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Revisiting the classics… while building on innovation
JOCELYN BLERIOT takes us on a lap of the new course for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race
Getting over it – Part 1
Two-time Little America’s Cup winner MAGNUS CLARKE reports on the staggeringly rapid pace of development in today’s C-Class cat fleet
A philosophy of change
BLUE ROBINSON catches up with current Oracle Racing manager, former Alinghi manager and Australia II veteran GRANT SIMMER…
Unconvinced
Foil specialist and now winning International 14 and National 12 designer DAVE HOLLOM thinks there is more to Oracle’s big turnaround than at first meets the eye
Filmless composite sails
OneSails introduce the 4T FORTE filmless sailmaking system
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
MIKE GREVILLE
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
It’s a wrap, with TERRY HUTCHINSON, ‘just make bigger cradles’, says MARK WEINHEIMER and the extraordinary Costa Concordia story with Italian designer GIOVANNI CECCARELLI
World news
(Many) bad hair days in the Bay of Biscay, Australia again in the Coastal Classic, government support for DALTS and BARKER, it’s almost certainly cats again for Oracle’s MANOLO RUIZ DE ELVIRA, and some simplified offshore regs from the USA. DOBBS DAVIS, BLUE ROBINSON, CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, PATRICE CARPENTIER
Paul Cayard
Plenty to celebrate about AC34 and an overdue return to the Star fleet… in glorious Nassau
IRC column
JAMES DADD pulls no punches when it comes to ‘gently’ overlooking the rules
Design – A mighty undertaking
JIM PUGH and RYON WARREN of Reichel/Pugh describe the evolution of their successful first WallyCento Magic Carpet3
RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN OWEN
Seahorse build table - Slightly stretched
DOBBS DAVIS looks at a Shaun Carkeek 45 that ended up a 47…
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Two great names in the sport