The latest news from the world of yachting and sailing including yacht & dinghy reviews, cruising and destination information plus the latest boating gear as well as inshore and offshore racing updates and regatta schedules. All things Sailing, Sail Racing, Sailboats and more.
Racing crews are at the business end of Hamilton Island Race Week with one day remaining of the huge 36th edition. Two windward-leewards for Multihull Racing and Rating Divisions 3 and 4, and passage races for the remaining divisions, split…
An overcast day, breezy and chilly at the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) was sent to brush the cobwebs away from those who are tired after nearly a week of hard racing and the glittery social activities that entice competitors…
Racing got underway today in the seventh IRC European Championship, this year taking part in the Netherlands as part of Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend. Part of the four-day competition to determine who gets this year’s title for the RORC and…
French rookie Davy Beaudart (Nauty Mor), 37, has been declared the winner of Stage 1 of the 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro after Fred Duthil (Le Journal Des Enterprises) was given a statuary 30-minute time penalty for an equipment seal…
Vilamoura, Portugal – Another day of no racing at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind after the race committee sent sailors out for the scheduled 14:00 warning signal, but like the day before, once they…
Kuba Szymanski’s First 40.7, Polished Manx II, racing in IRC Two-Handed with Adrian Kucmin, finished the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race on Thursday at 14:00:54 local time in an elapsed time of 18 days 01hrs 50mins 54secs. Polished Manx…
The North American Championships and the final event of the Midtown Racing Series were held 12-14 August in Newport, Rhode Island, on America’s Cup waters outside of Narragansett Bay. All scheduled 13 races were held as planned in both northerly…
Wily French silver fox, Fred Duthil (Le Journal Des Enterprises), has clinched Stage 1 of 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro by only 1 minute, 1 second. At the conclusion of a thrilling match race to the finish line in the…
September will once again be an intense month in Porto Cervo, with the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup scheduled from 4-10 September and the Rolex Swan Cup returning from 11-18 September, after a four-year break imposed by the pandemic. Anticipation is…
A sunny day but fresh and chilly this morning for the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) at Hamilton Island Race Week in Queensland, with the wind metre registering 30 knots and gusting as competitors rugged up and waited. “All Dent…
Germany’s Baltic Coast destination city of Rostock is all set to host the Inclusion World Championship for Sailing on 24-28 August on behalf of World Sailing. The city – officially known as the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock –…
Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind. The race committee waited until 15:00 to send the sailors out, but once on the water, the wind picked up…
With 150 nautical miles still to complete of the Stage 1 course shortened to 559 miles Swiss skipper Nils Palmieri (Teamwork) has established a break at the head of the 34 strong La Solitaire du Figaro lead after he made…
Day 18 of the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race, 19 teams have now finished the 1,805nm race with just one team still racing; Kuba Szymanski & Adrian Kucmin on the First 40.7 Polished Manx II. Three teams finished today…
Have a look in video the emotional arrival of Melodie Schaffer and Mikael Ryking in Mauritius after an epic second leg!
CYCA Rear Commodore and TP52 Zen crew member, Tom Barker, experienced a full-circle moment as he lifted his two-year-old daughter Bella onto his shoulders during the post-race presentation area on lay day eve at the Australian Yachting Championships at Hamilton…
The Russian-owned superyacht Axioma has been auctioned off to the highest bidder, completing the first seizure and forfeiture process for a sanctioned asset since the beginning of punitive sanctions on the Russian elite earlier this year. According to Bloomberg, the…
A cool blast from the south didn’t deter those wearing incredible costumes, from superheroes and lycra-clad red devils to meticulously presented matching crew uniforms, to win over the judges in the annual Hamilton Island Race Week Prix d’Elegance. The unique…
UF50 Celebration acclaimed huge success, with over 80 Uffa Fox-designed boats visiting Cowes over the weekend. UF50 marks fifty years since the death of yachting hero Uffa Fox. The event attracted 220 sailors and volunteers and over 1000 visitors. As…
Auckland – 24th August 2022 As excitement builds around the arrival of the AC40 and the focus on the build at McConaghy boats, Emirates Team New Zealand’s build facility on Auckland’s North Shore has been running at capacity for the…
In the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race the battle to be the first Two-Handed team to finish was extraordinary, with two teams in sight of each other for 15 days of match racing. Rob Craigie & Deb Fish…
Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today in all three fleets at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. With a beautiful southeast breeze of 10–13 knots, Vilamoura provided its reliable champagne sailing conditions for the first day of the…
With the course now shortened by 85 miles to 559 nautical miles because of intermittent periods of light winds, the leaders on Stage 1 of the 2002 La Solitaire du Figaro should round a virtual waypoint at the mouth of…
Today marks the halfway point of racing at Hamilton Island Race Week, crews squeezing the most from the gentle conditions for their passage race around Denman Island before the biggest Front Street party night and a well-earned day off tomorrow….
An overcast morning, but the sun came out in time for racing at Hamilton Island Race Week in Queensland, including those contesting the Australian Sailing’s 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC), who contested island courses on Day 3, starting at five…
After 35 days 10 hours 42 minutes and 42 seconds of racing, Craig Horsfield and Oliver Bond aboard Amhas took line honours in Mauritius in this the second and longest leg of the GLOBE40 round the world race. Crossing the…
The Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race came to a thrilling climax on the 16th day of the 1,805 nautical mile race. In a 14-hour flurry, 10 boats finished the race and a passionate dock party on Trinity Landing was…
Monday 22 August, 2022: Cowes – The Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race came to a thrilling climax on the 16th day of the 1,805 nautical mile race. In a 14-hour flurry, 10 boats finished the race and a passionate…
Pre-race favourite Tom Laperche (Région Bretagne-CMB Performance) and Ireland’s Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) are leading the 644 nautical miles Stage 1 of the 2022 La Solitaire du Figaro into the second day of racing since leaving Sunday afternoon’s start off…
For the 16 fortunate crew on the Phillip Neil skippered Drumfire, a 78-foot vision of splendour and timber luxury among the hundreds of newer builds, Hamilton Island Race Week is all about the food, not the sailing, argues boat chef…
The Australian Sailing’s 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) continued at Hamilton Island Race Week today, the planned short race exchanged for the Nautilus Marine Insurance Classic extra-long race for Division Zero, a long race for Division 1 and Multihull Racing,…
“Best day I’ve had sailing” was how Damien King, co-skipper of the Frers 61 ‘MRV’ sailing double handed summed up the day after taking the overall win in a fleet of 47 yachts in Saturday’s Ocean Racing Club of Victoria…
The final round of the “Selden for Sailing Winter Regatta 2022” was held on Sunday at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on Pittwater. Although the sun came out to try and keep us a bit warmer, the wind didn’t…
With so many opportunities and pathways in sailing sometimes it can be hard to make a decision on what next?! We hear from sailor and Olympic Gold Medallist Nathan Outteridge on his top tips in regard to class transition.
Published AUG 19, 2022 by HARRY VALENTINE on Maritime Executive Maritime folklore tells stories of giant waves that suddenly appear on the ocean and disappear just as quickly. While many people dismiss the existence of such waves as mythology, there…
65 years later, the Snipe Worlds are back in Cascais waters for 5 days and 9 races of fierce competition for the world title. With 87 boats lining up on the starting line, the Race Committee needed 3 attempts, the…
In light drizzle and a gentle southerly breeze Corentin Horeau (Mutuelle Bleue) made the best start to lead the 34 strong 2022 La Solitaire du Figaro fleet away from the mouth of the Loire estuary, opening a 648 nautical miles…
The 1970s is regarded as the ‘golden era’ of 18 footer racing with large fleet and champion competitors competing each week on Sydney Harbour, strong fleets in New Zealand and Queensland and emerging fleets in Western Australia, UK and the…
The Australian Sailing’s 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) began in fine style at Hamilton Island Race Week today, brilliant sunshine and ideal winds set the scene for the Rating and the Multihull Racing divisions on their way from the Eastern…
Perfect trade wind sailing blessed the 200-plus strong fleet on the opening day of Hamilton Island Race Week in the glorious Queensland Whitsunday islands. Close to two thousand sailors from around the country plus internationals put on a brilliant display…
Read all of the latest sailing news
View more
Dinghy and Yacht Racing News
View more
News from the offshore world
View more
Cruising Stories from around the world
View more
The latest boats and yachting gear
View more
Watch everything sailing and boating
View more