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Bermuda Race Green Team Features ‘E-Stewards’ in Boost to Sustainability Efforts

Up to 50 sailors in the fleet will be tasked with monitoring their boat’s waste and innovating best sustainability practices

A Double Dose of Reineke Lifts Lauderdale Yacht Club to Women’s 2v2 Team Race Championship

Two teams built in very different ways clashed in the deciding race of the second annual Women’s 2v2 Team Race, hosted over the weekend the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court.

Seawanhaka Corinthian triumps over Royal New Zealand to bring the Seawanhaka Cup home

After four days of racing, Seawanhaka Corinthian YC won the 2022 Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup 3-1 over Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron to bring the Cup home to Oyster Bay, NY.

Reineke Leads Youthful Lauderdale Yacht Club Team into Women’s 2v2 Team Race

It’s not quite LeBron James rolling back into Cleveland wearing a Miami Heat uniform. But this weekend, there are likely to be a few New York Yacht Club members wishing Olympic contender Erika Reineke were again competing for the host club in the New York Yacht Club

Seawanhaka Cup 48th Edition Ready to Sail

The excitement is coming to a head as the latest edition of the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup for Small Yachts is ready to start. Teams from nine international yacht clubs are assembled in Long Beach to begin racing.

Bermuda Race Green Team: A New Approach to Sustainability

For the past few race cycles, Newport Bermuda Race organizers have steadily increased the effort to make the race a Clean Regatta by the standards of Sailors for the Sea.

Quantum Racing Take 2022’s First 52 Super Series Title With Baiona Win

American owner-driver Doug DeVos steered Quantum Racing to overall victory at the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week lifting the first regatta title of the five which comprise the tenth anniversary season of the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit.

Transpac – Notice of Race Published

The Transpacific YC is pleased to announce that the entry process is now open for the 2023 edition of the Los Angeles to Honolulu Transpacific Yacht Race. Known at the Transpac, this will be the 52nd edition of this classic 2025-mile ocean race held biennially since 1906.

ORC Rule Builds Momentum at North America’s Oldest Regatta

The Holy Grail, the Fountain of Youth, the perfectly equitable rating formula for racing sailboats. Three things not yet discovered. But that didn’t, and won’t likely ever, stop Indiana Jones, Juan Ponce de León, and sailors around the world—respectively—from trying.

Sherwin Leads Bermudian Hopes in Newport Bermuda Race

Dr. Stephen Sherwin (Hamilton, Bermuda) will make his ninth start as skipper since 2000 when his Corby 41.5 Nasty Medicine takes the start on Friday, June 17.

Persico to build the Infiniti 52 DSS racer

After a lengthy tendering process, future construction of the Infiniti 52 racing yachts outside of the USA is to be undertaken by Persico Marine.

Challenging day in Fort Lauderdale with Bora Gulari Leading the Pack

For the strong Melges 24 World Championship fleet in Fort Lauderdale, California, it was a bit challenging day on the water since the wind was reluctant to put in a proper appearance in the morning.

Three Perfect Races at the Melges 24 World Championship

The second day of racing at 2022 Melges 24 World, hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC) in Fort Lauderdale, delivered three excellent races sailed in bright sunshine and North-East winds of fourteen knots average.

Spithill fields deepest roster yet ahead of SailGP Season 3 Opener

Jimmy Spithill is doubling down after the United States SailGP Team narrowly missed out on the Season 2 championship crown this past March, and is bringing new ammunition for the Season 3 opener, the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess.

Bora Gulari and New England Ropes Lead After First Day in Fort Lauderdale

Thirty-one Melges teams raced on a thrilling racecourse on Atlantic Ocean off Fort Lauderdale today, putting three races on the official scoreboard at the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship, hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC)

Star Studded Fleet Assembles for Melges 24 World Championship

With several days of pre-regatta registration, boat and sails inspection at Pier Sixty-Six now completed and first practice races sailed, on the eve of the official start of racing, everyone is ready to go!

Seawhanhaka Cup – Invited Clubs announced

The final day at the A-Cat Worlds, Houston

In a somewhat unTexan style, the locals, and indeed the meteorologists, had been playing down the weather as probably to be pretty light stuff. So, the twin A-Cat fleets of the Classsic displacement boats and the Open foiling boats had mentally prepared themselves for some very hot and pretty sluggish, (especially the foilers,) drifting about in the 30+ degree heat, and the possibility of having t

A-Cat Worlds 2022, Race Day 2

First up, at 10:30 was the Open foiling fleet. The winds were about 12kts from the South East, so the traditional wave chop started up in due course.

2022 Melges 24 World Championship Sponsors and Organizers Are Ready to Deliver a Wonderful Event

The time has almost come for the International Melges 24 Fleet to get back out on the water. With a little more than one week to go until the start of the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship

Wild, Wacky, And Windy Day On The Water For Race Day 2

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Competitors at Charleston Race Week encountered winds that started fairly light in the morning then steadily built to the low teens.

A Cat Worlds 2022 – Day One

The Beacon Group 2022 A Class World Championships started with a bang today, as a large thunderstorm tracked into Galveston Bay from the South.

Exciting 69F class brings foiling sailing to Charleston Race Week

One of the world’s fastest, most exciting classes made its debut at Charleston Race Week on Thursday afternoon.

Hot off the Heels of Palma, USST Ready for Action in Hyères, France!

For the first time, all 2024 Olympic classes have gathered in the host country of the Paris Olympics, competing just down the coast from the official sailing venue of Marseille.