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Our first-ever live and in-person podcast: SailGP Portsmouth
Sunday 26 July will mark a first for us at the Foil - our first live and in-person podcast. Even better, it’s free to attend. It’s been in the pipeline for a while now, and it’s great to announce it to our audience finally - but...
Return of the ‘death group’? SailGP tweaks how groups are seeded
SailGP has quietly updated one of its sailing instructions ahead of Portsmouth, and while it won’t rewrite history, it will change how the groups are allocated from here on out. It could even mean the return of the famous Halifax...
Why refereeing SailGP is just getting harder
Chief umpire Craig Mitchell and his team of online adjudicators have been busier than usual this season of SailGP, partly because there are now 13 teams competing on what are often very congested race courses. “We’ve been looking...
Ineos deny physical intimidation as Athena legal battle rumbles on
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Racing have pushed back against any insinuation of physically threatening behaviour towards Sir Ben Ainslie’s Athena Racing, as the battle over who owns Britain’s America’s Cup challenger continues to...
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...
SailGP outline expansion roadmap to 2030
SailGP have revealed an ambitious five-year plan with set targets for 2030, as the league pushes ahead with their expansion plans. The roadmap includes growth in every area: more teams, more events and a larger global audience. ...
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...
Freddie Carr: This was a Round the Island classic
Well, that was an absolute belter of a Round the Island Race. As the long-range forecast suggested, a steady north-westerly gradient breeze gradually clocked to the right throughout the day, allowing the fleet to complete the...
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...
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...
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Build-up to LA2028
The Olympic sailing programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Games has a lot of similarities with Paris 2024. The same 10 events stay the same from 2024, although the hope and expectation is that the weather will be much kinder than...
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Olympic History
Olympic Sailing is one of the oldest sports on the modern Olympic programme. Originally known as Yachting until the Sydney 2000 Games, the sport’s Olympic history reflects the evolution of sailing itself, transitioning from a...
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