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Freddie Carr: Platoon take control in Lanzarote as the 52SS title race turns
As I have gone on about previously, the 52 SUPER SERIES is the most competitive racing I do. Fractions of a second at the start line and inches at the top mark can ultimately dictate your overall regatta position. We visit some...
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...
The week in racing - 31 August ‘26
This week we’ve seen a new ILCA 7 world champion crowned in Dublin Bay, the 52 Super Series title race turned on its head in Lanzarote, and the IMOCA fleet limbering up for a transatlantic sprint that gets under way on Tuesday.
Rate the fleet: Andy Rice on Sassnitz SailGP
Despite the gusty, squally conditions on Saturday, Sassnitz repeated the Portsmouth miracle of 13 boats starting the weekend and all 13 completing the weekend. The split fleet racing between Groups A and B really seems to be...
Luna Rossa test new rudder – and take a knock
After a fortnight off, Luna Rossa were back on the water off Cagliari yesterday with something new to try on the boat. A reworked rudder – extra blade area up top, less down low, built to sharpen the leading edge – had been...
REPLAY: Puerto Calero Lanzarote 52 Super Series Royal Cup
The 52 Super Series heads to Puerto Calero for the Royal Cup, and we're streaming all the racing on The Foil this week. It's the fourth of five regattas this season, and the second back-to-back event in Lanzarote after last...
‘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...
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 –...
'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...
Freddie Carr: Platoon take control in Lanzarote as the 52SS title race turns
As I have gone on about previously, the 52 SUPER SERIES is the most competitive racing I do. Fractions of a second at the start line and inches at the top mark can ultimately dictate your overall regatta position. We visit some...
Andy Rice: A good Worlds for GBR, and a good Worlds for the 470 Class
The future of the 470 as an Olympic class is under scrutiny, as it is for the Nacra 17 catamaran and the men’s and women’s kiteboarding classes. All of them have their obvious weaknesses, the 470 being that it is now the oldest...
Freddie Carr: Cowes Week turns 200 – why Britain's greatest regatta still means everything
Cowes Week is Britain’s regatta. If you’re a British yacht sailor, it’s the event you have to do at least once. It’s our equivalent of Wimbledon or the Grand National. There are bigger regattas and there are faster boats, but...
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...
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