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Cayard’s Updates
- Time to TackFebruary 25, 2023 - 3:48 pm
- US Olympic SailingMay 7, 2021 - 9:00 am
Bacardi CupMarch 2, 2020 - 7:56 pm
SSL FinalsDecember 7, 2019 - 4:10 pm
SSL Finals-Day 4December 6, 2019 - 6:45 pm- SSL FinalsDecember 5, 2019 - 4:22 pm
Schoonmaker CupNovember 10, 2019 - 2:51 pm
Vintage Gold Cup 2019October 6, 2019 - 2:07 pm
Sailing Scuttlebutt
- Apply now for CA Dreamin’
- Boat Builder Awards at Metstrade 2024
- Samo Vidic wins Yacht Racing Image Award, again
- New leader in the Vendée Globe
- Curmudgeon’s Observation
- Final event of 44Cup 2024 Season
- Another record set in Vendée Globe
- 2024 Star South American Champs
- Eight Bells: William Alexander Abbott
- Italy SailGP Team unveiled
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupLa Maddalena, Sardinia No racing for Artemis today. The Mistral was strong this morning and racing got underway with the first match at 1530 in about 18 knots of wind.Mascalzone Latino beat TeamOrigin to move up to 5 wins. The Italian team could tie for first in the round robin with that win depending on […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupBig day for Artemis. In our only match of the day, which did not get underway until 1830, we beat Emirates Team New Zealand by 17 seconds to take solo possession of first place. After a tough pre-start with Artemis entering from the left side on port tack, Dean Barker, helmsman of ETNZ, had control […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupOnly one race was held today before the Mistral kicked in. In a rematch of the annulled BMW Oracle vs. Emirates Team New Zealand match, the Kiwi’s prevailed and moved into a tie for third place on 4 wins. So the top of the leader board is shared by Artemis and Synergy. Synergy is done […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupIt’s all on here in La Maddalena. Six matches were scheduled for today, two of which included ARTEMIS. First we were up against the Italians onboard AZZURRA, in their home waters, immediately followed by SYNERGY. The Russian team has shown remarkable improvement since Auckland and as of last night was tied for first. Just as […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupLa Maddalena, Sardinia – Today was planned to be a big day for ARTEMIS, with two races scheduled. First was to be Emirates Team New Zealand followed by ALL4ONE in the third and fourth matches of the day. When our turn finally came round at 1700 this afternoon, there were issues with one of the […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupOn ARTEMIS, we headed into today undefeated with four wins, having been at the top of the scoreboard for the last two days. A nice, but precarious position to be in with the best sailing teams in the world racing here in La Maddalena. Emirates Team New Zealand, winners of the last Louis Vuitton Trophy […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupHaving changed the schedule around yesterday evening to ensure that all the teams had raced each other, PRO Peter ‘Luigi’ Reggio had every intention of getting racing started earlier today at 0900. The wind however, didn’t fill in until about 1130 when the first match of started between the Russians onboard Synergy and Mascalzone Latino. […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupLa Maddalena, Sardinia Artemis was first up today against America’s Cup winner BMW Oracle. The conditions were 15 knots from the west and a perfectly sunny day. Terry Hutchinson got a great start shutting out James Spithill at the committee boat. I was reluctant to give the American’s much rope to play with in the […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupAnother win for Artemis today over the previously unbeaten Aleph Team of France. After a long wait for wind this morning, racing finally got underway at 1430. In the first flight of the day, the Brits on TeamOrigin beat BMW Oracle by controlling the start and getting a penalty on the Americans. In the other […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupAnother win for Artemis today over the previously unbeaten Aleph Team of France. After a long wait for wind this morning, racing finally got underway at 1430. In the first flight of the day, the Brits on TeamOrigin beat BMW Oracle by controlling the start and getting a penalty on the Americans. In the other […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupLa Maddalena, Sardinia – Today was Artemis’ first race in the Louis Vuitton Trophy – La Maddalena. We were up against the Brits in TeamOrigin. No race is easy out here. After a long delay, our warning signal was finally given at 1445 with the wind at just 6 knots from the Northeast. We won […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena
America's CupLa Maddalena, Sardinia The transformed US Naval Base at La Maddalena is now a beautiful base for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Four America’s Cup Class yachts, two from Mascalzone Latino Audi Team and two from BMW Oracle Racing will be used by the ten teams. Today was the first day of racing. Beautiful blue skies […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal Race Day 4 – Not a fun day for Artemis but we managed to hold onto third place. We had a decent race in the first one with a 6th but lost both Quantum and All4One on the final run to the finish. All4One was just 0.5 ahead of us in second place […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal Race Day 4 – Today we had the coastal race. The winds were 15-25 knots from the NW. Team New Zealand led from start to finish. Matador put on their best race to finish second and Jochen Schuemann and his All4One team finished third and lie in 2nd overall due to TeamOrigin finishing […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal Race Day 3 – Two great races again today in 15-25 knots of wind from the Northwest. We had a bit of rain, but the wind really made the racing exciting with the boats planing at over 20 knots downwind. Onboard ARTEMIS we had a good day and moved up in the standings […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal Race Day 2 – Two races were held today and the competition was once again extremely tight. The conditions were a bit breezier than yesterday with a maximum windspeed in the second race of 25 knots. The wind was also very shifty, with the range from 305 to 005. Being in the middle […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal Race Day 1 – Three races were held today and the competition was extremely tight. In fact, just three points separate the top 6 boats at the end of the first day. Emirates Team New Zealand, last season’s winner, scored both a first place and a last place in today’s racing. Onboard Artemis […]
TP52 Portugal Trophy
TP52Cascais, Portugal The TP52 Audi MedCup season is set to begin tomorrow. The first of the five event season gets underway here in Cascais, just west of Lisbon, with two windward leeward courses tomorrow. There are 11 teams here competing in what is one of the most competitive professional sailing circuits in sailing. The list […]
34th America’s Cup – Press Conference – Rome
America's CupRome – The oldest trophy in international sport: re-energised by unprecedented collaboration between the Defender and the Challengers – New, fair rules and independent professional management will give an equal opportunity to all teams – A new class of fast, exciting boats created in conjunction with all teams – The 159 year old competition made […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- The wind came back to Lake Traunsee today and racing got underway on time at 1130. Race officer Peter Reggio got four races in again. BMW Oracle continued to show dominance with both of their boats tied for first place in the fleet racing. No way back, last year’s overall winner, finished third. Onboard […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- No wind, no racing. Meetings and a gym work out. Artemis/Katusha dinner tonight in a castle from the 14th century. Tomorrow is the last day of racing so let’s hope for a bit of wind. Paul For complete results go to www.rc44.com
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- Today was the first day of fleet racing here in Austria. After torrential rains last night, the wind was slow to get going but finally around 1400 we got the first race of the day started. As you probably know, the RC 44 is an “owner driver” class in the fleet racing. Our owner, […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- The Match Racing portion of the event concluded well for Katusha with 3 wins and just one loss today. Our only loss today was to Aqua who tied BMW Oracle with 7 wins for first. BMW Oracle won the tiebreaker and we finished third with 6 wins. We are happy with third as the […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- It was a picture perfect day on Lake Traunsee today, one to remember I think as the forecast for the weekend is not so nice. Today was clear blue skies and a nice 8-12 knots breeze filled in on the south part of the lake at 1130 so racing got underway right on time. […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden- It was a beautiful day on Lake Traunsee today. We may have to remember it as things have a way of changing fast around here. The sun was out all day. The wind started out slowly, but finally built to 8 knots from the northeast by 1600. We trained most of the day with […]
RC44 Austria Cup
RC44Gmunden – After a quick trip to Moscow on Sunday and Sochi yesterday, to work on a Russian Louis Vuitton Trophy event in 2011, I arrived in Austria late last night. Gmunden and its Lake Traunsee is the site of the second event on the RC 44 Championship Tour of 2010. Lake Traunsee is spectacularily […]
Made it!
TP52San Francisco – I am supposed to leave Friday for Moscow with my “Chairman of WSTA” hat on. The Synergy Team, one of the original founding members of WSTA, wants to host a Louis Vuitton Trophy event in Sochi, on the Black Sea, in one year. This would be a meeting with the sponsors and […]
TP 52 Palmavela
TP52Lisbon – A few more airports in Europe are open today than yesterday, mostly in the South. Northern Europe still closed. Luckily, I tacked to the Southwest! My original route was through Frankfurt…..No go zone. I have my boarding pass….again-been there before….24hrs ago. Planes are taking off here in Lisbon although 75% of the flights […]
TP 52 Palmavela
TP52Between Barcelona and Lisbon on the train – I could never explain well enough what the situation is like over here in Europe for anyone who wants to travel somewhere or get a hotel room. Since making the decision to try to escape one day early, here is what I have encountered: 1. Got to […]
TP 52 Palmavela
TP52A decent sea breeze filled in today around 1400 and two races were held in 8-9 knots from the southwest. The wind was more shifty and the race course more open than the usual, “must go left” Palma. Matador came back on form today and won both races leading all the way. They had slightly […]
TP 52 Palmavela
TP52A very good day on Artemis today with three more bullets. It wasn’t as easy as it looks from the score line. In fact, in the last race we were third at the last windward mark. The wind filled in from the southwest at 8 knots around 1230. In the first race we had a […]
TP 52 Palmavela
TP52Artemis is in Palma racing in her first TP52 regatta of the 2010 season. The Palmavela event is not part of the Audi MedCup circuit, but it is an opportunity to test the boat after the winter modifications. The TP52 Class made some rule changes allowing bowsprits, square top mainsails and a lower crew weight […]
Nassau, Bahamas
Cayard Sailing ReportsI flew in to Nassau today largely to see one person; Sir Durward Knowles. The Star Western Hemisphere Spring Championship will take place here this week and 32 teams are here training. It means a lot to Durward to have the Stars here in his hometown. Durward is the Commodore of the International Star Class. […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupWith a light air forecast for today the two finalists, Team New Zealand and Mascalzone Latino were held at the dock for 2 hours hedging for a 1200 start. Race PRO Peter Reggio moved the racecourse out to the Hauraki Gulf once again to try to get steadier conditions in these mild southwesterly’s. Because of […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupIt was a long day of waiting for us today and finally we raced Azzurra for 3rd/4th place. The race was over just as it started. The jury decided we fouled Azzurra on the entry and penalized us. From there we hung close waiting for an opportunity to pass, which we almost did on the […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupAn up and down day for Artemis We sailed a best 2 out of 3 against Mascalzone Latino today. They got the first one, we got the second one and they got the third one. All the races were very tightly contested and it was quite a battle. The wind was down in velocity today, […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupArtemis moves into the Semi-Finals Another good win for Artemis today over the Brits on TeamOrigin. It was another tight race in tricky conditions. Winds were 12-14 knots from the Southwest. We were on hold for two hours as the winds were absent at 1000 this morning. The race committee informed the competitors that the […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupAnother good win for Artemis today over the Italians on Azzurra. No wild excitment like yesterday against the Brits, just steady control of the race, abeit in the upper wind range. In fact we were on hold for 45 minutes as the wind had built to 25 knots at our scheduled start time. It came […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy-Auckland
America's CupWe had a great day today on Artemis. Things really went our way and it was very satisfying. First, we had a good tussle against ALL4ONE. We had the left off the line and tacked soon there after. We got good pressure from the left and were ahead at the first cross. From there we […]
A free team-building exercise!
America's Cup“That was a good team building exercise!” With those words Paul Cayard, skipper of the Swedish boat Artemis summed up their Louis Vuitton Trophy race today with Britain’s TEAMORIGIN, one that was more akin to a bar brawl. Packed with protest flags, incidents and flogging sails at three marks of a four-leg course, this close-fought […]