From the foiling AC50 catamarans of Bermuda 2017 to the foiling AC75s of Auckland 2021, the America's Cup has come a long way since the Version 5 keelboats of Valencia 2007...
It’s little more than a week since the end of the Olympic Regatta and a bit less than a week to the start of skirmishes in the preliminary regatta of the America’s Cup...
Sailjuice’s Andy Rice is back from a sub-par performance at the Musto Skiff Nationals in Yorkshire, but PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan is flying high at the Open Class gliding National Championships in the Cotswolds, when the weather allows, that is...
This week PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan tracks down Sailjuice’s Andy Rice to a beach in Hyères, south of France, for the Formula Kite World Championships...
There’s always a lot going on at the top end of the sailing world, but 2024 is a particularly big one and two British journalists are in the thick of it...
Emirates Team New Zealand coach and sailor Ray Davies explains how crews handle these sophisticated flying machines, plus Matt Sheahan talks to foiling expert and class manager Luca Rizzotti about why the AC40 is such an important boat outside the America’s Cup...
Sadly the 36th America's Cup is over. But luckily we can still have fun talking about the boats. First thing to debrief is the AC75 class with Rob Gullan and Tom Partington.
Tom raved about the Emirate Team New Zealand one legged J-K round up and tack in day 5 America's Cup racing. Today we saw Luna Rossa respond with the same set piece move...
Naively Neil Hunter in the heli answered Nathan Outteridge question by saying he preferred the right-hand side. Which didn’t look so smart when Italy came back ahead from the left at the first cross on the final beat. But when Nathan asked him again...
The AC75s are rewriting the rules of match racing in the America’s Cup. In today’s second match, one of the most bizarre yet thrilling duels in the 170-year history of the event, the Kiwis were their usual relaxed, methodical selves as they chomped down on the Italians’ lead on the first downwind leg, but then...