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At the very heart of New York Yacht Club American Magic beats a competitive, sporty edge. This is a team that knows all about ‘so-close-yet-so far’ in this game, and they are more than determined to bring the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup back to the club on West 44th Street that held it continuously for 132-years.
Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson overcame the most disruptive conditions of the Olympic regatta and a resurgent Argentina to stay on track to break a 36-year drought.
The final boat to finish the race and dock, ‘She’ crossed the line at 1409 hrs on Day 4, some 76 hours and 9 minutes after the start line off Cavill Avenue.
Final preparations are complete for the International WASZP Games, hosted by Sandefjord Seilforening in Norway. As WASZP Island gets ready to host 180 boats in the largest WASZP event ever, the newly branded “City of Foiling” is set to come alive with excitement.
Danish sailor Magnus Overbeck from the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub in Denmark continues to demostrate exceptional form in the 2024 season. Following a strong performance and a 2nd place finish at the 2023 International WASZP Games in Australia, Overbeck remains unbeaten in WASZP events this year. Winning the Americas Championships, Foiling Week, Atlantic Coast Championships (USA) and SailGP INSPIRE.
As the first half of the fleets completed their medal races yesterday, today became a “business as usual” day as the remaining six classes continued to make progress towards the top ten to qualify for their respective finals series. Team USA sailors maintained relative consistency from yesterday’s overall scores, and Kiteboarding made its official Olympic debut as the newest sailing event.
Australia’s Wearn maintained his firm grip on the Men’s Dinghy standings after picking up two tenth-placed finishes, which means he is now 14 points ahead in the rankings.
Finally, the 516 young sailors at the largest ever World Championships went head to head with three completed races on the first day of competition on Aarhus Bay.
Reigning Olympic champion Matt Wearn put together another solid day in a fading Mistral breeze today to hold his lead atop the Men’s Dinghy leaderboard.
Any doubt about Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson’s podium potential evaporated on day eight of the Olympic sailing competition in a sweltering Marseille as the Kiwi mixed multihull pair enjoyed one of their finest performances as a crew.
Sailors from across the globe gather for record breaking 29er Worlds
The 2024 Roschier Baltic Sea Race attracted an international alumni for the second edition of the 635nm offshore race. Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club together with the Ocean Racing Alliance, 296 sailors from six continents experienced the full range of conditions that the Baltic Sea can offer.
Today, on the Women’s and Men’s Dinghy course, there were big waves and a pretty strong breeze. It was a full-power day that required a lot of stamina and fitness, particularly for the women who had to catch up on a lost race from the previous schedule.
Marseille’s famous Mistral breeze came back today, bringing both physical and tactical challenges for sailors and breaking the light air monotony. Four classes took to the water for Team USA: Men’s Windsurfer, Women’s Dinghy, Mixed Dinghy and Mixed Multihull.
Pez de Abril wins in the ClubSwan 42 and Earlybird in the ClubSwan 50, while Elena Nova is leader in the ORC 1
Olympic debutant Grae Morris won Australia’s first sailing medal of the Paris Olympics when he took out Silver in the Men’s Windsurfing in Marseille today.
While Olympic sailing is giving away its first medals, the very young helmsmen approaching their first important international regattas concluded Friday on Lake Garda, at Circolo Vela Arco, the OpenSkiff World Championship, the smart, fast, fun dinghy for children and youngsters in the under-12, under-15, and under-17 categories.
Winning an Olympic medal is special, but for Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon, that sensation was amplified tenfold when they returned to shore and watched both their partners propose in unison.
They are, without question, one of the truly great unknown packages of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s but with a design package from Emirates Team New Zealand revealing an almost identical line to the Defender’s yacht, Orient Express Racing Team will be one of the closest watched teams amongst the Challengers.
Only 24 hours after the elation of winning their first medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday, the New Zealand sailing team experienced the heartbreak of falling agonisingly short of a second.
The reigning world champion, Matt Wearn, had a great start to the day, winning race three, which gave the Australian a three-point advantage at the top of the standings.
A spectacular final day of racing at Cowes concluded with a classic downwind finish against the tide on the Royal Yacht Squadron line, with competitors sailing tight into the beach off the Green in a thick and fast procession that lasted for hours. They were led home by Jo Richards’ 27ft H-Boat Woof, creeping along the shore under spinnaker, less than a boat length off the rocks below the RYS Plat
20-year-old Grae Morris has been forced to wait another day for his Olympic Medal Moment, with a dying breeze forcing the postponement of the Men’s Windsurfer Medal Series until tomorrow.
After five days of racing on international sport’s biggest stage, Team USA’s Ian Barrows (St. Thomas, USVI) and Hans Henken (San Francisco, CA) are bringing home a bronze medal in the Men’s Skiff (49er) event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This is the US Sailing Team’s first Olympic medal in sailing since Rio 2016 and Barrows and Henken’s first Olympic appearance.
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