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Greece: The races could finally start on the third day of competition at the Slalom Worlds in Paros, Greece. Somewhat around midday, after the daily skippers meeting, followed by a athletes meeting, the wind started to increase and was measured…
The morning started lumpy and bumpy at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), but by midday, the sun was shining, the sky was blue and sailing conditions were about as good as it gets for Day 2 of Townsville Yacht…
Australia’s top SB20 sailors are set to take on the best of the best in Ireland when the Provident CRM SB20 World Championship 2022 gets underway in Dublin on Monday, with current Australian champion, Phil Reid (Mind Games), leading the…
Greece: The first impressions of the second competition day was a glassy look-alike Aegean sea staring right back at us and with the wind from the opposite direction, there was no excitement to be found, which meant less to no…
Youngsters Jack Ferguson and Max Paul have continued their rich form at the 49er, 49erFX And Nacra 17 World Championships by adding another win in the 49er today to the one they bagged yesterday. They now sit in 23rd place,…
Sarah Newberry and David Liebenberg (USA) became the first team to break the dominance of the Italian run of straight bullets in the Nacra 17 when they won Race 7, the first heat of today’s session. The Americans were expert…
Nautilus Marine Insurance Race Day opened proceedings at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) today, competitors warming up for a week of racing and fun social activities ashore – there is no better way to beat the winter blues for…
When four J Class yachts, Ranger, Svea, Topaz and Velsheda line up next week on the beautiful waters of the Costa Smeralda at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, it will be the first time that there has been stand-alone J…
After the tempest comes the calm. Nice wind and sunny skies greeted the crews on St Margarets Bay for the second day’s racing at the 2022 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships. First up were the 49ers, which completed…
Sometimes getting away early can spell trouble for sailors, but for seven of the 12 Australian crews taking part in the 2022 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championships, competing in the first session of the day meant they were…
Thailand represented for the first time on the international inclusion sailing stage recently when the two-person sailing team of Tanat Upatising (skipper) and Paul Merry (crew) competed at the Inclusion World Championship for Sailing 2022, held 24-28 August in Rostock,…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) popular Inshore Sprint Series starts again this spring and the Club is expecting a good roll-up when the first two Sydney Harbour races are sailed on Saturday 24 September. The series is open to mixed…
Nova Scotia, Canada: Dejected wasn’t the right word for the look on Odile van Aanholt’s face after she missed the Gold Fleet cut at the 2020 Melbourne Worlds, it was certainly something a little angrier than that, but whatever the…
12 Australian crews are all set to take part in the 2022 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships taking place from August 31 to September 5 on Saint Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. The venue is just to the…
On the last of four days of magnificent racing off the Dutch port of Breskens, two final races were held and the winner of the 2022 IRC European Championship decided by the closest of margins. Coming off the water it…
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28 August 2022 Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were completed today on the final day of the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind again. The scores remain unchanged from yesterday, so Germany’s U19 sailor Ole Schweckendiek…
Coco de Mer emerged as the deserved winner of the 2022 Multihull Cup on Sunday, finally overturning a long-running sequence in the runner-up spot. The 66′ Morrelli & Melvin designed Gunboat has finished in second place at three of the…
Three levels of government (Government of Canada, Province of Nova Scotia and 2 Municipalities, including Halifax & Chester) and 16 private sponsors have come together in support of the World Championship and its Legacy with an overall budget of $2.7…
MEDIA RELEASEAugust 28, 2022 The 36th edition of Hamilton Island Race Week concluded on Saturday with a mixture of courses around Lindeman Island, the traditional landmark of the closing passage race which sorted the finish order in multiple divisions of…
27 August 2022 Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. It was another morning without wind, so the race committee displayed the AP flag to start the day. The wind finally filled…
The IRC European Championship has a bit of a tradition of smaller boats winning; in Cork in 2016, the first ever IRC European Champion was Paul Gibbons and his diminutive Quarter Tonner Anchor Challenge, while the following year in Marseille…
The halfway point of the 2022 Multihull Cup proved a day of consolidation for some, one of commiserations for others, but with the final placings still up for grabs going into the deciding coastal race on Sunday. The British-flagged Coco…
There was plenty resting on the final race of the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) at Hamilton Island Race Week today, apart from deciding the winners of each division, Sandy Oatley took the helm of Hamilton Island Wild Oats, while…
Day two of the IRC European Championship at Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend could not have been more different to Day 1; yesterday’s opening race, a medium coastal, was tricky in the extreme for race committee and competitors alike as the…
Vilamoura, Portugal: Three races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, the day starting with around 6–7 knots of wind that died soon after, so the race committee abandoned the first race. The breeze then picked up…
High-performance multihull racing returned to the waters of southern Mallorca on Friday with the opening day of the 2022 Multihull Cup. The fifth edition of the exclusive regatta for 50’+ performance cruising multihulls clearly demonstrated the appetite for competitive sailing…
Racing crews are at the business end of Hamilton Island Race Week with one day remaining of the huge 36th edition. Two windward-leewards for Multihull Racing and Rating Divisions 3 and 4, and passage races for the remaining divisions, split…
An overcast day, breezy and chilly at the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) was sent to brush the cobwebs away from those who are tired after nearly a week of hard racing and the glittery social activities that entice competitors…
Racing got underway today in the seventh IRC European Championship, this year taking part in the Netherlands as part of Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend. Part of the four-day competition to determine who gets this year’s title for the RORC and…
Vilamoura, Portugal – Another day of no racing at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind after the race committee sent sailors out for the scheduled 14:00 warning signal, but like the day before, once they…
The North American Championships and the final event of the Midtown Racing Series were held 12-14 August in Newport, Rhode Island, on America’s Cup waters outside of Narragansett Bay. All scheduled 13 races were held as planned in both northerly…
September will once again be an intense month in Porto Cervo, with the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup scheduled from 4-10 September and the Rolex Swan Cup returning from 11-18 September, after a four-year break imposed by the pandemic. Anticipation is…
A sunny day but fresh and chilly this morning for the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) at Hamilton Island Race Week in Queensland, with the wind metre registering 30 knots and gusting as competitors rugged up and waited. “All Dent…
Germany’s Baltic Coast destination city of Rostock is all set to host the Inclusion World Championship for Sailing on 24-28 August on behalf of World Sailing. The city – officially known as the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock –…
Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind. The race committee waited until 15:00 to send the sailors out, but once on the water, the wind picked up…
CYCA Rear Commodore and TP52 Zen crew member, Tom Barker, experienced a full-circle moment as he lifted his two-year-old daughter Bella onto his shoulders during the post-race presentation area on lay day eve at the Australian Yachting Championships at Hamilton…
A cool blast from the south didn’t deter those wearing incredible costumes, from superheroes and lycra-clad red devils to meticulously presented matching crew uniforms, to win over the judges in the annual Hamilton Island Race Week Prix d’Elegance. The unique…
UF50 Celebration acclaimed huge success, with over 80 Uffa Fox-designed boats visiting Cowes over the weekend. UF50 marks fifty years since the death of yachting hero Uffa Fox. The event attracted 220 sailors and volunteers and over 1000 visitors. As…
Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today in all three fleets at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. With a beautiful southeast breeze of 10–13 knots, Vilamoura provided its reliable champagne sailing conditions for the first day of the…
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