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The opening day of the 44Cup Baiona regatta kicked off with anticipation as sailors geared up for racing on the high-performance RC44 one designs. Hosted by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona (MRCYB) at the 14th-century Monterreal Castle,…
Top Australian teams after Day 3 are: Jim Colley and Shaun Connor 7th in 49er, Laura Harding and Annie Wilmot 10th in 49erFX and Brin Liddell and Rhiannan Brown 13th in the Nacra. A drop in wind strength brought huge…
What a day for New York Yacht Club American Magic who called for all-hands on deck at the base super-early this morning, ahead of rolling out their new AC75 at 5.45am with the first set of slightly asymmetric race foils,…
The British teams set the pace on the opening day of the 49er European Championship, grabbing the lead in both fleets of the qualifying draw. With the competition heating up in La Grande Motte, South of France, 148 international teams…
A precious cargo of ten 52 SUPER SERIES representing seven different nations left Palma today (May, 05th 2024) heading across the Atlantic bound for the USA’s sailing epicentre, Newport, Rhode Island. After finishing a thrilling 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week…
Australian sailors are poised to make waves in France in the four two-person disciplines as the Nacra 17 World Championships, 49er, FX and Mixed 470 European Champions take place this week. Sailors are preparing to use the last major event ahead of…
Sail Port Stephens 2024 has wrapped up after 11 huge days of sailing, spanning three weeks and involving 215 boats. It culminated yesterday with the inshore Bay Series comprising J70s, sports boats and off-the-beach classes. Friday Racing began on Friday…
A period of New Zealand-led design & innovation Following the first major change in the 18 footers from the big boats of the early 1900s to the 7ft beam boats of the mid-1930s, there had been no major change or…
Palma (Spain), 5th May 2024 David Leuschen and Chris Flowers’ Wallycento Galateia won the Maxi class at PalmaVela for the third time in a row today in light winds on Palma Bay. Whilst last year’s triumph was something of a…
Australia places 3rd in Podium Final and remain in second position of the Season 4 leaderboard. BERMUDA – 05 May 2024 – The Spain SailGP Team has taken out the ‘top dogs’ of Season 4- Australia and New Zealand- to…
Palma (Spain), 4 May 2024 “This is not a training regatta, there is a title at stake and we won it last year so for sure we are out to win again!” Five times America’s Cup winning Kiwi sailing legend…
That’s a wrap for the 2024 edition of the Tarifa Wing Pro. Watch to see how Nia Suardiaz and Chris Macdonald stormed their way to the top of the podium. Take a look at the current ranking HERE
In a display of sheer dominance, Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team asserted their authority on the opening day of the Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix, bouncing back from a setback in the previous event to secure two race wins…
As the giant PalmaVela multiclass regatta mustered all 12 classes which are competing at this 2024 edition of the Med’s traditional curtain raiser, it was ‘back to normal’ Palma Bay at its spring best. A 12-14 knots sea breeze with…
There were dramatic scenes at the Official Practice Race Day in Bermuda, with the USA SailGP Team capsizing mid race, causing some of the athletes to be flung from their positions onboard. The USA SailGP Team capsized during the third practice…
Of those 148 crews registered, 39 will represent their country in less than three months in Marseille, location of the 2024 Olympic sailing events. La Grande Motte effectively serves as the final dress rehearsal for the Olympic sailors, a final…
At the 20th PalmaVela, the showcase curtain raiser for the Mediterranean racing season, a breezy opening pair of windward-leeward races on the Bay of Palma saw the Wally Cento Galateia make a strong start to defending their IRC-IMA Maxi division…
Ergin Imre’s Provezza crew laid to rest some of their past bad memories of racing on the Bay of Palma when they clinched the first title of the 52 SUPER SERIES 2024 season at 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing thanks…
Sydney, Australia – 30 April 2024 The annual Seawind and Corsair Moreton Bay Regatta was held in variable weather conditions but high spirits as a fleet of multihulls converged at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron for a weekend of social…
After three good races today on the Bay of Palma – each with a different winner – Andy Soriano’s brand new Alegre leads the 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week, but only on tie break ahead of Doug DeVos’s Quantum…
Batemans Bay Sailing Club conducted its long running multiclass regatta on the weekend of April 27th and 28th. Dinghy, catamaran, sports boat and trailerable yacht sailors came from Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and all over south east NSW to compete on…
Tony Langley’s Gladiator team took the first race win of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season at 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week after profiting from a bold call on the first downwind leg allowed the British flagged team to…
Entries for Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 have already touched 100 and continue to grow as organiser, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC), announces a new Regatta Director, Jenni Birdsall. With interest across the smorgasbord of classes taking part…
Big crashes and all of the drama from the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix revealed in the latest episode of Racing on the Edge. LONDON – April 29, 2024 – The latest episode of SailGP’s Racing on the Edge docuseries, in…
Age has not wearied two veterans of Australian sailing, with Marcus Blackmore and Ray Roberts claiming prestigious NSW IRC titles at the Sail Port Stephens Windward-Leeward Series over the weekend. Hooligan Blackmore’s new Hooligan claimed Division 1 honours in the…
Long Beach, CA (28 April, 2024) – The intensity of the 59th Congressional Cup, the opening event for the 2024 World Match Racing Tour, reached its peak today as USA’s Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team won his second…
Natasha Bryant is part of the Australia SailGP crew, as well as a member of the Team Australia Challenge squad for the UniCredit Youth & Puig Women’s America’s Cup events – all of which are cutting into her Double University…
The Australian TP52 fleet returned to action at Sail Port Stephens for Act 3 of the Pallas Capital Gold Cup. Eleven boats took to the waters surrounding Nelson Bay and completed the series of six races. The TP52s also formed…
Long Beach, CA (27, April 2024) – Day 4 of the 59th Congressional Cup in Long Beach, CA concluded the quarter-final stage of the event, advancing the top four teams to the semi-finals led by defending Congressional Cup champion USA’s…
Long Beach, CA (26, April 2024) – Australia’s Cole Tapper, sailing with his CYCA Youth Sailing Academy team from Sydney Australia, today secured a crucial spot in the quarter-finals of the 59th Congressional Cup, the opening stage of the 2024…
Australian sailors showcased their skill and determination amidst challenging conditions at French Olympic Week in Hyeres, securing two silver medals and positioning themselves strongly for Paris 2024 iQFoil Grae Morris, at just twenty years old, dominated the fleet, entering the final in…
The Sail Port Stephens Windward Leeward Series transitioned to Passage Race mode on Day 2. With the change of pace came a change of pace, literally, as both the wind and seas calmed considerably. TP52s The Passage Race began in…
Rock fishermen were being advised to stay indoors but the sea conditions off Port Stephens made for an action-packed opener to the Anchorage Marina Windward-Leeward Series. This is part 2 of the 2024 Sail Port Stephens Regatta Series comprising the…
The reigning 52 SUPER SERIES champions, Harm Müller-Spreer’s German flagged crew, start their title defence on Sunday on Majorca’s Bay of Palma by getting to know as quickly as possible the fine details of what could make their brand new…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has published the 2025 Admiral’s Cup Notice of Race, setting out the conditions under which the prestigious regatta will be run. Expressions of interest have been received from 14 different countries, with multiple teams…
As the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, the intensity ramps up and with four teams revealing their box-fresh AC75s, it’s abundantly clear that different solutions have been found for very similar questions. The design teams have worked feverishly to…
A Brazilian sailor with a very famous name in Olympic history is in contention to earn a place for his country at the Paris 2024 Games after day three of competition at the Last Chance Regatta in Hyères, France. Marco Grael – son of five-time Olympic medallist Torben Grael, and brother of two-time Olympic champion Martine…
The first day of the final qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics saw Switzerland’s Elena Lengwiler claim three first places and take control at the Last Chance Regatta to live up to her billing as an also-ran turned medal contender in the Formula Kite event. The 28-year-old is arguably the most improved athlete in the newest Olympic…
The 7th edition of the Foiling Awards has its winners. The prizes for the best foiling athletes, projects and products of the last 12 months were awarded overnight in Genoa based on votes cast online by the global foiling Community….
Long Beach, CA 21 April 2024 – Long Beach’s champagne conditions and superior racing by eight world class skippers over three days ended with Scotty Dickson claiming his 14th career Ficker Cup over 24 years! Scotty Dickson originally from New…
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