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The Tabarly Effect: how one quiet sailor built a nation of ocean racers
Walk the pontoons at Lorient La Base on any weekday and you are in the most concentrated gathering of offshore racing talent on the planet. Ultims, IMOCAs, Class40s and Minis lie moored in the shadow of colossal concrete bunkers...
LIVE: 52 Super Series Valencia Sailing Week – the title decider
The 52 Super Series season comes down to one last regatta, and The Foil is there for all of it. We're livestreaming every day of Valencia Sailing Week, 6–10 October, as a record 16-boat fleet from 11 nations races off Malvarrosa...
The week in racing - 5 Oct ’26
It's been a busy old week, from Olympic qualification getting under way at the Asian Games to the giant Ultims touching the mid-40s off Brittany, with a double-handed offshore world title for France and the classics out in force...
Why Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez is so special
There are regattas you go to because you want to win, and there are regattas that remind you why you fell in love with sailing in the first place. Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez manages to do both. The racing matters. Anyone who...
The RC44: how Russell Coutts hit a winning formula
Most grand prix sailing classes burn bright and fade fast. Owners arrive, spend heavily, win or lose, and move on to the next shiny thing within three or four seasons. The RC44 has defied that cycle for the best part of two...
The Foil Debrief: What America's Cup warm-up events could count for
Listen on Spotify and other platforms Mozzy's back. He's spent the summer on the beach sailing a Mirror, but the America's Cup has “summoned” him back “like a demon from the deep”, and he's brought some opinions with him. Mozzy...
Podcast: Not everyone left Naples smiling
Listen on Spotify and other platforms Naples brought the crowds, the drama and a taste of what next year’s America’s Cup could deliver. But how much did we really learn from the preliminary regatta? Neil Cole, Andy Rice, Lewis...
The week in racing - 28 Sep ‘26
It's been a busy week across the board. In Naples, Peter Burling got one over on his old team to win the second Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta, while on the Solent, Pietro Loro Piana and his crew ended a 15-year wait on a...
Luna Rossa defeat the defenders at the AC38 venue
Luna Rossa have taken the Naples title, beating Emirates Team New Zealand by 17 seconds in the match race final – a show of strength from the home team on the very waters that will host the 2027 America’s Cup. For Peter Burling,...
Can anyone stop Luna Rossa? The French give it a go on day 2 in Naples
Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand remain in the top two heading into the final day of the America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta in Naples, but day two belonged to La Roche-Posay Racing Team. Quentin Delapierre’s French crew...
Crispy, capsized and a case of the wrong jib: Day 1 in Naples
Luna Rossa made it look easy on the opening day of the Preliminary Regatta. Everyone else had a slightly more eventful time. The Bay of Naples finally got its racing underway today, and the home favourites wasted no time in...
Luna Rossa lead after a stop-start opening day in Naples
If any team was going to own the bay in Naples, surely it was the Italians. Luna Rossa arrive to the second Preliminary Regatta of the 38th America’s Cup bursting with talent across the board, with more AC40 training time than...
Five things to look out for in Naples this weekend
For the first time this cycle, the America's Cup teams are racing on the water that will decide the 38th edition. Nine AC40s from six teams line up on the Bay of Naples, with three days of fleet racing and a winner-takes-all...
Freddie Carr: Naples is not a neutral racecourse
The AC40 Preliminary Regatta will provide the first meaningful evidence of which teams understand the venue that will decide the 38th America’s Cup. I first went to Naples with Luna Rossa for the America’s Cup World Series events...
The week in racing - 21 Sep ‘26
Sam Goodchild has been making Charlie Dalin’s old boat fly in Lorient, 170 Swans have been out celebrating 60 years in Sardinia, and Ferrari have named the first sailors for its flying monohull. Here’s the round-up, plus a packed...
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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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