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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

  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.
  What chance of an 11th Medal for the Multihull? Carolijn Brouwer speaks
Carolijn Brouwer is a talented sailor who has competed in three Olympic Games in three different classes. Most recently it was steering the Tornado in Qingdao, the only woman in the fleet. The Belgian sailor is also President of the International Tornado Association (ITA), and so SailJuice contacted Brouwer to find out the latest on the possibility of a multihull getting back into the Olympics for Weymouth 2012.
  Where next for Women's Olympic Match Racing?
Women's Match Racing is the new Olympic discipline, but a lack of entries for Palma and Hyeres has seen this new event cancelled from the first two major regattas of the European calendar. Is this just a temporary blip or are there bigger problems going on? We got the views of RYA Olympic Manager Stephen Park....
  Anna Tunnicliffe reflects on Qingdao gold and looks forward to Weymouth gold
Audio (8 minutes) and text: Anna Tunnicliffe reflects on a dramatic conclusion to the last Olympics. The Laser Radial Olympic Champion talks about what she's been up to since then, and why she's back on the campaign trail so early for Weymouth 2012.
  Jonathan McKee regrets Puma loss but has an exciting 2009 lined up instead
Audio (10 minutes): Olympic gold medallist and America's Cup sailor Jonathan McKee was all revved up to do the Volvo Ocean Race with Puma, but he only did Leg One was off the boat. He talks about the disappointment, but also the subsequent upsides of this move...
 
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