toy for the world advantage of a soft rig. Yet ANDREW HURST even in the lightest airs of Valencia, in fact especially in 48 RORC news the hghtest airs, Alinghi 5 8 Update EDDIE WARDEN OWEN looked harder to sail than TERRY HUTCHINSON digests Cup World 34, its American rival, often GILLY'S (big) Tour plans, and good pickings in 66 5ea/;or56 regatta calendar weaving to keep the weather Rio for PERCY, BART and the GRAEL empire hull aloft. Meanwhile, USA had a surplus of power that made James Spithill's task 12 World news 67 Sailor ofthe Month look easy - he rarely deviated MICH DESJ gives the MOD 70 programme his Four Star world titles between them... so let's go from a straight course (the engineering to fine-tune that power was most impressive as well). However, lor us, the jury is still out on the platform. Alinghi 5 was, is, a marvel of composite and particularly tensile engineering. Would she have won with a rig closer to USA's... for now that remains a 64 million franc question (the Cup holders win know already). More pressing is where to go from here, so a final thought: on the evidence of February 2010, why would 'fast planing monohulls' offer better match racing than refined 60fi: or 70ft box- rule multihulls?

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FEATURES 12 World news AnewPRB forRIOU, CAMMAS (andPEYRON) 30 Whitewash keeps the faith, tall ship with a difference. Flinders DAVE HOLLOM first fancied Alinghi but as Islet report and DAWN RILEY finds 'gainful'. Oracle refined their boat he had the courage to IVOR WILKLNS, ROB MUNDLE, PATRICE change tack... going on to predict the balance in CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, DOBBS DAVIS remarkable detail. Now it's time for reflection 23 Paul Cayard 33 Out of control And many key moves may already be in place... Former Seahorse editor and another designer of courage and inventiveness, JULIAN EVERITT says that what the Cup now needs is to continue 2A Seahorseleiters We're back to deliver more of the almost unmanageable... Marvellous development... but not for everyone Those old Version 5.0 ACC boats just won't go away. No sooner is the 33rd, rather 36 Scholar and gentleman 25 Barcelona World race more modern Cup done and Two-time Olympic medallist LARS dusted than the lead-mines = And then there were 10 GRAEL talks to LYNN are back out there providing JOCELYN BLERIOT points out that close and testing racing on FITZPATRICK in Rio as the girls sign up it's actually 20... Waitemata Harbour. The balance for organisers of the 38 Confidence next Cup of whether to be 27 Olympic and small boat How do McConaghy build the world's pioneers or stick with the news - Evolution (not tried and trusted will not be most extreme boats while acquiring a an easy one to resolve. The reputation for reliabihty? BLUE ROBIN revolution) greater good of the sport SON and DOBBS DAVIS talk to JONO Skiff champion ROB BROWN catches up versus an easier package for MORRIS and HARRY DUNNING with sailmaker MICHAEL COXON and this the current Cup family... and learn about the company's next party trick Good luck with that! The year's JJ Giltinan Trophy frontrunners Louis Vuitton series certainly provided a great spectacle, 42 Natural-born trimmer 46 Design-Into the fray helped by tight, short courses The best Cup sailors are staying busy. LOUAY About time... BRITT WARD describes Farr and good sailing conditions. HABIB asks ANDY HEMMINGS how... Another conundrum for Cup Yacht Design's first move into the Class 40 planners is that the stronger the breeze that can be ^^SeahorsehuM table guaranteed the easier it is to REGULARS create a good boat for the - Little stormer job. If it's mano-a-mano 4 Commodore's letter ANDREW MCIRVINE NICOLAS GOLDENBERG can get you on that spectacle you want, there's Mini Transat startline for less than you may think still been little to match the show the 12s put on in the 7 Editorial Fremantle Doctor. As Julian 50 RORC news Everitt shrewdly points out ANDREW HURST {pg33), it was not the speed EDDIE WARDEN OWEN that impressed in Valencia in 8 Update February 2010, rather it was TERRY HUTCHINSON in , the near imcontrollable 66 5fiatee regatta calendar power. And in Spain they had DEE SMITH in Valencia, DOBBS DAVIS the benefit of power-assist, in , a very cold front in Switzerland which removed much of the ... and BRUNO TROUBLE in seventh heaven 67 Sailor ofthe Month human spectacle, but the principle remains (good news A month for perseverance... and perspiration too for grinders left ashore during the 33rd Match). Another interesting slant is the statement Larry Elhson made to Fortune magazine, that he is personally thinking of a format where you could get to the next Cup - sensibly - for as litde as US$3milhon. For a titan of innovation like the Oracle Corp founder such a solution is entirely feasible; and if he pulled it off it would set him out as a key figure of America's Cup history. Opening the game up as far as possible... so far the omens look pretty good

COVER: Sander van der Borch Photographer Oskar Klhlborg found the waiting for wind - or not wind - In Valencia so exciting that INSET: Thierry he headed off to the Iceboat worlds in Austria. The championship was planned for Lake Balaton in Martinez/Sea&Co Hungary but poor Ice saw the fleet pack up and move country. Rig set-up on the DNs (above) may be familiar to students of the original floppy Firefly dinghy rig (see 1948 Olympics, Paul Elvstrom etc!) eContents ilTl'if^Hip)^

FEATURES Update TERRY HUTCHINSON (in-flight), ANTOINE 31 In his own words SEZERAT (StTropez), CARLOS PICH (Palma), Who better to describe the inside story behind the DON STREET (Antigua), DAVE HOLLOM in development ofthe fastest (ever) America's Cup Bradford and PHIL MORRISON in Exmouth... boat than its Aussie skipper JIMMY SPITHILL 12 World news 35 NEDS FRANCK CAMMAS hnes up his next trick(s), Not a new Dutcli sailing team, but the workings a breezy Spi Ouest 2010, and a busy spring in of BMW Oracle's Near Eye Display system... Auckland, women's match race boost in the USA, 50ft tris on the rise and Azzurra recovers 36 And the rest its (famous) shine. TVOR WILKINS, Fantastic ROB MUNDLE, PATRICE 2009 Star world champion LYNN FITZPATRICK sits down to CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS (and Quantum sailmaker) dinner with la familie Grael George Szabo surfs downhill on his Folli Star with crew 22 Rod Davis Mark Strube during the class 38 Leaner and meaner Western Hemisphere For 2010 the TP52 class has taken a - The odd couple championships in Nassau, big step on its way to being fully IRC Working - and surviving - alongside enjoying what 1988 world friendly in 2011 with a new class rule. the remarkable JOEY ALLEN champion Paul Cayard TP52 class manager ROB WEILAND describes as the best sailing describes the changes made to date area in the world... hard to 24 Olympic and small boat news disagree. The series was eventually won by the fast- 40 (Auckland) through the - Gran power improving Canadian pair of Between the two of them SIMON PAYNE and Richard Clarke and Tyler looking glass... ANDREW MCDOUGALL struck a big blow for Bjorn, with BLUE ROBINSON went racing with Messrs the mature yachtsman at the Moth worlds in second, having borrowed HUTCHINSON and CAYARD and Team Dubai. ANDREW RICE unravels the plan... Robert Scheldt's crew Bruno Artemis... and found himself stuck the wrong Prada for the occasion. side of 's well-honed vocal chords Szabo/Strube finished fifth. 28 The ORC column After many years of technical And the axis of ORC activity drifts gently east stalemate the Stars have 41 No finger pointing come alive in the past few TeamOrigin's performance in Auckland was less years, with new boats from than stellar but its skipper is not downhearted 46 Design - New (faster) kid the three leading builders as Will the much faster new J/111 repeat the well as several experimental one-design success of its J/105 forebear ? STU one-offs. The differences are 42 Steel yourself JOHNSTONE thinks there is only one answer extremely modest, though, as An 'unfortunate incident' during the latest Louis Mader Star designer Juan Kouyoumdjian confirmed Vuitton series in New Zealand prompts BLUE SeahorseMXA table after Percy and Simpson won ROBINSON to undertake a character audit... gold in Beijing on a specially - Historical precedence built version of his own latest 44 Mixed messages This is something that multihull whiz NIGEL design: 'They could have won IRENS has wanted to do for a very long time... that medal using any of the Opinion varies on the balance of IRC in 2010 better boats.' The need -with ED PSALTIS and designer JOHN CORBY to develop these new boats 50 RORC news has, however, contributed to REGULARS new-build prices accelerating upwards in this historic but 4 Commodore's letter EDDIE WARDEN OWEN ultra-competitive class, which ANDREW MCIRVINE must be having a negative 66 56a/7(7r56 regatta calendar effect in terms of encouraging more young sailors to follow 7 Editorial the lead of former Finnistes ANDREW HURST 67 Sailor ofthe Month like Percy, of France and Freddy Loof of You can buy the boots... but you can't buy votes Sweden, as well as Lbsér 'ri^ Ready for the next legend , all Volvo... Emirates recent Star world champions. , That said, it is campaigning 't^P pound upwind costs, rather than the boats /7: . during the MedCup themselves, at the top level • round In Cartagena that have moved up into the ^•ni!^ last September stratosphere, with many f^'^ when the fleet finally Olympic programmes now ended previous talk budgeting for upwards of of structural frailty US$300,000-350,000 per - both the TP52s year. Heady stuff for most and their smaller talented but impoverished young dinghy sailors... ''^^i getting through - " ' " two days of 'proper' - > • - v^ viï ocean conditions COVER: Friedricli Elliott •> " I ^ .. with very little INSET: Sally CoUison S^i^iiAi damage... other than S^^^Pffeéi to some tired crews rContentsl^fflP^iiSfim

FEATURES ANDY RICE looks at ratings in the Caribbean 27 No limits 12 World news The giant wing rig on USA 17 was a game In Lorient FRANCK CAMMAS is doing whatever changer in America's Cup 33 only because Larry it takes in his next quest, airhorns breach the peace Ellison's technical team somehow made it work on the Hauraki Gulf, safety costs are put under the in the time available. BMW Oracle's electronics spodight in Australia and Hamilton Island warms team leader MARK SHEFFIELD expands... up... Plus the gift that just keeps on giving. With PATRICE CARPENTIER, FVOR WILKINS, 32 Rules of engagement (2) ROB MUNDLE and DOBBS DAVIS There are some fundamental decisions to be made by the organisers of AC 34 notjust 22 Paul Cayard Jumpin' in terms of the type of boat used but of Anyone competing at tlie first the measurement approach chosen. -A day in the life round of the Audi JVIedCup DAVE HOLLOM looks at how And very often it is not always in Cascais will instantly now quite what it seems... appreciate why it is that the various options may play out Russell Coutts was such a strong advocate of the 34 Potted history 24 Olympic and small boat Portuguese port as his preferred venue for the 32nd A timely look at some of the key yacht news-Sailing the office America's Cup. Competitors measurement rules... through the ages Volvo Race winner ROB GREENHALGH at the ISAF Sailing Worlds in is a convinced fan of 49er helm MARCUS Cascais in 2007 will also 38 They're back (well, sort of) BAUR's new campaign management tool, as identify with the relentless he explains to ANDY RICE and shifty breezes aUied with Choosing a cover image for Seal?orse each month big rolling seas. Although has been a lot quieter since the demise of the Emirates TNZ picl^ed up magnificent Orma 60 trimarans. Now mukihull 45 Design where they left off last year, designers VPLP have a plan to bring them 'back' wiiming the opening event, - A bold (and promising) step a good performance was Based upon what his office has been learning flattered by the strong 40 Similar but (very) different during their America's Cup research, designer breezes in which this With an increasing number of Imoca Open 60s JASON KER believes that some of those popular powerful Botin & Carkeek now being built outside France, production assumptions about IRC are about to be rewritten design excels. But down the manager on two recent builds, ALAN BOOT, order there was renewed looks at structuring these complex operations optimism in Cascais, with and at comparisons with other larger raceboats 48 5eate6 build table older TP52s benefiting from a modest increase in bulb size -Fresh thinking this season as the class moves GUY WHITEHOUSE certainly subscribes to towards a new rule next year. REGULARS Seahorse's well-known concerns about the As design has evolved in this escalating costs of smaller raceboats... and now class so hulls have become 4 Commodore's letter he has done something (very clever) about it more powerful, extra wetted ANDREW MCIRVINE surface offset by gains in rigs and sailing technique. So 7 Editorial 50 RORC news older boats began to lack EDDIE WARDEN OWEN power up-range against their ANDREW HURST newer rivals; now the balance seems to have been redressed 66 56a^0r56 regatta calendar slightly and in the lighter 8 Update Mediterranean breezes the Bienvenue young JESSICA WATSON, TERRY best-sailed older boats should HUTCHINSON in Cascais, PHIL JONES 67 Sailor ofthe Month score well. Meanwhile, less preaches tough (Olympic) love to ISAF and Beauty and the beast(s)... you expect nothing less subtle than the changes to the TP52s are the radical Now they go modifications made by Alex upwind too... Thomson to the former three ofthe Pindar (inset), the powerful world's fastest Juan K design that Thomson Imoca 60s at surprised many observers the Grand Prix by purchasing last year to de Douarnenez, replace his fast Finot design. including Thomson judged this most Vincent Riou's powerful Open 60 to be the brand new best solution to exploiting Verdler-VPLP grandfathering clauses in the design PRB. revised Imoca rule. He has Guillaume also, obviously, maximised Verdier himself the twin-coachroof concept, had plenty to pushing his new cuddies to celebrate at the the gunwale - with a look event with wins that is now more reminiscent in the growing of an oceanic multihull... Class 50 trimaran fleet, the Class 40 COVER: Chris Cameron (1st and 2nd INSET: Mark Lloyd places) and the Imoca Open 60! [ItftliWJitiMI September 2010

FEATURES Auckland, HAROLD BENNETT is still smiling, McConaghy widens the net (further), MCfNTYRE 27 Silent heroes-Part II gets his yacht back and the ever more complicated The story of BMW Oracle's wing rig was surely Newport-. PATRICE CARPENTIER, also the story of the 33rd America's Cup itself. TVOR WILKINS, CARLOS PICH, ROB The team's build directors TIM SMYTH and MUNDLE and DOBBS DAVIS MARK TURNER pick up a remarkable story 20 Paul Cayard 33 Obsession AC34 - still a lot to decide and it certainly ain't No other way to describe it... as JOCELYN going to be cheap... but definitely so far so good BLERIOT talks trimarans with CHARLIE CAPELLE! 22 IRC column Buried In fact, Andres Soriano's JAMES DADD explains the logic Alegre finislied third out of 36 Turn ofthe tide? behind the rule... 203 entries in IRC in this The best CFD tools are in no way year's Giragha Rolex Cup to cheap but they are fast. Fast enough 24 Olympic and small boat add to a healthy run of silver to be an affordable solution for for the Mark Mills-designed smaller design firms? KAI GRAF news - New look 68-footer since she was first believes it is the tank and the wind ^he CLARKE and BJORN team are launched in 2008. In top spot doing a good job of selling the new PStar. in what was a walkover for tunnel that are now looking expensive the big boats was Neville Plus LYNN FITZPATRICK catches up with Crichton's latest Shockwave, Australia's... VICTOR KOVALENKO ahead of Udo Schutz's STP65 40 Ten years!-Part II Container. But although the PETER JOHNSTONE describes development of boats are outstanding and the Gunboat's rapid-looking new NIGEL IRENS 44 Design racing continues to be 60-footer and also offers an early taster of a - Gaining (serious) credibility competitive, as a class the mouthwatering trimaran that he has on his desk HUGH WELBOURN's Dynamic Stability Mini Maxis are now stopped System has just moved up a notch as LOUAY in the water. There are no REGULARS new raceboats in build at HABIB discovers present and the only growth 4 Commodore's letter is coming from a handful of ANDREW MCIRVINE heavier cruiser racers along SeahorsehuM tnhle for the 'crack'. It seems - Style and substance? remarkable after the early 7 Editorial GIULIANO LUZZATO talks to leading Italian expansion of the class from ANDREW HURST designer MAURIZIO COSSUTTI 2007 to 2009 but, as has happened before in a fleet made up of (major) personal 8 Update 50 RORC news success stories, a consensus Independence Day with the HUTCHINSONS, on how to move forward as a - More sailing less sitting NIGEL IRENS finds new uses for those Orma 60 group seems impossible to EDDIE WARDEN OWEN on the rapid growth moulds, BLUE ROBINSON discovers goodness achieve. There is currently no of interest in two-handed offshore racing official size limit for the class, among the crush, DON STREET and a 53-year without which, of course, no partnership. Plus DOBBS DAVIS on rating chat! one is ever going to commit 66 Seatee regatta calendar to starting a new boat. It seems incredible that even 12 World news when a former supermaxi Sending out an SOS, a new boat for Le Président, 67 Sailor ofthe Month owner like Crichton has the unbeatable Safran, Elliott 7s launched in Same racing team... but very different skill sets endorsed the 'smaller' boat class in search of better competition, what is only a Left: Taking no tiny group of people cannot prisoners here is resolve the situation. Sadly French solo for everyone else involved, skipper Fred this is only a repeat of exactly Rivet, flat out the same problem that has downwind on his frustrated every previous Marc Lombard- effort to create a fleet of large designed Figaro 2 one-designs, from the ID48s during the recent to the Adecco 80s and even Quiberon Solo extending more widely to the (formerly the stiUborn maxZSés and most Course des recently the STP65 class. The Falaises). During fact is the type of individual a lighter moment who can afford to play on {inset) but under this scale will never - ever - no less pressure be told what to build. Great was former Mini shame, the boats are terrific... 6.50 star Isabelle Joschke, here trying to untie COVER: Kurt herself having Arrigo/RoIex attacked this INSET: Gilles rounding mark Martin-Raget just a little too aggressively... [ItffTBnnn October 2010

FEATURES 12 World news The first M34s for the Tour Voile roll out of the 29 Rules of engagement (3) door, CAMA/fAS's solo mission, the complete DAVE HOLLOM is not the only one wondering (Italian) sailor. Kiwi glories going unrecognised... whether the America's Cup defender is chasing battle lines form for a new 'mini' MedCupper and the right targets in exploring sailing for TV JULIAN BETHWAITE attempts to clear his desk. Plus an American studies the Copa del Rey and sees 32 Equipping the troops good things. PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, GIULIANO LUZZATTO, CARLOS -Parti PICH, ROB MUNDLE and DOBBS DAVIS Having looked at the design and build of BMW Oracle's mighty USA we move 20 Rod Davis Timeless onto the development of the deck gear And why is everyone staying so polite Plenty of familiar faces from required by the 2010 Cup rivals. the racing community could MARK WISS and ANDREA about the total lack of public progress be seen working the old girls MERELLO of Harken talk to forthe next Cup? awfully hard at the British DOBBS DAVIS Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes regatta this summer. 22 ORC column Unusually and going a little 36 Champion ALLESANDRO NAZARETH argues beyond the call of duty, DR YANN ROUX of K-Epsilon and that there is little evidence (so far) of Italian watchmaker Panerai designer MARTIN FISCHER review two typeforming in ORC have also invested directly in studies in the use of CFD for optimisation and the classic fleet itself, their problem-solving on performance multihulls stunning restoration of the 24 Olympic and small boat news 1936 Fife ketch Eileaii no - Old Master doubt causing the company's 40 Damn fine effort bean-counters plenty of WOLFGANG FfUNGER took his fourth 505 It looks increasingly likely that the goal of anxiety as the bills arrived world title in Denmark, plus a look at the with predictable regularity. 20 Class 40s being on the line for the start of the technology contest with ANDY RICE Then, allowing those same next Global Ocean Race will be met. We talk guardians of the finances no to the event's co-founder JOSH HALL respite, the Panerai Classic 45 Design Yachts ChaUenge was itself -Looking after number one extended this year to a total 42 Behind the veil BRIAN BENJAMIN never planned to become a of nine events. The classic HUMPHREY CARTER starts to distinguish composite boatbuilder, but then hfe is sometimes yacht restoration industry is the myth from the reality about the uses for like that... as he explains to LOUAY HABIB surely a modern-day miracle nanotechnology in performance yachting circles that one day will see Harvard students using it as a case study. Barely 20 years ago 48 56a/r0r56 build table the great majority of today's REGULARS - Powering up a dancing bear classic fleet were rotting TORBJ0RN LINDERSON takes some ofthe away in mud-berths, used as lessons from the latest 50ft grand prix tri and houseboats, or simply piles of 4 Commodore's letter barely recognisable timbers ANDREW MCIRVINE finds them an unexpected new home... at the back of some low-rent yard. Many a romantically 7 Editorial 50 RORC news inspired skipper and family went broke attempting to ANDREW HURST -Got there in the end save these pieces of 3D art while the big money went on 8 Update motor yachts. Then came the EDDIE WARDEN OWEN hydrauhc systems that MATHEW BELCHER and MALCOLM PAGE prompted a new generation consolidate a fierce Olympic challenge for of modern superyacht. This London 2012, ANDY HEMMINGS thinks 66 Seahorse regtittdi calendar was followed, inevitably, by it's time for the TP52s to man up and TERRY those able to afford such HUTCHINSON gets back to work... 67 Sailor ofthe Month boats casting about for something more interesting Paying due tribute to perseverance... and the classic yacht industry There's wings started to roll. Then came the and there's technology boom, and with it wings... The enough new money - for a American-owned while at least - to ensure the Interlodge (left) at restoration industry exploded Cork Week this exponentially as it struggled year, the former to meet the dramatic spike in TP52 having demand. Many fine vessels as grown these c well as many wonderful old hiking wings • skills have been revived and under [RC. [ preserved as a result. And IVIeanwhile, the j that is a very good thing... class that looks a c decent bet to F replace the GP42 • COVER: Ingrid Abery in next year's > INSET: Kurt IVledCup, the Soto ^ Arrigo/Rolex 40 {inset) has ^ worn Its wings c from the start... ; FEATURES 12 World news Records tumble in the Mini 6.50s, Peyron (L) and 26Quicklier 'JP' get ready, Class 40s set to dominate the Rhum, It's getting towards the autumn and so BUDDY the multi show comes early to Auckland, another MELGES's mind is moving from scows to duck Hamo trailblazer, plus larrikins... and CAM hunting... plus a little high-speed iceboat racing. LEWIS on the Litde America's Cup. PATRICE After all, being 80 doesn't mean slowing down, CARPENTIER, FVOR WILKE^S, CARLOS as he explains to his good friend BILL GOGGINS PICH, ROB MUNDLE and DOBBS DAVIS

30 A most important occasion 21 Paul Cayard -Parti So here we go for America's Cup 34. But those cost controls... are they really going to do the job? Wow! A few days after the Little America's Cup in That was some event, with Newport the plans for a wing-sail America's ironies and analogies to be Cup class were confirmed. STEVE 22 IRC column found wherever you turned. KILLING has drawn the last two LAC winners JAMES DADD offers encouragement about the The 2010 Litde America's and he kicks off a detailed look at the genre future prospects of lighter boats under IRC Cup, raced in wing-masted cats of the exact type - albeit at a smaller scale - that was 38 Equipping tlie troops 24 Olympic and small boat news just about to be confirmed for the next America's Cup. -Partn -Time sensitive The LAC challenger was The 33rd America's Cup pressed iHow did it all happen so fast... another technically Austrahan pretty hard against the edges of the wing story as LYNN FITZPATRICK although all present were in technical envelope; so DOBBS catches up with ADAM MAY (of no doubt that the team were DAVIS finds out if 'trickle down' TeamOrigin...) about development employed by the current still really means anything... of the solid rig (left) for his foiler Moth America's Cup holder. The well-tended lawns of the yacht club that had held the 41 Standing her up 46 Design 'serrior' Cup uninterrupted In every sense the 60m carbon ketch Panamax is for 132 years were now being - Step in the right direction a mighty undertaking. Composite engineer ROD worn out by the crowds of RUNAR STEINSEN not only agrees with us hopeful Cup sailors, FOGG looks at one of the hardest aspects of the about the urgent need for some more accessible designers, builders and programme... the boat's (giant) hfting bulb keel performance designs, but up in Iceland he has engineers in town to get got on and done something impressive about it themselves more up to speed with the 'new' technology that was already being REGULARS 48 5ea/r0r5e build table heavily tipped for AC34. Experienced C-Class hands in 4 Commodore's letter -Getting under the skin Newport were also deriving ANDREW MCIRVINE STEFANO BELTRANDO offers an alternative discreet satisfaction from to thermal imaging for composite inspections hearing monohull designers of repute make claims about 7 Editorial the ease with which expertise ANDREW HURST 50 RORC news could be transferred. It can, - Record challenge but it won't be easy and 8 Update inside help will be essential if pitfalls are to be avoided TERRY HUTCHINSON is not alone in EDDIE WARDEN OWEN - look no further than wondering what happens next, (more) Alinghi 5. Nice payback too grumblings about 'class' from the maxi fleet, for the catamaran designers PETE MELVIN is a man in a strong position, 66 56a/7or5e regatta calendar and 'wingnuts' who have was beating BEN AINSLIE such a smart move, struggled away for years, and JOHN BERTRAND finally gets the crown 67 Sailor ofthe Month fuelled mainly by enthusiasm, to find themselves suddenly Respect for your (fast) elders... Brave: Servane at the centre of things. Many Escoffier is the will be getting phone calls latest In the soon; others may bemoan the family to tackle fact that a once quiet area of the Route du experiment is exploding in Rhum, raising interest and investment. Like backing from the foilers, who struggled for St Malo to refit so many years to be noticed, this Gilles Oilier wings are about to be the 72-footer built for story. Let's hope that Philippe Jeantot, somewhere a Chinese, who flipped her in Korean or other producer of the 1984 OSTAR. large blow-moulded parts The powerful cat sees an opportunity to make has been heavily some money and so help the updated after a little guy to be a part of it all lengthy Interval, working in the COVER: Christoplie charter business, Launay but this will be INSET: Chambers/VOR extremely hard work nonetheless S*j«liW:1i^iL4 December 2010

FEATURES 12 World news It's winning headhnes but the jury is giving mixed 24 A most important occasion reviews to the new-look Cup, Farr Yacht Design -Partn enter the Class 40 with a vengeance... CARLOS Twice a Little America's Cup-winning designer PICH remains a Flintstone fan, and it's San of wing-masted C-Class , no wonder Francisco all the way, says ROB MUNDLE... after all sorts of people have recently been after extra alarming IAIN MURRAY. With FVOR WILKINS, copies of STEVE KILLING'S Seahorse articles... PATRICE CARPENTIER and DOBBS DAVIS

28 Rules of engagement (4) 18 Rod Davis DAVID HOLLOM has not been seduced by talk Life in the Emirates Team New Zealand crew house... where you j ust gotta stick to the rules Splash of a 'new fairness' in the America's Cup planning There was reassurance for team boss Grant Dakon in 330uicklier-Partll 20 ORC column Cagliari when Emirates TNZ ALESSANDRO NAZARETH wrapped up their second If you thought was consecutive MedCup tide remarkable driving a raceboat, you need to before packing their TP52 off see how he is spending his retirement 22 Olympic and small boat news to its new Australian owner. Development is also going = Flipping tacks well on the new VO70 for 36 Not SO mad IAN WALKER is about to embark on Camper's Volvo campaign A quiet and thoughtful man, but a his second Volvo Ocean Race; and it's that TNZ is ruiming - to be tough, ingenious and determined all a long way from the wire of a 470, laimched in April. Much less competitor, JOCELYN and as he explains to LOUAY HABIB certainty surrounds the LENAIC BLÉRIOT pay tribute to team's America's Cup plans. Royale Iï skipper Loïc Caradec (right) The former Alinghi team 46 Design and BMW Oracle aside, the Emirates Team New Zealand 40 The biggest show in town - The camera doesn't lie brand thrives on the back of At last those big, colourful stripes on grand prix PATRICE CARPENTIER picks out some ofthe one of the best sailing teams sails have been given more of a scientific purpose, highlights among the 87 boats and their solo in the world, with results to says Auckland University's DAVID LE PELLEY match. Though the Cup was skippers who are racing the 9th Route du Rhum once the raison d'être for his team, Dalton will not rush REGULARS 48 5ea/ror56 build table into something that may go -Secret weapon badly. That said, if just some of the dock-talk has 4 Commodore's letter One of the very best-scoring boats at this year's foundation, then several of ANDREW MCIRVINE Rolex Commodores' Cup was also one ofthe the world's best multihull oldest IRC designs. JOHN CORBY designers and engineers are already studying the real 7 Editorial estate pages of die New ANDREW HURST 50 RORC news Zealand Herald. So Dalton - Warmer climes moved swiftly to secure the 8 Update technical talent for a multihull challenge, but we After a long period of doubt TP52 class manager EDDIE WARDEN OWEN have it on good authority ROB WEILAND has something to celebrate, as that most if not ah those now does TERRY HUTCHINSON. Jogging the being recruited are on the memory bank with BRUCE KIRBY and DENNIS 66 Seahorse regatta calendar shortest of contracts, many a CONNER, plus discusses month at a time. Without 'nation-hunting' with LYNN FITZPATRICK securing a great deal of 67 Sailor ofthe Month money (at least €80 million), Old(er) hand versus the young pretender TNZ's head knows that he The contrasts in ^ will not stand a chance of In g even looking competitive 2010 continued to S against a BMW Oracle team astonish. Bora % that combines a three-year Gulari shows off g headstart with access to the the robustness of cE largest war chest ever seen in his Moth's new s the Cup. Oracle also have, or wing sail (fop), ^ in terms of encouraging built in just one challengers it may be better week by Object to say they are accursed with, 2 Skiff Works in the leadership of Russell Toronto, and the Coutts - with his 100 per editor's all-time cent track record in the Cup. favourite classic Dalton never goes anywhere (theWally 143 for the 'crack'; it really will Esense tops his be a case of no cash no splash other shopping S list), the schooner S COVER: Sander Van Der Creole (below) p Borch goes head to < INSET: Christophe head with Atlatitic | Launay off St Tropez. '5 Where else? a