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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.
The…
A new adventure with NC Sports
7 June 2016
I have joined the Nautical Channel (NC) Sports team as of the beginning of June as their new sailing correspondent to an audience of over 22 million people on televisions globally (mainly in the northern hemisphere at present).
Check out my segment on the YANMAR Moth Worlds, the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in New York, and what is up next for me and make sure you watch the full…
If you predicted what would happen in today’s Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series racing in New York you are either the best storyteller around, or exceptionally intuitive.
One for the memory banks for sure!
With the bad luck of getting stuck on the pin at the start of the final race, knifing the mark from their foils, and then sailing through with new pressure, Emirates Team New…
Not the right kind of foiling
18 October 2015
What a day. No racing again for the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series, but today due to no wind, rather than excessive breeze as in Portsmouth earlier this year.
It means that tomorrow we will be looking at three shorter races, that will all be double points. So there is a bit on for all competitors on top of rehydrating after today.
I was lucky enough to go on a tour of the Oracle…
Catching up with Iain Murray in Bermuda
16 October 2015
The final event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Bermuda is warming up, with unofficial practice today, and practice racing tomorrow before racing on Saturday and Sunday.
With all eyes on Bermuda as the new home of Oracle Team USA, and host of the 35th America’s Cup in 2017, I took the opportunity this morning to catch up with Iain Murray, the Regatta Director. We…