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Antigua, Sunday 30 April: Day 1 of racing completed! We were blessed with beautiful sailing conditions today. Check out what Richard Moxey from El Ocaso has to say about today’s close racing, and Tahvorn George’s experience of Chase the Race…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Sunday, 30th of April, 2023 Retired Navy commander, 43 year old Abhilash Tomy, the renowned sailor and first Indian to complete a solo non stop voyage around the world in 2013, made history on Saturday by…
San Francisco, USA (28 April 2023) – Celia Willison and the Edge Women’s Match Team from New Zealand secured a hard-fought victory today at the inaugural all-women Casa Vela Cup hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco,…
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Ed Wright) has won the 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole after two more races were held on Saturday in light winds. Artemis (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther)…
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Ed Wright) extended their lead on the second day of 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Torbole. Artemis (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther) moved up to second after winning the final…
San Francisco, USA (27 April 2023) – Day 3 of the all-women Casa Vela Cup at the St Francis Yacht Club today finished the double round robin qualifiers and advanced the top four teams to the semi-finals: Nicole Breault (USA)/Vela…
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San Francisco, USA (26 April 2023) – Day 2 of the Casa Vela Cup at the St. Francis Yacht Club finished with the ten competing all-women’s teams all vying for a valued spot in the semi-finals. Local sailor Nicole Breault…
San Francisco, USA (25 April 2023) – Nicole Breault (USA) and her Vela Racing team of Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer, Dana Riley Hayes, and Maggie Bacon are undefeated on Day 1 of the 2023 Casa Vela Cup, the opening stage of…
It’s wide-open going into the final day of the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships Almost all the boats in the top 10 are still in contention with two races remaining. The standings changed dramatically after three races were held on…
After two days of action on Biscayne Bay, the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships are displaying the depth that so many predicted. There have been different winners of each of the four races and it’s easy for even the best…
The announcement of the first pre-regatta to be held in the beautiful Catalan seaside port of Vilanova i la Geltrú from the 14th-17th September 2023 was the month’s big news from an organisational standpoint and certainly sharpened the minds and…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby’s World Record Run of 222.43km/h in Horonuku was widely celebrated when achieved on December the 11th 2022, breaking the previous record of 202.9km/h by Richard Jenkins which had been unbroken for over 13…
The Mondial du Vent kicked off with a bang as strong Tramontana winds swept across the competition venue, allowing us to run the competition from sunrise to sunset on the first day. We completed the women’s Surf-Freestyle division, and made…
MEN’S ELIMINATION 2 During the Men’s Elimination finals, the wind was blowing at around 12 knots, providing the perfect conditions for the competitors to showcase their skills. Mathis Ghio, one of the top contenders, took an early lead at the…
It seems like only yesterday we packed down Tokyo, but the sprint is on for Paris 2024 and the Princess Sofia Trophy 2023 is our first chance to see the new characters and who is returning. For all the talk…
MEN’S ELIMINATION 1 and 2 Following a protest that had taken place the day before, the race committee had decided to re-run the men’s elimination 1 final. The decision was made after carefully considering the circumstances that had led to…
For the third event of the GWA Wingfoil World Tour this season, 48 men and 18 women have registered to compete. As the 26th edition of the Mondial du Vent in Leucate, it’s evident why this location is a prime…
9 months of competition, 8 unprecedented stopovers, 25 competing skippers, 35,000 nautical miles sailed around the planet… the Globe40 film in english version is online! IMAGE IN FRANCE is offering viewers a wonderful 38-minute showcase of this extraordinary human and…
France’s biggest windsports event, the Mondial du Vent, is set to host the GWA Wingfoil World Cup where a stellar cast of leading wingfoil athletes will battle in Surf-Freestyle and the new FreeFly-Slalom disciplines. It is the third straight year…
The Lords of Tram GKA Big-Air Kite World Cup France has concluded with a phenomenal display of big air kiting, thanks to the strong Tramontana wind. Undoubtedly, this event was the highlight of the kite world this year. Spain’s Liam…
LATEST UPDATE – New Race Multihull Record …REX finished 06:08:00 this morning. A lovely 8-10 knot westerly marked the start of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s 37th Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race, when it started off Barrenjoey Headland…
The Canadians bested hosts New Zealand and season leaders Australia in the Final to secure victory, earning driver Phil Robertson a deserved win on his home waters. Despite falling at the last hurdle and losing in the Final, neither the…
Words: Ian MacKinnonPhotos: Lukas K Stiller The US’s Moona Whyte seized victory at the first GWA Wingfoil World Cup dedicated to pure surfing, staged on the world-renowned Ponta Preta break on Cape Verde’s Sal island. It was the American’s second…
Te Rehutai, Emirates Team New Zealand’s 36th America’s Cup winning yacht is set to return to the waters of Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf just over 2 years since the last time it was sailed for the final race of AC36. The…
NEW WINGFOIL DISCIPLINE IN WAVES The world’s leading wingfoilers opened their accounts in a ground-breaking new wave discipline in the first elimination rounds of the GWA Wingfoil World Cup on the Cape Verde island of Sal. Few of the athletes,…
The main feature of the March episode of the World Sailing Show returns to the Canary Islands for the Lanzarote International Regatta where 360 sailors from six classes took to the water for eight days of races. Big winds, even…
Reigning world champion James Carew was dumped from the GKA Kite-Surf World Cup on the second day of the contest on Cape Verde in epic waves. The Australian, who was hoping to land a third successive title, lost the day’s…
Canadian competitor Mélodie Schaffer rounded off her circumnavigation of the globe today by crossing the finish line of the final leg in Lorient at 09H20 hours UTC. Aboard her WHISKEY JACK with American Tom Pierce, she completes the course in…
After three intense days of competition, the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi concluded with no racing on the final day due to a lack of wind. So the wearers of the yellow bibs, Paula Novotna (CZE)…
DAY ONE: PONTA PRETA DELIVERS The legendary waves of Cape Verde were firing for the first clashes of the opening GKA Kite-Surf World Cup which has drawn the globe’s top athletes to fight for honours. The women’s competition kicked off…
Eight short course races completed on day three of the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi, and there were some very tired wingfoilers coming ashore at the end of racing. Light winds are the hardest work for…
The historic Catalonian port of Vilanova i la Geltrú, has today been announced as the Host Venue for the first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup, with racing to take place over four days between 14-17th September 2023 in…
GRYPHON SOLO2: THE END OF THE GREAT ADVENTURE AROUND THE PLANET The American competitor GRYPHON SOLO 2 crossed the GLOBE40 finish line today in front of Lorient at 07:53 UTC. In 3rd position on this leg Joe Harris and Roger…
Six short course races in one afternoon, it was a busy second day of competition at the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi. In the women’s fleet, new girl on the block Karolina Kluszczynska (POL) took a…
As four IMOCAs march past the halfway point of leg 3 in southern latitudes, GUYOT environnement – Team Europe starts sailing towards Brazil to rejoin the next leg… Team Holcim PRB retains its lead on Thursday, as the fleet compresses…
Off Lorient, Brittany, the Dutch crew on SEC HAYAI made up of Frans Budel and Ysbrand Endt, crossed the finish line of the 8th and final leg of the GLOBE40 at 19:41 UTC this Wednesday. The Anglo-American crew on AMHAS,…
Crowning our Champions at the GWA Wingfoil World Cup New Zealand.There was a light breeze for the final of the GWA Wingfoil World Cup in New Zealand where we managed to complete men’s elimination 5, and women’s eliminations 12 and…
Time is the great enemy of any America’s Cup campaign, so February and the first half of March have been a busy time with a noticeable ramping up of the intensity all round. The northern hemisphere winter has been cold…
The never-ending pursuit of excellence was all apparent on the final day of racing at the 96th Bacardi Cup and Bacardi Invitational Regatta. Biscayne Bay delivered another stunning day, with an offshore breeze changing the race track strategy. They came,…
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