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Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen. Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has claimed the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place next year “no matter what happens”. He made the comment at a party organised by a faction of Japan's…
Porto Cervo, 5 October 2020. After 10 successful seasons, the Roemmers family has decided to leave the TP52 Azzurra sporting programme. They leave behind an important legacy, with Azzurra currently reigning champion of the 52 Super Series and undefeated in…
Auckland, October 6th 2020 – The cargo plane carrying Boat 2, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team’s second hull, landed in Auckland on October 5th at 8pm local time. The cargo left the Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport on Friday October 2nd on…
The Hague, The Netherlands will become the international sailing capital in 2023 following a joint decision by World Sailing, the Royal Netherlands Watersport Association, the municipality of The Hague and TIG Sports to move the 2022 Sailing World Championships to…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone Team New Zealand is opening its ground-breaking simulator to the public, including their America’s Cup rivals. The defenders gave media a glimpse of the impressive 5G Race Zone interactive experience built with Spark that will open…
What could be more romantic than this Laser tale? Frank Bucek lashed his Laser to the deck of his keel boat and set off from RGYC to Fiji in search of adventure, and as it turned out, romance and love….
The current Australian 18ft Skiff champion Jack Macartney will be back with tech2 in the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2020-2021 Season fleet to defend his title and to wipe out the memory of a disappointing JJ Giltinan Championship sailed earlier this year…
The 17th PalmaVela (originally scheduled 6th – 10th of May and later set to the penultimate week of October) has been finally postponed to 2021 as an exercise in responsibility, as it happened with the Copa del Rey MAPFRE last…
Timothée Petetin, from the Société Nautique de Bandol, has won the 2020 Mediterranean OK Dinghy Championship in Bandol, from Julien Dejugnat and Pascal Tetard. The event in Bandol was supposed to be the final event in the 2020 Euro League…
Portsmouth, September 17, 2020 – MaxComm Communication, organiser of the Yacht Racing Forum, and Host City Portsmouth (UK), announce the postponement of the event to November 2021 due to COVID-19. “We have worked tirelessly to create a high quality event”,…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Sept. 16, 2020) — Two weeks after announcing that the Bermuda Gold Cup will be contested Oct. 26-30, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and World Match Racing Tour together announce today that the celebratory 70th event will also…
New Zealander Brad Butterworth (OBE) – four times America’s Cup winner, America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee and multiple World Champion – one of the most respected yachting figures worldwide, has now joined Challenger of Record 36 – the organizer…
LONDON – September 16, 2020 – In a new content series launched today by SailGP, audiences around the globe will get unprecedented access to the sport’s pinnacle league as it gears up toward its second season, launching April 2021 in…
AARHUS, Denmark – September 12, 2020 – SailGP today announced the selection of the Danish city of Aarhus to host the fourth event in the global championship’s second season. ROCKWOOL will serve as Title Partner for SailGP’s Scandinavian debut as…
Mid-September it may be, but conditions for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 2020 IRC championships felt more like June this weekend, with shorts and T-shirts conditions and allowing a full schedule of racing to be laid on by PRO Stuart…
Finns on Day 1 A small fleet of Finns is taking part in Kieler Woche, many fresh from last week’s Europeans in Gdynia. While many had a turn at the front of the fleet, at the end of Day 1,…
Stuff.co.nz British America’s Cup challenger INEOS Team UK are heading to New Zealand with a radical new boat. They have already had their second AC75 delivered and it is being commissioned ahead of its departure to New Zealand. The Brits…
An idea that two friends have been working on to make it easier for race officers and support boats to lay race courses has been called a “game-changer”. Alex Amsler and Rob Cleghorn have developed Buoy Zone, a mobile app which…
After a slow start to Monday as the forecast wind filled in as predicted, the UK Moth fleet took to the water for an event many thought would never happen. It’s not the Worlds that was scheduled, and the majority…
PLYMOUTH, UK – September 4, 2020 – Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City, has been selected to host SailGP’s Season 2 European debut when the global league’s events restart in 2021. Following the season opener in San Francisco in April and New…
On a magnificent Father’s Day spring morning the Combined Clubs Winter Series wound up with a spectacle of sail on the River Derwent. A fleet of 45 yachts started in a light northerly that built as the morning wore on,…
The ongoing success of Australia’s iconic 128-year-old sport of 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour, owes much to the incredible action and support of John (Woody) Winning, the Winning family and the Winning family’s business. John is a Giltinan world…
The 2020 U23, Open and Masters Finn European Championship in Gdynia, Poland, concluded on Sunday with the three titles assigned. Zsombor Berecz, from Hungary, took gold without winning a race and with a race to spare. Giles Scott, from Britain,…
Spain’s, Alejandro Muscat has taken the lead at the 2020 U23, Open and Masters Finn European Championship after two more races in Gdynia, Poland. Giles Scott, from Britain drops to second, while Zsombor Berecz, from Hungary, moves up to third….
Defending European champion, and current Olympic gold medalist, Giles Scott, from Britain, dominated the opening day of the 2020 U23, Open and Masters Finn European Championship in Gdynia Poland to lead after the first day from Henry Wetherell, from Britain,…
Australian Sailing has announced HERE that it has ceased running Australian Youth Championships. It will continue to run State Youth Championships once COVID-19 orders allow. ALCA welcomes this change and AS’s Youth initiatives. Following AS’s change, ALCA will be placing…
Following the success of the inaugural Mooloolaba Yacht Club’s (MYC) Women’s Winter Regatta in 2019, MYC is now inviting crews from around the state – and the country (COVID restrictions permitting) – to participate in the 2020 event. Initially scheduled…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Sept. 1, 2020) — After months of careful consideration the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club confirmed last night that the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup for the King Edward VII trophy will take place Oct. 26-30 on Hamilton Harbour with…
The 2020 U23, Open and Masters Finn European Championship has been opened in Gdynia, Poland. The final event in the Gdynia Sailing Days festival, it has attracted 70 entries from 27 countries for first and only major Finn event of…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) has today confirmed that next year’s Youth America’s Cup event has been cancelled due to New Zealand Government restrictions around immigration. Despite the event being an official part of the America’s Cup and…
Porto Cervo, 27 August 2020. In light of the significant increase in the infection curve due to several outbreaks in the Costa Smeralda area and in Porto Cervo in particular, in order to protect the health of the staff, visitors…
LONDON – August 26, 2020 – SailGP makes its Hollywood debut today when two F50s – the world’s fastest and most technologically advanced sail race boats – take a starring role in the summer’s big blockbuster Tenet, a new sci-fi…
26th August 2020 The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), in consultation with host partner Auckland Council, has completed its audit into allegations made against Emirates Team New Zealand Limited (ETNZ) and America’s Cup Event Limited (ACE). The Beattie…
The U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Finn Silver Cup concluded today in Canet en Roussillon, France, with three more races to complete the series. Defending champion, Oskari Muhonen, from Finland, wrapped up an almost flawless week with…
One of the long list of super-talented JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship-winning skippers is the 2004 champion, Britain’s Rob Greenhalgh. Rob, one of only three skippers from the northern hemisphere to win the world’s premier 18 Footer championship, and his…
The owners and Organising Authority of the 44Cup have today made the final decision to cancel the remaining two events of the 2020 season. This is due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic which this year has brought much of the…
Sanremo, Italy, is all ready to welcome the 5.5 Metre fleet for its 2020 European Championship, which is being sailed from 25-29 August. Normally only held when the world championship is outside Europe, the event has attracted 20 crews from…
Only one race was possible on the fourth day of the U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup, at Canet en Roussillon, France. The second race was cancelled when very strong winds arrived soon after the first race…
Stuff.co.nz. Britain’s America’s Cup syndicate has taken delivery of its new America’s Cup boat ahead of shipping it to New Zealand. Teams are allowed two boats and the second generation boats will be sailed at Auckland 2021 with INEOS Team…
Double U23 Finn World Champion, Oskari Muhonen, from Finland, stamped his authority over the fleet at the 2020 Finn Silver Cup at Carnet en Roussillon, France on Wednesday, with three race wins from three races in near perfect conditions. France’s…
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