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The TF35 Nyon Cup ended on Sunday with victory for Yann Guichard and his crew in the first Grand Prix of the 2024 sports season. Here’s a look back at three days of competition for Sails of Change and the team’s two TF35s.
Today, Wednesday, May 29th, Clarisse Crémer took the start of the New York Vendée transatlantic race. This race will take her to Les Sables d’Olonne, over a course of approximately 3100 nautical miles. The skippers had to spend last night at sea to position themselves on the start line on time for the official race start today.
Traditionally the last offshore of the Mediterranean season, with a date chosen for its varied and testing conditions, the Rolex Middle Sea Race has garnered a deserved reputation for always delivering. For this reason, yachts are attracted from near and far to take part.
Nautor Swan is proud to announce the highly anticipated launch of the ClubSwan 28, a yacht based on the concepts of simplicity, quality and, of course, pure One Design speed.
Entries for the 38th Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), opened one month ago. With the entries of highly competitive yachts including a handfull of mini maxis the race is shaping up to be a great battle once again.
The first finishers crossed the Newport finish line, just off Fort Adams in the morning hours on Tuesday, May 28th. After a back and forth battle throughout the race with Everial, Acrobatica managed to hold on for line honors crossing at 07:46:16 a.m. EST enveloped in fog.
As the 52 SUPER SERIES gets set to visit new territory, the world’s leading grand prix monohull racing circuit going racing in Newport, Rhode Island for the first time with two events back-to-back in June and July, long-time supporters and hydration suppliers Bluewater have increased their commitment.
The Cape 31 fleet descended on COYCH in Hyères over the weekend following weeks of Olympic Class Regattas. Local team and circuit leaders, Give Me Five, took their third win of the season, with Black Battalion in second and Pascal Feryn’s Solano taking third for the third time.
After 15 years, the Finn class once again chooses Centro Velico Punta Ala for the Masters World Championships, experiencing an impressive number of preregistrations.
The Global Solo Challenge (GSC) is excited to announce that the vibrant city of Vigo and its prestigious Real Club Náutico de Vigo will be the starting and finishing port for the second edition of the event to be held in 2027-2028.
Today out training on the ‘Back Paddock’ in Auckland, the Youth Team who were one-boat training on their AC40 over-cooked it on the exit of a gybe, lost the rudder and then had what can only be described as an epic pitch-pole and resultant capsize.
Finnish Offshore Racing Association and Åländska Segelsällskapet, as the organizers of the 2024 ORC European Championship, are proudly announcing Garmin as the Gold Sponsor of the event, being held from August 9 to 17 in Mariehamn, Åland.
At just 21 years of age, Greta Pilkington has been selected to represent New Zealand at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in the ILCA 6 class.
The ClubSwan 36 and ClubSwan 50 fleets will be in Bonifacio, Corsica, for the first time, racing in one of the most beautiful and stunning leg of water in the world.
In Bellano (Lake Como, Italy), a conclusion under the banner of new racing formats for ACT 2 of the Italian Cup foil class Waszp, organised over the weekend of 24-26 May by Circolo Vela Bellano and animated by over 50 helmsmen from 6 nations.
After missing out on the first regatta of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season Hasso and Tina Plattner’s Phoenix will be back in action at the upcoming XS 52 SUPER SEREIS Newport Trophy regatta in Newport RI.
Marselisborg Sejlklub is excited to host their first International 29er EuroCup at the end of May 2024 which will serve as a warm up regatta for the upcoming 29er World Championships which are to be hosted by Sailing Aarhus 1-9th August 2024.
Wow what a battle so far! The racing has been extremely close in the first two days of the Charleston-Newport leg of the Atlantic Cup. Until 9pm ET last night seven of the eight teams were within just a few miles of each other.
Demurtas-Santi win the National 29er in Arco Excellent second, first under 17 the Triestines Montesano-Coslovich In July the 29er class will be the protagonist at Circolo Vela Arco at the Youth World Championships
Orient Express Racing Team, the charismatic French challenger for the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup, today unveiled the boat that all of France hopes will finally deliver victory to this sailing-mad nation. And what a sight she was, with a classy royal blue livery and a hull-form very similar to her effective sister-ship ‘Taihoro’ of Emirates Team New Zealand.
Just turned 15, and in Year 11 at Rangitoto College, it’s astounding to think Chloe is on her way to her second Youth Worlds regatta on Italy’s Lake Garda.
At the end of three days of challenging races – 16 in total – the 69F Cup Grand Prix 2 Torbole went to a conclusion with the success of Clément Cron’s Groupe Atlantic (FRA).
With a new boat and an all-new crew, Yann Guichard’s Sails of Change 8 clinched the first victory of the 2024 TF35 season in a to-the-wire final race at the TF35 Nyon Cup.
Minus 15 days until departure for Greenland: we will sail among the icebergs.
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