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  • Boat Building - Episode Three

    New Series - Creating a flying Moth! Maguire Boats's workshop is something out of a Formula One laboratory - very clean and very organised to supply the 'pilots' across the globe with their foiling Exocet missile.

    Video Producer: VR Sport Media

  • The Wilson Trophy - 70 Years Of Thrills & Spills

    VRsport.tv Exclusive Documentary - The most iconic team racing event in the world - in-depth interviews with competitors and history. Seven decades of top competition on the outskirts of Liverpool with plenty of stories, photographs and film footage explaining why 'The Wilson' is on the bucket li...

  • Gitana Team - The History Of Foils

    Gitana Team have designed a helpful guide for foiling enthuasists - BIG boats or small. They know what they are doing with the hugely successful Maxi Edmond de Rothschild! Episode one takes you back more than 160 years to the early 1860s, to explore the beginnings of foils and their primary uses....

  • Pushing The Boundaries - Foil

    Exclusive documentary on foiling - everything you need to know about how, why and what developments are in store for the sailors that fly.. Interviews with INEOS Team UK, Foiling World, Southampton Solent University and comprehensive footage of many of the current flying machines - one to watch f...

  • Boat Building - Episode Two

    New Series - The birth of any yacht is special with champagne flowing over the bow and plenty of smiles but the birth of a new class and fleet is something rather significant. The IC37 doesn't have foils to make it fly or tries to claim the water speed record - it's refreshingly designed for amat...

  • Brightlingsea Crew - The Dynasty - Episode Two

    Second part of the Brightlingsea Crew, we chat with the whole of the White family about the 'dynasty', White Formula and their role within the business including the building of the ThinAir V2 International Moth. Started by Reg, the Olympic Gold medalist, over forty years ago, it's managed by Rob...

  • Evolution of the International 14

    Documentary - The International 14 has spawned many innovations within sailing that are now common use by numerous other classes. Andy Bates takes you through the 'evolution' including interviews with a number of skiff legends.

    Video Producer: VR Sport Media

  • Boat Building - Episode One

    New Series - For many, wooden boat building is a strange and mysterious art performed by a few specialists. They may be right as wood has been replaced by fibreglass, GRP and carbon for the majority of sea going vessels. But there is a resurgence in a few pockets around the British Isles with Pio...

  • Gitana Team - Foils - How Do They Work?

    Gitana Team have designed a helpful guide for foiling enthuasists - BIG boats or small. They know what they are doing with the hugely successful Maxi Edmond de Rothschild! Episode two offers a more practical insight into how these appendages work in the company of two specialists, naval architect...

  • Topper Generations

    Dream, Learn, Develop, Perfect and Reactivate - the Topper Generation have reached the pinnacle of sailing including Olympics, Ocean Race and the America's Cup. Meet some of many generations including Ian Walker, Helena Lucas and Roger Proctor.

    Video Producer: VR Sport Media

  • Brightlingsea Crew - Olympic Legacy - Episode One

    Brightlingsea is buried within the heart of Essex - one family in particular has regarded this small town as their home for many generations. The sailing dynasty of the White's dates back to Britannia, the iconic J-Class yacht, to competing at a multitude of Olympic Games.

    Video Producer: VR Sp...

  • How I Lost My Virginity...To A International 14!

    "It's the best fun you could have with your clothes on!" Lorelei inspires many of the International 14 sailors to divulge their wicked memories..

    Video Producer: VR Sport Media

  • Bridge Between Generations

    Exclusive Documentary - VRsport.tv spent a rare day off with the Bridge family in Exmouth who are the ultimate 'Kite Family'.

    Video Producer: VR Sport Media

  • Tunnel Vision - Keahi de Aboitiz

    For Keahi, kitesurfing has become an extension of surfing and a way to spend as much time in the ocean as possible. It’s a tool that turns windy sessions into a whole new world of fun. It’s an obsessive addiction that has led him to drop everything when a forecasted big swell appears on the horiz...

  • KIteboarding - The Long Road To Toyko

    Film - The spirit of the kiteboarders and their steadfast refusal to be defeated is rewarded with a vote of inclusion for the Youth Games in 2018 for the very first time. Yet again the Olympic dreams of the kiteboarders are on the line as the sport comes up for consideration for the Tokyo Games 2...

  • Gitana Team - Use Of The Foiling Equipment

    Gitana Team have designed a helpful guide for foiling enthuasists - BIG boats or small. They know what they are doing with the hugely successful Maxi Edmond de Rothschild! In this final episode, Guillaume Verdier and Sébastien Sainson outline how the appendages are used on the Maxi Edmond de Roth...

  • Ocean Adventures - Francisco Lobato Offshore Sailor Movie

    Ocean Adventures - Movie. Francisco Lobato's epic winning 2009 Mini Transat campaign.

    Video Producer: Francisco Lobato/ Francisco Lufinha

  • Kiteboarding - Breaking The Mould

    Documentary - Breaking the Mould follows the hopes and aspirations, the highs and the lows of one of Thailand’s Youth Olympic hopefuls, who by chance was born, lives and trains in the town of Pak Nam Pran itself.

    Video Producer: KTA Media

  • Disguise The Limit - Cabrinha Film

    Wrapped around the idea that limits are nothing more than lines drawn in the sand, begging to be erased, Cabrinha Films brings you the best kiting footage from Maui to Morroco and the shores of Tarifa featuring their new 2016 gear. Starring many of the Cabrinha Team including Pete Cabrinha, Keahi...

  • Fourteens Are Forever

    Must for see for anyone who trapezes - a beautful historic documentary about the International 14 and the legendary "Thunder & Lightning" which was the first trapezing dinghy. Footage includes Itchenor SC, Royal Yacht Squadron, Richmond YC, Tamesis SC, Royal Cornwall YC and Beverly YC, to name a ...

  • AC36 - The America's Cup Overture

    The gathering of the Defender and Challengers in Cowes showcasing the biggest sailing show on earth. Interviews with Grant Dalton and Peter Burling (Emirates Team New Zealand), Sir Ben Ainslie (INEOS Team UK), Max Sirena (Luna Rossa Challenge) and Terry Hutchinson (American Magic). Video Credits:...