Last weekend saw the long awaited return of Waszps to Ullswater Yacht Club in the Lake District for a Class Event as part of the club’s Daffodil Regatta…
The Ocean Race: Fully-crewed IMOCA racing begins
The Ocean Race Europe got underway from Lorient today in the lightest of conditions as, for the first time, sailing fans all over the world saw IMOCA 60s and VO65s racing alongside each other on their way to Cascais…
How to follow The Ocean Race Europe
The Ocean Race Europe – a new, three-stage offshore sailing race for professional teams racing in two classes of high-performance ocean-going yachts: VO65 and IMOCA 60 – starts from Lorient, France on Saturday May 29 at 13.45 CEST…
Introducing the Sunreef 100 sail catamaran
Sunreef Yachts adds a new superyacht to its range of exclusive sail catamarans. The Sunreef 100 is an imposing craft made for cruising worldwide in total luxury…
Congressional Cup returns with a splash
The excitement of Congressional Cup racing will return to Long Beach Yacht Club September 14 to 19, 2021 when the world’s leading match racing skippers compete for this venerated trophy and the prized Crimson Blazer…
Enter now for the BKL Youth Championships
Young sailors from clubs, classes, schools and universities are being invited to #rockupandrace in RS21s at the 2021 British Keelboat League Youth Championships…
Chicago Mac: Back on track
When entries opened for the 2021 Chicago to Mackinac Race opened in February, the COVID clouds were lingering, but now nearly four months later, Chicago Yacht Club is preparing for full sun in July.
After cancelling the 289nm race last summer due to the pandemic, the 112th edition has been green lighted to start on July 16 for cruising sailboats and July 17 for performance sailboats, with 240+ entrants planning for the course from Chicago’s Navy Pier on Lake Michigan to Mackinac Island, MI on Lake Huron.
“The Chicago Yacht Club is just so pleased to be back on track with this incredible sailing tradition,” said Race Chair Martin Sandoval. “The Race to Mackinac is fresh, exciting, challenging and very different every year.
Sailing The Great Dismal Swamp Canal
They said it couldn’t be done, but damn it, we did it! We sailed the Great Dismal Swamp Canal, in light winds, no less. Everyone else just motors. Like many other cruisers, I have also transited the canal twice under power and can tell you from personal experience that none of the people motoring this historic waterway ever really see it. Same thing with those people driving the scenic road that runs alongside. They aren’t really seeing it either.
When you’re going an average of 1.5 to 2 knots, though, by way of sails and sculling oar, you more than see it. You become part of it. So much so, there were times I seriously wondered whether we would ever make it out of there…
Cruising Sailors Go Racing in Chicago
The 2021 Chicago NOOD will include a family-friendly distance race on June 12. (Paul Todd/)
The country’s largest and longest-running sailing regatta series—the Helly Hansen National Offshore One-Design Regatta—sails into Chicago early next month with three days of on-the-water events and post-race socials at host Chicago Yacht Club, including the Cruising World Rally Race on Saturday, June 12.
The Rally Race includes an offshore ORC-handicapped division as well as spinnaker and non-spinnaker PHRF classes. Entry is open to any boat 25 feet or longer that holds a current ORC or Lake Michigan PHRF certificate…
Two days to The Ocean Race Europe
With two days to go till the first edition of The Ocean Race Europe sets sail from the heart of Sailing Valley in Lorient (13:45hrs local time, Saturday 29 May), Class IMOCA has selected a few choice utterances from the sailors…
Global Solo Challenge welcomes 21st entry
Australian Willi Fantom from Hobart is currently circumnavigating Australia promoting his campaign Solo Sailor For The Disabled in the faithful company of his live-aboard dog Capt Mistchief…
Medemblik Olympic Classes regatta last major test before Tokyo Games
The first part of the Allianz Regatta in Medemblik from June 2-13 takes place in the form of two Olympic Weeks envolving eight of the ten Olympic classes…
52 Super Series Valencia Regatta cancelled
As the minimum number of teams to stage a viable, competitive event has not been realised, the first regatta of the 2021 52 Super Series, the Royal Cup 52 Super Series Valencia Mar, has been cancelled…
12 Foot Skiff – Why not give it a go?
Campaigning a 12 is about fun on & off the water. You can develop a range of skills, including boat handling, tuning, boat maintenance, organisation and training…
75th Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race preview
After much anticipation, over 60 boats will finally line up on Friday for the 75th Block Island Race starting in Stamford, Connecticut this weekend to complete in both ORC and PHRF classes…
Championships are Back
Dinghy Championships are back with the RS Feva and Lark classes getting in early with their National Championships this holiday weekend…
Keel up vs Down
rollin’ in the ’64
On May 23, 1964, Eric Tabarly set sail from Plymouth to participate in the second edition of the English Transat. The rules were simple: to link the United States (Newport) from England in real time. The first one to arrive won! In the first edition 4 years ago, it was Francis Chichester who won on Gipsy Moth III in 40 days. This legendary British sailor hopes to take less than 30 days on the same boat for this edition. This will be without counting on the young Frenchman Eric Tabarly who had a brand new boat built for this edition…
eyes forward
And all those eyes are looking to see just how deep this Farr 280 is going to bury it’s bow! Photo by James Tomlinson. More here.
USA names Tokyo 2020 Team
US Sailing has confirmed the names of the 13 sailors who will represent the United States at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, having qualified in nine of the 10 events to be held this summer in Enoshima, Japan.
The team hails from nine U.S. states and territories including California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Wisconsin.
“I know how much work it takes to earn selection to Team USA, and what a special honor it is to represent your country in the Olympics,” said Paul Cayard, Executive Director of U.S. Olympic Sailing. “I’m excited to support this group of 13 talented athletes as they race in Enoshima…
USA issues warning against travel to Japan
The US State Department has issued a stronger warning to its citizens against traveling to Japan due to the coronavirus situation in the country…
Fast40+ fleet at the Vice Admiral’s Cup overall
The Fast40+ Class Race Circuit returned to Cowes this weekend with Round 1 of the six event series as part of the RORC Vice Admiral’s Cup…
Nic Douglass On Deck with Stan Honey
Sports broadcast and sailing legend Stan Honey was on deck with Nic Douglass over the weekend to chat about his career and to get some insights as to just what is going down with the Mixed Offshore event and inclusion in the Olympic Games…
stupid and dangerous
We have a larger version of a tourist boat that does this same sort of shit in San Diego bay. There is no speed limit and it is an accident just waiting to happen…
In the wake of a fatal collision on Southampton Water, the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch is warning high-speed tourboat operators to heed their industry’s voluntary code of conduct and ensure the safety of their passengers.
On August 22, tour boat operator Seadogz Rib Charter Ltd. dispatched the rigid inflatable Seadogz on a routine commercial tour. The boat departed the Ocean Village Marina at about 0945 that morning with 11 passengers on board.
After performing a series of high-speed figure-eights around navigational buoys in the harbor, the skipper headed back up the channel in order to tail an outbound ferry, passing back and forth to jump the larger vessel’s wake. Exiting one of these maneuvers at a speed of about 38 knots, the skipper navigated the RIB into the North-West Netley buoy, a five-tonne steel marker measuring about ten feet in diameter by 15 feet high.
Upon impact, the bow of the boat was tossed upward and all on board were thrown violently forward by the rapid deceleration. Everyone on board (save for one passenger) sustained injuries, including broken limbs, fractured vertebrae, dislocations and a punctured lung. Emily Lewis, a 15-year-old passenger who was sitting just forward of the pilot house, was fatally injured.
super again
After a year like no other, the message from Superyacht Cup Palma 2021 is to the point – it’s time to go racing! The 25th anniversary of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta will see action out on the Bay of Palma from June 23-26, with the new-look event acting smartly and adapting itself to local pandemic limitations.
Buoyed by an already promising provisional entry list featuring several stars of the superyacht world, the event now features new racing classes that offer something for all possible competitors. With the determined support of SYC partners, friends, suppliers and collaborators – not least the prestigious Real Club Nautico de Palma which has expanded its long-standing involvement – the organisers are optimistic they can meet the pent-up demand for competitive and enjoyable racing…
Satterthwaite claims 7th Elliott 5.9 Title
“It may look easy but there is a lot of hard work that goes into this,” was Craig Satterthwaite’s comment as he and his crew of Tom Maidment and Chris Maddock on Rough + Reddy celebrated his seventh Elliott 5.9 National title…
The 2021 Falmouth Classics passes 100 entries
Despite the current challenges the 34th Falmouth Classics, set to take place from 11 – 13 June has received over 100 entries with local boats still to come…
Celebrating the birth of the Laser
Australia will be celebrating the birth of the ILCA Laser dinghy by organizing a world record attempt of 200+ Lasers to sail in a parade from Sydney Opera House to South Head on May 30 to recognize 50 years of the popular sailing class.
Double Bay Sailing Club, which has the largest fleet of active ILCA Laser dinghy sailors in Australia, has invited all Laser sailors from around Sydney and beyond to participate in the exhibition parade, with festivities to follow at Double Bay Sailing Club.
“This is going to be real spectacle, with such a large fleet framed against the iconic backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House,” said Andrew Cox, Commodore of Double Bay Sailing Club, with the parade led by 13-times World Laser Masters Champion, Brett Beyer, on a commemorative gold-coloured Laser created for the occasion by the Australian ILCA Laser builder, Performance Sailcraft Australia…
Since the class was established in 1971, over 218,000 boats have been sold worldwide, making it one of the most popular sailing classes ever…
Optimism for start of Fast40 2021 Race Circuit
Established in 2016, the Fast40 Class was becoming one of the most exciting UK based race circuits until the pandemic reeled in some of the growth…
Highs and Lows action for an 18ft Skiff Champion
Current JJ Giltinan world champion, Michael Coxon has been sailing 18s for around 20 seasons, but even the world’s best can have good and bad days when you are racing an 18ft Skiff around Sydney Harbour…
Tokyo moves to Delivery Mode with 63 days to Opening
The final meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 concluded with 63 days remaining until the Opening of the Games…
Latest World Sailing Rankings – May 2021
World Sailing have published the Olympic classes World Rankings updated as at 17 May 2021…
SailGP: Burling and Tuke step off NZSailGP entry
Joining the New Zealand SailGP Team are international high-performance sailors Arnaud Psarofaghis (SUI) (helm), James Wierzbowski (flight controller) and New Zealand Olympic sailor Jason Saunders (wing trimmer)…
just do it
Live with no regrets.
Marisa Personius remembers thinking about all the things she wanted to do when – not if – her body was strong enough. Of course, there were the fears. During chemotherapy, you’re petrified, she said, living every moment careful to not compromise your already battered immune system. Your body is weak, muscles out of whack.
But coming close to death makes you realize how much you want to live, she said. Read on.
A New Twist on Soft Shackles
LOOP soft shackles are a simple, yet highly versatile product. They can be used almost anywhere that you would use a conventional shackle and have an incredible strength to weight ratio, as you would expect from Dyneema…
IMOCA Globe Series Championship 2021-2025
Devised in 2017, the IMOCA Globe Series Championship, which combines the world’s superlative offshore races, enjoyed its first great success with its inaugural cycle from June 2018 to March 2021…
Precision Performance Consultancy
Cyclops has partnered with world-leading sailors and coaches to assemble a ‘Global Performance Team’ of expert consultants that use Cyclops data as part of their process…
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