Multihull

Burling and Tuke to head-up New Zealand SailGP Team

Olympic gold medalists and defending America’s Cup champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will serve as co-CEOs of the newly formed New Zealand SailGP Team

Newport Delivers for the M32 fleet

The way it should be, the last race of the M32 July Midtown Cup Newport, USA, was the decider

Delayed M32 season goes ahead this weekend

The starting point for the much delayed M32 season will be Newport, USA this weekend 17 to 19 July and Marstrand, Sweden 7 to 9 August

Thunderchild II’s Trans-Atlantic Record Attempt Postponed

Safehaven Marine’s Frank Kowalski has announced that his planned Trans-Atlantic record attempt this year in Thunder Child II has been postponed

Macif group withdraw from Ultim circuit

The Macif group has announced that it is withdrawing the Ultim circuit, in agreement with its skipper François Gabart

Ainslie reveals how off-boat data analysis helped win Sydney SailGP

Team helm Ben Ainslie and data analyst Emily Nagel describe the influence of real-time performance data on the convincing Great Britain SailGP win at the Sydney event earlier this year

A and B Catamaran Trials at Sheppey in 1967

Original footage of the IYRU A & B Catamaran Trials at the Catamaran YC, on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary in 1967, see video here

A modified Sodebo Ultim 3 returns to the water

Under a blue sky in Lorient, a modified Sodebo Ultim 3 has finally returned to the water after an idle period, linked to Covid-19 confinement, launch video here

STOP PRESS – – SailGP pull the plug on 2020 season

Following my earlier post today that SailGP were considering a Cowes event decision . . . They have now decided to scrap the rest of the 2020 season events