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12 Metre World Championship: The Next Big Thing
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
Lofty Lineup for Long Beach Yacht Club Congressional Cup
Long Beach Yacht Club is ramping up for Congressional Cup 2022 with an all-star lineup including more than half of the world’s top-ranked match racing skippers! Kicking off the 2022 World Match Racing Tour, this legendary Grade 1 sailing event will take place April 18 to 23, 2022 in the waters of Long Beach, Calif.
Battle for Semi Finals at Casa Vela Cup
Day 2 of the Casa Vela Cup at the St. Francis Yacht Club finished with the ten competing all-women’s teams all vying for a valued spot in the semi-finals. Local sailor Nicole Breault and her Vela Racing team lead the qualifying round undefeated with 15 wins, with New Zealanders Megan Thomson at 11 wins, and Celia Willison at 10 wins.
11th Hour Racing Team Finishes Third on Leg 2
11th Hour Racing Team has finished Leg 2 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 in third place. The only US entry in the five-boat IMOCA fleet completed the 6,514.01 nautical mile [7,565 mile or 12,175 kilometer] course from Mindelo, Cabo Verde, to Cape Town South Africa, in 17 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes, and 40 seconds.
High anticipation for 2023 Finn Gold Cup in Miami next week
Back in the day, Miami OCR in January always marked the traditional start of the northern hemisphere Finn season, so it with some anticipation that the Finn class returns to Miami next week for the 2023 Finn Gold Cup, the first time it has ever been held there. Sixty Finn sailors from 14 nations are taking part. The host club is the Coconut Grove Sailing Club.
2023 Nationals Promises Epic Event Celebrating 30 Years of Melges 24 Racing
The 2023 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship is all set to take place on October 6-8, hosted by the Lake Geneva Yacht Club (LGYC) in Fontana, Wisconsin — the birthplace of the Melges 24. As the Melges 24 continues celebrating its 30th anniversary, the U.S. Class anticipates this will be one of the most memorable regattas in its history. With 27 teams already committed to race, a robust fleet of 3
How a Small Coastline in France Became the Beating Heart of Offshore Sailing
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.
2023 Quantum Sails Melges 24 Great Lakes Cup Opens with Big Fleet Racing
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.
Gray but Great Final Start to Transpac
On the 1st July off Point Fermin not only did the fastest group of 20 boats arrive for the third and final start of Transpac, so did the westerly sea breeze to get them off quickly on their 2225-mile journey to Hawaii. Contrary to the earlier starts on Tuesday and Thursday of this week with their light air conditions, today’s 10-12 knots of wind in the start area had the fleet heeled over and goin
Rolex Big Boat Series – It All Comes Down to Tomorrow, with Several Tight Contests Still to Unfold
“Champagne sailing” is not the norm on San Francisco Bay. It is highly unusual to have a run of light weather in September, or to even have a run of days with the same weather. But sailors saw more of the same during the third day of racing at the 2023 Rolex Big Boat Series: a low marine layer with light and variable winds from the west-southwest.
Final-Race Showdown Lifts New York Yacht Club to Grandmasters Win
Team racing is a sport of split-second decisions. A moment of hesitation can quickly undo a promising race. A good day on the water can often be broken into a series of smart moves that can seem extrasensory in nature. But there’s still a lot of value in long-range planning and a methodical approach. Just ask Phil Lotz, the captain of the New York Yacht Club team that won the Grandmasters Team Rac
Bacardi Invitational Winter Series 2022
Day 2 at Bacardi Winter Series, January 28-30 2022, dawned as forecast with a big breeze of 27+ knots and gusts up to 39 on Biscayne Bay, Miami, forcing the three fleets – J/70, Melges 24 and 69F – to be postponed ashore. Not all bad though, as teams enjoyed the stunning and convivial host venue of Shake-a-Leg-Miami (SALM).
2023 AON Miami Worlds Preparation Kicks Off with Host Fleet’s Qualifier
This past weekend it may have only been six boats on the starting line but it felt like the start to something much bigger for Etchells Fleet 20. As the organizing authority for the World Championship in April 2023, the Race Committee from Biscayne Bay Yacht Club is already preparing by utilizing MarkSetBots for course management and TracTrac for monitoring during the Fleet 20 Qualifiers for World
New York Yacht Club Claims First Hinman Masters Title in Eight Years
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.
France’s Sailor of the Decade Joins 11th Hour Racing for Leg 6 of The Ocean Race
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.
Pan Am Games, Worlds, and Test Event Selection Culminate in Clearwater
The final stop of the Florida US Open Sailing Series will be contested February 2 – 5, in Clearwater, Florida. Hosted by Sail Life, Clearwater Community Sailing and presented by Bay Stay Restaurant Group, the event will feature eight Olympic classes: the 49er, Men’s iQFOiL, Women’s iQFOiL, ILCA 6, ILCA 7, Men’s Formula Kite and Women’s Formula Kite, and 470 Mixed
Casa Vela Cup Victory for Edge Women’s Match
Celia Willison and the Edge Women’s Match Team from New Zealand secured a hard-fought victory today at the inaugural all-women Casa Vela Cup hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, the opening stage of the 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour. Willison and team defeated Sweden’s Anna Östling and the Wings Team 3-1 in the final.
A Showcase of Sailing Excellence at Day 2 of the 59th Rolex Big Boat Series
Skippers kept their feet on the accelerator during Day 2 of Rolex Big Boat Series, driving another intense day of great racing on San Francisco Bay. The morning dawned light, grey and foggy, but that didn’t stop Race Committee from on-time starts for two courses of seven classes, and one course for the Classics, all of whom finished in front of a lively crowd cheering on the Race Deck of St. Franc
Let’s talk about… Vomit
There are people out there in the big wide sailing world who claim that they have NEVER felt the need to discharge the contents of their stomachs while getting pummelled about on the water in heinous conditions. They are, for the most part, the same people who also claim they never feel their gizzards tumbling round their insides even when the conditions are calm.
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
