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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....
“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...
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....
"The wing is a weapon," was Ernesto Bertarelli's honest assessment after being beaten by the winged-wonder of BMW Oracle Racing. Justin and Andy look back on a momentous race which brought drama and surprise beyond all expectation....
After two and a half years of waiting, Day 1 of the 33rd America's Cup arrived with a crescendo, and went out with a whimper. Still, there were some memorable moments despite the lack of racing, as Justin and Andy discuss with Yachting World's Matt Sheahan. The pre-dawn send-off of the wing-rigged BMW Oracle trimaran was worth getting up for....
On the eve of the 33rd America's Cup in Valencia, Justin and Andy speculate on all the hype and gossip, and Justin reports back from Key West Race Week and Miami Olympic Classes Regatta....
With little more than a couple of weeks before the 33rd America's Cup in Valencia, Andy has just done an in-depth interview with Russell Coutts for top racing magazine, Seahorse International. Justin quizzes Andy about what Russell said, as well as looking back at who won what at the 49er and 14 World Championships....
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...
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....
In the first Sailing Talk podcast of 2010, Justin and Andy already have a lot of sailing to catch up on, including the 49er and International 14 Worlds, as well as the latest on America's Cup shenanigans between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing....
