FEATURES

A worthy feast
The 32nd America's Cup in Valencia got off to a flying start with the successful conclusion of Louis Vuitton Acts 2 and 3. As did Grant Dalton's 'new' Emirates Team New Zealand

Another league
With his fifth Olympic medal, won in Athens, TORBEN GRAEL has elevated himself above that group of merely great Olympic sailors

A tasty way to spend the summer
TORBJØRN LINDERSON and CALLE HENNIX explain the well-researched, commercially-backed race series created for Marc Lombard's rapid SeaCart 30 trimaran

Like a phoenix
Four C-Class cats travelled to Bristol, RI, this fall, for the 'new' Little America's Cup. Much was learnt... but STEVE CLARK's remarkable Cogito won again! PAUL LARSEN reports

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - Chris Little

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
PAUL CAYARD reports on the first Swan Gold Cup, GLEN BOURKE brings us up to speed with Volvo Ocean Race developments, SEBASTIEN SCHMIDT reports on a successful first season for the rapidly developed D35 Class and TRACY EDWARDS explains to TIM JEFFERY just how she got herself quite so much media coverage

World News
Vendée Globe preview, Cammas completes the job, Gautier passes the baton, more Cup turbulence in Spain, TP52s keep spreading, 'another' 100-footer (inset), Skiff birthdays in Oz, and Transpac rules open up (slightly). PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Rod Davis
And Rod starts work with a very different America's Cup team for his next campaign

ORC Column
KEN WELLER says farewell to tumblehome

Seahorse letters
Athens was good, but it wasn't perfect...

Design - Could long be wrong?
Or, why did it take so long for ACC designers to find the right corner of the 'new' Cup rule...

Seahorse raceboat build table
They're both 38-foot, but that's as far as it goes

RORC news
IRC comes to the USA. TINK CHAMBERS

Seahorse race calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
East meets west... well it would have been once