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The iQFoil Youth and Junior International Games, an event for youth Olympic boards organised by the Circolo Surf Torbole in collaboration with the Italian Sailing Federation, the Garda Trentino Vela Consortium and the International Class, were concluded with an exciting series of medal series and three-man finals, in which the medals were fought for with breathtaking finishes.
Barcelona will be the venue of the 2022 Youth Foiling Gold Cup Grand Final from November 3rd to the 6th, and it will welcome the event for the next three years, in cooperation with Marina Vela Barcelona and Club Nàutic Villasar de Mar.
The 29er class World Championship, which is being held at the Club Nàutic El Balís, heads into the Finals stage of the competition, starting Thursday 4th August. After three days of qualifying races, the Italians Alex Demurtras/Giovanni Santi have stormed into the lead.
The fourth day of racing at the very demanding IQFoil Youth & Junior International Games in Torbole, on Garda Trentino, before the final scheduled for Thursday with the top ten in each category admitted to the medal series.
The Canarian crew Yoel Hernández and Álvaro Alonso top the overnight leaderboard of the 29er World Championship, in the stunning waters of the Club Nàutic El Balís, after a second long day, intense, but complete.
Third day of regattas at Circolo Surf Torbole for the IQFoil Youth and Junior International Games only for the youth under 19 category, which in the early afternoon held more slalom races, bringing the total number of races to 10 for both males and females.
One month ahead of the start of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, entries have now closed and the fleet taking part has reached 50.
The city of Gijón, host of the GGR prologue, is already welcoming entrants in its waters, while preparing for Semana Grande, the biggest summer festival of Asturias. Skippers and team managers will taste the legendary hospitality and gastronomic heritage of the Asturian capital in between briefings.
Thirty months have passed since the last OK Dinghy World Championship, which was held in New Zealand in February 2019, so it is with some degree of excitement that 115 sailors from 11 nations around the globe are now heading to Marstrand, Sweden, where the 2022 OK Dinghy World Championship starts this week.
The iQFoil Youth & Junior International Games, the third stage of this international circuit of the new Olympic class, organised on this occasion for the youth and junior categories began on Sunday 31 July in Torbole, on Garda Trentino-Italy, with record numbers.
After over 40,000nm sailed, six ocean crossings and eight legs completed, the Clipper Race has announced its champion! And the Clipper 2019-20 Race Winner is Qingdao!
The final OK Dinghy World Ranking list ahead of next week’s World Championship in Marstrand, Sweden, has changed little since the previous release, with Thomas Hansson-Mild, from Sweden going into the first world championship since 2019 as the World No 1.
Jack Egan (USA), Robbie King (GBR), Morgan Pinckney (USA), Will Sargent (AUS), and Marius Westerlind (SWE) will fight it out on Friday in the remaining three round-robin 2 flights
Day 2 of BYC Governor’s Cup: Jeffrey Petersen & Co. maintain their lead, with only three points separating the next nine teams
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The organizers of Antigua Sailing Week announce the online publication of its 2023 Notice of Race. Campaigning skippers & crew on racing monohull, multi-hulls, bareboats, race-charter outfits, cruisers and sport boats from around the world are invited to participate in the 54th edition of this Caribbean event scheduled for April 29 through May 1, 2023.
It’s another week of wins for the Kiwis, with Simon Cook claiming his second back to back RS Feva world title with his crew Arthur Rebbeck at the age of just 12.
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix laid to rest the ghosts of November past when they today clinched the third regatta title of the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season, the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, which finished in perfect 17-20kts NE’ly offshore breezes.
The Bay of Palma looks like it might deliver a whole new weather scenario for the final day title shoot out at the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week.
Victors overall by one single point on these same Bay of Palma waters last August, Sled proved they have the capacity to triumph once more when they won today’s official practise race, contested on the eve of Friday’s first points races for Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK.
After a morning briefing at 9 a.m., the races were able to resume around 10:30 a.m. on the Pornichet race zone in a westerly wind, blowing around 9/10 knots, increasing in gusts up to 12/13 knots.
The first two editions of the Global Team Race Regatta, staged in 2018 in Newport, R.I., and 2019 on the Solent in Great Britain, had one striking thing in common: the same three teams finished on the podium.
Three 100-foot maxis will lead the charge for Line Honours. John Winning Jr will skipper Andoo Comanche (formerly Comanche) as the three-time Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Line Honours winner returns to the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s offshore racing program for the first time since 2019.
The inaugural Roschier Baltic Sea Race starts from Helsinki, Finland on Thursday 21st July 2022, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club together with the Ocean Racing Alliance.
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