Entries by Paul Cayard

World Yacht Racing Forum

Over the past two days, I attended the inaugural World Yacht Racing Forum in Monaco. The first thing of note was the representation of sailing that the event brought together. To name a few people and organizations; Goran Petterson – President of ISAF, Mark Turner President of Offshore Challenges (which runs the Barcelona World Race, […]

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‘The Black Pearl – A Pirate Ship’

The perfect gift for the holiday season! Only 150 copies of 7000 left! This is the last chance to purchase a limited edition copy of Captain Cayard’s memoirs of the Pirates of the Caribbean team’s momentous race around the world. Imagine what it was like onboard ‘The Black Pearl’ for Captain Cayard and his Pirate […]

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CNEV Annual Regatta

The Alinghi sailing team raced SUI100, the 32nd America’s Cup winning boat, to five wins out of six this weekend in Valencia, winning the AC class trophy of the Trofeo Desafio Espanol, Club Nautico Espanol de Vela’s annual regatta. This three-day regatta heralds a return to racing for the AC Version 5.0s after a long […]

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Scuttlebutt Offshore Championship

SEAMANSHIP 101 – The lower shroud exploded with a loud ‘bang’ on Paul Cayard’s IC 24 on the return race from The Baths during Monday’s Scuttlebutt Offshore Championship held at the Bitter End YC in the BVI. Cayard quickly tacked the boat and handed the helm to BEYC guest John Stephenson. Without wasting a motion, […]

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TP52 Worlds

Up and down day today for El Desafio. The wind was 20 to 25 knots from the North and shifty for a change. The short story is in the first race we had a bad start and could not get in phase and finished 12th. In the second race we had a great start, stayed […]

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TP52 Worlds

Terrible day for El Desafio today with a 13, 10. The wind was 15-20 knots from 000 to 020, very shifty and puffy. In both races we struggled to play the shifts. Quantum is showing superior sailing skill really. Their boat is fast but so is ours. Today they scored a 1, 3. They are […]

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TP52 Worlds

Shredded sails, crashing boats and big speed was the order of the day today at the TP 52 World Championship. Some how through it all, El Desafio came through for the win! After a good start we were approaching the first windward mark on starboard. Bribon and Synergy just simply refused to go behind us […]

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TP52 Worlds

Today we were met with very light winds but with the forecast of a front passing through the area and increased winds behind. The wind direction was forecast to stay in the North to Northeast quadrant so we were apprehensive about racing along this Southern coast of Lanzarote. Fortunately, the front came a bit earlier […]

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PAUL CAYARD TO SPEAK AT WORLD YACHT RACING FORUM

Geneva, 21 October 2008 – Organisers of the World Yacht Racing Forum are pleased to announce Paul Cayard as one of the guest speakers at the inaugural two day conference in Monaco this December. Cayard joins an already impressive list of speakers and panellists including Team Alinghi skipper Brad Butterworth (NZL), CEO of Team Origin […]

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