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Strike two!
Navigator of Australia II, design co-ordinator for Alinghi Challenge, and a lot in between, GRANT SIMMER talks to ROB MUNDLE

(Almost) a free lunch
Among recent innovations in 'grand maxis' and their like has been an almost unspoken move to embrace composite standing rigging. TOM HUTCHINSON reports on progress

Postscript
DAVID HOLLOM wraps up his recent detailed look at ACC hull and appendage design with an overview of the different design philosophies one can employ in an America's Cup campaign

Wrap yourself in electrons
The ingress of electronic navigation and communication tools onto raceboats has been overwhelming. BILL BIEWENGA looks at some key factors in using the new technology efficiently

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - Chris Little

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
TIM JEFFERY catches up with Around Alone winner BERNARD STAMM, CARLOS PICH reports from Barcelona, where there has been plenty of IMS action both afloat and ashore, and DOBBS DAVIS has been busy at the Troféo Locman on the Italian island of Elba

World News
Around Alone finish in Newport, a new boat looms for Emma Richards, Transpac preview, only modest carnage in the Challenge Mondial Assistance, Philippe Jeantot back in the news..., more new entry records set in shorthanded races, it's confessions all round in Auckland and sad news from Australia. IVOR WILKINS, TIM JEFFERY, PATRICE CARPENTIER, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Seahorse Letters
GEOFF STAGG suggests that there is an easy solution to the Rule Working Party's task

Paul Cayard
Team New Zealand's problems - began with the walk and the talk and were mostly self-inflicted...

Olympic and small boat news
PETER BENTLEY reports from another windy Hyères pre-Olympic Regatta

America's Cup news
Loïck Peyron throws his hat into the ring

Design - Pocket rockets
Two slippery little European swing-keel designs

Seahorse raceboat build table
This month Australian-resident Italian designer and boatbuilder DARIO VALENZA brings some Open Class technology 'back' to the world of model yacht design

RORC news

Seahorse Race Calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
And two tougher offshore racers you won't meet