Where Have the Tacking Duels Gone?
The multihulls of the America’s Cup have speed and excitement, but Tim Zimmermann finds the subtleties of match racing tactics and strategy to be lacking.
The multihulls of the America’s Cup have speed and excitement, but Tim Zimmermann finds the subtleties of match racing tactics and strategy to be lacking.
With seven years as a member of US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee, and double that as an industry insider, many see former Olympic hopeful Josh Adams as ideally qualified to take over leadership of the U.S. Olympic Sailing program. Others feel his appointment will perpetuate the philosophies that left the U.S. Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider without a medal in the 2012 Olympics.
With the clock ticking down to the 34th America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA hit the water in their AC72s. Click here to check out videos of the sailing.
Keith Swinton of Australia won his first Alpari World Match Racing Tour event in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sept. 2. over former champion Mathieu Richard of France. Bjorn Hansen (SWE) retains the top overall spot in the tour, while Ian Williams (GBR) keeps second going into the next stop in Marseilles on Sept. 24. Photos: Loris von Siebenthal/St. Moritz Match Race
Sailing at the Paralympic Games in Weymouth and Portland, U.K., runs through Sept. 6. US athletes competing include Jen French and JP Creignou (SKUD 18), Mark LeBlanc (2.4 mR), and Paul Callahan, Tom Brown, and Bradley Johnson (Sonar).
Position reports and fleet tracking for ocean races are fine and good for friends, fans, and the media, but on the racecourse, knowing what others are up to dilutes the challenge. Gaining Bearing from our July/August 2012 issue.
Following a win at ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy Nationals this Spring, Georgetown starts out the Fall 2012 season at the top of the preseason coed rankings. After winning Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women’s Nationals, Boston College starts off the season ranked second behind Yale, and followed closely by third-ranked Dartmouth.
The America’s Cup World Series has the wow factor nailed, but it still struggles to attract the long term viewer.
Thierry Martinez catches a hairy top-mark situation with Australians John Harris and Joe Turner at the 2012 Moth Worlds on Lake Garda in Italy.
Where the hell is everyone? Editor’s Letter from our July/August 2012 issue.
Steven Lapkin shares shots from the first day of racing at the America’s Cup World Series in San Francisco. Luna Rossa Swordfish and Piranha, along with Ben Ainslie’s J.P. Morgan BAR advanced out of the match racing quarterfinals.
Foiling fanatics flock to Lake Garda, Italy, for the Moth World Championship, which runs through August 26.
The multihulls of the America’s Cup have speed and excitement, but Tim Zimmermann finds the subtleties of match racing tactics and strategy to be lacking.
With seven years as a member of US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee, and double that as an industry insider, many see former Olympic hopeful Josh Adams as ideally qualified to take over leadership of the U.S. Olympic Sailing program. Others feel his appointment will perpetuate the philosophies that left the U.S. Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider without a medal in the 2012 Olympics.
With the clock ticking down to the 34th America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA hit the water in their AC72s. Click here to check out videos of the sailing.
Keith Swinton of Australia won his first Alpari World Match Racing Tour event in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sept. 2. over former champion Mathieu Richard of France. Bjorn Hansen (SWE) retains the top overall spot in the tour, while Ian Williams (GBR) keeps second going into the next stop in Marseilles on Sept. 24. Photos: Loris von Siebenthal/St. Moritz Match Race
Sailing at the Paralympic Games in Weymouth and Portland, U.K., runs through Sept. 6. US athletes competing include Jen French and JP Creignou (SKUD 18), Mark LeBlanc (2.4 mR), and Paul Callahan, Tom Brown, and Bradley Johnson (Sonar).
Position reports and fleet tracking for ocean races are fine and good for friends, fans, and the media, but on the racecourse, knowing what others are up to dilutes the challenge. Gaining Bearing from our July/August 2012 issue.
Following a win at ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy Nationals this Spring, Georgetown starts out the Fall 2012 season at the top of the preseason coed rankings. After winning Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women’s Nationals, Boston College starts off the season ranked second behind Yale, and followed closely by third-ranked Dartmouth.
The America’s Cup World Series has the wow factor nailed, but it still struggles to attract the long term viewer.
Thierry Martinez catches a hairy top-mark situation with Australians John Harris and Joe Turner at the 2012 Moth Worlds on Lake Garda in Italy.
Where the hell is everyone? Editor’s Letter from our July/August 2012 issue.
Steven Lapkin shares shots from the first day of racing at the America’s Cup World Series in San Francisco. Luna Rossa Swordfish and Piranha, along with Ben Ainslie’s J.P. Morgan BAR advanced out of the match racing quarterfinals.
Foiling fanatics flock to Lake Garda, Italy, for the Moth World Championship, which runs through August 26.
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