Listen to the podcast in the audio player below...
or download the podcast to your desktop by clicking the link below....
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SAILING TALK PODCAST...
If you're an iTunes user, you can subscribe to Sailing Talk here...
Subscribe to Sailing Talk in iTunes link...
© Ian Roman: Mike Sanderson on the runner winch....
The dynamic duo of Sailing Talk, Justin and Andy, meet up in Nice at the 2009 Louis Vuitton Trophy to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the eight teams, and ask why a series can't be a series, or a circuit, or a number of other words in the thesaurus...
MP3: Sailing Talk with Mike Sanderson, frustrated team boss at British America's Cup campaign Team Origin - on the state of the Cup and a look at the Volvo Ocean Race, an event he dominated three years ago as skipper of ABN Amro One...
Peter Lester has just completed two weeks of radio commentary at the Louis Vuitton Cup in Nice. A great sailor in his own right, Lester tells Sailing Talk why he thinks Azzurra won, and why politics shouldn't get in the way of great sailing events taking place...
Jim Saltonstall is one of the most influential sailing coaches in the world. Having set up the RYA youth programme in the late 70s, he has been responsible for the development of some of the greatest sailing talents of recent times - names such as Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Bart Simpson - the list goes on. Jim (supposedly now retired) is still actively involved in the sailing scene, except that now he picks and chooses his projects ....
This week Andy & Justin’s guest is the British match racing sensation Ian Williams. who joins the Sailing Talk Podcast from Korea where he is preparing for the third round of the 2009 World Match Race Tour (WMRT). Ian tells how he first got into match racing, his role as China Team AC helm and his recent momentous battle with Ben Ainslie at the last WMRT regatta in Germany....
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...
Justin has been racing on the 90ft canting keeler Genuine Risk in the Caribbean, and talking to Dean Barker about flipping grand prix catamarans like the VX40 and AC45. Andy says he'll eat his hat if the multihull doesn't make it in for the Rio 2016 Games, but not much else is certain in the build-up to next week's controversial ISAF mid-year meeting in Russia....
In this latest Sailing Talk Podcast, amongst other chat, Andy and Justin mull over the Kiwi run Camper Volvo Ocean Race entry, British Star Campaigners Iain Percy and Simpson's plans for the 2011 season, the proposed race area for the 34th America's Cup and the AC45 action taking place in New Zealand recently...
“If Oracle were Little Red Riding Hood and Alinghi were the bad wolf who is Little Red Riding Hood now - because I only see bad wolves?” So says America’s Cup outcast Vasco Vascotto. Justin and Andy discuss the latest in AC34, along with 18-footers, Bacardi Cuppers and much other stuff in grand prix sailing...
Justin has been reporting at the Wilson Trophy, one of the world's biggest team racing events where the Yanks showed the Seppos the way round, and Andy discusses pregnant Olympians and the latest developments with the 34th America's Cup....
Wing rigs are king. The 33rd America's Cup concluded, Alinghi's reign came to an end, and now Larry Ellison holds the keys to the most celebrated trophy in sailing. Andy looks back on America's Cup 33 with Matt Sheahan of Yachting World and Stuart Streuli of Sailing World magazine....
