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Interview: Ben Ainslie and an Unforced Error (in: Interviews)
May 22, 2010

It 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 (in: Interviews)
May 19, 2010

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 (in: Interviews)
May 19, 2010

The 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 (in: Interviews)
May 17, 2010

Robert 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.

Sailing Talk Podcast - Team Racing and Pregnant Olympians (in: Podcasts - Sailing Talk)
May 15, 2010

Justin has been reporting at the Wilson Trophy, one of the world's biggest team racing events where the Yanks showed the Seppos the way round, and Andy discusses pregnant Olympians and the latest developments with the 34th America's Cup....

Paul Goodison: How I turned from 7-stone weakling to Olympic Champion... (in: Goal Setting)
May 7, 2010

"I used to be small, was good at lake sailing, good in light winds. So when those conditions came along I used to train for six or seven hours because, man, it felt great beating everyone else! But then it was 30 knots, big waves, and the time when you should be really enjoying your sailing, I used to get my arse kicked. I'd only spend a third of my time practising in those conditions. And it didn't take me long to realise that the reason why I wasn't good across the board was because the stuff I'm good at, that's all I practised at..." So what did Paul Goodison do next?

Video Walk-thru: Anatomy of a World Champion's 470 (in: Equipment & Logistics)
Apr 25, 2010

470 Junior World & European Champion Jeremie Mion from France talks through some of the neat touches on his winning boat. There are some clever self-tidying systems that free up Jeremie and his helmsman Sofian Bouvet to get on with the task of racing.

MP3: Being shouted at? Should you stay or should you go? *** (in: Teamwork)
Apr 24, 2010

Top coach and former Fireball World Champion crew Adam Bowers has been through his good and bad sailing partnerships. Most of us have endured being shouted at, and I doubt many of us get much pleasure out of it. So we asked Adam about how to make sure you're in the right team, and if you're going through a rough patch, when to work through your 'marriage problems', and when to walk away...

MP3: Simple Tuning advice from Richard Estaugh ** (in: Boat Speed)
Apr 23, 2010

Audio (4 minutes): Tuning your boat really doesn't need to be that complicated. Sometimes it's easy to think that the better the sailor, the more finely they tune their rigs, especially if they're a sailmaker. Here's some great advice from the late great Richard Estaugh with some straightforward tuning advice for sailors who like to complicate things a bit too much...

Stevie Morrison: Extraordinary results from standard kit, Part 2 *** (in: Boat Speed)
Apr 22, 2010

In part 2 of Stevie Morrison's tips on boat tune, the Fireball and 49er World Champion looks at the question of whether a boat speed problem might be down to the boat or - heaven forbid - y-y-y-YOU!....