In the words of Charles Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”. In that context, sailing is in for a rough time…...So says Roy Dunster in this add-on to the podcast chat from last week, where the management consultant warned that the Olympic Regatta must go through revolutionary change in order to maximise its chances of survival....

On Lake Garda, the Schneiter family’s Team Tilt, managed by father Alex and steered by Olympic 49er sailor son Sébastien, has been crowned first ever GC32 World Champion. Apart from a brief falter in today’s final race, the Swiss team never finished a race lower than fourth....

A multi-day regatta presents a new set of challenges and a lot more pressure than your average season race. Here are a few do's and don’ts to make sure your boat and your crew are ready to perform....

World Sailing’s Mid Year Meeting was crunch time for deciding the future of the Olympic Regatta. Emotions and opinions were running high during the meeting in London. World Sailing got it in the neck from all sides, but one sailor who came to the organisation’s defence was Roy Dunster from South Africa....

South African sailor Roy Dunster argues that Olympic sailing is stuck in a time warp. When the rest of the world is moving at such a pace, Roy says the line-up of Olympic events should reflect those changing times....

Anyone has the right to start a petition. However, when it’s as misleading as the one about the equipment for the 2024 Sailing Olympic Games, it deserves a response. Some of the impressions that you might have from the petition motivation:

1. Our sport is under imminent threat!

2. The very future of our sport is at risk!

Day 1 of the Mid Year Meeting and the Events Committee discussed all the options and laid out the proposal to include the following events in the Paris 2024 Olympic Regatta line-up:

Windsurfing for Men & Women
Kitesurfing (Mixed)
Finn (Men)
A new singlehander (Women)

So, no room for the 470......

There's a feeling that the International Olympic Committee is breathing down the neck of World Sailing, and watching our sport’s decisions very closely, writes Andy Rice. “Change or Die” more or less sums up the feeling. We’d better make some radical changes quickly, or else they’ll be forced upon us. Worst case, sailing is ejected from the Games altogether....

Ben Nicholls was sitting on his commuter train chatting to a fellow sailor about an article he'd just seen published in Seahorse magazine. A number of Olympic medallists had clubbed together to voice their concern about the discussions going on in advance of World Sailing's Mid Year Meeting in London. It appears that a number of wholesale changes are on the table for discussion, some of them never trialled in major competition. Ben asked his friend what he should do. "Put up a petition on Change.org!" And so that's what Ben did. More than 18,000 signatures later, Sailjuice.com decided it might be interesting to find out more from the man himself....

Exiting the Southern Ocean marks a milestone in any circumnavigation, but for this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race the passing of the notorious headland triggered a deeply emotional response across the fleet...

French Finn sailor Jonathan Lobert recalls that tense medal race from London 2012 when he just managed to scrape a bronze medal from a big scrap for glory....