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In his element
With IDEC 2 NIGEL IRENS and BENOIT CABARET showed the world what they could do with very limited resources; now Team Alinghi is giving them the chance to let rip...

Getting crowded
HUMPHREYS YACHT DESIGN has joined the Class 40 contest in earnest as TOM HUMPHREYS explains

Read the question (carefully)
ANDY RICE talks to Ericsson Racing navigator JULES SALTER and CHRIS BEDFORD about the new Volvo Ocean Race course

More than skin deep
- Part 2
DOBBS DAVIS talks to Jutta Glueckselig of Holmenkol about their use of nanotechnology in surface coatings and looks at some of the other popular products that are currently available

REGULARS

Commodore’s letter
DAVID AISHER

Editorial
ANDREW HURST

Update
TERRY HUTCHINSON made it to the startline with his new TP52, and did not appreciate some of the post-Farr 40 Worlds nonsense, ANDY RICE puts some legs on his ageing singlehander and KINLEY FOWLER reports from the less glamorous end of the match racing career ladder

World news
Another intense AG2R, honeycombs and big tris, MARC PAJOT returns to Cup World, Speedboat goes (sort of) public, as does Telefónica (twice), the Big Fella turns 50 (in style), which is sort of where SEAN LANGMAN is aimed and more delicious irony from America’s 'Corinthian’ yachting scene. PATRICE CARPENTIER, CARLOS PICH, ROB MUNDLE, DOBBS DAVIS and IVOR WILKINS

Paul Cayard
Bored by the America’s Cup (having stirred up a storm!) PAUL turns his mind to heading west...

Olympic and small boat news
– The discipline
Having upset pretty much every multihull sailor on the planet, ISAF now turns its attention to surviving the well-organised calms of Qingdao

Cross-trainer
– 2008/9 Volvo Ocean Race
And KEN READ is clearly not doing his forthcoming lap of the planet for fun. TIM JEFFERY

ORC column
– Off to a light start
But the year’s first GP42 regatta, in Santa Margherita, was a popular success...

America’s Cup 33
– Reversal of fortune
With Justice Cahn’s latest ruling the boot appears to be swinging to the other foot as developments start to go Alinghi’s way. TIM JEFFERY

Design
– Easy access
Tired of hearing about escalating cost in the Mini 6.50 fleet, NICOLAS GOLDENBERG decided it was time to do something about it

Seahorse raceboat build table – Something very special
Former Alinghi boffin CLEMENS DRANSFELD has turned his mind to an extreme new racer...

Seahorse regatta calendar

Sailor of the Month
From opposite ends of the career path...