Topaz wins class in Saint Tropez
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…
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Nina Curtis’ maiden Sail Grand Prix in Cadiz
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…
Grand Slam IKA KiteFoil World Series – Day 2
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…
Racing underway at Sailing Champions League Final
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…
Spanish team favoured to win inaugural Spain Sail Grand Prix
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…
Racing abandoned at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez 2021
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…
One point separates top seven at 44Cup World Championship
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…
White out hits day four of ILCA Europeans
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…
Spain SailGP: Female sailors jump on board
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…
RC44 World Championship: Opening day blown out
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…
Les Voiles: Rambler 88 takes lead
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…
Sailing Champions League: Day one of racing cancelled
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…
ILCA Europeans: Aussies set for gold fleet
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…
Sailing community mourns loss of AC designer Laurie Davidson
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…
Ben Ainslie takes franchise ownership of Great Britain SailGP Team
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…
Female skipper joins RC44 World Championship
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…
Isle of Wight regatta record attempt
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,…
SailGP: New Zealand leads impact league
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…
Thirty teams attend Sailing Champions League Final
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,…
Les Voiles: Crews take advantage of race abandonment
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….
Laser Europeans: Australian sailors savour wind and waves
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…
Excitement for 50th Finn World Masters
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…
Bo Petersen wins Art of Racing Euro Series
Bo Petersen has won the 2021 Art of Racing Euro Series in the OK Dinghy class, which came to a windy conclusion at the German Championship at Wismar over the long weekend of 30 September to 3 October. Sixty-six sailors…
Tricky return to international competition for Aussie sailors
Day one of 2021 ILCA European Championships saw 220 sailors from 45 nations battle it out in gusty and shifty winds. The racing in Varna, Bulgaria was a timely reminder of the intricacies of racing for the Australian Sailing Team…
America’s Cup: INEOS Britannia launches world-class team
INEOS Britannia has confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern Olympic Games by…
J Class rivalry resumes in Saint Tropez
The enduring, friendly rivalry between J Class duo Velsheda and Topaz will resume on October 5-9 at the famous Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta in the south of France. The crew of the Frank C. Paine designed, 2015 launched…
Pathway to Paris: Aussies back in action at Laser Euros
The 2021 ILCA European Championships will commence on Monday in Varna, Bulgaria. The event is a key milestone for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes who have their sights firmly set on Paris 2024. Fresh…
Platoon’s 52 Super Series Sailing Week triumph
Several rival teams left the island of Menorca today, regretting small mistakes that ultimately cost them chances of lifting the TP52 class’s prestigious Royal Cup, which ultimately went to Platoon. Harm Müller Spreer’s can point to a consistent series as…
44Cup back in Italy after four-year absence
The 44Cup returns to Italy next week for the first time since Porto Cervo in 2017, and this time the high-performance owner-driver one designs will be racing around the mainland area, at a new venue for the 2021 44Cup World…
Racing abandoned as Platoon leads into final day of 52 Super Series
With no racing possible due to a lack of wind off Mahon today, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team goes into the final day of the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week with a lead of two points. Nacho Postigo, navigator of…
Australian Sailing celebrates Iain Murray
Australian sailing legend Iain Murray AM has many accomplishments on his resume, but the man affectionately known as “Big Fella” can now add leading an Olympic campaign that netted two Gold medals to it. Murray has completed his contract in…
Mat Belcher’s triumphant finalé to Olympic campaign
Three-time Olympic medallist in the 470 class, Mat Belcher, chatted to me from the Gold Coast, where he is winding down with his family following a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. For Belcher, Tokyo marked the end of his 470…
52 Super Series: Alegre in top form
Menorca, Spain: Not since Quantum Key West Race Week in 2014 has a 52 Super Series team opened a regatta with three back-to-back race wins, but Andy Soriano’s Alegre team matched the record of Quantum Racing on Wednesday. Alegre won…
Alegre leads Menorca 52 Super Series
Andy Soriano’s Alegre holds the lead after the first day of racing at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week, comfortably winning the only race which could be contested due to very light, shifty and unsettled northerly breezes which kept…
France SailGP Team announces new driver
The France SailGP Team will have a new driver for the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz, Andalusia, following the announcement that Quentin Delapierre will be taking the helm of the team’s F50. Fresh off the back of the Tokyo…
America’s Cup: Thirty-eight years after Australia’s win
A weepy, funeral-like procession in midtown Manhattan and an empty champagne bottle turned upside down: two striking images from the day the US lost the America’s Cup for the first time after more than a century of dominance — exactly 38…
Aspire secures 5.5 Metre French Open
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Simon Fry) secured the 2021 5.5 Metre French Open at the Régates Royales on Friday in Cannes to win from Momo (SUI 229, Dieter Schön, Markus Wieser, Thomas Auracher) and Ali-Baba (BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marazzi,…
Menorca ready for 52 Super Series action
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix laid down a marker that they should again be podium contenders when they won today’s light winds official practice race prior to Tuesday’s start of the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week. With…
T35 Scarlino: Two wins for Realteam Sailing
With ominous black clouds rolling over Scarlino, Italy, the morning of the final day racing looked borderline from the start with a forecast of 18 knots, building to gusts of 25 knots by lunchtime. After the morning briefing, Principal Race…
The Peugeot Beneteau Cup and French Yacht Challenge is back
The Peugeot Beneteau Cup and Peugeot French Yacht Challenge will be held over the weekend of October 30-31 in Manly, Queensland. The Peugeot Beneteau Cup will be run over the two days, with the Peugeot French Yacht Challenge on the…
