Kiwis setting the Nacra 17 pace in big breeze
Nacra 17 startGemma Jones and Jason Saunders have been setting the pace in the breeze this week at Delta Lloyd Regatta. The young Kiwis seem to have the measure of the wind and the waves of the IJselmeer better than most.
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Foiling Gunboat in dramatic capsize
foiling gunboat capsizeGUNBOAT G4-01 Timbalero III finds the limit while racing on the final day of Les Voiles de St. Barth. Still early days for bringing foiling to the masses, but accidents like these are all part of the uneven learning curve of progress....
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Nathan Outteridge Explains Foiling A-Class

Nathan Outteridge talks about the Exploder A13 foiling A-Class...

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Multihull rig tune with Mitch Booth **
Mitch BoothDouble Olympic medallist and world champion in numerous cat classes, Mitch Booth talks through the basics of good rig set-up on a multihull. "With the speeds that modern twin-trapeze cats achieve, upwind sailing is all about minimising drag in the hull and rig. The first priority is to get the windward hull out of the water, but once you’ve done that you can think about knocking the power out of the sails and flattening them off as much as possible whilst keeping that hull flying....."
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MP3: Darren Bundock on trapezing style in catamarans **
Bundock & Ashby getting going upwind Multiple Olympic medallist and Tornado World Champion Darren Bundock explains why it's important to look good when you're trapezing. If you look the part, you are probably sailing the part too...
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Ashby’s A-Class Technique #2 ***
Glenn AshbyMultiple A-Class World Champion (and Olympic silver medallist) Glenn Ashby shares his tips on high-performance cat technique..."I sail depowered rather than too powered up. I pull a lot of cunningham on quite early. I prefer to go for speed rather than having any chance of staggering...."
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Ashby's A-Class Boatspeed #1 ***
Glenn AshbyMultiple A-Class World Champion (and Olympic silver medallist and America's Cup sailor) Glenn Ashby shares his tips on high-performance cat preparation and boat speed. As a six-time World Champ and also a F18 and Tornado Worlds winner, no one knows what makes a multihull tick better than Ashby...
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Catching up with GBR Coach Maurice Paardenkooper

Catching up with GBR Coach Maurice PaardenkooperFrom campaigning in the 49er, to coaching Olympic keelboat and match race sailors, Maurice Paardenkooper has done it all. He won a silver medal with his Dutch Yngling project at the 2008 Games in Beijing. On the road to London 2012 he made a transfer to the British Federation to work with Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Kate Macgregor. Now, he has commenced a new chapter in his professional career…

 
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GC32: The shape of cats to come?
Tour to the GC32 CatamaranThe Great Cup’s first ever event has just concluded in Austria, the competitive debut of the 32ft semi-foiling catamaran, the GC32. The Daily Sail's James Boyd asks one of the brains behind the GC32, Andrew McPherson, for his rundown on this hi-tech flyer....




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Ogletree’s tips for catamaran reaching ***
Tornado multihull racingOlympic silver medallist Charlie Ogletree talks through reaching techniques in catamarans. "One of the common mistakes you see is the wind will drop a knot or two, and the natural reaction is to trim the sheets harder to keep the hull up. This is the exact opposite of what you should do. You should ease the sheet, which straightens the mast and generates more power from the sails...."
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Mitch Booth: How to race AC45 multihulls on short courses
AC45 ETNZ OracleMitch Booth, a double Olympic medallist and former skipper of China Team, explains the challenge of racing AC45 multihulls on short courses...






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America’s Cup capsize: Russell Coutts gets it wrong
Oracle AC45 Coutts CapsizeWorld's greatest keelboat sailor he may be, but Russell Coutts shows he has a few things to learn in multihulls, as this spectacular capsize in the AC45 catamaran shows. Indeed this is new territory for everyone, as the professional sailing world learns how to tame these scary cats....
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