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Billy Gooderham: Taming the T-Foils

Billy Gooderham: Taming the T-Foils

Canada SailGP Team flight controller Billy Gooderham gives an in-depth look at what it takes to fly the SailGP F50 catamarans. From handling the upgraded T-foils, to refining muscle memory and managing complex controls, he breaks down the evolving challenges of this high-stakes role.

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The ‘Club’ Problem

The ‘Club’ Problem

Magnus Wheatley explores the challenges facing yacht clubs today – from declining membership to rising costs – and argues that clubs focusing on fun, accessibility, and community sailing, thrive—while those don't, risk decline.

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Can The British Return To Olympic Sailing Glory?

Can The British Return To Olympic Sailing Glory?

Ed Gorman speaks to the Royal Yachting Association's performance director, Mark Robinson – the man tasked with returning Great Britain to the top of the sailing medal table at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

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Data and AI Continue to Redefine the America’s Cup

Data and AI Continue to Redefine the America’s Cup

The modern era America’s Cup is often characterised by its breathtaking speeds, cutting-edge yacht designs, and fierce competition on the water. But behind the scenes a secretive world of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and performance management is playing an increasingly crucial role.

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Taking on the Southern Ocean

Taking on the Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean is a place of fearsome legend—a vast, untamed expanse where the wind screams and the waves tower, where sailors must confront their deepest fears and push their endurance to its absolute limit. British solo ocean racing skipper Sam Goodchild knows this place well.

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Cut and Paste

Cut and Paste

The quandary over which of the two British Knights of the Realm – Sir Ben Ainslie or Sir Jim Ratcliffe – will be representing the Royal Yacht Squadron as the official Challenger of Record at the 38th America’s Cup was resolved this week – and in a most discreet and understated way.

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What Jimmy did next

What Jimmy did next

US sports writer Bernie Wilson catches up with the inimitable Jimmy Spithill to find out what life ashore has been like for the Australian sailor since his surprise retirement from competition

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SailGP San Francisco Analysis

SailGP San Francisco Analysis

A Yacht Racing Life Podcast Episode | Yacht Racing Life editor Justin Chisholm is joined from the UK by Magnus Wheatley as the pair give their independent analysis and commentary on the fifth event of the Rolex SailGP Championship 2025 season which took place in San Francisco, CA this weekend.

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SailGP Los Angeles Analysis

SailGP Los Angeles Analysis

A Yacht Racing Life Podcast Interview | Justin Chisholm is joined from the UK by Magnus Wheatley as the pair give their independent analysis and commentary on Event 4 of the Rolex SailGP Championship 2025 season which took place in Los Angeles, CA this weekend.

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John Croom: US America's Cup Cyclor

John Croom: US America's Cup Cyclor

A Yacht Racing Life Podcast Interview. John Croom had an illustrious career as a track cyclist in the US National Team before switching sports to bring his physique and fitness to bear in the America’s Cup with the New York Yacht Club American Magic team AC75 at the 38th Cup in Barcelona last year.

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Launching into Europe

Launching into Europe

With military-spec materials, design awards and pro sailor endorsements, Mustang Survival unveils its new ranges of lifejackets and foul weather gear.

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Used boats can win

Used boats can win

You don’t need a big budget, a shiny new boat, or a crew stacked with pros to be competitive offshore these days. That’s not some clever marketing line—it’s reality.

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Structured Luffs for All

Structured Luffs for All

At Europe’s major superyacht crossroads of Palma de Mallorca, the three key experts at the Doyle Sails loft are each involved in projects widely diverse in nature but all sharing a commitment to extract maximum benefit from the company’s groundbreaking Structured Luff technology.

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Shape of the Future

Shape of the Future

Marc Lombard Design Group’s highly successful Lift Class40 designs have now evolved into a racer-cruiser – built in the UK at SR Structures in Lymington.

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Taking the load off

Taking the load off

It used to be a tough choice for superyachts: either accept very high gearing on the helm or lose the direct feedback from the rudder. Now there’s no need to compromise.

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Well engineered

Well engineered

Bavaria Yachts revolutionised the way boats were built 45 years ago when the brand was launched. Today that market-leading innovation continues.

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An all-time classic

An all-time classic

The Rolex Swan Cup has been going great guns for six decades and it’s the enduring appeal of the event that puts it in a class of its own

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Opinion: Ainslie Unmoved as Ratcliffe Bows Out

Opinion: Ainslie Unmoved as Ratcliffe Bows Out

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s America’s Cup story just ended not with a bang, but with a finger-point and a disappearing act. The British billionaire formally stepped away yesterday from what would have been his third Cup campaign—news that came via a frosty press release and landed with a thud.

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No America's Cup Homecoming As New Zealand Government Rules Out Auckland

No America's Cup Homecoming As New Zealand Government Rules Out Auckland

For the second consecutive America’s Cup cycle, the holders will not defend the trophy on home waters. Despite months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public hope for a return to Auckland, Emirates Team New Zealand confirmed today that it will not stage the 2027 regatta in the City of Sails.

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Data and AI Continue to Redefine the America’s Cup

Data and AI Continue to Redefine the America’s Cup

The modern era America’s Cup is often characterised by its breathtaking speeds, cutting-edge yacht designs, and fierce competition on the water. But behind the scenes a secretive world of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and performance management is playing an increasingly crucial role.

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Cut and Paste

Cut and Paste

The quandary over which of the two British Knights of the Realm – Sir Ben Ainslie or Sir Jim Ratcliffe – will be representing the Royal Yacht Squadron as the official Challenger of Record at the 38th America’s Cup was resolved this week – and in a most discreet and understated way.

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Kiwi brilliance takes Emirates Team New Zealand to Match Point in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match

Kiwi brilliance takes Emirates Team New Zealand to Match Point in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match

Subscribe now It was a fired-up, proficient and efficient Emirates Team New Zealand that aced the hardest to interpret wind direction here in Barcelona and took two clean races off the fast-charging Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who left very little out on the water today but succumbed to a

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Tight racing as Emirates Team New Zealand take fourth straight win in Louis Vuitton 37th America's Cup CUP Match

Tight racing as Emirates Team New Zealand take fourth straight win in Louis Vuitton 37th America's Cup CUP Match

Subscribe now In a closely fought race that rewarded the most marginal of gains, Emirates Team New Zealand took one more point in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match this afternoon in Barcelona, with a fourth consecutive victory over INEOS Britannia that advanced them to within three points

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