Double Olympian and a dominant force in the Extreme Sailing Series, Leigh McMillan talks through the balancing act of getting a cat downhill in the windy stuff without pitchpoling. "When it’s getting too hairy, we let the windward hull skim the wave tops just to provide that extra safety margin. But the more you drop the windward hull in the water, the slower you go and the more you lose the apparent wind that you’d generated. It's about how close to the edge you are...."

Rob Wilson, Round Texel Race winner and former Olympic squad member, talks through his approach to tuning a Formula 18 catamaran for top upwind speed, looking at the important stuff and some of the stuff that people THINK is important but can sometimes be just a distraction...

In 1999 Hans Bouscholte set the record for crossing the Atlantic in a 20-foot open catamaran. Sailing more than 2,800 miles from Dakar to Guadeloupe, together with French sailing partner Gerard Navarin, Bouscholte completed the passage in 15 days and 2 hours. He also became the first non-Frenchman to win the Tour Voile, and he was skipper of the Dutch Whitbread 60 Brunel Sunergy. But here, Hans Bouscholte shares some of his hard-earned experience in long-distance cat sailing.....

Team Tilt skipper in the GC32s and 49er Olympian Sébastien Schneiter talks through the decision-making and preparation process that leads up to getting the perfect reaching start in a high-speed multihull...

Former Tornado cat Olympian for Great Britain, Mark Bulkeley is one of the top multihull racing professionals in the world. Here, Mark previews the Nacra 17s and gives his thoughts on who is likely to be in the medal hunt...