The 44Cup returns to Italy next week for the first time since Porto Cervo in 2017, and this time the high-performance owner-driver one designs will be racing around the mainland area, at a new venue for the 2021 44Cup World…
Three-time Olympic medallist in the 470 class, Mat Belcher, chatted to me from the Gold Coast, where he is winding down with his family following a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. For Belcher, Tokyo marked the end of his 470…
Menorca, Spain: Not since Quantum Key West Race Week in 2014 has a 52 Super Series team opened a regatta with three back-to-back race wins, but Andy Soriano’s Alegre team matched the record of Quantum Racing on Wednesday. Alegre won…
The France SailGP Team will have a new driver for the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz, Andalusia, following the announcement that Quentin Delapierre will be taking the helm of the team’s F50. Fresh off the back of the Tokyo…
Italian team Claudia Rossi & Pietro D’Alì have been crowned winners of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship after a hard-fought final leg to Venice. When the final leg started at lunchtime on Friday, Rossi and D’Ali were slow out of the starting blocks of the 100-mile overnight race…
With ominous black clouds rolling over Scarlino, Italy, the morning of the final day racing looked borderline from the start with a forecast of 18 knots, building to gusts of 25 knots by lunchtime. After the morning briefing, Principal Race…
One of the world’s most exciting sailing races, Sail GP, will return to Sydney in December making it the first major global sports tournament to be held on the harbour since the outbreak of COVID-19. Tickets are on sale now…
The Coral Sea Marina community came together last week to showcase the spirit of the Whitsundays in a bid to raise much needed funds and promote awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) by holding the ’ Big…
With two years to go until the start of Class40’s official round-the-world race, The Race Around’s organisers, 5 Ocean Sports Marketing and their US counterpart Manuka Sports Event Management, are delighted to officially open registration. The event’s preliminary Notice of…
Brett Campbell has interviewed over 20 live-aboards after he and his wife moved onboard their yacht. These and their own experiences form the basis for a series of articles on living on board which Brett wrote for Cruising Helmsman. In…
Australian sailing legend Lisa Blair is preparing her yacht, Climate Action Now, at Rivergate Marina, Brisbane for her next world record. Lisa sets off in December to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica. The team at Rivergate Marina invite…
As if easing the teams into the final decider of the inaugural TF35 season, Scarlino delivered a warm sea breeze between 6 – 11 knots, flat water and blue skies on the sparkling Tuscan coast for the opening day of…
Eighty-year-old Italian offshore sailor Pasquale De Gregorio reflects on his sailing career; most notable is his completion of the 2000/01 Vendée Globe race, where De Gregorio was considerably older than the other competitors. “I was born in Abruzzo, on the…
With the announcement of the New Maxi Era of performance Swan Superyachts – the launch of the new Swan 88, the first Swan with a hybrid propulsion and the Swan 108 last Spring, Nautor’s Swan has paved the way for…
Giovanna Valsecchi & Andrea Pendibene have sailed to a resounding victory on leg two of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship in Italy. The crew representing Marina Militare (Italian Navy) crossed the finish line at Marina di…
Offshore racing yacht owners in south-east Queensland looking to qualify for major events, including the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, have had their task made much easier thanks to a new event organised by Southport Yacht Club. Titled the South-East…
Relatively unknown Victorian sailor Rain Forbes has a dream to join the ranks of famous Australian adventurers Jon Sanders, Kay Cottee, Jesse Martin and Jessica Watson, some of whom she has admired from afar and who have helped drive her…
“It’s a man’s world” no longer, and out on the water more and more women are taking the helm and enjoying all the freedom and empowerment that boating has to offer. In the last eighteen months leisure boat sales have…
The SAEM Vendée, the organisers of the Vendée Globe, will also organise the Vendée Arctic – Les Sables-d’Olonne which will be the first qualifying stage for the Vendée Globe 2024. The Arctic Vendée Les Sables-d’Olonne will leave from Port Olona,…
Victory in the Speed Runs and the runner’s-up spot in the double-handed 48-hour race were the highlights for the 11th Hour Racing Team, as it competed with two boats in the Défi Azimut regatta in Lorient on the French Brittany…
Taylor Canfield’s (USA) Team, Stars+Stripes, has triumphed in the 56th Congressional Cup at Long Beach Yacht Club, capping five-days of high calibre competition in this World Match Racing Tour championship event and making Canfield the most successful skipper in the 56-year…
Rhode Island: For the second time in three editions, Southern Yacht Club will leave the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court with the most prestigious trophy in Corinthian sailing — the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, firmly in…
Sport is all about emotions, highs and lows, and nowhere was this more evident than at the conclusion of the third GC32 World Championship held in Villasimius. The Sardinian resort town saved its best conditions to last today, with flat…
Sanxenxo, Spain: The spectacular final race of the Xacobeo Six Metre European Championship 2021 proved to be an absolute cliff hanger, but in the end, Bribon 500 and Thisbe came out on top and are the new champions. Initially the…
MySailing editor, Greta Quealy, caught up with Nacra 17 sailor Lisa Darmanin back home in Sydney after time spent in hotel quarantine following an eventful Tokyo Olympics. Cousins Lisa Darmanin, 30, and Jason Waterhouse, 29, had a mammoth task ahead…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, remains hopeful the ‘Great Race’ will return in 2021. With 100 days until the start of the race, Noel Cornish AM, CYCA Commodore, provided an update…
Australian Sailing regrets to announce that the 2021 Australian Yachting Championships have been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be run as a part of Hamilton Island Race Week (HIRW) from 21-28 August. With…
Following a very close 37th America’s Cup (AC37) Host Venue selection process consisting of three compelling and professional international proposals, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) together with Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ), announced today that they are extending…
French skipper Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crossed the finish line off Saint Nazaire on France’s Loire Atlantique coast at 22:23:30pm on Thursday evening to win (subject to jury), the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, the longest and toughest edition of…
The second day of the Xacobeo Six Metre European Championship at the Real Club Nautico Sanxenxo in Galicia got off to a regal start with a visit from Her Royal Highness Infanta Dona Elena of Spain. The Infanta is a…
The Royal Thames Yacht Club’s entry competing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, put on an almost perfect display of racing on the first day of the event. The British team, which won the event in…
Emil Kjaer, representing the Royal Danish Yacht Club, won the 2021 Ficker Cup on Sunday, official event of the World Match Racing Tour, qualifying his team to this week’s 56th Congressional Cup along with second and third placed Ficker Cup skippers…
It is two years until the start of the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) and a return to Corinthian round the world racing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread round the world race back in 1973/74. Sir Chay Blyth,…
The furthest Graham Collins sails his boat is along the coast of Nova Scotia, so the Haligonian was stunned when he got a call from the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, asking if he was sailing through the eye of Hurricane…
In the third instalment of the ‘Making of IMOCA 60 11.2’ members of 11th Hour Racing Team dig into the details of innovative projects that were realised as a part of the IMOCA 60 boat build. By 11th Hour Racing…
The scintillating waters of Saint-Tropez lit up with excitement for thousands of fans on the final day of racing of the France Sail Grand Prix, the fifth event of the season. Equipped with the newly-fitted, mammoth 29 metre wingsail, the…
The spectator-lined seawall of Saint Tropez was matched by the dazzling array of superyachts surrounding the F50 racecourse for the opening day of the France Sail Grand Prix, where fair weather brought out large crowds for an adrenaline-fueled day of…
Akos Lukats has won the 2021 Finn European Masters at the Tihanyi Hajós Egylet in Tihany, Hungary after no more races were possible on the final day, with Bas De Waal (NED) and Taras Havrysh (UKR) placing second and third…
France: The fifth event of SailGP will make its debut in the world-famous French seaside resort of Saint-Tropez this weekend, for the France Sail Grand Prix, where Tom Slingsby and the Australia Team are hoping to keep their winning streak…
Today, after three relatively light races, the wind was knocking on the door of 20 knots for the penultimate day of competition at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. This was the most breeze seen all week and the reason the…
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