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Auckland, New Zealand: World records are not broken every day, nor are they ever easy to achieve, but when they are, there is usually a stringent process of verification that any attempt must go through. While the recent World record…
After a year of delay, the 2022 5.5 Metre World Championship finally got underway on Friday local time, with two races held in light to moderate winds for the 23 boats representing 10 nations. New Moon II (BAH, Mark Holowesko,…
Atoning for a less than perfect race on Thursday when they finished a distant fourth, Velsheda and her crew won today’s 22 nautical mile coastal round-the-buoys course, an upwind/downwind that spanned the full width of the Bay of Palma. However,…
PRO Simon James started the fleet for the 19th Phuket Raceweek in the same spot as on Day 1, just south of Koh Lan off the southern coast of Phuket in a light 6-8 knots for the first windward-leeward race,…
The waters off the Swedish holiday hotspot of Marstrand took on a different complexion on day two of 44Cup racing, with a sharp chop and the wind backed from the north-west to the south and gusting into the mid-high teens…
Some big changes in fortune, along with a change in wind direction and the closest possible finish in one class, meant results in the Superyacht Cup Palma fleet set the scene for a dramatic finale after a day of frenetic…
Day 3 of Cowes Classics Week saw South Westerly winds from 8 to 15 knots and some sun, giving competitors an easier day’s racing and enabling two races for the classic dayboats on the bank and one longer race for…
You couldn’t have asked for better sailing conditions than we had today to start the 19th Phuket Raceweek as winds picked up to 20 knots allowing PRO Simon James to get in two races for all classes just south of…
The three new world champions crowned in their respective classes are Beau Geste, Essentia 44 and Sugar 3 Porto Cervo, 30 June, 2022. The ORC Offshore Sailing World Championship, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the…
Kiboko 3 and Savannah stars of the show in classes A and B Svea closes the gap on J Class leader Topaz Coastal race proves to be a close contest The entire Superyacht Cup fleet made the Bay of Palma…
Njörðr, the Norse god of the sea and the wind was clearly smiling upon both the 44Cup Marstrand and local team Artemis Racing for the first day of the 2022 44Cup’s third event off western Sweden’s holiday hotspot of Marstrand….
Seventy years ago the Finn changed sailing history and put in its first appearance at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. To celebrate this occasion, the Finnish Finn sailors decided to hold the 2022 Finn World Masters in Helsinki and…
July begins and so too the holidays in Sweden, with a deluge of tourists set to descend on western Sweden’s most picturesque island of Marstrand for the first official weekend of the summer. Visitors to this favourite holiday hotspot will…
The Boating Industry Association Apprentice of the Year Award nominations are closing soon. The Apprentice of the Year Awards are designed to recognise both the outstanding contribution that apprentices provide to the marine industry and the importance of developing a…
Day 2 of Cowes Classics Week saw South South Westerly winds of up to 20 knots and some sun, giving the competitors a great but hard days racing. The excellent conditions enabled two good races for the classic dayboats on…
Superyacht Cup Palma 2022 got off to a flying start today with a quartet of J Class yachts conducting a superb symphony of sail racing out on the sparkling waters of the Bay of Palma to launch the latest edition…
While it was the new owners and crew of Svea that took first blood, winning the first J Class race of the 2022 Superyacht Cup Palma today, it is Topaz which are the early overall leaders. Although they conceded the…
With Bonifacio and Brest in the rearview mirror, offshore racing’s most captivating new competition, the Pro Sailing Tour, reaches the halfway point of the intense two-month circuit that spans venues in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and English Channel. The seven foiling…
From June 30 to July 3, Malcesine on Lake Garda will host the FOILING WEEK, the premier event for sailors, technicians, and sailing 3.0 enthusiasts from around the world.For the ninth time in Italy, doing the honors will be the…
With over 50 boats on the start line in big breeze, the WASZP UK Nationals delivered some spectacular foiling racing! The swarm was hosted by Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on the world-class foiling waters of Portland Harbour for…
Under unusually cloudy skies for Sardinia, after three days of sirocco and consequent waves, the French team Groupe Atlantique won the GP2.2 Persico 69F Cup in the waters of Puntaldia, San Teodoro. Seven crews took part in the second weekend…
World Sailing CEO declares “big future” for Para Kiteboarding. World Sailing’s first ever Para Kiteboarding Development Programme has concluded after four days of action on Lake Garda, Italy, where 11 coaches and athletes from seven countries were put through their…
Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines) has made history by winning the Scandinavian Gold Cup at Hankø Yacht Club, Norway, after two more races were sailed on Tuesday. They won both races to become the first…
The 91st edition of the Island Sailing Club’s Round the Island Race started with a bang from the Royal Yacht Squadron’s starting cannons at 0800 on saturday morning, fired by The Marathon Watch Company President, Mitchell Wein. Over 1,100 boats…
Having sold more than 2,000 of its inflatable sailing dinghies worldwide, Tiwal is now launchingthe Tiwal 3R, its new sport dinghy. This is a technical and compact boat for serious sailors. And itcan be taken anywhere, in the back of…
Relive the start of the first leg of the Globe40 in Tangier.
The 2022 5.5 Metre Scandinavian Gold Cup began on Monday at Hankø, Norway, with race wins for Ku-Ring-Gai 3 (AUS 66, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) and Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines). In a…
Nominations for the 2022 Australian Sailing Awards are now open, with the annual event set to recognise clubs and members for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the sailing community over the past year. The Australian Sailing Awards are the…
Today was all about the medal races in Kiel, with light winds delaying the starts until late morning when the both the temperature and the pressure ramped up. Queenslander Mara Stransky wore the leader’s yellow bib into today’s medal race,…
Multihull Solutions has added the new Cora Cat 48 to its range after being announced as the shipyard’s exclusive Asia Pacific distributor. The feature-packed family power catamaran is built by the prestigious PMG shipyard who have been building a number…
After months, indeed years of preparation, the crews took the OFFICIAL START of the first edition of the Globe40 this Sunday 26 June at 15:00 hours Moroccan time (14:00 UTC) in the Bay of Tangier. Before leaving the Strait of…
Winning four out of six inshore races during Episode 2 of the Pro Sailing Tour in Brest, France, on Thursday and Friday, the crew of Leyton usually led by Brit Sam Goodchild, but on this occasion with Morgan Lagravière at…
The GC32 Lagos Cup, the pre-Worlds for next month’s GC32 World Championship, concluded in big breeze. Despite the flying catamaran fleet heading out an hour early, by the end of the first race, the sea state was still relatively flat…
The final day of Kiel Week once again reflected the past nine days of racing. The conditions varied from calm in the morning – with a corresponding delay in the start – to dream conditions in the last possible Medal…
Extremely light and shifty conditions on the final day of fleet racing in Kiel saw plenty of Australian athletes through to Sunday’s medal races, and some fall frustratingly short of the medal race cut off. There were no issues for…
Lagos, the port on Portugal’s Algarve the GC32 Racing Tour, has been bringing its world class sailors to since 2018, laid on flat water, despite a 20 plus knot offshore north-westerly in the final race, demonstrating again why this is…
Cascais remains one of the most rewarding venues for the Quantum Racing team, as Doug DeVos’ US flagged crew today lifted the 2022 Rolex TP52 World Championship title, their third back-to back regatta win on the Atlantic waters off the…
After an absence of 13 years, the 5.5 Metre Class is making a welcome return to Hankø Yacht Club in Norway for its Scandinavian Gold Cup, Class Cups and World Championship, to be sailed from June 27 to July 5….
With temperatures in the high twenties and sizeable swell across the racecourse, Kiel felt like Queensland for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes competing in Germany where the top performer again was Tokyo Olympian, Mara…
A small, uncharacteristic error approaching the first windward mark of the second race today cost regatta leaders Quantum Racing dearly, but it sets up what promises to be an engaging Saturday local time title showdown against Platoon for the Rolex…
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