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Following some fresh snowfall last night, the mountains of Silvaplana delivered icy conditions for the first day of course racing. It was certainly a ‘head out of the board’ day; riders had to keep an eye on the gusty and shifting winds, as is often the case for mountainous venues like these.
After five races, French sailor Laurent Hay maintains the lead at the 2024 Finn World Masters, having scored another win in Wednesday’s only race. French sailor Valerian Lebrun climbed back into the top three and is currently in second position, also after winning his group race. Dutch sailor Martijn van Muiden is third after posted a third today.
The ORC Double-Handed World Championship, organized by the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig Norsk Seilforening – KNS) in collaboration with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), is on its second day. After more than 27 hours of intense racing, the participants are showcasing their skills and endurance in challenging conditions.
The four classes racing under the ORC rule at the 170th Annual Regatta break into two groups. Class A and Class B feature some of the country’s elite big-boat programs, four 60- and 70-footers in former and four TP52s and a speedy new Botin ORC 45-footer in the latter.
We Are Foiling is proud to carry on the tradition of dedicating every edition of the Foiling Week to a relevant Social Theme. 2024 will be inspired to YOUTH sailing and many projects and initiatives have been set (and will be) to support it all year long.
Thessaloniki will proudly host the first championship following the Olympic Games for the second consecutive quadrennial. From June 3 to 8, 2025, the picturesque shores of the Thermaikos Gulf, in the North Aegean Sea, will witness thrilling races featuring catamarans and skiffs—the very vessels that grace the Olympic waters.
Postponement of the Ponant Sydney Noumea Yacht Race and rescheduling of Trans-Tasman Yacht Race
The gray skies turned to blue and the sun emerged as the starting signal was displayed for the third edition of the ORC Double-Handed World Championship, organized by Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig Norsk Seilforening – KNS) in collaboration with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC).
With two wins from two light airs races Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing powered by American Magic crew made the best possible start to the 52 SUPER SERIES’ first ever races to be hosted by their home yacht club, the New York Yacht Club.
World No. 1 Laurent Hay has taken the lead at the 2024 Finn World Masters at PuntAla Camp & Resort in Italy after two more races on Day 2 brings the championship to the halfway stage. He is on equal points with Martijn van Muyden, with Nanno Schuttrups down to third.
Entries for this year’s Hamilton Island Race Week quickly reached capacity as Australian and international boat owners raced to register for the internationally acclaimed Whitsundays sailing series.
Emirates Team New Zealand called time on their winter training down in Auckland today with some of the finest race training footage seen to date in top end conditions that puffed up to 25 knots that had the two AC40s absolutely at the limit.
Newly crowned Marathon world champions, Bastien Escofect [FRA] and Maddalena Spanu [ITA] claim first bullets of the event in the marathon race
Everything is set at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda to welcome owners and crews of the J/24 one-design class for their European Championship in the waters off Porto Cervo. Proceedings will get underway tomorrow
The Global Solo Challenge (GSC) 2023 marked the launch of a new solo nonstop round-the-world sailing event with a unique format. It took three years to go from concept to reality, and as the staggered starts saw skippers leaving A Coruña for their voyage, the adventure came to life through the stories of the skippers at sea. This inaugural edition saw 16 starters from diverse backgrounds and exper
The return of the 2025 Admiral’s Cup is just over a year away and official entry opens on July 1st 2024. The allure of one of the sport’s most coveted trophies has already attracted interest from famous yacht clubs around the world. The Royal Ocean Racing Club is preparing for a breathtaking event of hi-tech racing starting on the 17th of July 2025.
SailGP – the world’s most exciting racing on water – has announced the first-ever Rolex Switzerland Sail Grand Prix to take place on the iconic waters of Lake Geneva on 20-21 September, 2025. The announcement marks the third confirmed event on the global racing championship’s hotly-anticipated Season 5 calendar.
The two Sails of Change 8 and Sails of Change 10 crews made their return to Lake Geneva in June ready to battle in the second Grand Prix of the season in Mies. It proved to be a rather special weekend with the first long-distance event of the season on Saturday: the Genève–Rolle–Genève, won by Yann Guichard and his men (Noé Delpech, François Morvan, Bruno Mourniac, Adrien Mestre and Solune Robert)
Just on cue, after a somewhat wet weekend, Newport RI turned on both sun and wind for the official practice race day for XS 52 SUPER SERIES Newport RI Trophy, the second event of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season. And the good news is the breezes look set to be in for the full wee, according to some of the fleet’s top navigators.
The third edition of the ORC Double-Handed World Championship 2024 is set to commence today. Hosted by the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig Norsk Seilforening – KNS) and organized with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), the championship will see world titles in the double-handed sailing discipline contested in a 300 to 340-mile race on the legendary Skaw Racecourse
After years of waiting and preparation, the 2024 Finn World Masters finally got underway at the at PuntAla Camp & Resort non Monday. In total, eight group races were sailed, in four fleets over two course areas, with Finns filling the Gulf of Follonica from one side to the other.
French skipper Jérémie Beyou held out under pressure to take third place on the second edition of the New York Vendée Les Sables d’Olonne solo race across the North Atlantic this evening. Winner of the first and only previous edition of the race in 2016, Beyou finished this Monday evening at 2111 hrs (local time, 1911 hrs UTC) to complete the podium.
The 2024 Roschier Baltic Sea Race has already 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. Starting on July 27, the race is held in almost continuous daylight of the Nordic Summer.
On the final day of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), competitors and officials alike were seduced by a forecast of up to 8 knots on Port Phillip, but the breeze did not break 8 knots.
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