MC38 Swish trumps Act 5
Event: MC38 2022 Season Act 5, July 23-24 hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club with racing on Sydney Harbour The lottery that is winter sailing in Sydney toyed with the MC38 fleet for act 5 on Sydney Harbour. At the…
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52 Super Series – Comebacks and Consistency Are Key To Podium Spots
With two days of racing still to sail, winners last year Sled have taken control of Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week but only by a couple of points. The US flagged team which are the reigning 52 SUPER…
Baltic Sea Race – I Love Poland takes Line Honours
Helsinki, 24 July, 2022: Volvo Open 70 I Love Poland, owned by the Polish National Foundation and skippered by Grzegorz Baranowski crossed the finish line in Helsinki to take Line Honours for the Roschier Baltic Sea Race at 19:27:35 EEST…
Consistent Interlodge leads 52 Super Series in Puerto Portals
A pair of third places to complement yesterday’s fourth and a win has resulted in Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s US flagged Interlodge taking over the leadership of the Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week in Spain. Since they returned…
52 Super Series: Phoenix rises from the ashes
After repair work late into the night, as well as remedial work to the engines of their support RIB after two unfortunate crashes within a few hours of each other, the Plattner family’s Phoenix team made a strong start to…
Baltic Sea Race Day 2
The fleet in the Roschier Baltic Sea Race made good progress on the first night, racing west towards Stockholm and just over 15 hours into the 635-mile race, Volvo 70 I Love Poland had raced nearly 200 miles and was…
Kitefoil World Series Gizzeria – Day 1
Day 1 of KiteFoil World Series Gizzeria in the south of Italy asked as many questions as it provided answers for the 96 competitors. Safe starboard tack, or risky port tack at the start? Both strategies were working at different…
Destination Hamilton Island Race Week – Skin checks are back!
Sailors will travel vast distances and boats will be delivered by road and water from far-reaching ports to be part of Australia’s premier destination regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week, from August 20-27. This year is the third attempt to join…
52 Super Series – Palma
Sled Reset On Cue With Portals Practise Race Win Victors overall by one single point on these same Bay of Palma waters last August, Sled proved they have the capacity to triumph once more when they won today’s official practise…
Loic Escoffier rescued after capsizing 70 miles south of Fastnet Rock
Loic Escoffier has been rescued off the coast of Ireland after capsizing in his ORC 50 while racing solo in the Drheam Cup. Loic Escoffier, who is the brother of Vendée Globe skipper Kevin Escoffier , was competing in the…
Fleet locked in for 2022 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
A fleet of 70 boats has been locked in for the 2022 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, which returns on Saturday 30 July. Three 100-foot maxis will lead the charge for Line Honours. John Winning Jr will skipper Andoo…
Melges 24 European Sailing Series 2022 Event 4
July 20, 2022 – Riva del Garda, Italy – There are 28 Melges 24 teams gathered at the Fraglia Vela Riva waiting for the first warning signal of the fourth event of the Melges 24 European Sailing Series, also the…
Mick Hole Winter Keelboat Regatta Concludes on Pittwater
The Mick Hole Winter Keelboat Regatta concluded on Pittwater with two additional sprint races to make a total of five over the last two Saturdays from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. “Team “DOT” won the “Micko” Regatta as we…
South Aussies add weight to 50th Melbourne to Hobart
Twelve years ago, John Willoughby scored a clean sweep of wins in the testing Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race with his striking red yacht ‘Enchantress’ – and the memory of that race – and its outcome, lingers, bringing the South…
3rd Edition of Global Team Race Regatta Starts Friday
Newport, R.I. — The first two editions of the Global Team Race Regatta, staged in 2018 in Newport, R.I., and 2019 on the Solent in Great Britain, had one striking thing in common: the same three teams finished on the…
Team Malizia launches new IMOCA race boat
The story below is provided by Team Malizia Back on the water – Boris Herrmann’s offshore sailing team launched their new race yacht as scheduled on 19 July, after 18 months of innovative design and construction. With its spoon bow…
Women’s ILCA sailing event returns to Sydney Harbour
The Women’s Regatta will be held on Saturday 3 December 2022 at Double Bay Sailing Club, an integral event for female ILCA / Laser sailors around Australia. The one-day event will include races on Sydney Harbour, great food, entertainment, and…
John Bacon wins ORC C at Newport Race Week
A team that was riding a learning curve during the regatta was John Bacon’s crew on The Edge, which won ORC C. Bacon just recently bought the 44-foot boat and sailed it for the first time a few days before…
Ghio and Suardiaz – GWA European Champions!
GWA Wingfoil Race Class European Championships 2022 The wind took a while to kick in on the final day of the GWA Wingfoil Race Class European Championships at Kritika Beach in Rhodes, Greece, yesterday, but the thermal winds did indeed…
Street wins WASZP Games
After three years of build-up, significant preparation and 5 days of quality racing, New Zealander Sam Street has taken out the 2022 International WASZP Games in an exhilarating final day of racing on Lake Garda. Street made his move on…
GWA Wingfoil – Day 3 – Rhodes
Day three – Saturday – Mathis Ghio and Nia Suardiaz Race to the TopIt was a slow start for day three of competition in Rhodes, Greece, but the pace picked up very quickly once the trusted winds kicked in at…
Win for Black Star in GC32 Worlds nail biter
K-Challenge Team France was the dominant force for the first half of this GC32 World Championship, held in Lagos, Portugal, but for the second half it was Christian Zuerrer’s Black Star Sailing Team which overtook the French after today’s third…
GWA Wingfoil Race Class European Champs
Day two (Friday) – saw an exceptional day of racing in Rhodes, Greece as we completed 7 eliminations for the women and 3 eliminations for the men in optimal racing conditions.It was a windy start at Kritika Beach in Rhodes,…
GC32 Worlds: K-Challenge chases as Black Star battles back
The top two boats edged further away from the eight other flying catamaran teams on the penultimate day of the GC32 World Championship, being held in Lagos, on Portugal’s Algarve coast. Another uncharacteristically light day resulted in the easterly wind…
Stage set for thrilling final day at Newport’s Race Week
Newport, R.I.: It was a tale of two race days on Day 3 of Newport’s Race Week presented by Rolex, as the one-design boats launched early, held one race in the remnants of a morning northerly breeze, waited patiently for…
Black Star shines at Lagos GC32 Worlds
At the halfway stage of this fourth GC32 World Championship, the full 10-rAce schedule has been achieved, half of the fleet have won races and there is an unexpected stand-out race leader in K-Challenge Team France. Racing today off Lagos…
French Youth Team into lead on Day 2 of Race Week
On a day when it paid to be quick and nimble, no fleet was more of both of those things than the Persico 69F foiling monohulls, the foiling 21-footers leaving the beach at a leisurely hour, banging out six sharp…
Futures Star Evie Saunders wins Youth Worlds Silver
Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) sailor Evie Saunders has claimed Silver in the ILCA 6 class at the Allianz Youth Sailing World Championships in The Hague, The Netherlands. Saunders finished 15 points behind Eve McMahon from Ireland, who won four of…
SailGP indefinitely pauses Japan team
After much deliberation and taking into account logistical and commercial considerations, SailGP has made the difficult decision to pause the participation of Japan SailGP Team indefinitely. The league would like to thank Nathan Outteridge and all of the athletes and…
Teams arriving at speed at the AEGEAN 600
With the main axis of the windy Meltemi shifting west to buffet the shores of Attica now with 20-30 knot winds, almost all entries have made it across the finish and are safely ashore at Olympic Marine after this second…
GC32 World Champs – Day 1
K-Challenge Team France shows the way in Lagos’ GC32 Worlds Conditions didn’t look promising for day one of the GC32 World Championship in Lagos, Portugal. While the prevailing conditions here – strong offshore northwesterlies and flat water – have made…
WASZP Games – Championship – Day 2
After much hype and anticipation, finally, we arrived at the first day of championship racing at the International WASZP Games. The beauty of the WASZP Class is that the preparation of the sailors from around the world is tracked through…
Spain wins Nations Trophy at Youth Worlds
HIGHLIGHTS ● Spain wins the Nations Trophy ● Twin wins for Ireland in the ILCA 6 dinghy fleets ● Twin wins for Argentina in the 29er Skiff fleets ● Dominant victories in all four foiling fleets Spain has won the…
Introducing Australia’s 21-year old with her eyes on the wheel
Australia’s Tash Bryant may be a new recruit for Season 3 but she’s no stranger to the racing circuit. It began in Pittwater, an inlet north of Sydney Harbour, where Bryant grew up. She learned to sail ‘following’ her father…
The rapid AC40 begins to emerge
With the news that the world’s first AC40 is just weeks away from being shipped to its new base in Auckland, expectation is ramping up for this most exciting of classes. “We didn’t hold back on the design,” was how…
WASZP Games – Epic Slalom Championship
One of the most dramatic Grand Final series’ you could ever hope to see, ensued on the opening day of the 2022 International WASZP Games in Malcesine Lake Garda. The championship not decided until the final gybe of the final…
All star cast for Lagos’ GC32 World Championship
Ten teams from as far afield as Australia and the USA are competing from today until Sunday in the fourth GC32 World Championship, off Lagos on Portugal’s Algarve. The line-up includes America’s Cup winners, Volvo Ocean Race sailors, Olympic and…
Youth Worlds – Day 4
HIGHLIGHTS ● Winds build during the day from 5 to 14 knots ● Steinberg wins all her iQFOiL Female races ● McMahon has one hand on ILCA 6 Female gold ● Three-way tie at the top of the ILCA 6…
Allegra is first to finish in the Aegean 600
At an average speed of 11.3 knots around race course, Adrian Keller’s 78-foot Nigel Irens-designed performance luxury catamaran ALLEGRA (SUI) crossed the finish line at 19:36:02 local time today (tuesday) in the second edition of the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club’s…
Youth Worlds – Day 3
HIGHLIGHTS ● Light winds of 5 knots meant no racing for some fleets● The 420s complete both scheduled races, Germany and Spain leading the two fleets● Singing goes hand in hand with winning● New Zealand closes gap on Argentina 29er…
