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AUSTRALIAN 18 FOOTERS LEAGUE An incredible club in a league of its own As the Australian 18 Footers League prepares to celebrate its 90th birthday of 18 footer racing on Sydney Harbour in February 2025, it’s an ideal opportunity to take…
The Hansa World & International Championships 2025 is set to sail into action from March 23 to March 30, 2025, at the prestigious Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, located at 16 Mitala Street, Newport, NSW, Australia. The Notice of Race…
Thessaloniki, Greece – July 28, 2024 It has been a great week in Thessaloniki for our 2024 420 & 470 Junior European Championships. 12 races for the 420 fleets and all scheduled races for 470s were completed in six days. On…
Australia’s sailors commenced their Paris 2024 Olympic regattas on the waters of Marseille today, with the two skiff classes getting away three races in light winds. On a day where the unstable winds meant most teams struggled to find consistently…
By World Sailing Vaimo’oi’a Ripley – all set for first #GenderEqual Olympic Games – joins record-breaking 26 athletes on World Sailing’s Emerging Nations Program, featuring 14 women and 12 men from world’s most remote countries Vaimo’oi’a Ripley – blazing a…
SailGP reached new heights in fan engagement, business growth and purpose in Season 4, cementing the league’s status as one of the world’s fastest-growing sports and entertainment properties LONDON, UK – July 26, 2024 – As Spain raised the trophy at…
Tash Bryant Joins Athena Pathway! The Athena Pathway Programme have released the following announcement over-night – so I finally get permission to tell you all my latest proud Dad moment! We are thrilled to announce that @tash_bryant will be joining…
By 49er.org 🚨 Countdown to the Paris Olympic Sailing Regatta! 📍 Location: Marseille 📅 Starts: March 28th 🏆 Events: Men’s and Women’s Skiff, Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer ⏰ With just 48 hours until the races begin, weather forecasts are giving us a sneak peek at who might…
By World Sailing The Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony will be a historic occasion for sailing as an Olympic sport, with 13 nautical athletes selected as flag bearers at the showpiece spectacle. The previous record for sailors holding their national flag…
Every Olympic cycle is unique, bringing its own unique obstacles. Who has adapted to the challenges most effectively? That only becomes clear as four-years of hard work and dedication explode in a flurry before our eyes over less than two…
For all the teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup, arguably one of the key roles is that of the coaches who provide a vital link between the sailors and the rest of the team with an all-encompassing vision…
Sailing the One Design Blusail 24, supplied by the organization, and with a ‘Round Robin’ format, this year’s all-female class at the Copa del Rey MAPFRE has beaten its own participation record with 14 crews entered Palma, Spain, 25th July…
The 2024-2025 Australian National Championship is fast approaching and soon we’ll be trailering to Largs Bay Sailing Club for 6 jam packed days of racing and merriment. All the information you need for the regatta is in the Notice of…
SailGP’s in-development T-Foils have already broken the league’s racing speed record, with Canada clocking a top speed of 101.98 km/h during tests in San Francisco. The previous record was set by France during Season 3’s visit to Saint-Tropez, where the…
There was drama in each heat on the final day of the Surf-Freestyle discipline in Fuerteventura on Tuesday as one rider after another kept dropping sick tricks, each higher and more precise than the next. Injury, innovation and pressure cooker…
Undoubtedly one of the most watched teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has been the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who, from the very start, have placed design innovation at the heart of their campaign. It is often…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2024 sold out in an unprecedented 12 minutes – minus a few seconds – but it’s more than the sailing that attracts competitors, their families and friends to this quaint island paradise. Townsville Yacht Club’s…
Organisers at Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 look forward to seeing new talents emerge every year as they gravitate to one of Australia’s favourite sailing playgrounds – and this year is no different, but the reasons…
The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and final Preliminary Regatta, starting on Thursday 22nd August 2024 and running through to Sunday 25th August where…
Suardiaz & Cappuzzo winners of the Freefly-Slalom discipline in Fuerteventura Wild and windy elimination series put tour leaders and challengers in jeopardy right to the end with nail-biting finishes and explosive crashes. There were moments when they seemed beatable –…
Tony Langley’s Gladiator became the first British flagged team to lift the Rolex TP52 World Championship title when they emerged from a testing three race finale today off Newport, Rhode Island with a six points margin over the 2021 world…
Tour leaders Suardiaz and Cappuzzo show they’re the ones to beat at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Fuerteventura. Day one of competition starts with a streamlined elimination series and tour leaders Nia Suardiaz (ESP) and Francesco Cappuzzo (ITA) showing why…
It was a two-team dual in the 49erFX atop the standings heading into the final day of racing. Katharina Schwachhofer with Elena Stoltze (GER) leading Sofia Giunchiglia with Giulia Schio (ITA) by just a few points. The Italians moved into…
No Stress (GER 122, Donald LIPPERT, Jörg SONNTAG, Ralf GOEPFERT) has won the 2024 5.5 Metre German Open at the YC Berlin-Grünau after five races were sailed on Saturday. Last year’s Open champions MELX IV (GRE 6, Stavros PAPAGIANNOPOULOS, Yannis MITAKIS, Pavlos KAGIALIS)…
Tough to watch for us Aussies, but what an event. Los Gallos ended Australia’s three-Championship winning streak and wrote themselves into the history books against all odds. Poor fleet race results, combined with France’s blistering race starts, saw Spain close…
Schwachhofer and Stoltze (GER) stay leaders in the FX class Shoultheis and Bertin (MLT) have stellar day to move into the lead over four 49er races in higher winds For the first time in class history, the Nacra 17 fleet…
By World Sailing Italy retained their Nations Trophy in style as a tremendous week at the Youth Sailing World Championships 2024 was capped off with closing ceremony celebrations in Riva. The hosts rocketed to claim six world titles on Lake…
Takashi Okura’s Sled, the 2021 world champions representing the hosts, the New York Yacht Club, scored best today at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Newport, RI. Their first and second places sees them going into Saturday’s finale just one…
Harm Müller-Spreer’s 2023 defending champions Platoon Aviation won the only race sailed at the Rolex TP52 World Championship off Newport, RI today. But while their first race victory of the event elevates them to fourth at the theoretical midpoint of…
Winning both races today at the 2024 Rolex TP52 World Championship in Newport RI, Tony Langley’s Gladiator team have now scored three back-to-back victories and top the worlds leaderboard with a four points lead after four races. They have won…
In Galicia, Spain, there was a long wait for wind, with races starting 3 hours late due to unstable SW breeze. It was a long day on the waters of the Arousa estuary, where the 49er, 49er FX and Nacra…
By World Sailing Danai Giannouli and Iakovina Kerkezou wrote themselves into the Youth Sailing World Championships history books by claiming a maiden crown at the event on Lake Garda. Greece’s women’s 420 crew were in fine form on the fresh water…
X-Yachts is thrilled to announce a new partnership with renowned yachtsman Jesper Radich for their XR 41 racing program. Kevin Wallis, Managing Director of X-Yachts Australia & New Zealand, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, stating, “We are very excited to…
By World Sailing France’s Côme Vic-Molinero and Fatima Tia applied pressure on Lorenzo Sirena and Alice Dessy in the Nacra 15 class on the second day of racing at the Youth Sailing World Championships. The French pair secured two statement bullets…
Takashi Okura’s 2021 Sled, the 2021 world champions, made the best start to the 2024 Rolex TP52 World Championship Newport today as they posted two second places from the first challenging races which were contested on a Newport, Rhode Island…
By World Sailing Carola Colasanto recorded a perfect start to the Youth Sailing World Championships 2024 with four bullets in four races on the first day of official racing on Lake Garda. In the iQFOiL windsurfing heats, the Italian was…
The SailGP Inspire Grand Final delivered classic San Francisco summer conditions, with moderate to strong winds reliably punching through the fog each day. The standard of the WASZP fleet has never been higher, particularly in the women’s fleet, which was…
Four major titles in a super Sunday of sport for the Spanish, as Spain secure $2Million in prize money by taking the SailGP Grand Final in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – July 14, 2024 – They say things come in…
It’s all to race for in the battle for third, with France edging Spain by just one point after day one in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – July 13, 2024 – Set against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge,…
With the stunning trophy from the world-renowned architect and designer Patricia Urquiola now the centrepiece of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup, training for victory has been the focus for all of the teams in June. The British, Americans and Swedish…
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