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LONDON – SailGP today set out to redefine sailing with the launch of its new global racing league: five grand prix events featuring six national teams on identical wingsailed F50s – claimed to be the world’s fastest, most technologically advanced…
The battle for the Qingdao top spot continued in China today with the fierce French fighting back against Kiwi-flagged frontrunners Hamilton Huas at the Qingdao Mazarin Cup powered by Extreme Sailing Series. Champagne conditions with up to 15 knots of…
The sporty VX One class is set to add international sparkle to the Festival of Sails in 2019 when a team from the USA, where the class originated, joins a national fleet for the Australian Championship on Geelong’s Corio Bay,…
It was a tough afternoon on the Flying Phantom racecourse as a carousel of capsizes occurred in the opening races of the Qingdao Mazarin Cup powered by Extreme Sailing Series. Having been unable to race yesterday due to strong winds…
Team Nika became the first team ever to claim a third RC44 World Championship title after Vladimir Prosikhin, tactician Dean Barker and their crew were able to fend off Igor Lah's increasingly threatening Team CEEREF on the final day of…
October 1, 2018 – No less than 109 professional photographers spanning 25 countries have submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2018. The top eighty pictures have been selected two weeks ago by the international jury and published on…
NBC News. By Mary Pflum. Ted Turner has never been one to shy away from a challenge. He’s sailed to victory in America’s Cup races, assembled World Series-winning baseball teams, transformed a modest billboard business into a global media empire,…
The vice-grip on Neville Crichton’s Maserati crew unexpectedly loosened when the umpire nabbed the chasing Marcus Blackmore’s Hooligan in the penultimate race of the MC38 season’s Act 4 on Sydney Harbour. A point separated the duelling pair before Hooligan’s disqualification…
Steady conditions opened the doors for some spectacular racing across all classes on day two of the NSW Youth Championships presented by Lake Macquarie City Council. With only a few minor course changes, race officials squeezed in four races across…
Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany: The surf is pushing on the beach and the wind blowing strong as I drive 100km/h with the landyacht as the water bangs against the visor and the breath hangs with the pulse pumping. Full concentration is…
Bandol, France: Fredrik Lööf, from Sweden, has lifted the 2018 OK Dinghy European Championship title with a thrilling last race win, after the title fight went right down to the wire, with Charlie Cumbley (GBR) taking Silver and Thomas Hansson-Mild…
Team Nika became the first team ever to claim a hat trick of RC44 World Championship titles after Vladimir Prosikhin, tactician Dean Barker and their crew fended off Igor Lah's Team CEEREF on the final day of big conditions racing…
Despite the capricious conditions – with the 200 boats and over 1,500 sailors forced ashore for two days due to strong winds – the 40th edition of the Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai will remain in the regatta’s history books…
Day two of their 2018 World Championship will go down in RC44 history books with three races sailed in waves, and at the top of the wind range, forcing teams to break out their number 3 headsails and small spinnakers….
Australian Nathan Outteridge has been linked to prospective Italian America's Cup challenger Columbus 2021 with a huge wage of $1m deal on offer for the skipper. Defenders Emirates Team New Zealand confirm they are in formal talks with Columbus 2021,…
Gaff topsails, genoas, jibs, staysails, spinnakers, mainsails, mizzens – you name it, any size, any shape and kind of sail could be seen on the bay of la Napoule today, for Day 4 of the Régates Royales. Classic yachts, small…
Day two of their 2018 World Championship will go down in RC44 history books with three races sailed in waves, and at the top of the wind range, forcing teams to break out their no3 headsails and small spinnakers. Racing…
13 knots, flat water, sun, blue skies and the stunning backdrop of the mount Esterel overlooking the Bay of Cannes. Who could ask for more on the opening day of the 40th Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai, after two days…
Winning two out of today's three races made Vladimir Liubomirov and Kirill Frolov's Bronenosec Sailing Team the stand-out performer on day one of the RC44 World Championship. With winds starting at 12 knots and building into the high teens,…
Strong wind and a big swell have halted once more racing at the 40th edition of the Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai. The 200 crews were forced to stay ashore, waiting for the weather to improve. A great opportunity to…
Teams of talented teenage sailors from secondary schools in New South Wales, Tasmania, VIctoria and the ACT are flying to New Zealand today (Friday) to prepare for the Australia versus New Zealand 2018 Interdominion Schools Team Sailing Championships. After training…
Derwent Sailing Squadron and Huon Yacht Club’s traditional lead-up to the official opening of Southern Tasmania yachting season, the Pipe Opener Series and Cock of the Huon regatta, celebrated its 50th anniversary last weekend, with an added status. Hobart’s Combined…
No racing for the opening day of the 40th edition of the Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai. An Easterly wind, exceeding 30 knots, a confused sea state out on the bay forced the race organisers to keep the boats at…
Following its Annual General Meeting held during this month’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the International Maxi Association, the World Sailing-recognised body that oversees maxi yacht racing globally, has announced its prize winners, voted in a new President and published its…
The weather is pure Cote d’Azur in Cannes, sunny and summery… Ideal conditions for the grand rendez-vous that every year reunites hundreds of classic yachts’ lovers. The crews are itching to start racing on the stunning bay of la Napoule…
NEWPORT, R.I. (Sept. 24, 2018) – An eight-race series held Friday through Sunday (September 21-23) on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay determined title holders for the 2018 12 Metre North American Championship. The event, hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club…
James Hodgson, Harry Hall, Ryan Wilmot and Charlie Gundy have crushed the Final Day of the Australian Match Racing Championship, to defeat the previously unbeaten DownUnder Racing, 3-1 in the Finals Series to become Australia’s newest National Champion after gear…
On the opening weekend of the 2018-19 Farr 40 season, a gala ball brought past and present class champions and current one design crews together in Sydney to mark two decades of Australian racing. A crowd of 120 spent Saturday…
September 22, 2018 (CHICAGO, IL, USA): Day Three of the M32 World Championship was another day of shakeups in the standings. With a fleet of twelve eager competitors, general recalls quickly became the norm and no one was left out…
September 23, 2018 (CHICAGO, IL, USA): Following four days of intense racing, Rick Devos’s REV clinched their first title as M32 Corinthian World Champions, silently sweeping the fleet and sailing a tremendously consistent event in Chicago, IL. Mirroring the accomplishment,…
Australian, British and Brazilian competitors clinched Gold at the Para World Sailing Championships as the regatta drew to a close in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. After five days of competition in variable breeze, 2016 Paralympics sliver medallist Matt Bugg (AUS) snapped…
Chicago, USA: Day two of the M32 World Championship was a drastic change of pace from yesterday’s light-air affair, as westerly winds in excess of 25 knots upset the leaderboard and tacticians worked hard to stay in phase all day…
Harry Price’s DownUnder Racing crew have continued their winning streak from Day 1 to head into the final day of competition at the Australian Match Racing National Championship undefeated, winning the round robin stages 14-0. New Zealand’s Jordan Stevenson also…
Quantum Racing may have won the 2018 52 Super Series Championship title, but unsailable light winds on the last day of Valencia Sailing Week denied her crew the chance to pitch for their fourth regatta win of the season. Luna…
Porto Cervo, Italy: After three days of racing, the seventh edition of the Perini Navi Cup drew to a close today with the 50-metre Silencio winning the Cruiser Racer division, while The Maltese Falcon triumphed in the Corinthians Spirit yachts…
Australia’s highest ranked match racing team, DownUnder Racing, helmed by Harry Price, took a clean sweep on Day 1 of the 2018 Australian Match Racing National Championship, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. DownUnder Racing, which regularly competes…
Porto Cervo, Italy: The fleet of Perini Navi yachts once again took to the waters off Costa Smeralda for the second day of racing in the seventh edition of the Perini Navi Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda…
Lake Michigan showed a different side on Friday as strong winds whipped up just off of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA at the Para World Sailing Championships and after days of light, challenging breeze, gusts of up to 35 knots were recorded…
In updated Golden Globe Race news, there has been no further communication with Abhilash Tomy, the 39-year old Indian Golden Globe Race skipper, since his dramatic text message at 12:09 UTC today: Rolled. Dismasted. Severe back injury. Cannot get up….
World Sailing’s 2018 Annual Conference will include two open forums on Safety in Sailing and the future of Offshore and Keelboat racing with sport and industry leaders sharing their perspectives. The Annual Conference, where the key decisions for the future…
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