
The Safety Net
If you have a good routine, you can always be prepared for the worst-case scenario at regattas. Well, almost always.

If you have a good routine, you can always be prepared for the worst-case scenario at regattas. Well, almost always.

Even though they’re latecomers to the game, Luna Rossa has been quietly working away in Auckland to prepare for the America’s Cup. Team manager Max Sirena gives us the scoop.

Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman. Photos: OC Events and Sabine König for Chili Sports Communication Extreme Sailing Series 2013 Act 1, Muscat, Oman results
Position / Team / Points
1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Ed Smyth, Pete Greenhalgh, Musab Al Hadi, Hashim Al Rashdi 232 points.
2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman

Shots from Cory Silken at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week. Click here to visit the event website.

Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.

Charleston tops the coed rankings in the second poll of spring college sailing season, with Georgetown in second. Yale edges Dartmouth for the first-place women’s ranking, followed closely by Charleston in third.

For the 33rd America’s Cup, Joseph Ozanne spent a lot of time designing Oracle Team USA’s monstrous wing. This time around, however, he believes the big gains will come from below the waterline.

Watch the first act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, right here!

There’s more to sailboat sheet management than meets the eye

Gunboats joined the action at two recent regattas in the Caribbean: the RORC Caribbean 600 and the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. Richard Langdon of Ocean Images shares shots from both.
Paralympic medalist Jennifer French and kitesurfing world champ Johnny Heineken receive their awards at the St. Francis YC in San Francisco.

The defender releases the first aerial images of its AC72 ripping across San Francisco Bay. Photos by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA

If you have a good routine, you can always be prepared for the worst-case scenario at regattas. Well, almost always.

Even though they’re latecomers to the game, Luna Rossa has been quietly working away in Auckland to prepare for the America’s Cup. Team manager Max Sirena gives us the scoop.

Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman. Photos: OC Events and Sabine König for Chili Sports Communication Extreme Sailing Series 2013 Act 1, Muscat, Oman results
Position / Team / Points
1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Ed Smyth, Pete Greenhalgh, Musab Al Hadi, Hashim Al Rashdi 232 points.
2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman

Shots from Cory Silken at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week. Click here to visit the event website.

Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.

Charleston tops the coed rankings in the second poll of spring college sailing season, with Georgetown in second. Yale edges Dartmouth for the first-place women’s ranking, followed closely by Charleston in third.

For the 33rd America’s Cup, Joseph Ozanne spent a lot of time designing Oracle Team USA’s monstrous wing. This time around, however, he believes the big gains will come from below the waterline.

Watch the first act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, right here!

There’s more to sailboat sheet management than meets the eye

Gunboats joined the action at two recent regattas in the Caribbean: the RORC Caribbean 600 and the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. Richard Langdon of Ocean Images shares shots from both.
Paralympic medalist Jennifer French and kitesurfing world champ Johnny Heineken receive their awards at the St. Francis YC in San Francisco.

The defender releases the first aerial images of its AC72 ripping across San Francisco Bay. Photos by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA
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