When the wind and waves are up, the Nacra 17, the fastest Olympic boat, flies around the race course and sometimes, literally. Physically demanding, the Nacra 17 can often be a wild beast to tame but for the 40 Olympic athletes in the 20-boat fleet at Rio 2016 they'll make it look easy.
Welcome to the first programme in a brand new monthly view of the racing world. From non-stop around the world racers, to the intensity of Olympic campaigns, from seasoned professionals, to grass r...
This month we kick off with an amazing tale of how the SMA team spent two and a half weeks chasing their abandoned race boat over 1,100miles in the North Atlantic in the middle of winter. We find o...
Why would a moustache make you go faster offshore? We find out why some of the world’s top solo racing teams are sprouting weird shaped foils out either side of the 60ft racing machines and why the...
Nine years ago the Extreme Sailing Series took high performance racing to the crowds and changed the sailing world. With the short courses and fast action, the series influenced some of the biggest...
How do America’s Cup teams balance the race for points on the water with the arms race ashore? We drop in on the opening event of the 2016 America’s Cup World Series in Oman to see the opening race...
We take a look at two very different routes to the Rio Games. Multiple Finn World Champion Giles Scott has four boats, three training partners along with one of the world’s leading coaches and te...
With over 1,500 entries and 16,000 sailors the annual Round the Island Race is a spectacle. But this year’s race was particularly special for one team that smashed race record – The World Sailing ...
Olympics, America’s Cup and Cowes Week plus an inspirational story and preview to the Paralympics, the August show is packed. From stunning images from the sailing Olympics to the spectacle of 8,0...
The most emotional story of the Olympics, to how two America's Cup teams have achieved the impossible, along with how a new Grand Prix machine is taking the racing scene by storm and much more, thi...
Around the planet alone, 24,000 miles with no stops and no outside assistance, - offshore racing doesn’t come any harder. We take a look at the 2016/17 Vendée Globe race ahead of the start in Novem...