“To go fast, a boat must balance lightness with power. These two concepts, often contradictory, can be combined thanks to the foils,” Vincent Lauriot-Prévost, one of the architects, says. “The foils ...
Rob Andrews and his ­business partner Alan Hillman have been teaching foiling for a few years now, and one thing they’ve learned is we get better by sailing, not by swimming. Thus was the genesis of ...
The brainchild of Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, the Gitana 18 foiling yacht may just change the game in offshore racing.
As the SailGP F50 race boat suddenly tacks, the G force pins me inside the aft steering station. Working against gravity, the U.S. team’s driver, Jimmy Spithill, and four other sailors somehow sprint ...
The 100-foot "Palm Beach XI," originally known as "Wild Oats XI," has been fitted with radical new C-foils to make her even ...
Wing foiling is a modern, dynamic sport that is particularly appealing to adaptive athletes looking for a new challenge. The staging of this innovative activity demonstrates just how quickly the ...
Sailors from the New Zealand and France teams have been rushed to Auckland hospital, after a high-speed collision in race ...