There are plenty of reasons and excuses we can come up with not to start setting goals. So break the habit and start laying out those targets right now. Identify your major weaknesses, give yourself a score out of 10, and have the courage and determination to keep on working on these weaknesses until you minimise or even eradicate them....

In part one of our look at advanced goal-setting techniques, Goalscape's Marcus Baur (double 49er European Champion) and Richard Parslow (former Fireball World Champion and 49er coach) explain why they invented this advanced goal-setting technology and what it can do for helping point any sailing campaign on the right path to success.

Multiple champion and America's Cup finallist Terry Hutchinson talks about setting goals for a regatta or for the whole season. Sometimes you need a kick in the teeth before you realise what it is that needs working on. The worst thing you can do is tell yourself: 'I'm crap at starting' and never to do anything about it....

David White and Jon Sweet’s Nacra F18 wins the fast division for the second year running, while Stuart Jones lapped up the 25 knot conditions at Grafham in his Contender...

Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart. With 28 races under his belt, this is the culmination of a quest to claim the top prize at one of the world’s most revered sporting occasions by one of Australia’s stalwarts of the sport of sailing...

Pro offshore helmsman Gordon Maguire is one of the best in the business. It's why he's in such demand long after his days in the Volvo Ocean Race are over. He was part of the winning team aboard Ichi Ban which scooped overall victory in the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart. The Irishman has a feel for driving a boat that allows him to react to changes in boat speed instantly, long before the instruments tell him the boat has slowed that fraction of a knot...

After a phenomenal contest between Jim Cooney’s LDV Comanche and the Oatley family’s Wild Oats XI over the full 628nm of the Rolex Sydney Hobart concluded yesterday in the Derwent River, the line honours title for first to finish was eventually decided today in the protest room. An incident between the two 100-footers, shortly after the start, was adjudged in favour of LDV Comanche.

Local legend Graham Tinsley races his Laser to victory at the Yorkshire Dales Brass Monkey...

The World Sailing Show gets aboard Phil Sharp and Pablo Santurde’ s Class 40 Imerys for a full-on, double handed 4,000 mile sleigh ride south to see how the pair took the coveted overall season title...