Dave Hughes, winning crew in the 2015 edition of the 470 Europeans, talks about getting your priorities right and how to identify blind alleys before you drive down them and waste valuable training time...
Audio (12 minutes): After 15 years of trying, Richard Estaugh finally won his first trapeze boat championship, the 2007 Fireball World title in Switzerland. Despite hating banging corners, Richard had to overcome his instincts and learn to sail a bit more extreme this time...
Kiel Week 2015 winner Paul Kohlhoff talks about his Olympic bid for Rio 2016 in the Nacra 17 catamaran. Only just turned 20 years old, he sails with the equally young Carolina Werner after building up a strong partnership in the 29er. This young German crew dominated Kiel Week and are aiming for Olympic selection for Germany....
Justus Schmidt and Max Boehme were the surprise winners of the European Championship in Porto 2015. One starting tactic that worked beautifully for the young Germans was the 'port tack option', which became more and more popular in the fleet on the final day...
Dave Hughes talks about how he won the 470 European Championships recently with helmsman Stu McNay. This American team is really starting to set the pace. Dave also talks about the loss of his great friend Trevor Moore....
The central Solent has a reputation as being a complex place in which to sail, but many of the local wind effects are not difficult to figure out. Rupert Holmes looks at Solent Sea Breezes and Norris Nadgers.
Rupert Holmes shares his top tips for an enjoyable – and successful – Cowes Week. "In the party atmosphere of Cowes Week it’s all too easy to get carried away, especially the evening after getting a really good result. With eight days of racing it’s a long regatta, and there’s a lot going on ashore as well after racing, so it’s easy to find you’re flagging by midweek if you’re not careful."
One of the world's top international judges and umpires, Richard Slater, explains why a change in the windward mark rounding rule is already making for racing that's easier to understand for TV and spectators, and why it deserves consideration for the whole of sailboat racing...
The Race Ahead program began in 2008. The project was initially started by Roger Hudson and his father in order for them to build a foundation that consisted of a support system for the top young and talented sailors in South Africa.
A downwind or reaching leg across the tidal stream is sometimes an inevitable part of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week courses which requires a couple of simple techniques to ensure the minimum distance is sailed, as Rupert Holmes reports…
As the 35-knot gust hit the boat at just the wrong time, skipper Morgan Larson found himself in a dilemma. “It was a little bit challenging to read the gusts because the big ones that looked big on the water weren't that big, and the ones that looked small were quite strong...." Larson talks through the moment and what he'd do differently next time...
Even Sir Ben Ainslie couldn’t have dreamed that close to 100,000 spectators would turn out to watch him compete in the first official America’s Cup racing since that incredible finale almost two years ago in San Francisco. Here's what he had to say after racing...
Dave Hughes, winning crew in the 2015 edition of the 470 Europeans, talks about getting your priorities right and how to identify blind alleys before you drive down them and waste valuable training time...
Audio (12 minutes): After 15 years of trying, Richard Estaugh finally won his first trapeze boat championship, the 2007 Fireball World title in Switzerland. Despite hating banging corners, Richard had to overcome his instincts and learn to sail a bit more extreme this time...
One of the world's top international judges and umpires, Richard Slater, explains why a change in the windward mark rounding rule is already making for racing that's easier to understand for TV and spectators, and why it deserves consideration for the whole of sailboat racing...
The Race Ahead program began in 2008. The project was initially started by Roger Hudson and his father in order for them to build a foundation that consisted of a support system for the top young and talented sailors in South Africa. 
As the 35-knot gust hit the boat at just the wrong time, skipper Morgan Larson found himself in a dilemma. “It was a little bit challenging to read the gusts because the big ones that looked big on the water weren't that big, and the ones that looked small were quite strong...." Larson talks through the moment and what he'd do differently next time...
Even Sir Ben Ainslie couldn’t have dreamed that close to 100,000 spectators would turn out to watch him compete in the first official America’s Cup racing since that incredible finale almost two years ago in San Francisco. Here's what he had to say after racing...