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Sydney, Australia (14 December, 2022) – Spectacular conditions today welcomed the ten teams on the opening day of the 2022 World Match Racing Tour Final on Sydney’s iconic harbour. USA’s Chris Poole leads the opening round undefeated with five straight wins and no losses.
In 2023 the new IMOCA team, Canada Ocean Racing, will switch gears from start-up mode to competitive racing mode. The team’s 2023 racing and training schedule includes three transatlantic crossings, over 25,000 nautical miles, and 4 highly competitive offshore races.
The schedule is set for the 2023 Season and the fleet is in for a treat, setting up camp in three fantastic sailing venues: Miami, Newport RI and Lake Garda in Northern Italy. The racing starts in January and 15+ teams are heading for Miami for the 4 events series ending in April.
Around 1,000 miles from Cape Horn, the GLOBE40 crews are having to contend with a succession of depressions, the latest one fuelling winds of up to 50 knots.
Antigua Sailing Week (ASW), in collaboration with the Caribbean Foiling Championship (CFC), is excited to announce the addition of a Wingfoil class to the 2023 event which takes place April 29 – May 5.
With just months to go before the start of the 43rd edition of the St Maarten Heineken Regatta, many race teams are now finalizing their arrangements to attend this bucket-list event.
SailGP’s chief umpire Craig Mitchell has unpacked all the penalty drama from Season 3 so far, revealing the top offenders and cleanest teams.
In the last pre-pandemic edition of the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race in 2019, the entry capacity was reached in just four minutes and 37 seconds – 13 seconds outside the record time set two years earlier.
Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed ‘Horonuku’, their wind powered land speed world record craft, faster than any previous records.
The Golden Globe Race fleet is stretched 5000 miles across the Southern Ocean and is not short of stories. Just nine sailors are still bound for Les Sables d’Olonne in France and they are not even halfway
In 2022, a fleet of 118 yachts from 24 countries had to negotiate extremely light winds, requiring crews to demonstrate supreme patience and perseverance to maximize every opportunity to maintain momentum.
The World Match Racing Tour is pleased to announce the addition of Zenus Bank and PrimeXM as the two official Presenting Partners for the 2022 WMRT championship final event next week in Sydney, Australia
After a light World Championship back in October in Portorož, Slovenia, the nine teams competing today off Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina at the 44Cup Oman were well dialled in for the opening day of the 2022 44Cup’s grand finale.
This week we meet 2022 Women’s World Champions – Spanish sisters Paula and Isabel Laiseca
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The line-up for the 2022 finale of the World Match Racing Tour has been confirmed with ten teams heading to Sydney, Australia to compete at the WMRT Final for the Open Match Racing World Championship title 13-18 December in Sydney Harbour.
The line-up for the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 has been confirmed, with 10 teams invited for the inaugural Tour event to be sailed on Sydney Harbour.
World Sailing and four of the leading Olympic class regattas have confirmed competition dates for 2023 and 2024 and announced a commitment for greater collaboration across the sport with the ambition of delivering benefits for event organisers on all continents, national federations and for individual sailors.
The 43rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta takes place from March 2-5 2023, with four adrenalin and fun-filled days of multi-class racing out of Simpson Bay.
The Moth 2022 World Championship, organized by the Yacht Club Argentino at its headquarters in Dársena Norte, came to an end. It was a challenging event: conditions weren’t always easy, but we managed to have thirteen fair races that gave us new champions.
The drivers of SailGP’s nine-strong international fleet have analyzed their performances at the Dubai Sail Grand Prix, the league’s first ever event in the Middle East.
The November 2022 episode of the World Sailing show, premiering on 2 December 2022, goes behind the scenes to look at the first weeks of testing ahead of the 2024 America’s Cup in Barcelona.
For 2023, Bacardi in partnership with the Star Class is launching a focused commitment to the next generation of Star Class through the Bacardi Cup U30 Program.
Many people talk about the eye watering effort GGR entrants make to meet the tough safety and qualifying requirements of this gruelling mind game called the Golden Globe. When all the boxes are ticked, they finally receive a “green card” in Les Sables d’Olonne just before the start.
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