Podcast: Sailing Talk with Bora Gulari - from Dark Horse to Moth World Champion
MP3 audio (17 minutes): Bora Gulari tells Sailing Talk about his amazing win at the International Moth World Championships. 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. Justin & Andy are just back from the Laser SB3 Worlds, a great event in a great venue.... Listen to the podcast in the audio player below...
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MP3 audio (8:30 minutes): Matt Belcher & Malcolm Page lead the 470 fleet at Skandia Sail for Gold in Weymouth with a string of 1sts and 2nds. Malcolm tells Sailing Talk why he's back for more 470 racing, after already winning Olympic gold in Qingdao last year ....
Bora Gulari talks technical, looking at some of the killer technology that helped him win the International Moth Worlds in The Gorge. He also breaks some of the myths about Moths and foiling boats, such as needing to be a flyweight, and talks about the joys of turning up 'The Dial'....
MP3 audio (14 minutes): Francesco Bruni wins the TP52 World Championships in Palma aboard Matador. It was a controversial victory, as Andy and Justin discuss, but a win is a win...
Torvar Mirsky is one of the top talents on the World Match Race Tour. The young Australian is earning the respect of some of the biggest names on the professional circuit, and he tells Sailing Talk about his plans for the future...
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 ....
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....
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...
Big news across the sailing world is THAT capsize - Russell Coutts pitchpoling an AC45 in San Francisco, resulting in the three-time America’s Cup winner plunging headfirst through the wing sail. Justin and Andy also compare notes on their respective visits to Porto Cervo earlier this month - Andy for a windy Loro Piana Superyacht regatta and Justin for an equally blustery Audi Sailing Series Melges 32 event....
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...