Podcast with Skip Dieball after winning the Etchells Worlds
Skip Dieball narrowly won the Etchells World Championships in Hong Kong last November in a close battle with fellow American Steve Benjamin, the 470 Olympic silver medallist. Here, Skip looks back at that victory and talks about his plans for defending his world title in Cowes in 2016...
Tom Castiglione and Jack Orr discuss a variety of go fast topics on how to make your boat go faster under PHRF. But this could apply to any form of handicap yacht racing...
For 470 Olympic Champion Jo Aleh, the China Cup is her first foray into competitive keelboat racing. “We’re happy with how we sailed today, with two clean races. It was easy to get wrong, so we’re happy to get two keepers.”
Bora Gulari tells Sailing Talk about his amazing win at the International Moth World Championships in 2009. Weighing more than 80kg in a supposedly lightweight class, and using his most old and tired sail instead of a new one, the Detroit foiler really got his Mach II hull motoring in The Gorge....
The Ben Ainslie incident at the ISAF Olympic Class Worlds in Perth has caused a furore, but is it that big a deal? Justin and Andy discuss, along with a look at an intriguing opening to leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race...
A dismasting, a near sinking, the French going AWOL along the African coast - Justin and Andy look back at an incredible first week in the Volvo Ocean Race...