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The week in racing - 13 July '26
Plenty going on across the fleets this week. A sun-soaked Round the Island, three European titles decided ashore, four fresh faces crowned at the iQFOiL Youth Worlds, and a record-breaking offshore epic in Greek waters. Let’s get...
49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Europeans wrap up as three new titles are settled on dry land
Three European titles were decided in Eckernförde this week, and the crews who won them can thank the work they banked before Sunday – because Sunday gave them nothing. The 2026 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships...
Phil Robertson: The Kiwi carving his own path
Tune in to SailGP and you’ll find Red Bull Italy somewhere in the mix, pushing angles and making life uncomfortable for whoever happens to be nearby. That is Phil Robertson's way. The New Zealander has built a career sailing on...
Calendar clash or golden opportunity? The Foil community have their say
On last week's podcast, the team sat down to wrestle with a question that keeps hanging over the sport just as it's booming: with SailGP, the America's Cup and the Olympics all pulling hard at once, can they actually share a...
Expert guide to the Round the Island Race, with Graham Sunderland
Freddie Carr talks to his old friend Graham Sunderland, author of Winning Tides, about what it takes to navigate the Solent and a lap of the isle of Wight ahead of the 2026 Round the Island Race. Graham talks Freddie around the...
The tech behind Ferrari Hypersail
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. So it's fitting that its first isn't a boat in any usual sense, but a 100-foot machine designed to fly across oceans. Hypersail is a fully foiling monohull – the first of its kind – 20...
‘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...
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 –...
'Like watching jet fighters dance on water': How Luna Rossa lit up the AC38 opener
We may just have seen the start of Luna Rossa’s America’s Cup fairytale in Cagliari. The opening regatta of the AC38 cycle was about as good a weekend as the Italian Cup project could have asked for. For starters, Margherita...
Podcast Extra: Mozzy and Freddie preview the AC38 Cagliari prelim
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Mozzy and Freddie are back with a bonus podcast, previewing the AC38 Cagliari preliminary regatta, the curtain-raiser on the road to Naples. With only 11 of last Cup's AC75...
Podcast: “It starts with a dream”: Glenn Ashby on Australia’s AC38 challenge - The Foil Podcast - Ep 20
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms “The time is now,” decorated sailor Glenn Ashby tells The Foil’s Freddie Carr in an exclusive interview on Team Australia’s newly-minted challenge for the 38th America’s Cup. ...
Freddie Carr: winging it at half-time in SailGP
As we reach the halfway point of SailGP season six, I thought it was the right time to dive into the form guide and put some facts behind people’s opinions on who’s good, who’s struggling, and which teams excel in different...
Andy Rice rates the fleet after Canada SailGP
Finished: 1st It might have been a very different position in the rankings for Spain if Diego Botín had failed to thread the needle. Los Gallos’ move at the start of Race 3 in Group A was the ‘move of the season’. With six events...
After the New York crash, what should SailGP actually do? The Foil community weighs in
Nothing gets people talking quite like a crash. The pile-up at the New York SailGP has set off the loudest debate we’ve seen in The Foil community since, well, the last major collision in Auckland, just four events prior. With...
The questions that remain following New York SailGP
The New York SailGP left us with more questions than answers. From a dramatic three-boat collision to a grand final that divided opinion, the sixth round of the season gave the league plenty to reflect on ahead of Halifax. The...
Rate the fleet: Andy Rice's verdict on SailGP New York
Finished: 1stOf Australia’s three back-to-back victories, the win in New York was by far the messiest and most surprising. For surviving the technical curveballs thrown their way both on Saturday and before the start on Sunday,...
Freddie Carr: Why Paul Cayard is a contender for sailing’s GOAT
Watching Paul Cayard win the 2026 Etchells World Championship alongside team-mates James Mayo and Ben Lamb was one of those genuinely special moments in sailing – the sort that makes even the most hardened observers pause. And...
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