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Iconic SoCal Regatta Runs June 21-23, with Check-In on June 20

In just a few weeks, the 19th edition of Long Beach Race Week kicks off. A favorite west coast regatta with three days of racing and fabulous post-racing parties by hosts Long Beach Yacht Club (LBYC) and Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (ABYC), entries are coming in fast. It’s not too late to enter for this iconic sailing event for all classes planning to race so sign up now.

North America

St. Francis Yacht Club Claims Women’s 2v2 Team Race Title

Courtesy of a unblemished 9-0 performance on Saturday, the St. Francis Yacht Club team went into the second and final day of the Women’s 2v2 Team Race with a two-point cushion over second place. But any notion that the West Coast team could coast through today’s five-team Gold Round Robin was squashed in the first few races.

International News

Atlantic Cup: Portland Bound!

It was another stunner of a day to start the second leg of the Atlantic Cup – Newport to Portland! In a first for the Atlantic Cup, teams will race to Portland. Although the race has visited the historic maritime city multiple times, this is the first time the teams will race from Newport (previous editions had teams race from New York).

International News

Figueroa & Payne Win US Multihull Championship

After three days of tough racing, with conditions from 5 to 25 knots, Puerto Ricans Francisco Figueroa and Faith Payne?captured the Hobie Alter Cup. Figueroa and Payne pulled away from the fleet on the third day, winning the last three races of the event to finish with 35 points.

International News

Eight Atlantic Cup Teams are Newport Bound!

Eight teams representing four countries started the 2024 Atlantic Cup at 12:00 ET today in sunny skies, with an initial 3-5 knot north breeze, that soon after switched to southeast. The start cannon was fired off the Spirit of South Carolina spectators looking on from land and sea.

International News

Podium finishers honoured at Transat CIC Prizegiving

Competitors and invited guests honoured the IMOCA and Class40 podiums of the 15th edition of The Transat CIC at the prizegiving Sunday in New York. The awards ceremony took place in line with the annual Fête de la Bretagne on board the 1885 wrought iron tall ship Wavertree

America's Cup

American Magic’s new patriot revealed

What a day for New York Yacht Club American Magic who called for all-hands on deck at the base super-early this morning, ahead of rolling out their new AC75 at 5.45am with the first set of slightly asymmetric race foils, rudder and rig all in place and revealing an interesting deck layout putting the helms and trimmers side by side and well forward.