It's a little known fact that masts makers Southern Spars built one of the Kiwi America's Cup winning boats. Emirates Team New Zealand mechanical engineer Martin McElwee explains which boat brought the Cup to NZ and how the lessons learned in the production of America's Cup masts at Southern Spars flowed both ways and even into boat building.
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A record 12 teams turned up in New York for the 6th event in the SailGP calendar, but the breeze was slow to the party. For most teams the tricky conditions made this a roller coaster ride though the points board.
The full PlanetSail review is now live online, here's a snippet of the action
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The Royal Thames Yacht Club's 250th Anniversary was a spectacular affair. With over 250 boats from the latest carbon flyers to beautiful classics that were more than a century old, the four day regatta to celebrate one of the oldest clubs in the world had ticked many of the boxes even before the fleet had turned up.
PlanetSail was there in the thick of the action, afloat, on board and picking up the chatter ashore.
Here's a little teaser of what's in store in our feature