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Italy: Scheduled for day two of the IMA Maxi Europeans’ inshore/coastal racing were two windward-leewards. After a delay out on the Bay of Naples, the wind finally built to 8-12 knots from the west. After one aborted start due to…
Pieter-Jan Postma, from the Netherlands, is the early leader of the thrilling 2022 Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy, after three finntastic races in a 10-14 knot southerly on Wednesday. Finland’s Oskari Muhonen is second…
A young team representing the Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures program (ASF) in a new Olympic class learned the cost of mistakes on Day 2 of the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, but there…
Sydney, Australia: The 2022 Beneteau Pittwater Cup was a real celebration for all. One set of problems around the world have been replaced by another, and so the enthusiasm stemming from the chance to relax and simply go for a…
It was a difficult opening day at the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, with those representing the Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) were not immune, as a lengthy wait for the breeze to…
The World Match Racing Tour is pleased to announce the launch of the first Women’s World Match Racing Tour, a global professional series designed to promote and grow female participation in sailing and match racing around the world. The inaugural…
Italy: Following on from the Regata dei Tre Golfi offshore race, the International Maxi Association’s Maxi European Championship entered a new phase with the first of four days of inshore/coastal racing at the Maxi Yacht Sorrento Trophy, part of Tre…
The famous Garda wind machine broke down today and the 111 Finn sailors at the Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy, will have to wait for another day to begin this long-heralded restart of elite…
One hundred and nine Finns from 19 nations have gathered at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy for the 2022 Finn Gold Cup. Ten races are scheduled over the next five days to determine the 2022 Finn World Champion. …
The TF35 Trophy 2022 season gets underway next week, racing out of Nyon, Switzerland, over 19-22 May, for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope. Seven teams will contest the TF35’s second season, and making their debut on the cutting-edge hydro-foiling…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei today christened the land yacht to be used in their Wind Powered Land Speed World Record attempt as ‘Horonuku’ in front of team members and land speed suppliers and supporters at their…
Tom Slingsby delivered a masterclass against Great Britain driver Ben Ainslie, known as the sailing ‘GOAT’ (greatest of all time) and most successful sailor in Olympic history, and Phil Robertson’s Canada Team, to win the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix. The…
After building nicely this season and knocking on the door of a series win, Leslie Green’s MC38 team on Ginger wrapped up a shortened Act 3 with plenty to spare. A 5-12 knot autumn nor’easter meant Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s…
The Tasar class, a hugely popular and highly competitive class, will be taking to the waters of Port Phillip from 28 to 31 December 2023 for the Australian National Championship and will follow this up with the main event –…
The passing of Jim ‘Ace’ Mowtell, long-time Australian 18 Footers League member and director of the Australian 18 Footers League since 1993, will be celebrated at the Club at 2pm on Tuesday, 2 August. ‘Ace’ was a true character in…
Portugal: Normally 44Cup events are decided in the final gybes of the last leg of the last race after four days of competition. But at the 44Cup Cascais, the second of the 2022 series for the high-performance owner-driver one designs,…
Hamilton, Bermuda: Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew has finished the first day of racing in Bermuda in third place, despite the team’s mixed performance, while newcomer, Canada, has taken a surprise lead. The battle between the world’s top sailors erupted on…
Portugal: After two days of sun, Atlantic swell and prevailing north westerlies, conditions turned around for day three of the 44Cup Cascais, as overnight the wind veered into the south and in the morning the eight RC44 teams waited ashore…
Portugal: On the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais we saw the rare occurrence of one boat – Nico Poons’ Charisma – winning all three races, but on Day 2, it was back to the 44Cup ‘norm’ with lead changes…
The 52 Super Series fleet arrived in Baiona, Spain this week and with it the countdown to the start of the Abanca 52 Super Series Baiona Sailing Week to be held from 23-28 starting to feel very real. The preparations…
Two dozen maxi yachts are set to contest the annual Regata dei Tre Golfi that departs on Saturday evening (14 May) from Naples, Italy, with the 67th edition of Italy’s second oldest offshore race forming the opening event and offshore…
Bermuda: After taking home the SailGP Championship trophy for the second season running, Tom Slingsby, the Australia Team driver and CEO announced today that the team will donate $72,000 (AUD) from the team’s $1,000,000 prize purse to its Race For…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Finn Tapper has won the Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta, hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS), for the second year running. Eight youth teams representing a range of clubs from NSW…
In its 25th year the Mooloolaba Australasian Etchells Championship has hit a hurdle causing the event to be postponed in 2022. The national regatta was due to be held from June 9 to 12. International Etchells Australia representative Jan Muysken…
Despite the “super shifty” northeasterly winds and occasional downpours on the penultimate day of Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta on Sydney Harbour, the teams and the umpires, led by Chief Umpire Damien Boldyrew, still came to…
One of the most coveted trophies in the sport of sailing will be raced for next week at Fragila Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. The 2022 Finn Gold Cup opens on Sunday with an impressive 110 entries from 23…
Portugal: Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons’ Charisma defied the odds to win all three races on the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais. This annihilation of his ultra-competitive opposition comes after Charisma was on the ‘receiving end’, having suffered an eighth-place…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is now welcoming entries from boats across Australia and abroad for a historic edition of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in 2022. Following cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19…
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS) really turned on the charm as host of the Farr 40 25th Year Anniversary Regatta on May 7-8. For Saturday’s race, Principal Race Officer Rob Ridley set off the eight-boat fleet on a passage race around…
Following on from its inshore and offshore circuits in the Mediterranean, for 2022 the International Maxi Association introduced its new Caribbean Maxi Challenge. Following January’s RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the IMA, the Caribbean Maxi Challenge comprised the RORC…
Portugal: Igor Lah, tactician Adrian Stead and their CEEREF powered by Hrastnik 1860 are the team with the biggest target on their back going into the 44Cup Cascais, which sets sail tomorrow. In early February the Slovenian team won the…
SailGP’s highly anticipated Season 3 is set to kick off in a matter of days, but Japan will not race in the first three events of Season 3, resulting in a bespoke scoring system for the Season 2 runner up….
The nature of the boats and the people who have sailed them over the past 130 years always made 18 footer racing unique in the sailing/yachting world and one of the unique parts of the sport has been the gambling…
Emirates Team New Zealand have been continuing the successful commissioning and testing of their hydrogen powered foiling chase boat ‘Chase Zero’ on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf since its launch just five weeks ago. The team have now run Chase Zero for…
Smile you are on camera! Check out the amazing photos from the first day of racing for the Hardy Cup 2022, hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. After a slow start in a dying westerly, teams were treated to a…
Zoe Dransfield is 19-years-old, yet she has taken the Australian sailing community by storm. I talked to the two-time Flying Eleven National champion and 470 sailor about her passion for sailing. Zoe Dransfield was a six-year-old in 2009 when her…
Raise a sail and a glass to Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at the Queensland French Yacht Owners Association Inc inaugural 2022 Bastille Day Race on Saturday July 16, supported by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. On July 14, 1789, Parisian…
From the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA): The CYCA mourns the passing of 20 year Member, Dean Harrigan. Dean joined the CYCA in 1998 and was a generous supporter of youth sailing and the CYCA’s Youth Sailing Academy, sponsoring…
Sydney: The eight competing teams for the 2022 Hardy Cup (May 9-13), hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, are currently on the water relishing their first international match racing regatta in two years. Under a bright sun and a building…
SailGP welcomed more viewers, attendees, online followers and athletes than ever in Season 2, while making a greater positive impact on the planet, as the league releases its look back at Season 2. From the broadcast product to the on-water…
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