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From partners to opponents: inside the North Sails–Team New Zealand patent battle
North Sails last week went public in its patent fight with Emirates Team New Zealand. It accused the Cup Defender of building a patent on the sailmaker’s own technology, then turning it on the rest of the fleet. In a statement...
Three legs and an electronic brain: how Ferrari Hypersail will fly (Pt. 2/7)
Foils, a flapped keel and a rudder with ideas of its own – plus a flight controller born in Maranello's road cars. Andy Rice gets up close with the appendages. If the hull is the body of Ferrari Hypersail, the appendages are its...
Django 7X edges out Balthasar for Rolex Middle Sea Race overall win
Giovanni Lombardi Stronati’s Wallyrocket 71 traded places with the defending champion for most of the 606 miles around Sicily, then pulled clear on the reaches after Favignana to win by 1 hour, 21 minutes and 20 seconds under...
Team Australia finish Te Rehutai rebuild and set February target for Naples
The 2021 Cup-winning AC75 has a new bow, a cut-down stern and fresh paint. Next come load testing, systems fit-out and a Christmas shipping deadline, while Tom Slingsby’s co-helm is still being chosen in the simulator. Team...
Grigio and Giallo: Up close with the finished Ferrari Hypersail hull (Pt. 1/7)
The 100-foot flying monohull is painted, the livery is on and the appendages are in the building. Andy Rice puts on his hard hat and high-vis and goes inside. There is a moment when a boat stops being a project and becomes a...
Freddie Carr: Why Pensacola could change SailGP for good
SailGP’s new training facility in Pensacola could be a game changer. For the first time, new and existing teams have a place where they can train between events, work on their sailing and bring new athletes up to speed. That...
‘Full steam ahead and scrambling to keep our heads above water’: Grant Simmer on Australia's Cup comeback
Few people are more bound up in Australia's America's Cup story than Grant Simmer. He was the young navigator aboard Australia II in 1983 – the boat with the wing keel that ended the New York Yacht Club's stranglehold and lodged...
Rising Stars: Nathan Berger, the 17-year-old wingfoiler beating his heroes
This is the first in our Rising Stars series, on the young athletes in sailing and foiling who are making the rest of the field sit up and take notice. Last week in Leucate, at the season-opening stop of the GWA Wing Foil World...
Luca Rizzotti bought a Moth in 2007 and accidentally started a movement
When we launched The Foil at the start of this year, it was understandable that quite a few people incorrectly jumped to the conclusion that it must be a Luca Rizzotti project. After all, this passionate Italian has become...
'The safest is when you're pushing hard' - Billy Gooderham explains flight control
Last season, NorthStar SailGP Team’s flight controller Billy Gooderham spent most of his race time focused on a piece of PVC tape on the bow of the F50. “It is now painted on the boat for us with a new paint job this year, so...
Podcast Ep. 8 - Sydney SailGP preview + Quentin Delapierre on safety
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Sydney SailGP is almost here, but the Auckland collision casts a long shadow. In this week's episode, the team digs into one of the most consequential weekends in SailGP's...
The Olympian windsurfer with a golden future far beyond LA 2028
Having worn the yellow bib going into the winner-takes-all medal race final at Paris 2024, Grae Morris might be forgiven for harbouring a few regrets at missing out on Olympic gold. But the young Australian windsurfer is not...
Why pro sailors dread the Middle Sea Race - Course Preview
The Rolex Middle Sea Race is an incredibly tricky racecourse, so we asked offshore legend Simon 'SiFi' Fisher to talk us through it. The 47th edition sets off from Valletta this Saturday 17 October – a couple of months earlier...
LIVE: 52 Super Series Valencia Sailing Week – the title decider
The 52 Super Series season comes down to one last regatta, and The Foil is there for all of it. We're livestreaming every day of Valencia Sailing Week, 6–10 October, as a record 16-boat fleet from 11 nations races off Malvarrosa...
LIVE: The Ocean Race Atlantic fleet departs New York
The Foil is live streaming The Ocean Race Atlantic's send-off from New York at midday local time today (1 September, 16:00 UTC). Worth being clear on what you're watching, though: this is the parade past the Statue of Liberty and...
Podcast: Can anyone beat New Zealand to win the 38th America’s Cup?
Listen to our podcast on Spotify and other platforms A year out, The Foil’s podcast team ask the key question: can any of the six teams lining up against the Defender really take on and beat Emirates Team New Zealand in Naples at...
Podcast: SailGP vs America's Cup: Can they coexist?
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Sailing has never been healthier – and on this week's pod, that's exactly the problem. Episode 26 sees Neil Cole, Andy Rice, Lewis Smith and Freddie Carr wrestle with a question...
Podcast: America's Cup is back! The full Cagliari debrief
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms The America's Cup is finally back, and after eighteen months of SailGP we'd almost forgotten how different it feels. So Neil Cole sits down with Freddie Carr and Lewis Smith –...
From partners to opponents: inside the North Sails–Team New Zealand patent battle
North Sails last week went public in its patent fight with Emirates Team New Zealand. It accused the Cup Defender of building a patent on the sailmaker’s own technology, then turning it on the rest of the fleet. In a statement...
Three legs and an electronic brain: how Ferrari Hypersail will fly (Pt. 2/7)
Foils, a flapped keel and a rudder with ideas of its own – plus a flight controller born in Maranello's road cars. Andy Rice gets up close with the appendages. If the hull is the body of Ferrari Hypersail, the appendages are its...
Inside the Batmobile: a first look at Ferrari Hypersail
Some weeks the foiling world comes at you in every size. I had just finished two days on the commentary mic at the Kiteboard Grand Slam in Cagliari, Sardinia, where I watched Riccardo Pianosi, the eventual winner of the men's...
Batteries, foils and LiDAR: where does the sailor’s job end?
Is technology ruining sailing? That was the question on episode 42 of The Foil Podcast, and the answer turns out to depend on which job the machine is doing – supplying the power, telling the crew what’s going on, or making the...
The Tabarly Effect: how one quiet sailor built a nation of ocean racers
Walk the pontoons at Lorient La Base on any weekday and you are in the most concentrated gathering of offshore racing talent on the planet. Ultims, IMOCAs, Class40s and Minis lie moored in the shadow of colossal concrete bunkers...
Why Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez is so special
There are regattas you go to because you want to win, and there are regattas that remind you why you fell in love with sailing in the first place. Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez manages to do both. The racing matters. Anyone who...
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