Squeezing water out of a rock. That is what it is like trying to sail here these past two days. 4.6 knots of wind was the top of it. Still, we managed to get in some useful practice simulating our approaches to the starting line and accelerating the boat from 2 knots of speed up […]

Just finished our first day of training over here in Portugal. Very light wind made it difficult to get much done. We checked our masthead genoa and a few light jibs and tuned the rig. We are onto our weight checks too. It is fairly hot here, 30C, so you don’t want to have to […]

MP3 audio (31 minutes): Paul Cayard calls into Sailing Talk from San Francisco, where he’ll soon be racing a 505 in the World Championships with Howie Hamlin. Not surprisingly, Paul’s also got something to say about the ‘stored power’ should-they-allow-engines-in-the-America’s-Cup debate. Justin Chisholm reports from the Mirror Worlds which are concluding in North Wales…. Listen […]

Like many top professional sailors, Paul Cayard is a perfectionist. Having won the Whitbread Race at this first attempt in 1997, he was a useful guy to get on board Grant Dalton’s 2001 campaign for the Volvo Ocean Race aboard Amer Sports One. There must have been times, though, when some of his team mates […]

Three races today on the Gulfo di Cagliari in a Mistral of 15 to 27 knots. We had our worst day with a 9, 8, 6. Still we hung on to third place overall. Team New Zealand won the regatta although they did not win any of the races today. Matador had a first in […]

We had another good day on the Artemis today. Three inshore races were planned but the wind got real wobbly after 1430 and we were only able to get a second one in and it was a bit marginal at that. The first race was held in 10-12 knots of wind from 170. We had […]

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