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The Yachting Malta Coastal Race is the traditional curtain-call for the Rolex Middle Sea Race. This year’s race was a light wind affair with the fleet enjoying a gentle 12-mile race to Comino Island. The overall winner after IRC time…
Day 1 update – Wednesday 19th October:The rich, deep turquoise hues of the lagoon water contrasting the yellow sands of the Neom Beach Games kite spot looked out of this world, but it was the 8.87 that Gianmaria Coccoluto scored…
Significant shifts, and changes up and down range in the winds off Brest in France were the hallmark of the second day’s racing at the 2022 iQFOiL World Championships. In spite of the challenges this brings, several of Australia’s sailors…
In 2019 the remarkable multihull Beau Geste sailed into New Zealand and set a new race record in the country’s most famous yacht race. It completed the 119 nautical mile course, which starts in Auckland and finishes in Russell, in…
Capitalising on the success of the inaugural ORC NSW Championship last February, organisers at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) are pleased to announce entry is open and the Notice of Race available for the event that will again run…
The Brest Bretagne Nautisme watersports district is on the Western tip of Brittany, which is just to the East of Brest itself. The Autumnal weather offers low 20s falling to the mid-teens, with a chance of rain later on in…
Editor – Congratulations to Jules and the Easy Tiger Racing who finished 7th overall. See you back on Pittwater soon. Corfu, Greece (17 October 2022) – Pauline Courtois and her ‘Match in Pink’ Normandie team from France have won the…
Two races were completed on the final day of the ILCA 6 World Championships to round out the event and crown the newest champion. Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) took out the Championships by a commanding 20…
The 2022 EurILCA Master European Championships concluded in great way today after the last two scheduled races held in L’Escala, Spain. 7-10 knots of wind and almost flat water were the prevailing sailing conditions for all 5 fleets. The day…
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 1Today’s Trophy: Major Arthur Frizelle TrophySunday, October 16 2022Sydney Harbour The Shaw and Partners Financial Services team of Jim Colley, Charlie Wyatt and Tom Quigley, took out the opening race of the Australian 18 Footers League’s…
Aussies sitting 3rd going into final day. Saturday’s earlier start time at the 2022 Immunolin F18 World Championship gave competitors a four-race day in a variety of winds. The top 5 in the provisional standings are in a tight fight…
While racing in 44Cup events usually goes to the wire, decided in the last few metres of the final race, this hasn’t been the case this year when the dominant force has been Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons and his Charisma…
Three races were held in moderate winds on the penultimate day of the ILCA 6 World Championships hosted out of Texas Corinthian Yacht Club. After two impressive wins today, the reigning Olympic Champion, Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark, leads by a…
Slovenia: With a race lost on Friday at the 44Cup Portorož World Championship, to recoup the schedule four races were held today (Saturday), with the race area further offshore with the nearby medieval town of Piran an eye-catching backdrop. Piran…
A light to medium Mistral breeze delivered four high-intensity races on day five of the 2022 Formula Kite World Championships in Cagliari, Sardinia. The wind was blowing offshore from Poetto Beach at 8 to 11 knots, making the racing an…
Florida, USA: After two days of waiting for wind, participants were happily tired from three action-filled races in winds that increased during the day on Day 3 of the F18 World Championship, hosted by the Clearwater Beach Yacht Club. There…
It was a challenging start to the Sandringham Yacht Club’s premier multi-class event today as Port Phillip decided to glass-out on Day 1 of the Sail Sandy Regatta. The majority of classes achieved a single race in extremely light conditions,…
Australia’s Breiana Whitehead has put together a day to remember at the 2022 Formula Kite World Championships in Cagliari, Italy, moving up to fourth with two days left to race. There was no shortage of action, with a day of…
USA: Racing levelled up on day four of the ILCA 6 World Championships as three races were completed on the first day of the final series in a variable 6 to 13-knot wind. Conditions settled on Galveston Bay in Kemah,…
Corfu, Greece: A storm front over the Mediterranean island of Corfu presented challenging conditions today for the 12 teams competing in the 2022 Eurosaf Women’s European Championship, Stage 3 of the Women’s World Match Racing Tour. Fickle winds between 2-12knots…
Slovenia: Another slow start for day two of the 44Cup Portorož World Championship meant the fleet was held ashore with racing not getting underway until 1400 hours, but when it did fill in, the breeze was a crucial 2 knots…
The Mistral fully kicked in for day four of the 2022 Formula Kite World Championships in Cagliari, Sardinia, the wind pumping from 15 up to 22 knots, with some really hard gusts coming off the Sardinian shore. Everyone came back…
With 145 entries and counting, the 29er EuroCup Final is to be held at the popular and picturesque Fraglia Vela Riva, Lake Garda, Italy. Sailors in the European fleet are clearly happy to be back to regular racing after the…
The wind was a no-show again on Day 2 of the 2022 Immunolin F18 World Championship in Clearwater Beach, Florida, but the postponement presented competitors with the opportunity to take advantage of ‘America’s Best Beaches’ for volleyball, boat tuning, or…
After a week of perfect sailing conditions at Clearwater Beach, Florida, Mother Nature decided to take a break on Wednesday, the first day of the 2022 Immunolin F18 World Championship. 65 F18s and their crew waited patiently on the beach…
An ultra-light onshore breeze at the 44Cup Portoroz World Championship should have made for a straightforward opening day to the high performance one design’s pinnacle event of the season. In fact it demonstrated how the nimble RC44 can race meaningfully…
When the Michael Coxon-led Smeg 18ft Skiff Racing Team takes to Sydney Harbour for the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2022-23 season it will become the 26th consecutive season of boat sponsorship by the “technology with style” company with the League….
Tropical Storm Karl, which has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, played havoc on Galveston Bay for day two of the ILCA 6 World Championship. It was a waiting game in Kemah, Texas, with just one race completed in the…
London (12 October, 2022) Twelve of the world’s top women’s match racing teams arrive to the Mediterranean island of Corfu, Greece today for the start of the EUROSAF Women’s European Championship, Stage 3 of the Women’s World Match Racing Tour…
The Australian Sailing ILCA6 squad had a solid qualifying day in Kemah, Texas on day one of the ILCA 6 World Championships held out of Texas Corinthian Yacht Club. The 85 sailors completed two races on Galveston Bay in moderate…
We’ve seen Belmont 16s celebrate 100 years of sailing on Belmont Bay, a new Cherub constructed and launched in Sydney, and scores of new and returning racers. What could happen next at our Drummoyne Sailing Club round of State Championships?…
The stage was set for a grand finale day of racing on the last day of the M32 World Championship. As all boats headed to the course the top 6 boats had clear intentions of spraying champagne and taking the…
The new supercharged format for Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, which has been stretched out over two weeks for the past three years, has more than demonstrated its coherence, to the great delight of the racers and owners, as well as…
Christoph Burger is the new winner of the International Finn Cup 2022!Alessandro Marega (Società Vela Oscar Cosulich) won the 19th Menoni Trophy and third place overall. In second place was Australian Anthony Nossiter, just three points behind. The 42nd edition…
09 October 2022. Four days of light and medium intensity wind and summer weather were the scene of the last event of the coveted TF35 TROPHY circuit, allowing the completion of 9 races for the TF35 SCARLINO.The Gulf of Follonica…
15 races completed in the M32 World Championship and the scoreboard is still incredibly tight. The top six boats are going for the Championship Trophy after a day three that had everything. Midtown with skipper Larry Phillips moved up to…
Publication Monday 10 October 2022 Intrigue wins Race 1 on ORC She is no stranger to setting new yachting records so it is no surprise that David Calvert’s Intrigue is the first winner in Group 1 under the Combined Clubs…
The 2022-23 Sydney 18 footer racing season starts next Sunday (October 16) when the Australian 18 Footers League conducts Race 1 of the annual Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour. A fleet of up to 18 boats will line up for…
Switzerland: The defending 5.5 Metre champions and multiple winners of the Thunersee Yachtclub’s Herbstpreis, MF XXII (SUI 232, Jürg Menzi-Schmid, Jürgen Eiermann, Christof Wilke) won the only race possible on Saturday to lead the nine-boat fleet going into Sunday. After…
What a cracking fortnight as the racing fleet contesting the Maxi event at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez simply lit up the gulf in France’s Var region against the stunning backdrop of Saint Tropez. Storms and rain radically transformed the atmosphere…
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