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 Sept. 8, 2008: BMW Oracle Racing's James Spithill talks about the biggest thing in America's Cup racing in many years, the team's 90-foot trimaran, which was launched in late August and sailed for the first time last week. How fast can it go? It might depend on how courageous the skipper is. For a photo gallery of the trimaran, click here. Open the podcast, and then view the gallery while listening to Spithill describe the ground-breaking boat. We also have video of the boat under sail.
Aug. 6, 2008: 2008 Olympic Podcast Series: Finn sailor Zack Railey and Yngling helmswoman Sally Barkow speak about Saturday's first races of the Qingdao Olympic Regatta.
 July 10, 2008: Once the pinnacle of offshore competition, the Admiral's Cup has all but disappeared from the sailing landscape. It was last held in 2003, canceled in 2001 and 2005. But, at least among the members of the Royal Ocean Racing Club and the elder statesmen in the professional sailing ranks, it hasn't been forgotten. Eddie Warden Owen, who was appointed CEO of the RORC last winter, holds a special place in his heart for the grueling big-boat team competition. But is that enough to get this trophy back on the water? Click here to view a PDF of Ken Read's article on the Admiral's Cup, "Street Fight on the Solent" in the September 1999 issue of Sailing World.
 June 23, 2008: James Spithill first learned to sail on a neighbor's Hobie Cat. But since that time he'd had little experience in multihulls until he joined the staff of BMW Oracle Racing. With the next America's Cup less than a year away, and destined to be sailed in a gigantic multihull, the 28-year-old is taking a crash course—with the occasional crash—in multihull sailing. He's been spending time aboard any multihull he can get his hands on, from 60-foot ORMA trimarans to 18-foot beach cats. It's no surprise that he's loving every minute of it.
 June 10, 2008: Why is Andy Horton smiling? Well partly because the picture was taken a few days before TP 52 for which he is calling tactics in the 2008 Audi MedCup was involved in a thunderous port-starboard collision near the windward mark. But he's also smiling because for Horton—that collision aside—everything is clicking. In this podcast, we speak with one of grand prix sailing's fastest rising stars.
 June 3, 2008: For many American sailors, it's easy to paint Alinghi as the bad guy in the current America's Cup legal battle. And if these same sailors had to pick a face for this syndicate, who better than lead lawyer Lucien Masmejan, a man that few outside the Alinghi syndicate knew until sailing's biggest trophy transitioned from the Med to the New York State Supreme Court. But, of course, Masmejan and Alinghi have their side of the story and we decided to go out and get it.
 May 19, 2008: On May 12, the America's Cup appeared to take a big step toward getting out of the courtroom and on to the water. Justice Herman Cahn of the New York State Supreme Court set March 12, 2009, as the date of the first race of the 33rd America's Cup. But many questions still remain. In the first of two Cup podcasts, we check in with BMW Oracle Racing spokesman Tom Ehman. A session with Alinghi lawyer Lucien Masmejan will follow later.
 April 2, 2008: With the America's Cup mired in the courts and a multihull match looming, Peter Holmberg's decision to step away from sailing's premiere event after his stint as a helmsman for Alinghi, seems prescient. While his former teammates were trying to salvage Alain Gautier's trimaran, which they capsized during training last weekend, Holmberg was back on Pillsbury Sound in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the same waters upon which he and his brother learned to sail 40 years ago. We took a moment to catch up with the most famous sailor to call St. Thomas home and find out what plans he has for himself in the near future.
 March 4, 2008: Going South. Way South. North American sailors are quite familiar with the value of heading south to escape the winter doldrums. Sailing World editor at larger Herb McCormick took this concept to new heights, heading to Australia for two months. He took a deep, satisfying gulp of the sailing lifestyle in Australia and Southeast Asia. He gives us the run down on his antipodean adventures, including sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race (left).
Dec. 18, 2007: As it's looking more and more like Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison will meet for a "Deed of Gift" challenge in a no-holds-barred, 3-race America's Cup match this coming summer or fall, we look back on the last time the Cup went through a similar situation. In 1988, Sir Michael Fay's 120-foot monohull raced against Dennis Conner's 60-foot cat. On the water, it was a total mismatch, Conner's team won two races with ease, but in the courts Fay almost prevailed. The end result of the "Coma off Point Loma" was the Cup stayed in the United States, and to avoid something like that happening again, the interested parties gathered and developed the America's Cup Class. Cam Lewis, a crew member on Conner's cat, and a veteran of the G-Class cat circuit looks back, and forward, at the America's Cup.
 Dec. 7, 2007: In June Terry Hutchinson (right) and Jonathan McKee (far left) were on opposing boats battling in the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup. Hutchinson was the tactician for Emirates Team New Zealand, while McKee trimmed main for Luna Rossa. Since then, these two talented sailors have taken different paths. McKee is currently in the South Atlantic, pushing the Open 60 Estrella Damm around the world in the Barcelona World Race. Hutchinson is back on the domestic buoy circuit, recently racking up an impressive win in the Farr 40 10th Anniversary Regatta. We speak to both of these sailors in this podcast.
Nov. 26, 2007: Bob Hughes has been pursuing the Canada's Cup trophy for the better part of a decade. After twice losing it, Hughes finally won the Great Lake's most prestigious trophy last October. Now that he's accomplished one of his primary sailing goals, however, Hughes finds himself with a new problem: he must now work to build the event back to its former glory. Winning it was tough, defending it while trying to improve the event may be a significantly bigger challenge.
 Oct. 30, 2007: With three years as chairman of US SAILING's Olympic Sailing Committee and the 2007 U.S. Olympic Sailing Trials behind him, former Trials runner-up Dean Brenner looks at his mission to reshape the U.S. Sailing Team into a lean, mean sailing machine capable of competing on an international level with top-dollar programs like that of Great Britain.
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