Video Review: For many sailors this was their first look at the Olympic venue for Weymouth 2012, and what a week it was. The first four days were full-on hardcore high-wind races. And then the Medal Race day went out with a whimper, testing a whole different range of skills. SailJuice partnered up with Sailing Talk podcaster Justin Chisholm of OffshoreRules.com to record some of the action and interviews with the Olympic stars who had flown in from round the world.....
Tom Burnham looks back at one of his biggest ever days' racing, through massive waves off the coast of Cartagena, in the final round of the Audi MedCup Circuit 2009...
Matt Belcher & Malcolm Page lead a hot 470 fleet at Skandia Sail for Gold, after two days of windy racing. The Aussies talk about their new partnership and their plans for winning gold in Weymouth three years from now...
Michael Blackburn after day one at Skandia Sail for Gold in Weymouth. An Olympic bronze medallist in his own right, Michael is coach to Tom Slingsby, the double Laser World Champion, who has had a bad year - until today. He won both races on a day where the Aussies did well across the board. Today Weymouth Bay was a bit like Sydney Harbour, said Michael, except for the climate maybe...
Here's the List of Entries to the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta 2009. SailJuice.com is going to be in Weymouth reporting from on and off the water. Send in your requests for who you want us to interview, and whoever is the most popular choice, we'll go after them and get the word from the sailors that you most want to hear from...
Tough team talk from Terry Hutchinson, after a couple of unusually bad days from the Quantum Racing team. A big insight into the professionalism and focus of a top racing team. These post-race debriefs are critical to making improvements the next day, especially when things are going badly...
Jim Saltonstall is one of the most influential sailing coaches in the world. Having set up the RYA youth programme in the late 70s, he has been responsible for the development of some of the greatest sailing talents of recent times - names such as Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Bart Simpson - the list goes on. Jim (supposedly now retired) is still actively involved in the sailing scene, except that now he picks and chooses his projects ....
Lucy Mcgregor learned her trade crewing for Shirley Robertson in the Yngling during the build-up to the last Olympics. Sarah Ayton's team ended up winning the Olympic slot for Great Britain, but now Mcgregor is back on the Olympic campaign trail, this time as skipper of her own match race campaign. SailJuice spoke to Mcgregor at the European Match Racing Championships in Denmark, and the World ranked No.3 sailor tells what she learned from sailing with a double Olympic Champion and also looks forward to the next three years until Weymouth 2012...
Paul Cayard calls into Sailing Talk from San Francisco, where at the ripe old age of 5-0 he'll soon be racing a Five-Oh (geddit?!) in the 505 World Championships with dinghy legend Howie Hamlin, himself no spring chicken. Not surprisingly, Paul's also got something to say about the 'stored power' should-they-allow-engines-in-the-America's-Cup debate. Justin Chisholm reports from the Mirror Worlds which are concluding in North Wales....