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Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli is back on the water, kicking off their America’s Cup training in Cagliari. Their AC40’s first sail of 2025 signals renewed commitment amid recent team withdrawals and hints at progress towards AC38.
Plenty of rumours are swirling about what AC38’s Protocol will include, but why wait? Here’s my purely speculative take on what should change — from reviving the World Series to spicing up match racing and putting more real sailors on the boats.
Watching the 60th Congressional Cup online over the weekend I was blown away by the expertise on show from some of the best match racing crews in the world. I was also struck by how much of what I was watching could be applied by the rest of us mere mortals to improve our fleet racing performance.
Ed Gorman’s exploratory post about the movement to revive the Scottish Series sent me tumbling back in time to the seven (I think) editions of this once-iconic regatta that I took part in over the years on the stunningly beautiful Loch Fyne.
America's Cup fans all have a favourite edition – for me hands down it's the 34th America's Cup held in San Francisco Bay in 2013. Here's why.
Once hailed as "the unofficial world championship of offshore racing," the Admiral’s Cup is back—and the sailing world is buzzing.
I didn't think I was going to be, but somehow I've found myself hooked on the adventure story that is the 2025 Transat Parec, where a fleet of 19 mixed sex Beneteau 3 crews are fighting it out on a racecourse that takes them from Concarneau, France across the Atlantic to St Barths.
The exit of two billionaire-backed syndicates – Sir Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos Britannia and Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing – as potential challengers for the 38th America's Cup is a worrying indicator for the future of sailing's oldest and most prestigious competition.
There was more bad news for America’s Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand over the Easter weekend, as Swiss syndicate Alinghi Red Bull Racing confirmed it will not be mounting a challenge for the 38th America’s Cup.
The three-time America's Cup winner's exit comes after he and the Kiwi team failed to agree terms ahead of the 38th America's Cup.