Nacra 17: The Foiling Beast | Tokyo 2020
Strap in for a wild ride with the Nacra 17! These foiling beasts are a joy to watch and a thrill to sail, with the mixed crews having to ensure they are on the same wavelength throughout – one mistake…
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Capturing moments: Onne van der Wal
Known throughout the sailing world by his first name only, Onne (pronounced “on-ah”) is still creating indelible images, 40 years after his photos first made a splash in Sail magazine in 1982. He was a professional sailor back in those days, sailing…
GSC: Frenchman turns dream into a reality
Frenchman Pierre-Etienne Rault is set to turn his childhood dream of sailing around the world into a reality, after becoming the 27th person to enter the 2023 Global Solo Challenge Race. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the…
Transpac 2021: the home stretch
The predictions of this year’s 51st edition of the biennial Transpac race from LA to Honolulu as being a fast race appear to be holding true: all teams that left the mainland starting about a week ago through the end…
Tokyo 2020: 49erFX field wide open
The 49erFX made its first Olympic appearance at Rio five years ago, when the battle for gold and silver remained in the balance until the final stages of the Medal Race. The gold and silver medallists from Rio 2016 –…
Tokyo 2020: Tough competition among 49er sailors
Since winning Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff – 49er at Rio 2016 five years ago, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) have packed a whole lifetime of sailing achievement into their busy careers. In 2017 Burling steered Emirates Team…
Australian Sailing celebrates Brisbane 2032 announcement
Australian Sailing has welcomed tonight’s announcement by the International Olympic Committee that Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. The Olympics will return to Australia for the first time since Sydney 2000, where tens of thousands of sailing fans…
Tokyo 2020: Send Australian sailors a message of support
Although fans, friends and family cannot be there to cheer on our sailors at the Tokyo Olympics, we can send them a virtual message. Be that positive voice our athletes need. Spur on Mat Belcher and Will Ryan to go…
Plymouth SailGP highlights
All the highlights from a thrilling weekend of racing in Britain’s Ocean City of Plymouth. – SailGP
Laser Radial: The Biggest Battle | Tokyo 2020
With 44 athletes in total, the Laser Radial has the biggest sailing fleet at #Tokyo2020. Packed with Olympic medallists, world champions and up-and-coming talent, it’s going to be a fierce fight out there! – World Sailing
AST Coaching Chain Series – Nia Jerwood
It takes a team of coaches to produce an Olympic athlete. The Australian Sailing High Performance program supports a “coaching chain” where each coach contributes to the development of the athlete at their age and stage of development on and…
EUROSAF L30 European Championship – Final Day
Balaton Lake, Hungary: HUN307 Tranquilo has won the 2021 EUROSAF L30 European Championship, after winning two out of three races on the final day of racing.
L30 European Championship: Hungarian crew win
Balaton Lake, Hungary: At least four teams were in the running to win the 2021 EUROSAF L30 European Championship, but local sailors HUN307 Tranquilo came out on top after winning two out of three races on the final day of the…
British Classic Week Day 3: tide drifter
Cowes: It was a game of patience, luck and perseverance for day three at British Classic Week, where sailors kept an eye out for the slightest zephyr of wind to help them across the glassy race course. Classes 1 and…
Rodos Cup 2021 – Day 1
Southern Aegean, Greece: The first race of the Rodos Cup 2021 saw 28 boats start with a low headwind that allowed a very technical race. Once the competitors reached the halfway point, the low side winds allowed the crews to use their spinnakers. In…
Forty eight year-old Laser sailor to compete at Tokyo
Winner of five Olympic medals, Brazil’s Robert Scheidt is defying his age and setting out to prove that a 48-year-old can conquer athletes half his age by competing in the Men’s Laser Class at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo….
New recycled-based Dyneema for 11th Hour Racing
Marlow Ropes is delighted to announce the use of a new recycled-based Dyneema® that will be used as part of a pilot scheme using the 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team, who compete in offshore sailing events, such as The Ocean Race….
Harken Marine Grip
Harken Marine Grip is a thin, reliable, nonabrasive grip tape. It reduces slipping and stands up to extreme marine conditions for boats, docks, and stairs. Learn more at www.harken.com/en/shop/marine-grip/
Transpac: Ho’okolohe passes halfway
July 19, 2021, Los Angeles, CA: With less than 1000 miles to go at 0800 Hawaii Standard Time today, Cecil and Alyson Rossi’s Farr 57 Ho’okolohe is the first in the 40-boat fleet to pass the halfway point in this year’s 2225-mile Transpac race from…
Walk through Nautor’s Swan 100ft Sailing Yacht
Take a walk through this Nautor’s Swan 100ft Sailing Yacht, worth $5,400,000. Don’t let looks deceive you, although unbelievably comfortable, she is also a very competitive performance yacht.
Laser: Strength and Tactics | Tokyo 2020
For the last two Olympic Games, the Mens Laser Olympic event has been dominated by Australia, with Tom Slingsby taking home gold in 2012 and then Tom Burton doing the same in 2016. And Australia’s Matt Wearn looks like he…
Transpac Race analysis report for 17 July
Today’s show focuses on: Ho’okolohe reaching the halfway point When and where Pyewacket might pass Ho’okolohe The steady sailing conditions
Australia back as boat-building powerhouse
The NSW Government has announced an initiative to re-establish the boat building sector in Australia, after JPK Pacific was given the green light to commence manufacturing the globally successful JPK yacht brand in regional NSW. Innovation Composites of Nowra in…
Tokyo 2020: British Finn dominance at risk
The Finn, the Men’s Heavyweight Dinghy, is the oldest boat at the Olympic Games, making its debut at the 1952 edition when Denmark’s four-time Olympic Champion Paul Elvstrom won the event in Helsinki. For the past two decades, Great Britain…
Finn: Power, Skill and Tradition | Tokyo 2020
Only the most powerful and instinctive sailors can truly tame the Finn, the oldest boat at the Olympic Games. In the smallest fleet of the largest athletes, here’s a look at who you can expect to challenge for the medals…
The Impact League. A World First in Sport | SailGP
The Impact League is designed to make sustainability action essential to the fabric of elite sport and our goal is to inspire other sports to do the same. Together we all have the power to make a difference. Better Sport,…
Italian architect enters Global Solo Challenge
Italian architect and the 26th entrant of the 2023 Global Solo Challenge Race, Alessandro Tosetti from Turin, has been sailing since childhood and when he does so he dedicates his attention to the search for harmony between himself, the people,…
Diversity in Fastnet Race
With less than a month before the start of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, IRC division three boasts the largest class competing with 88 teams entered from at least 10 different countries. IRC division three has a cornucopia of boat…
The Virtual Tactician
Audio feedback, fast transmission rates and smoothing of wind data give a new approach to sailboat navigation that is easy to set up thanks to SailTimer Wind Instrument. 1. Audio: Your tablet/phone can connect on Bluetooth to the wireless, solar-powered SailTimer Wind…
Hungarians take charge at EUROSAF L30 Europeans
Lake Balaton, Hungary: The EUROSAF L30 Class European Championship hosted by Spartacus Club saw Fourteen crews representing eight nations kick-start racing on July 17; where the local HUN8 “Present Perfect Team” emerged as an early leader. For its fifth continental championship, the L30 Class continues its growth with several new teams…
Doyle Sails partners with Voyages of Agape
Doyle Sails is pleased to announce their partnership with Rachel and Joshua from Voyages of Agape. Voyages of Agape was dreamt up by two love birds addicted to travel and enamored by the sea. After sailing away from their homeport…
2021 World Superyacht Awards
The 16th annual edition of the BOAT International World Superyacht Awards will take place in Monaco on Sunday 5th September 2021 at the Monte Carlo Sporting. The World Superyacht Awards recognise the ingenuity and craftsmanship of the most remarkable luxury yachts from…
Transpac: third and final wave is off
Los Angeles, California: Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles away in the 2021…
2021 Transpac: fastest boats get underway
Third wave of the fastest boats get the fastest start in the 2021 Transpac. Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted…
SailGP: Slingsby leads Australia Team to victory
Tom Slingsby has proven that the Australian SailGP team can deliver against all odds after triumphing on UK waters at the Britain Sail Grand Prix, in a dramatic final race. The team stormed home to victory, beating France and the…
Final day of racing for Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil World Championships
A long waiting game and some suspense ashore among the 65 athletes and the organizers at the Hang Loose Beach in Gizzeria, Italy, for an interminable morning characterized by storms passing in the area and light and super shifty wind. At around 1pm a steady…
Final day of racing for Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil World Championships
A cloudy, rainy and windless day soon turned perfect for the Medal Series in the Formula Kite Men and the A’s Youth Foil fleets, and one single race for the Formula Kite Women. It all came down to the sailors who had been leading the series for…
SailGP win for Team Australia
Thousands of fans turned up on Plymouth Hoe, and hundreds of spectator boats lined the F50 racecourse in Plymouth Sound as the sold out Great Britain Sail Grand Prix closed on a high note in Britain’s Ocean City. Tom Slingsby’s…
Rivalries reignited in Great Britain Sail Grand Prix opener
Record numbers of fans turned out to watch the world’s most exciting racing on water from The Hoe in Plymouth, on what was the perfect British summer day, both on and off the water. As the temperature soared on-land, Phil…
Young Azzurra’s second victory at Persico 69f Cup Grand Prix 2.2
Porto Cervo: On the final day of the Grand Prix 2.2, and after two weeks of racing on foiling Persico 69F, victory in the Grand Prix 2.2 went, by a comfortable margin, to the home team Young Azzurra. Groupe My…
