FEATURES
High and dry?
FABIO TACCOLA
A gentleman’s game
ROB WEILAND owns up to some of the rules, lessons and pitfalls when trying to look after everyone’s interests in a top owner-driver class
It’s ‘Monsieur Goodchild’, actually
And Monsieur Goodchild is doing very well, thank you very much. JOCELYN BLÉRIOT talks to the British-born skipper who won the 2021 Ocean Fifty Pro Tour title about breaking into the world’s toughest ocean racing community
Prepared to look stupid – Part I
SEAN LANGMAN is now literally a fixture in Australian ‘water world’. BLUE ROBINSON finds out why
Parachuted in – Part I
No one really knew where Douglas Dixon DSO RN had come from but they soon saw where he was planning to lead them. CLARE MCCOMB
TECH STREET
DESIGN
Beauty!
And Farr Yacht Design are back at the sharp end
Foiling into the future
King Marine have really done it this time...
A winning formula, improved
MATTEO POLLI’s latest GS40 is as pretty as you’d expect. And it is also (obviously) very fast
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
JAMES NEVILLE
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
Why simulators are going to be everything when the next America’s Cup lead-up really starts moving, hitting the ground running in Baiona, when a one design is anything but, remembering Perth icon PETER BRIGGS. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON, DAVE HOLLOM
World News
Mid-Atlantic diary, and why 2022 is all about the sargassum, building a racing masterpiece, and then building a business, Team New Zealand... where the rubber really does hit the road. Plus ‘racing’ (or rather surviving) to Alaska. PATRICE CARPENTIER, ØYVIND BORDAL, BIRGER HANSEN, IVORWILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS
Rod Davis – Exponential
...or doing things that even out most recent yacht racing ancestors could never even have imagined
IRC – Simplicity is our strength
DR JASON SMITHWICK on the reasons why
TP52 Super Series – When a couple of seconds is plenty
JAMES LYNE, ROSS HALCROW, ADOLFO CARRAU, ANDI ROBERTSON
Seahorse build table – Trickle up
And where does IAIN PERCY find the time?
50 years ago
But perhaps concrete keels were not for everyone
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
This month two particularly tenacious candidates