SailGP: Denmark SailGP highlights
All the highlights from racing at the inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in the ‘City of Smiles’ – Aarhus. – SailGP
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Quantum Racing shows early form at Puerto Portals
Quantum Racing, steered by Doug DeVos, is on top of the nine boat leader board after sailing a strong pair of opening races, a second and first, on the first day of competition on the Bay of Palma at the…
Light wind and fast foiling at Youth Foiling Gold Cup
On the first day of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup finals, whitecaps ravaged the surface of Lake Garda but when it was race time, there was barely a ripple. In the light wind, the Persico 69F demonstrated its incredible efficiency…
Hylas Yachts H57 to debut at major US boat shows
Hylas Yachts announced that its new Hylas H57 featuring the progressive Bill Dixon design and luxurious interior is going to make her official world debut at major US boat shows this fall. The yacht will take part in the Newport…
SailGP: Combining cutting-edge technology with extraordinary athleticism
SailGP is a global series featuring bold, cutting-edge technology and extraordinary individual skill and athleticism. National teams compete in identical, supercharged F50 catamarans, engineered for intense racing at speeds exceeding 50 knots (nearly 60 mph/100 kmh) in some of the…
Get to know Swiss Foiling Academy
Exciting things are expected to come from one of the newest teams to the GC32 Racing Tour – Swiss Foiling Academy. They have the youngest sailors on the tour and are the first ever team to race with females on…
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Three teams eliminated ahead of finals
Three teams are heading home as the rest of the fleet gear up for two intense days of racing as part of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup finals. It was quite the day on Lake Garda, with 180-degree wind shifts…
Routing: How to optimise your route based on weather predictions
One recurring question among the novice offshore sailor is how to optimise your route when sailing. The practice is known among sailors with the French name of routage or the English name of weather routing. To optimize the route you will inevitably need…
Fourteen-year-old completes circumnavigation of Great Britain
Katie McCabe has finished sailing around Great Britain in her quest to become the youngest person to have ever done so. The 14-year-old from Devon set off from Exmouth in her eight-metre long wooden yacht, Falanda, on June 30. It…
Good Little Ship book review
Julia Jones discusses Good Little Ship; Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin by Peter Willis. When I first reviewed Peter Willis’ biography of Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett on its publication in 2017, I had enjoyed it far more than I’d necessarily…
Historic polar exploration vessel left few clues in tragic sinking
The final voyage of the historic SY Aurora, even after 104 years, remains a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, as they say. The three-masted steam yacht from the heroic age of polar exploration vanished after sailing from the port of…
Transpac 2021: Navigation Trophy awarded
After careful review of the materials submitted to support his application, a review panel from the Transpacific Yacht Club have determined that Jesse Osborn wins the Mark S. Rudiger Celestial Navigation Trophy for the recently completed 2021 Transpac. Osborn was navigator aboard Justin Waite’s Stevens 47 Mikmaks. The trophy is…
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Knockout rounds start at Lake Garda
Limone Del Garda: Sailors are in the ring at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup; fighting to remain in the competition. After the qualifying round, the scores reset to zero and the pressure ratcheted up because, at the end of every…
Great sport requires great rivalries
Interest in a sport, outside of the fanatics and those who regularly take part in that discipline, requires great rivalries, and thanks to SailGP we now can regularly see the greatest names in sailing compete in some of the most…
Beyond The Barrier Rally
In August 2021 despite Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns, the Beyond The Barrier Rally once again ventured into the Coral Sea, Queensland, Australia albeit with a reduced fleet of just 12 vessels. – Down Under Rally Pty Ltd
What next for the 37th America’s Cup?
Where and when will the next America’s Cup be and who will be competing for it? Matt Sheahan considers the inside chat on when, where, who and how the 37th America’s Cup might take shape and provides some background and…
52 SUPER SERIES fleet is ready to rumble
After two days of practise races on the Bay of Palma, the sailors competing in the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week are primed for action and ready to start racing for points and prizes on Tuesday. The atmosphere…
Aussies dominate to win back-to-back SailGP events
Although light winds plagued Aarhus Bay on the final day of racing at the Rockwool Denmark Sail Grand Prix, the on water-spectacle was nothing short of dramatic and Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team emerged as victors. The Australians beat Japan…
Pieter Heerema wins Dragon Gold Cup
Two final races in glorious sun and moderate breeze completed the six-race Dragon Gold Cup 2021 in Marstrand, with Peiter Heerema (NED) coming out on top from Pedro Andrade (POR) and Australia’s David Gilmour, with the regatta ending in high…
Vim crowned 12 Metre World Champion
Helsinki: All nine of the vintage 12 Metre fleet competing at the 2021 Evli 12 Metre World Championship returned to the race course this morning after an evening of cooperation between crews to repair damages sustained during Friday’s heavy-weather sailing….
SailGP: Slingsby’s crew finishes on top in Denmark
The Australian SailGP Team has secured its position on the top of the leaderboard, following an action packed first day of racing at the Rockwool Denmark Sail Grand Prix. Slingsby was able to navigate through the minefield of shifty wind,…
Australia steers course with SheSails Leadership Conference
Australian Sailing is officially launching its inaugural National SheSails Leadership Conference, to coincide with World Sailing’s first ever women’s sailing celebration, Steering the Course. Steering the Course is an international festival that aims bring together women across all generations in a…
SailGP Denmark: Tom Slingsby prepares for epic battle with rival Ben Ainslie
The battle between two of the world’s greatest sailors, Australia’s Tom Slingbsy and Great Britain’s Sir Ben Ainslie, is expected to erupt in Aarhus, as the teams go head-to-head at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix this weekend (August 20-21)….
Airlie Beach Race Week concludes on a high note
The Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week finished on a high note, with 10-17 knot winds for the final race on a triangle course on Pioneer Bay deciding the day’s victors and the overall winners in the various divisions….
Dragon Gold Cup: Dutch team extends lead
Day five of the Dragon Gold Cup 2021 by Yanmar in Marstrand, the second day of racing, produced perfect sailing conditions that allowed races three and four of the six race series to be completed. For Russia’s Anatoly Loginov it…
SailGP training freak accident
The United States SailGP Team’s bid to climb the SailGP Season 2 overall standings faced a new challenge today, less than 24 hours before the start of racing at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, when veteran Wing Trimmer Paul…
SailGP line-up back to full strength in Aarhus
Aarhus Bay, playground to the inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, is proving itself as a drama-filled stage for this week’s return to SailGP racing action. With a capsize by the Danish team and a new speed record for the…
GC32 World Championship: Gearing up for Villasimius
In one month’s time the GC32 Racing Tour is set to return to the idyllic Sardinian seaside resort of Villasimius for the headline event of its 2021 season: the GC32 World Championship. While the first two events of the 2021…
Take a new tack with tomorrow’s sailing technology
Hardware and software refinements are making sailors safer, better informed and more confident in their decisions than ever, writes Greg Wells, UK Sales Account Manager, Raymarine. Spontaneity is a valuable asset in certain contexts: no one could deny the importance…
12 Metre World Championship: Choppy conditions prevent racing
Windy and choppy conditions kept the fleet at the 2021 Evli 12 Metre World Championship on the docks of Nyländska Jaktklubben on Wednesday and again today. Earlier this morning, the NJK Race Committee considered a course in the lee of…
A Melbourne couple’s timely sea change
A couple have packed up their life and bought a yacht in an attempt to escape to the never-ending cycle of lockdowns on land. Melbourne-based reporter Kristina Costalos and her pilot partner John Tilley started their life on the water…
Beneteau unveils new 36-foot yacht
Three years ago, Beneteau and Seascape joined forces to co-develop the new generation of First. After launching the sport-cruiser part of the range: First 14, First 24 and First 27, we are excited to unveil the first model from the…
Dock in style with Volvo Penta
Volvo Penta’s Assisted Docking System is a hybrid between manual and automated docking, allowing users to manoeuvre their boat precisely. To operate, Assisted Docking requires Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System and its GPS-based Dynamic Positioning System antenna. It also leverages…
It takes a village – designing IMOCA 60 11.2
11th Hour Racing Team presents “The Making of” a series of videos that dive below the surface of the design and build process for our new IMOCA 60 11.2. In the series we’ll explore three themes: Design, Art, and Innovation,…
Top five boating rescue scenarios
UK: In 2019 the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboats were called out to assist people on the water over 8000 times. Here’s why…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Final Day and all to play for
This is the final day at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week and the stakes are high in some divisions where the pointscores are so close that the top three will be decided by a triangle course…
Perfect conditions continue at Youth Foiling Gold Cup
Lake Garda finally fulfilled its promise as one of the best sailing venues in the world and the Persico 69F fleet ran seven races in perfect conditions at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC). The experienced teams and newcomers alike…
Ben Ainslie and Great Britain SailGP Team break speed record
Great Britain SailGP Team CEO and driver Sir Ben Ainslie returned to the wheel of the British F50 today as the team began training ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus (August 20-21). It was an eventful…
Dragon Gold Cup: Racing at last
At the Dragon Gold Cup 2021 by Yanmar in Marstrand the long wait for racing finally came to an end as day four of the regatta brought perfect sailing conditions, allowing the Race Committee to run the opening two races…
Jimmy Spithill tests cutting-edge wing ahead of SailGP Aarhus
As SailGP’s eight national teams ready themselves for the fourth event of Season 2, the waters of host city Aarhus played a key role in the continuing development of our cutting-edge F50 catamaran. The City of Smiles this week hosts…
