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By Coronado Times, 8 November, 2020. 2020 strikes again. A large racing sailboat became unmoored early Saturday morning during a storm. It then grounded at Coronado’s Central Beach, just south of the main lifeguard tower. Initially, the boat appeared to…
The two races (Races 5 and 6) of the Spring 18ft Skiff Championship were sailed in a light South East breeze on Sydney Harbour today and produced two different winners from the 'red group' under the Australian 18 Footers League's…
Lausanne, 5 November 2020 – A year ago, SP80 unveiled the design of its boat to beat the World Sailing Speed Record. Today the team, composed of more than forty engineers and students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology…
Auckland, New Zealand – 4th November 2020 Ports of Auckland has today announced that it will facilitate the use of the inner harbour races courses (B and C) for all racing for the 36th America’s Cup event. CEO Tony Gibson…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 31, 2020) — Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes – Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain – won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred…
Auckland, New Zealand – 31st October 2020 As contemplated by the America’s Cup Arbitration Panel when they made their Order on the 21st October with regard to the usage of the inner Harbour race Courses (Courses B and C), the…
The Australian champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake gave a masterclass of power sailing with a brilliant victory in Race 4 of the Australian 18 Footers League's Spring 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. …
October 29, 2020 – We are pleased to unveil the Top 20 photos selected by the international jury of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image photo competition, consisting of Jen Edney, Chris Museler, Justin Chisholm, Loris von Siebenthal, Luca Rizzotti and Nicolas…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 29, 2020) — If today’s late-afternoon form holds through to tomorrow morning, Ian Williams’s Team GAC Pindar will square off against Taylor Canfield’s Team Stars+Stripes for the championships of the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open…
Stuff.co.nz. By Todd Niall. A Brazilian naval architect and boat builder claims to hold patents covering the canting foil system used in the America’s Cup AC75 boats. Manoel Chaves has engaged representatives in New Zealand who have given Team New Zealand until…
Newstalkzb Crisis talks will be held in Auckland tomorrow morning in an attempt to resolve the latest stand-off engulfing the America's Cup. The NZ Herald understands Auckland mayor Phil Goff has requested an urgent meeting with key stakeholders of the…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 28, 2020) — A pair of Scandinavian crews, Jeppe Borch’s Borch Racing Team from Denmark and Johnie Berntsson’s Berntsson Racing Team from Sweden, advanced to the Quarterfinal Round of the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open…
Held annually on the waters of Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sail Sydney will take place from 10 – 13 December. Woollahra Sailing Club is proud to once again be the host club and official organisers of the event. The regatta began its life as…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 27, 2020) — If the conditions on Day 1 of the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship were spectacular, today they were nearly perfect. What’s the difference? A steadier, stronger breeze more…
Stuff.co.nz Onboard cameras have captured American Magic’s dramatic nose-dive in their new America’s Cup yacht. The syndicate released video footage of the near-miss on their debut sail in the AC75 they hope will win back the Auld Mug for the New York…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 26, 2020) — As Phil Robertson’s China One Ningbo and Torvar Mirsky’s Mirsky Racing Team streaked out to 4-0 leads in their respective groups at the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship,…
Sydney returned to deep winter for the MC38 class’ penultimate act of their 2020 season, temperatures in the low to mid-teens with rain and southerly gusts up to 30 knots on Sydney Harbour blowing up Ginger’s kite and sending hundreds…
The Australian champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake mastered the 25-knot Southerly wind, which battered the 18ft Skiff fleet, to score a brilliant victory in Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship on…
Entries have opened for the 2021 Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race and Lincoln Week Regatta, which is shaping up to be a huge return to offshore yachting in South Australia as the sport bounces back from the…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand executives say they will “move heaven and earth” to try to get the two axed America’s Cup courses back into play. That will take some delicate mediating with relations strained between the defenders…
Tom Slingsby and Lisa Darmanin have taken out top honours at the 2020 Australian Sailing Awards, with the Olympic-medal winning athletes being crowned Male Sailor of the Year for the fourth time and Female Sailor of the Year for the…
Auckland, New Zealand – 22nd October 2020 Emirates Team New Zealand is outraged that after three years of planning a land-based stadium event, the Challenger of Record Luna Rossa has led a campaign through the Arbitration Panel which has destroyed one…
The Italians of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team have launched their race boat Luna Rossa today at 1030 NZT during an official ceremony held at the team’s new base on Hobson Wharf. The ceremony was simple and traditional, enhanced by…
The Marcus Ashley-Jones led Andoo team produced a powerful last lap of the course to score a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the Australian 18 Footer League's Race 2 of the Spring 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. After…
The final day of the Farr 40 One Design Trophy was sailed on Sydney Harbour and Nutcracker, with substitute helmsman Ray Roberts, held on to their substantial lead from yesterday to take out the regatta. The standard has now been…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. British challenger Sir Ben Ainslie has delivered on his promise to push the design boundaries, delivering a radical reincarnation of his America’s Cup boat. The second generation AC75 Britannia was launched in Auckland on Saturday morning…
After being the first team to bring an AC75 up on foils last year, American Magic set a new record as PATRIOT was the first race boat to touch the water. The official launch ceremony took place this morning at…
After a long and frustrating off season navigating Covid rules and restrictions, the Farr 40 Class has been given the green light to hold their first point score regatta of the season on 17 and 18 October 2020, hosted by…
Inside the Games. By Liam Morgan. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has raised concerns regarding two of the candidates in the World Sailing Presidential election, warning the committee overseeing the upcoming vote that the allegations against them are potentially damaging…
Stuff.co.nz. Team New Zealand’s determination to test the limits of the AC75 has cost the team a second capsize. The America’s Cup defenders went over at high speed while training in Auckland on Saturday morning in north-easterly winds exceeding the…
The 2020-2021 18ft Skiff Racing Season began on Sydney Harbour today when the Australian 18 Footers League conducted Race 1 of the annual Spring Championship series. A fleet of 17 teams lined up for the start in a 12-15…
Despite the wind turning light and complicated for the last two days, maxi yacht competition at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez was successfully held on three out of four days. The event that traditionally concludes the inshore maxi sailing season in…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand star Glenn Ashby has warned about distractions hitting the team as they get ready to defend the America’s Cup in March. The Cup scene in Auckland is heating up with all three challengers…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Oct. 7, 2020) — World and event champions highlight a fleet adorned with accolades for the celebratory 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship, hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Oct. 26-30. Sweden’s…
Fans of the America's Cup all around the world will be able to enjoy coverage via all forms of media on every screen in 2020 and 2021. The primary objective of the live broadcast of the 36th America’s Cup is…
Up until the 1960’s only two countries, Canada and Great Britain, could lay claim to having challenged for the America’s Cup. Through 17 attempts, the closest either came to victory was 3-2 in 1920 and 4-2 in 1934. The unbeatable…
Having already won the event a day early, Arkadii Kistanov, from Russia, comfortably won the final race of the International Finn Cup at Malcesine, Italy, on Sunday. Christoph Burger, from Switzerland, took second while Matteo Iovenitti, took third and won…
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 2020-2021 Season will commence next Sunday, October 11, when the club will conduct Race 1 of the seven-race Spring Championship series on Sydney Harbour. A fleet of 18 top skiff teams will line up for…
Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen. Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has claimed the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place next year “no matter what happens”. He made the comment at a party organised by a faction of Japan's…
Porto Cervo, 5 October 2020. After 10 successful seasons, the Roemmers family has decided to leave the TP52 Azzurra sporting programme. They leave behind an important legacy, with Azzurra currently reigning champion of the 52 Super Series and undefeated in…
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