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You've sent me off down a google rabbit hole of trying to find real world plb reaction times! There is some recent evidence that...

"Hey Siri...."

In UK waters, depending on time of year, if there's no one close enough to hear a VHF call then the odds of you being plucked out of the...

I think if you go back to the same point in the last cup, where INEOS had won the RR and were awaiting the winner of LR and AM for the...

They definitely do have the smallest foils. Seems a very deliberate choice to optomise for the expected cup conditions. Which is...

It really doesn't matter what anyone calls their boat. I think we're all pretty lucky to have a boat/yacht/floaty thing/whatever you...

Nice boat tour of a 39FC

Not sure it was that simple. They said that they expected the wind to build faster, so were on their slightly smaller main for race 1...

Almost none.

The Vendee is going to be absolutely epic. One thing that the advent of the big foils has done is to actually make having a new boat...

If I may, "shouting your intentions" is an extremely bad idea when it comes to avoiding collisions. It risks misunderstanding...

Whilst true, the time lost by the cruiser in an incident like the OP, maybe 30s at an extreme, is going to make no difference to whether...

I knew him when I worked at the boat show. We had some great chats about all things sailing, and whilst we disagreed about a lot of...

Leaving aside rights and wrongs, one things that often (?always) comes out in these threads is that regular racers, especially dinghy...

Almost impossible to comment without being there to be honest. All I would say is whilst quite clearly if they are overtaking then...