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After a week of high-intensity racing at the 2024 International WASZP Games, Danish sailor Magnus Overbeck of the KDY club emerged victorious, clinching the title by two points ahead of Norway’s Markus Berthet. In a reversal of last year’s WASZP European Championships, where Berthet claimed the win, the 2024 title race once again went down to the wire.
After completing all inspection and registration formalities today, organizers at the 2024 ORC European Championship report that 56 teams in three classes are ready to start off the competition tomorrow with a Long Offshore Race held in local Baltic waters around the Åland Islands and neighboring Swedish coast.
There’s no official AP ranking for keelboat team racing, but if there were, it would be hard to argue against Newport Harbor Yacht Club, from Newport Beach, Calif., currently occupying the top spot. With a win at its Baldwin Cup in April and, earlier today, a win in the Morgan Cup held at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court, the NHYC team-racing squad can claim simultaneous ownership of two of t
The time is now to register for the 36th Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race!
These are days full of happiness, sport and sailing at Circolo Vela Arco, on Garda Trentino-Italy, where 544 under-15 helmsmen are taking part in the Ora Cup Ora. This classic Optimist regatta, held in the middle of summer, has become an unmissable event for many families who choose Garda Trentino for training and racing.
Day 6: Several sailors threaten comebacks through the double, but ultimately no one could deny Lina Erpenstein & Marc Paré being crowned the Queen and King of Tenerife for 2024
Despite having one of the most youthful teams in recent years, with an average age of 24, Australian sailors made waves at the Olympics, securing a gold and silver medal, along with three additional top ten finishes across eight events.
Rain squalls and conditions general tested a few on Day 3 of Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 and not everyone escaped unscathed, Michael Unwin’s Fuzzy Logic from Townsville was dismasted and others suffered too.
It’s Day 3 at Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 and the forecast is for nice south-easterly trade winds again – 17-20 knots and gusting to 28 during the afternoon, making it three days in a row of hard but enjoyable sailing – lay day tomorrow will be welcome by all for a little R&R.
One of the most talked about design features of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is the innovation of recumbent cyclors brought in by NYYC American Magic. Where the other teams have gone for a more traditional set-up, the Magicians thought outside of the box, weighing up aero considerations with those of outright power output.
In the fourth day of competition in the Tenerife Windsurf World Cup, El Médano gave thecompetitors the best conditions for surfing all week. The canarian younstar Liam Dunkerbeck took the junior simple elminination, confirming the good feelings after his fourth place in the pro category.
It was another big day on the water for the 36th running of Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024, although it was more ‘doable’ than yesterday’s race, as the seaway was a lot more user friendly according to competitors.
The penultimate day of the 2024 International WASZP Games brought a dramatic shift in conditions, challenging sailors with everything Mother Nature could throw at the fleet. Torrential rain and winds exceeding 30 knots delayed the start until 4:00 PM, as race officials waited for conditions to moderate. But when the fleet finally launched, summer returned to WASZP Island with 20 knots of breeze an
Day 1 is out of the way at Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024, much to the delight of those who found the going tough, particularly the smaller off-the-beach boats taking part in the 150-strong fleet – and as the saying goes – today is another day.
Outrageously physically demanding, the role of Cyclor on an AC75 is one of the hardest positions in any sport. Add in the heat and humidity of Barcelona plus the huge demands required to control the sail and mast functions of an AC75 and only the fittest athletes on the planet need apply.
On February 23, 2025, the McIntyre Mini Globe Race (MGR) will commence, marking the beginning of a 13-month sailing adventure that challenges both the physical and psychological endurance of its participants. In an age where technology and Euro 20 mill can send a solo sailor around the world in 40 days, a fleet of courageous mini sailors is about to show it can be done for less that Euro 50,000 ov
The mass start of 150 boats on two start lines made for a palette of colour on Pioneer Bay for Day 1 of Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024, but the day was not without incident, as a number could not control their boats in the unruly winds that gusted to 24 knots causing many a capsize and broken masts across the classes taking part in the 36th running of the event.
Day 1 of Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 is set to be a cracker for the 150 competing boats across 14 divisions, with a spectacular mass start from two lines on Pioneer Bay the order of the day – and the weather is looking perfect for the opener of Whitsunday Sailing Club’s signature event.
The third day of the 2024 International WASZP Games delivered one of the most extraordinary days of WASZP racing ever seen—a day that will be etched in the memories of the sailors and spectators and a day that transcended the sport of sailing and foiling. It was nothing short of epic.
The final day of racing for the USA brought light wind but heavy intensity for the first ever Men’s and Women’s Kite Medal Series at an Olympic Games. Markus Edegran (Ossining, NY) finished his regatta in 9th overall, and Daniela Moroz (Lafayette, CA) ended in 4th.
A challenging day for all the competitors as offshore winds created shifty and gusty conditions on day two of finals racing and the penultimate racing day before the podium positions will be decided tomorrow, 9th August. All fleets sailed three races and the sailors had to remain sharp to deal with the ever changing race course. Spirits throughout the fleet remain high with a windy forecast for th
The Storm Trysail Club’s entry into the Resolute Cup has been the domain of the Storck family since 2016. Each of the four Storck siblings have sailed under the STC burgee in the regatta, and to good effect. The club has finished fourth, third and third, respectively, in the 2016, 2018 and 2022 editions of the unofficial Corinthian championship for U.S. yacht clubs. The only thing they haven’t don
As the intense focus for Emirates Team New Zealand is on the start of the Preliminary Regatta in two weeks’ time, the injection of the Women’s & Youth sailors has added another element to the teams overall preparations for the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona.
Nia Jerwood and Conor Nicholas (Mixed Dinghy) and Breiana Whitehead (Women’s Kite) have both wrapped up their Olympic campaigns in ninth position after their final races in Marseille today.
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