On-The-Ground Updates and Highlights from the North Sails team in Auckland

Step onboard the AC75 with grinder David 'Freddie' Carr and learn more about the roles that make the good ship bRITAnnia fly...

Nathan Outteridge reviews a race from the Nacra 17 World Championship 2020 in Geelong, Melbourne

In Olympic circles nobody talks about having a bad day, writes Ben Remocker. The cliched quote most often heard in post racing interviews is about lessons learned. Unless the lesson can be explained, don’t believe it, despite how often the phrase is repeated...

Most hardened America’s Cup followers will clearly remember the image that was the talk of the sailing world for many weeks. A high angle shot, looking down on a giant 72 foot red and black Emirates Team New Zealand catamaran seemingly flying above the waters of the Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour...

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....

SoftBank Team Japan have bragging rights as the first team to pull off the foiling tack. As Dean Barker and Chris Draper point out, this really is a 'gamechanger' for the 2017 America's Cup, and opens up the tactical opportunities with the possibility of the foiling AC cats tacking on the windshifts...

Nathan Outteridge has been steering Gunvor at the GC32 Riva Cup. He was racing with a bunch of his Bermuda-based colleagues including Iain Percy, Luke Parkinson and Christian Camp...

Could this be Chris Rashley's year? He's finished 2nd and 4th at the last two Moth World Champs and the 2016 Worlds takes place this week, starting 24 May. With Nathan Outteridge and Pete Burling absent, this could be a good year for Rashers to get on the top of the podium, although there's plenty of people in his way: Rob Greenhalgh, Josh McKnight, Scott Babbage and Paul Goodison to name a few....

Chris Rashley's eye for detail is obvious in this walk-around of his Exocet International Moth. The bowsprit ain't pretty, but it's effective, and it's a must-have piece of kit in the Moth class these days...