foils on the brain again

More and more high end sailboats are foiling.

Here's a video from the Great Cat 32 event.  The event ran with 4 pro teams and 4 amature owners.  4 boats on the water at a time and  8 teams.  A round robin format was followed to ensure everyone raced everyone else.

Here you go:

random sailing news

It seems that several interesting pro sailing events are reaching out and expanding their coverage.  Just this week an English speaking sailor won a race from New York to Barcelona Spain in Open 60 mono hulls.  There's a good series of videos on You Tube about the event, but here is the final one.






The production foiling catamaran is ripping up some race courses in Europe.  I wonder if one would if one would survive hitting one of the logs that litter our part of the straight of georgia?  Anyway here's a video :

Saturday Sailing #45

Foiling Trimaran


Osprey Hydrofoil from Adventure Online TV on Vimeo.



ISDF worlds event video.  Some canadian footage





Hiking hard





Arty Vid from the swiss sailing team


A day with the Swiss Sailing Team from JUERGKAUFMANN.COM on Vimeo.

Saturday Sailing #33

Canadian Finn sailors training




P28 Foiling multihull with a wing sail





AC 45 match racing highlight show