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VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2001 7 Editorial 32 Encore le carrousel ANDREW HURST Cape Town was the setting for Volvo 2001/02's opening round of personnel 'alterations' and tech 8 Update nical protests. Plus a look at a tough opening week Hasso Plattner interviewed, Dee Smith and Ian on the race's second leg to Sydney. TIM JEFFERY Moore's Volvo Race diaries, Transpac speed lim its under review and the Volvo Ocean Race 33'Tricky, really tricky' organisation keeps a close eye on world events TYCO navigator STEVE HAYLES explains why Leg 1 was principally a triumph for rapid 14 World news Oh dear... reaction rather than forward planning Gammas takes the Jacques Vabre, VDH passes The keel fell off the second of the Horn, Le Défi find their sponsor, Bestaven Oracle Racing's old (1999) 36 The big Kahuna dominant in Mini Transat, as Chris Sayer plans AmericaOne lACC designs 12 MICHAEL ILLBRUCK took on the expanding his bid for 2003, NZL-40 goes offshore - and months, almost to the day, wins, Sydney-Hobart rescued and US yachtsmen after the keel fell off its stable- sailing and commercial activities of his father, Willi Illbruck, with gusto, going on to run a fast- play their part. FVOR WILKINS, PATRICE mate. Ironically, the second CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE keel to fail was actually off the growing multinational conglomerate, plus twin older of the two boats Volvo Race and America's Cup challenges AmericaOne built - though this 23 Paul Gayard may simply reflect relative use AT '^^^ of the two boats. Both designs p c URES winner of the last Whitbread Race thinks employed a keel fin terminated UrtCO more rather than less should be read into the at the hull, rather than the 3fl Busy fella first-leg results of the current Volvo Ocean Race through-deck fins of early ROB MUNDLE checks in with IAIN MURRAY, „'_ , lACC designs. While die through-deck structure is supe to be reassured that the former champion 25 OlyUipiC aUO SUiall DOat UOWS rior in terms of strength, it is designer and sailor of 18-footers is far from Apparent Wind Sailing - FRANK BETHWAITE now regarded as inferior bored in the absence of another America's Cup distills matter down to the Critical Ratios because of the additional deflection generated through the greater fin span (taking in 38 Slipping ahead 28 5ea//orse Letters the hull to deck dimension). A look at the history of yacht design shows that , Evolution, core tests and more international Interesting, that in model yacht many new developments at full scale were pre- support for the next Admiral's Cup design (see pg. 38) through- ceded by similar design innovation in the world deck installation remains almost imiversal. For Oracle of model yacht racing. Former world champion 29 AUIOriCa'S CUD NCWS Racing, the America's Cup GRAHAM BANTOCK reviews current trends ^^.jj ^^.^.^^ q^.^^;^ Auckland? Protocol meant their team's designers were unable to inspect the engineering draw 43 Flowing Part II 46 Design - Time bandit ings for the keel that failed 12 - Big Daddy MAURIZIO COSSUnrs Open 65 Cometa months ago. Given that such a In the second part of our examination of design composite structure becomes technologies, aerodynamicist PETER BRYANT 43 SeahOrSB raCObOat bulld table near 'invisible' to outside looks m more detail at today s most widely used inspection once complete, there was litde Oracle's engineers tool, Computational Fluid Dynamics or CFD nnnn could do to prevent the risk of SORORGnews a similar failure to their second boat. Thus, when the second REGU LARS gg Seahorse calendar keel failed, the crew's only con Freddy LOOI is the seahorse Sailor ofthe Month solation was that they were 4 Commodore's letter marginaUy better prepared. PETER RUTTER The way the Cup Protocol works actually counts most Maybe composites heavily against any prospective weren't so bad; lower budget (sic) teams, that Jean Luc Van Den will need to learn the maxi Heede celebrates mum possible from any old Halloween on his boats they buy. The other more alumlnlum-bullt obvious issue is one of safety. Vaton 85 footer, Had somebody died during Adrian, as he Oracle's latest misadventure, it approaches Cape is hard to imagine how those Horn on his east- who support the total ban on west round the technology transfer could worid attempt. Ten maintain a case. Or where they days later, and would have gone to hide. That after a successful said, why did both keels fail? rounding of the 'Lifing' components can hardly Horn, VDH had to yet be applied to keels as it rea turn back wiien sonably can to rigs? Can it? Adrian's i 8 Update VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2001/02 Volvo go American and see off the threat of 38 Pause for thought disruption. Race Diaries, Frank Bethwaite's new As the fleet returns to the Southern Ocean, via 59er (more next month), Nigel Irens goes 50, Hobait, rivals know that if illbmck's charge is to be Windjet breaks lOOmph - and looks to the water. stopped, it has to happen soon. TIM JEFFERY Plus ISAF starts to make its presence felt offshore 40 Leg 2 diary 14 World news A look at the highs and lows of the second leg Auckland comes to a halt to remember Sir Peter Blake, Davis defends his 'national' title, Ellen is the FICO champion, Kandler launches 2006 42 Routeing analysis Challenge, Peyron (Bruno) goes back to sea. Tour An examination of the routeing strategies the Sir Peter Blake Voile celebrates a big birthday, Hobart fleet The passing of Peter Blake fleet adopted, and a comparison of how they continues to dwindle (but not in stature), while a brought an end to the first part scored against the ideal. DAVID BRAYSHAW near-record Key West entry confounds sceptics. of a magnificent era for New IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, Zealand sailing. It is now DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE largely taken for granted that a 43 Still on top of their game winning international crew is RUSSELL BOWLER and STEPHEN MORRIS likely to have its quota of of Farr Yacht Design talk about how VO60 22 Rod Davis Kiwis. But remember that it design and engineering have progressed since the The Prada sailing director ruffles feathers with his was Blake's Whitbread win last race, and assess how their designs are faring pre-event tally for his America's Cup rivals with Sternlager 2 in 1989/90, on top of New Zealand's against their first real competition in a while Admiral's Cup win of 1987, FEATURES 25 Olympic and small boat news that consolidated his little FRANK BETHWAITE wraps up his current country's arrival on the inter series with a look af methods of performance national stage. Since then few 36 Making a difference sailing honours have eluded the IVOR WILKINS remembers Sir Peter Blake - equalisation, and at where to head in the future... men in black, but it was Blake a giant of the oceans in practically every respect himself who took his coimtry 28 Letters to the next pinnacle in winning the America's Cup in 1995. 47 86 and counting Some kind words from Brazil And that all-conquering cam ROB MUNDLE visits the Mona Vale factory of paign, which simply rolled over Australian composites expert John McConaghy, 31 ORG-David Lyons its rivals in San Diego, was not whose 1988 maxi Windivard Passage 2 'dis Skirmishing in Lisbon and farewell to 'fun-booms' simply a follow-on to the placed' a few noses, including several at NASA... previous efforts of Sir Michael Fay's team of 1992. Far from 33 America's Gup News it, Blake had stepped in during 51 On a roll Le Défi breathes easier, plus a subdued Auckland 1993, using his own (bor First it was 3DL, then no sooner has all the watches the first new lACC launchings rowed) money to keep a New noise over patent actions faded than North are Zealand challenge afloat, presenting a new mechanical sailmaking process, before going on to completely 54 Design - Small boat, big task rebuild a home-grown cam this time one that is oriented towards bringing paign in his ovm image. And moulded sails to small boats. DOBBS DAVIS MARK LOMBARD won the contract to draw the there were no personality- new Figaro Bénéteau 2003. Then the fun began driven distractions from the task of winning. No time REGULARS wasted while the 'boss' was 56 5eatee raceboat build table persuaded not to drive the 4 Commodore's letter boat, nor the typical internal PETER RUTTER 58 RORG news games of personnel selection. Blakey wanted Coutts to lead the boat - he'd watched him in 7 Editorial 73 Seahorse calendar 1992 and before that in his ANDREW HURST Philippe Facque is Seahorse Sailor of the Month Finn, and had reached the con clusion that this was the man for the job. 'The most personal ly determined man I have ever met', Blake said of his skipper. Peter Blake was a man who derived his satisfaction from getting the whole job done. His ego needed no artificial aggran disement. He loved the sea like few others'. But his leadership skills and his eye for persormel selection, and his courage to then run unreservedly with the decisions he had made were inspiring. Cover: Carlo Zach Berkowltz and Trevor Bayiis from San Francisco won a windy 2001 International 14 Worid Borlenghl/Sea and See Championship in Bermuda, at the end of November, on their modified Paul Bieker design. However, as much attention was focused on the continuing invasion of the class of rudder-foils, now variable in many cases, and used by the top three boats overall. We will have a full technicai report next month ritj.l^^jUL^M March 2002 23 Paul Gayard VOLVO OCEAN RAGE 2001/02 It's off to the Vovo Race once again for the 36 More of a boat race 1997/98 race winner. Easy decision really... No-one expects illbruck's fall from grace on Leg 3 to be anything but temporary. But it has certainly made 25 Olympic and small boat news things more interesting. TIM JEFFERY repoits Foils - can they be stopped? ANDY RICE talks to top small boat designer PAUL BIEKER, plus cur 38 Leg 3 diary rent International 14 World Champions ZAK A look at the key BERKOWITZ and TREVOR BAYLIS about events of Leg 3 the dinghy world's foil invasion and about how and when they prove effective 42 Routeing Full flight 28 America's Gup News Readers of Seahorse will be analysis Ben Ainslie leaves OneWorld and Oracle aware that the Australian DAVID BRAYSHAW stirs up the afterguard mix a little more International iMoth fleet has looks at the detail been active in the promotion behind some of the last and development of foils to leg's key tactical * 44 Design-Big fun improve racing dinghy perfor moments (see right) *!: Australian engineer MARK PIVAC is one mance. Now the mantle has \ * of the original innovators of foils as been taken up in earnest by the pirt*) ^ applied to small sailboats. Having International 14 fleet,i n partic 42 It's not over yet Ct>^*^^—irtk*^ ^ ftLl^ proved their worth on a series of Inter- ular, which as much as three ROSS HALCROW is one years ago was enjoying some \ -"^^M^*^^ f. fljC^ ' national Moths, he is trying to go one of the best known faces on success in using horizontal lift ^S-^^u ^^^^ better as he prepares to launch his new 12 ing foils on rudders, to reduce the America's Cup and off metre foiler Spitfire pitching upwind and fool the shore circuits. Now sail- water into believing these short coordinator for the illbruck but powerful boats were longer Challenge and trimmer on their Volvo 60, he 48 55a^0^56 raceboat build table than 14 feet. While 14 saUors feels well-prepared going into Leg 4 around the world have been tweaking and finessing rudder 50 RORG news foils, some of Australia's 14 FEATURES And IRM is quietly but steadily gaining ground fleet have gone to the next step, putting foils on both the rudder 31 Where now boss? 65 Seahorse Sailor of the Month blade and daggerboard. The In the second part of our discussion with Farr boat pictured is actually flying Franck got it! Next time John? rather than wave-jumping - Yacht Design, we talk to STEVE MORRIS about working with Oracle Racing and with note the relatively flat water. 66 Seahorse race calendar Foil development in popular JIM SCHMICKERS on some future options for classes such as the Moths and improving international offshore racing the 14s is especially valuable, since direct comparisons with known good performers are 34 Slipping ahead - Part 2 easily available. How fast such World Champion model yacht racer GRAHAM development is allowed to BANTOCK looks in more detail at what makes progress will probably depend for a successful One Metre design largely on the classes them selves, since rules limiting or prohibiting foils are already REGLILARS under consideration. Inevitably a good foiler will have a differ ent hufl shape to a non-foil 4 Gommodore's letter boat, so development will have PETER RUTTER a big price in obsolescence. However it appears that mod ern materials have allowed us 7 Editorial to move right to the brink of ANDREW HURST another big step forward in sailing performance. We should not stop progress too 8 Update lightly. Remarkably, top A look at the all-new 2003 Admiral's Cup, positive International 14 designer, Paul developments for IRM at Ford Cork Week, BOB Bieker, believes that foils could ROSS tells the story behind Frank Bethwaite's 59er hold great benefits for mono- and new ideas for skateboarders... hulls, even relatively heavy dis placement America's Cup boats, where class rules do not 16 World news prohibit them. Like wing-keels Twister nearly wins the Sydney-Hobart Race, in the late 80s, this could be a Davidson design scoops (vintage) Skiff regatta in Bruno Peyron sets out this month on his new attempt on the Jules Verne record. Part of the cost development that starts off very Sydney, le Défi cash the cheque, JMV's cup run to Peyron of successfully getting The Race up and localised, only one day to end neth over, Rothschilds shake up the trimaran cir up on production designs running has been to do little sailing himself. The cuit, Auckland debates the next Volvo Race and man who was the first to break the 80 day barrier, a promising second year ahead for the Transpac on his heroic voyage on Commodore Explorer, Cover: Rod Vaughan 52 Box-Rule. IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE will now put matters right. Peyron is truly a master Inset: Guy Gumey/DPPI CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE of big cat sailing - a read of Cam Lewis' punchy book on the Exp/orer trip is to be recommended (Contents KifJiHUiliklil new 12 metre foiler, Spitfire. Plus lACC racing VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2001/02 reaches San Francisco Bay ahead of the Cup... 36 illbruck threaten a race 14 World news for second... Team New Zealand continue to set the pace at the After a glimmer of hope at the end of Leg 3, lACC International Regatta in Auckland, while Kostecki's illbruck crew left their rivals in no doubt the scandal-clouds gather over Syndicate Row, De who was back in charge as the fleet reached Rio. Kersauson leads the Jules Verne Challengers away TIM JEFFERY reports after all, and reaction to the new Admiral's Cup format. Plus Peter Craig pulls off the biggest 39 Leg 4 diary success at this year's Terra Nova Trading Key A review of the most ice-strewn - and probably West Raceweek. IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE dangerous - leg that this race has seen for CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE many years Slipping away The resuks of Leg 4 of the 22 Rod Davis Volvo Race were so extraordi 40 Routeing analysis The hardest task in an America's Cup campaign? nary that illbruck must have Or two dimensions seems easier than three. 'Skippering the B-Team' been left thinking they had won the lottery rvvice on the DAVID BRAYSHAW same day. As illbmck's co-navi 24 ORG column gator Ian Moore explains (see 41 Report time Alignment is in sight at last as the ORC puts its Update) things could not have Two-thirds of the race distance gone along with weight behind the newly formed IMS 600 class, worked out better for the nearly half the available points. ANDREW one of the two classes that will compete at German-based team, their Admiral's Cup 2003. DAVID LYONS reports rivals finishing in almost HURST takes stock exactly the reverse of the order in which they had been lying FEATURES 27 Olympic and small boat news overall going into the leg. The Star class recently approved a major step for f-Ience illbruck moves seven points away from the rest of 33 The $64million question ward in the drive to attract an even wider interna the fleet, which in Uirn has Not since the Volvo (then Whitbread) Race first tional spread of competition. And also, perhaps, closed into a bimch that will introduced the Volvo 60 class has there been so to help some of its members to live a little better... inevitably become distracted much speculation over the shape of the subse with racing among diemselves. quent event, or indeed of the likelihood of it Still the most consistent threat 29 America's Gup news happening at all. One man knows (nearly) all Scandals, centreboards, chasing the to illbruck is Grant Dalton's the answers - ANDREW HURST talks to Volvo Amer Sports One. Dalton may Deutschmarks, two new boats for Dennis, Chris not have the fastest boat, but it Race chief executive HELGE ALTEN Dickson back in the news - it must be Cup time is fast enough. And Dalt's crew again. Plus an interview with GBR Challenge is second to none - especially in design co-ordinator DEREK CLARK the area of heknsmen (actually, 42 Another day at the office - Not! why any big-budget teams KLAUS-JÜRGEN HEER explains what you do started what was always going when someone asks you to build Juan 46 Design - Bang for the buck! to be a tight contest with a less Kouyoumdjian's outrageous new 35m, pencil- On paper, at least, the new Simonis Voogd Max than plentiful supply of world- slim, water-ballasted and be-winged monohull Fun 35 appears to offer exactly this in prodigious class helmsmen is a mystery). quantities. MAARTEN VOOGD explains Dalton is under pressure to make a big jump on illbruck in REGULARS the next couple of legs, to close 48 56a^0r56 raceboat build table the fight down before the 'inshore' stages at the end. 4 Commodore's letter Others are also under pressure PETER RUTTER 50 RORG news to at the very least bang in a stage win, so there is every Rolex Commodores' Cup gathers momentum chance of seeing a new name 7 Editorial on the top step of the podium ANDREW HURST 65 Seahorse Sailor of the Month in Miami. Kostecki is the Vive la France - encore! consummate series sailor, not a 8 Update man who needs to win by a lot Volvo Diaries take on an icy look this month, a - just to win. Hence a big 66 Seahorserace calendar margin at the event's halfway report from the first week's trials of Mark Pivac's stage, the equivalent of over one point per leg from Rio to Similar - there's a surprise. the finish, is a huge bonus. Limits on technology trans Over a long series the best-pre fer or not, the brilliance of pared entrant usually draws Team NZ's A/ZL-60 design ahead, and no race is longer could not be hidden once tlian this one. For those who the Cup started in 2000. want to see a close finish (and There will be many other that's just about everybody clones appearing in the except the illbruck team!) the coming months, however next leg is likely to be the most IVIani Frers deserves credit important of the whole race. for the short time it tool< to get the first of his two new Swedish designs on the Cover: pace against the defending Daniel Forster/illbruck Cup champion. The biggest Inset: difficulty in 'hiding' NZL- New Zealand Herald BO'S secrets was the bold ness of some of the new ideas it visibly employed winning the 'race' for Club Med. Plus Volvo VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2001/02 Diaries from DEE SMITH and IAN MOORE 36 On a bad day Ui^ finish... 2nd illbruck slapper John Kostecld left Rio having heard 14 World news his syndicate's plans for America's Cup 2003 were Orange looks strong in the south, Desjoyeaux's over. A blown spinnaker then cost him an otherwise PRB is off the market, Bayer launch new tri for Le flawless Leg 5 of the Volvo. But her 2nd to Miami Peutrec, Coville on 'the dragons', Dalton (the still leaves illbruck's rivals trailing. TIM JEFFERY elder) launches his turbo-Kingfisher, Hobart wid ows go for litigation, Rolex confirmed for Hobart Race, Macquarie lines up for 50 knots and a small 38 Leg 5 diary and routing review but finely-crafted Acura SORC 2002. illbruck's passage to the front of the fleet had IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, been majestic - for others Leg 5 was a disaster DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE On their way Although we are officially not supposed to 'have seen or FEATURES 23 Paul Cayard heard' anything during From Southern Ocean to South Beach can be CORM's recent challengers' 32 Into practice a smaller step than it sounds... practice regatta, it's fair to say KAI GRAF and ERIC WOLF directed a CFD- that circumstantial evidence based research programme for illbruck suggests that Russell Coutts Challenge focused entirely upon the creation of 25 America's Cup news and the original members of a superior VO60 keel bulb. Their report is a illbruck is out, Team New Zealand canardly wait Team Magic have done a swift good example of putting CFD theory into action to start (sorry), and that OneWorld decision: job of getting their new don't hold your breath. Plus BILL ERICELENS America's Cup team up to talks about comings and goings at Oracle Racing speed. Several of the designers 41 Party In the air in Auckland during the last DAVID LUGG and ALAN SMITH have attract Louis Vuitton Cup observed 28 Sea/rofse Letters that the 2000 Swiss Challenge's ed considerable attention since their foil-borne mulriple-appendaged beAPpy International 14 appeared on the cover of our Of models, ACC keels and dinosaurs... boasted a very slippery canoe March 2002 issue. Now they plan to move body. Courts' Alinghi forward another step - class rules permitting 3Q Olympic and small boat news Challenge has certainly per MAGNUS LILJEDAHL reports on a contest of formed considerable surgery on its old Briand design, as well as 44 Lift Off... youth versus experience at this year's Bacardi Cup putting it into a more regular Rumours are true, there is a new Maxi class in foil configuration. But even in the wings and it will be based upon the simplest 46 Design - A new lean green machine its present trial-horse mode the of box rules. DOBBS DAVIS looks at the launch Swiss entry (allegedly...) took Belgacom Sailing Team technical coordinator of the }naxZ86 class and at Bob McNeil's GREGOIRE METZ describes the creation ofthe plenty of heavyweight scalps in inaugural maxZ86 design from Reichel-Pugh the Hauraki Gulf. Some of team's new 60 foot trimaran Belgacom 2 Alinghi's crew work may not have been up to Team New Zealand standards (yet), but REGULARS 48 Seahorse raceboat build table Coutts and Co. did nodring to suggest that they are not still 4 Commodore's letter 50 RORC news the best America's Cup Class PETER RUTTER sailors in the world. Now the GBR Challenge return to Europe content with cat is out the bag the pressure their first season's work in Auckland will come onto the Swiss chal 7 Editorial lenge's design team to produce ANDREW FTURST two new boats worthy of their 65 SeahorseSnWor ofthe Month sailing team. They will. Tliis Wowie Howie - talk about a fan club!!! well-funded team has a pletho 8 Update ra of design talent available ROB WEILAND puts the case for his new Imulti- 66 Seahorse race calendar plus ample technical resource. rule' Judel-Vrolijk 60, Tracy Edwards celebrates There is also a good feeling of team ethos within Alinghi's technical department. The tal Luc Pillot (inset) is a ented Rolf Vrolijk is nominally front runner for the the group's name designer, but helm of Le Défi Areva there is no suggestion that this in Auckland. For the is anything other than a group next few months, effort with many other well- though, France's chal qualified names intimately lenge is basing itself involved - Grant Simmer, Mil C Update VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2001/02 2003 Admiral's Cup Big Boat band is confirmed, 36 Game, set and... Peter Gilmour on 'that' Cup scandal, Volvo Race When John Kostecki said in Baltimore, 'We must do Diaries and the sailing world mourns the passing better,' he had every intention of keeping his word. of Warren Jones - the man behind Australia II The price was extracted from his Volvo Race rivals who, after another dominant performance from ill- 14 World news bnick are now chasing the crumbs. TIM JEFFERY Orange hits the jackpot with a second Trophy Jules Verne for Bruno Peyron, AG2R Transat 37 Leg 7 diary report. Gammas delivers on his word in Lorient, Or how the nails went in one by one... Multiplast prepares for The Race 2004, no more Open 50s for the Vendée Globe, life in the Viaduct Basin gets nasty, euros aplenty in Elba, A second red SeaAorse 40 A tOtally gOOd jOb Kovalenko goes partner-swapping in Oz and cover for Bnino Peyron pQBBS DAVIS talks to BRUCE FARR and STEVE Kahn goes it alone. FVOR WILKINS, PATRICE And ths one was perhaps just MORRIS about what can only be termed their CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE a tad more easily earned, at r i, •< .^^ i • kast in the sai^ig sense, than successhil VO60 design programme Peyron's first Jules Verne 23 America's Gup news success some nme years ago 4^ ^gg 7 POUteing PeVleW with Commodore Explorer. DAVID BRAYSHAW The OneWorld 'affair' moves towards its (initial) Last time aroimd, just surviv conclusion as Team New Zealand weighs in. Plus ing the trip involved some __ _ _, . _ _ _ syndicate profiles. TIM JEFFERY extraordinary feats of multihull F E A I U RES seamanship, as Peyron's five- .^j >% , • • ,, , man crew, includmg American Ü I deen tfiere " QOne tliat 27 Olympic and small boat news Cam Lewis, constantly fought LAURENT ESQUIER, the world's best-known It's simply all a question of good communication, to tame their lightweight wing- America's Cup campaign manager, is now on his says skiff maestro ROB BROWN masted 90-footer, especiaUy second tour of duty with Prada Challenge when a Southern Ocean storm threatened to drive them onto i = i • P B I • 46 Design - No compromise dre Chilean coast on their 33 Lighter, faster. Ano strongBP GEOFF STAGG describes the new Farr 36 OD approach to Cape Horn. The Team Tyco sail designer GRANT SPANHAKE from Farr Yacht Design - which promises to be a story of'that gybe', as Peyron's and the Volvo Race sail programme... breathtaking, single-purpose machine... crew turned their bare-poled, constantly on the verge of cap- .n r„. \ha l^h size cat away from the coast m ri Ulll LIIC laU &a//öfS0 raceboat build table 80kt winds still makes chilling Behind each small 'tweak' to the f^ "'^'.-' reading - Cam Lewis's book of IMS VPP lies a great deal of effort, the voyage is recommended to JIM TEETERS i^r; 50 RORG news all Jules Verne aspirants... For '1^r•^^^R-; Some long-overdue moves on international this lap Peyron had horse- r% C f*t 11 ADC iferaft standards are finally under way power and stability in hand, .'^.F'. V.H. ."r.f? .''.V. ALAN GREEN drough saiimg a 110ft cat 4 commodore's letter around die world cannot ever T "I'V uHri 1 '»"•«•*" 65 Seahorse Sailor of the Month be taken for granted! But as PETER RUTTER Quiet but he's getting tougher with every day... Grant Dalton said of Club Med after The Race, "We were "J EditOrlal 66 Seahorse race calendar never worried about mrning A MPIP P W HT TP QT diis boat over', something that ANDREW HURST could not be said of Peyron's first lap - which was also the first time the magic 80 days was broken. However, it is not easy to see where these ulti mate round-the-world attempts now go from here. There is plenty of interest for The Race I 1. / 2004, widi Gilles Ollier's yard having a number of serious enquiries. But though 'MaxCat' campaigns cost a ftaction of a Volvo programme (let alone the America's Cup) the market remains narrow. Running costs are enormous and the éOft tris offer more iï^^ -J*^ exciting - and regular - compe- ' tition. But then they're not , - ' cheap either, and diere are more orders for 60s than there are boatyards to build them! Cover: Gilles Martin-Raget Inset: Actually, it's not the Caribbean al all - but Carnac in Brittany during the recent - enormous - Eurocat Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Regatta, which this year attracted more than 350 boats. The multihull culture runs deep in France, where youth clubs and sailing schools now place at least as much emphasis on two hulls as on one VOLVO OCEAN RACE 14 World news 2001/02 Fuji and Peyron (Loïck) win the 'Lighthouse' battle of 36 The right result attrition, Peyron (Bruno) Neal McDonald and Assa Abloy announces new Race Tour, pulled off a great Leg 8 win to keep Warren Jones remembered, Chris illbruck under threat to the end. But a Sayer - 'sheep farmer or ocean racer', confident and prepared Jolui Kostecki was not America's Cup batdes begin (on San Fran planning to let this one slip away. TIM JEFFERY cisco Bay), Jamie Boeckel lost from Blue Yankee. IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER, 38 Dee Smith - Race Diary DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE Late to the plate and with an unlmown design Amer 'Iliat's what we came for' Sports One finished feeling this was a job well done 24 Rod Davis - John Kostecki finally gets The Prada Sailing Director has some sage advice to lift the trophy for the for anyone going out there after the top spot 2001/02 Volvo Ocean Race 41 Reference point The last few stages seemed to In a light-air finish amid vast crowds and in plenty take forever for the quiet of summer sunshine, it is easy to overlook what this 27 Olympic and small boat news Californian and his efficient event is all about. PAUL CAYARD In the third part of his current series, former and fast team. After victories world skiff champion ROB BROWN talks to on die two opening legs, a win by widely tipped Assa Abloy 42 'Terribly unhealthy' North Sails' A4ICHAEL COXON about the latest into Auckland served Kostecki DR STEFAN BRANTH tells FFANNEICE developments in spar construction and sail design notice that there would be no KIJLSTRA the results of some of his ongoing 'Steinlageresque' clean sweep. research into the health of the Volvo Race crews While illbruck was super-quick 30 ORG Golumn reaching, the German Farr Braua Q8 and the new Grand Soleil 44 Wind design was proving no more FEATURES share the IMS spoils in the Mediterranean. than adequate in some other DON GENITEMPO and NICOLA SIRONI conditions, and the American skipper set to upping his game 45 Number 1 - Tom Schnackenberg mid-race, just as close friend There was one name at the top of every 33 America's Gup news Paul Cayard had done four shopping list after the 2000 Ainerica's Cup, but Money and time wasted as OneWorld 'versus' the years before, illbruck proved unlike many of his team-mates he wasn't for sale Arbitration Panel threatens to peter out, Laurie outstanding in every aspect of Davidson in trouble (again). Plus Défi Areva and the long-distance game, being Mascalzone Latino profiles. TIM JEFFERY notable for their crew cohesion 48 Refresher course in particular: a near-sinking on Prada mast designer SCOTT FERGUSON looks Leg 2 barely seemed to faze at some of the key elements and numbers 54 Winged Kiwi them. In a physically tough involved in modern raceboat spar design Graham Dalton's new Owen Clarke-designed race, with crew constandy Kingfisher development Hexagon has been flying switching boats, only illbruck in early trials. MERFYN OWEN reports and Amer One got through the REGULARS event vinthout an implanned change. And Kostecki's 4 Commodore's letter 56 Seahorse raceboat build table Olympic and America's Cup PETER RUTTER experience stood him in good stead when it came to making 58 RORG news the most of sail limitations. 7 Editorial And the Rolex Commodores' Cup and 2003 Certainly no other team ANDREW HURST enjoyed the scale of illbruck's Admiral's Cups are both steadily moving forward pre-race testing, but it was still notable that Kostecki's team 8 Update 73 Seahorse Sailor of the Month managed their sail inventory Final Volvo Diary from lAN MOORE, blasting Bruno scrapes it. Now the illbruck-Assa rematch well enough to be putting on across the Med with HOWIE HAMLIN on new sails in both La Rochelle and Gothenburg. This was a PlayStation, concern grows after man overboard 74 Seahorse race calendar close and evenly matched fleet, incidents in US and 2002 IRM championships exactly the type preferred by this self-confessed One Design It's not racing and enthusiast. Kostecki ground it's not carbon, out small gains wherever they but it's certainly could be found, and in the final about water and analysis had margin in hand definitely about around the worid. illbruck's spectacular approach was best summed up and efficient in the style of their outstanding engineering. Built navigator Juan Vila: don't in the spirit of always try for the best place Brunei, the new - go fast and never, ever risk Falkirk Wheel being in the worst. links two major Coven Ricl< Victorian canals. Tomlinson/Volvo Rotation takes Inset: niierry seven minutes Martinez/Assa and each cycle Abloy/Christian Fevrier uses about the power of two boils of a kettle... [trfiliWJi^ifc^September 2002 FEATURES red socks onboard but not for sale at Team New Zealand, Shockwave heads to Hamilton Island, 30 Low profile = major factor gaff skiffs to race in Auckland, Zephynis takes a DOBBS DAVIS talks to international match-race maiden win for the MaxZ 86 class and one more judge JOHN DOERR about recent develop for Pyewacket. IVOR WILKINS, TATJARNA ments in the discipline and how they may affect POKORNY, PATRICE CARPENTIER, the forthcoming America's Cup. Plus a look at DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE next year's Swedish Match Grand Prix Tour 21 America's Cup news 34 Nothing new under the sun - Part I Oracle fight hard to protect Prada from early With the dockside talk in Auckland all about dismissal (sic), and celebrate their two outstanding Now for the home game! forward rudders and variable keels, aero new boats, JOHN CUTLER interviewed, plus Dean Barker was extremely dynamicist DAVID HOLLOM takes a two-part syndicate profiles: Victory and GBR Challenge. impressive in liis three-nil look at the fundamentals of multi-foil configura TIM JEFFERY defeat of former mentor tions and discusses where advantages may be Russell Coutts in the final of identified within the confines of the ACC rule the Swedish Match Cup in 27 Paul Cayard Marstrand. After some patchy On Rule 42, America's Cup goings-on and performances on the Swedish 39 Knowing the ropes Prada's attempt to stay in the game... Match Grand Prix Tour earlier BILL BIEWENGA outlines some of the latest in 2002, many at Team New developments in cordage and soft-fibre rigging Zealand will have been 28 Olympic and small boat news breadiing more easily after 18 months after its appearance on the Olympic Barker's Marstrand result. REGULARS stage, US Yngling sailor CAROL CRONIN looks Widi diis year's ACC fleet all at the escalating pace of development in the class locked in one comer of the rule it is likely that match-race sail 4 Commodore's letter ing will play a bigger role in PETER RUTTER 42 Design - Expanding influence Auckland this summer than it CLAUDIO FASSARDI shows how a contracted did in 1995 and 2000. Of course, the same prognosis was 7 Editorial outside CFD consultancy contributed to the final made in late-1999, just a few ANDREW HURST design of JAVIER ACEBAL'S new high-perfor weeks before Team New mance 100-footer for the Mediterranean circuit Zealand blew the doors off Prada Challenge upwind, 8 Update down and across... Ben Ainslie takes the Finn Gold Cup at his first 46 Seahorse raceboat build table As the odds stack increasingly attempt, ISAF vice president FERNANDO against Team New Zealand, BOLIN comments on the raging debate over Rule 48 RORC news under the sheer weight of 42 enforcement, GBR Challenge head PETER New safety guidelines from London, plus a look dollars their challengers are HARRISON talks about future Cup plans, a look throwing at the Cup, the final at some of the potential pitfalls of the GPS system in Sweden carried extra at development in the IMS 600 fleet and the late anticipation as many expect Bernard Hayman remembered Coutts and Alinghi to be the 65 Seahorserace calendar pairing lining up against Barker and Team New Zealand next 14 World news Loïck Peyron going faster and faster (again...), a 66 Seahorse Sailor of the Month year, flowever, that view may One for the 'runner-up', plus two very different have looked more assured a confession from le Défi, France confident for few months ago, before Oracle Commodores' Cup, BMW go America's Cupping, candidates for next month's award BMW Racing moved into a higher gear with the arrival of their two new Farr-designed boats. Builders Richard Gillies and Tim Smyth have clearly turned ACC building into something of an artform with their two new female-moulded designs. One who should know also cautions anybody from betting against the work achieved over the past two years by Farr and the Oracle technical team. Certainly the computing power available to this team has allowed an extra ordinary amount of race simu lation and iterative design development, before the first piece of carbon was cut. But then there is always that final 'X' factor, which still seems rather uncertain with Oracle Racing. And maybe rather less so with Russell Coutts... This year's Tour de France Mumm 30 fleet lined up in Dunkerque before the start. The Mumm 30 has Coven Sergio confounded doubters by proving well suited to this rugged marathon contest - in particular the reliability Inset: David Thompson of this well-developed one-design sets standards other 'wannabe' classes still struggle to match. Inset: as foils move to centre-focus in multihuUs the ageing Hydroptère is attracting renewed attention «ilTOranH October 2002 LOUIS VUITTON GUP FEATURES OOSSANEN discusses the history and today's implications of the current Cup Protocol on 28 When the flag dpops... nationality. Plus a look at the first-launched of the After some 20 years of America's Cup reporting new Max Fun 35s from the Netherlands TIM JEFFERYS looks ahead at the forthcoming Louis Vuitton Cup challenger selections 14 World news 2002 Route du Rhum preview, more mast 30 The odds failures, Figaro and Tour de France are fought out A quick guide to each of the challenger candi to the end, America's Cup 'cold war' crosses the dates as well as a variable (brave) num \ boundaries, Rolex Commodores' Cup ber of points for each out of 10 reports, 'Hollywood' Roberts gets the Let's play for real hots for the 2003 Admiral's Cup, The sailors among Team New FEATURES Shockwave eclipsed by a very Zealand's youdiliil and Wild Oats at Hamilton Island. endiusiasdc squad must be 34 Faster faster Plus UBS ChaUenge breathes delighted to be able to start new life into match racing in work with the first of their new In the final preparation stages for this year's quadrenniel Amerka. IVOR WILKINS, ACC designs in the flesh, rather PATRICE CARPENTIER, than just on the computer. Route du Rhum solo Atlantic Whedier bluff or not, TNZ are classic, multihull designers DOBBS DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE also going to extraordinary MARC VAN PETEGHEM and lengths to conceal their new VINCENT LAURIOT PREVOST Rod ïlmm boat, stopping their tows some describe the evolution of their distance from the Viaduct And at long last it's time to put on grand prix designs over the past 20 those racing clothes... Basin to put on 'full-length' years modesty skirts. Bow-rudder, knuckles, aft chine, bulb- bow. .. if nothing else it's giving 41 Nothing new - Part II 26 Olympic and small boat news STEVE MITCHELL reports on his riotously everyone plenty to speculate Foil specialist DAVID HOLLOM develops last about. But TNZ's sailors successful trip to LA for the Nautica 2002 Star month's discussion of forward and twin-foils to sounded confident after NZL- Worlds with 2000 Finn gold medallist Iain Percy Sl's first outings, despite the look at the efficacy or otherwise of twin-rudder daunting resources stacked up configurations for ACC and 12-Metre designs against them as defenders of 44 Design - Taken for granted the oldest trophy in sport. Just Finite Element Analysis is very often mentioned in as early reports suggest that REGULARS passing: Australian structural engineer and mast Russell Coutts and Alinghi specialist PETER SCHWARZEL discusses the gave Oracle BMW a whopping 4 Gommodore's letter methodology behind today's FEA studies in their secret trials in late- PETER RUTTER August, so word was filtering out that NZL-81 is comfort 48 Seahorse racQhoat build table ably beating stablemate 7 Editorial NZL-60, the boat that won the ANDREW HURST 2000 Cup with speed in hand - 50 RORG news and NZL-60 is one of several 2000-generaüon ACC designs 8 Update to have been radically turbo- Top multihull designer NIGEL IRENS addresses 65 Seahorse rsiCG calendar charged to provide a better the realities that lie behind the numerous recent development tool for this year's structural problems in the Grand Prix multihull Seahorse crop. Even taken widi some fleet, Australia II co-designer PETER VAN 66 Sailor of the Month salt, such unconfirmed reports point to a fascinating contest, with upsets likely among a fierce challenger fleet and a strong defence looking proba ble. However, remember also that in early 1995 reports were circulating widely about the worrying lack of speed in test ing of NZL-32, the boat that went on to capture the Cup in '95 with pace that defence helmsman Paul Cayard described simply as 'too depressing'. Meanwhile Stars &C Stripes have taken their recent misfortune as opportu nity to slip a new bow on to USA-77, a move that would have been financially imtenable in DCs previous campaigns. Add in a well-fiinded Dennis Conner... and you get a great mix for the southern summer. Cover: Stephane Lamy/DPPI Caught in an off-moment, one of the rapid fleet of Sandeq ('pointed') boats raced by the merchants and Inset: Dick Hampikian fishermen of Sulawesi, a small island north of Java. These triple-hulled craft range in length from 5m to 15m and have regularly been recorded at speeds in excess of 25kt. A huge lateen rig powers the Sandeq, for which a 200-mile, four-stage inter-island offshore contest is the highlight of the annual race season (Contents December 2002 LOUIS VUITTON GUP 7 Editorial 30 Gatwalk hell! ANDREW HURST TIM JEFFERY reports from Auckland on Louis Vuitton Round Robin 1, which saw the action 8 Update afloat easily matched by that ashore LARRY ELLISON discusses future America's Cup plans... and DR MICHAEL GANAL of 32 They said it BMW talks about how to pay for them. Plus a ... and just possibly some of them may live stellar performance from an old FD 'salt' and to regret having done so rating comparisons from an active user OneWorld and Alinghi con 32 First thoughts 14 World news sistently made the running Route du Rhum preview, Beyou during Round Robin 1 of the RUSSELL COUTTS was reasonably comfortable with takes French singlehanded title, 2002 Louis Vuitton Cup VDH is off again, Excalibur Alinghi were always expected Alinghi's performance in the to shine, having gone unbeaten first round robin. Bad news enquiry begins. Wild Oats heads through a series of informal for his rivals then... to Admiral's Cup as Maxi own trials. Hiowever, the flawless ers head to Sydney to check her performance of OneWorld, out, Stamm dominates Around with a relendess combination 35 WOW! Alone opener, defence analysis of good pace and excellent sail CHRIS LAW has seen the future from Auckland and another Italian ing skills, sturprised rivals and - but thinks there are going to be Mumm 30 success. FVOR WILKINS, spectators alike. Many experi some mighty upsets along the way PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS enced Cup watchers were DAVIS, ROB MUNDLE expecting a less dian stellar performance from the Seattle 36 Happy so far? team, citing a combination of JOHN CUTLER has terrific job security, calling 24 Rod Davis 'unexciting-looking boats' the shots for Oracle BMW helm Peter Holmberg (from one rival skipper), which Suited-up and on the starting handlebars seemed to have progressed litde with boss Larry Ellison standing beside him and from NZL 60, as well as the Paul Cayard and Chris Dickson on the bench! 26 Olympic and small boat news disruption of Reevesgate, plus the financial black hole that FEATURES ANDY RICE talks to the UK's 'star' Olympic had temporarily put the brakes coach DAVID HOWLEIT on the team's plans 18 months 39 Sorely tested before. One reason the blue Given the increase in loads that stiffer boats and boats look less than dramatic is rigs bring to every America's Cup it is surely 22 SeahorseMers that they are indeed a remarkable that weight still continues to be restrained iterative develop pared away from deck gear and winch layouts. 48 Design - Fabled thingy ment of Laurie Davidson's pre PHIL ATFIELD (Lewmar) and MESSRS. vious ACC designs (they were DAVID LE PELLEY looks at the changing face - drawn too early for co- ORLEBEKE, MERELLO and GOGGINS and users - of Auckland's Twisted Flow Tunnel designers Phil Kaiko and Bruce (Harken) report on the latest developments Nelson to have had much 50 5ea/for5e raceboat build table fundamental influence). But it 45 Reality check - Part 2 seems that combined with MARK TURNER looks at the best way effective refinement (the boats 52 RORG news were the firsr pair of new-gen forwards for young shorthanded hopefuls eration designs to go afloat), a successful sail programme and, REGULARS 65 Seahorse race calendar above all perhaps, thoroughly developed crew work, the over 4 Gommodore's letter all package has been good PETER RUTTER 66 SeahorseSaWor of the Month enough to see off everyone to date. The contest with Alinghi promised to be OneWorld's toughest batde, but that turned into a non-starter after Courts' afterguard suffered a rare lapse of judgment in the time-and- distance department. The question for Peter Gilmonr's team now is whether or not they have enough development still in the bag to stay ahead. Alinghi have visible (albeit small) room for improvement in crew work, and Oracle have Hang in there, kiddo! so far seemed sttangely out of Left: Pedro Perelló's mode. Can OneWorld keep it B&C SInergia 40 up? TNZ did it in 1995, the Siemens l\/lobile Plastic Fantastics failed at the finished second at last in Fremande in 1987. The the inaugural 17-boat next rounds will be fascinating IIVIS 600 worlds in Bayona behind Cover: Tliierry Pedro Campos's Martinez/Alinglii fellow B&C design Caocret/Forster/DPPI Teléfonica MoviStar