The people within the America’s cup are arguably as important as the boats. Ignoring the legal challenges, one of those the most important people onboard is arguably the skipper. February’s challenge will see two New Zealand born skippers in charge. Russell Coutts for BMW Oracle and Brad Butterworth for Alinghi. Both have a huge amount [...]
The Dutch courts, against the will of the Dutch social care system are offering Laura Decker a conditional green light for her round the world sail/cruise. This hardly comes as a surprise, most could probably see such is her determination that if she didn’t get what she wanted it she would have needed to have [...]
It would seem that Oracle not content with winning their court victory are going to continue their off water skirmish against Team Alinghy. The most recent question is over the ‘constructed in country’. Oracle are refering in particular to Alinghys current sails which were made in Nevada. The question is valid as globalisation has brought [...]
Most boat shows tend to find themselves early in the new year. This is no coincidence, it ties in nicely with bonus season and anyone selling boats will be looking for well healed individuals to come down and spend some of their allegedly hard earned cash. The London boat show has always been a favourite [...]
New to Saild? Sign up for a FREE account to log your sailing trips and you can get our iPhone app free today. Click here to sign up to your free account while you still can.. Sailing Jackets and clothing has always been a bit of a hard subject and often boils down to how [...]
This would seem as if it were the most simple thing that any sailor could do, yet I’ve seen many different ways of getting that sail up and down the mast with each skipper and many different instructors having different approaches. My favourite to date which works well in light to moderate conditions is to [...]
Scotland has a considerable reputation when it comes to sailing. It can be a tame puppy dog and very quickly turn into a rabid stray. It’s jagged coastline is frought with renowned perils such as the races around the Mull of Kintyre and potentially tricky inshore navigation around the inland sounds such as Seil Sound. [...]
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