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Cowes: It was a game of patience, luck and perseverance for day three at British Classic Week, where sailors kept an eye out for the slightest zephyr of wind to help them across the glassy race course. Classes 1 and…
Winner of five Olympic medals, Brazil’s Robert Scheidt is defying his age and setting out to prove that a 48-year-old can conquer athletes half his age by competing in the Men’s Laser Class at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo….
July 19, 2021, Los Angeles, CA: With less than 1000 miles to go at 0800 Hawaii Standard Time today, Cecil and Alyson Rossi’s Farr 57 Ho’okolohe is the first in the 40-boat fleet to pass the halfway point in this year’s 2225-mile Transpac race from…
The Finn, the Men’s Heavyweight Dinghy, is the oldest boat at the Olympic Games, making its debut at the 1952 edition when Denmark’s four-time Olympic Champion Paul Elvstrom won the event in Helsinki. For the past two decades, Great Britain…
With less than a month before the start of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, IRC division three boasts the largest class competing with 88 teams entered from at least 10 different countries. IRC division three has a cornucopia of boat…
Lake Balaton, Hungary: The EUROSAF L30 Class European Championship hosted by Spartacus Club saw Fourteen crews representing eight nations kick-start racing on July 17; where the local HUN8 “Present Perfect Team” emerged as an early leader. For its fifth continental championship, the L30 Class continues its growth with several new teams…
Los Angeles, California: Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles away in the 2021…
Tom Slingsby has proven that the Australian SailGP team can deliver against all odds after triumphing on UK waters at the Britain Sail Grand Prix, in a dramatic final race. The team stormed home to victory, beating France and the…
A cloudy, rainy and windless day soon turned perfect for the Medal Series in the Formula Kite Men and the A’s Youth Foil fleets, and one single race for the Formula Kite Women. It all came down to the sailors who had been leading the series for…
Thousands of fans turned up on Plymouth Hoe, and hundreds of spectator boats lined the F50 racecourse in Plymouth Sound as the sold out Great Britain Sail Grand Prix closed on a high note in Britain’s Ocean City. Tom Slingsby’s…
Record numbers of fans turned out to watch the world’s most exciting racing on water from The Hoe in Plymouth, on what was the perfect British summer day, both on and off the water. As the temperature soared on-land, Phil…
Porto Cervo: On the final day of the Grand Prix 2.2, and after two weeks of racing on foiling Persico 69F, victory in the Grand Prix 2.2 went, by a comfortable margin, to the home team Young Azzurra. Groupe My…
Sixty-five young competitors had their hopes high at Hang Loose Beach on the penultimate day of the 2021 Formula Kite U10 and A’s Youth Foil World Championship, as only the top 14 will make the Medal Series tomorrow. A cloudy…
Plymouth, UK: Tom Slingbsy and his revised Australian SailGP Team took part in their final day of practice, ahead of the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix, this weekend,17-18 July. The Australia Team will be competing with an altered crew format…
Domonkos Németh, from the host club, Tihanyi Hajós Egylet, has won the U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup at Tihany on Lake Balaton, Thursday, to become the first Hungarian to lift the title. In a…
With just one day left until the conclusion of the Grand Prix 2.2 of the 69F Cup circuit, Young Azzurra heads the provisional classification, followed by Groupe My Ambition, and next is the Swiss team on Sailing Performance. Organised by…
Plymouth Sound, the natural amphitheater of Britain’s Ocean City, is set for the world’s most exciting racing on water as the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix – the third event of SailGP Season 2 – takes place this weekend. It…
Valérian Lebrun (FRA) secured the OK Dinghy International Regatta, hosted by Circolo Vela Arco on Lake Garda, after two more races were sailed in an early morning northerly, while Soenke Behrens (GBR) won the opening race to secure second overall,…
Brisbane’s Bazinga Girls team are fully geared and ready to win the annual Mooloolaba Women’s Keelboat Regatta, to be held on July 30 – August 1. This year six teams will contest for the trophy. Racing on the Mooloolaba Yacht…
When the Olympics came to a close in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016, I suffered from post-Olympic blues – I felt I couldn’t wait until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – it is wonderful to witness the camaraderie and…
Gizzeria, Italy: Another windy, wet and wild day on the water for the 65 young athletes competing at the 2021 Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil World Championship. Yesterday’s very strong breeze kept on blowing during the night and…
Châtelaillon-Plage, France: After 12 days of racing the Groupe Atlantic crew have achieved their seventh victory in total, and third consecutive win, at the Tour Voile 2021. The Groupe Atlantic crew continue to catch up to the overall leaders,…
The United States SailGP Team has arrived in Plymouth, UK looking to climb the Season 2 standings at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix this weekend, Saturday, July 17 through Sunday, July 18, in the third event of the global…
Costa Smeralda, Northern Sardinia, Italy: It was an early race start for day 1 of the Persico 69F Grand Prix 2.2 (the second foiling event in Costa Smeralda), and the provisional rankings are extremely close with the Swiss Okalys Youth Project…
The world’s oceans have given New Zealanders Peter Burling and Blair Tuke the chance to accomplish so much at relatively young ages. Together the New Zealand sailors have won Olympic gold and silver medals; helped their country win and then…
Domonkos Németh has moved into a 14 point lead after winning both races on the second last day of the U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup; meanwhile Levente Rácz and Bence Rácz are separated by just four…
Yesterday’s announcement by the NSW Government of an extended COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Sydney until Friday 30 July has now confirmed the need for the changes to our racing calendar foreshadowed in Monday’s communications. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia…
Gizzeria Lido, Italy: Day one of the Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil Individual World Championship was nothing but easy, as the 65 young kiters had to face strong winds over 25 knots and choppy conditions off Hang Loose Beach. However, for many of…
Plymouth, England: SailGP, the first climate-positive sport and entertainment property, today announced the launch of the Impact League – a world-first, integrated initiative designed to make sustainability action essential to the fabric of sport and to accelerate the transition to…
The Tour Voile: The 44 mile race in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Erquy, France, started in a solid north-westerly wind, seeing the 10 competitors complete the race course in a brisk three and a half hours. The Tour Voile is…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is delighted to be named as the host of the inaugural Australian Maxi Championship. The first edition of the new regatta, introduced by Australian Sailing, will take place from 3-7 December 2021. The Australian…
No races were sailed on day 3 of the U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup at Tihany on Lake Balaton due to a lack of wind, but fun was still had by the sailors who went for…
Los Angeles, California – After over a year of careful planning, tremendous uncertainty, yet dogged determination to run this race, the Transpacific Yacht Club today unleashed the first wave of entries on their long westward journey to Honolulu in the…
Considered one of the standouts of the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe aboard his old generation IMOCA, and recent winner of The Ocean Race Europe with Offshore Team Germany, the young Vendée Globe sailor Benjamin Dutreux is on the…
While Covid continues to wreak havoc in parts of Australia, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) officials and members are looking forward to welcoming a record number of competitors and their supporters to the 33rd running of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), to…
Magnetic Island has turned heads for eons, but since SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week was added to the northern sailing regattas in 2007, competitors from far and wide have been captivated. Four years ago, when James Permezel competed for the…
Australian Sailing will be teaming up with Clubs around the country to cheer on our Aussie sailors at the Tokyo Olympics through our AST Supporter Venues. With fans unable to travel to this year’s Games, clubs who will be showing the…
San Francisco, CA — On July 14–18, St. Francis Yacht Club will welcome 125 sailors for four days of racing in the ILCA North American Championships on San Francisco Bay. Delayed for a year due to the global pandemic, sailors…
Lake Garda, Italy: Monday should have marked the start of the 2021 OK Dinghy World Championship, but instead a smaller regatta took place in its place, after 45 percent of the OK Dinghy members voted against holding the worlds. Instead…
Unsurprisingly due to a year of uncertainty and pandemic impact, this year’s Transpacific Yacht Race entries are down to some 40 boats following a record high of 85 in the race’s 50th anniversary edition in 2019. But that is not…
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