With sights set on Paris 2024 & Los Angeles 2028, the US Sailing Team is proud to announce the opening of applications for its new Mixed 470 Program. The Mixed 470 Program is a collaboration between the US Sailing Team’s Olympic Development Program (ODP) and the Windmark Sailing Foundation.
Oracle Red Bull Racing drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez swap wheels for water as they join SailGP’s Jimmy Spithill and Tom Slingsby for a duel on the French Riviera
US Sailing Team’s month in Canada has come to a close. The Team entered the World Championship event with a variety of goals across the 49er, 49er FX, and Nacra 17 classes and made headlines for showcasing expert tactics and skill on St. Margarets Bay.
Chris Poole and his team Riptide Racing have won The Thompson Cup, the final event of the US Grand Slam Match Racing Series and secured an invitation to the Congressional Cup by being the overall winners of the Grand Slam.
The final event of the Grand Slam, Thompson Cup Match Race, is taking place this weekend out of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, New York.
For athletes pursuing the Olympics, World Championships are a critical piece of the journey: it’s the annual opportunity to qualify for the US Sailing Team, an important check-in with the international fleets on the way to Paris 2024, and the time for a fresh reset of world rankings.
This young non-profit organization is making access to Lake Pontchartrain more widely available, with special focus on those with disabilities, our veterans and kids who would not otherwise experience sailing
69F America announces a series of racing events to support the American Magic effort to train and race. This race events will take place in Newport (RI), Pensacola and Miami (FL) on the following dates.
Rhode Island local Lars Guck sailed a consistent event to claim his second U.S Multihull Championship title this weekend, after four days of challenging racing in Newport, Rhode Island.
The third event of the USA Grand Slam took place at Oakcliff International, where 12 teams from all around the globe came to compete. Dave Perry and Peter Holz took to the finals on a light wind day in Oyster Bay.
Yesterday was a forced lay day for the 33-boat fleet gathered on Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, for the 2022 Star Western Hemisphere Championship. The wind was light and a storm was predicted to arrive in the early afternoon, so after an attempt to get one race in, the Race Committee had to send the teams back for safety reason and call it for the day.
Respect runs through the Grandmasters Team Race like a river through a western valley. It’s an essential component of the regatta, binding together the sailors, race officials and judges and creating an environment where the last place team.
The North American Championships and the final event of the Midtown Racing Series were held August 12-14 in Newport, RI. On storied America’s Cup waters outside of Narragansett Bay, all scheduled 13 races were held as planned in both northerly and sea breeze winds.
One surefire way to gauge the quality of any sailing event is by the number of repeat participants. The New York Yacht Club’s Resolute Cup, a Corinthian Championship for U.S. Yacht Clubs, has one of the highest rates of returning competitors of any sailing event in the country.
Fully expecting light and variable breezes overnight, 43 sailing teams started the 2022 Ida Lewis Distance Race presented by Bluenose Yacht Sales on Friday, August 19 and returned throughout the day Saturday, August 20 to complete the event’s 17th edition.
Allie Blecher and her team from California Yacht Club claimed their second U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship this weekend, besting last year’s runner-up Janel Zarkowsky and her team from Scuttlebutt Sailing Club / Storm Trysail in the finals 3-0.
What does it feel like to win a top-flight team-racing regatta like the New York Yacht Club Invitational Team Race Regatta for the Commodore George R. Hinman Masters Trophy? According to Steve Kirkpatrick, who over the weekend captained the New York Yacht Club team to its first win in 8 years in the Hinman Masters, it’s payback.
Ten of the most accomplished female match racing teams in the US will take to the water this weekend at Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club for the annual U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship
The 2022 Inland Lake Yachting Association Annual Championship takes place this week Wednesday 17 – Sunday 21st hosted by Lake Geneva Yacht Club. One of the biggest events for scow fleets, it is the highlight of the summer!
The Chicago Match Cup wrapped up yesterday after seven teams competed in Tom 28s out of Chicago Yacht Club. This was the first event of the US Grand Slam, a tour that has four events throughout the US and brings top match racing talent from all over the world.
After three days of spectacular heavy-air racing, the last stop on the West Marine US Open Sailing Series concluded in San Francisco.
For the second straight summer, a team from Marblehead, Mass., has become a first-time winner of the prestigious Morgan Cup. Earlier today, Eastern Yacht Club claimed the trophy, following up on the win last summer by neighboring Corinthian Yacht Club.
The Grand Slam, an incredibly popular US Match Racing tour, kicked off this weekend with the first of four events that take place from August to September. All events in the Grand Slam are Grade 2 and attract some of the best match racers in the world.
Yesterday saw the close of the Chubb Junior Championship in Macatawa, MI, consisting of the U.S. Junior Triplehanded, Doublehanded, and Singlehanded Championships.
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