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World Sailing renews World Match Racing Tour Special Event status

by yachtracinglife - 16th July 201916th July 2019 0110

World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, has renewed the Special Event status of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) through to 2028. The announcement was made today following the conclusion of the 2018-19 World Match Racing Tour Championship Final in Marstrand, Sweden a week ago which saw Phil

52 Super Series: Palma pre-season opener delivers the goods

by yachtracinglife - 1st July 20191st July 2019 0290

As a dress rehearsal for the start of the latest 52 Super Series there could have been no better event than the latest edition of PalmaVela. Ten of the 11 boats due to contest the first regatta of the season, Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week, turned out and gave

SailGP: Teams ready for the ‘Battle in the Big Apple’

by yachtracinglife - 21st June 201921st June 2019 0506

The SailGP international high-performance race circuit rolled into New York City earlier this week where the six international teams competing on supercharged F50 catamarans have been practicing on the Hudson ahead of the start of racing later today. With on the water training time strictly limited under the rules of the

Taking on EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour

by yachtracinglife - 20th June 201920th June 2019 0487

If you want to know how competitive the revamped EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour was this year ask Volvo Ocean Race champion Franck Cammas, who has just experienced life ‘below the fold’. The new-look EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour came fully of age in 2019, again delivering early season

Yacht Racing Podcast Episode 12 – Tom Burnham & Rome Kirby

by yachtracinglife - 18th June 201918th June 2019 0626

Justin Chisholm's guests on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Podcast are Tom Burnham and Rome Kirby – respectively, the coach and skipper of the American SailGP team. Burnham is an ex-Olympic campaigner who has been involved in four America’s Cup challenges – one with Young America, twice with Luna Rossa

Matthew Sheahan column: Monsters of the lake

by yachtracinglife - 18th June 201918th June 2019 0771

This month Matthew checks in from one of Europe's most unique and spectacular inland races – the legendary Bol d’Or Mirabaud on Switzerland's Lake Geneva. As students back in the 1980s, once most of our cash had been passed over the bar there was very little left to buy magazines. But

52 Super Series update from Andi Robertson

by yachtracinglife - 3rd June 20196th June 2019 0515

It was supposed to be just two, and only two, 52 Super Series teams convening in Valencia for a little informal testing and tuning. But two became eight and the week of informal tuning and testing culminated in what became known on the old Victory Challenge dock as the FOMO

SailGP: Teams crunch the numbers in search of performance gains

by yachtracinglife - 30th May 201930th May 2019 0817

SailGP: Teams crunch the numbers in search for performance gains

One aspect of the new SailGP global circuit currently two events into its inaugural season is the open sharing of vast quantities of performance data gathered whenever any of the six boats go racing. With training time on the high-tech 50-foot foiling catamarans rationed to the week before each regatta, effective

Yacht Racing Podcast Episode 11 – Ed Baird

by yachtracinglife - 29th May 201931st May 2019 0869

Our guest on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Podcast is American yachtsman Ed Baird.

Justin Chisholm's guest on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Podcast is American yachtsman Ed Baird. Baird is the man who coached Team New Zealand to victory in the 1995 America’s Cup and then two cycles later in 2007 helped defeat the Kiwis as helmsman of the Swiss Alinghi challenge. In

Star Sailors League: Watch Star European Championship live

by yachtracinglife - 16th May 201917th May 2019 0789

Watch all the action from the Star Class European Championship taking place on Lake Garda in Italy this week courtesy of the Star Sailors League. Solid commentary from Digby Fox and Maurice Prof O'Connell. Day 1: https://youtu.be/eTORs8cNvqo Day 2: https://youtu.be/gkDXIWdYnyI Day 3: https://youtu.be/MFEaAWDT0mk Day 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjctQBOy-Kw Day 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4YWhAS7AlQ