Archive for Temmuz, 2020

With British Wave Sailor Adam Lewis Next up in our ‘Would You Rather’ series is British Wave sailor – Adam Lewis (Fanatic / Duotone / SWOX) – who has been lucky enough to spend his lockdown period in Maui, Hawaii, […]

Alessio Stillrich Going Massive In Pozo Before Injuring His Ankle As many of you may have seen over the last few weeks Pozo Izquierdo has been going off with it’s trademark nuclear winds and stunt ramps making for spectacular action! […]

US Sailing Leadership Forum, The Starboard Portal will host a panel addressing “Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Sport of Sailing” on August 4, 2020 at 8pm EDT / 5pm PDT. The featured panelists are Karen Harris, Lou Sandoval, […]

Newport, RI (July 31, 2020) – 11th Hour Racing Team announced the addition of several high-profile sailors to its training crew with five-time Ocean Race veteran Simon Fisher (UK) joining the team in France, along with past America’s Cup and […]

Just over a year out from the August 2021 start of the race proper, potential competitors, armchair sailors and gamer enthusiasts from all over the world will have the opportunity to try their hand at competing on the new course […]

Harry Sindle was a designer, boat builder and champion dinghy sailor. In the Flying Dutchman Class he is 6-time US National Champion, Gold Medal winner at the 1959 Pan Am games, and US Olympic representative in 1960. Sindle was also […]

Tom Nute passed away on July 18, 2020 at the age of 78 in Anacortes, WA. Tom grew up sailing at Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego, CA., sailing Sabots against some of the future National and World Snipe […]

Herb McCormick, Cruising World’s executive editor takes a look back to his visit to St. Maarten to cover the Heineken Regatta in early March 2020. It now seems like a surreal experience in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. There […]

Join youth sailors from around the country in fun online racing and test your Virtual Regatta racing skills. Racing will take place on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 with registration open through August 3. Once you register, stay tuned for emails […]

Over the last four weeks, Sydney Harbour has proven to be a very attractive draw card for Australian sailing talent and coaches whose racing and training programs have been frustrated by the regulations of COVID-19. Currently unable to race, the […]

Dreaming of being in exotic places? Windsurfing in Bahia de Pollenca, Mallorca off Spain. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

In a search for a budget cruiser, Practical Sailor examined a field of used sailboats costing less than $75K and built between 1978 and 1984. We narrowed the field to boats with sufficient accommodations for four people and a draft […]

Linus Ralls passed away on July 24, 2020 at his home in Orange, CA. He was one of the world’s great sailors, a loyal friend of many in all walks of life, a teller of funny jokes and great stories, […]

10-Time PWA Wave World Champion – Iballa Ruano Moreno – To Mentor Youth Girl’s Invitation Only Event In Tenerife With there unfortunately not being any events in the Canaries this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has left a […]

The latest announcements from the British Government setting out some general easing of restrictions have allowed the preparations for the Yacht Racing Forum 2020 to continue with a stronger degree of confidence that the event will be able to take […]

It probably wasn’t going to happen. Marblehead Junior Race Week (MJRW) had taken place every summer for more than 100 years, but July came and Massachusetts COVID-19 regulations prohibited organized sailboat racing. The MJRW team from Pleon Yacht Club had […]

A lack of funding has finally required Conrad Colman to call time on his plans to be on the 2020 Vendée Globe start line on November 8th. The Kiwi solo racer’s heroic finish, sailing the final 750 miles under jury […]

With Ethan Westera Next up in ‘Would You Rather’ is Ethan Westera (Tabou / GA Sails), who has made a brilliant comeback from a potentially career threatening injury in 2017. Having suffered such a horrific injury in Fuerteventura it wasn’t […]

Emirates Team New Zealand’s Dan Bernasconi discusses developing the AC75 class rule and what it means for the 36th America’s Cup in 2021. Video uploaded Jul 23, 2020. Details: www.americascup.com 36th America’s Cup In addition to Challenges from Italy, USA, […]

Newport, RI (July 24, 2020) – The National Sailing Hall of Fame announced today that its new home will be named The Sailing Museum, offering an innovative multi-media experience dedicated to celebrating sailing’s heritage, showcasing its heroes and inspiring generations […]

Public voting has been introduced for the 2020 World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award as the nomination period officially opens. The World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award celebrates the effective execution or ongoing delivery of high-impact, highly-replicable sustainability […]

The 2020 Laser North American Championships has been cancelled due to ongoing safety concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was planned for September 2–6 in San Francisco, CA. “We reviewed a variety of scenarios for how to safely and […]

World Sailing Member National Authorities (MNAs), in good standing with World Sailing, are invited to nominate individuals for election and candidates wishing to stand for election are now able to request the Election Pack by email. The election of the […]

(July 23, 2020) – Organizers, team owners, and stakeholders have taken the decision to cancel TP52 World Championship which was due to take place September 14-19 in Puerto Portals, Mallorca. A six-race season had been planned for the 2020 52 […]

While Robin Knox-Johnston may be best known for being the first person to complete a solo non-stop circumnavigation, done at the painfully slow pace of 312 days, he also knows a bit about going fast. Along with Sir Peter Blake, […]

16-Year-Old Z Schettewi Joins The Naish International Team The latest windsurfing transfer involves 16-year-old – Z Schettewi (Naish / Naish Sails) – who has left JP and Hot Sails Maui to join the Naish International Team. Z is the youngest […]

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch, a UK government organization authorized to investigate all maritime accidents in UK waters and accidents involving UK registered ships worldwide, published their findings when a the 300-meter container ship lost cargo overboard while 700 miles […]

To paraphrase the bard of 19th-century American literature, the reports of the demise of the 2020 regatta calendar have been greatly exaggerated. There will be racing this summer. And what better way to maximize the truncated sailing season than with […]

Balz Müller, Lennart Neubauer & Maaike Huvermann Sending It In Naxos With there being no PWA Freestyle World Cups this year that opened up a window of opportunity for Balz Müller (MB-Boards / Severne Sails) to return to the spot […]

As the Chairman of the US Sailing Diversity and Inclusion Committee and as a recent addition to the Board of Directors at Hudson River Community Sailing (New York, NY), Sergeant Debora Abrams-Wright has come a long way in a relatively […]

The World Sailing Racing Rules Question and Answer Service is to support Race Officials, Member National Authorities and World Sailing Class Associations whereby they may submit questions through World Sailing concerning the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This inquiry navigates […]

When two people recently died due to electrocution while swimming at a marina at Lake Pleasant in Arizona, it was a fatal reminder that this threat continues to plague the boating community. Alarms, no matter how accurate, are no substitute […]

The coronavirus pandemic has touched us all, but in these challenging times comes opportunity. In this report by Rick Jarchow, he shares how a random format provided good times: With sailing having been put on hold for the spring in […]

For over a century, Larchmont Race Week has been a crown jewel of racing on Long Island Sound with adults racing on the weekends, as many as 450 juniors sailing during the week, and the Storm Trysail Club’s Jr. Safety-at-Sea […]

In a World Sailing feature titled Trusting the Process, they check in on the Olympic sailors to find out how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted their preparation for the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021. In this episode Nacra 17 […]

With Diony Guadagnino Our last ‘Blast From The Past’ features – Diony Guadagnino (AHD / Loftsails) – who has two decades of experience on the world tour having made his debut in 2020. The Venezuelan is a complete allrounder having […]

The Racing Rules of Sailing are in their essence simple, with six pages providing the bulk of what you must know. However, at times the rules collide with each other such as in Case 146 which details when two boats […]

Tokyo 2020 has confirmed it has secured all 42 venues required to host the postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games next year. The final two pieces of the puzzle were the Athletes’ Village and the Tokyo Big Sight – the venue […]

Mayflower was an English ship, estimated between 90 and 110 feet in length, which transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. But its arrival in Cape Cod was short-lived, […]

In 2019, Bert ter Hart left Victoria (BC) on October 28 to go back in time a half century and sail around the world. Here’s the story: The Boat: Built in 1987 at Hamilton Ontario by Hank Hinkley and a […]

Ariel Nachemia and Erica Lush won the second edition of Oakcliff Sailing’s Doublehanded Distance Race held July 14-15 in Oyster Bay, NY. With six teams in a matched fleet of Melges 24s, the race was designed to aid World Sailing […]

Day 4: Gibson In A League Of Her Own, While Rutkowski Builds Commanding Lead In The Men’s For the fourth consecutive day Bol, Croatia, produced excellent racing conditions to allow another 3 eliminations for the Men and 4 eliminations for […]

Terry Hutchinson visits the Deed of Gift which sits in the New York Yacht Club and has guided every America’s Cup since it was penned in 1851. At the heart of the complexity, it asks for a friendly competition between […]

The J/105 Class Association, Annapolis Yacht Club, and J/105 Fleet #3 have decided, because of the varying levels of infection and disruption across the world, to cancel the 2020 J/105 North American Championship scheduled for October 29-November 1. The Organizing […]

Day 3: Rutkowski Extends Lead, While Read & Gibson Go Head-To-Head In The Foiling There was a slightly unexpected flurry of wind on day 3 of the 2020 Zoo Station Croatia PWA Slalom World Tour, so what was anticipated to […]

Frank Hugelmeyer is president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, the nation’s leading trade association for the marine industry. The NMMA extends from parts to boats, and boats include pretty much anything that floats, so while their focus isn’t just […]

by Nick Truebridge, Radio New Zealand Employees at America’s Cup defender Team New Zealand (TNZ) have been kept afloat by nearly $1.5 million in Government wage subsidies through the COVID-19 crisis. Businesses had to prove a 30 per cent revenue […]

The Vendée Globe is the only sailing race round the world that’s solo, non-stop, and without assistance, and it is all systems go for the 9th edition on November 8, 2020. Beginning in 1989 with 13 entries, the start line […]

With the postponement of The Ocean Race from 2021 to 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic, here is some of what’s being said about the decision: Torben Grael, former race winning skipper and Vice-President of the World Sailing Council: “The […]

(July 16, 2020) – Organizers of The Ocean Race have confirmed the next edition of the Race, planned to start in the autumn of 2021, will be postponed one year. The plan now is to begin October 2022 from Alicante, […]

This year has seen challenge after challenge, but for four teams, their focus remains on the 36th America’s Cup. Video uploaded Jul 15, 2020. Details: www.americascup.com 36th America’s Cup In addition to Challenges from Italy, USA, and Great Britain that […]

For the Olympic sports, their International Federations (IF) receive payment from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) every four years after the games. For most IFs, this money amounts to a massive percentage of their budget, and with the one year […]

Variety reports how Netflix is developing a feature film based on Jessica Watson’s sailing memoir “True Spirit” with Sarah Spillane on board to direct. Watson became the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world in 2009, […]