The best yacht, keelboat & dinghy racing news, race results and personal insights, with racing series and regatta reports and lots of beautiful high resolution sailing photographs. Including daily news coverage from major races and circuits Olympic Sailing, America’s Cup, Sydney Hobart, SailGP, 44Cup, The Ocean Race and more.
Turku Archipelago, Finland: Swan 45 Aurora (winner of ORC1 Class) and Swan 37 Tarantella II (winner of ORC2 Class) came away with the Swan European Trophy at the Swan European Regatta 2021 over the weekend. More than 40 Swans (representing the…
July 25: Australian sailors were faced with light winds, a delay and a postponement on the first day of action at the long-awaited Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Team Leader Iain Murray shared his thoughts on the day with us here. “Today…
After two weeks of training in steady onshore breezes, the sailors were dealt a very different and more difficult hand for the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. On the Enoshima course, close to the sailing centre,…
There are always many stories to come out of the Olympic Games, but for the 19 Finn sailors at Enoshima, these are all the more poignant as they contemplate the Finn’s final appearance at the Games and maybe their only…
Laser sailor Sam Meech (NZL) knows one bad race doesn’t make a regatta, especially at the Olympics, and has made a habit of navigating his way to the front of the fleet throughout his career. The Rio bronze medallist was 19th…
Tokyo 2020: Everyone is ready on the eve of the start of the last Olympic Finn event; most have been ready for at least a year, but in the next eight days, many years of hard work will come to…
Five years ago, Santiago Lange and Cecilia Caranza Saroli (ARG) set the Games alight with their victory in the Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 event at Rio 2016. First was the fact that Lange was 54 years old competing in…
It’s the eve of competition for sailing at Tokyo 2020, and the boat park has been a place of focus and precision in the final 24 hours before battle commences in the Laser, Laser Radial and Men’s and Women’s RS:X….
An epic final battle is looming for the Finn class in Tokyo; all bets are off with one of the strongest line-ups of potential medalists in a generation, as the Finn class making its final appearance at Tokyo 2020 after…
As sailors, you need resilience and there are times when you are tested beyond the limits of human endeavours, whether you are sailing around the world non-stop on your own or testing yourself in the smallest of dinghies in strong…
Up to 45 boats from 14 countries will compete in the three BMW ORC classes at the 39 Copa del Rey Mapfre, including several 2019 champions returning to defend their titles against a varied fleet. From the start in 1982,…
There is no greater honour than carrying your national flag into the Olympic Stadium, and for the chosen few who become flag bearers for their nation, this evening’s Opening Ceremony was one of the most special of their lives, including…
Lagos, Portugal: Coming in race fit to the GC32 Lagos Cup 2 kicking off next week will be several skippers and crew who competed last weekend at the British stopover of SailGP in Plymouth. Alinghi’s co-helmsman Arnaud Psarofaghis was standing…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, in conjunction with Ocean Clothing Group, is pleased to announce the Bollé International Youth Match Racing Regatta will return from 22-26 November 2021. Following the cancellation of the 2020 regatta due to the COVID-19 pandemic, competitors will…
For most part of the past five years since Rio, the fight for 470 supremacy has swung back and forth between three men’s teams – the Swedes, the Spanish and the Australians. In recent times, however, things have got more…
Thursday 22 July: Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Japan’s Ocean Day (also known as Marine Day) is being celebrated across the nation; a cause that hits close to home for the ambassadors of the world’s waterways –…
The 36th America’s Cup in Auckland returned 79 cents for every dollar invested by the Government and the Auckland Council, a new study has shown. The pandemic ensured the event fell far short of providing the $600m to $1 billion expected boost to the…
The predictions of this year’s 51st edition of the biennial Transpac race from LA to Honolulu as being a fast race appear to be holding true: all teams that left the mainland starting about a week ago through the end…
The 49erFX made its first Olympic appearance at Rio five years ago, when the battle for gold and silver remained in the balance until the final stages of the Medal Race. The gold and silver medallists from Rio 2016 –…
Since winning Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff – 49er at Rio 2016 five years ago, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) have packed a whole lifetime of sailing achievement into their busy careers. In 2017 Burling steered Emirates Team…
Australian Sailing has welcomed tonight’s announcement by the International Olympic Committee that Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. The Olympics will return to Australia for the first time since Sydney 2000, where tens of thousands of sailing fans…
Although fans, friends and family cannot be there to cheer on our sailors at the Tokyo Olympics, we can send them a virtual message. Be that positive voice our athletes need. Spur on Mat Belcher and Will Ryan to go…
Balaton Lake, Hungary: At least four teams were in the running to win the 2021 EUROSAF L30 European Championship, but local sailors HUN307 Tranquilo came out on top after winning two out of three races on the final day of the…
Cowes: It was a game of patience, luck and perseverance for day three at British Classic Week, where sailors kept an eye out for the slightest zephyr of wind to help them across the glassy race course. Classes 1 and…
Winner of five Olympic medals, Brazil’s Robert Scheidt is defying his age and setting out to prove that a 48-year-old can conquer athletes half his age by competing in the Men’s Laser Class at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo….
July 19, 2021, Los Angeles, CA: With less than 1000 miles to go at 0800 Hawaii Standard Time today, Cecil and Alyson Rossi’s Farr 57 Ho’okolohe is the first in the 40-boat fleet to pass the halfway point in this year’s 2225-mile Transpac race from…
The Finn, the Men’s Heavyweight Dinghy, is the oldest boat at the Olympic Games, making its debut at the 1952 edition when Denmark’s four-time Olympic Champion Paul Elvstrom won the event in Helsinki. For the past two decades, Great Britain…
With less than a month before the start of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, IRC division three boasts the largest class competing with 88 teams entered from at least 10 different countries. IRC division three has a cornucopia of boat…
Lake Balaton, Hungary: The EUROSAF L30 Class European Championship hosted by Spartacus Club saw Fourteen crews representing eight nations kick-start racing on July 17; where the local HUN8 “Present Perfect Team” emerged as an early leader. For its fifth continental championship, the L30 Class continues its growth with several new teams…
Los Angeles, California: Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles away in the 2021…
Tom Slingsby has proven that the Australian SailGP team can deliver against all odds after triumphing on UK waters at the Britain Sail Grand Prix, in a dramatic final race. The team stormed home to victory, beating France and the…
A cloudy, rainy and windless day soon turned perfect for the Medal Series in the Formula Kite Men and the A’s Youth Foil fleets, and one single race for the Formula Kite Women. It all came down to the sailors who had been leading the series for…
Thousands of fans turned up on Plymouth Hoe, and hundreds of spectator boats lined the F50 racecourse in Plymouth Sound as the sold out Great Britain Sail Grand Prix closed on a high note in Britain’s Ocean City. Tom Slingsby’s…
Record numbers of fans turned out to watch the world’s most exciting racing on water from The Hoe in Plymouth, on what was the perfect British summer day, both on and off the water. As the temperature soared on-land, Phil…
Porto Cervo: On the final day of the Grand Prix 2.2, and after two weeks of racing on foiling Persico 69F, victory in the Grand Prix 2.2 went, by a comfortable margin, to the home team Young Azzurra. Groupe My…
Sixty-five young competitors had their hopes high at Hang Loose Beach on the penultimate day of the 2021 Formula Kite U10 and A’s Youth Foil World Championship, as only the top 14 will make the Medal Series tomorrow. A cloudy…
Plymouth, UK: Tom Slingbsy and his revised Australian SailGP Team took part in their final day of practice, ahead of the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix, this weekend,17-18 July. The Australia Team will be competing with an altered crew format…
Domonkos Németh, from the host club, Tihanyi Hajós Egylet, has won the U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup at Tihany on Lake Balaton, Thursday, to become the first Hungarian to lift the title. In a…
With just one day left until the conclusion of the Grand Prix 2.2 of the 69F Cup circuit, Young Azzurra heads the provisional classification, followed by Groupe My Ambition, and next is the Swiss team on Sailing Performance. Organised by…
Plymouth Sound, the natural amphitheater of Britain’s Ocean City, is set for the world’s most exciting racing on water as the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix – the third event of SailGP Season 2 – takes place this weekend. It…
Read all of the latest sailing news
View more
Dinghy and Yacht Racing News
View more
News from the offshore world
View more
Cruising Stories from around the world
View more
The latest boats and yachting gear
View more
Watch everything sailing and boating
View more