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Valérian Lebrun (FRA) secured the OK Dinghy International Regatta, hosted by Circolo Vela Arco on Lake Garda, after two more races were sailed in an early morning northerly, while Soenke Behrens (GBR) won the opening race to secure second overall,…
Brisbane’s Bazinga Girls team are fully geared and ready to win the annual Mooloolaba Women’s Keelboat Regatta, to be held on July 30 – August 1. This year six teams will contest for the trophy. Racing on the Mooloolaba Yacht…
When the Olympics came to a close in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016, I suffered from post-Olympic blues – I felt I couldn’t wait until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – it is wonderful to witness the camaraderie and…
Gizzeria, Italy: Another windy, wet and wild day on the water for the 65 young athletes competing at the 2021 Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil World Championship. Yesterday’s very strong breeze kept on blowing during the night and…
Châtelaillon-Plage, France: After 12 days of racing the Groupe Atlantic crew have achieved their seventh victory in total, and third consecutive win, at the Tour Voile 2021. The Groupe Atlantic crew continue to catch up to the overall leaders,…
The United States SailGP Team has arrived in Plymouth, UK looking to climb the Season 2 standings at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix this weekend, Saturday, July 17 through Sunday, July 18, in the third event of the global…
Costa Smeralda, Northern Sardinia, Italy: It was an early race start for day 1 of the Persico 69F Grand Prix 2.2 (the second foiling event in Costa Smeralda), and the provisional rankings are extremely close with the Swiss Okalys Youth Project…
The world’s oceans have given New Zealanders Peter Burling and Blair Tuke the chance to accomplish so much at relatively young ages. Together the New Zealand sailors have won Olympic gold and silver medals; helped their country win and then…
Domonkos Németh has moved into a 14 point lead after winning both races on the second last day of the U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup; meanwhile Levente Rácz and Bence Rácz are separated by just four…
Yesterday’s announcement by the NSW Government of an extended COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Sydney until Friday 30 July has now confirmed the need for the changes to our racing calendar foreshadowed in Monday’s communications. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia…
Gizzeria Lido, Italy: Day one of the Formula Kite U19 and A’s Youth Foil Individual World Championship was nothing but easy, as the 65 young kiters had to face strong winds over 25 knots and choppy conditions off Hang Loose Beach. However, for many of…
Plymouth, England: SailGP, the first climate-positive sport and entertainment property, today announced the launch of the Impact League – a world-first, integrated initiative designed to make sustainability action essential to the fabric of sport and to accelerate the transition to…
The Tour Voile: The 44 mile race in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Erquy, France, started in a solid north-westerly wind, seeing the 10 competitors complete the race course in a brisk three and a half hours. The Tour Voile is…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is delighted to be named as the host of the inaugural Australian Maxi Championship. The first edition of the new regatta, introduced by Australian Sailing, will take place from 3-7 December 2021. The Australian…
No races were sailed on day 3 of the U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup at Tihany on Lake Balaton due to a lack of wind, but fun was still had by the sailors who went for…
Los Angeles, California – After over a year of careful planning, tremendous uncertainty, yet dogged determination to run this race, the Transpacific Yacht Club today unleashed the first wave of entries on their long westward journey to Honolulu in the…
Considered one of the standouts of the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe aboard his old generation IMOCA, and recent winner of The Ocean Race Europe with Offshore Team Germany, the young Vendée Globe sailor Benjamin Dutreux is on the…
While Covid continues to wreak havoc in parts of Australia, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) officials and members are looking forward to welcoming a record number of competitors and their supporters to the 33rd running of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), to…
Magnetic Island has turned heads for eons, but since SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week was added to the northern sailing regattas in 2007, competitors from far and wide have been captivated. Four years ago, when James Permezel competed for the…
Australian Sailing will be teaming up with Clubs around the country to cheer on our Aussie sailors at the Tokyo Olympics through our AST Supporter Venues. With fans unable to travel to this year’s Games, clubs who will be showing the…
San Francisco, CA — On July 14–18, St. Francis Yacht Club will welcome 125 sailors for four days of racing in the ILCA North American Championships on San Francisco Bay. Delayed for a year due to the global pandemic, sailors…
Lake Garda, Italy: Monday should have marked the start of the 2021 OK Dinghy World Championship, but instead a smaller regatta took place in its place, after 45 percent of the OK Dinghy members voted against holding the worlds. Instead…
Unsurprisingly due to a year of uncertainty and pandemic impact, this year’s Transpacific Yacht Race entries are down to some 40 boats following a record high of 85 in the race’s 50th anniversary edition in 2019. But that is not…
A makeshift crew will look to maintain New Zealand’s building momentum in SailGP when the third regatta of the global league is held in England this weekend. New Zealand scored their first race win and notched a fourth placing in…
Lake Balaton, Hungary: Levente Rácz started to apply some pressure to the overall leader, Domonkos Németh, on the second day of the 2021 U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup, at Tihanyi Hajós Egylet (THE). In…
On July 17 and 18, Plymouth will play host to 8 international teams and their supersonic F50s for the third SailGP event of the season. It’s a summery stopover that promises to be full-on given how honed the crews are…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in NSW, particularly Sydney. The situation is fluid, and planning for our races, particularly the upcoming Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race (SGCYR) and Audi Centre…
Colin Bastable from Cedar Park, Texas, USA, bought his boat after his father died and renamed her to Frank in his memory. He had bought the his Sadler 35 in the UK and then sailed all the way to his…
Gdynia, Poland: Mikolaj Staniul with Jakub Sztroch (POL) capped a wire to wire Junior Worlds Title by winning the final four races in a row, a record-breaking 27 points in front of second place. The victory continues a steady progression…
Twenty ambitious young Finn sailors, from six nations, are taking part in the 2021 U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup, which opened on Sunday at Tihanyi Hajós Egylet (THE) on Lake Balaton, Hungary. Domonkos Németh,…
San Remo, Italy: Unfortunately there was no wind on the 10th of July to complete the full 12 races schedule, so the Championship was awarded in accordance to the results from the previous day, seeing American’s Tommy Sitzmann and Luke…
Lavrio, Greece: At 14:10 local time on the 7th of July, Carlo Alessandro Puri Egri’s Atalanta II from Italy were crowned champions of the 2021 Aegean 600 after crossing the finish line at Cape Sounio six minutes short of exactly…
Four days and 17 races later Denis Taradin (RYF) and Daniela Moroz (USA) are the winners of the KiteFoil World Series Gizzeria, Italy, the first of five events of the 2021 season. Today’s three final races were held with wind…
Vamp, Star Ferry, Wax Lyrical and Wild Oats have been crowned divisional champions for the 2021 Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Women’s Winter Series. In light of the extended COVID-19 restrictions in Greater Sydney, Race 3 of the series was abandoned, meaning the final…
Riva del Garda, Italy – On the 9th of July a new name was written in the golden books of the Optimist World Champions after Brazilian Alex Di Francesco Kuhl won the World Title over a fleet of 259 sailors,…
Porto Cervo: Today was the final day of racing at the first event in the foiling Persico 69F and the home team, Young Azzurra, won the Grand Prix 2.1, followed by the Swiss team Okalys Youth Project and the Italian…
A perfect day of sun, wind and kitefoiling at Hang Loose Beach in Gizzeria, Italy for the last five races of the qualification series, with Russia’s Denis Taradin coming out on top at the end of the day. One hundred…
Sailors and their superstitions – the list is never-ending; no bananas on board, a green boat is bad luck – and beware of the consequences if you change a boat’s name. But what about clothing and equipment? Can that make…
World Sailing and the European Sailing Federation (EUROSAF) have confirmed that the 2021 Hempel Offshore World Championship and the EUROSAF Mixed Offshore European Championship will be held alongside the 2021 Marina Militare Nastro Rosa regatta in Italy. In addition to…
Riva del Garda, Italy – A single race completed on the penultimate day of racing at the Optimist World Championship, hosted on the Northern Garda Lake. A storm coming from the South and the consequent instability of the wind did…
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