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
- Tips on going faster in bad air
- Curmudgeon’s Observation
- Race to Alaska: The winner has won
- Sailfaster with Tom Slingsby
- Inside AC: Women on the wheel
- The race to safeguard navigation
- Why true wind angle matters offshore
- Line honors for Newport Bermuda Race
- Spain win at SailGP Halifax
- Sled wins TP52 World Championship title
- Project Pipeline AnnouncementFebruary 5, 2015 - 7:10 pm
- St. Barths BucketMarch 29, 2026 - 10:12 am
- AmericaOne-Challenger America’s Cup XXXJune 1, 1996 - 12:00 am
- MaxisOctober 1, 1996 - 12:00 am
- 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
‘The Black Pearl – A Pirate Ship’
UncategorizedThe 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 […]
CNEV Annual Regatta
America's CupThe 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 […]
Scuttlebutt Offshore Championship
UncategorizedSEAMANSHIP 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, […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52Up 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 […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52Terrible 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 […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52Shredded 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 […]
PAUL CAYARD TO SPEAK AT WORLD YACHT RACING FORUM
Cayard Sailing ReportsGeneva, 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 […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52Today 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 […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52Two races were held today off the coast of Lanzarote in 10-12 knots from the Northeast. Unfortunately, we kept our same form from the last race in the first race today, losing five boats on the final run and finishing 12th. In the second race of the day, we got in phase early and with […]
TP52 Worlds
TP52We did not have a great day on El Desafio. The wind was very shifty and tricky. We were mediocre. We are tied for 7th after three races. Artemis had the winning form today with a 1, 2, 2 Quantum is in second with a 2,6,1 and Mutua Madrilena is just behind with 3, 1, […]
TP52 Pre-Worlds
TP52Only one race was held today as the wind was very unstable making it very difficult for the race committee to set the starting line. The wind went from 3 knots to 12 knots and from 320 to 050 in continual motion until around 1400. Finally at about 1430 they got one race underway and […]
TP52 Pre-Worlds
TP52Three races were completed today off the coast of Lanzarote with winds of 14-18 knots from 015 to 080. Shifty and difficult again. We did pretty well again and stretched our lead to 11 points on Platoon with a 5,1,4. The competition was a bit tougher today with Quantum and Artemus out on the track. […]
TP52 Pre-Worlds
TP52Lot of new words up there at the top. The TP 52 fleet is racing in the Trofeo Cesar Manrique here in Lanzarote for three days as a tune up for the TP 52 World Championship which will start on Monday. Lanzarote is in the Canary Islands, in fact, I believe it is the Eastern […]
Les Voiles de St. Tropez
Star ClassNot a bad day for the Moneypenny. We think we beat Container, so that we put us ahead of her for the week. Numbers and Ran beat us for sure. After a lengthy postponement ashore, the fleet headed out for a pleasant race. By 1300 the wind had moderated to 12 knots and we sailed […]
Les Voiles de St. Tropez
Star ClassNo racing today. Mistral was in strong. 52 knots top wind speed! No one left the harbor. The forecast is for this to moderate tomorrow and hopefully be raceable. We will see. I had a very nice dinner with my French cousins last night in Mougins, which is a very charming town just inland of […]
Les Voiles de St. Tropez
Star ClassWe had an email blackout at our house over the past 24 hours and somehow my Blackberry went down at the same time. Blackberry is back up now so I am writing this from the boat. Anyway, yesterday was a black day for us onboard Moneypenny as we were black flagged at the start. Today […]
Les Voiles de St. Tropez
Star ClassToday was the first race day here in St. Tropez. It is an amazing collection of boats here from classics like the J-boat Velsheda to super modern Wally’s like Essence with her 170 foot mast.
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52We could not have had a much worse day today. An 8th and a last dropped us to 6th overall. The wind was light all day. We did not get off the line well in either race. In the first one, we made a nice come back to round the last windward mark 6th but […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52One race today as the wind died in the second race and it was abandoned on the last windward leg. In the first race, with the wind 11 knots from 125, we had a decent start about halfway down the line with Bribon to leeward. Platoon started at the windward end and was amongst the […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52No wind, no race. We pick up again tomorrow with windward-leward racing. The forecast is for 11-16 knots from the east.
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52A very good day for Desafio today and we took over the lead. It was as much that Quantum and Audi Q8 had bad days as it was that we had a good one. A 7, 3 isn’t bad but Platoon and Matador won the day with a 1, 2 each. Matador has moved into […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52Three races were held today in a very nice breeze of 14-18 knots from 315. This breeze comes offshore here on the South coast of
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Portimao
TP52The TP 52 fleet has assembled in Portimao, Portuigal for the final regatta of the 2008 Audi
Rolex Maxi Worlds – Day 5
Star ClassNo wind. No race. Unfortunate situation. So the results don’t change. Moneypenny third, Numbers first and Rosebud second in the Mini Maxi Class. Next stop for this fleet is St. Tropez at the end of September. For me, I will be back in the TP 52 with El Desafio on September 15 for the last […]
Rolex Maxi Worlds – Day 4
Star ClassA short note tonight as a lot is going on. A good day for Moneypenny with a second place. Numbers is pretty much untouchable and Rosebud was over the start line early and had to return. Tomorrow will be the fight for second between Rosebud and us, in the 18 boat Mini Maxi class. One […]
Rolex Maxi Worlds – Day 3
Star ClassThe wind was in today and the Mini Maxi fleet which contains Moneypenny, Numbers and Rosebud, raced two windward leeward courses. There are 18 boats in the Mini Maxi class in total and with the wind reaching 22 knots, we were flying downwind. The other fleets did another coastal race. The sad news of the […]
Rolex Maxi Worlds – Day 2
Star ClassRace day 2 got underway at 1300 after a 1.5 hour delay with seven knot Easterly wind.
Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup – THE WHO’S WHO AND WHAT’S WHAT OF THE MAXI RACING SCENE
America's CupSeptember 1, 2008 The 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda gets underway tomorrow with an entry list of 40 yachts representing a broad spectrum of maxi scene. Once again the canting keeled, carbon-fibre, super-maxi Alfa Romeo will brush shoulders with the polished brass and bright work of Ranger and […]
Rolex Maxi Worlds – Day 1
Star ClassA beautiful day in Sardinia is very hard to beat. 15 knots of wind from the West made the first race day of this historic event picture perfect. I am sailing as tactician on Jim Swartz’s new STP 65 Moneypenny. The day’s single race was a 40 mile “Coastal Race” starting from Porto Cervo, sailing […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena
TP52After a one hour delay onshore, the
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena
TP52Three races were completed today in Cartagena. That is a lot of laps. I can’t remember it all. I know we had three very good starts. The first race was tricky with the two winds, the 040 and the 090 fighting right in the middle of the race track. The wind speed was 14-16 knots […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena
TP52Not a great day for us on El Desafio today. It started out with someone forgetting one of the important sails for the coastal race, ashore… the A3 gennaker. That made things tricky for us on the reaches. The wind conditions were similar to yesterday but with a little less strength. So 16-19 from 045-090. […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena
TP52We onboard El Desafio won the day today with a 3, 1. Mutua Madrilena had a 2, 2 for equal points and now leads the Series. El Desafio moves up to third place, just two points out of first. Same wind, sky and waves as Tuesday. The race committee still had some trouble anchoring in […]
TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena
TP52Today was the first day of racing here in Cartagena, the 5th Audi MedCup event of 2008.
Maserati & Cayard
Cayard Sailing ReportsMaserati recently caught up with Paul Cayard and his new Gran Turismo for a photo shoot in Sausalito.
Hula Girl Update
12 MeterAt 0830 this morning we had 50 miles to go and we had just got finished dealing with the morning squalls. They were pretty mild this morning. We were hoping for a bit more really, to give us a chance to pass the Raindrop for first to finish. Raindrop is the only boat ahead of […]
Hula Girl Update
12 Meter26°N 149°W Ralfie and I just came off watch from the best night of sailing we have experienced yet. The clouds have finally cleared and the stars couldn’t be brighter. With a blazing half moon all of our headlights have remained down below. The breeze has been very shifty which has kept us on our […]
Hula Girl Update
12 Meter26° 33′ 149° 36′ 540 miles to go Sail changes, squall dodging, gybing Continued 26° 20′ 150° 18′ 1130 HST Things could not being going better really. The crew are all very enthusiastically enjoying the ride. The owner is too! In fact, that is the mission. We are now solidly in the trades, 18 knots […]
Hula Girl Update
12 Meter28°N, 144°W Life on board Hula Girl is at an all time high today. The crew awoke, some sailing, amid partly cloudy but beautiful blue skies this morning with the sun on the horizon. This was a great way to launch us into the second half of our journey. As the morning progressed we sailed […]
HAT TRICK FOR CAYARD?
12 MeterAlmost a week into the 15th Pacific Cup, some of the earliest starters are preparing to hold their traditional halfway parties as they pass the 1035-miles-to-Hawaii mark. Following Sunday’s standings, Paul Cayard’s family performance on Hula Girl (San Francisco), moved them into first place overall. The crew sailed almost 300 miles in a single day, […]