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Find the good problems
With NATHAN OUTTERIDGE on the team BRIAN CONOLLY is not short of good feedback
A delicate balance
But TP52 and Maxi72 manager ROB WEILAND is just the sort of benign dictator to pull it off...
The life of a sails man
Of course there is a great deal more to three-time America’s Cup winner TOM WHIDDEN than that – as SEAN MCNEILL finds out
It had to happen
Reichel/Pugh make their long-awaited move into large offshore performance multihulls. TONY BEALE
Changing guard, changing philosophy?
As MARK TURNER settles in as Volvo Ocean Race CEO, race-winner IAN WALKER puts forward some thoughts about future editions
This game has changed
As the World Match Racing Tour follows the Cup onto two hulls, ANDY RICE finds that some of the old-school moves can still come in very handy
How fast?
BRUNO ZIRILLI and ROB WEILAND debate the battle for supremacy between TP52 and Maxi72
Growing story – Part 2
BRITT WARD, CHARLES BERTRAND and BRETT BAKEWELL-WHITE offer some designer opinion on the Dynamic Stability Syst
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
MICHAEL BOYD
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
With events slipping on and off the AC World Series programme JACK GRIFFIN looks at logistics and practicalities, PETER HOLMBERG is a big fan of ‘not broke-don’t fix’ and TERRY HUTCHINSON on filling the America’s Cup void
World news
The last pre-Vendée dance, Cowes awaits this year’s rosbif vs froggy shuffle, ‘Anarchy’ strikes in Auckland, Newport shrugs off those supposed rating dilemmas and skiff champion DAVE WITT prepares for the next (rather big) challenge. DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER
Rod Davis
Don’t expect to make too many friends when you’re in charge of the selection process for your country’s Olympic sailing team
World Sailing
Keep looking forwards. RICHARD ASPLAND
ORC column
And the world of offshore handicap racing seems to be in surprisingly rude health. DOBBS DAVIS
Design – Elegantly targeted
Two-handed offshore sailing is one of the biggest growth areas in the sport and so the Ofcet 32 shorthanded IRC racer is a timely new offering. YANN DUBE, ERIC LEVET and JOE LACEY
Seahorse regatta calendar
RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
Seahorse build table – Everywhere you look
ROLAND GAEBLER joins the foiler revolution
Sailor of the Month
Different eras but two extraordinary yachtsmen