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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...
Freddie Carr: My enduring love for the Round The Island Race
The Round the Island Race really is the race for everybody. Whether you're a seasoned professional or it’s the first time you’ve stepped on board a sailing boat, close to 800 boats and more than 10,000 competitors will set off at...
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...
La Roche-Posay Racing Team capsize their AC75 on fourth sailing day
La Roche-Posay Racing Team capsized their AC75 during a training session in Lorient on Tuesday 7 July. All crew members are safe and the boat has returned to the team’s base. In a statement on the La Roche-Posay Racing Team’s...
ETNZ join Luna Rossa on the Bay of Naples
In the past few days, Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa – the defender and Italy's home favourite – have both launched boats on the stretch of water that will decide the next America’s Cup. New Zealand rolled out their two...
Andy Rice: Learning to fly at Foiling Week
They thought it was funny when they put me on the front of an ETF26 foiling catamaran and left me to work out what the hell I was meant to do next. I had just jumped off the rib driven by reserve sailor Justin Busuttil to take...
The week in racing - 6 July ‘26
Lots to chew over this week: a record fleet let loose on the Aegean, an America's Cup team finally reaches Naples, and world titles being handed out everywhere from Lake Garda to the Baltic. Let’s get into it. Foiling Week's 13th...
An outsider’s perspective: What sailing looks like when you don’t know it
A little over six months since launch, The Foil is just starting to pick up at a rate of knots. We’re encouraged by how the world of professional sailing is responding to our carefully curated written articles and video output,...
Quentin Delapierre: Playing the long game
Almost every move Quentin Delapierre has made has been the right one. He has chosen his disciplines well, picked the correct boats at the correct moments, turned down the wrong opportunities and said yes to the ones that...
Lemaitre joins La Roche-Posay Racing crew
Five-time women's match racing world champion Maelenn Lemaitre has officially joined La Roche-Posay Racing, the team has confirmed. She becomes the ninth sailor in the squad, joining drivers Quentin Delapierre and Diego Botín,...
Diego Botín: The Spaniard chasing sailing's triple crown
Born on Christmas Day 1993 in the sailing city of Santander, Diego Botín seems to have been destined for the water from the very start. The Spaniard has gone on to enjoy a career that few in the sport can match, achieving Olympic...
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...
Recon: Subdued first sail for La Roche-Posay Racing Team
There are few clearer signs that an America’s Cup campaign has got serious than the moment the new boat finally gets flying under its own steam. For La Roche-Posay Racing Team, that moment came on Tuesday, when the French...
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...
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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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