FEATURES
Keep your head down
Getting organised
Range of boat type nuts… future plans secure ANDREW MCIRVINE
Counting blessings
Plenty to smile about… ROB WEILAND
Oops!
The opening night of the Caribbean 600 did not go entirely according to plan for the team on the mighty Fujin. PAUL BIEKER and JONATHAN MCKEE
Master designer – Part I
Surely you didn’t think we’d rush this one… JOHN ROUSMANIERE
Easier than ever?
Almost certainly not… argues BRIAN HANCOCK
Never a dull moment
CARLOS PICH sits down with our favourite maverick designer JUAN KOUYOUMDJIAN
Happy birthday
SAM DAVIES is no longer casting around to find backing for her third Vendée Globe programme
TECH STREET
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
STEVEN ANDERSON
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
The lady doth protest too much, a different kind of Cup ‘challenge’, painful lessons to learn and how to keep your chin up in Miami. Plus ‘those’ scows. BLUE ROBINSON, JACK GRIFFIN, CHARLIE ENRIGHT, MALCOLM PAGE, CAROL CRONIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON
World news
Imoca never sleeps, not even in Monaco… and Vendée 2020 is go, a (very) special kind of Kiwi, foil debate or head-burying… and confronting the issue. PATRICE CARPENTIER, BLUE ROBINSON, DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS
Paul Cayard – True champion
Sir Durward Knowles – his boat’s in good hands
IRC – Tangy prospect
Scrabbling around to find the right ‘big boat’ to race… JAMES DADD has an interesting proposal
Design – Clever stuff going on
Everyone’s foiling… well, not at all actually. But virtually everyone who is foiling today is relying on the same basic mechanics – which PHIL SMITH and JOHN ILETT argue are now well past their use-by date
RORC news
For some it was simply too much of a good thing EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
Seahorse regatta calendar
Seahorse build table – At it again
JO RICHARDS and GUY WHITEHOUSE can be relied upon to think up ‘interesting’ solutions
Sailor of the Month
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