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Racing in Palma in November was always going to be challenging, not just for crews, but especially for race officials more used to racing here in summer in a sea breeze you can set your watch by. Yesterday racing was…
LONDON – November 14, 2019 – Following its European debut event last year that resulted in some of the most dramatic moments of Season 1, SailGP is returning to the UK in Season 2. On August 14-15, the world’s fastest…
Changing the dates of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta from the usual second half of April to the very beginning (1-7 April 2020) has enabled various past participants to join again, notably the magnificent 137’ Herreshoff gaff schooner Elena of…
After the traditional end of season round of national championships across Europe, there is no movement in or out of the top 10 of the final OK Dinghy World Ranking List of the year. Thomas Hansson-Mild, still leads from Fredrik…
11 November 2019 – Puerto Portals, Mallorca – The fourth and final event of the Dragon European Grand Prix circuit, the Dragon Grand Prix Spain hosted by the Club de Regatas Puerto Portals, began today in the Bay of Palma…
International competitors have started to arrive in Melbourne for what promises to be a massive summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Turkey was the first country to send their boats, via airfreight, while the German team had to unload their…
It will be on for young and old, literally, when the upcoming Australian 16ft Skiff & 13ft Skiff Championships get underway at Port Stephens from January 4. The stage was set for an intriguing, rivalry-tinged tussle after last year’s national…
Cheche Team conquered the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta after a lack of wind meant no racing in Shenzhen on the final day of competition. The only fleet that managed a race on Sunday was…
The Appliancesonline.com.au team of Brett Van Munster, Phil Marshall and Kurt Fatouris only have to appear at the starting line next Sunday to take of the Australian 18 Footers League's 2019-2020 Spring Championship after a totally dominant performance in both…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand won't hesitate to incorporate good ideas from rival teams as they step up the design of their second boat which will be used to defend the America's Cup. The four heavyweight syndicates –…
Half a century ago on an island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, the idea was born to create an event for Finn sailors over 40 years old. At the class AGM during the 1969 Gold Cup in Bermuda,…
In yet another flawless display by the world’s top catamaran sailing team, Alinghi today won the GC32 Oman Cup and the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour. This Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team adds to their GC32 World Championship title and victory in…
Shenzhen, China: Another race win for Cheche Team has virtually wrapped up victory for the Spanish crew with a day to spare in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta. Rayco Tabares Alvarez and his crew…
Going into Sunday’s two races of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2019-2020 Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour, the series is wide open with the consistent Appliancesonline.co.au team of Brett Van Munster, Kurt Fatouris and Phil Marshall leading the 18-boat fleet…
The South Australian Sharpie fleet has announced a new travel grants program as an incentive for more sailors to attend the national championships, which often has significant costs associated with it. The program allows teams doing it a little tough…
Shenzhen, China: Cheche Team from Spain extended its lead in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet on day three of the China Cup International Regatta, but it was Craig Monk’s young crew on ChinaOne.Ningbo who won the last race of the…
While it may have been their turn to be top scoring boat on day three of the GC32 Oman Cup, the math is not looking great for Oman Air in its fight with Alinghi to become 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
Cheche Team from Spain flipped the switch on day two of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen to dominate racing in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet. Julio Bernardeau Navarro steered his crew to scores of 1,3,1 – by far…
SYDNEY – November 8, 2019 – Olympic gold medalist and SailGP Season 1 champion Tom Slingsby returned to his home sailing club in New South Wales to help launch an innovative new program that aims to create a pathway into…
With a light forecast, the opening day of the GC32 Oman Cup looked like it might be marginal. However in the end four out of the five scheduled races were sailed just north of the Al Mouj marina with a…
NZ Herald. By: Nikki Preston “I still have one lolly left mum.” They were the first words Kushila Stein shouted through the phone to her relieved mother Wendy after she was rescued from floating on the Aegean Sea near Greece for…
The four Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans took off on Tuesday 5th November at 11am on the Brest Atlantiques race, a new 14,000 mile double-handed race that will take them non-stop to Rio and then Cape Town, before heading back to…
The International Finn Association delegation to the 2019 World Sailing Annual Conference in Bermuda has returned empty handed. The eight submissions to reinstate the Finn in the slate for the 2024 Olympic Games were rejected by both the committees and…
November 4, 2019 – No less than 133 professional photographers, representing 29 countries have submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2019. The top eighty pictures have been selected last month by the international jury and published…
It’s been a while coming and for the closing Act 6 of the MC38 2019 season pointscore, Leslie Green’s Ginger Ninjas worked their way back to familiar territory, at the top of the class scoreboard. Results from seven races in…
The Smeg team of Micah Lane, Ricky Bridge and Peter Mackie survived an incredible day of survival racing to take out Race 4 of the Australian 18 Footer League's Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In one of the most dramatic…
Split, Croatia: Juan Pablo Cardozo of Argentina won the Under-21 Standard Men's Laser World Championship, and also the U-19 award, while Wiktoria Golebiowska of Poland won the U-21 Radial Women's Championship. It was a difficult week, for the sailors and…
After selecting the iFoil as the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday, World Sailing’s Council, the main decision making body, concluded their meeting on Saturday 2 November. A number of submissions, proposing change to…
A strong team from Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is among the many international competitors who are coming to the 13th edition of the China Cup International Regatta for five days of racing from 6 to 10 November in Shenzhen….
Split, Croatia: Much like yesterday, everyone was up bright and early, sailors were rigging boats before 0700, and race committee left the harbor by 0730 for the 0900 first signal, with the Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors…
The various Etchells fleets in Port Phillip will take part in the 2019 Lipton Cup Regatta this year as part of its 2019/20 program, with a strong fleet getting ready to descend on the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria for…
(Split, Croatia) A promising start to a short lived morning of racing. Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors began launching for a 0900 start time. The Women’s fleet, which hasn’t yet completed a race, started cleanly on the…
Entries are now open and the countdown is on until the Keeley Marine Supplies 52nd Marlay Point Overnight Race (MPONR), which will take place on March 7, 2020. This iconic annual event starts at sunset and sees a large fleet…
The first event of the National Sailing League Oceania’s 2019-2020 season will partner with the Festival of Sails, hosted by Royal Geelong Yacht Club, bringing even more action to Corio Bay over the 2020 Australia Day long weekend. The Southern…
Sean Langman, one of Australia’s most versatile sailors, has set himself another wide-ranging program in the 2019-2020 Australian summer, with a season of 18ft skiff racing on Sydney Harbour, skippering Noakesailing, as well as skippering the 69ft Naval Group in…
(Split, Croatia) Finally! Some racing! But just some. The fleets left the harbor at 0830 as the northeasterly breeze was beginning to build. By 1000, the scheduled start time for today, the wind was six to eight knots on course…
(Split, Croatia) Race committee left the harbor at 1030, on schedule, and spent the day watching and waiting. The light easterly breeze in the morning faded, as forecast, but the haze never burned off and the westerly thermal never filled…
NEW YORK – October 28, 2019 – SailGP will return to two iconic U.S. shorelines in 2020, with Season 2 grand prix events set for San Francisco and New York. The U.S. leg of the global championship’s sophomore season will…
(Split, Croatia) The forecast held true – sunny and warm and very little wind. No gradiant, but hope for a thermal fill from the West in the afternoon. To be able to best advantage if the wind did build, the fleets were…
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week is on track to achieve Clean Regatta certification in 2020, as organisers strive to leave a clean wake by reducing the event’s environmental impact. “We’ve joined up with Sailors for the Sea to become a certified…
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