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What a cracking fortnight as the racing fleet contesting the Maxi event at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez simply lit up the gulf in France’s Var region against the stunning backdrop of Saint Tropez. Storms and rain radically transformed the atmosphere…
Scarlino Italy delivered big on the penultimate day of the 2022 TF35 season, with five races sailed in conditions that the cutting-edge catamarans were designed for: flat water and 9-12 knots resulting in four hours of high-performance foiling. “It’s perfect…
A Dutchman and four surfers from home, in Mondello, are the new world champions of the windsurfer class. With the eighth round this afternoon the curtain has fallen on the course-race, while tomorrow will be the spectacular fleet regatta with…
The Windsurfer World Championship continues in Mondello. Saturday the course-racing is decided, Sunday the long distance.Casagrande, Giordano, Alberti, Van den Berg and Linares aim for success. The title of Slalom in Marsala It will be the two races tomorrow to…
A very light mistral at Les Issambres was all that was needed for the Race Committee to release the maxis into the arena created by the Gulf of Saint Tropez for another day of racing, starting shortly after 14:00 hours…
Italy: Day two of racing at the TF35 Scarlino, the final regatta of the 2022 season and Jérôme Clerc at the helm of Realteam for Leman Hope once again sailed a perfect day, adding two more bullets to his team’s…
In June, the IGC passed a resolution allowing for the remediation of M11 boats, which was announced in the Q2 newsletter and can be read in full resolution here. Since that time, several owners have started the process of remediating…
13 sailors are still racing, Simon Curwen first across the Equator, others in the doldrums physically and psychologically. Sailors suffering from isolation, injuries, lack of information and lack of wind. Leaders hit the trade winds opening a gap with the…
The first day of four in the championship gave a good taste of the excitement ahead. Five different winners in the five races and 1 point separating the top 4 teams tells the story of an incredible close fleet. Tied…
Scarlino Italy delivered a perfect opening day to the final event of the 2022 TF35 Trophy with one round of practice racing followed by two official points-scoring races on the sparkling Gulf of Follonica against the hazy silhouette of the…
The summer that just keeps on giving! To Magic Carpet 3 the Club 55 Cup Maxi version Racing round-up At the suggestion of Pierre Roinson, President of the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, the magnificent Club 55 Cup duel, traditionally staged…
(Ed) Looks like Scotty is pushing those starts pretty hard!. These reports are translations from the original Italian press release, so apologies for some of the expressions, but they are quite funny in their own right! It strengthens the supremacy…
With the first races this afternoon supported by easterlies, the World Championship of the windsurfer class started in Mondello, organized by the circle Albaria in the 40th anniversary of the foundation. On the water are 350 competitors from 25 nations….
The Swiss challenger for the America’s Cup has been putting its AC75 training boat BoatZero – bought from Emirates Team New Zealand earlier this year – through its paces in Barcelona. The learning curve is steep, but the results of…
While between themselves 44Cup teams may appear nonchalant that the annual World Championship for their high performance RC44 one designs is “just another regatta”, in fact this is far from the case with teams saving their best gear for the…
A few days after the end of the Royal Cup 52 Super Series Scarlino, the Yacht Club Isole di Toscana returns to the forefront of international sailing by hosting the TF35 class for the second consecutive year, to confirm once…
Spirit of Malouen X limbering up! The Maxi 72s establish their domination Lyra excels in Maxi 3 In many respects, today’s racing was very similar to yesterday’s for the 800 sailors and 46 Maxis competing in week two of Les…
Lake Gairdner – 5th October 2022 Emirates Team New Zealand’s land yacht ‘Horonuku’ has had its first day of sailing on Lake Gairdner, in South Australia, with pilot Glenn Ashby behind the wheel in his bid to eclipse the 2009…
A winning 18 footer combination One of the highlights of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-22 season was the performance of the talented rookie Rag & Famish Hotel team of Harry Price, Josh McKnight and Harry Hall against the world’s…
04 October 2022 The 30 skippers in the Rhum Mono and Rhum Multi categories who are due to compete in the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe 2022 are preparing to set off on the famous solo course across the…
LONDON, ENGLAND – October 4, 2022 – SailGP, the world’s first climate positive sport and entertainment property, has been announced as the winner of the Ambition and Impact award in the first edition of the BBC Green Sport Awards at…
– A first race ticked off for all the groups in a summer ambiance.– Morgana makes her mark amongst the Super Maxis– Wallycento versus Maxi 72: hostilities commence Enrapt yet studious, focused on micro-trimming and calculating the race zone with…
The finalists of the 2022 Australian Sailing Awards have been announced, with clubs, volunteers and Australian Sailing Team stars all in the running for recognition at the nation’s peak sailing awards. In the Male and Female Sailor of the Year…
Under the stars, a navigation challenge Last weekend a fleet of 15 entrants sailed all night in the ORCV Overnight Challenge on Port Phillip Bay. “A race that offered a bit of everything, in perfect conditions” commented Andrew Neeson, skipper…
The largest ever fleet of ClubSwan 36s has gathered in the historic Croatian port of Split for a highly competitive event to decide the class’s first European Champion. No fewer than 12 of the state-of-the-art one-design racing machines will contest…
– The Maxis to decide their season finale in Saint Tropez– 46 superyachts in the Gulf– Flying Nikka, a foiler at Les Voiles The last of the Classic and Modern yachts cast off from Saint Tropez early this morning, immediately…
The M32 fleet is getting together for the final and major event of the season. The World Championship, this year in Cascais, Portugal. The three series of the season, Miami, Newport and Europe have come together and it’s game on….
World Sailing Show Episode 5 recaps the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Nova Scotia · In-depth look at the 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro multi-stage race· Feature on the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup· Interview with current Rolex…
THE LITTLE AUSSIE LAP 2.0 CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT – Xavier DoerrI would like to take the the opportunity to express how hugely grateful I am to my sponsors for my first campaign; Aramex, Waterline, Deepwater Collective, Australian Framing Solutions, Rawcorp and…
Sail Port Stephens (SPS) is revamping its event schedule and revising dates for racing in April and May 2023, having outgrown the previous week-long format that remained largely unchanged since its inception in 2008. The highly popular regatta has traditionally…
Brei Whitehead has continued her upward trajectory finishing sixth at the Lepanto 2022 Formula Kite Europeans in Nafpaktos, Greece. The Townsville Yacht Club member improved on her 16th in Palma and 10th in Hyeres and has her perfectly poised for…
Australia’s Breiana Whitehead remains firmly in the hunt for a medal at the 2022 Lepanto Formula Kite European Championships entering tomorrow’s Semi Final series in sixth place. The unique nature of the Formula Kite final day means anyone from the…
A festival beyond compare: Act 2 The Classics and Modern yachts give way to the Maxis The Trophies from the first week of Les Voiles For this second Sunday of Les Voiles, the port of Saint Tropez was the theatre…
Bo Petersen won his third OK Dinghy European Championship at Société Nautique de Bandol, France, after one final race was sailed on Saturday local time, while Stefan de Vries took second place and Valerian Lebrun placed third after winning the…
Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing won the Royal Cup 52 Super Series Scarlino title today in Tuscany, Italy, their third regatta triumph of the five-event 2022 season, after turning a one-point deficit to triumph. DeVos’ boat finished five clear points ahead…
Thousands of square metres of sails were lowered in a din on Saturday evening local time after a truly amazing finale to part one of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez 2022. Particularly boisterous conditions that greeted today’s fleets prompted the Race…
On Day 5 of the 2022 Lepanto Formula Kite European Championships in Nafpaktos, Greece there were plenty of place changing in the Men’s and Women’s fleets as Lauriane Nolot from France took the yellow bib away from compatriot Jessie Kampman,…
It has been a week like no other so far in Emirates Team New Zealand’s the wind powered landspeed world record campaign, with Horonuku finally reaching its destination at Lake Gairdner, South Australia. When Glenn Ashby said last week “Let’s…
It was a meteorologist’s nightmare on the fourth day of racing at the 2022 Lepanto Formula Kite European Championships in Nafpaktos, Greece as the expected 12-13 knots never materialised, causing long waits ashore. When fickle winds did emerge, they caused…
It was amidst a soundtrack comprising hand canons on large schooners, sea shanties from the schooner Naema and the drone of bagpipes from the top spreader of the gaff schooner Elena, that the 3,000 sailors competing at Les Voiles returned…
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