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PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan dials in from the Big Apple while Sailjuice’s Andy Rice enjoys an unexpectedly sunny trip to Kiel Week in northern Germany...

Sailjuice’s Andy Rice is back from a sub-par performance at the Musto Skiff Nationals in Yorkshire, but PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan is flying high at the Open Class gliding National Championships in the Cotswolds, when the weather allows, that is...

Well that’s a fancy boat that PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan is standing next to by the Hamble River! Sailjuice’s Andy Rice has brief boat envy but is more pre-occupied with his upcoming trip to Yorkshire and a potential capsize-a-thon at the Musto Skiff National Championship...

Matt and Andy discuss Giles Scott's first SailGP victory in cold and frisky Halifax, and reflect on the return leg across the Atlantic for the IMOCA fleet in the New York Vendée...

What if EVERYBODY could still win the championship going into the final day? That's what the 'Golden Ticket' format offers, without turning the championship into a lottery...

Matt Sheahan reports from Barcelona at the christening of the French America’s Cup team, Orient Express Racing's AC75...

This week, Andy Rice calls up from Turkey to update PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan on the world of wingfoil racing...

This week PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan tracks down Sailjuice’s Andy Rice to a beach in Hyères, south of France, for the Formula Kite World Championships...

PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan catches up with Sailjuice’s Andy Rice who’s reporting from the South of France. Andy’s at the last big regatta for the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 classes before the Olympic Games...

Oh dear, Matt and Andy are really going to have to do better than this! Way over the 5-minute limit this week as Andy updates on the Olympic scene from drizzly Hyeres in the South of France...

There’s always a lot going on at the top end of the sailing world, but 2024 is a particularly big one and two British journalists are in the thick of it...

Where the conventional wisdom has been that helmet hair is a bad thing, something to be avoided, the 15 year old Karl Maeder has embraced the opposite point of view. With kitefoilers hitting speeds up to 40 knots across the water, aerodynamics are almost as important as the hydrodynamic component beneath the surface.