Posted by XS Editor
With an entry quota of 240, the Moth Class has attracted 148 competitors to vie for the 2025 World title on July 8-13 in Lago di Garda, Italy. Great Britain leads 23 nations with 27 entrants, while 15 competitors will represent USA in the 15-race series on Lake Garda. Mattias Coutts will seek to defend his 2024 crown that he won on home waters in January. – Details
Posted by deleteme
Strale (1967) by Antonio Bandini of the Circolo Velico Ravennate wins the Overall of the XII Principality of Monaco Trophy. The two scheduled races of the Trophy, promoted by AnnaLicia Balzan, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Monaco in Venice, took place on Saturday and Sunday with calm seas and a light breeze from the South-East.
Strale was built in wood in Ravenna by the Angelo Montanari shipyard and designed by Giuseppe Belardi. A boat that, despite its decidedly unusual shape (a small horse and an upside-down bow), has participated and won in both the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas in numerous classic sailing regattas. Due to its long and narrow shape (13.47 meters x 2.70 meters), it is nicknamed ‘the Worm of Rimini’, but it has proven to be very fast and competitive.
Posted by XS Editor
World Sailing has said it welcomes the confirmation of sailing venues for the Olympic Games LA28 the boards will be at Long Beach, with the dinghy events at the Port.
Posted by XS Editor
Sail Wars dives into the fierce competition to win back the America’s Cup. This one-hour video follows the high-tech journey of Stars and Stripes ’87, the third and final yacht crafted by the Sail America team in their bold quest to dethrone Australia and bring the Cup home.
From the transcript:
This is a story of Sail America’s three-year effort to design a yacht capable of recapturing sailing’s greatest trophy. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at a major 12 Meter campaign, one that takes us to the highest levels of international sport and to the frontiers of science.
In early 1984 John Marshall was named coordinator of the Sail America design team we can do the best we can his job was to organize and manage an American design effort that would be technologically second to none.
“We decided that what we would have to do is put together a multidisciplinary team,” explained Marshall. “People from specifically the sailing environment professionals, in that area our three yacht designers, but also people whose expertise was much broader – theoreticians from a university background, practicing aeronautical engineers, people involved in military development, people from the ship hydrodynamics background – so that what we would have would be the best in the country in a wide range of skills that all could be brought to bear on this particular problem.”
Details: https://www.americascup.com/
No entries have yet been submitted for the 38th America’s Cup as Defender New Zealand works with the Challenger of Record from Great Britain to organize the event. The two teams have agreed on some details with the venue moved to Naples, Italy after Barcelona, Spain declined hosting another edition. Racing will be in the spring and summer of 2027.
Posted by XS Editor
The Canadian Government could not hit reverse gear fast enough, on their brand new digital tax, following Trump shutting down trade negotiations…
Posted by XS Editor
All eyes will be on Kiel this week as the iQFOiL International Games begin tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, at Kieler Woche, marking the first time this cutting-edge Olympic windsurfing class takes a leading role at the iconic German sailing festival.
Posted by deleteme
The USCG tall ship Eagle is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco Bay on the morning of Wednesday, June 25. She will be coming under the Gate at around 8 a.m. and tying up around 10 a.m. at Piers 15/17 by the Exploratorium. The Eagle is heading south after visiting Portland and Astoria, OR. After her Bay Area stop she’ll continue her training mission by visiting our friendly neighbors to the north in Victoria, BC, before again turning south to make a stop in Seattle.
The Eagle will be open for free public tours from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, and will depart the Bay on Sunday, June 29. After visiting Victoria, BC, and Seattle, the ship is due to return to the Bay on July 25. There will be more public tours on her second visit, with the schedule TBD. Eagle will leave the Bay again on July 28 and head south to arrive in Los Angeles on August 1.
The remaining West Coast tour schedule is here:
San Francisco – Wednesday, 25 June
Victoria, BC, Canada – Monday, 7 July
Seattle, Washington – Tuesday, 15 July
San Francisco – Friday, 25 July
Los Angeles – Friday, 1 August
San Diego – Friday, 8 August
San Diego – Friday, 15 August
The Eagle is a 295-ft, three-masted barque, and is the only active square-rigger in US government service. She is used as a United States Coast Guard officer-training vessel, with her crew of 120 cadets swapping out at various ports during the tour. She last visited the West Coast and San Francisco Bay in 2008.
You can track the Eagle’s approach to the Bay here.
If you’re wondering what she’s been up to while not sailing the West Coast, or you’re thinking being a Coast Guard officer might be a pretty good gig, check out this video from one of her Caribbean tours:
The post The USCG ‘Eagle’ Has Landed — Almost appeared first on Latitude38.
Posted by deleteme
Posted by XS Editor
Despite the shift of three times America’s Cup winner, Peter Burling it is understood that there is unlikely to be any softening of the Nationality rule to enable Burling to compete in the 38th America’s Cup.
Posted by XS Editor
The Ocean Race confirms the around‑the‑world yacht race will return to Brazil, with the fleet stopping April 2027 in Itajaí and again in 2031, in a two-edition hosting partnership. This will mark the fifth time the race has been in Itajaí and the 11th visit to Brazilian shores.
Itajaí first joined the global sailing stage in the 2011-12 edition of The Ocean Race, becoming the race’s sole South American stopover that year. The city welcomed the fleet again in 2014-15 and 2017-18, and most recently hosted the 2022-23 edition, making 2027 its fifth consecutive appearance on the race route.
“Itajaí is always a very welcome stopover for The Ocean Race and our sailors, not least because it usually comes after the longest leg at sea,” said Johan Salen, Director of The Ocean Race. “The passion the people in Itajaí have for the Race and the leadership the team in Itajaí has demonstrated in sustainable event excellence makes it a natural fit for a fifth consecutive stopover.”
It is expected the leg finishing in Itajaí will start in Auckland, New Zealand.
Confirmed course ports*
Alicante, Spain (start)
Auckland, New Zealand
Itajaí, Brazil
Port Said, Egypt
AMAALA, Saudi Arabia (finish)
*More to be confirmed
Details: https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/
The Ocean Race will begin again in 2027 using the IMOCA class boat, with two earlier events providing training and exposure to prospective teams. In 2025, The Ocean Race Europe will start on August 10 from Kiel, Germany and take a route south around the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean Sea. In 2026, The Ocean Race Atlantic will start in New York, USA and finish in Barcelona, Spain.
Source: The Ocean Race
Posted by deleteme
Once again, Roy Disney has assembled his highly experienced crew for this year’s 2025 Transpac. With Roy’s Volvo 70 Pyewacket fresh off a clean sweep in Antigua Race Week, the boat is now in transit to England for this years Fastnet Race, San Tropez Race Week, and the Rolex Maxi Worlds in Sardinia. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Roy will be sailing his Andrews 68 Pyewacket in the 2025 Transpac.
There are probably more total Transpac miles on the Pyewacket crew than on any other boat. This will be Roy’s 26th Transpac, and as amazing as that might seem, watch captain Gary Weisman also has 26 Transpacs on his résumé. Next on the list are Ben Mitchell and Scott Easom with 21 each. Bowman Robbie Kane and navigator Peter Isler both have eight; Daryl Wislang, Brad Jackson, Tony Mutter and Torben Grael, four each. This doesn’t even take into account the combined 50-plus Pac Cups the team has done as well. The more difficult the conditions, the more this team’s experience shines.
All totaled it’s about 300,000 Transpac miles (or 12 circumnavigations) of racing to Hawaii by this crew. In 2019 their race was cut short when they stopped to rescue the crew of OEX after a rudder failure that caused the boat to sink. In 2021 they raced Disney’s modified Volvo 70 Pyewacket to a second in class, and in the 2023 Transpac they were back to win their class aboard the Andrews 68 Pyewacket.
If you’re looking to find a boat that knows the way to Hawaii, keep an eye on Pyewacket. (Listen to a podcast with Roy Disney here.)
The post Transpac Profile: Disney’s ‘Pyewacket’ Adding Up the Miles appeared first on Latitude38.
Posted by XS Editor
Spain top the leaderboard after the first day of racing in the Mubadala New York Grand Prix, after a consistent day’s sailing on the murky and rainswept Hudson River.
Posted by XS Editor
After time correction, Rob Craigie’s Sun Fast 3600 Bellino, racing double-handed with co-skipper RORC Commodore Deb Fish, was the winner by just 53 seconds after 22 hours of racing.
Follow Us!