Sailing World

Sailing World connects the community of racing sailors through words, images and shared experiences. Across many mediums, it explores the sailor’s passion and showcases the lifestyle, destinations and technology. It links knowledge-hungry participants to the sport’s top experts, providing unrivaled instructional content.

Sailing World

IN THE CLUB • Nautor Swan one-designs are cool and the racing can be cutthroat, but the boats are just an entrée to the hottest club around.

STARTING LINE • US SailGP Team’s sailors took full advantage of the league’s formal offseason training camps, and their results in the first event in Dubai validated the team’s maturity. Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team, with Olympian Martine Grael at the helm, is one of two new teams for the fifth season, bringing the fleet to 12.

OUT OF THE BLOCKS • SailGP’s fiat is to make its next season better than the last, and that’s true for the US team, which returned in Dubai as a podium player.

TECH MEETS TIMBER • A grand-prix navigator more accustomed to high-performance machines revels in the experience of racing a legendary way-back time machine.

SAILING WITH A LEGEND • The magic of doublehanded offshore racing is the dynamic and unscripted collaboration and the passage of experience and skills through osmosis.

LONG LIVE PUDDLE RACING • Small and skinny waters can create big champions and everlasting memories.

BATTLING IN BAREBOATS • The Straw Hat Crew had the Caribbean Championship in their grasp, but the defenders had the endgame.

YONDER TO THE TOP, ACCORDING TO PLAN • Two years ago, Doug Newhouse and Jeremy Wilmot laid out a long-term plan with a goal of a top finish at the 2024 J/70 Worlds in Palma de Mallorca, and with a lot of preparation and a bit of luck, they prevailed in one-design sailing’s toughest championship.

THE EXIT INTERVIEW • The New York YC’s American Magic finished well shy of expectations with its second America’s Cup challenge, and once again, the boss must question everything.

THE AGE OF CALLING BETTER STARTS • From one who was once skeptical of technology creeping into race starts: There’s an acceptance that the benefits are real.

Ron and the Pod • Olympic-level coach and world-champion sailor turns his pandemic project into a Pacific Northwest juggernaut.

GOOD Craic • In lively Irish slang, the all-purpose Gaelic word craic (pronounced KRAK) means high times and pure fun. Aboard the Beneteau 44.7 Black Magic in this past summer’s Round Ireland Race, the craic was savage.

THE GREAT TEXAN FISH FRY • Keeping to the Texan tradition of all things being bigger, the Rush Creek YC edition of the Sunfish Worlds was an enormous endeavor.

UPWIND PERFORMANCE THROUGH MODING • The majority of sailors don’t think about moding when sailing upwind, but the best sailors and the ones winning regattas do it way more than you might imagine. Start moding correctly, and your results will improve dramatically.

STILL TOO CRAZY FOR THIS PROJECT • Three boat partners dive into the rehabilitation and modernization of a 30-year-old sportboat.

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NOT–SO–SECRET WAY TO IMPROVE RESULTS • Good speed and smart tactics get us only so far. It’s the mental part that gets us over the humps.

A PERSISTENT SHIFT TO PRIVATIZATION • The landscape of high-level youth racing and coaching is shifting beneath us.

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