The Fundamentals of Boat Tune *

Boat tuning is important, not just for making the boat go fast but making it more manageable too. However, if you start obsessively measuring your rig tension while you’re still capsizing three times a race, remember your priorities. Compared with boathandling and tactics, boat tuning is really just the icing on the cake...

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Gybing Gennakers *
Gybing asymmetric spinnakers on a dinghy or small catamaran is not too difficult, in fact in many ways it's a good deal easier than working with conventional spinnakers...
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Survival Sailing #1: it's Mental out there! **

Former 18-foot skiff world champion Tim Robinson prides himself on an ability to wrestle his boat around the track in ridiculously windy conditions. In part one of his survival sailing tips, he talks about getting your mind set right before riding into Armageddon...

7 Gotta Love It at the JJ Giltinan 18-foot skiff Worlds

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Roll Tacks - January 2009
I haven't been sailing for quite some time now. It's the weather, you know. Never mind about the credit crunch. What about the weather crunch?...
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America's Cup - January 2009

I wonder what state the challenger teams in the America’s Cup would be in right now if the original AC90 class had gone ahead as planned. It was only just over a year ago when Alinghi revealed the fruits of their design work with a number of other challenger teams, for an ambitious 90-footer, of which any team would be allowed to build up to two hulls. Two hulls would have meant having two full-time crews to train, tune and race in them...

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Strong Wind Gybing with Asymmetrics **
Gybing in fresh to frightening conditions is one of the more difficult manoeuvres in a skiff, but we show you how to feel the fear and do it anyway...
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SailJuice Xpress - 21 September 2009 - Windy Week in Weymouth
Just got back from a windy week at Weymouth where the world's best Olympic sailors have been battling at Skandia Sail for Gold. We've created a special page at SailJuice.com full of videos and interviews with some of the sailors we spoke to in Weymouth.


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How to get the worst out of your crew....
John Belushi lookalike sailingWatch a John Belushi lookalike hand out some wonderful advice to the crew from the comfort of the cockpit. A great example of how to encourage the very worst from your team mates. It almost makes you wonder if this is a spoof, but I don't think so....
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Stevie Morrison Interview, February 2008, Part 2
In part 2 of our interview with Stevie Morrison, the 49er World Champion tells how much of an influence the Exmouth sailing scene had on his - and many other sailing stars' - careers. Stevie also looks at his 49er career to date and his hopes for the Olympics in China...
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Stevie Morrison Interview, February 2008, Part 1
Olympic sailing partnerships are a hard thing to get right. Getting the chemistry right between two ultra-competitive, highly driven individuals is very tough. Normally, a helm and a crew will seek each other out because they recognise each other for their talent. They work on the friendship later. And there have been very successful partnerships that have worked like that, where the friendship was very much secondary to the professional sailing relationship. Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes, on the other hand, have been friends with each other since they were in short trousers.
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Notice of Series - SailJuice Global Warm-Up 2010
Bloody MaryThe Notice of Series and the Rules of the Series....
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Foiling tacks & gybes on Lake Garda by Rohan Veal
foiling moth startRohan Veal shows how it's done in the International Moth. Sailing on Lake Garda where he won the 2007 World Championships, Rohan takes his Bladerider through foiling tacks and gybes and makes it look easy.
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