As well as being one of the top coaches in the country, Adam Bowers has won more than his fair share of championships, not least a Fireball World Championship crewing for Welsh wizard DJ Edwards. What a lot of people might not know about Adam is that some of his titles he has won with boats most people would have considered ready for the scrap heap...
Paige Railey has won the Laser Radial Europeans 2009. This victory means a lot to the American who spent a year of soul-searching, asking some hard questions of herself after losing the US Olympic Trials to Anna Tunnicliffe. Railey is incredibly frank and honest about the changes she has gone through to get back to the top of her game...
Santiago Lange has represented Argentina in five Olympic Games, but it wasn't until his last two outings in 2004 and 2008 that he finally won medals, two bronzes in the Tornado. Maybe this had something to do with his crew, Carlos Espinola, who had already won two windsurfing medals at previous Olympic Regattas. Nothing like having someone there who's been there and done it before. Santiago talks about how some sailors thrive on pressure while others buckle under it, and shares his advice on what young sailors with high hopes should do as they find their way in the sport.
British 49er sailors Chris Draper/Pete Greenhalgh & Stevie Morrison/Ben Rhodes are put on the spot for some quickfire answers. Amazing how much you can learn about people you thought you knew so well!
Rob Wilson has just beaten a fleet of more than 500 catamarans to win the world's biggest multihull race, the Round Texel in Holland. A North Sails man, Rob tells Sailing Talk about what's going in Formula 18 development and considers his prospects against a tough fleet at the forthcoming F18 World Championships in Belgium...
SailJuice goes racing with Emirates Team New Zealand in this week's Sailing Talk podcast, with Andy Rice bringing back news from the Audi MedCup tour in Marseille, where he caught up with Terry Hutchinson for an interview. Terry reveals what his dream job WOULD have been if the next Cup had gone ahead, and he considers his chances against the new crop of TP52s on this year's circuit...
This week Andy & Justin’s guest is the British match racing sensation Ian Williams. who joins the Sailing Talk Podcast from Korea where he is preparing for the third round of the 2009 World Match Race Tour (WMRT). Ian tells how he first got into match racing, his role as China Team AC helm and his recent momentous battle with Ben Ainslie at the last WMRT regatta in Germany....
MP3: Sailing Talk with Mike Sanderson, frustrated team boss at British America's Cup campaign Team Origin - on the state of the Cup and a look at the Volvo Ocean Race, an event he dominated three years ago as skipper of ABN Amro One...
Olympic Finn silver medallist Luca Devoti explains his radical plans for the D-1 singlehanded high performance dinghy, why aged 46 he's campaigning a Star for the next Olympics, and what he thinks about the America's Cup mess...