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No sailing today...
The America's Cup is back in court (well the Cup has been mostly about sailing for some 20 years). TIM JEFFERY reports on another legal beanfest.

Setting the record straight
GRANT SIMMER is popular with staff, friends and rivals alike, and he is also one of the giants of the America's Cup, having won the event both on (1983) and off (2003, 2007) the boat. The now managing director of Alinghi was therefore a little put out by some of his team's recent press.

More trial less error
Claudio Fassardi and Karsten Hochkirch have applied new methodology to the wave-making drag of canting keel bulbs

Keep moving on
Even a manufacturer one design can succumb to Olympic pressure when it comes to managing tolerances; JULIAN BETHWAITE and SIMON WATIN have been studying 'the latest' 49er (inset) hull shapes...

REGULARS

Commodore's letter
DAVID AISHER

Editorial
ANDREW HURST

Update
Emirates tactician TERRY HUTCHINSON is straight back into the 'office' for the Copa Del Rey, CHRIS LAW is remembered by fellow Outlaw DOBBS DAVIS and BLUE ROBINSON enjoys some gentle exposure to La Belle France....

World news
Un. Be. Lieve. Able... the transatlantic sailing record goes below 100hr for the first time, Class 40 'Mondial', and Cayard grabs another Copa. Plus, will this be 'the' boat for Mike Golding, IRC goes fixed keel in Oz and the Transpac kids do ok. CARLOS PICH, PATRICE CARPENTIER, IVOR WILKINS, DOBBS DAVIS and ROB MUNDLE

Rod Davis
Never minds ructions in the America's Cup... what about the idiosyncracies of Chinese life?

Olympic and small boat news
- (Happy) legend
JON EMMETT talks with Tornado supremo DARREN BUNDOCK

Design - Maturing rule maturing class
SIMON ROGERS has just launched the first of his office's elegant new Class 40 designs, built at CMI in Thailand

RORC news
JULIAN EVERITT remembers DAVID MAY

Seahorse raceboat build table - Sleek and sprightly
GEOFF VAN GORKOM celebrates the launch of his first Hungarian lightweight flyer

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month
And we're still in the Southern Hemisphere...

Is Philippe Kahn the ultimate sailing enthusiast? Whatever your opinion, Kahn is a man who just loves sailing his boats and who is not afraid to pitch himself against any opponent in any class. Here is Kahn, who among other innovations gave us the camera-phone (hmm - ed), blasting to Hawaii with Pegasus team-mate Richard Clarke in the two-handed Transpac division, on his immaculately refitted Owen-Clarke Open 50