The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee (BROC) is pleased to announce the Notice of Race for the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race has been posted to our Official Notice Board and will begin accepting entries on Friday, June 16, 2023 at 1300 EDT – one year prior (3rd Friday in June) to the first gun of the 2024 Race.
This year, Spencer and his Menace team doubled up on first-place trophies, winning Friday’s shortened Round the Island Race and then taking the weekend series as well.
Like the individualistic entrepreneurs for which it was named, the Prospector team has never been afraid to put miles under its keel in search of treasure. Since the team came together a decade ago, it has raced in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific and Tasman seas, tackling some of the pinnacles of offshore sailing and racking up more than a few podium finishes and significant victor
The US Sailing Team has announced the slate of 14 athletes who will represent the United States at this year’s Paris 2024 Test Event taking place in Marseille, France July 7-16. The Test Event will closely mirror the Olympic Games competition, with each country sending one boat per class.
11th Hour Racing Team has unveiled its crew line-up for Leg 6 of The Ocean Race – the short, three-day coastal dash to The Hague, The Netherlands. Skipper Charlie Enright (USA) has called in France’s Sailor of the Decade, Franck Cammas (FRA), as Trimmer, alongside Navigator Simon Fisher (GBR), Trimmer Francesca Clapcich (ITA), and Pierre Bouras (FRA) as Media Crew Member.
The curtain on the Midtown Cup is officially open. Don Wilson and his Convexity team have been crowned champions of the first event in the American summer series.
By weight, the 12 Metre Modern class might be the biggest one-design fleet at the 169th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, which kicks off this Friday off Newport, R.I. While just four boats are expected to race in this edition of North America’s oldest annual regatta, they pack quite a punch on the scale, coming in at somewhere around 30 to 35 tons apiece. For reference, the five-year-old IC37 d
Registration is now open and early bird pricing is still available for all classes planning to race in the 18th edition of Long Beach Race Week scheduled for June 22-25, 2023. 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), this year promises to be as good as it ever gets.
A three race day in a good nine to 11kts of breeze on Tuscany’s scenic Gulf of Follonica brought the 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino Sailing Week back on schedule after missing one race Thursday due to the threat of thunderstorms. Quantum Racing powered by American Magic now lead into the final Saturday showdown with a slender two points lead.
Charlie Dalin (FRA), the two-time IMOCA world champion, will join the only US entry in The Ocean Race for the critical double-pointer leg from Newport, Rhode Island, to Aarhus, Denmark.
A somber day for the sailing community. Buddy Melges, affectionately known as the “Wizard of Zenda,” was a true icon in the sport, leaving an indelible mark on the world of sailing. Not only was he an exceptional sailor, but he was also revered as a remarkable individual. Throughout his life, Buddy exemplified kindness, authenticity, and unmatched skill on the water.
2023 marks a new era for WASZP in North America as we embark on an exciting journey to shape the future of foiling in the region. Our goal is to connect the community, develop sailors, and foster a culture that will be admired by sailing classes worldwide.
SAILGP’S ADRENALINE-FUELED RACING WILL VISIT LOS ANGELES FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN SEASON 4 – AND TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!
The U.S. Melges 24 Class is thrilled for the start of the 2023 Quantum Sails Great Lakes Cup, a four-part regatta series that officially gets underway on May 20-21. The 2023 Midwest One-Design Spring Championship is the first event of the Series, hosted by the Muskegon Yacht Club. In 2023, participation is big as almost 30 teams are registered to race the two-day event.
The 74-foot Bella Mente will likely be the most eye-catching boat competing under the ORC rating rule at the 2023 edition of the New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta, June 9 to 11. But it’s the plethora of racer-cruisers from 30 to 45 feet in length that are the real proof that ORC has established itself in the United States.
The Quantum Melges 24 Great Lakes Cup consists of four high-profile events across the Midwest District of the U.S. Melges 24 Class. Here is the line-up of events for 2023:
Less than three months away and on the heels of the Ocean Race stopover, the 2023 12mR World Championship will be the next world sailing competition in Newport, R.I. Sanctioned by the International Twelve Metre Association and hosted by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station in partnership with Organizing Authority Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the event is scheduled for July 30-August 5 and will see ten
This evening at 16:32:25 co-skippers of Canada Ocean Racing Shawyer & Barkey crossed the finish line in Brest, France with an elapsed time of 5 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes and 25 seconds.
Over the past nine months, the New York Yacht Club American Magic Women’s & Youth America’s Cup Task Force has assembled a talented core roster of sailors with the drive and ability to claim the inaugural editions of the Women’s and Youth America’s Cup regattas in late summer and early fall of 2024.
The 2023 Soling World Championship is being held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the waters of Lake Michigan from the 17th to the 23rd of September, 2023.
Australia claimed the three-peat to win the SailGP Season 3 title, while the United States SailGP Team finished the Mubadala SailGP Season 3 Grand Final in San Francisco event in eighth place and seventh place overall for the season
Canada Ocean Racing is ready to start the highly anticipated Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race, set to take place from May 7, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. The course is 1200-mile loop in the Atlantic via the Fastnet at the southwestern tip of Ireland and a Gallimard Waypoint located northwest of Cape Finisterre.
SailGP’s 11th and final event of Season 3 takes place on iconic San Francisco Bay this weekend, May 6 – 7, at the Mubadala SailGP Season 3 Grand Final. After a competitive season full of thrills, near misses and exciting finishes, the sport’s best athletes are ready to leave it all on the Bay.
Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s US flagged Interlodge which has Cameron Appleton as tactician and 2020 Olympian Stephanie Roble debuting as strategist made their best possible start to the 2023 52 SUPER SERIES season when they posted two wins from the first two races of the 52 SUPER SERIES Saint-Tropez Sailing Week.
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