The Waszp European Games came to an end on the Mar Menor, Spain, with victory for Francesco Bertone of Italy…
58th Sabot Nationals & Paul Stivano Sabot Week
The Lake Macquarie City Council 58th Sabot National Championship and Paul Stivano Sabot Week, was held 9-12 April 2022 on Lake Macquarie, NSW at Teralba Amateur Sailing Club…
RC1000 class returns
Following a highly successful inaugural season in 2021, the RC1000 fleet returns with more racing and a bigger fleet from across Devon & Cornwall…
J/133 Euphoria Offshore report from Down Under
Tony Coleman’s J/133 Euphoria has been enjoying one of their best sailing seasons over the past year. Based “down under” in the iconic Sydney Harbour, Euphoria’s team has won or placed on the podium in every series in which she has competed…
too easy?
As yachts get bigger and bigger, simple tasks become more demanding. When you’re maneuvering and then securing a superyacht in a tight anchorage there is no such thing as having too much help…
An important part of every voyage and one that is often overlooked is how we maneuver when close to land. This includes leaving a slip, a mooring, or even an anchorage. It is here in these settings that not only is skill needed in controlling the propulsion and direction of the boat at low speeds but the techniques and sequence of handling the mooring lines as well. NubeWay has developed two clever solutions to reduce this tension in dockside maneuvers: the Butler and the Mush automatic folding fairleads…
RORC Easter Challenge overall
Classic Solent conditions prevailed for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s first inshore regatta of the 2022 season…
Gul Fireball Golden Dolphin Series at HISC preview
Just one week to go before the second Gul Golden Dolphin event of the year, and the forecast is looking gorgeous!
18ft Skiffs: William ‘Bill’ Fisher
William ‘Bill’ Fisher was a foundation member of the League and sailed his boat Australia in the club’s first…
Borch and Kjaer qualify for Congressional Cup
Jeppe Borch of Denmark and Team Borch Racing won the 2022 Ficker Cup regatta, defeating defending champion Emil Kjaer and Blue Sails Racing…
RORC Easter Challenge – The Easter treats continue
The Easter treats continued for close to 300 hundred sailors taking part in the RORC Easter Challenge . . . Three races were completed for all three IRC Classes…
A-Class Cat Worlds return!
Next weekend sees the start of the first post Covid ‘A’ Cat Worlds, with its associated Admiral’s Cup warm-up event, since all national and world lockdowns…
505 Euro Cup San Raphael – Victory for Hunger and Jess
Final day of racing for the 505 Euro Cup at Yacht Club de San Raphael, France this Easter weekend…
Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull race record
Rex, the ORMA60 trimaran previously known for many years as New Zealand’s Team Vodafone, has bettered the previous race record, set by Beau Geste MOD70 in 2019, by more than an hour in this year’s City Winery Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull Yacht Race…
Coast Guard rescue off Cape Fear
Elizabeth City, NC (April 15, 2022) – The Coast Guard today hoisted two people from a damaged sailboat approximately 86 miles southeast of Cape Fear. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew transported them back to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City.
Watchstanders from the U.S. Coast Guard Fifth District command center received notification from the International Emergency Rescue Coordination Center stating that they received a distress alert from the 34-foot Spin Drift crew.
The Fifth District command center team directed the launch of crews and the Jayhawk and an HC-130 Hercules airplane from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City.
The USCGC Richard Dixon (WPC 1113) crew, based in Puerto Rico, was 50 miles away, transiting to the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore and diverted to the scene to assist.
The Hercules crew arrived on the scene first and confirmed that the Spin Drift was disabled and adrift in 12-foot seas and 21 mph winds. The Jayhawk arrived shortly after and conducted the hoist.
There are no reports of injuries or pollution. The vessel remains a possible hazard to navigation. An emergency Broadcast Notice to Mariners was issued, alerting mariners in the area to keep a sharp lookout to avoid a collision. The owners of the vessel will coordinate salvage…
Emirates Team NZ face flooded venue for record bid
Emirates Team New Zealand are putting a brave face on a few unanticipated issues that have arisen with their attempt to set a new Windpowered Land Speed record mark…
Eclectic mix prepare for So Cal classic
The 2022 Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race has attracted 165 entrants for the 74th edition, with the start on April 22 from Newport Beach, CA.
Racers will sail on one of three courses – the sprint to Dana Point, the extended San Diego run around the Coronado Islands, and the classic 125nm course to Ensenada, Mexico.
An eclectic mix of serious sailors campaigning multi-million-dollar yachts racing alongside recreational cruisers – from 16 to 100 feet – will cross the start line off the Balboa Pier.
In 2019, Jerry Fiat entered an AC45, a former Oracle (America’s Cup) training boat. Last year, he and renowned sailor and yacht designer Pete Melvin sailed a Farrier 32SRX folding trimaran and claimed three trophies. This year, the duo is taking a foiling catamaran, a GC32, on the San Diego course.
A few first-timers are big enough and fast enough to break the monohull elapsed time record. Top of the list isManouch Moshayedi’s Rio100, which broke the 2016 record in the Puerta Vallarta Race, despite finishing second to finish this year…
505 Euro Cup San Raphael – Day 1
First day of racing for the 505 Euro Cup at Yacht Club de San Raphael, France for this Easter weekend…
time on time
A good post on a subject that most of us have no idea…
Our club is going to use ToT scoring this year. We plan on using the 3 B factors for light, medium and heavy air. We are wondering:
- What wind speed should be attributed to Light, Medium and heavy?
- How do you determine the strength? From the signal boat? Mast head reading?
- When do you determine the wind strength? At the start? Mid race?
- How do you select the B factor with a building or dying breeze?
74th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race start
It was a spectacular spinnaker start for the 37 offshore racing yachts who are now racing 308 nautical miles up the coast to Gladstone for the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s iconic 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which started at 11am today…
Prysmian Group in the Vendée Globe 2024
Kitted out with a new bow, a reinforced structure (prior to the arrival of her new foils) and a new livery, Prysmian Group – the only IMOCA to fly the Italian flag – will return to the liquid element on 27 April 2022 after a 4-month refit…
Match Racing Tour begins in Long Beach
Long Beach, CA (April 14, 2022) – It didn’t take but an instant for Ficker Cup competitors to get their game on, on the first day of racing for the Ficker Cup trophy and a berth in next week’s Congressional Cup. The eight teams from the US, Sweden, and Denmark came out swinging, as cool breezes buffeted the waters off the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier.
In the first half of today’s races, four skippers looked to sweep the pack – Jeppe Borch (DEN), Emil Kjaer (DEN), Jeffery Petersen (USA), and Peter Holz (USA) – but soon the leaderboard shuffle began.
Dave Perry (USA) upset Holz; then Holz beat Borch, after the Danish team drew a foul and red flag stipulating the penalty turn had to be done immediately. Christopher Weis (USA) got on the scoreboard with wins over Petersen and Anna Östling (SWE), while David Wood (USA) warmed up to two wins late in the day…
not sunk by missiles
The museum ship USS The Sullivans (DD-537) experienced flooding on her starboard side and took on a heavy list overnight Wednesday, according to her caretaker, the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park.
Images from the scene show the WWII-era warship listing heavily towards the pier and settling by the stern, her starboard rail underwater.
The park’s staff realized that the ship was taking on water at about 2200 hours, according to the Buffalo News, and they called a salvage and repair company to attempt an emergency patch. The breach is located aft on the starboard side, the park’s director told media. Dive inspections and emergency dewatering efforts were under way on Thursday afternoon, with assistance from local fire and rescue agencies…
iQFOiL Youth & Junior International Games Day 2
The 74 young athletes from 16 countries hit the water today with the Ora – the classic breeze from the south of the Lake Garda – around 1 pm, but had to wait another hour before they were able to start racing…
Seeking Atlantic crossing from Guatemala to UK with 2 cats
It’s really complicated with the airlines (to travel with 2) and especially into the UK, as they have to go in the hold, and requiring 3 flight changes – I don’t want to put them through this.
Going faster than the fastest
The final design of a boat designed to break the World Sailing Speed Record has been revealed, with the spaceship-like SP80 craft built with the aim of a top speed of 80 knots. The Swiss project expects to launch at the end of this year.
The speed record is currently held by Australian Paul Larsen and his Vestas Sailrocket 2, posting an average speed of 65.45 knots on the 500m track. Setting the standard in November 2012, the 40-foot wing-powered craft represented 11 years work, with some spectacular failures along the way.
After a prototype was tested with dimensions 4.5 by 3.5 meters, the SP80 is ten metres long and seven metres wide and will be powered by a giant kite…
cascade
The trickle-down effect is supposed to happen slowly but this time its pace is very fast indeed. Just five months after the end of the 36th America’s Cup, Persico Marine launched a fully engineered concept for a 40ft foiling monohull loaded with America’s Cup technology and systems. But the Persico Fly40 isn’t a leading-edge one-off, it’s a one design class for owner-drivers with a fully managed regatta circuit – and the price, and ongoing cost of ownership, is a lot lower than what TP52 owners, for example, are currently paying. It’s a compelling idea and one that Persico is in a uniquely strong position to deliver.
‘We built two boats for Luna Rossa which took a couple of years and we built the one design arms for all the teams,’ says Mark Somerville, general manager at Persico Marine. ‘That’s when the concept was developed. We put in place the technology and tried to capture as much as we could within the AC period to have that trickle-down effect happen as quickly as possible so we can bring this new technology of foiling boats to the public…
First AC40 is out of the mould
Emirates Team New Zealand released some images of the first AC40 out of the mould…
UF50 Celebration Sailing Regatta entries now open
Hosted by the Royal London YC, Cowes, the UF50 Celebration sailing regatta will take place on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 August 2022…
Folkboats in the Round The Island Race
If you want to win the Round The Island Race, you need the right boat; one that will benefit from the tidal gates in this race. Past history tells us that the overall winner will generally come from either IRC Division 3D or IRC Division 0…
Line honours for Leyton in 1000 milles des Sables
Sam Goodchild is savouring this result in what is his very first singlehanded race in Ocean Fifty and with it his entry ticket for the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe…
A-holes
Looks like these chumps are running out of places to run to. Check the video.
Global Solo Challenge and the Canaries
Even when a sailor’s eye gets used to the vast horizon, the colours and tones of the sea and sky change every day… the open seas are never the same from one day to the next…
American Magic: Team behind the team
Before America’s Cup challenger New York Yacht Club American Magic hits the water this fall, they are putting the finishing touches on the leadership group which will support the sailing team. Two new additions are Luis Saenz Mariscal and Jon Persch:
• Luis Saenz Mariscal (Madrid, Spain) returns to American Magic as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Luis specializes in Corporate and Sports Law. His experience extends to America’s Cup Challenges, Round the World Sailing Races, and the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation. His America’s Cup work has previously supported American Magic in the 36th America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand, Luna Rossa Challenge, Dennis Conner, and Desafio Español.
• Jon Persch (Boulder, Colo.) joins American Magic as Chief Commercial Officer. He is responsible for the commercial and marketing strategy, and execution for the team. Jon previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for US Sailing, Chief Commercial Officer for USA Rugby and Major League Rugby. Jon has also held senior executive roles with Creative Artists Agency, World Wrestling Entertainment, and United Entertainment Group…
“Luis and Jon complete our leadership team and will be key players in shaping the future success and longevity of American Magic,” said Mike Cazer, Chief Executive Officer for NYYC American Magic. “We are building the franchise and intend for American Magic to be a regular competitor in the America’s Cup. As a team, we are strongly committed to our goal of winning the America’s Cup and bringing the Cup back to the United States.”
Zhik Combined High Schools Sailing Championships
The Zhik CHS sailing championships commenced this week at Belmont 16ft Sailing Club. The iconic event is steeped in history and has been a rite of passage for many young sailors. Many past winners include State, National, Olympic, SailGP and AC sailors…
What is a good way to learn to sail from scratch?
Sam Goodchild first to finish 1000 Milles des Sables
Sam Goodchild on the Ocean Fifty Leyton crossed the finish line of the 2nd edition of the 1000 Milles des Sables in 1st position on Tuesday 12 April…
Olympic circuit returns to France
For the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Sailing events will be held 400 miles to the south in Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea. This port city will be the focus in the coming years, but for now the attention turns toward the rustic charm and natural beauty of neighboring Hyeres.
The 53rd Semaine Olympique Française (French Olympic Week) is back on April 25-30, 2022.
Recent history had seen the iconic event shrink due to scheduling conflicts, and then the pandemic cancelled the 2020 and 2021 editions. However, for the first time in France, the SOF will bring together on the Hyères field of play the 10 classes that will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games…
Junior Sailing Programs back at full speed
Do you know a child or teen who would benefit from being outdoors in the fresh air this summer?
Clipper Race: Crossing the International Date Line
In the coming days, the Clipper Race fleet is set to tick off the next big Race 10 milestone – crossing the International Date Line…
2022 Bermuda Gold Cup cancelled
The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC) has canceled the 2022 Bermuda Gold Cup, a prominent stage of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), due to be held October 18-22 in Hamilton, Bermuda.
“This is not a decision we have taken lightly and there were a few overriding concerns that have led to this outcome,” said Past Commodore Jon Corless, Chair of the RBYC International Sailing Events Committee. “Securing sufficient sponsorship was paramount for this prestigious event, which is renowned around the world for its standard of excellence and has proven challenging in these uncertain and fast changing times.”
After hosting the 2020 Bermuda Gold Cup during the pandemic, a failure to secure sufficient sponsorship in 2021 also led to the event’s cancellation…
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