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A crisp bright morning for the final day of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and at the end of the day, the final outcome will be known with winners announced at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) at St Kilda this evening and it is so close in some divisions.
The 2024 Finn World Masters has been opened at the PuntAla Camp & Resort on the shores of the Gulf of Follonica, in Tuscany, Italy. Nearly 300 competitors from 30 nations have completed registration ahead of the start of racing on Monday.
Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, helmed by Jérôme Clerc, was the top-scoring boat on a testing day of shifting, light breezes on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for the final of the TF35 Mies. The defending champions sailed to first, third, and second, while closest rivals Sails of Change 8 were caught mid-pack in fourth on the final two races, putting them into second overall.
Kitchen and Lukas Walton-Keim were named to the New Zealand Team today and will compete in the women’s and men’s kitefoil events, which have been included on the Olympic sailing schedule for the first time.
Germany’s top ocean racer Boris Herrmann secured second place on the 3200 nautical miles New York Vendée – Les Sables d’Olonne solo race across the North Atlantic when he crossed the finish line at 04:52 hrs (french time).
Despite positive signs early in the day, just one of two planned races were held on Day 2 of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) on Port Phillip; competitors and officials played a long waiting game hoping the breeze would come back in, but the wait was to no avail.
Simon Nearn was living In the UK when his association with the 18ft skiffs began. Over the next 30 years, he has not only retained his passion for the excitement of sailing and competing against the world’s best 18ft skiff sailors, he is now the Commodore of the Australian 18 Footers League, the world’s leading body for the class.
A light drizzle surfaced this morning and then the rain came down more solidly, but it was like water off a duck’s back for those taking part in the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron at St Kilda, all enjoying breakfast put on by the Club this morning.
After leading the 28 boat IMOCA fleet since last Monday morning, and today holding a margin of over 300 miles over second place, French skipper Charlie Dalin tonight completed an emphatic victory on the 3200 nautical miles New York Vendee Les Sables d’Olonne solo race across the North Atlantic.
After 04h 41m 02s, Yann Guichard and his Sails of Change 8 crew consisting of tactician Noé Delpech, trimmers François Morvan and Bruno Mourniac, bowman Adrien Mestre, and grinder Solune Robert, mastered the delicate breeze on Lake Geneva to win the 60th edition of the Genève-Rolle-Genève in the final moments of the race.
Great time had at sea and ashore for participants in the Southern Wind Rendezvous
Bastien Escofet and Maddalena Spanu claim first-ever WingFoil Racing Marathon World titles & Oscar Leclair wins 45th edition of The Round Texel Race, in a record breaking 2 hours 2 minutes 51 seconds
After an intense first half of the season, comprising multiple back-to-back races on the calendar since March, accumulated fatigue was evident on the race course today in the final race of the Le Havre Allmer Cup.
The final countdown for the ORC Double-Handed World Championship 2024 is on, and the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig Norsk Seilforening – KNS) and Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) have started the final preparations. All boats with their double-handed crews have checked in at the KNS marina at Dronningen, Oslo, and the registration and measurement checks began, marking the beginning of this pre
In Les Sables d’Olonne the champagne is on ice for Charlie Dalin. The skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance is expected to finish first on the New York Vendée Les Sables d’Olonne solo Transatlantic race during Saturday night between 2300hrs and 0200hrs local time.
Day 1 at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and the first of two races was as light as could be, forcing a late start and an early finish, then a second race in better breeze for the 33 competing yachts and their crews taking part in the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) annual three day event.
The big focus for Emirates Team New Zealand in this, their final training block before the team head back up to Barcelona, is pre-start practice and with Ray Davies calling the training schedule, it’s uncomfortable areas that they are pushing hard into.
For many of the sailors in the UniCredit Youth America’s Cup and the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup, their first taste of what to expect has been found on the team simulators that are dotted all over the globe. We have heard rumours of private races being taken “before breakfast” and “after dinner” between some of the antipodean teams whilst in the northern hemisphere unofficial leagues are
A sunny morning in Melbourne heralded the start of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), Australia’s longest running women’s keelboat competition, which has attracted 33 entries from Victoria, South Australia, NSW, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
It was a solid opening day for the TF35 Mies, the second event of the 2024 tour, with four different race winners over the five races sailed and every boat in the fleet hitting the podium in at least one race. Topping the overnight leaderboard, Realteam Sailing’s helm, Jérôme Clerc, and tactician Sébastien Col made the best start with two victories and two seconds.
Superyachts battle saw spectacular manoeuvres below the rocks of Capo Ferro
Qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games began at the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands. At the end of the event, the 16 top-ranked countries in each of the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 fleets were awarded Olympic qualification. Subsequently, seven places will be distributed to the highest finishing and not previously qualified countries at the 2024 ILCA 7 Men’s World Champions
After leading the New York Vendée Les Sables d’Olonne solo race across the Atlantic since Monday morning, top French skipper Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) is expected to cross the finish line during Saturday night to take a resounding victory on a showcase race which is the last big test before this winter’s upcoming 10th edition of the Vendée Globe.
Three hundred Finn Masters can’t be wrong when they all head to the same venue. The 2024 Finn World Masters begins next week at the Puntala Camp & Resort beside the Tyrrhenian Sea sea, 13 years after it was last held there. It is the last of the events held over from the pandemic cancellations after being originally scheduled to be held in 2021.
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