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Nick refers to the extensive report put together the UK Catamaran Racing Association, looking at the case for putting multihulls back into the Olympics. You can download it here:
UKCRA REPORT: Selecting the Olympic Events to represent the Best of our Sport
© Andrea Francolini: The Tornado is out of the Games, but could it come back?
Alinghi helmsman Ed Baird talks through the tactical options for attacking and defending downwind in fast multihulls such as in the 33rd America's Cup. When you sail more than three times wind speed, covering becomes a whole different game...
Phil Jones has been telling SailJuice about the radical recommendations by ISAF's Olympic Commission for the future of Olympic Sailing. For anyone who desires the status quo, the Olympic Commission's report won't make for comfortable reading. But if sailing is to survive and thrive as an Olympic sport, then ISAF and the politicians really need to sit up and take note of Jones's team's findings....
Here's the List of Entries to the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta 2009. SailJuice.com is going to be in Weymouth reporting from on and off the water. Send in your requests for who you want us to interview, and whoever is the most popular choice, we'll go after them and get the word from the sailors that you most want to hear from...
Lucy Mcgregor learned her trade crewing for Shirley Robertson in the Yngling during the build-up to the last Olympics. Sarah Ayton's team ended up winning the Olympic slot for Great Britain, but now Mcgregor is back on the Olympic campaign trail, this time as skipper of her own match race campaign. SailJuice spoke to Mcgregor at the European Match Racing Championships in Denmark, and the World ranked No.3 sailor tells what she learned from sailing with a double Olympic Champion and also looks forward to the next three years until Weymouth 2012...
For the first time, every minute of the racing action from Act 4 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Boston will be available live on the internet. After Alinghi's big crash in Istanbul, what's in store for the 40-foot extreme catamarans? Action starts 1300hrs, Eastern time in USA....
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....
