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While Quantum Racing made the best of the great conditions on Galicia’s Ría de Vigo on the second day of the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailin Week scoring a first and a second it is Phoenix which has stretched their overall regatta lead to four clear points.
With great anticipation the ninth season of the GC32 Racing Tour sets sail tomorrow (Thursday 26th May) with the GC32 Riva Cup.
From October 28th to November 20th 2022, the Kingdom of Bahrain will host the SSL GOLD CUP 2022 Final Series, the first Football World Cup… in Sailing.
Crowd favourite and all round good guy George Gautrey has been forced to exit the ILCA 7 World Championships early after dealing with post-Covid fatigue. This is a massive blow for the entire NZL Sailing Team.
Building consistency is the greatest challenge for the Australian ILCA 7 squad, as they battle it out with the world’s best on Banderas Bay at the 2022 World Championships.
With Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Wearn (AUS) out of the competition, this leaves things wide open for other Australian sailors to leave their mark on the international stage at the ILCA 7 Worlds in Mexico.
A scan of the results would suggest George Gautrey enjoyed an excellent opening day of the ILCA 7 (Laser) world championships in Mexico but there wasn’t a lot of enjoyment on the water for the Wellingtonian.
With the International WASZP Games at Malcesine, Lake Garda now 7 weeks away (9-16th of July), entries have now surpassed 100 and there are still 8 days before the early bird entry closes.
Tom Saunders is heading into his ninth ILCA 7 world championships but knows this one will be a bit different to the rest. That’s because the 29-year-old goes in as defending champion after winning last year’s world title in Barcelona.
Australian competitors scored some of their best results to move up the leaderboard and end competition in fine fashion on their final day of the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy.
After four days of racing on Lake Geneva in light conditions under sunny skies but with a far from straightforward meteorological picture to contend with, Esteban Garcia’s Realteam, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, has claimed the opening event win of 2022 season after scoring two bullets over the first two days.
After 5 days or racing the top 10 male and female competitors battled it out in the medal race knockout rounds.
For 240 of the 250 competitors, todays racing concluded the 2022 IQFoil Europeans here in Lake Garda.
Australians Will McMillan and Grae Morris produced their best on Day 4 of the iQFOiL European Championships overnight, as Lake Garda, Italy continued to offer up conditions to appeal to the masses.
After finishing at the bottom of the raking on day one, Frédéric Jousset’s golden hulled TF35, Team SAILFEAVER, helmed by Frenchman Loïck Peyron, turned their fortunes around on the second day of the Realstone Cup for Léman hope taking place this weekend in Nyon.
Foiling and ocean racing boats and sailors are in Jeddah throughout May and June as part of the Jeddah Season celebrations hosted by the National Events Centre of Saudi Arabia.
The wind decided to show up on time for day 4 of the 2022 IQFoil European Championships.
On Day 3 at the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, Australian Sailing Futures program (ASF) athletes Natasha Bryant and Will McMillan made it into their respective Gold fleets for the Final Series.
After an hour of practice racing under brilliant sunshine on the sparkling waters of Lake Geneve, the seven TF35 teams had shaken off any winter dust that might have accumulated. They were ready for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope, the opening event of the TF35’s 2022 season.
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.
On the newly announced Vitamina Sailing Team helmed by Andrea Lacorte, Kiwi maestro Adam Minoprio will be calling tactics supported by fellow Kiwi trimmer Stuart Dodson, Italian America’s Cup trimmer Pierluigi de Felice and Australian Olympic 470 gold medallist Will Ryan on flight control.
After a lengthy tendering process, future construction of the Infiniti 52 racing yachts outside of the USA is to be undertaken by Persico Marine.
To keep with the tradition of the last two days, once again wind was scarce for the scheduled start time of Day 3 of the 2022 IQFoil European Championships.
Day two of the IQFoil Europeans was scheduled to start at 0830 hours.
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