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JEREMIE BEYOU
Life at 40
Room for one more at the inn... ROB WEILAND
(Still) the greatest game in town
Hello, Mr Bond... a new boat from the east and a ‘new’ crew put to the test. ANDI ROBERTSON
Suits you, sir
In very few years foiling has gone from being a single area of focussed development to a sphere of experimentation. ANDY CLAUGHTON
Coal face
Buying a new Mini Scow is not the answer in itself... just the first step on a complex journey JOE LACEY
The Figaro milieu
Be there or, well, at least be ready to get left behind. And this year an extraordinary influx of great champions of shorthanded ocean racing will only make your task harder, but potentially also more instructive. MARCUS HUTCHINSON
Fresh start?
Offering your best critical, high performance foils to regular racing customers is really not smart. CASPAR NIELSEN and ØYVIND BJØRDAL
Mr Rules
And not just rules, LUIS SAENZ could surely write an ‘interesting’ book of America’s Cup tales
Anatomy of a project
Take a detailed brief from an experienced client who knows exactly what they want, but nobody really knows how to get there... ERIC GOETZ
TECH STREET
Making the unfamiliar familiar
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
STEVEN ANDERSON
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
Update
Sad times –November 1969 and the first edition of Seahorse has just appeared. Now ANTHONY CHURCHILL who started the whole story off has gone; TIM JEFFERY and LUCY PUMFREY remember a polymath with Sydney-Hobart and Admiral’s Cup victories on his CV. Plus, just where is that Hobart race headed, who’s showing at the party and loving the mule. JACK GRIFFIN, TERRY HUTCHINSON and DAVID SALTER
World news
An Imoca explosion... VDH’s rearguard action, small race big challenges, Storm Trysail does not stand still, exporting a (rainy) Solent to (balmy) Block Island. PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, DOBBS DAVIS
Paul Cayard – Taking responsibility
Meet the chairman of the board!
IRC – Breathing new life
Last year’s combined offshore worlds in the Hague turned out to be a win-win all round and the benefits keep flowing. JASON SMITHWICK
Seahorse build table – Look behind the curtain
PATRICE CARPENTIER twists the arm of Pogo Structures founder CHRISTIAN BOUROULLEC
RORC news – Fastnet frenzy
EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
Seahorse regatta calendar
Sailor of the Month
Couldn’t be less similar but both are making an indelible mark (also less similar...) on sailing