FEATURES
Snorkel time
JEREMIE BEYOU
Floating butler
Bar-keeping and pre-preg… ROB WEILAND
The basics
Pragmatic thinking followed through with confident application is paying good dividends in Maxi world. ANDREW MCIRVINE
Extraordinaire
The exception that proves the rule? Whatever the underlying reasons no modern raceboat has proved as enduringly successful, and as enduring, as Idec Sport. JOCELYN BLERIOT, VINCENT LAURIOT PREVOST and XAVIER GUILBAU
A whole new language
Following the 2017 Cup Artemis took a major swerve and once the die was cast for AC36 there became no looking back. JOHN NICHOLLS and JAMES BOYD
Brazil 1-2
Wowza… this kid ZARIF is hot. Drops in to race the 2018 Star Worlds and wins, rolls on to the Star Sailors League Finals in Nassau and wins again. JAMES BOYD looks up from his parasol
Champion
JUD SMITH is the (mostly) gentle giant of one design keelboat sailing… racing and sailmaking. And in 2018 he moved aft in the J/70 to knock his previous skipper off his perch. CAROL CRONIN
Details
The last 36 hours of ALEX THOMSON’s Route du Rhum campaign got more than its fair share of airplay… though for all the wrong reasons. But the story was not as cut and dried as it looked to some of those observing. FRED AUGENDRE
A quiet year?
Olympic gold medallist and Artemis America’s Cup helm NATHAN OUTTERIDGE certainly expected 2018 to play out more gently… There you go! ANDY RICE talks foils… and the future
TECH STREET
Hard at it
North’s answer to the cable-less question
(Thoroughly) recommended
Remembered in (fine) style –Mike Plant
Way to go
Good race-winning tools can be subtle…
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
STEVEN ANDERSON
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
welcome return to Cup world and full focus on the new (old) boat (watch this space). Plus things that go crunch… during the day. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON and NEIL HARVEY
World news
Bits of boat floating everywhere… that ‘Ultimate’ question, FRANCIS heads back to sea (obviously), turning things inside out with DANIEL ANDRIEU and GUILLAUME VERDIER, ROB SHAW and GREG ELLIOTT back cutting wood again, the unstoppable GLENN ASHBY, plus BARRY CARROLL catches up on some much missed soapbox time. PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, DOBBS DAVIS
Rod Davis Objective>Gameplan>Execution
Keep it in the right order and it’ll work out fine
ORC – A place in the sun
… and you also get to take along your favourite toys (and pals) to play with. SHAUN CARKEEK
Seahorse build table – Something different
This one surely is? TOMMY GONZALEZ
RORC news – Novel
EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN drops the lead
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Put these two on a boat and it’s time to give up