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This time last year the Rolex Middle Sea Race reporting was struggling to keep up with the pace of the frontrunners. The Maxi Multihulls had scorched 450 nautical miles of the 606nm course.
Grand Harbour performed some magic today, as an assembled 118 yachts set off on the 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race. The ancient limestone walls of Valletta seem to come alive in bright sunshine, and they duly offered the gathered spectators, high up on the bastions, a perfect setting to send off the intrepid fleet.
The start of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race began today, October 22nd – rewatch the start here!
Day 5 at the iQFOiL World Championships in Brest started strong with the wind gusting close to 50 knots and intermittent rain during the whole first part of the day. At the end of the day, the race committee, after a long day of waiting and measuring the wind over and over, decided to go and race.
A global fleet has once again answered the call of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, with the 43rd edition, which starts at 1100 CEST, tomorrow Saturday, 22nd October, attracting a fleet of 120 yachts from 25 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, as well as most of Europe.
The 52 SUPER SERIES will celebrate its tenth anniversary in Barcelona next week by returning to where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit was started in May 2012 at the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona’s prestigious Trofeo Conde de Godo regatta when five TP52s took the start lines and four completed the full regatta.
Cards are reshuffled and more breakage as the South Atlantic starts testing boats and sailors on their way to the Southern Ocean, and the next film drop in Cape Town.
After 4 slalom races today, the predictions for the 10 riders who will race in the final on Saturday are profiling. Sebastian Koerdel (GER220) and Lilian De Geus (NED3) are on the podium’s first step tonight.
You don’t expect a brand-new boat with a newbie race crew to put in a podium finish on their first competitive outing. And yet that is just what My Song, the achingly sleek new ClubSwan 80 has achieved.
The Southern Hemisphere edition of Steering the Course 2022 wrapped up an incredible year for women in sailing.
Another shifty day from the East with the breeze coming straight off the hills, causing mayhem for some and jubilation for others across the fleets. Four course-races were completed in each of the five fleets in what can be described by the age-old “snakes and ladders” cliché.
Eight solo skippers will race the upcoming Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe in the Ultim class, sailing on the huge multihulls which are over 30 meters long.
The GLOBE 40 is a round-the-world race for amateurs and professional sailors in the Class40. It is the first year this event has been held, and it has stop overs all over the world. The sailors take on the challenge double-handed. They have just landed in Auckland, New Zealand after a long 7,000nm leg!
The best windsurfers in the world competed today in Brest Bay during the qualifying heats to define the Gold, Silver & Bronze fleets. Thomas Goyard (FRA3) is making an impressive comeback after the Olympics leading the men’s category so far, followed by Josh Armit (NZL59) and the German Sebastian Koerdel (GER220). On the women’s side, the winds in Brest favoured the Spaniard Pilar Lamadrid (ESP12)
At 09.18 hours local time, it was the Dutch crew on SEC HAYAI which took line honours and leg three victory in the GLOBE40 at the entrance to the Auckland Bay.
Poetto Beach saved its best for last, with strong onshore winds and challenging waves to decide the climax of the 2022 Formula Kite World Championships in Cagliari, Sardinia. The past six days have produced all kinds of conditions and have made the battle for the men’s and women’s world titles a true test of all-round ability.
Corfu, Greece – Pauline Courtois and her ‘Match in Pink’ Normandie team from France have won the 2022 EUROSAF Women’s European Match Racing Championship in Corfu, Greece. The event is stage 3 of the 2022 Women’s World Match Racing Tour.
Kemah, Texas, USA – Two races were sailed today in each fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships, which completed all 12 races of the championship.
Around the world, teams are assembling with sailors jetting in from foreign climes, shore teams getting re-acquainted and communications going into overdrive. The race for the 37th America’s Cup, in beautiful Barcelona, is well and truly underway and this week saw no less than four teams on the water with Alinghi Red Bull Racing continuing its training in Barcelona, Emirates Team New Zealand proce
A light to medium Mistral breeze delivered four high-intensity races on day five of the 2022 Formula Kite World Championships in Cagliari, Sardinia. The wind was blowing offshore from Poetto Beach at 8 to 11 knots, making the racing an altogether more tactical challenge than the previous day of high-speed survival.
Three races were completed today in the women’s fleet and two races were completed in the men’s fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships.
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Three races were completed today in the final series at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships. With such tight competition, there is yet again a new leader of this event – Belgium’s Tokyo Olympian Emma Plasschaert.
Corfu, Greece (14 October 2022) A storm front over the Mediterranean island of Corfu presented challenging conditions today for the 12 teams competing in the 2022 EUROSAF Women’s European Championship, stage 3 of the Women’s World Match Racing Tour.
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