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Event: MC38 2022 Season Act 6, September 17-18 hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club with racing on Sydney Harbour A third place to Christian Beck and his Infotrack GO team is as good as the MC38’s Act 6 overall victory…
Sensational Rolex Swan Cup concludes the 2022 ClubSwan Racing season. Congratulations to the overall winners of the 2022 Rolex Swan Cup. MAXI CLASS🥇 Swan 90 | FREYA | Donald Macpherson MINI MAXI CLASS🥇 Swan 601 | FLOW | Stephen Cucchiaro…
Winners of the Rolex Swan Cup in their respective categories: Freya, Flow, Mascalzone Latino XXXIII, Crilia, Balthasar, G Spot, Nadir, Blue Sky Porto Cervo, 18 September 2022. The 21st edition of the Rolex Swan Cup concluded today with another day…
Cam Owen and Susan Ghent take the Masters for Australia Costa Brava Pirineu de Girona, September 15-29, 2022 Day 4 Master’s Division – Day 4 was the final day of racing in the master’s division of the Hobie 16 World…
NEWPORT, R.I. — After displaying remarkable consistency across a range of conditions over the first three days of the 2022 Resolute Cup, Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, Mass., decided to dispense with the pleasantries. The team representing the storied northeast…
Miguel Fernandez Vasco from Spain has won the 2022 Open Finn European Championship after one final race was possible on the final day at Club Nàutic Hospitalet-Vandellòs, at Hospitalet de l’Infant, Spain. Italy’s Giacomo Giovanelli won the 2022 Finn European…
Costa Brava, Spain: Day 3 was opposite to Day 2; yesterday there was not enough wind to race and today there was too much at the Hobie Worlds, after a cold front came in overnight dropping temperatures and bringing strong…
Italy: No racing could take place today at the Rolex Swan Cup in Porto Cervo due to a very strong mistral wind blowing at more than 35 knots, with gusts of well over 40 knots, conditions that obviously do not…
Newport, Rhode Island: On a shifty, puffy and generally frustrating day on Narragansett Bay, the key to success in the 2022 Resolute Cup was patience and conservative decision making, at least according to the two skippers currently occupying the top…
An international and star-studded fleet is building for the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with just 100 days to go until the start of the 77th edition of the historic race. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organiser of…
Porto Cervo, Italy: The Race Committee’s decision to bring forward the start for both divisions to 10am today enabled them to make the most of a mistral wind blowing at 18 to 22 knots before it became too strong to…
Italy’s Giacomo Giovanelli did the seemingly impossible and won both races on the third day of the 2022 Open Finn European Masters at Club Nàutic Hospitalet-Vandellòs, at Hospitalet de l’Infant, Spain. However, Spain’s Miguel Fernandez Vasco again extended his lead…
Costa Brava Pirineu de Girona, Spain: The wind on Day 2 of the Masters division of the Hobie 16 World Championships was ‘no bueno’, after The morning started with an offshore breeze that felt strong enough to sail in from…
There has been plenty of drama in the Golden Globe race, as boats and sailors had their first shake-down in the Bay of Biscay, a steadfast Pat Lawless (IRL) leading the way. Ertan Beskardes (UK) had an electrical short, later…
Given the huge numbers of applications from riders wanting to compete on the GWA Wingfoil World Tour, at the end of the 2022 season, the Qualifying Series will provide a fair and sustainable route onto the Wingfoil World Tour with…
The fourth season of SailGP, the purpose-driven global racing championship, will deliver more events than ever as the league’s season-on-season expansion continues at impressive pace. SailGP’s national teams will compete around the world with the aim to reach 14 events…
Spain’s Miguel Fernandez Vasco has extended his lead at the 2022 Open Finn European Masters at Club Nàutic Hospitalet-Vandellòs, at Hospitalet de l’Infant, Spain, after a long day on Thursday with two more races eventually sailed. Laurent Hay from France…
Day 1 Master’s Division – Day 1 of racing got underway at the 2022 Hobie 16 world championships with the 38 teams competing in the masters division. The Hobie 16 world championships are composed of multiple preliminary events starting with…
PRESS RELEASE: 15 September 2022 The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup once again proved that the RORC/UNCL’s IRC rating system is thriving at one of the most prestigious events in the sailing calendar. This year’s event, organised by the Yacht Club…
Porto Cervo, 15 September 2022. No racing took place on the third day of the 21st edition of the Rolex Swan Cup underway in Porto Cervo. The forecast of a day dominated by very unstable conditions due to the passage…
The five IMOCA teams who have so far signed up to compete in The Ocean Race 2022-23 have moved into the final stages of their preparation for the class’ first ever fully-crewed race around the world. All five crews are…
Spain’s Miguel Fernandez Vasco has taken the early lead in the 2022 Open Finn European Masters at Club Nàutic Hospitalet-Vandellòs, at Hospitalet de l’Infant, Spain. Laurent Hay from France is second with Paul McKenzie from Australia in third. Hay and…
Winners of the second day are: Plis-Play, Flow, Josian, OM II, Stella Maris, G Spot, Nadir, Blue Sky. Porto Cervo, 14 September 2022. The second day of the Rolex Swan Cup kicked off on schedule at 12 midday for boats…
Costa Brava Pirineu de Girona, September 15-29, 2022 – The 2022 Hobie 16 World Championships head to Europe after a 25-year hiatus. Following our last world championship event in 2019, there was a strong desire to return to Europe, however…
Porto Cervo, 13 September 2022. The Costa Smeralda put on its very best show for the first day of the Rolex Swan Cup, with a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing at around 12 knots and increasing to 15 providing the entire…
It’s the home stretch to the 24th edition of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, which will officially kick off on Saturday 24 September with those competitors racing on modern boats of up to 18m27 and classic yachts with no size limit…
With more OK Dinghies built in each of the last three years than in any year dating back to 1980, it is abundantly clear this timeless class is in a very healthy state. This was highlighted by the 109 boat…
Seasoned and respected women sailors are among those so far signed up to compete in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race – or ‘The Westcoaster’, as it is simply known to most –…
The first AC40 off the production line was unloaded from its ship and transported into the Emirates Team New Zealand base in a typically understated fashion last week. The boat represents a number of things for the Team and the…
The best youth team title went to Ares from Tasmania, who finished 7th overall. Congratulations, Will, Eddie, Ed and Eirni, you’ve showed us some great sailing having scored two bullets in this competitive international fleet! Regatta Wrap-Up: What a week…
Australians have always been drawn to the sea, with approximately 85 per cent of Australians today living within 50 km of the coast. Abundant coastlines, waterways and river systems lure us to their shores year-round to mess around in boats…
Introducing the all new HH52, an evolution of the Award Winning HH50, which has been completely redesigned with electrification in mind. Featuring an all new cabin top with 4,900 watts of solar, a new deck plan, a new interior layout,…
Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard’s Spindrift wins the TF35 Malcesine Cup after a beautiful four-race day on Lake Garda. For the young crew onboard, this is their first win in the TF35 fleet, and helm Guichard couldn’t have been prouder…
SAINT-TROPEZ – September 11, 2022 – Jimmy Spithill has led his United States SailGP Team to his first ever SailGP victory, prevailing in light winds at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez. In the final he battled…
FROM THE INDIAN TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN: ANOTHER LENGTHY PASSAGE FOR THE GLOBE40 Today saw the GLOBE40 crews take the start of the 3rd leg of the event; another substantial leg worth a coefficient 3, which will take the sailors…
Day three of the TF35 Malcesine Cup and the young crew onboard Spindrift continued to be the standout team winning both races in the unusually light, fickle breeze on the lake. The day started promising classic Lake Garda conditions, but…
On one of the wildest days seen on a SailGP racecourse, the Championship speed record was broken twice in the space of three races at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez. Ben Ainslie’s Great Britain SailGP Team…
The final day of racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, pinnacle of the International Maxi Association’s race season, looked marginal due to a well forecast Mistral, nonetheless the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s race committee, led by Peter Craig, made…
The highlight of the Swan racing season has attracted an eye-catching and diverse selection of yachts, with almost 100 entries representing 18 countries signed-up for the celebration of sail that is the Rolex Swan Cup. Porto Cervo is once again…
Mistral winds at 16 to 22 knots gifted the fleet sailing at the 32nd edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo with a day of perfect conditions. The Race Committee announced yesterday that the start of racing…
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