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If offshore double-handed yachting is your thing, clear your calendar and pack your wet weather gear – this is the one you’ve been waiting for. Yachting New Zealand is calling for the best mixed crews (one man, one woman) to represent the nation at the 2025 Offshore Double-Handed World Championships.
Today was a fast one for those racing in the Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup event as breeze in the low 20s, hitting the high 20s during several big squalls that blasted through the course, kept sailors on their toes and weight on the rails.
Down below in the small, spartan cabin of Roaring Forty, a 1997 Lutra BOC Open 40 ocean racing yacht, a label front and center reads: “Quitting Lasts Forever.” True to that spirit, Roaring Forty has re-entered the race at just after 12 on April 2nd after successfully repairing their boom.
After a brisk, breezy start to the 54 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca by FERGUS Hotels on Monday which gave the Olympic sailing classes a test from the first start guns of the showcase Mallorcan regatta, today the athletes were afforded a couple of hours to regroup and find their marks before the renowned Bay of Palma sea breeze built on cue.
As the media got news of Matty’s passing, posts were made about how he was 53 with three America’s Cup wins to his name. I was asked why Live Sail Die hadn’t published anything about it. Why?? I wasn’t f&%king ready to THAT’S WHY!
The yacht of the first two starts have broken free. No longer trapped in the doldrums, Zero, Curious Roo, and Escapade are now riding the steady northern trade winds, their sails full and their spirits high.
The beautiful Bay of Palma ushered in the new Olympic sailing quadrennial with sparkling, near perfect conditions – sunshine and 16-18kts winds – as the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca by FERGUS Hotels got under way for the 10 events which will contest the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
29 athletes representing the US across eight Olympic classes will spar with over 50 other countries at the 54th edition of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca, considered to be the European season opener.
After a 24-hour delay, Alive crossed the start line at Portsea in pursuit of the fleet and marking the last start of the 5,500-nautical-mile 2025 Melbourne Osaka Cup yacht race.
In an extraordinary feat of maritime logistics the McIntyre Mini Globe Race fleet has completed an unprecedented overland Transfer of 15 ALMA Globe 580 yachts from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Boats from fourteen different countries – and racing enthusiasts from many more – are about to converge upon the stunning British Virgin Islands sailing grounds for the 52nd BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival.
Day 2 of the 2025 Hansa and Para World Championships on Pittwater and competitors and officials alike were hoping for a more stable breeze than what was dished up to them yesterday and while the wind wasn’t as fresh as Day 1, the shifty conditions prevailed but did not get the better of the international competitors who are making their presence felt.
The hunt for the elusive Curious Roo continues as the race turns into an offshore tactical battle.
With just four days to go, the crew of 2018 and 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart handicap winner “Alive” know what’s coming. While skipper Duncan Hine and co-skipper Glenn Myler have taken time off, over the next couple of days, they will get their Border Force clearances and move the boat from its current location at Melbourne City Marina.
Racing got underway in the 2025 Hansa and Para World Championships today on Pittwater, with the Hansa 2.3, Liberty and SKUD18 racing on Alpha course, while the 303 Two Person raced on Bravo course and already some have shown their clear intentions.
In ocean racing, every decision can make or break a campaign.
So here we are, one week into the 2025 M2O on the good ship The Secretary. It’s been great for Dave and me to reflect on the past week—not just this edition of the race, but also the last one in 2018 when we were on such a different boat but the same incredible journey.
Three times Wingfoil Racing World Cup champion Mathis Ghio of France has won the season opener in Dakhla, Morocco. The women’s competition was claimed by the 2024 series silver medallist Maddalena Spanu of Italy. Both gave dominant performances that will act as an ominous warning to their fellow competitors.
Dakhla, squeezed between the desert and the ocean in Morrocco’s south, is famous for its strong and consistent winds. Sometimes things don’t go to plan. There was no racing on Day 2 of the WingFoil Racing World Cup Morocco – the wind never came. Thermal zephyrs kicked in mid-afternoon but never developed into consistent enough breeze for racing.
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Roaring Forty, the Lutra Boc Open 40, owned by Kevin Le Poidevin with co-skipper Darrell Greig, has sadly retired due to a broken boom from the 2025 Melbourne Osaka Cup today.
White Spirit, a Beneteau First 50, thrives in stronger winds, and the race start at Port Phillip Heads played to our strengths.
The International Wing Sports Association has become the first non-boat class to be awarded Clean Class status by Sailors for the Sea.
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club has released the Notice of Race and opened entry for the 11th edition of the biennial Hong Kong to Vietnam Race.
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