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Honey I'm home!
Within minutes of Valencia's confirmation as the 2007 America's Cup venue it seemed as if all of Spain had been braced to welcome the new arrival. TIM JEFFERY

KISS
Keep it simple stupid, runs the old adage, and GEOFF STAGG thinks that the Rule Working Party would do well to heed the advice

Conflicts and misconceptions - Part 2
MARK TURNER looks beneath the surface of the French professional offshore scene and finds that all in the garden is not entirely rosy. Plus a look at the revised ŒThe Transat' solo classic

Go with the flow - Part I
The aerodynamics triumvirate of DENIS OGLESBY plus DAVID and ANDREW HOLLOM start a detailed look at the science of improving foil performance in air and water

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - Chris Little

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST
The RWP is doing sterling work, but now it's time to bite the bullet and risk upsetting a few people.

Update
SCOTT MACLEOD on the developing Swedish Match Tour - and 'that man' at ISAF, Loick Peyron on French sailors selling themselves short, plus a round up of the ISAF/ORC annual meetings

World News
Falling at the last - 2003 Mini Transat, Vendée Globe goes up for sale, Transat Jacques Vabre, VDH (left) sets out again, Spanish solo success, New Zealand celebrates its 'first' Maxi launch, 2003 Hobart Race preview, and Russell Coutts (winning) on his holidays... PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, CARLOS PICH, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Rod Davis
Prada Challenge 2003 (or hero to zero)

Olympic and small boat news
MARK PIVAC and MIKE CARTER have news of a foiling 18-footer that is already flying high in Oz

Seahorse letters
And Merf Owen and others beg to differ...

Design - Sweet!
Swiss designer SEBASTIEN SCHMIDT's Psaros 40 Lake Racer is not only proving fast - but also unusually rugged - testament perhaps to a deliberately forgiving structural configuration

Seahorse raceboat build table
And it's a long way from a famous 1/4 Tonner

RORC news
A Special Regulations 'Inspector' writes...

Seahorse Race Calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
One for our Spanish readers - or rather two!