Ben and Gabe Hill may be in their teens, but the brothers are among the best Graduate sailors in the UK. We interview the brothers about what it's like to sail with your sibling, who's the boss, and how they cram in their training around school work and other priorities...
Joachim Aschenbrenner and his team did well at the Monsoon Cup. The 21-year-old Dane made it through the Qualifying phase and was toe to toe with multiple World Champion Ian Williams, going 1-1 in the Quarters before the weather called an unfortunate halt to their progress. Here, Joachim and crew talk about their time in Malaysia.
Terry Hutchinson runs a tight ship whatever boat he's on. Here the America's Cup tactician and multiple world champion talks about the challenges of running a top Farr 40 team and how to always keep on looking for improvements....
Video: Luke Patience & Stuart Bithell talk about the mutual trust and respect that's required for success at Olympic level. Luke might be the helmsman, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's the boss. Successful dinghy sailing teams are built on equal partnerships, not hierarchies...
The Melges class is so tough, the demands on team work and good communication are very high. Justin Chisholm made some radical recommendations to improve his team's performance, and luckily he wasn't thrown overboard...
Top coach and former Fireball World Champion crew Adam Bowers has been through his good and bad sailing partnerships. Most of us have endured being shouted at, and I doubt many of us get much pleasure out of it. So we asked Adam about how to make sure you're in the right team, and if you're going through a rough patch, when to work through your 'marriage problems', and when to walk away...
In his early 20s Robert Hopkins found himself coaching the British America's Cup team Victory 83 through to the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup where they came up against the mighty Australia II. A year later, aged 24, he was head coach of the USA Sailing Team at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Americans grabbed four gold and three silvers from all seven medal disciplines. SailJuice asked Robert what he has learned about good team communication through his 25 years of coaching and sailing with the very best in the business...
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...
For the Oman Sail campaign for the Tour Voile, skipper Rob Greenhalgh was tasked with training up three inexperienced Omani sailors as part of the crew. Using this Excel spreadsheet, Rob got his sailors into top form in the shortest time. To get the Omanis up to scratch in every aspect of their jobs on board, Greenhalgh divided every routine, every manoeuvre - both inshore and offshore - into the tiniest detail. Now you can benefit from Rob's experience and apply it to your own sailing. For anyone looking to organise complex manoeuvres between a crew, this document is gold dust.
Having done the tactical job for a few years, Terry Hutchinson found it hard to relinquish control of the decision-making habit when he started steering the TP52. Now when he's helming the AC45 multihull in the America's Cup World Series, more than ever it's vital to be absolutely clear with his communication. Things happen fast and communication needs to be heard and understood first time, every time...
Nik Pearson won the Etchells World Championships doing the bow for skipper Stuart Childerley and Simon Russell working the mainsheet. Every team is different in its make-up of skills, but there are some good general principles of communication here that will work for any sailor looking to improve teamwork in the boat.
Before you get too far down the track with a new sailing partner, make sure you have the same goals and aspirations, warns Jon Emmett. Do otherwise, and you're storing up trouble for the future....
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...
For the Oman Sail campaign for the Tour Voile, skipper Rob Greenhalgh was tasked with training up three inexperienced Omani sailors as part of the crew. Using this Excel spreadsheet, Rob got his sailors into top form in the shortest time. To get the Omanis up to scratch in every aspect of their jobs on board, Greenhalgh divided every routine, every manoeuvre - both inshore and offshore - into the tiniest detail. Now you can benefit from Rob's experience and apply it to your own sailing. For anyone looking to organise complex manoeuvres between a crew, this document is gold dust.
Having done the tactical job for a few years, Terry Hutchinson found it hard to relinquish control of the decision-making habit when he started steering the TP52. Now when he's helming the AC45 multihull in the America's Cup World Series, more than ever it's vital to be absolutely clear with his communication. Things happen fast and communication needs to be heard and understood first time, every time...
Nik Pearson won the Etchells World Championships doing the bow for skipper Stuart Childerley and Simon Russell working the mainsheet. Every team is different in its make-up of skills, but there are some good general principles of communication here that will work for any sailor looking to improve teamwork in the boat.