2 The Shadow Line
Whether you use paper chart and compass navigation routinely, or mostly see it as a back-up to GPS and chart plotter, its reliability very much depends on the accuracy of your compass.

8 - Book Reviews

Further Offshore

Croatia Cruising Companion

Cruise of the Conrad

Start Windsurfing

The Mafia Dollars

Channel Havens

Ship Construction for Marine Students (Fifth) (Reed's Engineering Series)

Powerboating Companion

10 Special Delivery
Would you like to crew for me on the delivery? Thomas asked.

16 ICAP Leopard Smashes Transatlantic Speed Record
CAP Leopard, the 100-foot super maxi yacht owned by Mike Slade, has broken the Transatlantic speed record held by luxury yacht Phocea. Finishing the 2925 nautical mile crossing from New York to The Lizard, in the UK, in seven days, 19 hours and 21 minutes, ICAP Leopard shaved eight hours off the existing mark, to claim her second world record in two years.

18 Volvo Ocean Race - Puma Launch il Mostro

21 Volvo Ocean Race - Interview with Ken Reed

24 Volvo Ocean Race - Puma Sailing Performance Wear

25 Volvo Ocean Race - The Crew

27 Tell Tales - Insure That Holiday Feeling
If you're not confident in your sailing abilities then insurance is the way to go, said Pepos, the Greek yacht charter base manager. His undertones of chauvinism and elitism were like a red rag to a bull and pre-planned decisions to opt for comprehensive insurance for the R2-million yacht were scuttled in a flash.

28 The Common Dolphins of Algoa Bay

29 Antarctica Cup Ocean Race
Russian solo circumnavigator Fedor Konyukhov returned to Albany, Western Australia, a hero, throwing down the gauntlet to yachtsmen around the world to better his 102-day sail around the Antarctica Cup Racetrack.

30 Roberson & Caine Launch a New Leopard
Robertson & Caine, South Africa's leading boat-builder, has continued a spate of recent advances with the launch of the Leopard 37 PowerCat at Cape Town's Elliot Basin in May.

32 Fisher@Large
Funny old things, the Olympics mused a friend of mine recently - and that set my mind racing over the developments of the past year. It had been one in which his words rang horribly true. The selection of the nations teams always leads to tears before bedtime, no matter what system is used. Even based on a single regatta, the outcome may be clouded, or why has the United States choice of women's windsurfer wound up in court?

34 Katrine Cuisine - Broccoli
Broccoli
I have included broccoli in the list of vegetables on board, although the only way it is of any use for passage making is for it to be bought fresh and then frozen. But, for its high nutritional value and bright greenness, it is a vegetable well worth the freezer space.

36 GPS Deathstar
Possible GPS problem
The GPS system is extremely reliable, but there have been problems in the past such as the Y2K and GPS date rollover; events that effected particular receiver models. It seems that an old problem has re-surfaced.

38 VDO Viewline Table Bay Week

40 Volvo Ocean Race

48 Cruise: Part 1 - Call to Adventure Across the Pacific
It is 8 April 2007, and I am on board a Continental Airways flight from London to Panama. Leaving South Africa to go sailing across the Pacific feels like I have taken a huge leap of faith. I have jumped off a cliff and left everything behind. The hardest part has been saying goodbye to everyone in Cape Town. My heart feels vulnerable. I am trying to just stay open; stay in the present moment.

56 The Artemis Transat Singlehanded Race
This is the oldest solo race in history, and was the race for which the venerable South African yachting icon, Voortrekker, was built. Created in 1960 by Sir Francis Chichester and Blondie Hasler, this race has attracted sailing legends over the past four decades Bruce Dalling, Eric Tabarly, Alain Colas, Mike Birch and many others, including Dame Ellen MacArthur. This year, the Artemis Transat brings together two very different fleets, the radical IMOCA Open 60s and their small sisters, the Class 40 Monohulls.

62 Letters to the Editor

96 Cox Comments

Speed & Smarts
66 Brainstorm: Upwind Speed Tips for Light and Heavy Air
67 Boatspeed: Work on Pointing by Sailing Faster!

Regional, Regatta, Club & Class News
68 SAS Model Yacht Champs

36 Shipmate Championships
On day one at Midmar the normal early morning breeze died before the scheduled start and at 10h00 the OOD, Dave Rushton, was pulling his hair out trying to lay a course. However by 11h00 it settled in across the dam wall and he was able to set a good course with the 13 entries starting together. The wind shifted slightly all day, but was always sufficient to ensure keen close tactical racing which is typical for this one design class. By the end of the day we had sailed 18 races and the three top boats were separated by only a few points.

70 Boating Lifestyle Brings Families Together
Are you working too hard and playing too little? It's time to shake things up and start working to live! Come see how, at the National Boat Show, featuring Dive Expo 2008 (NBS), and experience first hand the trendy boating and outdoor leisure lifestyle that is teaching South Africans how to play again.

72 EPIRBs
As a result of editorial in the May 2008 issue entitled Rescue from the Yacht Pamelou, the Regional Manager of ICASA in Cape Town has requested that SAILING inform readers of procedures in place, and responsibilities regarding EPIRBs.

74 VLC Winter Challenge
The VLC Challenge was held on the Victoria Lake in Germiston in May, with weekend winds ranging from light to moderate.

76 Mossel Bay - A New Regatta Centre

77 Sailing Fun in False Bay
After the success of the GBYC Gaul Regatta several weeks ago and with good interest from FBYC skippers for future sailing events, it was all systems go for one of the biggest fun events in these waters for a long time.

78 Fireball Designer Dies
Peter Milne, one of Britain's most prodigious designers of small boats, including the International Fireball, died at his home in Chichester on 23 May.

79 Middle of the Dam Series
A warm welcome to all the newcomers at the NKA MOD Winter Series races at the beginning of June. It was good to see new faces on the start line, and we hope our cruising competitors settle into the racing scene and enjoy it.

80 South African Yngling Olympic Sailing Team

82 Western Cape Roundup
At the Lake Deneys Yacht Club (LDYC) annual general meeting in May, Chris Phillips was awarded Honorary Life Membership in recognition of his lifelong commitment to sailing.

82 LDYC News

83 KZN Grand Prix Series
The fourth and final event in the KZN Grand Prix Series in mid-May was hosted by Point Yacht Club at their off-shore Vetch's Pier site. The earlier events were sailed at Island Sailing Club (registered with the ISAF Sail the World weekend), Henley Midmar Yacht Club and Richards Bay Yacht Club.

84 Governor's Cup 2008
Clipper Ventures Chairman and Philip Green Memorial Trust patron William Ward recently presented Sail Africa founder Craig Millar with a donation of £10,000 (about R150,000). The presentation, at the Point Yacht Club, took place onboard PGMT Clipper, one of the three L26 keelboats operated by Sail Africa to provide disadvantaged children from Durban with the opportunity to improve their life chances through sailing.

85 Clipper Race Creates Lasting Legacy for Youth of Durban

86 Frostbite Regatta - Wriggleswade
The Eastern Cape/Border, Frostbite Regatta was hosted by King William's Town Yacht Club in late May, and the poor turnout was, I think, reflective of the state of sailing in the Border region. There were three entrants from KWTYC, three from ELYC, and one from BRYC, which totalled four Laser Radials, one Standard Laser, one Mirror and one Sprog - with an Optimist sailor getting his first lessons in sailing in the background.

Industry News And Reader Services

88 Stow-a-Weigh. Industry and New Product News

94 Free Classified Adverts

95 Advertisers' Index