Portugal: The twenty-first edition of Cascais Vela will start this Friday, August 27. Seven dozen participants, spread across three different classes – ORC, NHC and SB20 – have already trained in Cascalenses waters. In the Kings Class of the event,…
Multihull Cup sailors certainly handle all the twists and turns of high performance catamaran machines, but they’re also racing to restore the health of the ocean to preserve the sport for decades to come. The Multihull Cup is a registered Sailors…
Check out the action on and off the water on day two of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week.
With its new course and giant fleet, the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race this year provided an even greater test of racing and seamanship skill for its competitors. At 695 miles, the new course to Cherbourg was 90…
Sailing legend Jimmy Spithill explains how his United States SailGP Team overcame treacherous conditions to salvage fourth place at Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus. This photo, taken at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus this week, is…
World-renowned yacht designer Juan Kouyoumdjian explains just how much work and detail goes into the design of the IMOCA 60, where The Ocean Race Europe IMOCA class was lost and won and where the future lies for foiling offshore boats….
Meet the organisers behind the upcoming Spanish SailGP event.
St. Petersburg Yacht Club invites crews to take part in the Russian qualification CUP of the SAILING Champions League, and ultimately fight for the right to represent their home country in the 2022 Champions League’s Series final qualifier. SAILING Champions League is a competition between the strongest yacht…
The Rolex Giraglia is one of the most cherished events in the sailing calendar, presenting a rigorous test of skill on stunning Mediterranean waters. Competition is always intense but imbued with an overriding sense of camaraderie. The regatta’s principal contest,…
The Sabot Sailing Association continues to develop the sailing skills of future sailing champions and provides opportunities to young female sailors to excel. Seventy-four Sabot sailors registered to compete in the recent SeaLink 57th Sabot National Titles and…
Sleeker, lighter, more sail area and more space in the bow for the owner’s cabin (than its predecessor); the latest collaboration between Marc Lombard for naval architecture and NAUTA Design for the deck plan and layouts of the new Oceanis…
An Alloa man has completed an epic solo sailing adventure round the UK, raising thousands for charity and inspiring many along the way. At the age of 82, the Scotland’s Murdoch McGregor set off on the challenge earlier in June…
All the highlights from racing at the inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in the ‘City of Smiles’ – Aarhus. – SailGP
Hylas Yachts announced that its new Hylas H57 featuring the progressive Bill Dixon design and luxurious interior is going to make her official world debut at major US boat shows this fall. The yacht will take part in the Newport…
SailGP is a global series featuring bold, cutting-edge technology and extraordinary individual skill and athleticism. National teams compete in identical, supercharged F50 catamarans, engineered for intense racing at speeds exceeding 50 knots (nearly 60 mph/100 kmh) in some of the…
Exciting things are expected to come from one of the newest teams to the GC32 Racing Tour – Swiss Foiling Academy. They have the youngest sailors on the tour and are the first ever team to race with females on…
One recurring question among the novice offshore sailor is how to optimise your route when sailing. The practice is known among sailors with the French name of routage or the English name of weather routing. To optimize the route you will inevitably need…
Julia Jones discusses Good Little Ship; Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin by Peter Willis. When I first reviewed Peter Willis’ biography of Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett on its publication in 2017, I had enjoyed it far more than I’d necessarily…
The final voyage of the historic SY Aurora, even after 104 years, remains a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, as they say. The three-masted steam yacht from the heroic age of polar exploration vanished after sailing from the port of…
After careful review of the materials submitted to support his application, a review panel from the Transpacific Yacht Club have determined that Jesse Osborn wins the Mark S. Rudiger Celestial Navigation Trophy for the recently completed 2021 Transpac. Osborn was navigator aboard Justin Waite’s Stevens 47 Mikmaks. The trophy is…
Limone Del Garda: Sailors are in the ring at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup; fighting to remain in the competition. After the qualifying round, the scores reset to zero and the pressure ratcheted up because, at the end of every…
Interest in a sport, outside of the fanatics and those who regularly take part in that discipline, requires great rivalries, and thanks to SailGP we now can regularly see the greatest names in sailing compete in some of the most…
In August 2021 despite Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns, the Beyond The Barrier Rally once again ventured into the Coral Sea, Queensland, Australia albeit with a reduced fleet of just 12 vessels. – Down Under Rally Pty Ltd
Where and when will the next America’s Cup be and who will be competing for it? Matt Sheahan considers the inside chat on when, where, who and how the 37th America’s Cup might take shape and provides some background and…
Australian Sailing is officially launching its inaugural National SheSails Leadership Conference, to coincide with World Sailing’s first ever women’s sailing celebration, Steering the Course. Steering the Course is an international festival that aims bring together women across all generations in a…
Hardware and software refinements are making sailors safer, better informed and more confident in their decisions than ever, writes Greg Wells, UK Sales Account Manager, Raymarine. Spontaneity is a valuable asset in certain contexts: no one could deny the importance…
Windy and choppy conditions kept the fleet at the 2021 Evli 12 Metre World Championship on the docks of Nyländska Jaktklubben on Wednesday and again today. Earlier this morning, the NJK Race Committee considered a course in the lee of…
A couple have packed up their life and bought a yacht in an attempt to escape to the never-ending cycle of lockdowns on land. Melbourne-based reporter Kristina Costalos and her pilot partner John Tilley started their life on the water…
Three years ago, Beneteau and Seascape joined forces to co-develop the new generation of First. After launching the sport-cruiser part of the range: First 14, First 24 and First 27, we are excited to unveil the first model from the…
Volvo Penta’s Assisted Docking System is a hybrid between manual and automated docking, allowing users to manoeuvre their boat precisely. To operate, Assisted Docking requires Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System and its GPS-based Dynamic Positioning System antenna. It also leverages…
11th Hour Racing Team presents “The Making of” a series of videos that dive below the surface of the design and build process for our new IMOCA 60 11.2. In the series we’ll explore three themes: Design, Art, and Innovation,…
UK: In 2019 the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboats were called out to assist people on the water over 8000 times. Here’s why…
Lake Garda finally fulfilled its promise as one of the best sailing venues in the world and the Persico 69F fleet ran seven races in perfect conditions at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC). The experienced teams and newcomers alike…
As SailGP’s eight national teams ready themselves for the fourth event of Season 2, the waters of host city Aarhus played a key role in the continuing development of our cutting-edge F50 catamaran. The City of Smiles this week hosts…
The winner of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand, has committed to developing hydrogen-powered chase boats for its sailing yachts. It is also pushing for this to be included in the ‘Protocol’ (the official rules for the race series)…
In late 2018 my wife, Roxy, and I took a few suitcases of belongings and moved aboard our 47 foot Cheoy Lee monohull to start the cruise of a lifetime. So far, a familiar start to a familiar sounding story. Except unlike…
In this article we will deal with the tuning of standing rigging on a typical sailboat. Historically, the most traditional rig type is the masthead one. That is with the forestay and backstay attached to the masthead as fixed standing…
The founders of start-up Cobli say boat equity ownership is the best way forward for boat lovers who want to make a smart investment ahead of the summer months. John Cowpe and Peter Hrones have long been the importers for…
This episode of the behind-the-scenes documentary series explores two of the season’s most compelling storylines: the Denmark SailGP Team’s struggle to close the gap with more experienced competitors, and British driver Sir Ben Ainslie’s abrupt hiatus from racing. – SailGP
Turns out it takes more than a pandemic to keep sailors, naval architects and boatbuilders down. It wasn’t fair, but there’s no denying some parts of the global economy fared better than others this past year, and among the lucky…
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