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No excuses!
TIM JEFFERY spent time recently with BMW Oracle technical director IAN BURNS; he found that this mega-team is well aware of the high expectations that come with such resources. Plus a look at the final line up of challengers for 2007

'New' kids in America'
Since IRC arrived in America at the 2003 Big Boat Series its influence has exploded. Leading the drive to coordinate growth and help resuscitate US offshore racing is RICH DU MOULIN

Second coming
We flirted with it back in the late 80s, now it's back with a vengeance. SCOTT VOGEL and PHIL GARLAND look at the new generation of carbon fibre rigging

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - Chris Little

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
Old faces set to return to the Volvo Race, Russell Coutts, still 'unemployed', still winning, KLABBE NYLOF and MATT HUMPHRIES on the Nokia Oops Cup, JULIAN BETHWAITE with the 79er story. Plus life and the universe with BEN AINSLIE

World News
A big night (the last one) and entries building already (the next one!) for the Vendée Globe, wistful Cup reflections from Auckland, and a new job for Rod Davis, Wharington keeps up the pressure in Oz, and IRC passes its first big test on the all-important 'right coast'. ROB MUNDLE, MAGALI, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS and DOBBS DAVIS

ORC Column
Revision 3 is out for the new ORC Grand Prix classes, and the new GS42 shows its pedigree...

Olympic and small boat news
Something (new) for the summer... Old Tornado sailors don't go out to grass, they move onto the thriving 'raiding' circuit. WILL SUNNUCKS and MARK SELF report back on a successful forage to Scandinavia

Design - Hotel California
GERMAN and MANI FRERS' elegant new design for RICHARD LOFTUS could prove to be the first of many, as interest grows in the concept of the dual-purpose 'daysailer'

Seahorse raceboat build table
MARC LOMBARD was pleased to see his first SeaCart trimarans go afloat, and delighted with the early performance straight out of the box

RORC news
Measuring those new VO70s - JAMES DADD

Seahorse race calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
Very very similar; very very different...