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Vendée Arctique: Goodchild first to Arctic Circle at the race’s turning point
Sam Goodchild has taken the Vendée Arctique somewhere it’s never been. At 09:45 on Thursday morning, the Franco-British skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance steered across the Arctic Circle, becoming the first competitor to reach 66...
GB1 first to start Naples America’s Cup base despite legal battle
GB1 are the first to be officially handed their plot of land at the Bagnoli America's Cup base and that matters more than it might first appear. A tense legal battle has brought the ownership of many of GB1’s assets into...
Remembering Charlie Dalin: the offshore legend who rewrote the record books
Charlie Dalin has died aged just 42 after a courageous battle with cancer and surrounded by the love of his family. He leaves behind not only a remarkable legacy as one of the greatest offshore sailors of his generation, but also...
Podcast: Escalation in sailing's most explosive feud, SailGP repairs and the race to Halifax
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms The legal battle between Sir Ben Ainslie and Sir Jim Ratcliffe has taken another dramatic turn. In this week's episode of The Foil Podcast, Andy Rice, Freddie Carr and Neil Cole...
AC Recon: Luna Rossa's AC75 hits 40 knots on day one
The America's Cup has never been a sport for early finishers, and on Wednesday Luna Rossa proved that point once again. The Italians waited until the Cagliari sun was sliding towards the sea before lifting their AC75 off the...
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...
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 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: 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. ...
Podcast: First SailGP, now the America's Cup? The Aussies want it all
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Australia have now won so many SailGP events that it's starting to look like the anomaly when they don't. Episode 19 of The Foil Podcast digs into a Bermuda Grand Prix that felt...
Podcast Ep. 17 - New signings, last challenger leaked & the design stables reshaping AC38
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms New alliances, new signings, and a secret that slipped out… In episode 17, Andy Rice, Freddie Carr and Neil Cole dig into the detail of how AC38 is playing out. Paul Goodison...
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...
Freddie Carr: Reliving the greatest America’s Cup race
Having just stepped off an extraordinary three days aboard Rainbow, it felt like being transported back to a different era of the sport – one where sailing was defined by feel, physicality and pure mechanics. The kind of sailing...
Ferrari Hypersail unveiled in Milan (and it’s not red)
Has there been a more ambitious project than Ferrari Hypersail? Quite possibly, because even I wasn’t around long enough ago to witness the launch of those magnificent J-Class yachts of their day. But that was then and this is...
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