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by Miranda Blazeby, Digital Editor Mubadala SailGP Season 3 Grand Final Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team has blasted onto the San Francisco racecourse with aggressive intention, rattling Quentin Delapierre’s France in a brutal fight for the third spot in the…
Light, variable winds played a most significant role on the penultimate day of racing on the Bay of Palma. Out of the fourteen classes due to race eight were able to add to their scorelines. There are no outstanding class…
A gap between the forecast and the reality brings challenges to the IMOCA fleet While the IMOCA fleet is making progress towards the finishing line at Newport, Rhode Island on Saturday, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. 11th Hour Racing…
By Sail Port Stephens Media TeamThree divisions of yachts enjoy a passage race around the islands at Sail Port Stephens. Saturday sunshine and up to 22 degrees made for a perfect morning at Sail Port Stephens as crews prepared for…
Antigua, Friday 5 May: The final day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week was held in the strongest wind of the regatta, with solid south easterly trade winds gusting up to 18 knots. Provisional Overall Results can be viewed HERE….
By Sail Port Stephens Media TeamThe sun is out, bring on the wind… NSW Yachting Championships and Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup into action at Sail Port Stephens. The sun gods were being kind but not so much the wind…
After a day on which the Gulf of Saint-Tropez offered up a strengthening sea breeze and beautiful spring sunshine, Ergin Imre’s Turkish flagged Provezza team lead the 52 SUPER SERIES Saint Tropez Sailing Week by one single point ahead of…
Cloudy with a chance of breeze?Welcome, Hobie Sailors, to what was another glorious weekend in the Sunshine State for the Queensland Hobie Cat State Championships. With newcomers and regulars to the Hobie Class alike plentiful on the waters of Quandamooka…
Antigua, Thursday 4 May: Thursday 04 May: With women accounting for a quarter of sailors at Antigua Sailing Week, Locman Italy Women’s Race Day was a success even before the first gun on the race track. From America’s Cup sailors,…
SailGP has returned to the iconic waters of San Francisco Bay ahead of this weekend’s championship-deciding Mubadala SailGP Season 3 grand final! Preparations for the eleventh and final event of Season 3 are well underway, with SailGP’s nine-strong F50 fleet…
Host Cities are invited to express interest in hosting the event scheduled to take place across Europe during the summer of 2025. As the current edition of The Ocean Race heads back into the northern hemisphere, race organisers are already…
The two divisions of Maxis began their competition on Thursday with “Galateia” and “Stormvogel” becoming the first leaders of the event. On Friday, the second day of racing, twelve out of the fourteen categories will be competing on the Bay…
Annapolis, USA (4 May 2023) – Sweden’s Team WINGS won the all-women Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Santa Maria Cup today in Annapolis, the second stage of the 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour. Skippered by Anna Östling with…
After modest opening days on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, two of the 52 SUPER SERIES top teams showed a marked return to form as the southerly breezes picked up on the second day of the 52 SUPER SERIES Saint-Tropez Sailing…
Will Harris and his Malizians have edged in front of 11th Hour Racing Team as teams push towards speed records The German-flagged Team Malizia has moved into the lead on leg 4 of The Ocean Race as skipper Will Harris…
THE GWA WINGFOIL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS GET UNDERWAY IN BREST, FRANCEBrest, France Read the full article here Brest, France is set to host the much-anticipated GWA Wingfoil European Championships, which is expected to attract top wingfoil athletes from all over Europe….
Rocna Anchors Launches New Rocna Mk II Anchor All Marine Spares 10A Wilmette Place Mona Vale NSW 2103 Australia (3 May 2023) – The Rocna Anchors range of popular boat anchors has been expanded with the development of a new…
Sail Port Stephens shifts to overdrive for windward-leewards By Sail Port Stephens Media Team With the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series now successfully run and won, the regatta gets its game face on from tomorrow as 23 yachts contest the…
Annapolis, USA (3 May 2023) – Brisk conditions greeted competitors on Day 3 of the Santa Maria Cup in Annapolis as teams fought for a final-four place in the semi-finals. In a repeat of last week’s opening stage of the…
Tropical squalls keep teams on their toes as they leave the doldrums behind and push into the tradewinds On the race course on Wednesday, the top three teams are clustered together within 50 miles on the leaderboard, with 11th Hour…
Diverse PalmaVela fleet to kick off 2023 IMA Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge Nine maxis will open the racing tomorrow at the Real Club Náutico de Palma’s Mediterranean season opener, PalmaVela. This is appropriate given PalmaVela originated solely for maxis: Palma…
Double bullet day is perfect start for Fragomens’ Interlodge team in Saint Tropez Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s US flagged Interlodge which has Cameron Appleton as tactician and 2020 Olympian Stephanie Roble debuting as strategist made their best possible start to…
Annapolis, USA (2 May 2023) – Sweden’s Anna Östling and her WINGS Team ended the second day of the 2023 Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Santa Maria Cup leading the first Round Robin stage with equal points to USA’s…
Antigua, Tuesday 2 May: Solid trade winds over 15 knots blessed the third day of Antigua Sailing Week. With racing now past the halfway stage, the action was as hot as the air temperature, with teams pulling out all the…
11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia are joined by Biotherm on the push north as the race closes up On Monday evening (UTC) Team Malizia led 11th Hour Racing Team across the equator, as The Ocean Race returned to…
“The GLOBE40 is reminiscent of the Mini spirit – albeit on Class40s – and the Tour du Finistère course – albeit on a planetary scale! In reality though, it’s a race like no other, whilst being technical and demanding in…
Check out the highlights video from the Axxess Marine Y2K Race Day at Antigua Sailing Week. The second day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week was blessed with fabulous sailing conditions. The trade winds were in, gusting up to 17…
Annapolis, USA (1 May 2023) – A fresh breeze greeted the opening race day of the 22nd Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Santa Maria Cup today, the second stage of the 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour from 30…
It has been a while coming with a two year postponement due to a Global Pandemic, but finally the Notice of Race for the 2024 Fireball Worlds has been released. The 2024 Fireball Worlds will be sailed on the waters…
Argentinian ace Guillermo Parada was undoubtedly the architect behind the successes of Azzurra when the Roemmers family’s team – which raced under the colours of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda – won the 52 SUPER SERIES title four times. He…
Brazil is in the rear view mirror for the four IMOCA teams racing to Newport, with a benign doldrims ahead… The USA lies to the north and Brazil is now in the wake of the four teams racing towards Newport,…
RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY (April 30, 2023) — Andrea LaCorte and his Vitamina Cetilar team (ITA) were crowned champions of the M32 European Series opener. They kept the pedal down all weekend long and posted a perfect scorecard here in…
Antigua, Sunday 30 April: Day 1 of racing completed! We were blessed with beautiful sailing conditions today. Check out what Richard Moxey from El Ocaso has to say about today’s close racing, and Tahvorn George’s experience of Chase the Race…
Father & son, champions together For the past 45 years in Australia, the name Barnabas has been at, or near, the top of 18ft skiff championship point scores and has produced a total of eleven World, six Australian and five…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Sunday, 30th of April, 2023 Retired Navy commander, 43 year old Abhilash Tomy, the renowned sailor and first Indian to complete a solo non stop voyage around the world in 2013, made history on Saturday by…
Moderate trade winds have the teams speeding north Moderate easterly tradewinds have provided a speedy 24 hours of racing for the four IMOCAs charging north towards the doldrums. 24 hour distance runs have nearly doubled (although are still far off…
By Sail Port Stephens Media Team Visitors take the spoils at Sail Port Stephens The Sail Port Stephens Passage Series came to an early conclusion on Saturday with the fleet poised to start Race 5 until racing was abandoned due…
San Francisco, USA (28 April 2023) – Celia Willison and the Edge Women’s Match Team from New Zealand secured a hard-fought victory today at the inaugural all-women Casa Vela Cup hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco,…
The fleet is slow and the only relief will come from stronger tradewinds ahead of the doldrums early next week The four boats racing north are in a challenging position. The wind is very light and unstable. The result? 24…
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Ed Wright) has won the 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole after two more races were held on Saturday in light winds. Artemis (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther)…
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