World First U25 Para Sailing World Championship
World First U25 Para Sailing World Championship is set to debut in Dutch waters this summer.
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Christophe Favreau — French photographer who loves 18 footers
Two months ago, a dejected French photographer, Christophe Favreau believed that he probably wasn’t going to make it to Sydney for the JJ Giltinan 18 footer Championship in 2022 because of the COVID-19 restrictions, which were being placed on international…
First U25 Para Sailing World Championship to debut in Dutch waters
World Sailing has announced the creation of a brand-new event, the U25 Para Sailing World Championship, as part of the governing body’s commitment to increase participation and inclusivity throughout the sport. The inaugural edition will take place on the waters of…
SailGP’s Racing on the Edge goes behind the scenes of the Grand Final
The final Season 2 episode of SailGP’s docuseries ‘Racing on the Edge’ covers the Grand Final weekend in San Francisco that had everything, from dramatic collisions to challenging conditions, to a whale interrupting the winner-take-all race for $1 million. The…
SailGP Racing on the Edge: The Grand Final
The final chapter of the SailGP Season 2 story, as told by Nathan Outteridge, Jimmy Spithill and Tom Slingsby.
Scarlino delivers ideal conditions as ClubSwan’s Racing season gets underway
Passion, determination and skill were on display today as the curtain lifted on the opening event of what promises to be an enthralling ClubSwan Racing season. The Swan Tuscany Challenge has seen a highly competitive fleet of 20 ClubSwan 36s…
Race Yachts partners with JPK Pacific
JPK Pacific is announcing a full commitment across our range of services with its connection to Innovation Composites and now Race Yachts, offering owners access to unrivalled technical, mechanical and race ready expertise pre and postproduction. As the exclusive licensee…
Olympic champion Matt Wearn leads fleet at Hyères
The famous Hyères mistral cracked in for the opening day of racing at the French Olympic Week 2022, throwing up challenges to competitors and race organisers alike. In glorious conditions much like at home, the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and…
Round Britain and Ireland Race: Two-handed titans
Cowes: On August 7, 2022, a record 15 teams are planning to take on the marathon IRC Two-Handed for the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Short-handed racing with the RORC has been booming in recent years with 84…
Frenchman becomes 47th Global Solo Challenge entrant
Twenty-nine-years-old at the time of writing, Kevin Delprat from Guadaloupe in the French Antilles, is the youngest entry so far in the Global Solo Challenge 2023/2024. Despite his age, Kevin is one the most experience sailors to have signed up for…
Vertigo wins ORCV’s Bass Strait race
Tim Olding’s Summit 35 Vertigo won the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 55 nm West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint Race on a perfect sailing day. Sailing under beautiful sunshine with 10 knots of SE breeze, 11 yachts competed in…
Vamos secures back-to-back J7O Nationals with race to spare
Tim Ryan and his crew Rob Greenhalgh, Jess Grimes and Charlie Gundy on Vamos AUS1567, successfully defended their J70 Australian Championship over the Easter long weekend consistently performing in the 14 races sailed out of the Cruising Yacht Club of…
Queenscliff Cup Regatta celebrates female sailors
Victoria: Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC) hosted their annual Queenscliff Cup Regatta over the Easter long weekend with the inclusion of a two-race series for female helms within the racing program, the inaugural Commodore’s Trophy. QCYC was a hub of…
Lisa Blair blog: Strong winds and iceberg analysis
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, it was a…
Beneteau First 44: Cruising and performance options
“The Beneteau First was born 45 years ago with the launch of the legendary First 30. “And we celebrated the occasion this year with the announcement of the First 36 in January and the arrival of the First 44 today,…
Clipper Race: WTC Logistics claims victory
After over a month at sea, and an exceptionally close finish, WTC Logistics has claimed the win in Race 10 of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race: Sailing City – Qingdao Cup, crossing the finish line at 1830 UTC. The team, led…
Vesper tops Caribbean Maxi Challenge
Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille, the penultimate event of the International Maxi Association’s new Caribbean Maxi Challenge concluded with an impressive victory with a day to spare in the Maxi class for Jim Swartz’s Judel Vrolijk 72 Vesper….
Williams triumphs with fifth Congressional Cup win
Long Beach, California: Ian Williams (GBR) and Team Gladstone’s Long Beach have won the 57th Congressional Cup – and a fifth iconic Crimson Blazer – toppling defending champion Taylor Canfield (USA) and Stars+Stripes Team USA 3-1 in the final matches of…
Big boats return to PalmaVela
PalmaVela, which lifts the curtain on the Mediterranean yacht racing season as the first major event of the year on the international regattas calendar, returns to its traditional dates early in the month of May, thanks to the Real Club…
Upset in maxi classes at Les Voiles de St Barth
Following yesterday’s layday festivities, competitors returned to the water for the penultimate day of Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille, third event of the International Maxi Association’s inaugural Caribbean Maxi Challenge. There was a change in complexion with the…
Williams and Canfield in Congressional Cup showdown
Great Britain’s six-time match racing world champion, Ian Williams (Team Gladstones Long Beach) and USA’s Taylor Canfield (Stars+Stripes Team USA), have advanced to the final of the 57th Congressional Cup in Long Beach, California after defeating their respective opponents Johnie…
Lisa Blair blog: I was terrified
Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, Western Australia on Monday February 21, in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’.Blog Day 59 & 60Latitude 50 22.52SLongitude 07…
Clipper Cup: Teams battle it out in final push to Seattle
*Ten of the Clipper Race teams are racing on the final stretch of Leg 10: Sailing City Qingdao Cup into Seattle, USA after a long and enduring voyage across the North Pacific Ocean and are due to arrive at Bell…
Lisa Blair blog: Totally out of control mid-storm
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair receives an…
SailGP: Inspiring excellence
Follow the stories of two talented young people from opposite sides of the world as they go on parallel journeys through the SailGP Inspire Careers and Mubadala Excellence Program respectively, which brought them together at the Mubadala United States Sail…
Olympic champions to spearhead Australian Sailing Team in Hyères
Olympic champions Matt Wearn OAM (WA) and Tom Burton OAM (NSW) will spearhead the Australian Sailing Team (AST) when the world’s best sailors return to the Semaine Olympique Francaise – the French Olympic Week at Hyères, France (23 – 30…
Registration opens for 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race
The Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) is pleased to confirm that the notice of race for 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race is available online and yachts may already register their participation. Last year’s race attracted 114 yachts, a remarkable achievement given the ongoing backdrop…
Brisbane shipyard expansion wins council approval
Brisbane is a major step closer to becoming the Asia Pacific region’s premier superyacht destination and a more strategic location for Defence and commercial vessels after Rivergate Marina and Shipyard gained approval for a $200 million expansion. Brisbane City Council…
Canada SailGP Team announced
When SailGP Season 3 commences on May 14 in Bermuda, it will mark an historic moment for Canadian sailing. Canada’s first-ever fully professional sailing team will be on the start line with an all-star crew on board the leading-edge F50…
Congressional Cup: Top sailors advance to semi-finals
Long Beach, California: Taylor Canfield (USA), Ian Williams (GBR), Johnie Berntsson (SWE) and Chris Poole (USA) have advanced to the semi-final stage in the 57th Congressional Cup, after a dicey day of sailing for the Catalina 37 fleet. Ten of the…
Paul Meilhat will compete in The Ocean Race
French skipper Paul Meilhat will fulfil a lifelong dream in January 2023 when he leads Biotherm across the starting line of The Ocean Race on the waters off Alicante, Spain. Meilhat and his team will be racing one of the…
American Magic returns to Pensacola
New York Yacht Club American Magic is set to return to Pensacola, Florida for training later this year. This marks the team’s third winter training on the Gulf Coast. In 2018, American Magic was the first America’s Cup team to…
Mediterranean maxi season starts tomorrow at Portofino
The Mediterranean maxi season gets underway tomorrow with the opening day of racing at the Portofino Regate di Primavera taking place out of the picturesque Ligurian hamlet where the Yacht Club Italiano has a clubhouse. The event is organised by…
Taylor Canfield leads Congressional Cup qualifying round
Long Beach, California: Taylor Canfield, and his Stars+Stripes Team USA crew finished day two of the 57th Congressional Cup ahead of the leaderboard with 10 points in the qualifying round of the regatta. Past Congressional Cup champions Ian Williams, GBR (Team…
Lisa Blair blog: Excitement of snow
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair gets excited…
Maxis sail ‘long course’ at Les Voiles de St Barth
Monday and Tuesday’s brisk easterlies eased to the high teens for day three of maxi racing at the Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille, the third event of the International Maxi Association’s new Caribbean Maxi Challenge. However the elements…
Dudley Dix ‘Faros’ enters Cape2Rio Race
With nine months to the start of the 2023 Cape to Rio race, the entries are starting to mount up and the race organisers confirmed that there are still a number of boats who are finalising plans and possible entries. Faros, a…
La Rochelle – the new home of The Race Around
The Race Around, Class40s official round-the-world offshore yacht race, has named La Rochelle as host city for its inaugural event in 2023.
57th Congressional Cup kicks off with plenty of breeze
Long Beach, California: A morning of fanfare: an evening of glitz. And in between — five hours of high-octane sailing. The 57th Congressional Cup kicked off today with a bookend of exciting events including a rededication of the racecourse with local…
St Barts maxi winning streak continues for Vesper and Stark Raving Mad VII
On winding coastal courses resembling those around the Costa Smeralda, but with a sizeable Atlantic swell added to the mix, day two of Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille took place in similarly challenging conditions to yesterday with a…
