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Interviews & Profiles...

SailJuice.com is all about getting to understand how the world's best sailors think, and how you can apply the same style of thinking to your own sailing. Take a look at these interviews, and you'll get an insight into how some of the most accomplished sailors approach their sport, and what motivates them to achieve success year after year...


Mitch Booth

© Andy Rice - Mitch Booth, double Olympic medallist in the Tornado




Featured Articles

  Interview: Ben Ainslie and an Unforced Error
Ben AinslieIt happens even to the best of them. After rigging up their gennaker sheets incorrectly, Team Origin's gennaker hour-glassed during the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Sardinia. SailJuice got Ben Ainslie's response afterwards: "Pretty frustrating. One little mistake which led to a couple more mistakes which led to a race-losing mistake...."
  Phil Jones: Tough Love needed to secure future of Olympic Sailing
Phil Jones has been telling SailJuice about the radical recommendations by ISAF's Olympic Commission for the future of Olympic Sailing. For anyone who desires the status quo, the Olympic Commission's report won't make for comfortable reading. But if sailing is to survive and thrive as an Olympic sport, then ISAF and the politicians really need to sit up and take note of Jones's team's findings....
  Interview: Rob Greenhalgh on the Tour Voile and the Volvo Ocean Race
Rob Greenhalgh, Puma RacingThe last few years have seen Rob Greenhalgh make a successful transition from skiff world champion to one of the most sought-after offshore racers. The Brit has a busy season ahead, skippering an Oman Sail entry in the Tour Voile and still squeezing in some 14 and 18-foot skiff racing. Although he couldn't say at the time of the interview, he has since been confirmed as rejoining Puma Racing for the American team's second assault on the Volvo Ocean Race...
  Robert Scheidt Interview
Robert ScheidtRobert Scheidt was derigging his wife's Laser Radial at Hyeres Olympic Regatta when SailJuice caught up with the four-time Olympic medallist. Since taking the silver medal in the Star in Qingdao 2008, the Brazilian maestro has got married to Gintare, an Olympic silver medallist in her own right, and together they have had a son, Eric.
  Nick Craig: How to get up to World Champion speed A.S.A.P. ***
Nick Craig is one of our favourite people to interview. Why? Because he's won numerous National and World Championships while holding down a (nearly) full-time job. He packs a lot into a short time, so in many ways his advice is more relevant than the professional sailors with money and time at their disposal. In the first part of this interview, Nick shares his three most vital things to get right when he's getting to grips with a class he's not familiar with...
  How Nathan Outteridge went from Zero to Hero
Nathan OutteridgeIn January 2005 Nathan Outteridge was doing the long drive from Sydney to Melbourne when he was involved in a horrific car crash. A three-time ISAF Youth World Champion, Outteridge was told he might never walk again, let alone sail or race at the highest level. Three years later he was 49er World Champion. We interviewed Outteridge just moments after his victory in January 2008...
  Lucy Mcgregor: on the Olympic campaign trail again
Lucy Mcgregor learned her trade crewing for Shirley Robertson in the Yngling during the build-up to the last Olympics. Sarah Ayton's team ended up winning the Olympic slot for Great Britain, but now Mcgregor is back on the Olympic campaign trail, this time as skipper of her own match race campaign. SailJuice spoke to Mcgregor at the European Match Racing Championships in Denmark, and the World ranked No.3 sailor tells what she learned from sailing with a double Olympic Champion and also looks forward to the next three years until Weymouth 2012...
  49er Love & Hate
Chris Draper & Peter Greenhalgh on candid cameraBritish 49er sailors Chris Draper/Pete Greenhalgh & Stevie Morrison/Ben Rhodes are put on the spot for some quickfire answers. Amazing how much you can learn about people you thought you knew so well!
  MP3: Luca Devoti on the new D-1 dinghy, Star campaigns and America's Cup
Olympic Finn silver medallist Luca Devoti explains his radical plans for the D-1 singlehanded high performance dinghy, why aged 46 he's campaigning a Star for the next Olympics, and what he thinks about the America's Cup mess...
  Back on the Olympic trail: Interview with 49er champ Chris Draper
Chris Draper has just come out of premature retirement from Olympic campaigning. He is back at the helm of a 49er with another ‘retiree', Peter Greenhalgh who is doing the physically tough job of crewing the Olympic skiff more than five years since he last set foot in the boat.
 
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