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The Foiling Week
Sébastien Col : " I decided to go full speed into what the America’s Cup has become: match racing on foiling boats"
Sebastien Col starts his summer of sailing on foiling boats with the Moth Italian National Championships kicking off today as part of The Foiling Week in Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy. The talented skipper who was at the helm of the French Challenger for the 32nd America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup in Valencia in 2007, runner-up of (...) -
35th America’s Cup
The AC62 yacht has been released
Fast, foiling, wing-sailed catamarans will race in the next America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup as the new class rule for the AC62 AC62 #AC62 yacht has been released. The AC62 AC62 #AC62 is 10 feet shorter than its predecessor, but is expected to be just as fast and challenging to race for the crews, and will produce the (...) -
Foiling Finale in the GC32 Austria Cup Sees Luna Rossa Challenge Take Runaway Win
The final day of the GC32 GC32 #GC32 Austria Cup started just as expected, with ultra-light conditions on the beautiful Lake Traunsee, but as the day progressed, both the Gold and Silver fleets got the opportunity to show off these spectacular flying machines at their (...) -
US Moth Class
Kotoun Claims First Ever 11th Hour Cup Championship
The final day of International Moth racing for the inaugural 11th Hour Cup promised sportier conditions than the previous two, but after ten races in two days, the fleet was in far better form than when they began the regatta on Saturday. Racers sailed five more races in winds of 12-16 knots, with Anthony Kotoun closing out the event the way (...) -
IKA KiteFoil GoldCup
Maxime Nocher & Sophie Caillet win the inaugural KiteFoil event in La Ventana, Mexico
Playa Central Beach Club in La Ventana, Baja California Sur, México hosted the first tour stop of the new hydrofoil kiteboarding circuit called KiteFoil GoldCup, bringing in the top competitors from 11 different nationalities mainly coming from France and lots of top contenders from the San Francisco bay (...) -
Sport Cats
Glenn Ashby and Emirates Team New Zealand dominated 2014 A-Class worlds
The final race results do little to upset the leader board, and if anything go on to cement the three top racers in their podium places. The 2014 A-Class World Champion is Glenn Ashby (AUS), second is Blair Tuke (NZL) with Peter Burling (NZL) in third. Most notable perhaps is the fact that the top four places are all members of the (...) -
Futuristic
Vlad Murnikov : "I believe we can do so much more than just fly a boat"
A few short years ago the idea of massive catamarans hurtling around a course at 40 knots flying high above the water would have seemed absurd, yet that’s exactly what happened during the last America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup . None of us has a crystal ball to see what the future holds, but perhaps a fertile imagination (...) -
Moth Worlds
Gulari Crowned 2013 Moth World Champion
An early squall drenched the 80 competitors for the 2013 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth World Championship this morning as they prepared their flying carbon-fiber craft for the final day of racing. The rain and clouds brought with them an unfortunate side effect, cooling down Oahu’s Koʻolau Mountains and shutting down the (...) -
San Francisco
Video : Johnny Heineken won the Bridge to Brigde 2013
Every year from 1998, the Ronstan Bridge to Bridge race invite all sailing engines for a run between two gates from the Golden Gate. This year, the competition was included in a 18 feet event and french photographer and cameraman Christophe Favreau was there. -
Speed
The Vestas Sailrocket 2 broke the miles record and averages 65+ knots on 500m
"VSR2 performed exactly as predicted by the Sailrocket design team of Malcolm Barnsley and Chris Hornzee Jones at AEROTROPE. The spec for the boat was to be able to hit 65 knots in 26 knots of wind in order to average around 60 knots," wrote the team on their video page. And they did better on November 24 : "On the GT-31 gps 67.74 and an (...)