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Now that we’re only a few breaths away from the 33rd Americas Cup we thought that having looked at the skippers we should now get out the tape measures and look at the stats of the two most advanced sailing yachts ever built. One thing we don’t know are 100% exact numbers and details as [...]

It’s getting exciting in the Americas Cup camps, both teams are warming up both on and off the water. While the legal battle is ongoing and stones are being thrown by both teams the fact that their boats are in Valencia and have both been on the water testing leaves the conclusion that they will [...]

I would expect that the last thing that one would want to talk about while cruising around the world is tax. After reading this post on cruisersforum.com I thought it would be beneficial to write an article about sailing and tax. Residency Permit If you’re staying for less than 60-90 days there’s no need to [...]

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 [...]

The Americas Cup is probably on of the longest running technological fights between man and machine. Pre-dating the first motor car race as announced by Chicago Times-Herald in 1895 the first Cup challenge was in 1851. The Cup has always featured the most cutting edge and expensive boats backed by some of the richest people [...]