Lauri Andressel from Tallin in Estonia is the 17th entry in the Global Solo Challenge. With his Bruce Farr designed Beneteau 53 F5 is also the skipper of the biggest boat entered so far…
Great Britain stuns dominant Australia
The Great Britain SailGP Team was crowned first event champion of SailGP Season 2 by winning the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess on a dramatic day on the Great Sound, beating Australia…
52 pick up
Somebody only gets you the once. Hopefully… Where the playing cards are held between the thumb and index finger, flexed down, and then sprayed out to a jumbled mess on the floor…
Cayard, Lawrence win Star Western Hemispheres
Miami, FL (April 25, 2021) – Paul Cayard and Luke Lawrence (USA) are the 2021 Star Western Hemisphere Champions after a flawless series, leading the scoreboard since day one and winning without sailing the final race. – Full report
SailGP – Final Day of Bermuda Grand Prix
SailGP Live coverage and Full Race Replay of Bermuda Sail Grand Prix of the final day will be available here…
SailGP Bermuda: Baptism by fire on opening day and post race interviews
The surprise of the first day of racing in SailGP Bermuda was the performance of the three America’s Cup skippers and their star studded teams – all finishing outside the top three on the overnight leaderboard…
Formidable line-up for the first Tf35 Trophy
French sailing legend, Loïck Peyron, joins the line-up of top sailing stars to compete in the first-ever event of the inaugural TF35 Trophy next week…
RS:X-Windsurfing – World Championship 2021 – Cadiz ESP – Day 2 – North Americans in the second half of the fleets
Without racing on the opening day due to too much wind, the 2021 RS:X Windsurfing World Championship was kicked off yesterday with three races held in fresh winds. —– Kiran Badloe NED and Tom Reuveny ISR are tied for the lead in the mens rankings, with Byron Kokkalanis GRE and Piotr Myszka POL only one point behind in third and fourth places respectively. Pedro Pascual Suitt USA follows in 19th, Ignacio Berenguer MEX is 27th. —– Dutch lead in the womens race as well with Lilian De Geus NED. One point behind follows the Olympic champion Charline Picon FRA, and two points back are Zofia Noceti-Klepacka POL and Katy Spychakov ISR sharing the 3rd place. Farrah Hall USA is 17th, Demita Vega de Lille MEX 21st. —– All rankings and the video of the day.
Star Western Hemisphere Championship day 2
Day two of the 2021 Star Western Hemisphere was as perfect as day one, with clear blue sky, azure flat water and a steady 12-15 knot breeze blowing from South East…
Railey & Buckingham place top 10
The 2021 ILCA European Continental Qualifiers ended on Saturday, April 24 following a week of varying breeze and swell in Vilamoura…
Sail Port Stephens overall
As Australia commemorated Anzac Day, there were battles aplenty on the water in an action-packed finale to Sail Port Stephens 2021, which saw some surprise victors in a number of divisions…
PlanetSail: Smashing the Channel
As MOD70 sisterships Maserati and Powerplay duelled across the English channel a new record was set for the famous Cowes-St Malo race course. Matt Sheahan takes a look at a blisteringly quick trip that was over by lunchtime…
Rolex Giraglia 2021 Notice of Race published
The Yacht Club Italiano, organiser of the 68th edition of the Rolex Giraglia, has published the Notice of Race and officially opened registration for this offshore classic, starting this year from Sanremo…
Crew wanted – San Diego to Channel Islands next weekend Apr 30-May 2
Experience…
Crew wanted – San Diego to Channel Islands next weekend Apr 30-May 2
Challenging return Great Britain SailGP Team
14 months after the last SailGP event, the Great Britain SailGP Team finally returned to action yesterday for the opening day of the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix Presented by Hamilton Princess…
SailGP – Ghost in the Machine opening day in Bermuda
This is the replay of the ‘live’ broadcast of the first day of racing for the SailGP Season 2 opener – the Bermuda Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess…
Calling all battery experts….
Cayard leads Star Western Hemispheres
Miami, FL (April 23, 2021) – The past Star World Champions wanted to prove their worth on the opening day of the 2021 Western Hemisphere Championship. The three Gold Stars on the race course claimed a bullet each, John MacCausland / Guy Avellon (USA) won the first race, Augie Diaz / Bruno Prada (USA/BRA) the second and are second overall while Paul Cayard / Luke Lawrence (USA) won the third and last one and are leading the series…
spoiler alert
Although telling the world their broadcast of Day One of racing in the SailGP Bermuda event is live, it is in actual fact not the case. Due to the forecast for light winds on Saturday, the first day of racing was brought forward to Friday but to maintain the ‘myth’ of live racing the news of results etc .,was kept under wraps with accredited journalists sworn to not release the results. What a horseshit way to run a supposed top level regatta.
However, as some will remember, SailGP refused accreditation to Sailing Anarchy because we weren’t a ‘proper sailing news website’. How ya like us now? Despite their pretensions, SailGP does not own the world and as reported elsewhere, racing on day one was dominated by Tom Slingby’s Australian team which won all three races on day 1 (that’s Friday, not Saturday). Actual scores as follows. Thank you Sailing Anarchy community for assisting with this information…
Excitement grows at the Global Solo Challenge
As the list of enquiries received about the Global Solo Challenge 2023 tops 220 sailors (of which more than 150 already own a boat) organisers need to ensure the event remains fair, even in light of a potentially diverse fleet at the start…
he’s flying
Part 2 of our interview with designer Mark Mills
A very good pro sailor and class organizer in the UK named Dave Swete got bored while in COVID lock down and he and Dave Bartholomew singlehandedly got the UK class together and became the dealer for the boats. The plan is to have 8 boats up there for the fleet this summer. It’s been crazy with that and an amazingly fast success story for the UK fleet. There’s also been interest from the US. Another South African ex-pat brought ‘Privateer’ to the US and is based in New Orleans, and has been taking people for rides. So the plan now is to unleash the Cape 31 on the US market in the next month or so. We are planning for a fleet in the US in 2022, it’s awesome to see so much interest in the boat in the US as well.
We are planning a Caribbean component to the Cape 31 as well. There’s definitely a missing piece to the puzzle with Key West no longer being on the calendar. Dave Swete has some exciting plans to get the UK boats to come out and do a Caribbean event; like a mini world tour before their summer season gets started. Dave brings the organization and cohesion together to get the class going in both the UK and the US which is very exciting.
SA: So while the Cape 31 is taking off around the world, another one of your recent one-design boats seems to be stalling out a bit; the C&C 30. Why do you think that is?
MM: The C&C 30 was a super cool project for us at the time, but it was a very US east-coast focused project. When it came to us, the brief was that you can never be slower than a Mumm (Farr) 30, especially in the light to medium conditions of Annapolis and other east coast venues. Yacht design had come a long way in the last twenty years, and so it’s relatively easy to be faster than a Mumm 30 in a breeze, but it changes your design priorities in the light air…
European Olympic Qualifier – Day 4 – Paige Railey (USA) now 8th, Charlie Buckingham (USA) up on 11th
The final races of the European Olympic Qualifiers in Vilamoura started yesterday in light winds. —– In the ILCA 7, Michael Beckett GBR took the lead with 2nd and 3rd places, and his lead over Filip Jurisic CRO is now already 17 points. Tonci Stipanovic CRO has moved up to third place. —– Only one point behind the podium follows Joel Rodriguez ESP, as the first of the not yet qualified nations. Duko Bos NED in 12th holds the second Olympic berth. Wannes Van Laer BEL lurks 5 points behind in the 13th. —– Charlie Buckingham USA (NHYC) is again up on rank 11 with a 7th rank in the second race of the day, but the backlog on the podium remains at 21 points. Liam Bruce CAN (Port Credit YC/CSDS) had a good day in the Silver fleet and progressed to 82nd place overall. James Juhasz CAN however lost 7 ranks and is now 107th…
All rankings, the daily report and the video of the day.
George Lee Rush wins Starling Nationals 2021
Wakatere Boating Club’s George Lee Rush took out the national championship today in the fiftieth edition of the Starling Class National Championships…
B&G displays built into SailGP’s F50 wingsails
B&G®, the world’s leading sailing navigation and instrument specialist, has worked closely with SailGP – the sport’s pinnacle racing event – as it heads into Season Two of competition this year…
Adding shore power – How many breakers?
ever young
Talk about a class with legs! The AC flying circus has left town and after a pause for summer the real sailing is back. The almost 40 yrs old Young 88 One Design cruiser racer fleet is still creating some awesome weekend warrior vs Rockstar events. Yeah I know …. another bunch of passionate volunteers pushing their barrow but we do think it is pretty cool when the class stalwarts can give the newest owner and his handy AC buddies a run for their money.. at least in a few races. Check it out.
Anybody out there know about the Cheoy Lee Offshore 38?
When the world comes to North America
While nothing beats sleeping in your own bed, traveling to regattas extends the experiences provided by the sport of sailing. But for North Americans, there’s a massive difference when that road trip goes to another continent.
Aside from the logistics of travel, differences in culture, currency, and nutrition can be a distraction, so it is immensely nice when the world travels to North America. Luther Carpenter, U.S. Olympic Head Coach, reflects on the upcoming schedule for three Olympic classes:
If you are like me, one of the greatest aspects of sailing is the community that comes within our exciting sport. No matter who you are, we have all grown up being encouraged and nurtured into better sailors by our peers and generations above us. It’s such a gift to be told, “You have talent, and here are some tips!” It’s the lifeline and blood of sailing.
£25??
You know we love the retro, and here is a really bitchin/weird one. And it can be yours – a 1/4 Cup Champion – for $34.60!
SailGP event brought forward 24 hours
The SailGP season 2 opener will start a day earlier than planned because of Saturday’s forecast of unfavourable light winds…
where’s wally?
Remember when Wally set the standard for beautiful, dynamic big racer/cruisers? Eh, looks like not only has everyone caught up, but Wally themselves don’t seem too flash anymore, at least not this one.
twaddle
Why is it that the SailGP circus is so unconvincing? The spectacle of some of the world’s best sailors fleet racing each other in wing-sail foiling cats should be a slam dunk. Yet the 2021 series about to begin in Bermuda this weekend has caused hardly a ripple. If we take out SailGP’s own hyperventilating PR releases, the media – and therefore the sailing public – have so far treated the event as a giant yawn. This indifference must be concerning for The Man from O.R.A.C.L.E and his loyal sidekick Sir Rumpled Coutts. Many millions have been spent trying to generate real international interest for SailGP, but for minimal return.
Admittedly, the timing of COVID could not have been worse: any momentum the series had hoped to build from the first race last year was halted by a 14-month break. Anticipated revenue from spectators (always a dicey proposition for yachting regattas) has similarly disappeared down the gurgler because of virus restrictions. Sponsors are hard to find for a sporting event that struggles for continuity and genuine media attention. But there are, to my mind, other significant factors that make SailGP seem so lackluster…
Apply now for the 45th Wooden Boat Festival
We are planning on hosting the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival this September, and we want you to be a part of the magic that makes this weekend so special! Participant applications are now live on website…
two scoops
There are only a handful of events that today accept an Open 50 as an entry. Examples are the Rhum Class of the Route du Rhum or the OSTAR. There aren’t any around the world events open to these boats. It is in keep with the spirit of the Global Solo Challenge to offer a departure for these boats, even more so if there are no other similar events they can attend…
Modern Analytics for Racing Sailors
Cyclops Marine has collaborated with Njord Analytics to offer Cyclops customers an additional thirty-day free trial of Njord Analytics and Njord Player (on top of the existing thirty-day free trial already offered)…
Measuring the world’s water
The creation of ocean current maps depend on the measurement of sea level, which is the base level for measuring elevation and depth on Earth…
Maserati wins Cowes to Dinard match race
Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini triumphed in the duel against Peter Cunningham’s MOD 70 PowerPlay and conquered the Channel Record. They set sail off Cowes (UK) at 9:13:40 GMT and they crossed the finish line off Dinard (FR) at 13:44:29 GMT…
Wally 101-foot sailing cruiser-racer sold
After the successful delivery of its 145-footer last year, Wally is proud to announce the sale of a 101-foot fully custom sailing yacht to a passionate loyal client…
British windsurfers set for breezy worlds battle
Team GB windsurfers Tom Squires and Emma Wilson are relishing a forecast for big breeze as they take on the RS:X World Championships – one of the last major events before Tokyo 2020…
Strong winds delay first outing for NZSailGP
New Zealand SailGP Team co-CEOs Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have credited the extraordinary work of the entire team in getting the brand new F50 ready in time for the season-opening Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess this weekend…
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