The Great Cup’s first ever event has just concluded in Austria, the competitive debut of the 32ft semi-foiling catamaran, the GC32. The Daily Sail's James Boyd asks one of the brains behind the GC32, Andrew McPherson, for his rundown on this hi-tech flyer....
Olympic silver medallist Charlie Ogletree talks through reaching techniques in catamarans. "One of the common mistakes you see is the wind will drop a knot or two, and the natural reaction is to trim the sheets harder to keep the hull up. This is the exact opposite of what you should do. You should ease the sheet, which straightens the mast and generates more power from the sails...."
World's greatest keelboat sailor he may be, but Russell Coutts shows he has a few things to learn in multihulls, as this spectacular capsize in the AC45 catamaran shows. Indeed this is new territory for everyone, as the professional sailing world learns how to tame these scary cats....
Nick Dewhirst has been a thorn in the side of ISAF these past few years, leading a global charge to get the multihull back into the Olympic Regatta for Rio 2016. In the build-up to the ISAF Annual Conference in Athens, Nick says why he thinks the multihull will be invited back in from the cold and back into the bosom of Olympic sailing...
Alinghi helmsman Ed Baird talks through the process of tacking and gybing Alinghi 5, and how it might compare with the way that their America's Cup rivals on BMW Oracle Racing might approach the same manoeuvres...
SailJuice gets an exclusive interview with Mike Drummond, design coordinator of BMW Oracle Racing, the day after the extraordinary 190-foot wing rig goes for its first test sail on the DogZilla trimaran. Mike is talking straight from the boat, and shares his views on the benefits of solid-rig technology and his first impressions of this feat of modern engineering....
Glenn Ashby has won six world titles in the A-Class Cats. He also won an Olympic silver medal crewing Darren Bundock in the Tornado in China. No wonder BMW Oracle Racing signed Glenn up as a coach for the America's Cup! The talented Aussie talks about what's hot and what's not in the A-Class, the hi-tech development singlehander...
Rob Wilson has just beaten a fleet of more than 500 catamarans to win the world's biggest multihull race, the Round Texel in Holland. A North Sails man, Rob tells Sailing Talk about what's going in Formula 18 development and considers his prospects against a tough fleet at the forthcoming F18 World Championships in Belgium...
Audio (6 minutes) - Grant Piggott looks forward to a competitive 2009 season in the Formula 18 fleet, where a bunch of new designs will be vying for supremacy at the Worlds in Belgium this July...
Mitch Booth, a double Olympic medallist and former skipper of China Team, explains the challenge of racing AC45 multihulls on short courses...
Nick Dewhirst has been a thorn in the side of ISAF these past few years, leading a global charge to get the multihull back into the Olympic Regatta for Rio 2016. In the build-up to the ISAF Annual Conference in Athens, Nick says why he thinks the multihull will be invited back in from the cold and back into the bosom of Olympic sailing...
Alinghi helmsman Ed Baird talks through the process of tacking and gybing Alinghi 5, and how it might compare with the way that their America's Cup rivals on BMW Oracle Racing might approach the same manoeuvres...
SailJuice gets an exclusive interview with Mike Drummond, design coordinator of BMW Oracle Racing, the day after the extraordinary 190-foot wing rig goes for its first test sail on the DogZilla trimaran. Mike is talking straight from the boat, and shares his views on the benefits of solid-rig technology and his first impressions of this feat of modern engineering....
Rob Wilson has just beaten a fleet of more than 500 catamarans to win the world's biggest multihull race, the Round Texel in Holland. A North Sails man, Rob tells Sailing Talk about what's going in Formula 18 development and considers his prospects against a tough fleet at the forthcoming F18 World Championships in Belgium...