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After the chasing pack closed in rapidly on Vendée Globe leaders yesterday Charlie Dalin (MACIF Prévoyance) and Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil), the whole leading posse of nine skippers are contemplating their next obstacle as they pass successively under Australia towards the longitude of Tasmania and the exit door out of an Indian Ocean which has been mean and merciless.
In just two weeks, on 28 December 2024, a fleet of ALMA Globe 5.80 19ft /5.8mtr plywood home-built yachts, will set off from Marina de Lagos, Portugal, for the third Class Globe 5.80 Transat Race.
The 2024 World Match Racing Tour Shenzhen Bao’an Final is underway. The event began with an opening ceremony attended by skippers, teams, organizing authorities, and spectators.
World Sailing and the iQFOiL Class are pleased to announce an evolution in the iQFOiL Olympic Class equipment, designed to foster inclusivity and enhance athlete progression.
It is with great regret that the Montego Bay Yacht Club announce the unavoidable postponement of the 2025 Pineapple Cup-Montego Bay Race.
And after the breakaway…. the comeback. As is very often the case in the Southern Ocean, big breakaways caused by one weather system are rarely maintained on the Vendée Globe and today the tables have turned a little more in the favour of those immediately behind the top two skippers, leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) and Seb Simon (Groupe Dubreuil).
The world’s finest match racing talent has arrived in Shenzhen, China, for the highly anticipated 2024 World Match Racing Tour Shenzhen Bao’an Final. This event will crown the 2024 Match Racing World Champion and award a share of the USD 200,000 prize purse.
RNZYS’s Megan Thomson and her 2.0 Racing crew—Josi Andres, Anna Merchant, Charlotte Porter, and Tiana Wittey—have claimed an impressive second place at the 2024 World Sailing Women’s Match Racing World Championship, held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The pinnacle day of the 2024 Women Match Racing World Championship witnessed fierce fights on the water, but elegantly and masterfully played by the top 4 teams – without any damages or losses in boats.
The amazing run of French skipper Sébastien Simon, who is lying second on the Vendée Globe hit a significant setback with the news emerging today that Les Sables d’Olonnne based skipper has sustained a broken starboard foil on his IMOCA Groupe Dubreuil.
3 round robins took place and one team changed her sponsor name from Normandy Elite Team to “100% Team”!
After the fleet encountered a slow descent of the north Atlantic, Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) now has the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe back close to record pace after his electrifying passage across the Indian Ocean, spurred on by his passage riding a malicious monster low pressure system.
One of the trends in equipment in the past year has been for board sizes to increase. On day four of Wingfoil Racing World Cup Brazil we saw part of the reason why. Famed for its reliable breeze, Jericoacoara was unfortunately unable to deliver enough puff for the men’s and women’s fleets to get racing.
With most of the country settling in to welcome the holiday season, training efforts are ramping up in the Youth and Olympic Development (ODP) spaces.
Recent editions have proven that no lead on the Vendée Globe is a safe one.
The teams which topped Dubai’s data metrics across fleet racing, including top speeds, best starts and highest fly time, have been revealed.
In conditions that were almost as mild as you’d expect, the Indian Ocean didn’t play nicely with Clarisse Crémer. As the devil is in the detail, it was a devious Indian Ocean that dealt the skipper of L’Occitane en Provence its most vile blows: technical problems, lack of sleep, capricious weather and an uncertain schedule.
The Dubai camp is the Rolex SailGP Championship’s largest female athlete development program to date
Is it possible to bring tourism to a paradise like Jericoacoara, and do it in an environmentally sustainable way? It’s a question that Paolo Piatti, co-owner of Vila Kalango, has been looking to answer over the past 25 years.
Whether they are in the middle of the Indian Ocean – as the leaders Charlie Dalin and Sébastien Simon are – or just entering it by South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas – the Vendée Globe fleet are dealing with a whole array of challenges.
At around midday UTC yesterday, Wednesday 4th December, Louis Burton informed the Vendée Globe race management and his technical team that he had encountered serious damage to a mechanical element of the rigging of his IMOCA.
It’s the oldest cliché in the Book of Wind Sports, but for day two of the WingFoil Racing World Cup Brazil, it was yet another case of ‘It’s not normally like this.” For a venue in this Equatorial region of Brazil, the desert idyll of Jericoacoara is feted and celebrated for its consistent winds and hot weather.
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is once again keeping an eye on Jeddah this week, with the 2024 World Sailing Women’s Match Racing World Championship set to start racing 5th December and run through till the 8th, the event is once again hosted by the Saudi Sailing Federation at the prestigious Jeddah Yacht Club & Marina in Saudi Arabia.
The International 49er Class Association is excited to share the 2025 sailing calendar!
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