(ContentsM 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<eei structure began to worlc loose follow­ Cover: Ivor Wilkins ing a weld failure Inset: Graham Bantock (Contents February 2002 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.