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The 2017 Festival of Sails is getting a remodel with the addition of a new Grand Prix Series to open the timetable and a mass Saturday finish of racing preceding a huge closing party for thousands of sailors and their…
Max Wallenberg, from Switzerland, kept the lead after the second day of the Optimist World Championship 2016, in Vilamoura, Portugal. Malaysian Muhammad Fauzi Kaman Shah is 2nd and Singapore’s Daniel Hung is 3rd provisional overall. The second day of Optiworlds…
Already approaching Start Point this morning after a brisk, upwind first night of Stage 2 of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo skippers are having to work hard because the gusty southwesterly breeze is so irregular, oscillating back and…
The first event of the 2016 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) is beginning tomorrow on the Finnish waters of Helsinki. A dozen teams will fight in the Helsinki Women’s Match, for their share of the valuable WIM Series…
Speak to any athlete and ask them about a moment that defines their career. Whether it happened five days, five months, five years or even fifty years ago the chances are the memory of that moment is clearly engraved in…
Fremantle Sailing Club’s Arlene race opened the 2016 Valmadre Series on a wet and blustery winter’s day. Heavy rain fell soon after the start, obliterating the shoreline and presenting a challenge to leaders to find the first mark when visibility…
A milestone was achieved last week – McConaghy Boats shipped out the first 20 WASZP foilers to customers in Italy, Spain, UK, Bermuda, New Zealand and the USA. The joint McConaghy-KASail project was conceived five years ago by Andrew McDougall, designer of…
Day two of racing started in similar conditions to yesterday. But as the racing was underway the breeze built to a steady 12 knots and swung to the right. It appeared to be the perfect conditions for the New Zealanders…
Race 8 of the Land Rover Winter Series was one for those whose boat and crews thrive in light fluky airs and so those boats prospered in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia hosted series today. Sailed on Sydney Harbour…
Just three days after reaching Cowes on the Isle of Wight after one of the toughest opening legs in the long history of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the fleet set sail this afternoon on what promises to be another…
Oman Air were today crowned kings of Act 3 of the Extreme Sailing Series following a tense finale that saw them only just manage to hold off a late charge from rivals Red Bull Sailing Team. Morgan Larson’s men went…
Day two of the Mark Foy World Championship started off as a happy one for the Triple M and Alcatel teams as their container arrived after being delayed at sea. With little over an hour till the start to unpack…
Having barely had time to recover from one of the hardest opening stages in the long history of La Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the 39 skippers in this four-stage solo grand prix are now readying to leave on stage two….
Extreme Sailing Series maestro Morgan Larson will take his Oman Air team into the finale of Act 3, Cardiff in pole position following a masterclass of big breeze sailing. Larson’s expert crew have impressed throughout the thrilling regatta, rarely finishing…
Perfect conditions welcomed the fleet to Fiji for the Mark Foy Championship and round three of the Triple Crown Trophy. After settling in to Fiji time, racing got underway at 1:30pm in a 12knot sea breeze and two windward/leeward races….
A Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crew member has been successfully medevaced off a yacht in the North Atlantic Ocean with the help of ClipperTelemed+, the race’s Emergency Medical Support Partner, and the Canadian Defense Department, which carried out…
ARC Europe 2016 ended with a packed final prizegiving dinner at Marina de Lagos on Sunday 19 June where close to a hundred crew from twenty-three yachts enjoyed a celebratory end to what has been a memorable rally. Being a…
Nearly six days since the off, American businessman George David’s world-famous maxi yacht Rambler 88 has been officially declared the outright winner of the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland Yacht Race. In what has been one of the toughest ever editions…
The greatest stage in international sport, the Olympic Games, is a pressure cooker. While many wilt under the weight of expectation on their Olympic debut, two brothers from Brazil would shine. With the city of Angels their backdrop, The Grael…
The top French sailors in the Figaro class dominated the first leg of this year’s Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, with Erwan Tabarly, nephew of the great Eric Tabarly, winning the stage on board Amor Lux. This was an incredibly tough…
The young guns of Land Rover BAR Academy got their first taste of how intense the Extreme Sailing Series can be as Act 3 got off to a sensational start in Cardiff. With the 2016 season resuming in the Welsh…
Stage 1 of the 2016 Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro from Deauville to Cowes looks set to be one of the longest and most taxing of recent memory according to Yoann Richomme who is pacing Erwan Tabarly the stage leader. (See…
Run a Google search of parallel and it gives you the noun, a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another. This description could not be more accurate for two Chilean sailing teams who draw distinct similarities in their…
Eighty of the world’s top 470 junior talent faced off on day 1 of the 2016 470 Junior World Championship in Kiel, Germany today, Wednesday 22 June. Featuring the best 470 teams aged 23 and under, the starting line-up counts…
LA Times. By Hannah Fry. Three sailors delivering a 45-foot racing yacht from Hawaii to its new owner in Newport Beach had to be rescued 150 miles offshore when the boat began to sink. A 41-year-old man, a 56-year-old man…
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For one tantalising hour this afternoon Britain’s Figaro solo skippers held five places among the top 12 in what is proving to be a painfully slow first stage of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro. As the fleet negotiated Lizard Point…
Hamilton, Bermuda: June 21, 2016 — High Noon has captured ‘traditional’ line honours in the combined St David’s & Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Divisions in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. This is an amazing accomplishment for the Young American Junior Big…
ALICANTE, Spain, June 21, 2016 – The Volvo Ocean Race has made key changes to its Leadership Team, including the appointment of race management expert Phil Lawrence as new Race Director. The re-shuffle, which follows Mark Turner’s appointment as CEO…
The Atlantic Homecoming Leg is underway and after the first twelve hours, just five nautical miles currently separate the first eleven teams in the Clipper 2015-16 Race’s final ocean crossing. Following last night’s Le Mans start, the fleet is very…
Competitors are gearing up and looking forward to racing in the warm climes at Airlie Beach Race Week where the shore side entertainment is guaranteed to be as action packed as the racing. Boosted numbers across the board will make…
Australian Sailing and the Australian Paralympic Committee have been advised of an incident involving two members of the Australian Paralympic Sailing Team in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning (Sunday night AEST). Athlete, Liesl Tesch and team official, Sarah Ross,…
Aussie sailor Patrick Conway, sailing on Mini number 523 Matador, is currently competing in the Mini Fastnet race, from Douarnenez, France, with Italian co-skipper Alessandro Torresani. Pat and Ale are off the coast of England at the moment, coming up…
After a tough, physically and mentally demanding first 24 hours of Stage 1 of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo skippers racing to Wolf Rock – to the southwest of Land’s End – will have given themselves a short…
Yet another record has been set in the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland by US Maxi yacht Rambler 88. It took US businessman George David and his 19-strong crew just 50 hours 24 minutes and 09 seconds to complete the 704…
Entries in the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race have topped 50 and officials from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) remind prospective competitors that entries close in 17 days’ time on Friday 8 July. This year’s fleet…
Newport RI: June 20, 2016— The 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, has not been a dash. Following Comanche’s record-breaking run to Bermuda, chopping almost five hours off the 2012 numbers, the fleet stalled against…
Emirates Team New Zealand celebrated a long awaited milestone today at their Beaumont Street base in Auckland by launching their first custom-designed development boat. The 45 foot catamaran has been in the process of being built for the past six…
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race teams have departed New York on the final leg of the circumnavigation, the ‘Atlantic Homecoming’. Following a Departure Ceremony and Parade of Sail in front of the New York skyline and Statue of Liberty,…
Deauville on the French channel coast dealt the 39 solo skippers who set off on the 510-nautical mile first stage of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro a slow, sticky and exacting start this afternoon. Light and streaky breezes made the…
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