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NEWPORT, R.I. — On a day when Rhode Island Sound served up some very shifty conditions, helmsman Cristian Frers and the Yacht Club Argentino crew posted a dominant scoreline of 2-1-2 to take the early lead at the eighth Rolex…
Jan Kurfeld, from Germany, leads the 112 boat OK Dinghy fleet at the 2023 European Championship on Lake Garda, hosted by Circolo Vela Arco. Three more races, with six group races, were sailed on Tuesday in a range of generally…
12 September 2023 – Torquay, UK – Day three of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2023 brought yet more ultra-shifty and variable breeze, this time from the northwest quadrant, which built from around six knots at the start of racing…
Team Australia Challenge is the official entry for the Youth and Women’s regattas in the 37th America’s Cup, Barcelona 2024. Since announcing the national entry in April 2023 and opening applications from sailing athletes around Australia we have had an…
Team Australia Challenge was able to gain a highly valuable entry in the inaugural Women’s Foiling Gold Cup in Lake Garda on the 69F mono hull at the end of August, enabling 5 female athletes who were currently in European…
NEWPORT, R.I. — Of the many illustrious clubs from around the world that have competed in the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the premiere fleet regatta for Corinthian crews, two have most consistently demonstrated the slick boatspeed and…
The 2023 OK Dinghy European Championship at Circolo Vela Arco began Monday with four races in 10-15 knots of hot southerly breeze that gave everyone a challenge. The race wins went to Jens Eckardt of Denmark and Britain’s Matt Howard…
11 September 2023 – Torquay, UK – The second day of racing at the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2023 in Torquay brought an intensely fought second race and more than a few dramatic incidents. Just as the race was about…
Pulled out the parental priority base tour invite here in St Tropez as the Australia SailGP Team were preparing for Round 3 of Season 4. Space is a bit tight here so teams are sharing tents and the Aussies are…
Set sail for an extraordinary adventure in the world of sailing! The 2024 Tasar World Championship is just around the corner, and it promises to be a sailing spectacle like no other. But the clock is ticking! If you’re planning…
So, what do we know now? The pre-event practice racing that has been held in Barcelona ahead of the first Preliminary Regatta in Vilanova i La Geltrú from the 14-17 September 2023, has given us an early look into the…
50 years of sailing history on display on the SolentTHE OGR is ON! 10th September 2023 History was made anew today as the cannons of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, signaled the start of the inaugural McIntyre Ocean Globe mirroring…
10 September 2023 – Torquay, UK – No matter how difficult the conditions, the cream always rises to the top in sailing, and today was an excellent example of that adage. Despite extremely shifty conditions and tense competition at the…
After a long wait, the 2023 OK Dinghy European Championship has opened at Circolo Vela Arco (CVA) on Sunday evening with a star-studded line up. 115 sailors from 15 nations will race a 10-race series over the next four days….
Report from Final day – Hvide Sande, Denmark French athletes dominated the podiums at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Hvide Sande. On the final day of the competition the wind did not fill in. So we crowned the winners at…
SAINT TROPEZ- 10 SEPTEMBER, 2023- Tom Slingsby and his Australian crew have finally broken their ‘Saint Tropez curse’, securing second place at the France Sail Grand Prix I Saint Tropez. Following the catastrophic structural failure of the New Zealand Team’s…
SAINT-TROPEZ – September 10, 2023 – Sir Ben Ainslie and his Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team ended a two and half year event win drought with a masterful performance at the France Sail Grand Prix final. In front of a…
9 September 2023 – Torquay, UK – Forty-nine teams from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the UK, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey are gathered in Torquay for the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2023 which…
WOMEN’S ELIMINATIONS 8-14 The athletes had a second early start on day five of the competition to take advantage of the 8-15 knots of cross offshore breezes blowing over Hvide Sande’s beautiful dunes just after dawn. Nia Suardiaz clinched her…
There was insufficient wind to sail the final scheduled races at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Sardinia. Although the maxi fleets went afloat and the J Class started a short coastal race it…
Issued by the International Maxi Association on 09/09/2023 Final races of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, run by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, started but couldn’t finish due to a lack of wind….
No athletes injured in incident after New Zealand had finished day one second in standings behind ROCKWOOL Denmark at France Sail Grand Prix SAINT-TROPEZ – September 9, 2023 – The New Zealand SailGP Team faces a race against time to…
Report from day Four – Hvide Sande, Denmark WOMEN’S ELIMINATIONS 1-7 Following two days of light and unstable breezes, the athletes again had an early start to make the most wind and have a chance of getting a FreeFly-Slalom result…
The first Preliminary Regatta on the road to the 37th America’s Cup begins in the beautiful Catalan port of Vilanova i La Geltrú from the 14-17th September 2023 and promises to be one of the most hotly contested regattas anywhere…
SAINT TROPEZ- 08 SEPTEMBER, 2023 – As the France Sail Grand Prix approaches, shots have been fired between the two sailing powerhouses, Australia and New Zealand. At this morning’s pre-event press conference, Australian driver Tom Slingsby admitted last season’s dramatic…
SAINT TROPEZ – September 8, 2023 – With just three points between the top five teams in the Season 4 standings, and a new first-time winner in Spain at the last event, the SailGP field has never felt more open…
Issued by the International Maxi Association on 08/09/2023 The Costa Smeralda on Sardinia’s northeastern tip is laying on the full array of conditions for this week’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with…
Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, has won the 2023 Finn European Masters at Campione del Garda, Italy, after a nervous last day with a long wait for wind and then two more challenging races in light and shifty winds. Britain’s…
Final preparations are in full swing for the 7th October start of the Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race, the longest and potentially toughest race on the Australian/New Zealand offshore racing calendar this year. A diverse fleet of yachts ranging from…
Written by Dea Jusufi – BOAT International The remains of a yacht destroyed by a fire have now largely sunk at the historic Woolwich Dock in Sydney Harbour. Believed to be the 28.4-metre Andiamo built by Azzura, the incident happened…
Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, will go into the final day of the 2023 Finn European Masters, at Campione del Garda, with a nine-point lead over Britain’s John Greenwood, while Olof Lundqvist, from Sweden, moves up to third. Race wins…
The SSL GOLD CUP, the 1st “FOOTBALL WORLD CUP” in sailing will be held at the stunning Island of Gran Canaria between 10th November and 3rd December 2023 in collaboration with the Real Federación Canaria de Vela. BY SAILORS FOR…
Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, is the new leader at the 2023 Finn European Masters at Campione del Garda after two more extremely difficult but fun races on Wednesday. Britain’s John Greenwood moves up to second after winning the second…
Issued by the International Maxi Association on 06/09/2023 For day three of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, the wind on the Costa Smeralda was still from…
What a way to finish 2023 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), the stronger breeze everyone has longed for kicked in and because of it, competitors got to do the much anticipated Around the Island Race, bringing an end to…
The 2023 Finn European Masters in Campione del Garda opened Tuesday with two races on Lake Garda in a patchy and shifty southerly that provided tough challenges through the 92-boat fleet from 25 nations. Udo Murek, from Germany leads the…
Issued by the International Maxi Association on 05/09/2023 After a near perfect opening to the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, day two was more challenging. Conditions had dropped to a 20 knot northerly come start time, but there had been big…
For the second day of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Porto Cervo and the Costa Smeralda delivered the kind of picture postcard exciting, racing conditions which the hallowed waters of this north-east corner of Sardinia has built a global reputation…
Report from day One – Hvide Sande, Denmark WOMEN’S ROUNDS 3-5, SEMI-FINALS & FINAL: Day one of the competition saw the Surf-Freestyle discipline played out in tricky conditions (10-14 knots) on Hvide Sande’s white beaches that served up some kickers…
Since the launch of its orca project in June 2022, the Cruising Association has received around 150 reports from skippers who have experienced an orca interaction. The CA has now created a library of comments extracted from the full interaction…
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