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Tightening up
Louis Vuitton Acts 6 and 7 in Malmo saw Alinghi having to fight harder to hold onto the top slot... and BMW Oracle begin to live up to its billing. TIM JEFFERY

Fresh start
TERRY HUTCHINSON starts a series of regular updates from Emirates Team New Zealand

No time for tears
PIERRE MAS has fought for years to be a part of a serious French Cup Challenge. Now he finally feels that his patience is paying off... albeit with the help of a new and very different partner

Use and misuse
CFD expert DIMITRI NICOLOPOULOS explains to DOBBS DAVIS why you should take care to read all that is written on the packet

An interesting year
ANDERS LEWANDER and TORBJORN LINDERSON have learnt some wider lessons while perfecting the sail package for the SeaCart

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - CHRIS LITTLE

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
RUSSELL COUTTS really does get his own new boat to sail... Volvo Ocean Race development and PAUL CAYARD and MIKE SANDERSON assess the next 12-months with their new VO70s. Plus BEN AINSLIE pulls off the near-impossible (again)

World News
A strong fleet lines up for the 'TJV', Beyou finally gets his Figaro, New Zealand sailing remembers its heritage, a blistering week at Hamilton Island, Koch's little gesture... and a tribute to the USA's Southern Yacht Club. ROB MUNDLE, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, CARLOS PICH and DOBBS DAVIS

Paul Cayard
And the Pirates go to sea...

ORC news
The TP52 is a roaring success and now there are three more Box Rules slotting in underneath

Olympic and small boat news : Don't ask! - Part 1
Spanish designer SITO AVILES RAMOS describes how to design and build a 20-foot cat on which to go fast - and take on the Atlantic

Design -Two hulls strike back
HUGO LE BRETON has commissioned VPLP to create a feisty new 45-foot production cat; the key criteria being that - unlike some 'rivals' - this one is designed to sail as fast as it says on the tin

Seahorse raceboat build table
- (Another) beauty
Seahorse's vote for 'most-underrated designer of serious-performance yachts': PAUL BIEKER

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
This month it's 'two' Ainslies who fight it out