FEATURES
Talk’s easy – Part III
ANDREW MACFARLAN of Red Bull describes the pace of development in F1 as composite engineering and manufacture struggle to keep pace with non-stop advances in aerodynamics
Modern honeycombs
Coming to a TP52 near you... PETER KRASS looks at recent advances in pre-formed and over expanded Nomex cores from Schütz in Germany
The long game
The SYZ&CO foiler project has been a slow starter in terms of outright pace, but this clever and well-resourced Swiss team is playing for higher stakes...
In tune with the times
The demand has been growing so designers AXEL DE BEAUFORT, GUILLAUME VERDIER and project director CORENTIN DOUGUET decided to respond...
Trick boards – Part II
Trim-tabs are becoming an essential development area for performance projects. But is this step-up in attention justified, asks DAVID HOLLOM
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
ANDREW MCIRVINE
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
TERRY HUTCHINSON prepares to go big cat racing for real, GIULIANO LUZZATTO greets the European arrival of the iconic Wianno Senior and DOBBS DAVIS gets to know some of the new faces behind the World Match Racing Tour
World news
THOMAS COVILLE’s rough start and MICH DESJ’s early shower, BERTRAND CARDIS aims for the skies... 2011 MedCup already on a roll, new AC45 cat impresses all who meet her, Hamilton Island and GLENN BOURKE survive Cyclone Yasi and PETER CRAIG wants some more help at Key West. PATRICE CARPENTIER, ROB MUNDLE, IVOR WILKINS, CARLOS PICH, VINCENT GILLIOZ and DOBBS DAVIS
Rod Davis
And things seem to be getting about-face...
Olympic and small boats news
– Turning point
ANDY RICE catches up with purveyors of fine wing rigs and very fast Moths, BORA GULARI, MAGNUS CLARKE and CHARLIE MCKEE
ORC column
Panayotis Papapostolou
Design – Modern classic
Though still developing ideas for Oracle Racing, PAUL BIEKER has got some time back to give us the boats that we have been missing, including an all-new version of a great all-round performer
Seahorse build table
– Multi-facetted
RODGER MARTIN and his engineering director ROSS WEENE really have turned out a silk purse... plus their ‘new’ 30-foot sharpie is looking ever sweeter
RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN OWEN
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Two particularly productive ‘young’ upstarts
Below: Three eras in performance sailing. Charles Currey (inset) rigs one of the first Fireflys in 1946 – the first mass-produced boat designed for towing. Two years later Paul Elvstrøm will take his first Olympic medal in this class. And (left) the AC45 hard wing cat sandwiches – in several senses – two New Zealanders training in their 470... designed during 1963
