Highlighting some of the most interesting recent innovation – and evolution – in boat design, boatbuilding, composite materials, sailmaking, equipment as well as major event organisation


43 (Noteworthy) trickledown


While as a sport sailing is not sinking beneath the waves under the weight of technological or indeed other broader benefits being spun off from the most specialised America’s Cup that has ever taken place, there is one company whose enthusiasm first for delivering innovative – and reliable – AC technology and then developing it for mainstream consumption remains undimmed


44 Zero tolerance


Already famous for the high precision of both their tooling and the boats they deliver, Persico Marine have been busy meeting two diverse but similar challenges. Having confounded the naysayers by rebuilding the destroyed VO65 Vestas to good-as-new condition in a very short space of time, the Italian yard has most recently been tackling the demands of building super-critical ACC hull parts for the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team, their even more critical foils… and all while at the same time completing a brand new VO65 for Akzo Nobel’s Volvo Ocean Race entry


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