The German-flagged Team Malizia has moved into the lead on leg 4 of The Ocean Race as skipper Will Harris and his crew charge north, marching nearly in lockstep with the previous leader, 11th Hour Racing Team…
Win the Adventure of a Lifetime with Henri-Lloyd!
Exploring some of the remote areas of the planet is a dream for most, and chances to do so are few and far between. Henri-Lloyd are offering a place for a once in a lifetime experience aboard Ocean Warrior along the west coast of Greenland…
The World Sailing Show
The World Sailing Show delivers 30-minute episodes which feature news, profiles, and racing highlights from across the world of sailing.
The latest episode catches up with the first event of this year’s World Cup, with in-depth coverage of the Princess Sofía Regatta in Mallorca, Spain. This is the first stop in a busy 16-month period which also includes the Sailing World Championships and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games…
The Ocean Race returns to the north
(May 2, 2023; Day 10) – Last night (UTC), Team Malizia led 11th Hour Racing Team across the equator, as The Ocean Race returned to the northern hemisphere.
But the margin was slim – just over two minutes separated the leading pair.
“Hopefully we’re going to cross in first… by about 200 metres I would say,” said Will Harris from on board Malizia. “It’s going to be a dogfight the whole way up (to Newport) I think.
“We’ve sailed down the Atlantic, all the way around and back up. That’s a big part of ‘around the world’ done now.”
For video, see 11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia.
Race details – Route – Tracker – Teams – Content from the boats – YouTube
Starlink – Yikes! Huge price changes! Investigating
Mobile APROX $150 + US$2.50 per Gigabyte in Non-Coverage Countries – Excludes at sea!
Or
Global Mobile $200 + $2.50 per gig in Non-Coverage Countries – Excludes at sea!
OR
US$250 per month…
gee, that sounds like fun
It does if you’re into indentured servitude. Here’s the opening paragraph for a crew wanted job:
From May / June through early September I will be spending most of my time cruising and sailing around the Salish Sea on a 44ft catamaran with a combination of family and friends. I am looking for a deckhand who is flexible to be wherever we are going, whenever we go there. Room and board included, though what room is available will depend on how many guests we have.
There are 3 cabins on the boat and a couch of sorts that becomes a bed; guests will take priority in terms of cabins. This is a mid-sized boat, so while it’s comfortable it is not a super yacht so requires a willingness to share small spaces with others. Start is May (somewhat flexible) through mid-September.
Toppling a match racing giant
While the spotlight at the Congressional Cup (April 18-22) was intently focused on the final match between eventual winner Chris Poole (USA) and Jeppe Borch (DEN), the fight for third also had significance in Long Beach, CA.
It is not often that, for the opening event of the 2023 World Match Racing Tour, the Petit Final would have the reigning Match Racing World Champion – Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL) – competing against the most successful skipper in the history of the World Match Racing Tour – Ian Williams (GBR).
The 24-year-old Kiwi and his Knots Racing team shut out the Brit 2-0 to claim third place, defeating someone Ehnot-Johnson had looked up to while cutting his match-racing teeth – and who he had lost to in his two previous Congressional Cup appearances…
The Ocean Race – Tropical squalls keep teams on their toes
On the race course on Wednesday, the top three teams are clustered together within 50 miles on the leaderboard…
Tom Dolan plans to start record attempt Wednesday
Ireland’s leading solo sailor Tom Dolan expects to leave the Dun Laoghaire start line early morning Wednesday as he sets off to attempt to set a new solo record for sailing around Ireland…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 10
11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia are joined by Biotherm on the push north as the race closes up…
Transat Paprec Day 3
The 11 duos racing the Transat Paprec passed Cape Finisterre from lunchtime today after a fast approach across the second half of the Bay of Biscay when they saw winds of 25-30kts…
18ft Skiffs: Team Barnabas
For the past 45 years in Australia, the name Barnabas has been at, or near, the top of 18ft skiff championship point scores and has produced a total of eleven World, six Australian and five international 18 footer victories…
Trailing a Drogue
He was off shore single…
Andrea LaCorte wins M32 European Series opener
Andrea LaCorte and his Vitamina Cetilar team (ITA) were crowned champions of the M32 European Series opener. They kept the pedal down all weekend long and posted a perfect scorecard here in Riva…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 9
Brazil is in the rear view mirror for the four IMOCA teams racing to Newport, with a benign doldrims ahead…
The Ocean Race Stopover episode 4, Itajaí
In this fourth episode of the STOPOVER series, we meet up with the crews of The Ocean Race at the end of a 35-day marathon in the Southern Ocean, a unique moment of reunion savoured by all before setting sail again towards Newport…
America’s Cup – Preliminary series regatta set for Saudi Arabia
The second America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta will be held on the waters of the Red Sea off Jeddah, Saudi Arabia…
Cup Spy – April 27: Swiss improve AC75 handling
Alinghi Red Bull Racing sailed their AC75 out of Barcelona, with one of the objectives being to improve their foiling tacks and gybes – which they achieved, but with more work to do…
Golden Globe Race – Simon Curwen first boat to finish in Les Sables d’Olonne
Simon Curwen of Britain sailed up the Channel to Les Sables d’Olonneas Thursday, the first boat home despite his stop in Puerto Montt to repair a broken windvane…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 6
It’s been a long speed contest for the four IMOCA racing to the northeast, away from the Brazilian coast. For over 24 hours they had been racing close to the wind on port tack, heading offshore…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 5
Near 0500 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down…
The Ocean Race – Team Holcim-PRB working to get boat and crew to safety
Team Holcim-PRB, is working on recovery plan after dismasting during the night, approximately 20 miles off the coast of Brazil. Near 05:00 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down. Skipper Kevin Escoffier had a message sent to Race Control that…
Golden Globe: Kirsten Neuschäfer Wins
(April 27, 2023) – The Golden Globe Race competitor Kirsten Neuschäfer, a South African whose life as a sailor has practically defined the word “adventure,” today won the 2022-23 edition, becoming the first woman to win a solo round-the-world race.
British solo sailor Simon Curwen crossed the finish line after 234 days and 22 hours of racing. Curwen is the first solo skipper to complete the course. However, he is not eligible to win the event, which is a non-stop race, as he had to put into Puerto Montt in Chile to make repairs to his windvane system. This demoted him to ‘Chichester’ class, although he resumed racing after making repairs ashore.
Neuschäfer finished in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France, where she began nearly eight months and some 30,000 miles ago, crossing the line to a massive hero’s welcome. In sharp contrast to the rough conditions she experienced during much of her voyage, Neuschafer, aboard her 36-foot Minnehaha, spent the last few hours with almost no wind, inching into the harbor.
In her 36-foot Cape George cutter Minnehaha, Neuschäfer not only won, she took line honors as well, without needing the 35-hour time allowance she earned by rescuing fellow sailor Tapio Lehtinen when his boat sank south of Cape of Good Hope.
She was first to round Cape Horn, and though the leg up the Atlantic saw her lead diminish, she never stopped pushing herself or her boat.
In ocean-racing terms, it was a photo finish for the final week, with GGR veteran Abhilash Tomy, racing his Rustler 36, Bayanat, at times within 45 miles of Neuschäfer. In the end, she pulled away; when she crossed the line, Tomy was about 135 miles behind, predicted to take second place…
NZL vs AUS: Who will take SailGP finale?
At the top of the Championship leaderboard with a dominating 11-point lead, defending champions Australia remain the team to beat heading into the final installment of Season 3, SailGP San Francisco. Peter Burling’s New Zealand meanwhile currently sits in second place with a comfortable four-point lead ahead of France in third.
Ahead of the 2022-23 Grand Final, May 6-7, SailGP digs into the data and compare the teams’ performances to see which one has the edge heading into the San Francisco shootout.
With such a dominating points lead, Australia is the only team guaranteed a spot in the three-boat, winner-takes-all Grand Final regardless of how the team places throughout fleet racing. New Zealand doesn’t have the same security however, and could fall out of the top three. But for this to happen, Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team would need to win fleet racing, France would need to finish second and the Kiwis in sixth…
Antigua Sailing Week: It’s a go!
For 2023, the 54th edition of Antigua Sailing Week is all set with the famous regatta’s on-the-water action kicking off with a spectacular curtain raiser on April 29th; the stand-alone Peters & May Round Antigua Race. Five days of red-hot racing follow for Antigua Sailing Week, with legendary shoreside celebrations and daily prize giving.
New to the race program for 2023 will be the Antigua Wing Foil Championships with two days of in-harbor racing and a one-day downwinder on Lay Day, as well an RS Elite One Design class.
Antigua Sailing Week is a melting pot of nations; boats from 18 countries are competing at the 54th edition. Sailors come from all-over the world to experience Antigua & Barbuda, a spectacular Caribbean destination surrounded by world class sailing waters. The racing is not the only source of fun and thrills, shoreside the party-scene after racing is renowned.
By mid-regatta, the Reggae in the Park live gig is followed by all the laughter you can handle on Pigeon Point Beach for Lucky Eddi’s Lay Day. The Final Prize Giving in Nelson’s Dockyard is always a memorable night. Taking a bow on the main stage by winning your class at Antigua Sailing Week is the aim, but it’s also the pathway to the ultimate goal, the big one – lifting the Lord Nelson Trophy…
Event Details – https://sailingweek.com
N2E 75: The countdown is on
Hosted by the Newport Ocean Sailing Association, the beloved 125-mile Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race sails for the 75th time on Friday, April 28, 2023.
140 sailboats, an eclectic mix of serious sailors campaigning multi-million-dollar yachts racing alongside recreational cruisers – from 30 to 85 feet – will cross the start line starting at 11 a.m. off the Balboa Pier. Skippers hail from nine different states with one from Ontario, Canada, and one from Mexico.
Racers will sail on one of two courses, the extended run around the Coronado Islands finishing in San Diego, and the perennial favorite; the classic course to festive Ensenada. Sailing enthusiasts, friends, and family can watch the start action from the end of the Balboa pier.
N2E has long been known as a family event. Sailing on Jerry Fiat’s trophy-claiming Farrier 32 SRX Taniwha will be Peter Sangmeister. At 21, Sangmeister was tasked to pull the boat out of storage and put it together in preparation for the ORCA class start. Just 10 minutes before the ORCA start will be the UL-MAXI Class in which Sangmeister’s father John will be competing. John Sangmeister, a NOSA board member and speaker at last week’s Yachtsman’s Luncheon will helm Rock N Roll, an Andrews Dencho 68.
Returning for just his second year aboard a new L30 is Charles Ullman; son of sailing legend and Ullman Sails founder Dave Ullman, and grandson of NOSA founding member Charles Ullman. The eldest Ullman was the first handicap committee chairman and devised two racing categories; Long-Distance Racing and Arbitrary classes.
Last year Ullman sailed the first L30 in California in the Dana Point race. The boat, now named Dartt, is stepping up to the San Diego course. A sister ship, last seen on a trailer in Arizona, is registered for the Ensenada course. The skipper of that boat will be Rodion Luka, the brainchild of the L30 brand and a decorated Ukrainian yachtsman.
Luka is a 2004 Olympic Games silver medalist, the 2005 Class 49er World Champion, a European Champion, a Volvo Ocean Racer, and President of the Sailing Federation of Ukraine.
Weather conditions are not projected to be akin to last year’s near-gale conditions. Those 25+ knot winds blew Manouch Moshayed’s Rio100, a custom Bakewell White, into Ensenada before sunset for a record-breaking elapsed time of 07:02:17. Not far aft in Rio100’s wake, all but one in the Maxi fleet also broke the old record. Although John Brynjolfsson’s TP52 Saga, missed the old record by mere minutes, he won the battle for best-in-class honors and left Mexico with three trophies…
Derbyshire Youth Sailing event at Burton
This year’s Derbyshire Youth Sailing (DYS) handicap series got off to a flying start with the season opener at Burton Sailing Club on Saturday 22nd April. The weather was perfect, to ease the competitors into the new season, with a gentle breeze…
coming forward
Yesterday, we chastised those who know the names of alleged sexual harassers at the Etchells 22 Worlds, (See Stop Pussy-Footing Around.) and yet are refusing to do the right thing and in effect, covering for and enabling the guilty. We find that cowardice really disturbing.
In the story below, a woman who suffered at the hands of a total creep, and has decided to step forward and tell her story. We salute you, Samantha Evans.
I’m sure most of you in the sailing industry will remember this post on Sailing Anarchy that kept being taken down because he threatened the media outlets. The story of the shower creep that filmed women. James Gair aka chippy.
It did go to court and he was found guilty of voyeurism and given a suspended sentence. Yet, he managed to mostly keep it quiet and continue as though not much had happened. Today I am standing up and being brave- I was one of the victims he filmed.
Not many people will know it was actually me as I kept it relatively quiet as I was in shock and also scared; I was the one that found the camera and took it to the police after viewing to confirm he’d deliberately filmed us but I’ve worried for years of the consequences to my life by people knowing it was me and also his reaction. It’s impacted my sailing, withdrew me from a sport I loved, and changed me.
To put it into context, we were friends and I often sailed on his program, helped with corporate guests and stayed in the crew house. 1 hour before this shower incident where he hid a camera to film us without our permission, we had been discussing a potential project where I was going to use his crew house, his boat and him to co-skipper an offshore programme and potentially a Fastnet campaign with my school pupils.
I almost endangered minors both female and male by the trust id had in him. This could have been them which really impacts me. Unfortunately, he picked me and I found the camera. It was not the first time he had done this either. Police found videos going back over years including the family he had filmed.
For me, it impacted me more deeply at the time than I realised. Due to a court case pending for around 6 months, I stayed away from Cowes or South Coast sailing and after the trial and sentence, due to him receiving a custodial suspended sentence and no jail time (I understand some community service and being listed on the sexual offenders register) I was too frightened to go to Cowes for fear of seeing him. I only went sailing on the south coast when I needed to as my enjoyment had been completely removed.
After several years of “out of sight out of mind” (I’m very good at compartmentalizing) I’d not thought about it until I returned to Cowes last summer for a couple of days sailing.
Seeing his boat, brought it all back, the fear, the anxiety and I felt sick. He then saw me and decided to intimidate me by loitering in the race village less than 5m away from me and my baby for a good 30 minutes (attempting to talk and engage in conversation to the crew I was sailing with) and I did my best to be unaffected and ignore.
After a while I couldn’t handle it- I had a full breakdown in tears, hyperventilating and a friend had to help escort me away to a safe place as I was shaking and close to hysterics. I let him win by this and he’s been winning for over 6 years now, by continuing to sail and still operating commercially with unknowing customers and clients on his boat.
Why am I posting this now? It’s taken me this long to have the confidence and be brave enough. Victims of sexual predators, voyeurs, or abuse should not have to feel scared, frightened, or intimidated by their abusers and the perpetrators should not be able to get away with the damage they’ve done and continue to intimidate. After seeing another post today from a female being harassed in sailing and so many accounts of pro athletes recently across the sports arenas speaking up, it’s time for me to be strong enough to speak out too and share my story.
Women, it’s time to stand together. Thanks to my friends that did know at the time for their support and that have helped protect me over the years that knew of this incident and to all the decent men out there shocked by this behavior; Thank you I am a survivor and can tell my story. – Samantha Evans…
Cup Spy – April 24: USA has wipe out in chop
The America’s Cup Arbitration Panel has ruled that an interpretation requested by the Swiss was lodged too late. American Magic got off to a bad start, capsizing soon after dropping the line from their Chase boat. Luna Rossa had a solid testing day…
Golden Globe Race Day 232
The trio of Simon, Kirsten and Abhilash are close now sailing within 170 miles of each other as they approach the Bay of Biscay and the final run toward Les Sables d’Olonne…
Race to the Start for the Vendée Globe
In 2020, 30-year-old Clarisse Crémer set off on one of the most ambitious feats in sailing—the Vendée Globe. Alongside 32 other competitors, she left Les Sables-d’Olonne to race around the planet alone without stopping on a 60-foot monohull. Among the fleet were some of the greatest offshore solo racers of the modern era: Alex Thomson, Sam Davies, Jérémie Beyou, and Kevin Escoffier just to name a few. Of the 33 competitors, only 25 finished.
As the field winnowed down, Crémer held fast. For nearly three months, she fought to finish, ultimately setting a new course record for female competitors at 87 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 25 seconds. The record had been in place for 20 years, since Ellen MacArthur’s historic 2001 second-place finish. A 12th-place finish was enough for Crémer to beat her pace by more than a week.
“I have had the Vendée Globe 2024 in mind since I last rounded the Cape of Good Hope [during the 2020 edition],” Crémer recalls. Shortly after completing the race, she secured the continuation of her 2020 sponsorship with Banque Populaire. Preparations for the next campaign began…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 3
It hasn’t been a straightforward start to leg 4 of The Ocean Race as the IMOCA teams zig-zag away from the coast of Brazil, seeking favourable conditions to the east, whilst keeping an eye on the overall goal of making miles north…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 start in Itajaí
Nearly 350,000 fans visited the Ocean Live Park in Itajaí, Brazil this month to celebrate The Ocean Race stopover. And on Sunday, Leg 4 of The Ocean Race got under way, as the five-boat IMOCA fleet set out from Itajaí…
Keeping America’s Cup team in Pensacola
Pensacola is looking to build a $15 million Center for Maritime Excellence at the Port of Pensacola that will serve as the Florida training headquarters for the New York Yacht Club American Magic sail racing team.
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said the city would be seeking a $10 million grant from Triumph Gulf Coast and a $5 million grant from the Governor’s Job Growth Grant Fund to build the Center for Maritime Excellence…
The Ocean Race Leg 4 Day 2
It was GUYOT environnement – Team Europe sailor Annie Lush who said the opening days of Leg 4 would be a “trim off” and this is how it has come to pass…
11th Hour Racing and Malizia to duel for top spot
The Itajaí In Port Race takes place at 1410 local time in Brazil on Friday afternoon (1710 UTC). The forecast is for light winds, which could make for challenging and changeable racing on a course set near the currents from the Itajaí-Açu River…
Ian Williams into Congressional Cup semifinals
Ian Williams (GBR), Chris Poole (USA), Jeppe Borch (DEN) and Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL) advance to the Congressional Cup semifinals at Long Beach YC…
Game time at Charleston Race Week
When Steve Attard took charge of planning the Hobie 33 National Championship, his thoughts immediately turned to Charleston Race Week. Priority one was picking a venue and Attard realized being part of an existing regatta would dramatically reduce the logistical challenges.
“It made a lot of sense to me because Charleston Race Week provides all the on and off the water support,” Attard said. “I heard the currents and conditions were challenging and figured that would be a nice change of pace.”
Hobie 33 will become just the latest in a long line of classes to contest championships at the 27th Charleston Race Week, being held in 2023 on April 21-23 in Charleston, South Carolina. Ten one-design classes along with ORC divisions will compete on three separate circles set on Charleston Harbor.
Veteran regatta manager Taran Teague will once again serve as the overall principal race officer. Chip Till will handle PRO duties on Circle One (VX One, J/24, RS 21, J22/Inshore PHRF), Mark Foster will manage Circle Two (Melges 24, J/70), and Matt Hill will oversee Circle Three (J/88, J/105, Melges 32, Hobie 33). Bruce Bingman and Ray Redness return as principal race officers for the offshore courses being sailed by the ORC A, Pursuit Spinnaker A, Pursuit Spinnaker B, and Pursuit Non-Spinnaker classes.
As usual, the J/70 class is the largest of the regatta with 40 boats roughly evenly split between professional teams and Corinthian crews. Dallas, Texas skipper Bruno Pasquinelli is the defending champion at Charleston Race Week and will have a top-flight crew aboard Stampede. Last year, Morgan Reeser called tactics as Pasquinelli notched two bullets and finished fifth or better in five others on the way to winning by a comfortable 14-point margin…
Event information – Race details – Entry list
Source: CRW Events
Qualifying done at Congressional Cup
Long Beach, CA (April 20, 2023) – The ten teams competing in the 58th Congressional Cup regatta (April 18-22) have completed the qualifying double round robin stage to advance the top four into the knock-out rounds. Staying perfect through his 18 races was world #1 ranked Chris Poole (USA) who is eager to claim victory after finishing third in 2022. Also advancing to the semi-finals is reigning 2022 Congressional Cup Champion Ian Williams (GBR), Jeppe Borch (DEN), and 2022 Open Match Racing World Champion Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL). – Full report
Field set for 75th California classic
With registration now closed, the 2023 Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race has attracted 140 entries for the 75th edition that starts April 28 off the Balboa Pier in Newport Beach, CA. Competitors will either be racing on the 88 nm course to San Diego or the 123 nm course to Ensenada, Mexico.
The start will see two highly decorated multihulls face off in the quest for top, perhaps near back-to-back honors.
Last year, NOSA Staff Commodore Bills Gibbs and crew, (returning for his 23rd race) sailed away with five top trophies for the best time of Wahoo, his Schionning 1400 catamaran. In 2021, it was Jerry Fiat’s Farrier 32 SRX Taniwha that was the big winner, also taking home five trophies for best overall honors. Taniwha regretfully sat out last year’s race as the forecast for squally waves was deemed too risky for the lightweight trimaran.
Other winners who set personal bests last year are also back. Last year’s winning-most newcomer, John Brynjolfsson, will defend Saga’s in UL Maxi class, and Standish Fleming’s J/125 Nereid will look to repeat his trophy-winning coastal run.
While more than 20 sailors will take to the start line next for the very first time, and another 30 are returning. NOSA gratefully welcomes back Alec Oberschmidt aboard Staghound for an amazing-53rd time. Newport Beach’s own IT’S OK, thanks to Andy Rose and crew, will celebrate their 52nd horn, while multiple-time PHRF winner Andy Horning will revel in Day Tripper IIs 26th time to Ensenada.
New for 2023 is a strong showing by the growing J/111 fleet with five boats sailing in a competitive field of 16 J boats.
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