Pauls Most Recent Sailing Reports
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Cayard’s Updates
- St. Barths BucketMarch 29, 2026 - 10:12 am
- Bacardi Cup 2026March 29, 2026 - 9:49 am
- Rolex Yachtsman of the YearMarch 29, 2026 - 9:31 am
- America’s Cup Hall of FameDecember 20, 2025 - 5:20 pm
- Star World Championship-2025December 20, 2025 - 5:10 pm
- Time to TackFebruary 25, 2023 - 3:48 pm
- US Olympic SailingMay 7, 2021 - 9:00 am
Bacardi CupMarch 2, 2020 - 7:56 pm
Sailing Scuttlebutt
- 2026 US Sailing Youth National Team
- Reimagining the 50-foot offshore racer
- Sailing, motherhood, and road to LA 2028
- Elite offshore racing coming to New York
- Regatta within a regatta in Charleston
- Sailing Grand Slam moves to France
- World Sailing’s latest contrived solution
- Curmudgeon’s Observation
- Karel Komárek: About business and yachting
- How would you decide this?
Audi MedCup
TP52Today was a good practice day for us on Artemis. The Mistral was still in but it was sailable with winds of 18-24 knots. Bright sunshine, a bit cooler at 27C and very dry conditions. Yesterday there was too much wind to sail as the Mistral was in at 30 knots. I got a nice […]
Cagliari-Day 1
TP52Got into Cagliari at 2300 last night after 30 hours flying from Honolulu. The flights went well it was just that there were four of them. My bags did not get lost because I did not check any. So all good there. This morning I woke up at 0430 local time. Just could not get […]
Transpac Results – Travelling Day
Star ClassOne Island to Another Honolulu With about 3/4’s of the fleet finished, the Transpac results are posted now for the top positions. Samba Pa Ti had a clean sweep winning our class, the fleet and first to finish among boats without movable ballast. Onboard Flash, we finished second in class and second overall. A very […]
Transpac Update
Star ClassTom Akin had a lot to say about sailing Flash, a TP 52, to Hawaii. His initial comments were, “I found out what is its like to be in a TP52 for seven days. You sit in water, you eat in water, and you sleep in water. It’s wet. The beast is not as luxurious […]
Transpac Update – 240 miles to go!
Star ClassIt was a tough 24 hours for Flash and a great 24 hours for Samba. The sailing has been great. Lots of high speed sailing….24 knots of boat speed. These TP52s with the bowsprits and deeper keels are great boats to sail. Everyone on Flash is driving the boat and experiencing the exhilaration. At one […]
Transpac Update – Aiming at the barn
Star ClassAbout 680 miles to go. Well we got to our gybe point just about an hour ago. So far the wind is holding in the low 60’s (this means 60 degrees as in ENE, not 60 knots) and that gives us a great heading right at Hilo. A lot will happen between here and Diamond […]
Transpac Update
STP-65Pretty excited today to find ourselves in first place overall! Lady luck must be smiling on the good ship Flash. We are not doing anything very exceptional, just sailing steady down the middle, with one eye on the router and one eye on the competition. Some of our competitors are doing the slalom, cutting from […]
Transpac Update
TranspacIt has been fairly mild sailing out here about 600 miles off the coast of California for the past 24 hours. There is still a high Marine Layer cover in the sky which is probably a good thing because 8 days of total sunshine would be draining. The winds have been in the 12-18 knot […]
Transpac Update
Transpac0330 PDT – The July 5th start of the Transpac Race was a good one. We had about 12 knots at the start and the wind held on a long starboard tack toward the West end of Catalina Island. We made a few short tacks to get around the West end about 2.5 hours after […]
Eve of the Start of Transpac09
TranspacIt is the eve of the start for us on Flash, the Farr designed TP52 which has been modified with a deeper keel, bowsprit and square top main. The Trans Pac is a 2250 mile race from LA to Honolulu which is run every odd numbered year. There are three starts in this years race […]
Star District Championship
UncategorizedThe longest day of the year, Father’s Day, and a win at the Star District Championship. That was June 21 for me. Now I am driving up Highway 5 to San Francisco with my son Danny. Last Thursday, Danny, Allie and I departed San Francisco onboard the TP 52 Flash (formerly Atalanti) and raced to […]
Challenged America Gala
UncategorizedSan Diego, CA I was honored to be the guest speaker at Friday night’s first annual Challenged America Gala dinner sponsored by West Marine. Honored because the mountains I have climbed in sailing are molehillls in comparison to what these disabled sailors do! President and co-founder of Challenged America Urban Miyares is a Vietnam Vet […]
Keynote Speaker at West Marine/ Challenged America Regatta
UncategorizedPaul Cayard will be the keynote speaker at the first West Marine/ Challenged America Regatta, June 12-13, 2009 in San Diego to support sailors with disabilities in the San Diego-based Challenged America program. Cayard will be speaking on Friday, June 12 at the event’s dinner and auction, following the fun race of San Diego commodores […]
RC 44 – Gmunden, Austria
RC44The Lake of Traunsee was not too kind to us today. Four very mediocre finishes pushed us down to 6th overall. The team from Holland in No Way Back, won the event. Artemis and Aqua followed. The sun actually came out for the day which made things a lot more pleasant. There was plenty of […]
RC 44 – Gmunden, Austria
RC44The Ceeref team had an ok day today. As with most of the teams, we went from first to last and back so many times and can’t remember. The conditions were fairly light and very shifty. There were some massive holes, the worst of which swallowed up Artemis in one race that they were winning […]
RC 44 – Gmunden, Austria
RC44The Ceeref team had a great day today, winning the day with a 2nd and a 1st place in the fleet racing. The conditions were fairly windy and very shifty. With owner Igor Lah at the helm, we got off the line well in both races. We fell a bit behind on the first leg […]
RC 44 – Gmunden, Austria
RC44We had a good day onboard Ceeref today winning three races and losing just one. The conditions were tricky as seems to be the norm here and this caused more than a few lead changes. Before things got going, our boat captain Josh did a great job getting down to the boat at 0700 to […]
Time for action for the RC 44 Class on Lake Traunsee
RC44The third event of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2009 starts tomorrow in Austria on the picturesque Lake Traunsee. A fairly strong wind is forecast, with temperatures dropping after today’s record temperatures. Representing eight nations, the nine RC 44’s involved in the RC 44 Austria Cup did two practice starts in a very light breeze […]
RC 44 – Gmunden, Austria
RC44Tomorrow will be the first day of racing for the RC44 fleet here in Gmunden. The RC44 is a relatively new class of boat designed by Russell Coutts and Andre Justin. It looks like a 1/2 scale of the America’s Cup boats from 2007. But it is relatively lighter and very high performing. It planes […]
Paul Cayard to join the RC 44 fleet for the Austria Cup
RC44May 12, 2009 – Following two successful regattas held in Lanzarote (SPA) and Cagliari (ITA), the RC 44 fleet is getting ready for the third stage of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2009. The RC 44 Austria Cup will take place on May 22 – 26 on the beautiful Lake Traunsee, in the middle of […]
PAUL CAYARD SUPPORTS DISABLED SAILORS AT THE WEST MARINE/CHALLENGED AMERICA REGATTA
UncategorizedSan Diego, CA (May 8, 2009) — Paul Cayard has joined West Marine and Cortez Racing Association for a benefit to support Challenged America sailors with disabilities in the first West Marine/Challenged America Regatta, June 12 & 13, 2009, in San Diego. “From being a seven-time World Champion and two-time Olympian, and five-time America’s Cup […]
Update from Boston, the Volvo Ocean Race
Round the WorldBOSTON – I just spent the weekend in Boston at the Volvo Ocean Race. This event is really catching on with the mainstream public. It seems that anyone who gets a close up look at the event becomes hooked. There was a lot of non sailing public roaming through the race village this weekend and […]
Sailing Finally Has A Home
America's CupIn 1998 I emceed a skipper’s forum on the Annapolis (Md.) City Dock, hosting the skippers of the Whitbread Round the World Race. Paul Cayard, skipper of the victorious EF Language syndicate, was on the panel, explaining to more than 1,000 people in the audience what it was like to sail in the Southern Ocean. […]
Elvestrom/Zellerbach Regatta Recap
UncategorizedThis past weekend I celebrated 30 years since I last sailed a 505 by racing on one. That’s right, not 30 years of 505 sailing but 30 years since I last stepped foot in one. I crewed for Howard Hamlin of Long Beach up here in SF in the Elvestrom(do we pay him a royalty?)/Zellerbach(I […]
Western Hemisphere Championship Race Day 4
Star ClassWell it wasn’t pretty but we got the job done. It would have been nice to have just kept getting 1’s and 2’s but that wasn’t to be. John MacCausland and Phil Trinter sailed well today with a 4, 1, 4 to tie us. Luckily because we had won the first two races, the tie […]
Western Hemisphere Championship Day 3
Star ClassAll racing was cancelled today due to high winds, thunderstorms, lightening and large hail. The competitors moved their boats behind and under the club to protect them from the strong southerly winds which gusted up to 35 knots at one point. I have a few picture enclosed to give you a better idea. Also a […]
Western Hemisphere Championship Race Day 2
Star ClassRaces 2 and 3 were completed today under overcast skies with a 10 knot northeasterly breeze that dropped to 6 knots by the end of race 3. There was a 0.6 knot current running to the west all day and this was a big factor with regard to lay lines. There was no perceivable relief […]
Western Hemisphere Championship
Star ClassA small fleet of Stars has turned up here in Mississippi for the Western Hemisphere Championship also known as the Spring Championship. There is one Spring Championship in Europe and one in North America each year. This year there are 18 boats here in Pass Christian. My crew, Austin Sperry, lives here so I am […]
Western Hemisphere Championship Race Day 1
Star ClassWhile most of the sailing world was on its toes waiting for the NY court to issue its decision regarding the America’s Cup feud, Hoss and I were out racing the Star on the Gulf Coast. Thunderstorms forced a one hour postponement this morning and then the wind died after we finished the first race […]
The Bitter End Yacht Club’s Line up
UncategorizedThe Bitter End Yacht Club has announced the line up for skippers at the 2009 Pro Am Regatta, October 31 to November 7, which includes Ed Baird, Paul Cayard, Morgan Larson, Zach Railey, Ken Read, and Anna Tunnicliffe. The 23rd Annual Pro Am format provides the keen sailor an opportunity to crew for Olympic Medalists, […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 6
Star ClassAnother perfect day, 78 degrees, 10 knots of wind from the southeast. We did have a big cloud come over the course today and kill the wind for a while on the second windward leg but, I don’t think it shuffled the results too much. We were convinced about the right side of the course […]
The Crew’s View – Austin Sperry
Star ClassIt’s been almost seven months since I was in a Star boat. Given the last 3+ years of full time campaigning I was really crispy, tired and burned out….and wondered if I would ever hop back in the boat. Then I got the call. “Hoss, it’s Boss. We’re going sailing,” said Paul (Cayard). My first […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 5
Star ClassAnother perfect day: 80 degrees, 12-14 knots of wind, sunshine, short chop on Biscayne Bay. 70 Stars on the starting line. It doesn’t get better than this. Unfortunately, our score could have. We had a decent start but got out to the left of the first windward leg and the right was better once again. […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 4
Star ClassIt is still sunny and 80 degrees. The wind blew a bit harder today 8-12 knots from the Southeast. There was a general recall and then a black flag start. When the black flag is up, if you go over the start line early you are disqualified. This has the effect of backing people off […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 3
Star ClassShort story. We got 8th moved up to 4th overall. More Later.
Bacardi Cup – Race 3
Star ClassThe weather hasn’t changed…still perfect. 80 degrees, sunny, light winds. We finished 8th today and are now lying 4th overall. Peter Bromby and Magnus Liljedahl are leading with two second places in races 2 and 3 and average points for race 1 which gives them another 2nd in that race. Most people are very inconsistent […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 2
Star ClassAnother beautiful day on Biscayne Bay. Sunny and 80 degrees with a light Southeasterly breeze. Plenty of sunburns for everyone. We had a decent result finishing 10th. It was huge recovery after a not-so-flash start and a 30th place at the first mark. After one general recall, the race committee hoisted the black flag for […]
Bacardi Cup – Race 1
Star ClassThe first thing to say is that the weather down here is perfect: 8-12 knots of wind from the Southeast and 80 degrees. It doesn’t get better than this anywhere. Sailing here at the 82nd edition of the Bacardi Cup marks my return to the Star Class after a four year absence. I am fortunate […]
San Francisco
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World Yacht Racing Forum
UncategorizedOver 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, […]