GLOBE40 First Leg
EXPRESS VICTORY FOR MILAI Around The World IN THE 1ST LEG OF THE GLOBE40 Making the finish this Sunday in the marvellous Mindelo Bay (Cape Verde) at 15.25 hours local time, the Japanese crew of Masa Suzuki and Koji Nakagawa…
Racing
The best yacht, keelboat & dinghy racing news, race results and personal insights, with racing series and regatta reports and lots of beautiful high resolution sailing photographs. Including daily news coverage from major races and circuits Olympic Sailing, America’s Cup, Sydney Hobart, SailGP, 44Cup, The Ocean Race and more.
Charisma wins 44Cup
A miserable day weather-wise off the west coast of Sweden turned magnificent, like the fortunes of Nico Poons’ Charisma, which after three races today claimed the 44Cup Marstrand over Igor Lah’s Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 and Chris Bake’s Team…
Phuket Raceweek 2022 Day 3
The Wind Whisperer, aka PRO Simon James, set his finely-tuned wind detecting skills to work again and got the competitors in two races on the third day of action at the 19th Phuket Raceweek at Cape Panwa Hotel. The first…
Vaucluse Amateur 12ft SC
VAUCLUSE AMATEUR 12 FOOT SAILING CLUB Pathway to the future, pathway to the 18 footers When nine times JJ Giltinan world 18 footer champion Seve Jarvin recently presented the prizes to the junior sailors of the Vaucluse Amateur 12 Foot…
2022 Cowes Classics – Day 4
Day 4 of Cowes Classics Week saw South Westerly winds from 10 to 15 knots and some sun giving the competitors a good days racing in a crowded Solent which had four Cowes Classics Week race circuits, the Royal Southern…
Change up on 44Cup Marstrand leaderboard
From south-westerly winds gusting up to 20 knots on one of the sharpest sea states the class has endured, dropping to 5-6 knots, along with the lightest conditions sailable by the nimble RC44, the 44Cup Marstrand’s penultimate day provided a…
Strong winds stop racing at 5.5 Metre Worlds
Racing on the second day of the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Hankø, Norway was cancelled on Saturday local time, as the forecasted strong winds arrived and buffeted the island all day. Competitors took the opportunity for maintenance, sightseeing and…
Ganesha wins Superyacht Cup Palma by narrowest margin
In a testing final day amid challenging conditions, the ultimate outcome of the 2022 Superyacht Cup Palma could not possibly have been closer, but in the end, went to Ganesha. The destination of the overall Superyacht Cup Palma Trophy remained…
New Moon shines on opening day of 5.5 Metre Worlds
After a year of delay, the 2022 5.5 Metre World Championship finally got underway on Friday local time, with two races held in light to moderate winds for the 23 boats representing 10 nations. New Moon II (BAH, Mark Holowesko,…
Velsheda victorious as Svea leads into final day of Superyacht Cup
Atoning for a less than perfect race on Thursday when they finished a distant fourth, Velsheda and her crew won today’s 22 nautical mile coastal round-the-buoys course, an upwind/downwind that spanned the full width of the Bay of Palma. However,…
Ideal sailing on Day 2 of Phuket Raceweek
PRO Simon James started the fleet for the 19th Phuket Raceweek in the same spot as on Day 1, just south of Koh Lan off the southern coast of Phuket in a light 6-8 knots for the first windward-leeward race,…
Team Aqua begins ascent at 44Cup Marstrand
The waters off the Swedish holiday hotspot of Marstrand took on a different complexion on day two of 44Cup racing, with a sharp chop and the wind backed from the north-west to the south and gusting into the mid-high teens…
Nail-biting day at Superyacht Cup sets scene for super finale
Some big changes in fortune, along with a change in wind direction and the closest possible finish in one class, meant results in the Superyacht Cup Palma fleet set the scene for a dramatic finale after a day of frenetic…
2022 Cowes Classics – Day 3
Day 3 of Cowes Classics Week saw South Westerly winds from 8 to 15 knots and some sun, giving competitors an easier day’s racing and enabling two races for the classic dayboats on the bank and one longer race for…
Phuket Raceweek 2022 Day 1
You couldn’t have asked for better sailing conditions than we had today to start the 19th Phuket Raceweek as winds picked up to 20 knots allowing PRO Simon James to get in two races for all classes just south of…
ORC World Champs wrap up in Porto Cervo
The three new world champions crowned in their respective classes are Beau Geste, Essentia 44 and Sugar 3 Porto Cervo, 30 June, 2022. The ORC Offshore Sailing World Championship, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the…
Superyacht Cup Palma full fleet in action
Kiboko 3 and Savannah stars of the show in classes A and B Svea closes the gap on J Class leader Topaz Coastal race proves to be a close contest The entire Superyacht Cup fleet made the Bay of Palma…
44Cup Marstrand – Day 1
Njörðr, the Norse god of the sea and the wind was clearly smiling upon both the 44Cup Marstrand and local team Artemis Racing for the first day of the 2022 44Cup’s third event off western Sweden’s holiday hotspot of Marstrand….
Finn World Masters in Helsinki
Seventy years ago the Finn changed sailing history and put in its first appearance at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. To celebrate this occasion, the Finnish Finn sailors decided to hold the 2022 Finn World Masters in Helsinki and…
44Cup Marstrand
July begins and so too the holidays in Sweden, with a deluge of tourists set to descend on western Sweden’s most picturesque island of Marstrand for the first official weekend of the summer. Visitors to this favourite holiday hotspot will…
2022 Cowes Classics – Day Two
Day 2 of Cowes Classics Week saw South South Westerly winds of up to 20 knots and some sun, giving the competitors a great but hard days racing. The excellent conditions enabled two good races for the classic dayboats on…
J Class racing starts at Superyacht Cup Palma
While it was the new owners and crew of Svea that took first blood, winning the first J Class race of the 2022 Superyacht Cup Palma today, it is Topaz which are the early overall leaders. Although they conceded the…
Pro Sailing Tour – Episode 3
With Bonifacio and Brest in the rearview mirror, offshore racing’s most captivating new competition, the Pro Sailing Tour, reaches the halfway point of the intense two-month circuit that spans venues in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and English Channel. The seven foiling…
Foiling Week 2022
From June 30 to July 3, Malcesine on Lake Garda will host the FOILING WEEK, the premier event for sailors, technicians, and sailing 3.0 enthusiasts from around the world.For the ninth time in Italy, doing the honors will be the…
Waszp UK Nationals
With over 50 boats on the start line in big breeze, the WASZP UK Nationals delivered some spectacular foiling racing! The swarm was hosted by Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on the world-class foiling waters of Portland Harbour for…
French team win 69F Cup in Sardinia
Under unusually cloudy skies for Sardinia, after three days of sirocco and consequent waves, the French team Groupe Atlantique won the GP2.2 Persico 69F Cup in the waters of Puntaldia, San Teodoro. Seven crews took part in the second weekend…
Para Kiteboarding
World Sailing CEO declares “big future” for Para Kiteboarding. World Sailing’s first ever Para Kiteboarding Development Programme has concluded after four days of action on Lake Garda, Italy, where 11 coaches and athletes from seven countries were put through their…
British boat wins 5.5 Metre Scandinavian Gold Cup
Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines) has made history by winning the Scandinavian Gold Cup at Hankø Yacht Club, Norway, after two more races were sailed on Tuesday. They won both races to become the first…
Round The Island Race
The 91st edition of the Island Sailing Club’s Round the Island Race started with a bang from the Royal Yacht Squadron’s starting cannons at 0800 on saturday morning, fired by The Marathon Watch Company President, Mitchell Wein. Over 1,100 boats…
Video from start of the Globe40
Relive the start of the first leg of the Globe40 in Tangier.
Win for Australia at 5.5 Metre Scandinavian Gold Cup
The 2022 5.5 Metre Scandinavian Gold Cup began on Monday at Hankø, Norway, with race wins for Ku-Ring-Gai 3 (AUS 66, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) and Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines). In a…
Stransky wins ILCA 6 Gold at Kiel Week
Today was all about the medal races in Kiel, with light winds delaying the starts until late morning when the both the temperature and the pressure ramped up. Queenslander Mara Stransky wore the leader’s yellow bib into today’s medal race,…
Globe 40 Race starts
After months, indeed years of preparation, the crews took the OFFICIAL START of the first edition of the Globe40 this Sunday 26 June at 15:00 hours Moroccan time (14:00 UTC) in the Bay of Tangier. Before leaving the Strait of…
Leyton wins Pro Sailing Tour in Brest
Winning four out of six inshore races during Episode 2 of the Pro Sailing Tour in Brest, France, on Thursday and Friday, the crew of Leyton usually led by Brit Sam Goodchild, but on this occasion with Morgan Lagravière at…
Big breeze for GC32 Lagos Cup final
The GC32 Lagos Cup, the pre-Worlds for next month’s GC32 World Championship, concluded in big breeze. Despite the flying catamaran fleet heading out an hour early, by the end of the first race, the sea state was still relatively flat…
Aussies book their places in Kiel Week medal races
Extremely light and shifty conditions on the final day of fleet racing in Kiel saw plenty of Australian athletes through to Sunday’s medal races, and some fall frustratingly short of the medal race cut off. There were no issues for…
Lagos lays it on as GC32s hit 35 knots
Lagos, the port on Portugal’s Algarve the GC32 Racing Tour, has been bringing its world class sailors to since 2018, laid on flat water, despite a 20 plus knot offshore north-westerly in the final race, demonstrating again why this is…
Quantum Racing crowned TP52 World Champion
Cascais remains one of the most rewarding venues for the Quantum Racing team, as Doug DeVos’ US flagged crew today lifted the 2022 Rolex TP52 World Championship title, their third back-to back regatta win on the Atlantic waters off the…
5.5 Metres make welcome return to Hankø for world titles
After an absence of 13 years, the 5.5 Metre Class is making a welcome return to Hankø Yacht Club in Norway for its Scandinavian Gold Cup, Class Cups and World Championship, to be sailed from June 27 to July 5….
Aussies feeling at home on Day 3 of Kiel Week
With temperatures in the high twenties and sizeable swell across the racecourse, Kiel felt like Queensland for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes competing in Germany where the top performer again was Tokyo Olympian, Mara…
