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Under unusually cloudy skies for Sardinia, after three days of sirocco and consequent waves, the French team Groupe Atlantique won the GP2.2 Persico 69F Cup in the waters of Puntaldia, San Teodoro. Seven crews took part in the second weekend…
World Sailing CEO declares “big future” for Para Kiteboarding. World Sailing’s first ever Para Kiteboarding Development Programme has concluded after four days of action on Lake Garda, Italy, where 11 coaches and athletes from seven countries were put through their…
Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines) has made history by winning the Scandinavian Gold Cup at Hankø Yacht Club, Norway, after two more races were sailed on Tuesday. They won both races to become the first…
The 91st edition of the Island Sailing Club’s Round the Island Race started with a bang from the Royal Yacht Squadron’s starting cannons at 0800 on saturday morning, fired by The Marathon Watch Company President, Mitchell Wein. Over 1,100 boats…
Relive the start of the first leg of the Globe40 in Tangier.
The 2022 5.5 Metre Scandinavian Gold Cup began on Monday at Hankø, Norway, with race wins for Ku-Ring-Gai 3 (AUS 66, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) and Jean Genie (GBR 42, Elliot Hanson, Andrew Palfrey, Sam Haines). In a…
Today was all about the medal races in Kiel, with light winds delaying the starts until late morning when the both the temperature and the pressure ramped up. Queenslander Mara Stransky wore the leader’s yellow bib into today’s medal race,…
After months, indeed years of preparation, the crews took the OFFICIAL START of the first edition of the Globe40 this Sunday 26 June at 15:00 hours Moroccan time (14:00 UTC) in the Bay of Tangier. Before leaving the Strait of…
Winning four out of six inshore races during Episode 2 of the Pro Sailing Tour in Brest, France, on Thursday and Friday, the crew of Leyton usually led by Brit Sam Goodchild, but on this occasion with Morgan Lagravière at…
The GC32 Lagos Cup, the pre-Worlds for next month’s GC32 World Championship, concluded in big breeze. Despite the flying catamaran fleet heading out an hour early, by the end of the first race, the sea state was still relatively flat…
Extremely light and shifty conditions on the final day of fleet racing in Kiel saw plenty of Australian athletes through to Sunday’s medal races, and some fall frustratingly short of the medal race cut off. There were no issues for…
Lagos, the port on Portugal’s Algarve the GC32 Racing Tour, has been bringing its world class sailors to since 2018, laid on flat water, despite a 20 plus knot offshore north-westerly in the final race, demonstrating again why this is…
Cascais remains one of the most rewarding venues for the Quantum Racing team, as Doug DeVos’ US flagged crew today lifted the 2022 Rolex TP52 World Championship title, their third back-to back regatta win on the Atlantic waters off the…
After an absence of 13 years, the 5.5 Metre Class is making a welcome return to Hankø Yacht Club in Norway for its Scandinavian Gold Cup, Class Cups and World Championship, to be sailed from June 27 to July 5….
With temperatures in the high twenties and sizeable swell across the racecourse, Kiel felt like Queensland for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes competing in Germany where the top performer again was Tokyo Olympian, Mara…
A small, uncharacteristic error approaching the first windward mark of the second race today cost regatta leaders Quantum Racing dearly, but it sets up what promises to be an engaging Saturday local time title showdown against Platoon for the Rolex…
Lagos demonstrated again today what an excellent ‘find’ this venue was by the GC32 Racing Tour, which first held an event here for its foiling catamarans back in 2018, followed by the GC32 World Championship in 2019. Conditions on day…
Yesterday’s light wind frustrations were forgotten for the Australian sailors competing at Kiel Week in Germany, as a thermal breeze came through mid-morning which built to 7-10 knots giving the fleets a full day of competition. The breeze suited many…
While Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi Red Bull Racing team has topped GC32 competition for many years, they are now focused on 37th America’s Cup training and so are fielding two teams on the GC32 Racing Tour: SUI 8, which emphatically won…
Brilliant conditions on Thursday opened the Olympic part of Kiel Week with eight different nations wearing yellow leader jerseys. At the belated start of the second part of Kiel Week, the leading positions in the eight Olympic disciplines are internationally…
“If you ain’t first you’re last” While Quantum Racing returned a second and a sixth to finish the day with a two points lead at the top of the Rolex TP52 World Championship on the waters off Cascais, Portugal one…
Last night, just before midnight, Rushour was the first for the 7th Edition of the New Caledonia Groupama Race to cross the finish line. The Australian Drew 15 catamaran won this in real time in 3d 13h 42m 38s. Live…
When racing kicks off today (Thursday 23rd) on Portugal’s Algarve at the GC32 Lagos Cup, the flying catamaran fleet will be back up to its full pre-pandemic size of ten boats. As reported, new additions for this second event of…
Crews are beginning to assemble ahead of the racing, the J-Class quartet will start the action out on the water and two other superyacht classes will deliver great competition. The time has come and it is all systems go for…
The weather gods had little in mind for the sailors on Wednesday (22 June) at the start of the Olympic part of Kiel Week. Because the sun hid for too long, the thermal easterly wind did not build up. Doldrums…
Maintaining a superior level of consistency Quantum Racing lead the Rolex TP52 World Championship by four points after another two challenging light winds races on the waters off Cascais, Portugal. And while double world champions Platoon are pressing their US…
Battles throughout the fleet and imminent finishes 300 nautical miles upwind, the second half of the New Caledonia Groupama Race has not been an easy task. We have seen varying strategies, with some opting to stay offshore, and others flirting…
The Calm After the Storm The trade winds have settled in New Caledonia and the fleet have continued to enjoy the calmer conditions. The majority of the fleet are now around the North of the Island and heading upwind for…
The Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race has been cancelled due to the size of boats competing, and the amount of water at the entrance to Keppel Bay Marina or Rosslyn Bay Boat Harbour. “The water is only 1.1m at…
When Emirates Team New Zealand arrived in Bermuda in 2017 for the 35th America’s Cup, they spectacularly wrong-footed their rivals when they unveiled a mini peloton of four “cyclors” pumping away on a row of fixed bikes instead of a…
The first Kiel Week 2022 winners have been determined and saw four Germans, three Danes and a Norwegian plus Hungarians and Kiwis in front in the international classes. The Gold Cup in the Folkboats was won by Søren Kæstel, Erik…
Runners Up Twice Today, Quantum Racing Open Strong in Cascais at the Rolex TP52 World Championship. Racing in winds which were much lighter than Cascais has built its reputation for, Doug DeVos US flagged Quantum Racing has the early lead…
The GP2.1 Persico 69F Cup, a three-day highly competitive event in one of the best race courses in the Mediterranean, Puntaldia, has just ended, crowning Fin1Racing team for the third GP in a row. Allan Norregaard, Janne Jarvinen and Iago…
Dame Ellen MacArthur is set to sail alongside young people supported by her cancer charity after confirming she will take part in this year’s Round the Island Race on Saturday 25th June. The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust has been the…
Good luck to CYCA Members Geoff Hill and Ian Edwards, who are taking on the 654 nautical mile New Caledonia Groupama Race. Geoff, a 30-Year CYCA Member, leads the monohull charge on his Santa Cruz 72, Antipodes. Antipodes has been…
An amendment to the Special Regulations now allows HMPE ropes (such as Dyneema) to be used as lifelines in category 4 to 7 monohulls and all categories for multihulls. This presents new challenges for Equipment Auditors. Category 4 – 7…
It’s time for round two of offshore racing’s most exciting new competition! Seven Ocean Fifty foiling trimarans that regularly see speeds of up to 42 knots are converging on Brest in Finistère, Brittany, this week for Episode 2 of the…
WWW in Schilksee – Waiting for wind and weather was the name of the game on the third day of the Kiel Week regatta for the crews in the ten international classes and for the offshore yachts: Thunderstorm cells around…
The second event of the 52 Super Series, the 2022 Rolex TP52 World Championship, will see nine teams compete at the hugely popular venue of Cascais, Portugal renowned for its strong winds and Atlantic waves for the world’s leading grand…
On Tuesday, 1st October 1872 in Tom Keary’s Hotel on the corner of William and Brougham Streets, Sydney, a meeting culminated in the formation of Sydney Amateur Sailing Club with four boats and 12 members. In 2022 we celebrate our…
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