Entries by Paul Cayard

Summer of 2003 – One month in Sweden

It started with the Swedish Match Cup at Marstrand. After a bit of a rest from Match Racing, I signed up to be tactician for Peter Holmberg in this great event. We had Mike Sanderson on the main, Robbie Naismith on the genoa and spinnaker and Jared Henderson on the bow. Actually, everyone was all […]

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AC Finals Preview

We are down to the short strokes now. As I write this Alinghi is leading Oracle 3 to 1 in the Louis Vuitton final so I am assuming the America

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Louis Vuitton Series

The first two rounds of the Louis Vuitton Cup went pretty much as expected. Alinghi and Oracle finished at the top, and Mascalzone Latino went home first. Possibly Stars and Stripes performed a bit worse than expected at 7th and the Swedes a bit better than expected at 5th. Now the “do-or-die” rounds start and […]

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Star Worlds

The Star World Championship this year attracted 103 competitors from 25 nations including 11 former world champions and seven different nations in the top eight places. To say that the fleet was deep is and understatement. The class is stronger than ever and the promise of beautiful California weather guaranteed a large turn out in […]

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Kinetics and Prada – A few points… …

Recently much has been written and said about Kinetics in Sailing. I have read many points of view including an unfortunate comment by one very prominent leader in sailing calling many of our sailors “cheaters”. Here is my point of view. First of all, this is competition. In any competition, one of the main goals […]

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Cayard is Bowman

I have not gybed a spinnaker pole since 1978. Oracle Racing coach Dave Ullman reminded me of this on our one and only practice day before the Bermuda Gold Cup in October. In 1978 I crewed for Dave Ullman in a 505 a few times and previous to that spent a lot of time on […]

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