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Epic!
Emirates Team New Zealand came good at exactly the right time to glide through the final of the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. TIM JEFFERY

Like Phoenix from the ashes
FRANCESCO DE ANGELIS did a terrific job in reviving Luna Rossa after their bruising defeat in Auckland in 2003. Sadly it wasn’t quite enough...

Making her fly - Part 1
Alinghi’s SIMON DAUBNEY, WARWICK FLEURY AND MIKE SCHREIBER discuss 20 years of America’s Cup sail development

Timely
What better occasion to remember the remarkable life and times of Ben Lexcen than while the 32nd America’s Cup is finally being decided off Valencia. BLUE ROBINSON

On the right track
- Part III
MERFYN OWEN discusses OCD’s latest custom Class 40 designs

REGULARS

Commodore's letter
DAVID AISHER

Editorial
ANDREW HURST

Update
Ciao Italia, now it’s time for the ‘big match’ — TERRY HUTCHINSON’s Valencia Diary, ‘news’ from the Northumberland Straits Class, Larry Ellison and halibut... (read on), and VPLP’s KATRINA KELSHALL (happily) goes much slower than she’s used to back home in Tobago

World news
A Farr 1-2 in the Calais Round Britain, another record for Cammas, another campaign for Agustín Zulueta (and perhaps Iberdrola...), shopping for Marcelo, record-busting in Takapuna, (a teensy slice of) America reels after Oracle’s departure and the A-Class still sets the pace... CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, SUZIE MCFADDEN, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Rod Davis
Time to prepare for the 32nd America’s Cup...

Olympic and small boat news
- (Even) faster spars - Part II
MATTHEW SEARLE looks at taking the gains of filament winding up the scale

2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race
News from the top — GLENN BOURKE

RORC news

Design - Innovation galore
PAT SHAUGHNESSY applauds the rampant development that still flows out the IMOCA 60s

Seahorse raceboat build table - Why not?
San Francisco based designer BROOKS DEES answers his own question with this new GP26

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month
A distinguished and rather classy choice!A distinguished and rather classy choice!