High scoring day at 44Cup Cascais
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…
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Baiona prepares to lift curtain on 10th 52 Super Series
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…
Maxi European Championship underway tomorrow
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…
Australian SailGP Team donation to Parley for the Oceans
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…
Finn Tapper wins Hardy Cup for second consecutive year
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…
Conditions cause postponement of Australasian Etchells Championship
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…
Youth match racing sailors ready to get job done in Hardy Cup final rounds
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…
Showdown at Malcesine for coveted Finn Gold Cup
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…
44Cup: Day 1 hat trick for Charisma
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…
Entries open for Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
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…
Farr 40s back in force for 25th Anniversary Regatta
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…
I Love Poland claims inaugural IMA Caribbean Maxi Challenge
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…
Slovenian team leads 44Cup into Cascais
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 Season 3: Japan’s bespoke scoring system explained
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….
Gambling on 18ft skiffs
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…
ETNZ’s hydrogen powered foiling chase boat reaches speed milestone
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…
CYCA team leads Hardy Cup
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…
A Sydney sailor’s journey from local regattas to the international circuit
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…
Call out to French-designed monohull owners to enter Bastille Day Race
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…
Vale Dean Harrigan
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…
International racing is back with the Hardy Cup
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 Season 2 in numbers
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…
Natasha Bryant joins Australia SailGP Team
Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew commenced training on the Great Sound in Bermuda today, with newest and youngest team member Natasha Bryant getting behind the wheel of the F50. Bryant, 21, of Sydney will join the team for Season 3 through…
Australia to host 2023 International Waszp Games
In December 2023, the southern end of Port Phillip Bay will come to life, with Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club set to host the International Waszp Games (Worlds). Sorrento has been a fantastic supporter of Waszp sailing since the class…
Fifteen-year-old completes first iQFOiL foiling tack
The first iQFOiL foiling tack has just been completed by a 15-year-old. The performance gap between youth and senior sailors has never been smaller. iQFOiL history was written by 15-year-old Harry Joyner from Australia as he foiled through the first-ever…
Straight bullets for Galateia at Palmavela
Spain: The Wally Cento Galateia won the IRC-IMA Maxi division at Mallorca’s big boat season opener PalmaVela with a perfect scoreline of six wins from six starts. Galateia in a final light-winds coastal race back-and-forth across the Bay of Palma maintained their…
Antigua Sailing Week wrap up
After a two-year hiatus the 53rd edition of Antigua Sailing Week was brimming with success. The trade winds blew all week, with the international fleet enjoying exhilarating racing in sailing paradise. The compliments from sailors from the four corners of…
Bay of Palma delivers as Sunday showdowns beckon
After a slow day punctuated by a long wait for the breeze to reappear, the Bay of Palma returned to what might be considered ‘normal service’ today for the 100-boat field racing the penultimate day of Mallorca’s PalmaVela regatta. For…
United nations of Antigua Sailing Week
The final day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week featured a full schedule of racing for all classes, with teams from over 20 countries competing, making for a welcome return after the disruption of travel for the last two years….
44Cup returns to Portuguese sailing mecca
Next week, the 44Cup will return to the Portuguese sailing mecca of Cascais for event two of its 2022 season, with racing in the eight high-performance one-design monohulls to take place from 11-15 May. Joining the fleet for the first…
Galateia tops maxi fleet at PalmaVela
Spain: The Wally Cento Galateia retains an unbeaten record at the 18th edition of PalmaVela and after three races leads the IRC-IMA Maxi fleet by six points with two days of racing to go. After conclusively winning Thursday’s blustery 28…
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez expands
Following on from the success of the new two-week format, which won widespread approval during the unforgettable 2021 edition the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, which is consistently in the vanguard of development, is opening up its 2022 start lines to…
SailGP expanded Season 3 opens in Bermuda
SailGP Season 3 launches on May 14-15 and is back bigger and bolder, with an expanded season, new national teams, innovative tech, world-class athletes and even more impact, all of which will guarantee high speeds, fierce rivalries and some breath-taking…
A commodore’s plan to increase female sailing participation in Victoria
Victoria, Australia: Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club’s (QCYC) Commodore Lee Renfree is on a mission to encourage more women to become active participants in keelboat sailing. Elected as the Club’s first female commodore in October 2021, she acutely observed the low…
Women’s Race Day at Antigua Sailing Week
Locman Italy Women’s Day at Antigua Sailing Week was blessed with solid trade winds of 15-18 knots, just north of east, with squall activity raising the tempo during the day. All 15 classes completed their full programme of races with…
Galateia and Nadir open PalmaVela with decisive victories
The 18th edition of Mallorca’s showcase PalmaVela regatta opened with a blast of gusty northeasterly winds which produced spectacular, challenging conditions during the 28 miles coastal race which was sailed by the seven strong fleet of IRC-IMA Maxi yachts. Revelling…
Sail Paradise 2023: Bigger and better than ever
Following the success of the most recent Qoin Sail Paradise Regatta, coupled with positive feedback from competitors, sponsors and all involved, Southport Yacht Club, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, has announced that Sail Paradise 2023 will be ‘bigger and better than…
SailGP announces debut event in Asia
SailGP’s rapid global expansion continues with the addition of Singapore to its Season 3 calendar, as the iconic city-state plays host to Asia’s first Sail Grand Prix on January 14-15, 2023. The event, which is supported by the Singapore Tourism…
Scotch College wins College Cup
The 2022 College Cup at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, WA had the presence of former and current Royal Perth Yacht Club sailors from Trinity College, Aquinas College and Christ Church Grammar School. Last Sunday morning (1 May) was a…
Palmavela kicks off IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge
This week’s maxi yacht competition at the Real Club Nautico de Palma’s Palmavela is the strongest for several years, with a seven boat class racing under IRC, the four longest all being around 100ft in length. Competition takes place over…
