BERNIE WILSON
In this photo provided by SailGP, date not known, Nina Curtis poses for a portrait in Hamilton, Bermuda. Curtis has been picked to join the defending champion Australian SailGP team for the rest of the season as part of a developmental program designed to bring women into the global league. Curtis, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and sailed with Team Brunel on the final five legs of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, beat out Lisa Darmanin in a training camp during the season-opening regatta in Bermuda two weeks ago. (Bob Martin/SailGP via AP)
Top Aussie female sailor Curtis picked to join SailGP squad

By Bernie Wilson May. 06, 2021 08:58 PM EDT
Nina Curtis has been picked to join the defending champion Australian team for

In this photo provided by Sail GP are Nina Curtis, left, and Lisa Darmanin, right, posing with helmsman and CEO Tom Slingsby at Sydney Harbour Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Australia. Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Darmanin and Curtis could get to the America's Cup was by taking jobs in a hospitality lounge on site in Bermuda. They'll be back in Bermuda in just a few days, this time with the defending champion Australian team in SailGP as part of a developmental program designed to fast-track the inclusion of women into the global league. (SailGP via AP)
Darmanin, Curtis chosen to try to make Aussie SailGP team

By Bernie Wilson Apr. 07, 2021 07:14 PM EDT
Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Lisa Darmanin

FILE - In this April 29, 2006, file photo Paul Cayard, skipper of the Pirates of the Caribbean Volvo Ocean Race boat steers his boat as they team readies for the start of the Baltimore in Port race on the Chesapeake Bay. Cayard has raced in the America's Cup, the Olympics and was the first American skipper to win one of sailing's toughest challenges, the Whitbread Round the World Race. Now he faces another arduous task, guiding the underperforming U.S. Olympic sailing team as its new executive director. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)
Cayard takes helm of underperforming US Olympic sailing team

By Bernie Wilson Mar. 25, 2021 06:02 PM EDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Paul Cayard has raced in the America’s Cup and the Olympics,

This photo provided by SailGP shows Australia SailGP skipper Tom Slingsby in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 6, 2021. The women sailed WASZP one-person foiling dinghies, giving Slingsby the chance to assess their potential ability on the 50-foot foiling catamarans used in SailGP. Slingsby said. "There's a lot of training ahead. We've seen some amazing male sailors who have been dropped out of SailGP because they just couldn't keep up. By no means is it going to be easy, but I just think it's great to give them the opportunity for them to come and live and train with team and see what it's all about and then if they're good enough, they'll make it." (Beau Outteridge/SailGP via AP)
Aussie sailor could be going for cousin's job on SailGP boat

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 12, 2021 03:27 AM EST
Lisa Darmanin is eager to break the glass ceiling on the Australia SailGP Team,

World Surf League finals to be held at Lower Trestles

By Bernie Wilson Nov. 12, 2020 06:07 PM EST
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The World Surf League’s 2021 men’s and women’s season

ILE - In this May 12, 2015, file photo, Kelly Slater competes in the Oi Rio Pro World Surf League event at Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professional surfers will be riding the waves again Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sport in March. The Surf Ranch in Lemoore, Calif., some 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean, will provide a perfect bubble for the World Surf League’s Rumble at the Ranch featuring 16 surfers, including 11-time world champion Slater and Olympic qualifiers Kolohe Andino, Caroline Marks and four-time reigning world champ Carissa Moore. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Surf's up again for Slater, Olympic qualifiers at Surf Ranch

By Bernie Wilson Aug. 08, 2020 07:31 PM EDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Professional surfers will be riding the waves again on Sunday