SailGP: High drama on the Hudson
NEW YORK – June 21, 2019 – It was a day of high drama on the Hudson for the first day of the New York SailGP, which saw the world’s fastest sail racing boats hitting high speeds in front of…
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Star World Championship: a two race, intense day four for the fleet
Porto Cervo, June 22, 2019. It was a positive and very intense two-race day for the Star fleet yesterday that had to make up for the race missed on June 20 due to light and shifty wind. With one race…
Win Win lives up to her name at the Superyacht Cup Palma with victory overall
The 2019 Superyacht Cup Palma reached its captivating conclusion with the best day’s racing yet on the waters of Palma Bay. Win Win lived up to her name once again and emerged as the overall victor of the Superyacht Cup,…
Fredrik Lööf takes early lead in OK Dinghy European title defence in Kiel
Defending champion, Fredrik Lööf, from Sweden, opened the 2019 OK Dinghy European Championship with a fifth and a race win to lead the 91 boat fleet after the opening day in Kiel, Germany. Race 1 winner, Jan Kurfeld, from Germany,…
Kusznierewicz wins the Star Class World Championship 2019
Porto Cervo, June 22th, 2019. The ninety seventh edition of the Star Class World Championship ended with a victory for Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Bruno Prada followed by Augie Diaz with Henry Boening in second place and Eivind Melleby and Joshua…
The Hague to become a city of sails in 2021 and 2022
The Hague, The Netherlands will become a city of sails in 2021 and 2022 with the 2021 Youth Sailing World Championships heading to the city, one year ahead of the Sailing World Championships. World Sailing, the Royal Netherlands Watersport Association,…
Racing at Superyacht Cup Palma was great, and then the party got started
As reliable as ever, Palma Bay delivered on the second day of The Superyacht Cup – a little bit later than usual, a little bit lighter, but more than enough to power the superyacht fleet around the course in spectacular…
Star Class World Championship: no wind, no race
Porto Cervo, June 20th, 2019. There was no racing today at the Star Class World Championship that began on Monday, June 17th and has seen three races out of six run so far. The overall provisional results remain the same…
The Superyacht Cup Palma is off to a flying start in sparkling conditions
The 23rd edition of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta got started Thursday with the bay off Mallorca’s capital again delivering sparkling racing conditions for The Superyacht Cup Palma. Nilaya got proceedings underway, the 34m dark hulled black sail carbon sloop powering…
OK Dinghy Europeans Preview: 99 reasons everything is OK
Nearly one hundred OK Dinghies from ten countries are descending on Kiel for the 2019 OK Dinghy European Championship, which is being sailed as part of the 125th Kieler Woche. It will one of the biggest fleets in Kiel and…
SailGP unveils striking championship trophy
NEW YORK – June 20, 2019 – Today SailGP unveiled a striking trophy by world-renowned trophy maker Thomas Lyte that will be presented to the overall winning national team at the end of Season 1. Regarded as the world’s leading…
SailGP: Sea of colour hits the Hudson
NEW YORK – June 19, 2019 – New Yorkers got a sneak preview of what to expect when SailGP makes its debut on the lower Hudson River this weekend, as all six SailGP teams today hit the racecourse together. Sailing…
Star Class World Championship: The games are still open
Porto Cervo, June 19th, 2019. Today was the third day of racing at the Star Class World Championship organized by the YCCS in collaboration with the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association (ISCYRA) and the support of Main Partner Audi…
Nicolai Sehested completes the line-up for Midsummer Match Cup
Danish skipper Nicolai Sehested, Ocean Race sailor and World Match Racing Tour competitor, will be entering the Midsummer Match Cup next week with a strong team of Olympic Gold medallists. The line-up for the inaugural edition of Midsummer Match…
Star Class World Championship: Changes at the top on Day 2
Porto Cervo, June 18th, 2019. Uncertain conditions at the beginning of the second day at the Star Class World Championship gave way to typical Sardinian breezes later on and the day's racing got underway about an hour late. There are…
Youth Sailing Champions League 2019 – Australia to compete for the first time
The Youth Sailing Champions League (YSCL) is set to take place over three days of intense competition from 22 to 24 June. Twenty-one clubs from nine nations, including Australia celebrating its first Sailing Champions League appearance, will be coming to…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week après Cape Upstart
It started nearly four years ago pre-SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), and it's quickly becoming an institution with competitors, whose first questions to Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) organisers include, “Is Cape Upstart on again?” Blame it all on a…
A swathe of superyacht and J Class events line up to encircle 36th America’s Cup
A total of 11 events including superyacht regattas, J Class regattas, superyacht fishing competitions and island cruises will entertain superyacht visitors to New Zealand during America’s Cup racing over 2020 and 2021, it was announced today. The events have been…
Star World Championship: Two Italian teams are in the lead
Porto Cervo, June 17th, 2019. The Star Class World Championship is off to a good start with today's race run as scheduled despite light breeze. The Championship, which has returned to Porto Cervo after thirty years, is organized by the…
Warm Northerlies welcome for Airlie Beach Race Week
Whatever direction the wind is blowing on Tuesday, August 13, Northerlies will be the flavour of the month for sailors competing in Airlie Beach Race Week. Renowned locally as one of the Whitsundays’ premier venues for food, beverages, service and…
Tasmanian SB20 crew wins six of first nine races at UK Nationals
Tasmanian champion SB20 crew, Elliott Noye, Paul McCartney and Edward Snowball, have made an instant impact on the British fleet of SB20 sportsboats, sailing on The Solent off Portsmouth. Sailing McCartney’s Europe-based Porco Rosso, they have won six of the…
All set for Star World Championship 2019
Porto Cervo, Italy. 16 June 2019. At the conclusion of a week of inspections and registrations, racing in the 97th edition of the Star World Championship will begin tomorrow, Monday 17 June. The event was last held in Porto Cervo…
Warren Jones Regatta – call for entries
The Warren Jones International Youth Regatta will be turning 18 and returning to Perth Waters for the fourth time in 2020. Hosted by the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, 2020's Warren Jones Regatta will be sailed from Monday, 27th through…
‘Men overboard’ costly for Tasmanian SB20 crew at UK Nationals
A ‘men overboard’ situation has cost the Tasmanian crew of Porco Rosso a potential victory in the SB20 class UK championship on The Solent, off the south coast of England. Both helmsman Elliott Noye and mainsheet hand and boat owner…
Pedro Andrade wins Dragon Gold Cup
The final day of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 in Medemblik was a frustrating one as the wind refused to stabilise sufficiently to complete a race, and despite there being wind in the race area, it simply wouldn't stop…
Krutskikh wins third Finn World Masters title
Vladimir Krutskikh, from Russia, has won his third Finn World Masters title after the final day of racing at Skovshoved, Denmark, with two more races in great conditions. Mike Maier, from Czech Republic, finishes second with Laurent Hay, from France,…
Vladimir Krutskikh continues to clean up at Finn World Masters in Skovshoved
With five wins from five races, Vladimir Krutskikh, from Russia, is schooling the fleet at the Finn World Masters in Skovshoved, Denmark. Mike Maier, from Czech Republic, is second with Christoph Christen, from Switzerland in third. The day’s forecast was…
Pedro Andrade consolidates lead on penultimate day of Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019
13 June 2019 – Medemblik, Netherlands – The fifth and penultimate race of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 was yet another heavy airs humdinger. With 18-22 knots average and gusts up to 27 knots from the south-south-west, plus a…
Protis dominates Quarter Ton Cup to take well deserved win
Ian Southworth’s Protis today won the 15th edition of the revived Quarter Ton Cup, after dominating the regatta from start to finish. A full quota of nine races was sailed over the course of the three-day event, and Southworth’s team,…
Torrential rain and big shifts impact Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 in Medemblik
12 June 2019 – Medemblik, Netherlands – The 93-strong International Dragon fleet had to face a rain storm of almost biblical proportions on the fourth day of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 in Medemblik, as race four of the…
No racing on Day 3 at Finn World Masters at Skovshoved
Despite several attempts at a start, no more racing was possible on the third day at the Finn World Masters at Skovshoved, Denmark. With three races sailed out of a scheduled five so far, one more race is needed to…
Auckland drops daily foreign vessel anchorage fee after consultation with the marine industry
NZ Marine has worked closely with Auckland Council, resulting in a proposed daily anchoring fee for foreign flagged vessels in Auckland’s harbour being dropped. “Working with Auckland Council, experts from within our own organisation, NZ Marine, as well as from the Royal…
America's Cup bases might not be needed as challengers pull out
Newshub NZ. By Tom McRae. Preparations are on track for the America's Cup bases but there are concerns that not all of the challengers will make it to Auckland. All work has been finished on Emirates Team New Zealand's base…
I14 World Championship on the Swan River, Perth, in 2020
International 14 sailors from across the globe will descend upon the warm-waters of the Swan River in Western Australia from 29 December to 10 January for the 2020 World Championship. A fleet of around 70 boats are expected to line…
Last chance for discounted entry to Phuket Regatta
Preparations are well underway for the 2019 Multihull Solutions Phuket Regatta from 12-15 July with the event now the largest multihull-only regatta in Asia. Organised and operated by Phuket Yacht Club and staged on the spectacular waterways of Chalong Bay,…
Australian Schools Team Racing Championship goes to Scots 1
Sydney’s Scots 1 team has been named winners of the Australian Secondary Schools Team Racing Championship after a windless end to competition on Monday, followed by late-night hearings by the regatta Jury. Two Hobart school teams, Hutchins Gold and Friends…
Leaderboard reshuffles ahead of final Quarter Ton Cup showdown
Racing continued at the Quarter Ton Cup today and a change in the wind brought with it a change in fortunes for much of the 19-strong fleet which saw a reshuffle on the leaderboard. The Solent delivered a steady 10…
Jethou unbeaten as Lorina 1895 claims Giraglia inshores on countback
With the Rolex Giraglia’s much anticipated offshore race due to set off tomorrow, the race committee today sent the maxis in the IRC 0 Racer and Cruiser classes on a coastal course that was effectively a dry run of the…
Perfect score for Vladimir Krutskikh at Finn World Masters
Double Finn World Masters champion, Vladimir Krutskikh from Russia, has yet to put a foot wrong at the 2019 Finn World Masters in Skovshoved, Denmark winning three races wins from three races. Krutskikh picked up two wins on Day 2…
Aussies eye the prize at the Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta
The Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) in Malaysia will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, with the dates for the event set for 15-23 November, where Ray Roberts and other Australians will be eying the major trophies. The format…
