"Introduction: 1. The year 2007 edition of the Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft is a complete reprint of the 2003 edition@ consisting of the eight (8) booklets as shown in Table 1. With regard to two booklets@ Part 2 and Part 7:: a) The purpose of the generic title ABS Rules for Materials and Welding of PART 2 is to emphasize the common applicability of the requirements to ABS-classed vessels@ other marine structures and their associated machinery@ and thereby make PART 2 more readily a common ""PART"" of various ABS Rules and Guides@ as appropriate. b) The purpose of the generic title ABS Rules for Survey After Construction ?C Part 7 is to reflect the expanded contents of PART 7@ as a result of including consolidated requirements for ""Surveys After Construction"" applicable to all types and sizes of vessels@ barges and specific shipboard arrangements/systems@ etc.@ as specified in Part 7@ Chapter 1@ Section 1. 2. The numbering system applied in the Rules is shown in Table 2. 3. Rule Change Notice No. 6@ as per Table 3@ with an effective date of 1 January 2007@ has been incorporated into the 2007 Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft. In addition@ the Rule Changes contained in the previously published Notices 1 through 5 to the 2003 Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft (together with Corrigenda items) have also been incorporated into the text of the 2007 Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft. 4. The effective date of each technical change since 1993 is shown in parenthesis at the end of the subsection/paragraph titles within the text of each Part. 5. Until the next edition of the Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft is published@ Rule Change Notices and/or Corrigenda@ as necessary@ will be published on the ABS website ?C www. eagle.org ?C only@ and will be available free for downloading. It is not intended to publish hard copies of future Rule Change Notices and/or Corrigenda to existing Rules or Guides. The consolidated edition of the Guide for Building and Classing High Speed Naval Craft@ which includes Rule Change Notices and/or Corrigenda using different colors for easy recognition will be published on the ABS website only when RCN and/or Corrigenda are issued."