Paul Cayard calls into Sailing Talk from San Francisco, where at the ripe old age of 5-0 he'll soon be racing a Five-Oh (geddit?!) in the 505 World Championships with dinghy legend Howie Hamlin, himself no spring chicken. Not surprisingly, Paul's also got something to say about the 'stored power' should-they-allow-engines-in-the-America's-Cup debate. Justin Chisholm reports from the Mirror Worlds which are concluding in North Wales....
Thinking on your feet is one of the signs of a great sailor, especially when disaster rears its ugly head. Two World Championship winning sailors, Adrian Stead and Cam Lewis, reveal two examples of quick thinking that saved the day...
Just because everyone does things a certain way doesn't necessarily make them right. Andy Rice takes a look at the dubious charms of the spiro pole-launching system in the 505 and couldn't help wondering if there was a better way...
Wolfgang Hunger has won the 505 World Championships no less than five times. Here, the former Olympian and his crew Julien Kleiner talk through some of the equipment on their 505 racing dinghy...