Posts published during 2025.
Canada is all-in for the 2027 Youth and Women’s America’s Cup events in Naples, with the Vancouver Yacht Club-backed team aiming for the podium and building a national pathway for Olympic, SailGP, and America's Cup sailors along the way. Justin Chisholm quizzed team CEO Mark McLean for more details.
Tension is high in Lake Garda with the 2025 Moth Worlds about to get underway. With 145 entries from 23 nations and stars from SailGP, the America’s Cup, and the Olympics, it’s shaping up to be a foiling showdown between past champions and rising talent.
K-Challenge – the organisation behind France's 38th America's Cup team Orient Express Racing Team has issued a statement supporting the draft protocol put out two months ago by the America's Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand.
When it comes to cool jobs in sailing, it isn't all about the sailing roles. Case in point, Athena Racing's Cameron Gregory – the man behind the lens for the GBR AC and SailGP teams. Here he shares what it takes to capture the action, the pressure, and the backstory of these elite campaigns.
Rockwool Denmark's flight controller Rasmus Køstner shares his insights on SailGP’s new T-foils – how they feel on the water, what’s changed in handling and performance, and why mastering them with limited training time is one of the circuit’s biggest challenges.
Persico Marine has been hitting the headlines recently. In last year’s America’s Cup, you’ll have noticed the company’s name proudly emblazoned on the deck of the impossibly sleek Luna Rossa but you may not know that Persico built no fewer than four of the IMOCAs in the last Vendée Globe.
How do you arrange return transport for a transatlantic racing fleet from a port with nowhere for a ship to come alongside? You get Sevenstar involved.
Mastering racecourse strategy starts with understanding the wind. Some tips on how to spot oscillating shifts, persistent shifts, and one-sided tracks – plus the pre-start routines that help top sailors make smarter, faster decisions right off the line.
Christian Zugel may well be the happiest owner in sailing right now. Still a relative rookie in offshore circles, his Volvo 70 Tschüss 2’s palmarès read like a sailor’s wish list: overall wins in the 2024 Roschier Baltic Sea Race, as well as this year’s RORC Transatlantic and Caribbean 600.
With just two days to go before the start of the first race of the eagerly-awaited 2025 IMOCA season, all eyes are on Boulogne-Sur-Mer as 11 crews prepare to race around the British Isles in the Course des Caps-Boulogne sur Mer-Banque Populaire du Nord – writes Ed Gorman.
Ferrari has entered the world of ocean racing with Hypersail—a groundbreaking 100-foot foiling monohull led by Giovanni Soldini and designed by Guillaume Verdier. It’s bold, radical, and 100% energy self-sufficient. The sailing world may never be the same.
Moore Brothers’ capacity for design innovation, skill in production engineering and attention to detail are among the keys to their success.
Big breeze, Atlantic swell, and world titles on the line—Cascais, Portugal is set to deliver classic conditions for the 2025 Rolex TP52 World Championship, as 11 international teams go head-to-head in one of the toughest and most spectacular stops on the circuit.
If you’ve ever looked across the boat park at the sharp end of a championship and wondered what the fast teams know that you don’t – the Road To Gold online coaching programme might just be the answer you’ve been searching for. We spoke to founder Andy Rice to find out more.
Allen Brothers’ long-standing partnership with leading America’s Cup analyst Tom Morris has led to some interesting collaborations in new sailing hardware.
Canadian sailor Scott Shawyer’s unlikely path to the Vendée Globe began in lockdown and now sees him preparing for the 2028–29 edition aboard a proven foiling IMOCA 60—overcoming seasickness, setbacks, and self-doubt in pursuit of a dream to race solo around the world. Bernie Wilson finds out more.
