Garda Delivers World-Class Racing in a World-Class Venue.Thirteen M32s from five countries assembled for the European Championship. After a 15-race series, “Rated X” took the win; however, the rest of the fleet is close on Jake Julian’s heels, with only a…
Over 150 boats are ready for a week of action on the water and ashore when Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) kicks off on 8 August, 2024 and there is a surprise or two among the…
Windsurfer Grae Morris put a horror start to the day behind him to move up to seventh overall after posting Australia’s first race win at the Paris Olympics today. The young sailor from Sydney’s Woollahra Sailing Club had to shake…
NEWPORT BEACH, CA (July 27, 2024) — Cole Tapper (AUS), Jack Frewin and Hamish Vass representing the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia came back from a 2-0 deficit against defending two-time GovCup winner Jeffrey Petersen (USA) and crew Daniel Pegg and Enzo Menditto of…
Finishing on Monday 29 July at 17:36:41 EEST Christian Zugel’s Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 (USA) took Monohull Line Honours in the 2024 Roschier Baltic Sea Race in an elapsed time of 2 Days 5 Hrs 6 Mins and 41 Secs, setting a…
Twin brothers Louis and Marc Ryckmans’ Voltstar Yeah Baby is the Overall Winner of the Peter Rysdyk Memorial Trophy for the 2024 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. URM Group has claimed Line Honours. This is the first in the six-race Audi Centre Sydney Blue…
AUSTRALIAN 18 FOOTERS LEAGUE An incredible club in a league of its own As the Australian 18 Footers League prepares to celebrate its 90th birthday of 18 footer racing on Sydney Harbour in February 2025, it’s an ideal opportunity to take…
Anthony Johnston’s Maxi 72 URM Group claimed Line Honours of the 2024 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race at 20:14 hours, finishing with an elapsed time of 1 day, 7 hours, 14 minutes, and 56 seconds. Skippered by Marcus Ashley-Jones, URM Group added to…
Australia’s sailors commenced their Paris 2024 Olympic regattas on the waters of Marseille today, with the two skiff classes getting away three races in light winds. On a day where the unstable winds meant most teams struggled to find consistently…
By World Sailing Vaimo’oi’a Ripley – all set for first #GenderEqual Olympic Games – joins record-breaking 26 athletes on World Sailing’s Emerging Nations Program, featuring 14 women and 12 men from world’s most remote countries Vaimo’oi’a Ripley – blazing a…
Saturday 27 July: Helsinki, Finland: The second edition of the Roschier Baltic Sea Race started on time with all classes making a clean start. 12-14 knots of southerly breeze and brilliant sunshine produced a fantastic spectacle just two miles offshore from…
1015 hours, Sunday 28 July 2024 A fleet of fifty yachts are running up the Australian coast towards Main Beach as the breeze has shifted west southwest and begun to build overnight. Defending Overall Winner, Anthony Johnston’s URM Group leads the pack with…
SailGP reached new heights in fan engagement, business growth and purpose in Season 4, cementing the league’s status as one of the world’s fastest-growing sports and entertainment properties LONDON, UK – July 26, 2024 – As Spain raised the trophy at…
Tash Bryant Joins Athena Pathway! The Athena Pathway Programme have released the following announcement over-night – so I finally get permission to tell you all my latest proud Dad moment! We are thrilled to announce that @tash_bryant will be joining…
By 49er.org 🚨 Countdown to the Paris Olympic Sailing Regatta! 📍 Location: Marseille 📅 Starts: March 28th 🏆 Events: Men’s and Women’s Skiff, Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer ⏰ With just 48 hours until the races begin, weather forecasts are giving us a sneak peek at who might…
By Global Solo Challenge The presentation held at the Real Club Náutico de Vigo of the Global Solo Challenge 2027/2028 marked a significant milestone for the event following the success of its inaugural edition of 2023-2024. Moving the event to…
Sydney, AustraliaThe Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is set to start on July 27, 2024 at 1300hrs. Hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), this year’s race promises thrilling competition and exceptional seamanship as 51 yachts, including…
By World Sailing The Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony will be a historic occasion for sailing as an Olympic sport, with 13 nautical athletes selected as flag bearers at the showpiece spectacle. The previous record for sailors holding their national flag…
Every Olympic cycle is unique, bringing its own unique obstacles. Who has adapted to the challenges most effectively? That only becomes clear as four-years of hard work and dedication explode in a flurry before our eyes over less than two…
For all the teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup, arguably one of the key roles is that of the coaches who provide a vital link between the sailors and the rest of the team with an all-encompassing vision…
Sailing the One Design Blusail 24, supplied by the organization, and with a ‘Round Robin’ format, this year’s all-female class at the Copa del Rey MAPFRE has beaten its own participation record with 14 crews entered Palma, Spain, 25th July…
The 2024-2025 Australian National Championship is fast approaching and soon we’ll be trailering to Largs Bay Sailing Club for 6 jam packed days of racing and merriment. All the information you need for the regatta is in the Notice of…
SailGP’s in-development T-Foils have already broken the league’s racing speed record, with Canada clocking a top speed of 101.98 km/h during tests in San Francisco. The previous record was set by France during Season 3’s visit to Saint-Tropez, where the…
There was drama in each heat on the final day of the Surf-Freestyle discipline in Fuerteventura on Tuesday as one rider after another kept dropping sick tricks, each higher and more precise than the next. Injury, innovation and pressure cooker…
Undoubtedly one of the most watched teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has been the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who, from the very start, have placed design innovation at the heart of their campaign. It is often…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2024 sold out in an unprecedented 12 minutes – minus a few seconds – but it’s more than the sailing that attracts competitors, their families and friends to this quaint island paradise. Townsville Yacht Club’s…
Organisers at Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 look forward to seeing new talents emerge every year as they gravitate to one of Australia’s favourite sailing playgrounds – and this year is no different, but the reasons…
The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and final Preliminary Regatta, starting on Thursday 22nd August 2024 and running through to Sunday 25th August where…
Suardiaz & Cappuzzo winners of the Freefly-Slalom discipline in Fuerteventura Wild and windy elimination series put tour leaders and challengers in jeopardy right to the end with nail-biting finishes and explosive crashes. There were moments when they seemed beatable –…
Tony Langley’s Gladiator became the first British flagged team to lift the Rolex TP52 World Championship title when they emerged from a testing three race finale today off Newport, Rhode Island with a six points margin over the 2021 world…
Tour leaders Suardiaz and Cappuzzo show they’re the ones to beat at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup Fuerteventura. Day one of competition starts with a streamlined elimination series and tour leaders Nia Suardiaz (ESP) and Francesco Cappuzzo (ITA) showing why…
It was a two-team dual in the 49erFX atop the standings heading into the final day of racing. Katharina Schwachhofer with Elena Stoltze (GER) leading Sofia Giunchiglia with Giulia Schio (ITA) by just a few points. The Italians moved into…
With almost the entire fleet safely in port at midday Saturday 20 July, three new winners of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE arrived in the last 24 hours: defending champion Groupe Snef (Xavier Macaire)…
Tough to watch for us Aussies, but what an event. Los Gallos ended Australia’s three-Championship winning streak and wrote themselves into the history books against all odds. Poor fleet race results, combined with France’s blistering race starts, saw Spain close…
Schwachhofer and Stoltze (GER) stay leaders in the FX class Shoultheis and Bertin (MLT) have stellar day to move into the lead over four 49er races in higher winds For the first time in class history, the Nacra 17 fleet…
Takashi Okura’s Sled, the 2021 world champions representing the hosts, the New York Yacht Club, scored best today at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Newport, RI. Their first and second places sees them going into Saturday’s finale just one…
After the arrival of MOD70 Drekan Energy (Eric Defert) in La Trinité-sur-Mer on Wednesday night, Teasing Machine (Eric de Turckheim) took monohull line honours in the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE on Thursday july 18…
Harm Müller-Spreer’s 2023 defending champions Platoon Aviation won the only race sailed at the Rolex TP52 World Championship off Newport, RI today. But while their first race victory of the event elevates them to fourth at the theoretical midpoint of…
The event will feature mixed crews and a strong ocean health component as teams race between two iconic cities The Ocean Race is announcing a new transatlantic, fully-crewed race for the IMOCA class for the summer of 2026. The event…
In Galicia, Spain, there was a long wait for wind, with races starting 3 hours late due to unstable SW breeze. It was a long day on the waters of the Arousa estuary, where the 49er, 49er FX and Nacra…
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