British Sailing Team 470 Sailor Eilidh McIntyre shared some of her top tips about the boat in which her competitive sailing began, the RS Feva. McIntyre says that when she was sailing the RS Feva at competitions, she was often asked how she was so fast, particularly downwind. At the time she had no answer to the question. But now, having graduated into Olympic class sailing she realises her speed came in large part from knowing when to be gentle and when to be aggressive in the boat....
No one would have been more surprised than Dee Smith himself if you had told the American professional sailor eight years ago that this is what he’d be doing in 2015 - competing for a place in the Paralympics. It was in 2007, during the America’s Cup in Valencia, that Dee first discovered that a long-term cancer had been residing in his body and gradually eating away at his spine....
Video: Top 470 sailor, Santiago Masseroni, reckons people are too ready to use luck as an excuse for their own failures, or other sailors' successes. Deep, philosophical stuff, but all the more interesting for it...
The 2008 Olympic Champion Paul Goodison reveals the simple fact of downwind sailing in the Laser that escapes most sailors for most of their careers. Either you know this, or you don't. Crucial knowledge for anyone who wants to sail una-rig boats faster off the breeze. Not only will you sail faster, but you won't capsize as much either!
Watch two professional skippers vie to be first to the windward mark in this race from the Adriatic Sea. Follow this video, and you'll be armed with a battery of techniques to analyze your racing performance....
Marit Bouwmeester has defended her title at the Delta Lloyd Regatta, winning the Medal Race and taking the gold by a comfortable margin. Ireland’s Annalise Murphy capsized, but held on for silver, with Belgium’s Evi van Acker taking bronze....
Megan Pascoe is the ISAF-ranked World No.1 sailor in the 2.4mR singlehanded keelboat. So why is the British Paralympic sailor to be found competing in a SKUD doublehander with helmsman Will Street at Delta Lloyd Regatta?
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders have been setting the pace in the breeze this week at Delta Lloyd Regatta. The young Kiwis seem to have the measure of the wind and the waves of the IJselmeer better than most.
Matt Wearn is one of the fastest Laser sailors in the world in 2015, not least at Delta Lloyd Regatta in the short, sharp chop of Medemblik in Holland. The extraordinary photo of Matt with the tiller extension up around his ear looks all wrong (although full marks for commitment to hiking!). But of course a photo doesn't mean much without context. So we asked Matt what he was up to, and why it seems to work...
Former 505 World Champion Howie Hamlin talks through a neat rigging trick that has stopped him breaking masts because he can 'set and forget' with this system...
British Sailing Team 470 Sailor Eilidh McIntyre shared some of her top tips about the boat in which her competitive sailing began, the RS Feva. McIntyre says that when she was sailing the RS Feva at competitions, she was often asked how she was so fast, particularly downwind. At the time she had no answer to the question. But now, having graduated into Olympic class sailing she realises her speed came in large part from knowing when to be gentle and when to be aggressive in the boat....
Marit Bouwmeester has defended her title at the Delta Lloyd Regatta, winning the Medal Race and taking the gold by a comfortable margin. Ireland’s Annalise Murphy capsized, but held on for silver, with Belgium’s Evi van Acker taking bronze....
Megan Pascoe is the ISAF-ranked World No.1 sailor in the 2.4mR singlehanded keelboat. So why is the British Paralympic sailor to be found competing in a SKUD doublehander with helmsman Will Street at Delta Lloyd Regatta? 
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders have been setting the pace in the breeze this week at Delta Lloyd Regatta. The young Kiwis seem to have the measure of the wind and the waves of the IJselmeer better than most.
Matt Wearn is one of the fastest Laser sailors in the world in 2015, not least at Delta Lloyd Regatta in the short, sharp chop of Medemblik in Holland. The extraordinary photo of Matt with the tiller extension up around his ear looks all wrong (although full marks for commitment to hiking!). But of course a photo doesn't mean much without context. So we asked Matt what he was up to, and why it seems to work...
