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The Sailing Forum message base and data library offers a huge amount of sail racing resources.  Saved threads of conversations on many different sail racing topics.  Questions about race rules and tactics, conversations about races and top racers.  Pictures of many of the big races, American's Cup, BOC, Whitbread, Key West plus many local races.  There are transcripts of moderated chats with Sailing Forum members and some of the top racing rock stars who have been our guests over the years. 

We have compiled a list of some great examples below but there are literally thousands of others. You can use the Search utility on the Sailing Forum folder to look for topics of interest to you. You can go directly to the Sailing Forum Discussions.

America's Cup questions: An interesting thread with some answers from Bob Fisher, dean of sail racing journalists, and Vince Cooke, who has run the America's Cup Louis Vuitton Challenge series.

A boat in irons: What is that! And what does it mean in terms of sail racing rules. Do other boats have to stay clear or can they take advantage of the situation?

The physics of sailing: What makes a sailboat go? How can a boat sail faster than the wind (they do)?  Some surprising information and explanation of the forces that move a sailboat through the water.

How to measure the wind: So just how strong is the force of the wind. How is it measured? How do sailors and racers know when it is too much wind to sail or race?

Prada blasting through 6 footers: A great photo by renown photo journalist, Carlo Borlinghi of Sea & See of Prada, the Italian American's Cup defending yacht in the 2000 Cup Races in Auckland. Lot of great photos are in the Sailing Forum data library.

Racing in Spain: Another great shot by Carlo Borlinghi of Sea and See. This one of racing off the Spanish Coast where the next America's Cup races are being held.

Sydney-Hobart Race: Want to see how the Sydney-Hobart Race can get deadly, check out this storm photo from Barry Pickthall's PPL Agency's Ian Mainsbridge to see the rough conditions.

Inshore race rules discussion: Lee Parks of US SAILING posted this discussion of the Inshore Race rules changes proposed. How the rules work and how the changes will affect inshore racing.

Whitbread skipper live chat: A transcript of the live chat done with American's Cup skipper John Kostecki at the CompuServe/Compaq cyber cafe in Annapolis Maryland at the US stopover for the round the world race.