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Cayard’s Updates
- St. Barths BucketMarch 29, 2026 - 10:12 am
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- America’s Cup Hall of FameDecember 20, 2025 - 5:20 pm
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- 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?
Day 1
Star ClassWe started out the Star North American Championship with a bang…a gun acutally. We won the first race which was held on the Berkeley Circle Race course in 12-16 knots of wind. 40 Stars were on the line for the only race of the day which got under way about 14:45. We will race six […]
ISAF Worlds
Media ReportThe best way to classify the ISAF World Championships is to say that it is a festival of sailing. 11 regattas going on at the same venue at the same time, 2000 sailors, 6 racecourses, it is a great display of our sport. For the purpose of exposing the sport through media, this is a […]
Final Report
Star ClassThe medal ceremony, last night, was special. It is the music, the pace and formality medals to the presenter on a silver platter, the way they announce the names and their countries, and the raising of the flags and finally the applause
Day 6
Star ClassWould of, could of, should of. We got the Silver. Not bad. Saving some improvement for next year. The day started out with us in fourth, 5 points out of first. We knew it would be all on today because of the caliber of the competition and the conditions. It was too light to race […]
Day 5
Star ClassGod likes us. Nothing bad happened to us before the start, we had a good start sailed well on the first lap and rounded the first downwind mark in 5 th . Then, the wind started getting weird. First it was our turn to loose a bunch. People on all sides of us had a […]
Cadiz Race Day 7-Final
Star ClassOne race today and we treaded water. Actually we did close in quite a bit on the guys in front of us, finishing 4 points out of 6th but not enough to pass them. The race got started in 7 knots of wind from 290 at 1430. We had a bad start in that a […]
Day 4
Star ClassWe had a terrible day. But somehow, we are still in fourth place,,, 9 points out of first. It started by me having the stomach flew. We all know what that entails so I wont go into the gory details. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling my best. Next, we realize that the mainsail is […]
Day 6
Star ClassSailing is a beautifully sport some days. Today was one for us. We got a third and moved ourselves up into 8th over all. We were scheduled to start at 1500 after the Tornados but at 1500 the Tornados still had not raced. Nada Vento on the Charlie course today and very little wind anywhere […]
Day 3
Star ClassBefore the first race a batten pocket in our mainsail tore. We had a spare mainsail out there but it was the wrong one for the conditions. So I sewed the batten pocket back together 10 minutes before the start. Put me on Martha Stewart. The Meltemi prevailed again today, a bit stronger than yesterday. […]
Cadiz Race Day 5
Star ClassIt feels like the world is coming to the end then you realize that it is just a sailboat race. Today was the first day of the combined fleet. So all the best teams on the same race course. Race 1 toady, we led wire around all the marks, lost 4 boats on the run […]
Day 2
Star ClassThe shifty Meltemi conditions of yesterday continued today despite a sea breeze being forecasted. The start of race one got off at 1400 in 8-12 knots of wind. We got into a bad situation at the first windward mark and fouled the Greek boat and had to do a 720 penalty turn. That put us […]
Day 4
Star ClassOne race today that started at 1600. The Tornados were sharing our race course today so they got to start at 12:00 and we had to wait until they were done. The wind was 16-18 knots from 125.nice big waves for surfing downwind. We had a good start near the leeward end and going left. […]
Race Day 1
Star ClassThe first thing that happened today was that the organizers decided at 10:00 ( today ) that all classes could not race at the same time. There are four racecourses and 11 classes so some courses have three classes on them. So they told the Star, 49er and Tornado classes to stay in and their […]
Day 3
Star Class2 races were scheduled today. We got down to the boat early and changed masts. The one from yesterday is not bent badly.we can straighten it.but I did not want to screw around with that this morning. We also put our light air main on, which is quickly becoming our all-purpose main. As we had […]
Arrived
Star ClassI arrived in Athens at 3:00 pm Thursday the 14th, after the standard 20 hour trip, to a pleasant 95 degree temperature. My crew, Phil, had gone to Italy on Monday to get our new Star boat and drive it to Ancona where they boarded a Ferry to Patras in Greece . From there it […]
Day 2
Star ClassWe got three races in today. The first one in 12 knots, the second in 18 knots and the last one in 22 knots. Then after the last race it was a 5 mile beat back to the harbor. I think everyone is pretty tired. It is 20:05 right now. We had our heavy air […]
Day 1
Star ClassToo much wind! We had the “Levante” wind today blowing 25-30 knots so no racing for Stars. The girls in the Yngling class raced though, so the big macho guys from the Star class did not look to flash. The “Levante” is akin to the Meltemi of Athens. It is a gradient wind created by […]
Pre-Day 1
Star ClassPhil and I got off to a good start here in Cadiz by having Iberia loose you bags. They tell me that is normal here. Anyway after considerable confusion and hand waiving we got the bags at 11:00 at night and only got a little lost driving back to the apartment. Thursday we rigged the […]
Summer of 2003 – One month in Sweden
Media ReportIt 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 […]
Team New Zealand Audit
Media ReportThe recent analysis of Team New Zealand 2003, by Peter Menzies, is very interesting. First, because it is the first of it
AC Review
Media ReportSomeway or another, it is always a mismatch? Why is that? The America
AC Finals Preview
Media ReportWe 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
Louis Vuitton Series
Media ReportThe 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 […]
Star Worlds
Media ReportThe 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 […]
Kinetics and Prada – A few points… …
Media ReportRecently 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 […]
Volvo Leg 4 – From 22 foot waves to 22 foot boats.
Media ReportI have done some cross training in sailing before; like in 1978 when I went from crewing to a fourth in the Star worlds right to crewing for a second in the 505 worlds. But I have to say that going from 30 foot waves, icebergs, snow storms, 45 knots of winds and 32 knots […]
Around the Horn, Again
Media ReportWasn
Cayard is Bowman
Media ReportI 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 […]
Volvo Preview
Media ReportWell it is finally here, the 2001-2002 Volvo Ocean Race. I have been thinking about the teams for this year
Back in the Star
Media ReportI want to tell you how much fun sailing can be. First, I had to remember. Sailing has become a career for me. Almost everyone looks at what the professional sailors do for a living with envy, and rightly so. We work hard but certainly we have a great job; doing what we enjoy, outdoors […]
AC Management
Media ReportWell I guess I got a bit overly excited about the Race in my last column. That is the difficult part of writing for a magazine. Three days after I wrote my piece saying how great the Race looked, King Louie smash his boat into a wave, took out two of his wingmen and the […]
The Race
Media ReportTwo weeks into it, I find myself following the progress of The Race with great interest. The story of the these large Cats, from pre-birth to the fast progress they are currently making as they rip across the Equator on their southbound track, is quite compelling…to me at least. At the time of this writing, […]
Back to Auckland, Already
Media Report“You are back, already?” That is a familiar phrase for those of us on Oracle Racing
AmericaOne Sells to Oracle
Media ReportNow that the dust has settled and the ink has dried, I can report to you what AmericaOne decided regarding its participation in America
Big Names Story
Media ReportFlying home from Europe recently, I began thinking back over my career and my thoughts focused on my first Star World Championship. The year was 1978, the venue was San Francisco and the characters are now famous to all of us. For a change of pace I thought I would take a look back for […]
Post AC 2000
Media ReportThe soap Opera known as;
Kiwis are Still the Best
Media ReportThe bottom line… the Kiwi
AmericaOne Completes Louis Vuitton Cup Finals
America's CupAmericaOne Completes Louis Vuitton Cup Finals The Final Round of the Louis Vuitton Cup took place January 25 to February 6 in Auckland, New Zealand. AmericaOne, the San Francisco-based St. Francis Yacht Club
Louis Vuitton Finals Wrap Up
America's CupThis series did not end the way we had planned. The score told the story of an unbelievably tough regatta; the most competitive series of match racing ever staged in the America’s Cup. Our comeback from 3-1 and the broken mast, were answered by Prada’s comeback from facing a double match point. Each team bore […]
AMERICAONE LEADS THE LOUIS VUITTON CUP FINALS
America's CupThird Consecutive Win for Americans AUCKLAND, New Zealand, February 4, 2000 – AmericaOne, the San Francisco-based St. Francis Yacht Clubs Americas Cup 2000 challenger, won its fourth race of the Louis Vuitton Finals against the Prada Challenge (ITA 45) by 1m 6s. Racing resumed today after Race 7 was cancelled yesterday due to low winds […]