When SNG’s first choice of venue, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, was declared invalid by the New York Supreme Court, the Swiss Defender proposed two alternative …Â Details
Steve Clark is widely acknowledged as one of the most astute and most experienced inshore multihull technologists and sailors on the planet. His is a family pedigree with his father Van Alan Clark being heavily involved C-class catamaran development in the early days of the Little America’s Cup.
From that upbringing, Steve has continued and led the team that developed the C-Class challenger Cogito, which broke the Australian domination of the Little America’s Cup in 1996 at Macrae, in Australia, breaking the dominance of the Lindsay Cunningham designed succession of C-Class Yellow Pages …Â Details
BMW Oracle Racing have just released the first pictures of the wingmast to be fitted to their America’s Cup challenger in San Diego. More photos will be released later today. Stay tuned to Sail-World.
The latest development by the BMW ORACLE Racing team was unveiled today when an enormous wing was prepared to be wheeled out of the tent at the team base in San Diego.
The wing will be tested as an option to increase performance compared with a traditional soft sail rig as  … Details and Pictures
There is something about approaching a concrete wall at high speed and in total silence while perched on a net between two lightweight carbon fibre tubes that concentrates the mind.
Sailing an Extreme 40, the super-fast catamaran class that has just completed its third season of racing in European ports, produces a sensation more like flying than sailing, except that flying is noisier and generally bumpier. The boat moves so fast that, for those on board, the wind is always blowing from in front…Â Details