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…
Andoo Comanche skipper John Winning Jr says he is “pushing the limits” of the famous 100-foot maxi, after claiming the overall victory in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s inaugural Tollgate Islands Race. The VPLP 100 took Line Honours in…
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…
HIGHLIGHTS Breiana Whitehead finishes 5th overall – Strong onshore breeze of 12 knots building to 20 knots, blue skies and blue water at Poetto Beach– Toni Vodisek (SLO) wins his first world title– Daniela Moroz (USA) wins her sixth world…
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…
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…
Andoo Comanche continues to make advances ahead of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, winning line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Tollgate Islands Race. The 260 nautical mile race is the third of six races in…
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,…
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…
Strong Levante wind conditions allowed us to complete Rounds 1 and most of 2 for the men, alongside the women’s quarter finals on Thursday at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup at Cadiz in Spain. The strong wind combined with the…
Wet windy trades on the nose with confused seas for the GGR fleet. Tight group of four in pursuit of leader Simon Curwen, with Kirsten Neuschäfer going coastal. Big decisions ahead with a possible 900 mile diversion into the roaring…
HIGHLIGHTS– Mistral offshore breeze of 5 to 12 knots shakes up the pack on day 3– Daniela Moroz (USA) the only rider still to have won all races– Toni Vodisek (SLO) stays at the top of the men’s fleet– End…
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…
HIGHLIGHTSSolid breeze from 160 degrees, increasing from 9 to 14 knots during the afternoonA total of 20 qualifying races completedDaniela Moroz (USA) and Lauriane Nolot (FRA) lead the women’s qualifying fleetsAxel Mazella (FRA), Toni Vodisek (SLO) and Max Maeder (SGP)…
It has the America’s Cup and wider sailing community tuned in and eager to understand its design and performance when considering its core purpose to provide the pathway into the America’s Cup for the next generation of Women and Youth…
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…
More than 100 yachts are set to compete in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with just over two weeks still to go until entries close. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organiser of the race, has welcomed entrants…
Yann Guichard, Dona Bertarelli and nine other sailors will make up the crew of ‘Sails of Change’ for their next attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy, an award for the fastest non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. Several years…
Lake Gairdner – 11th October 2022 With the Wind Powered Land speed World Record being so heavily dependent on Mother Nature, Glenn Ashby and the team on Lake Gairdner are having to constantly monitor the weather and the windows of…
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…
Scarlino Italy delivered big on the penultimate day of the 2022 TF35 season, with five races sailed in conditions that the cutting-edge catamarans were designed for: flat water and 9-12 knots resulting in four hours of high-performance foiling. “It’s perfect…
A Dutchman and four surfers from home, in Mondello, are the new world champions of the windsurfer class. With the eighth round this afternoon the curtain has fallen on the course-race, while tomorrow will be the spectacular fleet regatta with…
The Windsurfer World Championship continues in Mondello. Saturday the course-racing is decided, Sunday the long distance.Casagrande, Giordano, Alberti, Van den Berg and Linares aim for success. The title of Slalom in Marsala It will be the two races tomorrow to…
Italy: Day two of racing at the TF35 Scarlino, the final regatta of the 2022 season and Jérôme Clerc at the helm of Realteam for Leman Hope once again sailed a perfect day, adding two more bullets to his team’s…
In June, the IGC passed a resolution allowing for the remediation of M11 boats, which was announced in the Q2 newsletter and can be read in full resolution here. Since that time, several owners have started the process of remediating…
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