Tokyo Olympic sailing schedule
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…
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A tight battle at KiteFoil Youth Worlds
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…
Three consecutive wins for Groupe Atlantic
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,…
USA SailGP Team ready for redemption
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…
69F Cup gets underway
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…
Kiwi sailors looking after our oceans
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…
Németh moves closer to U23 Finn title
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…
Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race update
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…
Tough conditions for KiteFoilers
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…
SailGP – A race for the future
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…
Exciting racing on display at Tour Voile
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…
CYCA opens entries for inaugural Australian Maxi Championship
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 wind on third day of Finn U23 Worlds
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…
51st Transpac: First wave heads to Hawaii
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…
Vendée Globe sailor’s next project
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…
Mass exodus as boaties head to Airlie Beach Race Week
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 launches ‘Charm Offensive’ on Race Week entrants
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…
Show your support – Become an AST Supporter Venue
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…
ILCA North Americans: 125 sailors ready to go
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…
France leads OK Dinghy International Regatta
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…
Transpac: Locals take on first big ocean race since COVID
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…
Pressure on SailGP New Zealand backup crew
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…
Hungarians in charge at U23 Finn Worlds
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…
SailGP: Next stop Plymouth
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…
Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Race update
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…
Texan Colin Bastable enters 2023 Global Solo Challenge
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…
49er and Nacra 17 Junior Worlds: Poland and Italy win by a mile
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…
U23 Finn World Championship Day 1 – Local sailors dominate
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,…
420 World Championships: It’s raining gold for Team USA
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…
Aegean600: Atalanta II first to finish
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…
Taradin and Moroz win KiteFoil World Series
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…
CYCA Women’s Winter Series success
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…
Brazil’s Di Francesco Kuhl new Optimist world champion
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,…
Young Azzurra wins Persico 69F Grand Prix 2.1
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…
Denis Taradin on top at KiteFoil World Series
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…
Zhik – Australian Sailing’s Olympic weapon
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…
Marina Militare Nastro Rosa regatta starts August
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…
Hackel maintains Optimist Worlds lead
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…
No spectators for Tokyo Olympics
The beleaguered Tokyo Games has been forced to hold the Olympic events without any fans in the stands. The decision follows the Japanese government’s announcement of a new state of emergency for Tokyo starting Monday 12 July. For the full…
KiteFoil World Series kicks off
Gizzeria, Italy: They’re back. After a long, forced, leap year, the KiteFoil World Series are back. The first event of the year kicks off tomorrow at Hang Loose Beach Club, a much loved spot for kiters around Europe. The maximum number of entries…
