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The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) is to host the 5.5 Metre Class World Championship 2020 to take place from 9-13 January, with the Scandinavian Gold Cup, Alfreds Gold Cup, the Royal Kaag Classic Cup and Hanko Evolution Cup…
Spain’s Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodriguez got off to a flying start at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France, winning both of their races in the Men’s 470. In a variable 7-12 knot south easterly breeze, the…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 4 June 2019. The first day of racing took place today at the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, an event now in its 12th edition and organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which sees 20 boats ranging…
Denmark is the host country for the 49th Finn World Masters, which starts next week at Skovshoved, just north of Copenhagen. Almost 270 Finn Masters have registered to take part in what will be the first ever Finn World Masters…
The inaugural edition of Midsummer Match Cup is attracting the best skippers and match racing teams in the world. Lucy MacGregor and Torvar Mirsky, the reigning world champions in women’s and men’s match racing, respectively, are joining the line-up for…
A record 40 entries will take part in the 2019 Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) over this long weekend; the 40th entry coming from Ocean Respect Racing and to be headed by well-known…
To all who have a love for the environment and in particular our oceans: Save the ocean, protect your passion and make an impact, is the message from all at the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV). Recognising ORCV’s ‘keep…
Recently, the Australian class celebrated twenty years of international sailing and with class stalwarts like Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM, Lang Walker AO, Martin Hill and Richard Perini being bestowed with life memberships and a blazer presentation, the Class is powering ahead…
This morning Hugues Lepic's Aleph Racing scored their third bullet out of four races, increasing their five point lead at the day's start to a massive 10. Ultimately a fourth place in today's second and final race handed the French…
Are you a cruising catamaran owner? How does four days of warm-weather sailing off Phuket’s beautiful south-east coast plus four nights of beachfront parties with buffet dinners, free flow drinks and perhaps a trophy or two along the way, sound?…
Samui, Thailand: Coming into the final day, just 0.5 points separated the top two in IRC Zero with THA72 having the edge over Team Hollywood (AUS) – and one mistake, one bad call could decide the Samui Regatta. Looking through…
Marseille, France is poised to host 325 sailors from 40 nations for the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Final. Sailors will race at the venue for the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition across ten Olympic disciplines and an Open Kiteboarding…
While conditions seemed similar to yesterday, with a light north-westerly, results on day three of the Adris 44Cup Rovinj demonstrated how fortunes between the slippery, high performance RC44 one design monohulls and their ultra-competitive crews can change in a heartbeat….
In 2019, the International Dragon the class celebrates its 90th anniversary and to mark the milestone, the International Dragon Association (IDA) is partnering with Yacht Club Sanremo, Italy, to create a Gala Regatta, bringing together Dragons and Dragon sailors from…
Samui, Thailand: The Premier and Cruising classes got to stretch their legs on today's Mount Gay Rum race day, racing along the south-east coastline to Lamai Beach and back, while IRC Zero and IRC 1 added windward/leewards to their race…
After yesterday's multi-faceted single race, conditions settled down with a 10-12 knot north-westerly allowing three races to be held on the second day of the Adris 44Cup Rovinj, and with Rovinj's picture postcard old town forming the backdrop, the sun…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has advised that today they received a notice from the Royal Malta Yacht Club officially withdrawing the Malta Altus Challenge from the 36th America’s Cup. “This is a disappointing outcome.” said Grant Dalton, “The…
A difficult opening day of the Adris 44Cup Rovinj saw just one race completed and a worthy winner in Igor Lah's Team CEEREF. But perhaps never in the history of the 44Cup have so many different teams led during one…
Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia, is the venue for the 2020 Oceania and Australian Laser Championships, as well as the 2020 World Masters Championships. It can be a tricky place to sail and local Laser veterans are advising international…
Australian Sailing has announced its 14-athlete strong team to represent the country at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Test Event, which will take place at the Olympic venue at Enoshima, 70 kilometres south of Tokyo, from 15-22 August. The team…
SAMUI, Thailand – Back racing! After a brief delay with the AP raised onshore, at 09:05 it was lowered and the sailors headed out to the startline where breeze awaited on the Nora Buri & Nora Beach Race Day. Looking…
For the nine teams due to set sail tomorrow in the Adris 44Cup Rovinj there have been two distractions today – the torrential rain, forecast to depart the Istrian Peninsula before the start of racing tomorrow, and the ancient, densely…
The true story about the Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory access to Finns The Finn class has a long history and has been witness to many changes in the sailing world. It originates from a, perhaps, more simple time, when many…
SAMUI, Thailand – The best laid plans… The breeze was on early this morning as the race management left the beach. The plan: head straight out off Chaweng Beach and lay a startline. Leaving the “shelter” of the bay, the…
The 12th edition of the Yacht Racing Forum (November 25-26) promises to be exciting. It will bring together some of the most prominent players in the nautical world, and will offer a unique commercial platform to companies active in competitive sailing….
SAMUI, Thailand – Samui Regatta is a highlight event on the regional regatta circuit that attracts a high calibre fleet of boats and sailors from around Asia to enjoy some top racing off the tropical island, followed by nightly prize-givings…
A high-octane slalom event, a themed regatta party and entry fee discounts for those sailing in both the nationals and the worlds are just some of the perks that organisers are touting for the 2019 Chandler Macleod Moth Worlds at…
(Saturday 25th May, Mahón) – After a thrillingly close finish, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon crew clinched the first regatta title of the 2019 52 SUPER SERIES season, winning the Menorca 52 Sailing Week by one single point this afternoon. Second placed…
The GC32 Villasimius Cup has a worthy winner in Oman Air supported by EFG Private Bank Monaco, but her lead of nine points as the ten flying catamarans returned to Marina di Villasimius this afternoon was no reflection of the…
(Pisa, 26th May 2019) – It only takes a couple of knots of extra breeze to transform M32 racing as these lightweight, potent catamarans respond immediately to the slightest increase in pressure. Until today, conditions at the Cetilar M32 European…
On one hand it was a miserable day of intermittent rain, a chilly wind and an overcast sky like a scene from the North Sea in February – on the other, despite the fickle conditions, all scheduled five races were…
Pisa, Italy: The M32 fleet learns quickly as the second day of racing at the European Series demonstrated when the mid-fleet became the agitators, stirring things up at the front and sending a message to GAC Pindar and Spindrift racing…
Australian Matt Wearn saved his best until last to win the 2019 Laser Senior European Trophy in Portugal after the scoreboard was turned on its head, while fellow Aussie Mara Stransky finished strongly in seventh place overall, her best result…
Pisa, Italy: The opening day of the Cetilar M32 European Series could hardly have been trickier, as a gentle 4-7 knot sea breeze wafted across the course when seeing, predicting and working the breeze was the order of the day,…
One day of racing remains at the 2019 Laser European Championship in Portugal, and a trio of Australians are inside the top ten, as Tom Burton continues leading the Laser, where Matt Wearn is third, while Mara Stransky is sixth…
Porto Cervo, Italy: At the conclusion of the third day of racing, the Italian team representing Circolo della Vela Bari leads the provisional classification at the One Ocean Sailing Champions League. Tomorrow will be the final day for the 24…
Porto Cervo, Italy: After a second busy day at the One Ocean Sailing Champions League, the team from Switzerland's Bodensee Regattaclub leads the provisional classification with two more days of racing still to be held. The event, organised by the…
From a long day that finally yielded just one race, Quantum Racing emerged with an increased lead at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week in Mahon, Spain. The 2018 defending circuit champions, winners of the 2016 TP52 World Championship…
Forecasters were predicting a windless Friday, but Villasimius switched on its wind machine, allowing the full schedule of five races to be held and tired crew to come ashore into Marina di Villasimius buzzing. At this half way stage of…
It’s Day 4 at the 2019 Laser European Championship in Portugal and Australia is firing with Mara Stransky moving up to eighth place in the Laser Radial and Tom Burton streaking away in the Laser. Stransky finished sixth overall in…
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