52 Super Series Day two highlights
Check out the action on and off the water on day two of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week.
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Fastnet Race: Cherbourg finish line a success
With its new course and giant fleet, the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race this year provided an even greater test of racing and seamanship skill for its competitors. At 695 miles, the new course to Cherbourg was 90…
Jimmy Spithill on SailGP
Sailing legend Jimmy Spithill explains how his United States SailGP Team overcame treacherous conditions to salvage fourth place at Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus. This photo, taken at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus this week, is…
Interview with IMOCA 60 yacht designer
World-renowned yacht designer Juan Kouyoumdjian explains just how much work and detail goes into the design of the IMOCA 60, where The Ocean Race Europe IMOCA class was lost and won and where the future lies for foiling offshore boats….
SailGP: Team Spain
Meet the organisers behind the upcoming Spanish SailGP event.
SAILING Champions League returns to St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Yacht Club invites crews to take part in the Russian qualification CUP of the SAILING Champions League, and ultimately fight for the right to represent their home country in the 2022 Champions League’s Series final qualifier. SAILING Champions League is a competition between the strongest yacht…
Rolex Giraglia: Mediterranean racing camaraderie
The Rolex Giraglia is one of the most cherished events in the sailing calendar, presenting a rigorous test of skill on stunning Mediterranean waters. Competition is always intense but imbued with an overriding sense of camaraderie. The regatta’s principal contest,…
52 Super Series: Sled moves up to second place
Tacticians and strategists had a more challenging day than might be expected on the Bay of Palma, with the wind blowing offshore on the second day of racing at the 52 SUPER SERIES Puerto Portals Sailing Week and 20th Anniversary Invitational….
La Solitaire du Figaro: Xavier Macaire maintains lead
With less than 100 miles to the finish line of the 627-mile race course that makes up Stage One of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, Xavier Macaire’s (Groupe SNEF) lead has narrowed to just 1.8 miles. However the 40-year-old…
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Perfect conditions and great racing
On the second day of the finals at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup, the race committee ran six races in quick succession in the windiest conditions experienced so far. Lake Garda’s famous Ora wind kicked into gear, and the 69F…
Global Solo Challenge reaches 30 entrants
Amaury de Jamblinne from Grez-Doiceau in Belgium dreams of participating in a Vendée Globe, but he is aware it is an event that is out of reach for most, unless you are a top professional sailor. The Global Solo Challenge…
Female Sabot sailors continue to excel
The Sabot Sailing Association continues to develop the sailing skills of future sailing champions and provides opportunities to young female sailors to excel. Seventy-four Sabot sailors registered to compete in the recent SeaLink 57th Sabot National Titles and…
Oceanis 34.1: Where design meets delight
Sleeker, lighter, more sail area and more space in the bow for the owner’s cabin (than its predecessor); the latest collaboration between Marc Lombard for naval architecture and NAUTA Design for the deck plan and layouts of the new Oceanis…
‘An inspiration’ – 82-year-old circumnavigates Great Britain
An Alloa man has completed an epic solo sailing adventure round the UK, raising thousands for charity and inspiring many along the way. At the age of 82, the Scotland’s Murdoch McGregor set off on the challenge earlier in June…
Palermo-Montecarlo line honours for Acra SGR
Under a full moon just before the clock struck midnight last night, the 100ft grand prix maxi Arca SGR ghosted through the finish to claim line honours in the Palermo-Montecarlo race, the fifth and concluding event of the International Maxi…
SailGP: Denmark SailGP highlights
All the highlights from racing at the inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in the ‘City of Smiles’ – Aarhus. – SailGP
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…
