US Sailing, the national governing body for the sport, is pleased to announce nominees for the 2024 US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year, widely acknowledged as the premier individual sailing honors in the nation.
Excitement is building for the first-ever Foiling Week Pensacola 2025, the premier international foiling regatta and World Sailing Special Event, taking place in less than three months in Florida’s Panhandle (24 February – 2 March). Foiling Week is the first and only global event dedicated to the amazing foiling boats and boards, their athletes, designers and manufacturers.
The International Melges 24 Class Association, in conjunction with the U.S. and Canadian Melges 24 Class Associations, is excited to announce the 2025 North American Sailing Series schedule of events.
With most of the country settling in to welcome the holiday season, training efforts are ramping up in the Youth and Olympic Development (ODP) spaces.
The 2024 Melges 24 North American Sailing Series (NASS) was not just about racing—it was a season filled with exceptional talent, fierce competition, world-class events, dynamic destinations and a whole lot of fun! Spanning ten regattas across the United States and Canada, the series brought Melges 24 sailors together from coast to coast, and all over the world in a celebration of skill and camara
The Melges 15 Class successfully launched the 2024-25 Winter Series at the Melges Watersports Center in Merritt Island, Florida with a new November event the weekend before Thanksgiving. Attracting 66 teams from across the nation, this debut event marked a fantastic start to the season.
Four stops scheduled in premier West Coast match racing series
Foiling Week Pensacola 2025’s line-up has been bolstered with the addition of three fast-foiling boards and an ‘open’ class discipline, taking it to fourteen classes participating so far. Registrations are now open at www.foilingweek.com.
On Friday, November 15, Luke Muller (Fort Pierce, FL) was elected as the next Team USA Athletes’ Commission Representative for US Sailing, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport. Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, CA) was elected to serve as the Alternate Representative and will work alongside Luke to support American sailing athletes.
The 52 SUPER SERIES 2025 will visit four countries: France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, and two oceans: the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
The 2024 North American Sailing Series will conclude with the highly anticipated Bushwhacker Cup, hosted by the Pensacola Yacht Club (PYC) this weekend, November 8-10.
The New York Yacht Club is pleased to announce the inaugural International Women’s Championship, a female-only competition that will be sailed in the Club’s fleet of 37-foot IC37 yachts, September 12 to 19, 2026.
With four months to go, entries are now open for Foiling Week Pensacola 2025, the multi-class “World Sailing Special Event” to be held in Florida from February 24th to March 2nd 2025.
Registration opens December 2, 2024 for the bucket-list offshore race
The Long Beach Yacht Club today posted the Notice of Race for its milestone 60th Anniversary of The Congressional Cup, the club’s flagship event, from April 30 – May 4, 2025. The event will be preceded by the Ficker Cup Grade 2 event from April 25-27 which will award the top two finishers an invitation to The Congressional Cup.
When Seattle—a city famous for its coffee, rain, and salmon—puts on a show, you can bet your last shackle that it’s going to be a great experience, especially when world-class sailboat racing is involved.
A final inshore race held in 10-12 knot conditions provides an ideal end to a perfect week of racing
Somewhere behind the curtain that hides the master regatta control panel, there is a wild haired maniac pulling levers and pushing buttons. This is the only logical explanation for the variety of conditions on hand for the Seattle 2024 J24 World Championship presented by Beecher’s Handmade Cheese.
Sailboat racing is a game of skill, but also a game of luck. It takes skill to make a boat go fast for an entire race. It takes skill to pick the best side of the racecourse. But sometimes the “best side” fades away, or the boats ahead conspire to make sure no clear lane will ever be available.
A delayed start to wait for wind today still yielded two more windward-leeward inshore races at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. With five inshore races completed, the scorelines now have one discard applied, resulting in even closer points margins on the leaderboard in some classes.
A delayed start to wait for wind today still yielded two more windward-leeward inshore races at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. With five inshore races completed the scorelines now have one discard applied, resulting in even closer points margins on the leaderboard in some classes.
Today the weather was the star in Day Three of the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court. A rather gloomy forecast of a 6- to 8-knot easterly blossomed into 10 to 12 knots and what many locals called some of the best conditions of the season.
The weather was the star on Day Three of the 2024 ORC World Championship held at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. A rather gloomy forecast of a 6- to 8-knot easterly blossomed into 10 to 12 knots and what many locals called some of the best conditions of the season. These ideal conditions prompted prompted Principal Race Officer Tom Duggan to call for three windward-leeward races for all cla
After 24 to 30 hours of racing and sailing courses varying in length from 157 to 203 miles the fleet has now finished and the results in for the first race of the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court. These results are significant for all of the 43 teams competing because they are not discardable in the final score tallies.
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