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Don't lose your cool
Good engineering practice, but now colour-coded indicators of thermal activity can be made integral for highly loaded cordage. JON MITCHELL
The laws of evolution
The older Imoca 60s will indeed be faster than the new boats at times… as GUILLAUME VERDIER explains to JOCELYN BLERIOT
Shock and awe – Part 1
(Some of) the C-Class has stepped up by several notches thanks to the arrival of Groupama. STEVE CLARK
The day after tomorrow
Why deck-sweeper wishbone rigs look like the way to go… plus son of Sailrocket. PAUL LARSEN
A sport of idiosyncracies – Part 1
Was there ever a more illustrious guest list? DOBBS DAVIS is introduced to the Pewaukee Blue Chip and goes sailing amid the corn fields
Hangin’ in (and going fast)
Not much cash, not much time but GRANT DALTON cannot be unhappy with his team’s performance in 2015 – as he tells BOB FISHER
A brief history
The co-founder of the Caribbean 600, JOHN BURNIE’s roots in the Caribbean regatta and race-charter scene go back a lot further than that
REGULARS
Commodore’s letter
MICHAEL BOYD
Editorial
ANDREW HURST
And don’t jump to any conclusions just yet
Update
Cost and self-reliance… now the debate gets going, TERRY HUTCHINSON kicks back… as his back kicks him and JACK GRIFFIN looks at the first AC test boats to go sailing and reflects on an unusually ‘average’ year for the Cup defenders
World news
Wünderkind FRANCOIS GABART does it again straight out of the box, PRB wins as Banque Pop ‘maybe’ throttles back, those Imoca 60 blues, scorecard Team New Zealand 1 America’s Cup media coverage 0, doing it for the kids, plus few rules (yet) for those C&C30s. ANDREW MCDOUGALL, IVOR WILKINS, BLUE ROBINSON, PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, DOBBS DAVIS
ISAF column
Young, old and just plain genius… gold medallist MALCOLM PAGE on the Sailing Hall of Fame
IRC Column
It’s all about the sort of ‘fast’ that we want to be encouraging. JAMES DADD
Design – Lighter and lighter
JASON KER led the way towards a new era of lighter mid-sized IRC racers and now he’s doing it all over again. Plus IRC-ORCi… not so different
Seahorse build table – Film star
PROtect have been at it again with a ‘super-film’ for the new AC50s. GIULIANO LUZZATTO
Seahorse regatta calendar
RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN-OWEN
Sailor of the Month
Visionaries and innovators… no question