Bora Gulari tells Sailing Talk about his amazing win at the International Moth World Championships in 2009. Weighing more than 80kg in a supposedly lightweight class, and using his most old and tired sail instead of a new one, the Detroit foiler really got his Mach II hull motoring in The Gorge....
America's Cup veteran Terry Hutchinson says that opposites may not necessarily attract, but putting different personalities together was still a vital part of creating a Quantum Racing team that was strong enough to dominate the European TP52 circuit in its heyday...
Audio (2 minutes): The 2007 and 2008 Laser World Championships in Portugal and Australia were windy, and Tom Slingsby won both of them. He's also won two Skandia Sail for Gold Regattas in Weymouth in 2009 and 2010. The young Aussie talks about the technique that makes him so devastatingly quick upwind in the breeze...
Professional sailing teams love to measure stuff. If it can be calibrated, it will be calibrated. And so America's Cup teams will go through 200 or more keel bulb designs, and test hundreds if not thousands of hull shapes, sail shapes, mast configurations, deck layouts, and so on. But what about the human element? Do sailing teams invest as much time and effort in perfecting the human technology on board the boat?
With little more than a couple of weeks before the 33rd America's Cup in Valencia, Andy has just done an in-depth interview with Russell Coutts for top racing magazine, Seahorse International. Justin quizzes Andy about what Russell said, as well as looking back at who won what at the 49er and 14 World Championships....
In the first Sailing Talk podcast of 2010, Justin and Andy already have a lot of sailing to catch up on, including the 49er and International 14 Worlds, as well as the latest on America's Cup shenanigans between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing....
Peter Lester has just completed two weeks of radio commentary at the Louis Vuitton Cup in Nice. A great sailor in his own right, Lester tells Sailing Talk why he thinks Azzurra won, and why politics shouldn't get in the way of great sailing events taking place...
The dynamic duo of Sailing Talk, Justin and Andy, meet up in Nice at the 2009 Louis Vuitton Trophy to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the eight teams, and ask why a series can't be a series, or a circuit, or a number of other words in the thesaurus...
MP3 audio (14 minutes): Francesco Bruni wins the TP52 World Championships in Palma aboard Matador. It was a controversial victory, as Andy and Justin discuss, but a win is a win...
Torvar Mirsky is one of the top talents on the World Match Race Tour. The young Australian is earning the respect of some of the biggest names on the professional circuit, and he tells Sailing Talk about his plans for the future...
MP3 audio (8:30 minutes): Matt Belcher & Malcolm Page lead the 470 fleet at Skandia Sail for Gold in Weymouth with a string of 1sts and 2nds. Malcolm tells Sailing Talk why he's back for more 470 racing, after already winning Olympic gold in Qingdao last year ....
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 ....
America's Cup veteran Terry Hutchinson says that opposites may not necessarily attract, but putting different personalities together was still a vital part of creating a Quantum Racing team that was strong enough to dominate the European TP52 circuit in its heyday...
Audio (2 minutes): The 2007 and 2008 Laser World Championships in Portugal and Australia were windy, and Tom Slingsby won both of them. He's also won two Skandia Sail for Gold Regattas in Weymouth in 2009 and 2010. The young Aussie talks about the technique that makes him so devastatingly quick upwind in the breeze...
Professional sailing teams love to measure stuff. If it can be calibrated, it will be calibrated. And so America's Cup teams will go through 200 or more keel bulb designs, and test hundreds if not thousands of hull shapes, sail shapes, mast configurations, deck layouts, and so on. But what about the human element? Do sailing teams invest as much time and effort in perfecting the human technology on board the boat? 
With little more than a couple of weeks before the 33rd America's Cup in Valencia, Andy has just done an in-depth interview with Russell Coutts for top racing magazine, Seahorse International. Justin quizzes Andy about what Russell said, as well as looking back at who won what at the 49er and 14 World Championships....
In the first Sailing Talk podcast of 2010, Justin and Andy already have a lot of sailing to catch up on, including the 49er and International 14 Worlds, as well as the latest on America's Cup shenanigans between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing....
Peter Lester has just completed two weeks of radio commentary at the Louis Vuitton Cup in Nice. A great sailor in his own right, Lester tells Sailing Talk why he thinks Azzurra won, and why politics shouldn't get in the way of great sailing events taking place...
The dynamic duo of Sailing Talk, Justin and Andy, meet up in Nice at the 2009 Louis Vuitton Trophy to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the eight teams, and ask why a series can't be a series, or a circuit, or a number of other words in the thesaurus...
Torvar Mirsky is one of the top talents on the World Match Race Tour. The young Australian is earning the respect of some of the biggest names on the professional circuit, and he tells Sailing Talk about his plans for the future...
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 ....