Sail-World.com is a combination of several editors plus editorial and content contributors based in many locations around the globe to ensure the ability to deliver 24 hour news coverage from quality sources around the world.

The NZ editor, Richard Gladwell, is part of this team who travel to cover some major events and deliver the news that matters to our large international readership. Some others are listed here with many more unlisted team members working in the background.

Richard Gladwell – Sail-World New Zealand Editor
Richard Gladwell is highly regarded in the NZ and global marine media plus the general media as one of the go to journalists on sailing issues. A freelance sailing correspondent since 1983 with NZ Nautical News, Boating NZ (founder), New Zealand Yachting, Sailing New Zealand, and Pacific Yachting magazines before switching to the web in 2003 and then to Sail-World.com/NZ in 2005.

Richard sailed for over 50 years, competing in several world championships, usually in boats he built himself, the 1983 Admiral’s Cup and has won four NZ national titles.

His specialty is in Olympic classes, America’s Cup and ocean racing as well as all forms of dinghy sailing, both as a writer and photographer. He was an ISAF International Judge (20years) and Umpire (10years) and covers various rules related issues. A Director of Yachting NZ for eight years, Richard was on the YNZ Olympic Committee for five years. He is a selector for the US-based America’s Cup Hall of Fame and was a selector for the NZ Sailor of the Year for 10 years.

He has been the Commodore of two prominent Auckland dinghy clubs and been part of the organising committee of eight World Championships.

Richard has covered every America’s Cup since 1983 attending five Matches (2000, 2003, 2010, 2013 and 2017) as a journalist and/or photographer and covering the rest remotely. He attended the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics as a journalist and photographer.

In 2016 he placed 5th in the Mirabaud World Yacht Racing Image of the Year with a shot from the 470 class in the 2016 Olympics.

In 2017 he wrote and illustrated with 140 of his images “Lone Wolf – How Emirates Team New Zealand Stunned the World.” The book sold out within two months of publication and was the biggest selling sports book in New Zealand in 2017.

Colin Preston – Advertising and Marketing
An engineer and tutor Colin has been with Sail-World.com since 2007 as New Zealand’s sales representative. Born into a boating family who had raced Mullet boats and 18 footers plus an uncle who crewed a Sydney Hobart winner Colin continues the family passion for sailing following a childhood of cruising the Hauraki Gulf.
Colin has 45 years of sailing many keelboat classes, races and regattas. Two SSANZ 2 Handed Series wins in a Farr 1020, a 3rd Masters in one of 3 OKI 24hr Laser races and podium places in many other crewed yachts keep him keen for more. These days he can be found racing on a Beneteau First 45 or other keelboat around Auckland’s harbour.

Mark Jardine – Managing Editor
Mark has been managing sailing websites since 1996, always being at the forefront of technology, and now manages the combined Sail-World.com and YachtsandYachting.com network. He has covered events such as the International Moth World Championship and Cowes Week, focusing on the sailors’ thoughts and words.
Mark has been European Champion in the Farr 30 & J/24 class and has won numerous UK titles, and competes regularly in local and nationals events in dinghies and sportsboats.

Guy Nowell
Guy  was a banker until he turned to photography and journalism in the late 1980s. Since then he has become Asia’s pre-eminent yachting photographer. He is an experienced offshore and one design sailor, dislikes PR fluff, and despairs at regattas with too many prizes. He believes that if you hang out in the Main Bar at the RHKYC for long enough, the entire sailing world will come to you. He has opinions, and sometimes has to write them down.

David Schmidt
As the U.S. editor of Sail-World.com and as the website’s international cruising editor, David covers stories that are of interest to the U.S. racing market (e.g., America’s Cup, Olympics, Volvo Ocean Race, and domestic events), as well as stories that are relevant to cruising sailors (e.g., environmental, seamanship, electronics)

 

John Curnow
John has been around all manner of power and sailing yachts since the age of four. Passions include One Design, Grand Prix and ocean racing, where John has completed Category Two, One and Zero events all over the globe. John is eclectic, if nothing else. He spent two years aboard a top 50 Mega Yacht, has 25 years’ experience from the Ad world and is happy to be sailing at 5 knots or flying across the top at over 50. Just add water!

Louay Habib
Louay is the event reporter for over 20 yachting events in Europe and the Caribbean; prestigious offshore races, one design world championships and world famous annual regattas. Louay has been the principle reporter for the Royal Ocean Racing Club for over 15 years and has been a traveling reporter for the last four editions of the Volvo Ocean Race.

 

David ‘Dougal’ Henshall
Dinghy historian David ‘Dougal’ Henshall, was born in Southampton in the early 1950s, growing up as part of a family that spent the summers just messing around in boats on the Hamble River and Southampton Water. From there, he moved up to dinghy racing, starting off in Moths, before advancing on to crew in a Fireball, just as the Class was adopting spinnakers and trapezes. What followed was 50 years spent racing in just about every sort of boat, multi-hull and location imaginable. He was lucky to sail with some of the great racers of the day, crewing for many top helms, such as Dave Pitman, Larry Marks, Howard Sellars and Jim Saltonstall, with these all being high spots in a long career spent in a trapeze harness.

After taking early retirement from the telecommunications industry, David was able to combine his love of sailing with the development of a new career focused on journalism and charting the history of the racing dinghy. In addition to a string of articles looking at all facets of small boat sailing, David has published two books, detailing the history of the International Contender and the Merlin Rocket. He is already working on his third, which will focus how the 505 came to be the pinnacle of dinghy racing. He now lives on the south side of the Isle of Wight but spends his summers back on the mainland, looking at boats, sailing them and writing about the experience.