Audio (12 minutes): After 15 years of trying, Richard Estaugh finally won his first trapeze boat championship, the 2007 Fireball World title in Switzerland. Despite hating banging corners, Richard had to overcome his instincts and learn to sail a bit more extreme this time...
Dave Hughes talks about how he won the 470 European Championships recently with helmsman Stu McNay. This American team is really starting to set the pace. Dave also talks about the loss of his great friend Trevor Moore....
One of the world's top international judges and umpires, Richard Slater, explains why a change in the windward mark rounding rule is already making for racing that's easier to understand for TV and spectators, and why it deserves consideration for the whole of sailboat racing...
The Race Ahead program began in 2008. The project was initially started by Roger Hudson and his father in order for them to build a foundation that consisted of a support system for the top young and talented sailors in South Africa.
As the 35-knot gust hit the boat at just the wrong time, skipper Morgan Larson found himself in a dilemma. “It was a little bit challenging to read the gusts because the big ones that looked big on the water weren't that big, and the ones that looked small were quite strong...." Larson talks through the moment and what he'd do differently next time...
Even Sir Ben Ainslie couldn’t have dreamed that close to 100,000 spectators would turn out to watch him compete in the first official America’s Cup racing since that incredible finale almost two years ago in San Francisco. Here's what he had to say after racing...
No one would have been more surprised than Dee Smith himself if you had told the American professional sailor eight years ago that this is what he’d be doing in 2015 - competing for a place in the Paralympics. It was in 2007, during the America’s Cup in Valencia, that Dee first discovered that a long-term cancer had been residing in his body and gradually eating away at his spine....
Marit Bouwmeester has defended her title at the Delta Lloyd Regatta, winning the Medal Race and taking the gold by a comfortable margin. Ireland’s Annalise Murphy capsized, but held on for silver, with Belgium’s Evi van Acker taking bronze....
Megan Pascoe is the ISAF-ranked World No.1 sailor in the 2.4mR singlehanded keelboat. So why is the British Paralympic sailor to be found competing in a SKUD doublehander with helmsman Will Street at Delta Lloyd Regatta?
In February 2015, Ian Williams won his fifth world title on the world match racing tour. Here he gives an insight into how his successful team operates, and a look back at how he got into the sport in the first place...