From Across the Pond: Part I
Amelia Quinn checks in from the windy Wilson Trophy in West Kirby, England, where she’s sorting out boathandling in the British Fireflies and admiring kitchen marvels that make drinking tea a breeze.
Amelia Quinn checks in from the windy Wilson Trophy in West Kirby, England, where she’s sorting out boathandling in the British Fireflies and admiring kitchen marvels that make drinking tea a breeze.
Australian Tom Slingsby took the helm of Oracle Team USA’s AC45 at the America’s Cup World Series in Naples with a goal: to prove he’s just as much a helmsman as a tactician.
U.S. teams from the University of Chicago, UCLA, and Wake Forest are among the 180 schools competing at the 45th EDHEC Sailing Cup in Brest, France. Originally created by three students at the French Business School EDHEC in 1969, the EDHEC Sailing Cup is now organized by 50 EDHEC students and has become the largest European student sporting event. This year it runs from April 20-27. [Click here for more information on this unique regatta.](https://www.sailingworld.com/racing/college/edhec-calls
Hyères, France, was the final stop of the 2012-’13 ISAF Sailing World Cup series at the end of April. Over 800 sailors raced in ten Olympic and two Paralympic events.
Veteran Sailing World contributor and America’s Cup historian Steve Tsuchiya is in Italy for the sole America’s Cup World Series stop in 2013. Here is his second gallery.
Veteran Sailing World contributor and America’s Cup historian Steve Tsuchiya is in Italy for the sole America’s Cup World Series stop in 2013. He’s taken two rides on AC45s during practice and is catching the regatta from shore and on photoboats. Here’s his first gallery.
Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
The MOD70 has attracted interest and spectators, and delivered on being a relatively safe yet fun multihull class. But the problem is that the sponsors are not able to turn the spending spigot tap on again, or at least not just yet.
Spanish photographer Jesús Renedo captured March’s Photo of the Month out of his home base in Palma where Olympic hopefuls were training in big breeze and waves for the ISAF Sailing World Cup.
Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.
After two failed attempts at the Vendée Globe, the Brit Alex Thomson takes third place in the solo nonstop ’round-the-world race. He’s the third ever British skipper to finish on the podium, and set a new non-stop ’round the world record for a solo British sailor.
Amelia Quinn checks in from the windy Wilson Trophy in West Kirby, England, where she’s sorting out boathandling in the British Fireflies and admiring kitchen marvels that make drinking tea a breeze.
Australian Tom Slingsby took the helm of Oracle Team USA’s AC45 at the America’s Cup World Series in Naples with a goal: to prove he’s just as much a helmsman as a tactician.
U.S. teams from the University of Chicago, UCLA, and Wake Forest are among the 180 schools competing at the 45th EDHEC Sailing Cup in Brest, France. Originally created by three students at the French Business School EDHEC in 1969, the EDHEC Sailing Cup is now organized by 50 EDHEC students and has become the largest European student sporting event. This year it runs from April 20-27. [Click here for more information on this unique regatta.](https://www.sailingworld.com/racing/college/edhec-calls
Hyères, France, was the final stop of the 2012-’13 ISAF Sailing World Cup series at the end of April. Over 800 sailors raced in ten Olympic and two Paralympic events.
Veteran Sailing World contributor and America’s Cup historian Steve Tsuchiya is in Italy for the sole America’s Cup World Series stop in 2013. Here is his second gallery.
Veteran Sailing World contributor and America’s Cup historian Steve Tsuchiya is in Italy for the sole America’s Cup World Series stop in 2013. He’s taken two rides on AC45s during practice and is catching the regatta from shore and on photoboats. Here’s his first gallery.
Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
The MOD70 has attracted interest and spectators, and delivered on being a relatively safe yet fun multihull class. But the problem is that the sponsors are not able to turn the spending spigot tap on again, or at least not just yet.
Spanish photographer Jesús Renedo captured March’s Photo of the Month out of his home base in Palma where Olympic hopefuls were training in big breeze and waves for the ISAF Sailing World Cup.
Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.
After two failed attempts at the Vendée Globe, the Brit Alex Thomson takes third place in the solo nonstop ’round-the-world race. He’s the third ever British skipper to finish on the podium, and set a new non-stop ’round the world record for a solo British sailor.
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