Sailing is one of few sports where men and women can compete equally, yet they are not usually equally represented onboard. The international charity The Magenta Project and Canada Ocean Racing team have teamed up to get more women on ocean race boats, starting with an exclusive sailing and networking event in Toronto Monday, 26 September.
The 2022 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (GLIOR) was hosted this past week, September 23rd through 25th 2022 at the Columbia Yacht Club (ColYC) in Chicago, IL.
A year of hard work—three winter series regattas in Fort Lauderdale and a full summer of sailing in Newport—paid off for Peter McClennen’s Gamecock team (above) as they blitzed a competitive 20-boat fleet to win the 2022 IC37 North American Championship.
The final day of The Défi Azimut marked the last time The Ocean Race teams will line up against one another in a crewed format, before the start of The Ocean Race 2022-23 on January 15 next year.
After seven races sailed over four days on breezy San Francisco Bay, there are two new skippers who are wearing Rolex watches for winning their ORC classes in the St Francis Yacht Club’s Rolex Big Boat Series.
On Friday, September 16 the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station will host the first day of the 12 Metre North American Championship in the waters of Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound.
After displaying remarkable consistency across a range of conditions over the first three days of the 2022 Resolute Cup, Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, Mass., decided to dispense with the pleasantries
On a shifty, puffy and generally frustrating day on Narragansett Bay, the key to success in the 2022 Resolute Cup was patience and conservative decision making, at least according to the two skippers currently occupying the top two slots.
Mike Tyson is famous for saying that everyone has a good plan until they get punched in the mouth. For the Shelter Island Yacht Club team competing in the 2022 Resolute Cup, Day 1 wasn’t much different than a stiff jab from the former heavyweight champion.
Experience counts at the Resolute Cup. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. But it’s more convincing to look at the hard evidence.
Wednesday dawned sunny and breezy at the 100th Anniversary Star Worlds, in a perfect change of fortunes after Tuesday’s fog, rain and lack of wind forced racing to be cancelled.
Helly Hansen, the leading global sailing brand, is proud to announce its continued partnership with New York Yacht Club American Magic, the US Challenger for the 37th America’s Cup.
At 10:30 am tomorrow, teams representing 23 top yacht clubs from around the country will commence battle in pursuit of the Resolute Cup, one of sailing’s most prestigious Corinthian trophies.
Unless you are French, or you holiday in Brittany, there’s a very real chance you won’t have heard of Port La Fôret, Concarneau, or even Lorient. Spanning 100 kilometers these towns lie deep in the heart of Brittany’s coastline and are home to an overwhelming proportion of the world’s best offshore sailors.
An impressive run of form gave the race 2 win to Jørgen Schönherr (DEN) and Markus Koy (GER) who controlled the fleet from start to finish and end the day in 4th overall.
We all sailed out under sunny skies and a good, 10-12kts. Race one got off on time with no drama. We were off to a good start, no pun intended. The local fleet did well in race 3 but still couldn’t take the W
The 2022 Star Class World Championship presented by Bacardi was officially declared open by Tom Londrigan, International Star Class President, on the morning of Sunday, September 11 accompanied by a parade of nations and gun salute at Eastern Yacht Club.
‘Now we start our comeback’ – U.S. SailGP Team wins big in Saint-Tropez
The United States SailGP Team secured its first ever event victory at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez to get its Season 3 Championship campaign back on track.
We started the day with a brisk NNE breeze that seemed poised to give us a full day of epic conditions for 3 scheduled races after a 11:00 am warning gun.
The Eastern Yacht Club on Boston’s north shore, one of the USA’s most preeminent clubs, is home to the 2022 Star Class World Championship presented by Bacardi from September 8-17.
“We were on the edge all day,” said a smiling Jimmy Spithill whose United States SailGP Team sits in second place overall after one of the fastest competition days in SailGP’s history at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez.
Jimmy Spithill and the American squad are ready to turn the corner of a less-than-stellar start to the SailGP season and climb back into contention – beginning with this weekend’s Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix | Saint-Tropez. “We’ve made some good steps forward,” said Spithill, U.S. SailGP Team Driver and CEO. “Now it’s time to put all the pieces together.”
The Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association (MCSA) Fall sailing starts this week with two regattas on the schedule: Acton Up Regatta hosted by Miami of Ohio and Fall Fury Regatta hosted by the University of Wisconsin.
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