Rolex Giraglia 2023 – Day 3
The end of the coastal races. Tomorrow will see the start of the long race of 241 miles Light winds persist on the racecourses of Saint-Tropez for the two fleets which today were back racing on the same course, of…
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GUYOT environnement – Team Europe lead the way in fast and furious foiling conditions
A fantastic first win for the popular IMOCA team at the In-Port Race in The Hague The Hague served up some of the best racing conditions the IMOCA fleet has seen in this edition of The Ocean Race on Tuesday…
Barcelona Bound
Auckland – 13th June 2023 While Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC40’s have been maximising their time on the water pre start training and development testing on Auckland’s harbour, the shore crew have been operating at equal intensity on top of…
Moth World Championship 2023 at the WPNSA Day 1
The wind teased, tantalized, taunted and baited the sailors on day 1 of the Wetsuit Outlet and Zhik International Moth World Championship at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy, but ultimately it was not to be, and racing was…
Australia announces Olympic Test Event Team
(No Jason Waterhouse!) Australia has announced its 12-strong group of sailors set to represent the nation at this year’s Paris 2024 Test Event, which is set to take place at the Olympic venue from 9-16 July. The team will be…
All to race for – SailGP is back for Season 4
SailGP Season 4 returns to Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier for the opening event on June 16-17National pride, personal glory and US$4.6 million at stake CHICAGO – June 12, 2023 – SailGP is set to ignite the global sporting stage once…
54th World Military Sailing Championship – Day 3
Monday, June 12, 2023, the 3rd day of the 54th CISM World Military Sailing Championship continued with twelve sailing races. Team Brazil, keeping the lead on the leaderboard, won the sixteenth (R16-1), the eighteenth (R18-1), the twenty-second (R22-1) and twenty-fourth…
Second day of coastal regattas for the Rolex Giraglia 70 fleets
Light winds at Saint-Tropez for the two fleets which today were divided between two courses: the Maxis on an upwind-downwind off the beach of Pampelonne, Groups 1 and 2 along the coast for 19 miles for the former and 13…
Winners declared as all celebrate Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
One final windward/leeward race on Port Phillip in Melbourne decided the winners of Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) today and Melbourne dished up another beautiful winter’s day on the water, one to be remembered. Claire…
Experience and youth a panacea for success at Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
Sabina Rosser has plenty of knowledge to impart and a wealth of stories to share when it comes to those sailing at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) hosted premier event held since 1991….
Matador wins the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup
Day 2 of racing in Act 4 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup closed out the 2023 series on Sydney’s Pittwater today. Hosts, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, wisely opted to get racing away early at 9.30am, with…
54th World Military Sailing Championship -Day 1
Saturday, June 10, 2023, the 1st day of the 54th CISM World Military Sailing Championship started with five sailing races. The Greek crew “entering” very strongly to the Championship won the first race (R1-1) and ranked 3rd in the 3rd…
18ft Skiffs – Mark Foy Trophy 2023
18ft skiffs return to Lake Garda Four top Australian 18ft skiff teams, representing the Australian 18 Footers League, will contest the 2023 Mark Foy Trophy regatta at Lake Garda, Italy from 26th-30th June when they take on the best of…
Increasing Prizemoney and Subsidies to go Skiff Sailing in Sydney
Manly 16ft Skiff Sailing Club and St George Sailing Club are increasing prize money for the 13ft and 16ft Skiff Classes and also offering generous subsidies for new and 2nd hand boats including the junior pathway classes of Flying 11s…
Prize-giving for the Normandy Channel Race
Press release No.10 – Sunday 11th June 2023 ONE OF A KIND The prize-giving for the CIC Normandy Channel Race took place at noon today in Caen. The Italo-French crew on Alla Grande Pirelli lifted the crown, rounding off this…
Rolex Giraglia 70 – First Day
First day of inshore races for the fleet of 184 yachts of the Rolex Giraglia An early morning full of clouds covered Saint-Tropez but the sun broke out just as the impressive fleet of the Rolex Giraglia 70 began leaving…
Inoui crowned winner at Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta
WallyCento V takes the top spot in the Combined Performance & Cruising Class Porto Cervo, 10th June 2023. On the fourth and final day of the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta, the forecast breeze failed to arrive on the race course….
11th Hour Racing Team and WindWhisper Racing earn crucial wins
Leg 6 victory opens up a small margin on the race leaderboard for 11th Hour Racing Team The result was in doubt until the final moments of leg 6, with 11th Hour Racing Team along with Team Holcim-PRB and Team…
Final Day Etchells Australasians Mooloolaba
Magpie swoop second Etchells regatta in a row The third day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was sailed on Sunday 11 June and despite the best efforts of their competitors, the team onboard AUS1486 Magpie skippered by Graeme Taylor,…
One day to go as yachties stake their claim at Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
Two more races held at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and the competition has been so rife with the leaderboard changing after each race, that only one boat has retained its series lead going into tomorrow’s final race –…
Day 1 International Etchells 2023 Australasian Championship
The first day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was exceptionally challenging with breeze from west, round to sou’east, and sou-west over the course of the day. “It was lovely Moolooalaba winter weather” said Malcolm Page, tactician on RacerCC currently…
Normandy Channel Race
ALLA GRANDE PIRELLI CROWNED WINNER OF THE 14TH CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE After last night’s impassioned struggle around Le Raz Blanchard and a final sprint across the Baie de Seine, ultimately victory went to the Class40 Alla Grande Pirelli (181)…
Superyacht Regatta, Inoui and V lead their respective classes
Porto Cervo, 9th June, 2023. Today saw the third and penultimate day of racing at the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta. With wind from the south-east that built from an initial 10 knots to reach 15-16 knots, the Race Committee set…
Friday Fly By in Kiel attracts enormous crowds to cheer on IMOCA fleet
VO65 crews are racing south from Norway turning mark towards a Sunday arrival in The Hague The last time The Ocean Race was in Kiel, was on 9 June, 2002, and the German team, illbruck, was being celebrated for winning…
Normandy Channel Race
Thursday 8th June 2023 LE RAZ BLANCHARD, THE GATEKEEPER The skippers in this 2023 edition of the CIC Normandy Channel Race are currently negotiating the sprint back up the English Channel. In reality, the situation is akin to a final…
Round Iceland Challenge
As of 0530 this morning, Thursday 8th June; Charlene Howard and her co-skipper Bobby Drummond on board ‘AJ wanderlust’ are the first ever boat to have sailed in the Arctic circle during a Royal Western Yacht Club race or challenge….
Superyacht Regatta Day Two – Sardinia puts on its best show
Porto Cervo, 8th June 2023. The second day of the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta served up conditions that were even better than the excellent sailing weather the fleet enjoyed yesterday. The Southern Wind Division started at 11.30 a.m., with a…
Ocean Race – 10 boats race out of Aarhus towards The Hague
IMOCAs head towards Friday afternoon Kiel fly-by, while VO65s push towards The Hague with Sunday ETA for both fleets… The Ocean Race returned to full strength in Aarhus, Denmark as the VO65 fleet rejoined the race for the European legs….
International Etchells Championship commences tomorrow from Mooloolaba
International Etchells 2023 Australasian Championship will be raced from the Mooloolaba Yacht Club (MYC) with eight races scheduled from 9-11 June 2023. World Champions and well-known sailors including Australia II skipper John Bertrand AO, who is also the current National…
WASZP – The Swarm Podcast – Team Tilly
THE SWARM IS BACKTeam Tilly – Australian Father/Son Combination Jervis & Louis LISTEN NOW The dynamic father and son combination taking Australian WASZP Sailing by storm. Jervis is the current President of the Australian WASZP Association and very proud Super-Master….
The Real Watergate – The Greatest Cover Up in History
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, world champion sailors and founders of Live Ocean are joined by global ocean advocates as they step forward to speak about what they’re calling ‘the greatest cover up in history’ for World Ocean Day, 8…
Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta – Day one brings a perfect start
Porto Cervo, 7th June 2023. The Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta got off to a perfect start today, the event is organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Giorgio Armani, and is now in its…
Channel Race – Pack slinks eastward en masse
With the Fastnet ticked off for most of the fleet, the Class40s are now making for the south-west tip of England. Squashed together, the duos competing in this CIC Normandy Channel Race are close-hauled so conditions aboard are much less…
Ocean Race – Aarhus Leg start preview
At 800 nautical miles, Leg 6 may be the shortest of the race but it is also one of the most complex. From the start in Aarhus the fleet will head south for a fly-by in Kiel before turning north…
Women in the Rolex Fastnet Race
Prior to the last few editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race we have featured some of the key women competing in that year’s event, demonstrating how female participation in offshore yacht racing is very much alive at every level, albeit…
Intense Big Air Twin-Tip world title battles in Tarifa
6 June 2023Tarifa, SpainWords: Ian MacKinnonPictures: Samuel Cárdenas With massive Levante winds forecast for Tuesday, the organisers hope to complete the men’s and women’s Twin-Tip competition and the men’s Surfboard contest to crown the world champions in each division. On…
Apex Group and SailGP partner to accelerate gender equity and sustainability in sport
LONDON – June 6, 2023 – Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex Group” or “The Group”), a global financial services provider, today announces a new three-year sponsorship deal with SailGP, the leading sustainable and purpose-driven global sports league. Apex Group becomes the…
M32 – Convexity Wins Newport Season Opener
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND (June 6, 2023) — The curtain on the Midtown Cup is officially open. Don Wilson and his Convexity team have been crowned champions of the first event in the American summer series. In hauntingly similar fashion to…
Champagne sailing along the Emerald Isle
Tuesday 6th June 2023 The bulk of the fleet in this 14th CIC Normandy Channel Race has now rounded the Tuskar Rock course mark. Alla Grande Pirelli (181) had the edge at the south-east tip of Ireland after being the…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing switches to match racing mode with two AC40s
Barcelona, 6 June 2023 – The Swiss challenger for the America’s Cup kicked-off its match racing training in Barcelona today on the 37th America’s Cup race course just a few days after christening its second AC40 one design. The team…
