Alegre leads the 52 SUPER SERIES
After three good races today on the Bay of Palma – each with a different winner – Andy Soriano’s brand new Alegre leads the 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week, but only on tie break ahead of Doug DeVos’s Quantum…
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Successful Batemans Bay Regatta
Batemans Bay Sailing Club conducted its long running multiclass regatta on the weekend of April 27th and 28th. Dinghy, catamaran, sports boat and trailerable yacht sailors came from Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and all over south east NSW to compete on…
Gladiator win Race 1 at 52 Super Series
Tony Langley’s Gladiator team took the first race win of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season at 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week after profiting from a bold call on the first downwind leg allowed the British flagged team to…
Airlie Beach Race Week – 100 entries and counting
Entries for Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 have already touched 100 and continue to grow as organiser, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC), announces a new Regatta Director, Jenni Birdsall. With interest across the smorgasbord of classes taking part…
Sail GP latest episode of Racing on the Edge
Big crashes and all of the drama from the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix revealed in the latest episode of Racing on the Edge. LONDON – April 29, 2024 – The latest episode of SailGP’s Racing on the Edge docuseries, in…
Sail Port Stephens Windward-Leeward Series Wrap
Age has not wearied two veterans of Australian sailing, with Marcus Blackmore and Ray Roberts claiming prestigious NSW IRC titles at the Sail Port Stephens Windward-Leeward Series over the weekend. Hooligan Blackmore’s new Hooligan claimed Division 1 honours in the…
Chris Poole wins his second consecutive Congressional Cup
Long Beach, CA (28 April, 2024) – The intensity of the 59th Congressional Cup, the opening event for the 2024 World Match Racing Tour, reached its peak today as USA’s Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team won his second…
Tash Bryant interviewed by the Female Athlete Project
Natasha Bryant is part of the Australia SailGP crew, as well as a member of the Team Australia Challenge squad for the UniCredit Youth & Puig Women’s America’s Cup events – all of which are cutting into her Double University…
Matador takes Gold Cup Act 3
The Australian TP52 fleet returned to action at Sail Port Stephens for Act 3 of the Pallas Capital Gold Cup. Eleven boats took to the waters surrounding Nelson Bay and completed the series of six races. The TP52s also formed…
Williams and Poole lead start to semi-finals
Long Beach, CA (27, April 2024) – Day 4 of the 59th Congressional Cup in Long Beach, CA concluded the quarter-final stage of the event, advancing the top four teams to the semi-finals led by defending Congressional Cup champion USA’s…
Australia’s Cole Tapper advances to quarter-finals
Long Beach, CA (26, April 2024) – Australia’s Cole Tapper, sailing with his CYCA Youth Sailing Academy team from Sydney Australia, today secured a crucial spot in the quarter-finals of the 59th Congressional Cup, the opening stage of the 2024…
Silver Medals on French waters for Australia
Australian sailors showcased their skill and determination amidst challenging conditions at French Olympic Week in Hyeres, securing two silver medals and positioning themselves strongly for Paris 2024 iQFoil Grae Morris, at just twenty years old, dominated the fleet, entering the final in…
Sail Port Stephens 2024 Windward Leeward Series Day 2
The Sail Port Stephens Windward Leeward Series transitioned to Passage Race mode on Day 2. With the change of pace came a change of pace, literally, as both the wind and seas calmed considerably. TP52s The Passage Race began in…
Action packed start to Sail Port Stephens Part 2
Rock fishermen were being advised to stay indoors but the sea conditions off Port Stephens made for an action-packed opener to the Anchorage Marina Windward-Leeward Series. This is part 2 of the 2024 Sail Port Stephens Regatta Series comprising the…
52 SUPER SERIES
The reigning 52 SUPER SERIES champions, Harm Müller-Spreer’s German flagged crew, start their title defence on Sunday on Majorca’s Bay of Palma by getting to know as quickly as possible the fine details of what could make their brand new…
RORC publish Admiral’s Cup Notice of Race
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has published the 2025 Admiral’s Cup Notice of Race, setting out the conditions under which the prestigious regatta will be run. Expressions of interest have been received from 14 different countries, with multiple teams…
Revealing Reveals – The new AC75 launches
As the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, the intensity ramps up and with four teams revealing their box-fresh AC75s, it’s abundantly clear that different solutions have been found for very similar questions. The design teams have worked feverishly to…
Day 3 at the Last Chance Regatta
A Brazilian sailor with a very famous name in Olympic history is in contention to earn a place for his country at the Paris 2024 Games after day three of competition at the Last Chance Regatta in Hyères, France. Marco Grael – son of five-time Olympic medallist Torben Grael, and brother of two-time Olympic champion Martine…
Last Chance Regatta
The first day of the final qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics saw Switzerland’s Elena Lengwiler claim three first places and take control at the Last Chance Regatta to live up to her billing as an also-ran turned medal contender in the Formula Kite event. The 28-year-old is arguably the most improved athlete in the newest Olympic…
7th Foiling Awards – WASZP
The 7th edition of the Foiling Awards has its winners. The prizes for the best foiling athletes, projects and products of the last 12 months were awarded overnight in Genoa based on votes cast online by the global foiling Community….
Scotty Dickson Wins Ficker Cup
Long Beach, CA 21 April 2024 – Long Beach’s champagne conditions and superior racing by eight world class skippers over three days ended with Scotty Dickson claiming his 14th career Ficker Cup over 24 years! Scotty Dickson originally from New…
Another Perfect Sailing Day
It was another another perfect sailing day with perfect trade wind conditions. Each start was flawless and the yachts all aimed for the first mark six miles SSE in a comfortable close reach for the last day of fleet racing…
The Trades Came Back – Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
With great relief, the seasonal 15-knot easterly trades came back today and the relatively flat seas made perfect sailing conditions for the third day of racing at the 35th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. The new Caterpillar course, which is the…
Australians come out firing at French Olympic Week
The French Olympic Week has commenced today in Hyeres and the Australians squad have come out firing with Grae Morris leading the charge in the iQFoil. Meanwhile, Breiana Whitehead sits in fourth in the Women’s Formula Kite, setting the stage…
Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta – Better Every Day
The second race day of the 35th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta was a vast improvement with a gentle 7-8 knots of breeze from the South-East, and with the flat seas from the previous calmer day made it almost perfect sailing…
Team Vic at the 2024 JJs
Just six months ago, November 2023, Scott Cunningham and Brody Riley came to Sydney and picked up the former Noakes Blue 18ft skiff from the Australian 18 Footers League. In March 2024 they returned to Sydney with the boat (now…
The Jean Genie Triumphs: Recap of the 2024 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Riva del Garda
The standout performer this week at the 2024 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup was The Jean Genie (GBR 43), helmed by Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, and Ruairidh Scott, who triumphed with their consistent performance throughout the event. In the first race…
INEOS BRITANNIA reveal RB3 before dawn
The shutters opened at the INEOS Britannia base just after 5am on Saturday, and out into the moonlight under floodlight came the boat that all British fans hope will have the best chance of winning the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s…
Young guns ready for action – five sailors selected for Paris 2024
On the shores of the Mediterranean Sea not far from the Olympic waters of Marseille, the Australian Olympic Team announced five sailors for the upcoming Olympic Games. Zoe Thomson will represent in the ILCA6, Brin Liddell and Rhiannan Brown will…
Sail Port Stephens final results and wrap
With only a few points separating rivals across each of the five divisions contesting the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series (Commodores Cup PHS), the prospect of receiving a thorough rinsing in the rain didn’t deter the bulk of the 115-strong…
5.5m Alpen Cup in Lake Garda – Day 2
The Jean Genie (GBR 43, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott) extended their lead at the 2024 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Riva del Garda after the second day of racing, which brought significantly more wind. Girls on Film (GBR 41, Louise Morton, Sam Haines, Andrew…
Australia’s sailing squad For America’s Cup in Barcelona announced
The sailing squad for Australia’s 2024 America’s Cup challenge in the Unicredit Youth and Puig Women’s competitions in Barcelona has been announced, with a combined team of 13 sailors including several Olympic and Sail GP athletes. The final Team Australia…
52 Super Series – Alegre launches new boat
The first of the two new Botin Partners designed TP52s to be built for this 52 SUPER SERIES season, Andy Soriano’s Alegre, is on course to make its racing debut at 52 SUPER SERIES Palma Vela Sailing Week which is…
5.5m Alpen Cup in Lake Garda
The Jean Genie (GBR 43, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott) won two out of three races on the opening day of the 2024 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup, on Thursday, which is being hosted by the first time by Fraglia Vela…
Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta kicks off
The 35th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta got off to a slow start today with unusual calm southerly winds which prompted the race committee to shorten the Old Road course. This however gave the crews time on the leeward rails to…
GKA – Winners crowned at Lords of Tram
The final day of Lords of Tram was nothing short of spectacular, with the athletes going all in for this first event of the season for the Big Air discipline. Pippa van Iersel and Jamie Overbeek were crowned in front…
Burling reacts to Australia mark crash penalty; analyses Grand Final challengers
by Miranda Blazeby, Digital Editor New Zealand driver Peter Burling is riding a wave of momentum heading into Bermuda after a triumphant Christchurch event. Not only did the Kiwis beat the fleet to win the event in front of home fans,…
ETNZ name and bless ‘Taihoro’ to defend the 37th America’s Cup
In a stirring ceremony today, Iwi manaaki Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei gifted and blessed the name ‘Taihoro’ on the boat that Emirates Team New Zealand will sail in their defence of the 37th America’s Cup. The launch event took place at…
Sail Port Stephens Day 3 wrap
Getting into the groove toward sailing perfection By day three in regattas the cobwebs have been shaken-off, the crew dynamics are coming together and the muscle memory of putting-in an optimum tack or bear-away set should be kicking in. And…
2024 World Match Racing Tour season kicks off in Long Beach
Long Beach, CA (17 April, 2024) – The 2024 World Match Racing Tour kicks off this week in Long Beach, California with 17 teams and over 100 of the world’s top match racing sailors competing across back-to-back events The Ficker…
