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Bowels of the beast
BLUE ROBINSON hooks up with GUY OLIVER and MICHAEL DUNN - the duo responsible for the increasingly complex control systems needed onboard the latest canting-keel and CBTF designs

Unusually testing
Not the greatest Volvo Race for Farr Yacht Design - but there is much to be digested. ROB MUNDLE sits down with the man at the top

Flaps down
There is nowhere to hide now that the racing in Valencia has started in earnest. TIM JEFFERY

Letter from Valencia
CHRIS LAW takes a stroll around the new bases

Building....
No doubt about it, the momentum is growing for custom IRC designs. Designer MARK MILLS looks at IRC 2006 and describes his own latest new custom IRC 39 Mariners' Cove

It's all on
CHRIS LAW drops in to the new America's Cup Village

Irresistible
As the Volvo fleet kicked out into the stronger breezes of the North Atlantic on Leg 7 it did not take long for Mike Sanderson and ABN Amro One to jump back to the front

Whither Volvo?
TIM JEFFERY had an encouraging result when he looked at the pros and cons of a third edition...

44 No laughing matter
JOHN KOSTECKI could do little to turn around Ericsson's fortunes in such a short time

45 Strategic analysis
'Shore-Pirate' WOUTER VERBRAAK looks back over some unusual challenges on Leg 5

REGULARS

COMMODORE'S LETTER - DAVID AISHER

EDITORIAL - ANDREW HURST

Update
TP52s and GP42s and the implications for 'new' team events, ROLF VROLIJK on 'those' new classes - and on Alinghi's resolute ACC pace, CLAUDIO FASSARDI reports from the latest High Performance Design symposium in Auckland. Plus testing times for billionaires...

World News
A 'record' new trimaran market, Route du Rhum over-subscribed, tense finish to the 2006 AG2R, Bernard Nivelt moves on the IRC fleet, TP52 development with MANI FRERS, 'Dalts' is back, and in a very worthy cause, ABN off to Oz and Volvo's successful American party. PATRICE CARPENTIER, ROB MUNDLE, IVOR WILKINS, CARLOS PICH and DOBBS DAVIS

Paul Cayard
And today it's the bigger game that does it for the chief Pirate after 40 years in the sport

Olympic and small boat news - In style
ANDY RICE talks to 49er superheroes IKER MARTINEZ and XABIER FERNANDEZ

ORC Column
Those GP42s are launched - BRUNO FINZI

Design - Detailed effort
LIEVEN THEYS and JAVIER JAUDENES are two of the latest designers to have joined in the still-expanding TP52 street-party

Seahorse raceboat build table
- Beauty!
Looks pretty nice - Latini's new Farr-designed GP42 offers a taster of what to look forward to

RORC news
EDDIE WARDEN OWEN is a happy hombre

Seahorse race calendar

Seahorse Sailor of the Month
And it's a well-deserved MoviStar benefit