FEATURES
This is meant to be easier?
FRANÇOIS VAN MALLEGHEM
Just thinking
ROB WEILAND wonders whether we might have got everything the wrong way around
Stuff of legend
Returning Seahorse scribe CRAIG DAVIS talks to eight-time America’s Cup veteran TOM WHIDDEN about a racing life largely spent whispering in DENNIS CONNER’S ear
How did we do?
Olympic coach of deserved repute JON EMMETT courageously blends preview with review, of the sailing at Paris 2024. Brave fella…
The tightrope-walking years
JOCELYN BLÉRIOT talks to La Trinité fixture MARC GUILLEMOT about pioneering, winning and surviving those frequently dangerous early days of the modern oceanic racing scene
Artfully, quietly, radically
CAROL CRONIN is surely one of the few people who could sum up eclectic racer, designer and engineer PAUL BIEKER so well in three words
TECH STREET
Getting easier, getting lighter
Different beasts – shared heritage
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
DEB FISH
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
America’s Cup 2024… and its new quite different racing rules, using all of the talent at American Magic, a sad and sobering safety check from BLUE ROBINSON. Plus there is too much bad stuff happening in offshore racing right now. TERRY HUTCHINSON, DOBBS DAVIS, PATRICE CARPENTIER AND JACK GRIFFIN
World News
How many more round-the-world races do we need? J/Boats’ Brittany party, come in No40 (with relief), even the Giraglia pros can’t stop the Lann Aël freight train, almost 50 but definitely not out in Lymington, a pragmatic approach to climate improvement, quiet confidence at Luna Rossa and barking your way up to Alaska… CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS, MAGNUS WHEATLEY, HORACIO CARABELLI, SILVIA MAS, ROB HUMPHREYS
Sam Goodchild
As mid-Atlantic dismastings go this one could have been a great deal worse
ORC – More or less?
And the great ‘weather routeing scoring’ discussion continues. ANDY CLAUGHTON
RORC – Prepare to party
JEREMY WILTON
Seahorse build table – The real deal
America’s Cup flashback
TIM JEFFERY
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Two champions, both with an eye to the future