FEATURES
Less boat more foil
ELOI STICHELBAUT
Race assist?
ROB WEILAND suggests we should be acting much faster to get ahead of the AI elephant
Tipping point – Part I
When an unknown, light but dramatically agile sailor named JOHN BERTRAND won his first Laser world title people looked up. When he won the Finn Gold Cup weighing little more than before… finally everything changed. KIMBALL LIVINGSTON
Prepared to look stupid – Part II
SEAN LANGMAN meets the noisy youth of Sydney… then he ships them south to Hobart. BLUE ROBINSON
Feeling pretty good
ØYVIND BORDAL always knew that out there somewhere there must be a better solution…
Parachuted in – Part II
Douglas Dixon DSO RN goes to war… again. CLARE MCCOMB
TECH STREET
DESIGN
Light in every sense
What happened when top Superyacht designer MALCOLM MCKEON and master boatbuilders MCCONAGHY BOATS put their heads together
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
JAMES NEVILLE
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
(Yet) another big win for our tame designer DAVE HOLLOM, nothing but AC40s for a while, unless you are Alinghi Red Bull (no, we don’t believe that price tag), the perfect 600-miler… and sorting out photographer JAMES BURTON’s little problem
World News
It’s tightening up at the front of the Classe Ultim, but FRANÇOIS GABART’S still stuck in court, JEREMIE’s skinny new Charal 2, the big Breton switcheroo, even 60 years ago the Kiwis were showing us the way, JUAN K’s biggest (Swan) yet. Plus back in action on the lakes. CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS, IVOR WILKINS, FRANCK CAMMAS, CHARLES CAUDRELIER, LEONARDO FERRAGAMO
ORC – Challenging the algorithms
The airborne 60 Flying Nikka is a handicapper’s challenge which ANDY CLAUGHTON was never going to walk away from
IMA – Tarte Tropézienne
Farewell scaremongers, hello St Tropez. ANDREW MCIRVINE
Seahorse build table – Clear intent
UMBERTO FELCI always knew what he wanted
RORC – Flattening the curve
RAY CHAMPION
Reality check
And, yeah, the floodgates they would open
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Race creator vs a sparkling (young) race winner