Benedict Donovan
The week in racing - 10 August ‘26
This week saw the Olympic fleets sign off a globe-trotting season on LA's 2028 waters, both New Zealand and France back in their AC75s, plus the start of a 1,805-mile epic around Britain and Ireland. Let’s get into it! The San...
ARC Team USA reveals its founding crew – here's who made the cut
After months of speculation, we finally know who will be doing the sailing for American Racing Challenger Team USA. On Monday afternoon, the American challenger for the 38th America's Cup announced its founding squad, naming the...
Farewell to Carlo Borlenghi, sailing’s defining eye
Legendary marine photographer Carlo Borlenghi has died at the age of 70. Carlo picked up a camera as a teenager on the shores of Lake Como and never really put it down again. From those early days shooting local regattas, his...
The week in racing - 3 August ‘26
From a German festival packed with nearly a thousand dinghy sailors, to the LA 2028 Olympic waters, to a certain Challenger of Record with plenty of catching up to do on its half-finished AC75 – there's been no shortage going on...
The week in racing - 27 July ‘26
Olympic hopefuls sizing up the LA 2028 racecourse in California, a long-awaited first 52 Super Series win for a French crew, the most wide-open SailGP weekend of the season in Portsmouth, and the Clipper fleet home after the best...
Los Gallos defeat Artemis for victory in Portsmouth
Super Sunday on the Solent, and with 18-metre wings on and speeds well over 90km/h, the stage was set for a frantic finish to the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix. Two more fleet races per group to decide the final four,...
Six winners from six races on Day 1 in Portsmouth
Six different winners from each of the six group races was proof of SailGP racing at its very best, after a brilliant opening day of action at the Portsmouth Sail Grand Prix on Saturday. In Group A, Northstar Canada, Spain’s Los...
The week in racing - 20 July ‘26
Olympic hopefuls chasing points on the future LA28 waters at Long Beach, the SSL Gold Cup dishing out its final European tickets to Rio in Switzerland, and fresh European champions crowned in the WASZP and ILCA fleets. And to top...
Ferrari Hypersail: Why a car company is building an ocean racer
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. Its first is Hypersail, a 100-foot fully foiling monohull designed to fly across oceans on renewable energy alone and chase records that have only ever belonged to multihulls. It's an...
How do you sail an AC75 and two AC40s at once? Ask Luna Rossa
Last week we asked The Foil community whether Emirates Team New Zealand could be beaten in the 38th America’s Cup. 71% said yes, and on current evidence the Italians are as well placed as anyone to do it. Luna Rossa have...
What La Roche-Posay’s Lorient capsize reveals about the lighter AC75
Last Tuesday, La Roche-Posay Racing Team's AC75 capsized during training off Lorient, the crew were unharmed, and the boat was towed back to base with a “systems issue” as the only official word. It was the team's fourth day on...
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...
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...
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...
