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The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, remains hopeful the ‘Great Race’ will return in 2021. With 100 days until the start of the race, Noel Cornish AM, CYCA Commodore, provided an update…
The third GC32 World Championship got off to a difficult start today off Villasimius, Sardinia. One race was successfully held the magnificent bay off Marina di Villasimius and the Capo Carbonara marine reserve before the wind began performing laps of…
Sydney sailors are anxiously awaiting news of Sydney’s lockdown coming to an end and after an enforced four-month hiatus from yacht racing, there is now a light on the horizon. Middle Harbour Yacht Club has announced the first major keelboat…
Australian Sailing regrets to announce that the 2021 Australian Yachting Championships have been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be run as a part of Hamilton Island Race Week (HIRW) from 21-28 August. With…
Following a very close 37th America’s Cup (AC37) Host Venue selection process consisting of three compelling and professional international proposals, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) together with Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ), announced today that they are extending…
French skipper Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crossed the finish line off Saint Nazaire on France’s Loire Atlantique coast at 22:23:30pm on Thursday evening to win (subject to jury), the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, the longest and toughest edition of…
Long Beach, California: It was evident on day two of the Congressional Cup regatta, that racers have shaken off any dust or rust caused by the pandemic pause. Racing in the five-day regatta – hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club…
The third GC32 World Championship got off to a difficult start today off Villasimius, Sardinia. One race was successfully held on the magnificent bay off Marina di Villasimius and the Capo Carbonara marine reserve before the wind began performing laps…
Rhode Island: Wherever sailors competing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup turned today, there was something standing between them and the groove so essential for a solid finish in a competitive fleet: a wave, a shift,…
A steady 12 knots from the northeast and glorious warm sunshine made for a near perfect third day of racing at the Xacobeo Six Metre European Championship in Sanxenxo. After two days of very light airs the change of pace…
Forecasts promised good winds on the second day of the OK Dinghy International Association (OKDIA) Autumn Trophy, however light winds prevailed all day. Three races were started but only two were finished after the wind died. Nick Craig leads from…
The Russian team won the penultimate leg of the Nord Stream Race from Stockholm to Helsinki, ahead of the Finns by 15 minutes. The German crew crossed the line in front of the Finnish capital another 12 minutes behind the Finns. This means the…
François Gouin from Pornic in France is the 35th entry in the Global Solo Challenge (GSC) with his Pogo 40S Kawan3, a first generation Class40 (Finot-Conq) built in 2008 by Structures. He wanted to participate in a round-the-world circumnavigation by…
Long Beach, California: Four-time Congressional Cup winner Taylor Canfield (USA) and his Stars+Stripes team ended the opening day of the 56th Congressional Cup undefeated with seven straight wins in the qualifying round robin. Sweden’s Johnie Berntsson, also a former winner of…
Top international sailors, including America’s Cup winners and Olympian gold medallists, are descending on Villasimius for one of the pinnacles in foiling catamaran racing – the third GC32 World Championship.
Rhode Island: It was just the sort of moment that the founders of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup envisioned more than a decade years ago when they created the event: two identical boats crewed by amateur sailors blasting downwind,…
Sanxenxo, Spain: Check out the highlights from day two of the Six Metre European Championship 2021.
The second day of the Xacobeo Six Metre European Championship at the Real Club Nautico Sanxenxo in Galicia got off to a regal start with a visit from Her Royal Highness Infanta Dona Elena of Spain. The Infanta is a…
The leadership of the decisive fourth stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro was in the balance as the top group passed the northwestern tip of Brittany, on track to the finish line at Saint Nazaire on the Loire-Atlantic coast. …
Top international sailors, including America’s Cup winners and Olympian gold medallists, are descending on Villasimius for one of the pinnacles in foiling catamaran racing – the third GC32 World Championship. Taking place from Thursday until Sunday this event is organised…
Before the start of the OK Dinghy Autumn Trophy in Bandol, France, there were near perfect conditions for training, while enjoying the perfect French hospitality. Over the past two days 10-15 boats have been out training in great sailing conditions…
After a thrilling offshore leg between the Danish and the Swedish team from Copenhagen to Stockholm, the Danes took the overall lead in the offshore ranking. After the inshore race in Stockholm won by Team Russia, the Danes caused a…
The Royal Thames Yacht Club’s entry competing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, put on an almost perfect display of racing on the first day of the event. The British team, which won the event in…
Sanxenxo, Spain: Check out the highlights from day one of the Six Metre European Championship 2021. Sailors put up a good fight in the light and flukey wind conditions. But their had work was rewarded when some marine life decided…
The opening day of the Xacobea Six Metre European Championship 2021 in Sanxenxo, Spain, featured two tricky light airs races for the thirty-one competing teams from eleven nations. Racing for the Open and Classic Divisions was run in a light…
All the highlights from an incredible weekend of racing on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez as eight national teams went head to head, the big wings made their debut, and a whole lot more.
French rookie Jules Delpech (ORCOM) is the breakaway leader of the fourth stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, taking a lone, solo route more than 25 miles to the east of the main body of the fleet as they…
Emil Kjaer, representing the Royal Danish Yacht Club, won the 2021 Ficker Cup on Sunday, official event of the World Match Racing Tour, qualifying his team to this week’s 56th Congressional Cup along with second and third placed Ficker Cup skippers…
For the first time in the history of the Nord Stream Race, a collision between the Danish and Swedish boats led to their retirement, resulting in only three out of five teams able to compete in the third leg from Stockholm to Helsinki and all…
The latest yacht to join the Elan Yacht family is the highly anticipated 47 foot Elan E6, the largest addition to Elan’s performance range so far. Pininfarina, the legendary design studio from Turin, Italy, joined the project team, along with…
From childhood memories to a brand new ketch designed to handle the 21st century, the owner of Saecwen has created a true modern classic, as Nic Compton finds out. We are hunkered down in the saloon of Saecwen, the latest design…
It is two years until the start of the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) and a return to Corinthian round the world racing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread round the world race back in 1973/74. Sir Chay Blyth,…
French skipper Jérôme views the 2023 Global Solo Challenge as a magnificent opportunity to live an extraordinary, unique adventure. Organisers are delighted to welcome him as the 34th entry in the GSC, 10th among the French skippers. For the full…
11th Hour Racing Team has officially named their two 60-foot round the world offshore race boats in Concarneau, France. Drawing on the Hawaiian heritage of team CEO, Mark Towill, the brand new IMOCA 60, previously nicknamed ‘11.2’ has been named…
The furthest Graham Collins sails his boat is along the coast of Nova Scotia, so the Haligonian was stunned when he got a call from the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, asking if he was sailing through the eye of Hurricane…
Irish skipper Tom Dolan leads Stage 4 of La Solitaire du Figaro towards the Fastnet Rock and the waters where he did his first real offshore sailing as a sailing instructor out of Baltimore more than a dozen years ago….
On Friday, one single-handed sailor got very lucky: after a week-long search, a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft located him off the coast of Oahu and vectored in other assets to assist. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Hart rescued 67-year-old…
Check out the event summary from the 2021 Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week and TP52 20th Anniversary Invitational. For more information, see: https://www.52superseries.com/
The 2021 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup was an exceptional example of commitment, determination, passion and skill. Organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, and partnered by Rolex since the early 1980s, the 31st…
In Latitude 38‘s August issue, Michelle Slade caught up with Bill Erkelens to learn about the future of sustainability in ocean racing. We talk about the need to reduce our impact and get to net-zero in 2050 — what will yachting…
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