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From July 4 to 7, the Mediterranean Training Center hosts the Waszp French Championship. More than 40 French and European sailors, specialists in flying boats, will meet at La Grande Motte for this event organized for the very first time on the Mediterranean coast. The competition will be preceded by 2 days of “Warm Up”, official training regattas, on July 1st and 2nd.
The 19th edition of Long Beach Race Week concluded on Sunday with a full complement of races sailed in eleven divisions, including six one design classes and five PHRF fleets. Throughout the three solid days of racing conditions the breeze rarely dropped below 14 knots and settling in the 16-18 knot range for the most part, blue skies prevailed and temperatures in the 80s…YES, t-shirt and shorts r
Black Foils dominate in New York, securing fifth win of the season
Nico Poons’ Charisma won the 44Cup Marstrand in 2023 and has been 44Cup champion for the last two season. But some changes in personnel and two deep results in Porto Calero, Lanzarote at the beginning of the year and then in Baiona, Spain last month had dumped the Dutchman’s team at the bottom of the leaderboard.
The Grand Soleil Cup, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with Cantiere del Pardo, drew to an end today with the strong Mistral winds blowing in Porto Cervo putting a stop to the sailing scheduled for the 22nd edition of the event.
It is just shy of 48 hours into the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race, and we’ve already seen a dismasting, an abandoned ship, and a few retirements. Despite these challenges, the fleet has encountered a variety of sailing conditions and sea states as they make their way to Bermuda.
Day two at Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week gave everyone plenty of breeze starting in the mid-teens out of the west, and the gift for the day was extra wind with gusts of 20+ toward the end of the racing, noted Bruce Cooper, owner of Ullman Sails Newport Beach and event lead sponsor. Most fleets sailed three races, racing was tight across all fleets with lead changes and new leaders emerging.
Phil Robertson and the Canada SailGP Team had a day to remember in New York but it was a day to forget for their rivals, U.S. SailGP team and Taylor Canfield
With a carefully crafted victory in today’s final 25 nautical mile coastal race, the Swedish flagged Svea won the J Class at The Superyacht Cup Palma. Counting three race wins and a third, Svea won by three points.
Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC75 Taihoro has safely arrived at the team base in Barcelona after a 28-day journey travelling over 13,000 miles between the Port of Tauranga and the base in the Port of Barcelona.
On a simply outstanding racing day for the first of the three-day Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week regatta, many teams got off the dock early prior to a 1pm first gun and headed out to see what Long Beach was going to deliver on day 1. With a WSW breeze in the 12-17 knot range, two races were sailed in most classes and extremely satisfied customers celebrated a fun day on the water at post-race f
The end of the 12mR World Championship in Porquerolles. On this final day, a strong mistral wind (22-36 knots) is blowing across the harbour of Hyères. Due to these conditions, the race committee decided this morning not to launch the race.
The 44Cup Marstrand is providing the nine 44Cup teams with the full range of conditions. After a heavy day, a light day, Saturday started strongly with an additional feature: intermittent rain. To recover the lost schedule, four races were held; rain affecting the first and last.
After day one of the 44Cup Marstrand was called off due to strong winds, the worry for day two of racing off the west coast of Sweden’s paradise island was, ironically, a lack of breeze. The schedule was brought forward by two hours to 10:00 both to make the most of the available wind, while also allowing competitors to be docked and packed up ready for the Swedish traditional Midsummer Eve celebr
In a tighter-than-ever leaderboard, all eyes are on the unfolding fight for third between Denmark, France, Spain and – unbelievably – three-time SailGP season champions, Australia
The sun has returned to the harbour in Hyères, which has regained its summer colours in shades of blue on this first day of summer. As for the wind, the Mistral has invaded the playground of the fourteen 12mR boats for the fourth day of the World Championship.
“Brazil has achieved an incredible history of success in Olympic sailing and it’s fitting they are now entering the professional ranks of SailGP – competing against the best in the world. This opens up a new and very significant market for SailGP and we’re incredibly excited to further develop Brazil’s passionate fan base and strengthen our connection to the region.”
The event kicks off today in Porto Cervo, the last edition in the Costa Smeralda was held in 2007
Allie Tsai has chartered a Catalina 37 (C37) to race Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week which kicks off on Friday. She and her crew took second in class last year and while she’s fielding a team deep in talent, she claims that the eleven-strong fleet registered this year will be tough.
Another première for The Nations League, returning in Sardinia to test the waters in Alghero with ClubSwan 36 and ClubSwan 50.
With near gale force on shore westerly winds kicking up a violent sea state, the first day of racing at the 44Cup Marstrand was called off. At the 1000 skipper’s briefing PRO Maria Torrijo put the nine teams on stand-by until 1300, but then when conditions hadn’t improved the ‘AP over A’ was hoisted and racing was abandoned for the day.
An early wake-up call for the 224 sailors present in Porquerolles for the 12mR World Championship, with a briefing at 8am and the first competitors joining the race zone at 8.30am. As planned, at 9:30am, the race committee was able to launch the start of a course built in ideal conditions, with a north-easterly wind oscillating between 12 and 20 knots.
Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton, and George Russell visit INEOS Britannia’s America’s Cup base in Barcelona, Spain ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix
New starting location gives spectators unparalleled views to the action both in person and online
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