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Catamarans...

Here you'll find some of the best advice from some of the best sailors on two hulls - Darren Bundock,
Glenn Ashby, Mitch Booth - and a few non-Aussies too!


Bundock & Ashby in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Photo by Andrea Francolini: Bundock & Ashby flying across Sydney Harbour



Featured Articles

  Taming the cat downwind with Leigh McMillan ***
Leigh McMillanDouble Olympian Leigh McMillan talks through the balancing act of getting a cat downhill in the windy stuff without pitchpoling. "When it’s getting too hairy, we let the windward hull skim the wave tops just to provide that extra safety margin. But the more you drop the windward hull in the water, the slower you go and the more you lose the apparent wind that you’d generated. It's about how close to the edge you are...."
  Video: Ed Baird on gybing Alinghi 5
Alinghi helmsman Ed Baird talks through the process of tacking and gybing Alinghi 5, and how it might compare with the way that their America's Cup rivals on BMW Oracle Racing might approach the same manoeuvres...
  Ashby's A-Class Boatspeed #1 ***
Glenn AshbyMultiple A-Class World Champion (and Olympic silver medallist and sailing coach for BMW Oracle Racing) Glenn Ashby shares his tips on high-performance cat preparation and boat speed. As a six-time World Champ and also a F18 and Tornado Worlds winner, no one knows what makes a multihull tick better than Ashby...
  Ashby’s A-Class Technique #2 ***
Glenn AshbyMultiple A-Class World Champion (and Olympic silver medallist) Glenn Ashby shares his tips on high-performance cat technique..."I sail depowered rather than too powered up. I pull a lot of cunningham on quite early. I prefer to go for speed rather than having any chance of staggering...."
  BMW Oracle's Wing Rig flies for the first time
BMW Oracle's wing rigSailJuice gets an exclusive interview with Mike Drummond, design coordinator of BMW Oracle Racing, the day after the extraordinary 190-foot wing rig goes for its first test sail on the DogZilla trimaran. Mike is talking straight from the boat, and shares his views on the benefits of solid-rig technology and his first impressions of this feat of modern engineering....
  MP3: Glenn Ashby looks at the gear that's making A-Class cats go fast ***
Glenn Ashby has won six world titles in the A-Class Cats. He also won an Olympic silver medal crewing Darren Bundock in the Tornado in China. No wonder BMW Oracle Racing signed Glenn up as a coach for the America's Cup! The talented Aussie talks about what's hot and what's not in the A-Class, the hi-tech development singlehander...
  MP3: Darren Bundock on trapezing style in catamarans **
Bundock & Ashby getting going upwind Multiple Olympic medallist and Tornado World Champion Darren Bundock explains why it's important to look good when you're trapezing. If you look the part, you are probably sailing the part too...
  Tune your F18 cat for ultimate speed, with Rob Wilson **
Rob Wilson, overall winner of the 500-boat Zwitserleven Round Texel Race, talks through his approach to tuning a Formula 18 catamaran for top upwind speed, looking at the important stuff and some of the stuff that people THINK is important but can sometimes be just a distraction...
  Podcast: Sailing Talk with Rob Wilson, winner of the Round Texel cat race
Rob Wilson has just beaten a fleet of more than 500 catamarans to win the world's biggest multihull race, the Round Texel in Holland. A North Sails man, Rob tells Sailing Talk about what's going in Formula 18 development and considers his prospects against a tough fleet at the forthcoming F18 World Championships in Belgium...
  MP3: Grant Piggott previews the Formula 18 season
Audio (6 minutes) - Grant Piggott looks forward to a competitive 2009 season in the Formula 18 fleet, where a bunch of new designs will be vying for supremacy at the Worlds in Belgium this July...
 
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