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Spain’s Los Gallos head the fleet after day one in Sydney
Can anyone beat the Flying Roos in Sydney? After day one, the answer is yes – just about. Los Gallos lead the standings after back-to-back wins in races two and three, with Diego Botín's crew reading the shifty conditions better...
Sydney SailGP preview: Could twilight racing around Shark Island shake things up?
As the venue of the first-ever SailGP race, Sydney Harbour is where it all began. Seven years on, the birthplace of the league hosts its seventh consecutive event – and this weekend promises something the circuit has never seen...
Lightning threat calls off SailGP practice – again
No practice racing for the second event running. Normally sailors aren’t that bothered about missing a practice race, especially if it’s chucking down with rain like it has been in Sydney for the past 24 hours. But lost time in...
Line honours for Argo and Black Jack 100 in RORC Caribbean 600
The gun fired at Fort Charlotte, Antigua on Monday morning and 56 boats poured into 15 knots of trade wind for the 17th RORC Caribbean 600. Nearly 500 sailors from 40 nations set off on one of offshore racing's most distinctive...
Tom 'Mozzy' Morris: SailGP's Auckland safety review doesn't add up
I’ve seen a race management hearing document that appears to contradict SailGP’s official safety narrative around the New Zealand–France collision in Auckland. And it also seems to back up what Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have...
'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...
'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...
Podcast Ep. 5 - Dee Caffari: 'The doors have been blown open' for women's offshore sailing
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Last week, The Famous Project crew made history – and Dee Caffari sees it as just the beginning. Freddie Carr sits down with Dee to unpack how eight women became the first...
Podcast Ep. 4 - On board Argo's transatlantic record with Pete Cumming
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Offshore at inshore intensity – that's the new reality of ocean racing, and the crew of Jason Carroll's Mod 70 Argo just proved it by smashing the transatlantic record in a...
How SailGP decides who's right at 50 knots
Sometimes Craig Mitchell and his team of SailGP umpires feel the benefit of operating remotely from a windowless studio in London. The chief umpire of SailGP since it began six years ago, Mitchell thinks back to one particularly...
'We're still Danish': What American Magic takeover means for Rockwool
An organisation built around the oldest trophy in sport is now going all-in on the newest league in elite sailing. As we reported last week, American Magic – the New York Yacht Club's Cup challenger for the past two America’s...
Podcast Ep. 6 - ‘Hot laps’ in Auckland: Get set for SailGP in New Zealand
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms “These will be ‘hot laps’ with 12 other world-class teams,” says Freddie Carr as The Foil sets the scene for round two of the 2026 SailGP championship in Auckland, New Zealand...
Podcast Ep. 5 - Dee Caffari: 'The doors have been blown open' for women's offshore sailing
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Last week, The Famous Project crew made history – and Dee Caffari sees it as just the beginning. Freddie Carr sits down with Dee to unpack how eight women became the first...
Podcast Ep. 4 - On board Argo's transatlantic record with Pete Cumming
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Offshore at inshore intensity – that's the new reality of ocean racing, and the crew of Jason Carroll's Mod 70 Argo just proved it by smashing the transatlantic record in a...
From feeding cows to racing an F50: A chat with SailGP super-sub Glenn Ashby
“Glenn Ashby, there you were minding your own business feeding your cows and then you get the call-up to join Australia’s BOND Flying Roos SailGP team in Perth.” Andy Rice catches up with farmer-by-day Glenn to chat about his...
Podcast Ep. 3 - Perth SailGP review, plus offshore record-breaking
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Neil Cole, Freddie Carr and Andy Rice reflect on the main talking points thrown up by the SailGP season opener in Perth – which all agree was the “best event yet”. The team...
Tom 'Mozzy' Morris: SailGP's Auckland safety review doesn't add up
I’ve seen a race management hearing document that appears to contradict SailGP’s official safety narrative around the New Zealand–France collision in Auckland. And it also seems to back up what Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have...
Jury verdict: Black Foils pushed too hard before Auckland crash
The Black Foils could have sailed their F50 more conservatively in order to avoid the loss of control that resulted in the collision with the French team at the Auckland SailGP Grand Prix earlier this month. That’s the broad...
Freddie Carr: A week that changed the sport
How did we get to a point where nearly 20,000 paying fans turned up to watch sailing in Auckland over a single weekend? That doesn’t happen by accident. For SailGP it felt like a line in the sand – and, more broadly, a marker for...
SailGP's F50 super licence is here – but can the infrastructure keep up?
For the first time in SailGP's seven-year history, there's a formal system to ensure everyone who steps onto an F50 is fully prepared to handle it. The F50 super licence is now mandatory for anyone who wants to train or race on...
The long shadow of Sassnitz – and the split-fleet future
The problems at the SailGP weekend in Auckland date back to the problems at SailGP in Sassnitz last August, in more ways than one. 1. The disintegration of the Brazilian F50 on the practice day in Germany, caused by a rare...
Freddie Carr: Auckland incident will be another turning point for safety
Seeing a wing lying across a broken catamaran brings back the toughest memories of the 2013 America’s Cup, when the sailing world lost Andrew Simpson in a training accident in San Francisco. Watching the Black Foils in Auckland...
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