May 2025

FEATURES

Best eaten cold
VINCENT CURUTCHET

Please think ahead
Why a consultation document for the 2027 Admiral’s Cup Notice of Race should be drafted and ready for circulation. ROB WEILAND

Just wow!
A race where some of the hardest things turn out to be easy, while the opposite is 100 per cent equally true! SAM GOODCHILD

An indelible mark – Part II
It was inevitable… DOUG PETERSON steps into Cup world and then he wins two on the bounce. JULIAN EVERITT tells the tale

C3 – and a tale of two artists
The best big boat we’ve seen for quite a while… JOHN RIISE spends time with free-spirited and brilliant yacht designer-builder TOM WYLIE

Look around you
For 60-odd years model designer and commercial architect ROGER STOLLERY has been driving forward performance. His friend and former rival DAVE HOLLOM describes a remarkable career

TECH STREET

Optimised for racing

Defending your skin inside and out

All together now

Raising the bar further

Will this new 45ft foiler be the missing link?

REGULARS

Commodore’s letter
DEB FISH

Editorial
ANDREW HURST

Update
A One Design production foiling 45-footer from one of the very few teams who could pull it off… GIULIANO LUZZATTO, GIANLUCA GUELFI, TERRY HUTCHINSON, JACK GRIFFIN

World News
A very fast blast from the past, as well as a very famous name, the return of the (quite) big tris, if you can move fast enough, have we found Britain’s premier all-rounder, precise navigation without so much as a sextant. Plus exactly why ‘Barcelona was so bonkers’. STAN CONRAD, ROGER ‘CLOUDS’ BADHAM, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, MAGNUS WHEATLEY, NEAL MCDONALD, PATRICE CARPENTIER

Paul Cayard – Two of the best
There’s the good and then there’s the extraordinary

ORC – Another new twist
DOBBS DAVIS AND ANDY CLAUGHTON

TP52 Super Series
And the boys are back in town at full strength. ANDI ROBERTSON

IMA – Heading home
After a very pleasant – and competitive – winter circuit in the Caribbean. ANDREW MCIRVINE

RORC – Nice warm start
JEREMY WILTON

Seahorse build table – Inventing a gap in the market
MARK MILLS

Admiral’s Cup
A future twist

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month