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COWES, England – August 6, 2019 – Dylan Fletcher’s Great Britain SailGP Team today achieved what no other sail racing team in the world has done, breaking the sport’s elusive 50-knot speed barrier during training ahead of Cowes SailGP. The…
Organisers from Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) are thrilled to announce that entries for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) have reached capacity before the event’s closing date; with more than a dozen boats waitlisted should space become available at ‘Maggie…
After a 1 hour postponement ashore, the 470 Women and 470 Men Yellow and Blue fleets headed out to course area Sagamiand contested two races each in the battle for 2019 470 World Championships medals and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification….
The 2019 Australian Para Sailing Championships have concluded today at Southport Yacht Club in Hollywell, Queensland. The Championships were held from Friday to Sunday August 2-4 in conjunction with an Open Regatta for inclusive classes. Ross Manning and Max Quan…
At the Zhik 29er World Championship in Gdynia, Poland, Australia’s Archie Cropley and Max Paul combined skillfully on a tough Baltic coast track to finish sixth in the open results from a starting list of 175 skiff teams. Final results…
A class win at the famous Copa del Rey Mapfre, the Mediterranean’s annual summer showcase regatta, has eluded even some of sailing’s top teams for many years, while others seem able to impose themselves year on year in their chosen…
Artemis XIV (NOR 57 Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther) has won the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, after a dramatic final day in which they first lost the overall lead and then reclaimed it in the thrilling…
With Saturday’s one single race left to sail at the 38 Copa del Rey Mapfre most sailors at the Mediterranean showcase would agree that the new scoring format looks set to deliver a number of high tension showdowns in the…
With just over one week to the European debut of SailGP in Cowes, the Great Britain SailGP Team was the first of the six national teams to take to the water, and sailed down to the famous Needles, the Isle…
No racing was possible on the fourth day of the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, with no wind on the race course, despite a healthy breeze back at the sailing base at Nyländska Jaktklubben in the centre of…
The new scoring system being employed at the 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE started to take effect today. As the 132 boat 11 division regatta moves from its Preliminary Series to two days of Finals racing, scores are allocated by…
After a faltering start to day one of the 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE, Alinghi turned on the afterburners to take the final two races of a full-on, five-heat afternoon in the latest round of the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
Artemis XIV (NOR 57 Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther) has moved to the top on Day 3 of the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland after two more races on Wednesday. John B (BAH 22 Gavin McKinney, Mathias…
South Australian yachtsman Geoff Boettcher had planned to show off a new 52-footer from overseas and defend his 2019 Rating Division 1 win at the Festival of Sails in Geelong in January 2020. Instead, he will return to the popular…
Winners of last week’s Scandinavian Gold Cup, Artemis XIV (NOR 57 Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther), had it all their own way on the second day of the 2019 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, winning both races…
Jean Jacques Chaubard’s French crew which is racing Team Vision Future in BMW ORC Class Zero have competed at Copa del Rey MAPFRE seven times and, after finishing on the podium five times in two different divisions, are no strangers…
SYDNEY – August 2, 2019 – The Australia SailGP Team, led by skipper Tom Slingsby, will be gunning for victory as they make their debut on European waters at the fourth SailGP event in Cowes in just over one weeks…
General classification leaders of the Mallorca Sotheby’s IRC division, better known as the Maxi72s, the BMW ORC Class 0 which is primarily TP52s or 52 foot derivatives and the 14 strong ClubSwan 50s all reported that they had used the…
Defending World Champions, New Moon (BAH 21 Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov), laid down a marker in the opening race of the 2019 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland after an emphatic victory in some quite testing conditions….
Fast forward nine days to 8 August, and it will be on for young and old at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing, Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) signature event, which continues to bring more tourists to the region than…
Entries are now open for the 2019 Sail Sandy Regatta, which will kick off a massive season ahead for the Sandringham Yacht Club. Sandy will play host to a plethora of major events this summer including the ILCA Laser World…
NZ Herald Team New Zealand will face an information overload when they put their new boat on the water in the next few weeks. TNZ's first AC75 boat will hit the Waitemata Harbour in August or September, a big moment…
Australia’s Ku-ring-gai (John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) has won the Hankø Evolution Cup and Tara (Roope Juhonen, Janne Heikkilä, Pekka Honkavaara, FIN) the Royal Kaag Classic Cup after all racing was abandoned at the 5.5 Metre Championship on Saturday,…
Norway’s Artemis XIV (Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther) has successfully defended the Scandinavian Gold Cup in 5.5 Metres after a one-race final at the Nyländska Jaktklubben in Helsinki, Finland, against Britain’s Girls on Film (Peter Morton, Ben Cornish, Sam…
After another clinical performance in the second race of the Scandinavian Gold Cup at Nyländska Jaktklubben in Helsinki, Finland, Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther), looked set to clean up and retain the trophy, but a…
The current holders of the Scandinavian Gold Cup, Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther), took the opening race win on the first day of the 100th Anniversary event, hosted by the Nyländska Jaktklubben (NYK) in Helsinki,…
Inside The Games. By Dan Palmer. Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom held onto her overnight lead to win gold at the Laser Radial Women's World Championship in Japan. The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist captured the second world title of her career after…
July 31, 2019, sees the end of an innovative fund raising initiative by the Organising Committee for the Laser 2020 program. The committee came up with the idea of Individual Gold Sponsorships, whereby Laser sailors donate $250 to help make…
Miho Bay, Sakaiminato City, Japan: It was a fine day for Laser racing at Laser Radial Worlds – clear skies and a mostly steady 18-20 knot Westerly. They call this the Kamikaze Wind. The velocity varied a bit, with gusts in…
Whitsunday sailor Rupert King is the 100th entrant to the 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week, with his performance cruiser Overdrive. Deciding he was “over” driving, the former truck driver built the Richard Edlin-designed 10.6 metre trimaran after falling in love…
The 2021 RS Feva world championships are coming to New Zealand and are likely to be held at the same time as the America's Cup in an effort to attract a large international fleet. New Zealand was confirmed as the…
(Miho Bay, Japan) The Finals Series for Radial Women’s Worlds began today after the conclusion of the five race Qualifying Series yesterday. The 111 sailors have been split into Gold and Silver fleets and will race in those fleets for…
(Marstrand, Sweden – 21st July 2019) – Pieter Taselaar’s Bliksem recorded its best performance yet at the M32 European Series Marstrand today, winning five out of six races. In the ‘one that got away’ the New York-based Dutchman’s team recovered…
Miho Bay, Japan: The typhoon that was headed north towards the Sea of Japan veered west, over the Korean Peninsula, and is no longer a threat to Radial Worlds in Sakaiminato City. But it’s likely influencing weather patterns in the region,…
PHUKET, Thailand – The 2019 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek will go down as one of the most challenging yet – challenging for sailors, Race Management and organisers, and despite those challenges all classes got in a series of up…
(Saturday 20th July, Cascais) – Quantum Racing clinched their first 52 SUPER SERIES regatta title of the 2019 season, but their perennial arch rivals Azzurra ran them close, the Italian-Argentine teams losing out by a matter of a only a…
With the pressure off after securing the 2019 U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup, a day early, Oskari Muhonen, from Finland, led all the way in the final race to record one of the biggest…
Quantum Racing clinched her first 52 Super Series regatta title of the 2019 season, but perennial arch rival, Azzurra, was close, the Italian-Argentine team losing out by a matter of a couple of metres on the finish line of the…
Multiple races today put smiles on competitors' faces and got the 2019 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek back on track, with IRC Zero, IRC I, IRC II and Firefly 850 completing three races, while Multihull Racing completed two and Cruising…
Day two of the M32 European Series Marstrand dawned with the brilliant sunshine, so lacking on Friday, but with a shortage of wind, however building cumulus cloud inland brought a sense of promise. In the build-up to racing, flags were…
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