I feel like I should buy a lottery ticket. No offence locals of England, but I believe we have had five sunny summer days in a row, which meant for a little sea breeze this afternoon, and four practice races ahead of official racing tomorrow and Sunday. Could this be the first Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event where we see a full program of racing? Here’s hoping!
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hey say the years get faster, and this one has just flown by. It feels like more than a year and yesterday at the same time that the America’s Cup World Series was first raced in Portsmouth. And now, as I am typing this, the AC45’s are heading out on the water for an unofficial day of practice before official practice racing tomorrow, and the real deal on Saturday and Sunday.
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I chatted with Dee Caffari and Sharon Ferris this morning about what the Magenta Project is doing in Cowes this week! The Extreme Sailing Series has given a squad of eight to twelve girls a GC32 to borrow leading right up to Cowes Week, to help up skill some of our top women sailors in the area of foiling! Absolutely awesome! I will drop in on the girls again tomorrow. So excited to see these…
RC44's in Portsmouth 2016
19 July 2016
Chris Bake has been involved with the RC44’s since the beginning, ten years ago. His team, Team Aqua came second in Portsmouth, giving them the overall lead for the RC44 World Tour for 2016, the “Golden Wheels”.
Was great to chat with Chris about all things to do with the class, his team, and also to thank him for having me out on the final day of racing to see what the class is…
World Champions AND Millionaires!
14 July 2016
Just wow!
Phil Robertson with Will Tiller, James Wierzerbowski and Stewart Dodson are the new World Match Racing Tour World Champions and winners of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out my interview with the whole team, and the cheque. Apologies for the excessive noise, there was a bit of excitement from the masses who were watching on as the interviews were happening, which you may hear…
I am back on the rock!
Great to be back at Marstrand, in time to catch up with the semi-finalists, 36 Below Racing (taking down Williams 3-0), US One (defeating Wallen 3-0), Redline Racing (coming back against Martinez 3-1) and Waka Racing (smashing Guichard 3-0), who will battle it out through to the finals, and onto the winner-takes-all million dollar prize tomorrow!
Seriously amazing!
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Wow! What a race, definitely one for the “bucket list”, the Round the Island Race.
I think I “picked” the year to do it too, with plenty of breeze on, and plenty of action on board the winning First 40 La Reponse (you can find two live broadcasts from on board via Facebook below) as well as following the record-breaking win of the Mod 70 Phaedo 3.
Check out the video, which…
NC Sports broadcast 17 June 2016
3 July 2016
My broadcast on the Nautical Channel Sports show on 17 June!
Check out the previews for the Extreme Sailing Series and Kieler Woche, as well as reports on the Australian Sailing Team‘s progress leading into Rio 2016, and my personal concerns about Rio (not pollution but rather violence) following Liesl Tesch‘s confrontation in the streets of the Olympic city a fortnight ago……
VX One Midwinters - Final day
15 June 2016
After nine races over three days of racing at the VX One Midwinters from the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, it all came down to the final race between two local sailors, Brett Whitbread on SuperVax and the Angry Beaver skippered by Daniel Alcock.
The first race on Monday, the seventh in the series was started in an eight to ten knot southerly, not at all what was forecast. Michael James on…
