Coville Flying Fast Below the Radar
While the Vendée Globe has been stealing all of the headlines – in the sailing world at least – Thomas Coville departed from Brest, France, on Sunday afternoon at 2:49 and is quietly romping his way...
View ArticleLack of Female Skippers in Vendee Globe
by Dee Caffari, The Telegraph With 29 skippers from 10 different countries, this year’s Vendée Globe boasts the healthiest mix of nationalities we have ever seen in sailing’s greatest single-handed...
View ArticleNew Flying Phantom "Essentiel": Q&A with Alex Udin
All renders Phantom International / Alex Udin. – Interesting to see how ideas converge driven by experience & RD and common sense. We’ve been writing about 4pt foiling on double handed cats for a...
View ArticleCollaboration, Growth, and a Chicago Focus
Between our variety of boats and their uses, whether it be inshore or offshore racing, no sport is more diverse than sailing. Equally diverse is each sailing area, and it is those with ‘boots on the...
View ArticleVendee Globe – Follow the leader
The top three skippers, Armel Le Cléac’h, Sébastien Josse and Paul Meilhat are lined up one behind the other with 15 miles front to back. All three are making similar speeds, eight and half to nine...
View ArticleSailing World Cup Finals go to Spain and Germany
Sailing World Cup Final, the climax of the international series of Olympic & Paralympic class racing, has been awarded to Santander, Spain in 2017 and to Kiel, Germany in 2018 For the rest of the...
View Article2020 Olympics – Recommendation for Tokyo classes to remain unchanged
A report on an Olympic class website apparently from World Sailing says that the world body has decided to take the line of least resistance in respect of the 2020 Olympic class selection and retain...
View ArticleWorld Sailing to keep existing Olympic classes for Tokyo 2020
World sailing President, Carlo Croce, will not propose an alternative Olympic slate to Council for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition For the rest of the story from Sail Web CLICK HERE!
View ArticleAmerica’s Cup – Emirates Team New Zealand works out on Waitemata
Emirates Team New Zealand was testing on the Waitemata Harbour on Wednesday in winds recorded as averaging 18kts and gusting to 25kts. Sail-World.com’s NZ editor, Richard Gladwell captured this...
View ArticleVendée Globe – Day 5 – Trades drag favours foils?
Having got to within ten miles of Armel Le Cléac’h, the Banque Populaire VIII skipper who has lead the race since Tuesday evening, Vincent Riou sounded resigned this afternoon that any recent gains...
View ArticleDecision Time for World Sailing Council
World Sailing’s 2016 Annual Conference brings together international delegates this week in Barcelona, Spain. Here’s an update from November 10: Today’s session at the 2016 Annual Conference saw the...
View ArticleThomas Coville on Record Pace
(November 10, 2016: Day 5) – With just over 600 nm to the equator, Thomas Coville (FRA) and the 31m maxi trimaran SODEBO ULTIM is ahead of the record pace to break the solo round the world record....
View ArticleEight Bells: Phebe Corckran King
On Monday November 7th, the Annapolis community began to mourn the loss of Phebe Corchran King. A loving mother to three beautiful children and devoted spouse to Aden King, she succumbed to the effects...
View Article18 footer capsize triggers call for crew safety review
Michael Coxon, the Skipper of 18ft Skiff Thurlow Fisher Lawyers… called for a Crew Safety meeting of all 18ft Skippers last Sunday, before crews rigged their skiffs for Race 2 of the NSW Championships....
View Articlebaby’s on fire
Vendee Update Having got to within ten miles of Armel Le Cléac’h, the Banque Populaire VIII skipper who has lead the Vendée Globe solo round the world race since Tuesday evening, Vincent Riou sounded...
View Articleis it too late to go back to skool?
While the Vendee boats are ripping south past the Canaries with 29 pro sailors on 29 individual boats, another crew of 27 on a single boat will cross their wakes en route from Tenerife to The...
View Article18ft Skiffs – Images from Race 2 of the NSW State Championships
Top photographer, Michael Chittenden was riding shotgun on the Camera Cat with Bob Killick and friends for Race 2 of the NSW State Championship. Fortunately more genteel winds prevailed on Sydney...
View ArticleNoveNove Maui Aloha Classic – Day 11
With another lay day being called on day eleven of the NoveNove Maui Aloha Classic we took the chance to catch up with the newly crowned 2016 Men’s PWA Wave World Champion — Victor Fernandez (Fanatic /...
View ArticleOracle training @Bermuda: Pitch & Save
25knots of wind and a great save by Oracle, specially the reaction of sheeting in, as they describe we all tend to let all sheets loose, and that’s how you destroy F18 masts in 25-30knots. Also the...
View Articlethe east wind is blowing again
With just under a year to go to the Start of the 2017-2018 Volvo Ocean Race, at a Press Conference in Wuhan, China, home of the Dongfeng Motor Company their entry into the next edition of the Race was...
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