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Conditions could not have been better for day three of the 44Cup Scarlino World Championship, the fleet coming out two hours ahead of the original schedule to make the best of the breeze, which was already knocking on the door…
A most rewarding second week of Les Voiles de Saint Tropez for the maxi yachts, which concluded today with an easterly eventually filling in to provide 45 of the world’s largest sailing yachts with a last opportunity to put points…
Porto Cervo: In a long and intense second day at the Sailing Champions League, 21 races were held and eight flights are now completed, with the Swiss team from Seglervereinigung Kreuzlingen taking control of the provisional leaderboard and Finand’s Esbo…
By the time Britain’s Connor Bainbridge dons his competition shirt on the final day of racing at the KiteFoil World Series Cagliari, he will have had the dubious honour of having worn all three of the leaders’ coloured jerseys, such…
Day five finally gave the sailors what they had been waiting for at the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, as strong winds and a big swell ensured the three scheduled races were completed for the Men’s Laser…
Topaz upheld the J Class record for Class winning success at Les Voiles de Saint Tropez when she topped out a good week with a third win in a row Saturday local time, to take overall victory in the seven-strong…
Spain: The Cadiz Sail Grand Prix marks a major milestone for the Australian Team and the league, with Nina Curtis set to race on board the flying ‘Roo for the first time during racing this weekend. The sixth event of…
France’s Axel Mazella and Russia’s Denis Taradin engaged in an absorbing battle full of drama on day two of the KiteFoil World Series Cagliari, being held on the Italian resort island of Sardinia. With one victory each at the tour’s…
Though the top three prototypes finished within one hour and 10 minutes of one another at the end of the 1,350 nautical mile first leg in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef, between Les Sables d’Olonne and Santa Cruz de La…
Porto Cervo: On the first day of racing in the Sailing Champions League Final, the YCCS organised racing within Porto Cervo Marina, and at the conclusion of 11 races, with almost three flights completed, the Finnish team on Esbo Segelförening…
Spain: With the stage set for the first ever Spain Sail Grand Prix, the port city of Cádiz is buzzing with excitement as the home team sets its sights on finishing on top of the podium. Upping the ante for…
It is a well-documented phenomenon that there can be breeze in the Rhone corridor to the west, as well as in the Gulf of Genoa to the east, yet nothing between the two and that was how the episode played…
After 30 knot winds prevented any racing on day one of the 44Cup World Championship in Scarlino, Italy, the race committee pulled out all the stops to ensure racing took place today, by bringing the start time forwards by two…
In the gusty and shifty Mistral breezes that hit 33 knots off Cagliari’s Poetto beach on the Italian resort island of Sardinia, the leading men and women racing in one fleet traded bullets and the overall leads.
Go on board 11th Hour Racing Team’s IMOCA 60 racing yacht for their longest offshore yet since the new boat was launched in August 2021. Charlie Enright and Pascal Bidégorry embark on their 750-nautical mile qualifying passage for the 2021…
Knowing how to apply vinyl stickers to the hull of a boat is one of those things you are used to if you race often or have sponsors or technical partners. When we talk about vinyls with separate letters, we…
A white out and another six-hour day on the Black Sea meant race officials were only able to squeeze in one race each for the Laser and Radial classes at the ILCA European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria overnight. Both fleets…
This Thursday at 15:05 UTC, Melwin Fink crossed the finish line of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef, completing the 1,350-mile course from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma in first place among the…
SailGP’s road to creating a more inclusive championship reaches another milestone this weekend at the Spain Sail Grand Prix taking place in Cádiz-Andalusia. The sixth event of the season will now include six athletes on board all F50s for racing…
While the forecast indicated that it might be sailable, the opening day of this 11th RC44 World Championship was blown out with the northerly winds off Scarlino, Italy regularly reaching the high 20s and gusting into the high 30s. After a…
After Wednesday was blown out due to excess wind, day three of racing for the maxis in week two of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez nearly didn’t occur as come start time the wind remained elusive. Fortunately at around 1330, the…
Southport Yacht Club is pleased to announce that South-East Queensland’s largest Sailing Regatta, Qoin Sail Paradise, is partnering with Major Events Gold Coast. Since its inception at Southport Yacht Club 13 years ago, Sail Paradise has become south-east Queensland’s premier…
Adverse wind and sea conditions meant racing could not take place on the first day of the Sailing Champions League Final. The event, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, is scheduled to run through Sunday 10…
Australia’s dual Olympic sailing Gold medallist, Mat Belcher, has decided to make his ocean racing debut in next month’s South-East Queensland Ocean Racing Qualifier, a 220-nautical-mile passage race from Brisbane’s Moreton Bay to Main Beach on the Gold Coast. He…
Cruising Helmsman September 2016 edition: It is difficult to get much further west than Canarvon, Western Australia, so Condy Clark finds it is a good place to hang loose. I have been up the Fascine Channel to Carnarvon a few…
Alan Punch, an RYA Navigation Instructor with Navathome Australia, explores the most effective methods for approaches to route planning with modern navigation tools. The GPS has integrated into modern navigation practices, as well as route planning. Whether you have a…
The Swan world presented through the Swan Line, with the new Swan 55, the new Maxis – Swan 88, Swan 108 and the launch of Swan 120, and Swan Shadow, the first Swan motor boat.
It was another long and wavy day on the Black Sea as the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships in Bulgaria hit the halfway point. Luke Elliott is feeling good being back in competition and knows the significance this has for…
Yacht designer Laurie Davidson, a key figure in Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup breakthrough, has died. Davidson passed away in Auckland, aged 94. He designed NZL32, better known as Black Magic, which Team New Zealand sailed to win the Auld…
Ahead of the sixth event in the global racing league’s second season in Cádiz – Andalusia, the Great Britain SailGP Team has become the first of the existing eight SailGP teams to evolve to a third party owned franchise with…
The fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef is making headway with a very fluky NE’ly breeze both in terms of strength and direction. As a result, the 84 competitors still out on the racetrack must not only optimise…
Nine teams are in Scarlino, Italy this week to contest the annual RC44 World Championship. This is fourth event of the 2021 44Cup, following Portorož, Slovenia; Marstrand, Sweden and Cowes, UK, before the circuit concludes with the 44Cup Calero Marinas…
Led by the irrepressible Charlie Egerton-Warburton, the Brewin Dolphin International Grand Prix 2022 is expected to attract the biggest ever fleet of RS Elites, to assemble in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron,…
The criteria range from driving sustainable solutions using technology and innovation to removing single-use plastics, to diversity and inclusion and using the team’s voice for good. The New Zealand SailGP Team has led the Impact League since its inception in…
The Sailing Champions League Final regatta, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, will get underway tomorrow with 30 teams from all over Europe competing aboard the club’s J/70 fleet in the waters off Porto Cervo. The regatta,…
Powerful winds on Wednesday, with 42 knots (gusts up to 50 knots) recorded in the bay, meant that the 45 Maxi Yachts competing in the second week of Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta remained tucked away in the harbour….
Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. is proud to announce that the 2022 publication of Brown’s Nautical Almanac will be the 145th Edition. The Almanac will be available in the UK and abroad from October 2021. Established in 1850 on the…
Victorian yachtsman Peter Davison, the owner/skipper of the Archambault 40 Arcadia, was named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year by Australian Sailing last evening. An ORCV and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) member, Davison has successfully competed in several of…
Luke Elliott continued his fine form at the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships, winning the only Men’s Laser class race completed on a day impacted by long delays. When the second day of races in Varna, Bulgaria did get underway…
With three weeks to go to the start of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race, the entry list augurs the possibility of a fabulous and fascinating race. 124 yachts are currently entered, just shy of the 130-boat record set in…
After nearly two and a half years of waiting, the 50th Finn World Masters will finally take place next week at Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain. Despite the challenges of travelling, around 120 entries from 27…
Whilst the first four competitors in the prototype category of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have now arrived in Santa Cruz de La Palma, there is still an intense battle underway throughout the remainder of the fleet still out on…
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