No wind on day 3 at Finn Gold Cup in Gaeta
There was no racing on the third day of the Finn Gold Cup in Gaeta Italy as the light winds continued and got even lighter to the point that no racing was possible. It was always looking like being the…
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Blustery 10th anniversary RC44 World Championship ahead
RC44 teams have today been putting themselves through their paces, carrying out final tweaking prior to the start of this week's RC44 World Championship Marina de Sotogrande. Typically the high point of the RC44 season, this year's World Championship is…
Dates announced for Key West Race Week 2017
Larchmont, NY – The Storm Trysail Club is pleased to announce dates for the next edition of Quantum Key West Race Week: January 15-20, 2017. The event will feature the same successful format as in past years: one day…
Gabart takes line honours in The Transat bakerly 2016
Frenchman François Gabart on board his new 100ft trimaran Macif, crossed The Transat bakerly finish line at 18:24 EDT (22:24 GMT) this evening off New York, taking line honours in the Ultime class. The finish time, recorded by the Sandy…
ANZ Sail Fiji: Unfinished business for Crusader35
On the 4th June at 1100 hours, Anthony Leighs and his Crusader35 crew will be on the start line for the 22nd Royal Akarana Yacht Club offshore race to Fiji. Leighs, with crew members Josh Tucker, Chris Maddock, Brett Elliott,…
Maserati back to menace MC38 fleet
Neville Crichton’s MC38 Maserati is out of the shed and back on the water with a new-look team and pledge starting off with this weekend’s MC38 Autumn Regatta hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club with racing on Sydney Harbour. After…
Maybe old dogs can learn new cat tricks after all
For all their many years of experience on the World Match Racing Tour, Johnie Berntsson (SWE), Flux Team, and Bjorn Hansen (SWE), Nautiska Racing were not expected to make it very far this week in Copenhagen. But the wily…
Clipper leaders eye up scoring gate in warm weather
As some teams search for stronger winds, the leading boats are within hours of passing through the Scoring Gate and snatching those vital bonus points. Unicef, ClipperTelemed+, LMAX Exchange and IchorCoal are the closest as of 0900 UTC, with every…
The endgame for Macif as Loick ploughs on through a cold northerly gale
He can’t see the skyline yet but the French solo sailing superstar Francois Gabart is now closing in on the finish of The Transat bakerly in New York where line honours, an Ultime class win and a race record await…
ARC Europe and ARC USA set sail
Yachts sailing under the flags of sixteen different nations set sail on Saturday 7 May for their offshore adventures as part of two World Cruising Club Spring rallies; ARC Europe and ARC USA. Venturing west to east across the Atlantic,…
World Sailing map out two-year governance modernisation plan
World Sailing has laid out a draft two-year roadmap for continued good governance based upon a consultation with member national associations and stakeholders at its Mid-Year Meetings in Lausanne, Switzerland. World Sailing members approved this weekend a number of changes…
Phillip Kasueske wins only race at Finn Gold Cup as light winds continue in Gaeta
Light winds on the second day of the Finn Gold Cup in Gaeta meant only one race could be sailed. Phillip Kasueske (GER) sailed very well to win his first ever major international Finn race. The win moves him up…
Sehested and Canfield set early pace at WMRT in Copenhagen
Nicolai Sehested (DEN), Trefor Matchracing, and Taylor Canfield (USVI), US One, have set the early pace at the World Match Racing Tour Copenhagen, both skippers winning three of their four fleet race qualifying heats today. Some of the newcomers to…
Light airs delay Gabart’s Transat bakerly finish on Macif
François Gabart has enjoyed a magic carpet downwind ride across the Atlantic in The Transat bakerly, but his progress to the race finish at New York has been slowed somewhat as he encounters light airs crossing the Gulf Stream. This…
Transat bakerly: British sailor Phil Sharp takes his penalty in the middle of nowhere
One thousand miles due west of Cape Finisterre and about 1,300 miles due east of the coast of Nova Scotia – in the middle of the liquid desert that is the Atlantic ocean – British sailor Phil Sharp is this…
Stealth move as match racing continues ahead of Clipper scoring gate
Despite lighter airs some good downwind racing under spinnaker has continued with a number of match races between duelling teams now heading for the Scoring Gate, around 250nm south. LMAX Exchange went into Stealth Mode at midnight UTC to hide…
Deniss Karpak masters light winds on first day of Finn Gold Cup in Gaeta
Deniss Karpak (EST) is the early leader at the 60th Finn Gold Cup in Gaeta, Italy, after winning the opening race and then following that up with a third in the second. Giorgio Poggi (ITA) is second, while Peter-Jan Postma (NED)…
Practice makes perfect at Gaastra PalmaVela
Over the four days of racing the winds might have been less regular and reliable than previous years but that kept up the tension to the end in most of the key classes. The nine strong TP52s fleet, revving up…
Kiwis storm New York to take America's Cup World Series victory.
Emirates Team New Zealand retained its overall lead in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series by winning the New York event. Artemis started the day well, winning the start of Race One and racing away to an unasailable lead…
Tough day at the office in CYCA Winter Series
It was not the easiest of days on the water in the Land Rover Series, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, as a light breeze on a dull day floated in and out, just enough to tease competitors…
Gold Coast sailor aiming for westerly circumnavigation record
The Gold Coast Bulletin. By Shaya Laughlin. More people have been to space than those who have circumnavigated the world non-stop solo but Andy Lamont wants to do it backwards. Mr Lamont, 57, will attempt to become the first person…
Icom launches new compact VHF at an affordable price
Icom Australia has released the new IC-M200 Marine VHF Transceiver which they say offers “superb features at an affordable price”. The company says, “The new transceiver IC-M200 gives you the same Icom performance and reliability users have come to expect,…
Bremont adds AC I 32 Ladies Chronometer to its America’s Cup Collection
Further to the announcement of Bremont’s first ladies range of watches earlier this year, the British manufacturer has confirmed an additional ladies mechanical chronometer which will form part of its America’s Cup Collection. The Bremont AC I 32 is the…
Macif on target to smash the Transat race record
The Transat bakerly from Plymouth to New York is in its final stages for Macif skipper François Gabart who is now just over 450nm away from the finish line. The current routing is showing Gabart’s estimated time of arrival as…
World Sailing President Carlo Croce to stand for re-election
World Sailing [WS] President Carlo Croce has confirmed today that he intends to seek re-election in November for a second and final term as President. Speaking in Lausanne to update the WS Council on progress achieved in his first term,…
Clipper fleet enjoys downwind sailing ahead of light winds
Day 8 of the PSP Logistics Panama Cup and all the teams have been taking advantage of great downwind sailing under their spinnakers as temperatures rise and shorts are shaken out, with foulies starting to be left below deck. The…
US One takes out M32 Scandinavian Series opener
Defending champion, Taylor Canfield and his US One team stamped their authority on the M32 Scandinavian Series, decisively winning the season’s opening event in Copenhagen today. The Danish capital laid on July-like conditions for the three day competition, with racing…
Team Japan takes out substitute race in New York
The America’s Cup returned to New York and the Hudson River for the first time in nearly a century on Saturday, to the delight of tens of thousands of fans who came out to see what the new America’s Cup…
Ramón Carlín, first Whitbread champion, dies aged 92
Ramón Carlín, the ‘weekend sailor’ who upset the odds to become the winner of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, has died in Mexico City at the age of 92. Carlín was a complete unknown in the…
Franck Cammas returns to America's Cup racing in New York
The second event of the 2016 season of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series: the Defender and Challengers meet again- this time in New York City on the 7th and 8th May- for a fresh series of battles on the…
Ichorcoal reaps reward from early gamble out west
For the first time in the PSP Logistics Panama Cup IchorCoal has taken the lead in this tenth race of fourteen in the global series. Several days ago, the South-African sponsored entry departed from the rest of the fleet, heading…
Sixtieth Finn Gold Cup opens in Gaeta to sunshine and champagne
Under the watchful eye of the the Gaeta Town Hall Clock Tower the 2016 Finn Gold Cup was opened Friday evening in the warm Italian sunshine. The sailors marched behind flag bearers from the Gaeta Yacht Club along the coast…
Taylor Canfield boat of the day on day two of M32 Series Copenhagen
Considering there was snow on the ground here a fortnight ago, Copenhagen laid on its best sailing conditions for day two of the M32 Scandinavian Series off Tuborg Havn. Spectators and competitors alike enjoyed the high adrenalin thrill provided by…
Canfield shines on opening day of M32 Copenhagen
Copenhagen May 5th, 2016. Defending champion Taylor Canfield and his US One team proved that their overall victory last year’s was no fluke, claiming four out of seven races on the opening day of the 2016 M32 Scandinavian Series. Conditions…
Coville just misses out on 24-hour solo distance record in The Transat bakerly
Thomas Coville, the hugely experienced skipper of the giant trimaran Sodebo, came within less than 10 miles of setting a new solo 24-hour distance record today as he raced on day three of The Transat bakerly. The Frenchman had no…
Sam Gilmour qualifies for World Match Racing Tour Copenhagen event
Three days of intense competition at the Copenhagen Match Race concluded today on the Danish capital’s Tuborg Havn. The World Sailing Grade 3 match racing event doubles as a qualifier for next week’s World Match Racing Tour Copenhagen, which kicks…
Joe Harris returns to Newport completing solo circumnavigation on Gryphon Solo 2
May 5, 2016, Newport, RI – Joe Harris completed his solo circumnavigation this morning returning to Newport for the first time since November 15, 2015. At 08:27:48 EDT Joe Harris crossed Castle Hill Light on his Class 40, Gryphon…
Navigation decisions facing Clipper skippers as fleet heads south
Having avoided the wind hole that held the rest of the teams captive yesterday, ClipperTelemed+ made good speed and now finds itself back in the mix with the rest of the fleet as tactics begin to play out in the PSP Logistics…
Scott Duncanson wins record third Coronation Cup at Top of the Gulf Regatta
PATTAYA, Thailand – The final day of the 2016 Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina proved to be the best yet with a fresh 15 knot breeze bringing down the curtain on what has been a busy…
Nine TP52s line up in the curtain-raiser to the 2016 Super Series
A record entry of nine TP52s will compete over the coming days at Gaastra Palma Vela regatta as the fleet prepare for the start of the 52 SUPER SERIES later this month. There was a time when this Mediterranean curtain…
