Archive for Şubat, 2024

Success in any sport requires an investment of time and money, but participation is a measure of how far apart people are willing to invest. Don Finkle with RCR Yachts discusses a dominant cost variable in sailing: You will find strong opinions […]

For youth sailors with aspirations to compete in college, the typical track is age-based racing in Club Flying Juniors and C420s, transitioning to High School events while building a resume for the college application. However, as Tom Darling reports in […]

Sail America, the trade association for the U.S. sailing industry, has appointed three new members to its 2024 Board of Directors: Josh Toso, Starting Line Sailing; Andrew Clouston, US Sailing; and Eric Levine, Beneteau America/Lagoon America. All directors are elected […]

The prestigious Vendée Globe sailing race, held every four years, is under investigation following allegations of cheating during its latest edition. As reported by BNN, an anonymous email was sent to the French Sailing Federation, providing evidence suggesting that a competitor […]

Maui experienced an almost unprecedented run of Kona winds during January – here’s a collection of some of the best action featuring reigning world champion, Marcilio Browne Goya Windsurfing: “Experience the challenge of Maui’s Kona winds, which lasted almost the […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News Established in 1957, the Admiral’s Cup was the unofficial world cup for offshore racing, with national teams coming to England with the latest designs for international bragging rights. But as escalating efforts to win […]

Sail Canada have opened nominations for its 2024 Annual Awards, which provides the Canadian Sailing community to recognize outstanding sailors, athletes, coaches, instructors, officials, volunteers and events through one of Sail Canada’s different Annual Award categories, based on activities and […]

The Etchells Class has a long history of wintering in Miami. With no better place in the continental USA to race boats (or pretty much do anything else), big fleets for the 31-footer assemble in South Florida for the sunshine […]

by Marco Nannini, Global Solo Challenge (February 13, 2024) – The skippers of the Global Solo Challenge have to endure months of navigation in the roaring forties and screaming fifties to reach Cape Horn. After braving storms, technical difficulties, fatigue […]

Francesca Clapcich, two time Olympian and the only Italian to win The Ocean Race, will lead a new project by MerConcept, a notable French company involved in offshore racing projects. Called UpWind by MerConcept, Clapcich will skipper their new racing […]

A significant supporter for sailors with Olympic aspirations is Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, NY. In this report from Executive Director Dawn Riley, she is seeking how the country can come together to do a better job for America’s sailing […]

As the US Olympic Sailing Program smolders from recent disorder, there are many variables at play – some easier to address than others. One of the overriding factors is the overall sport in the USA, and it is this that National […]

(February 12, 2024) – The fatigue by boats and skippers in the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge is mounting, with the biggest news coming from American Ronnie Simpson who was dismasted today at 0200 UTC. His Open 50 was approximately 650 […]

The US Olympic Sailing Program will conclude its domestic trials for the Paris 2024 Olympics when it hosts the men’s and women’s singlehanded dinghy fleets on February 17-24 in Miami, FL. As two of the nation’s most popular classes, the […]

The 10th edition of the Southern Collegiate Offshore Regatta was held February 10-11 in Charleston, SC. Seventeen college teams competed in loaned keelboats for the 2024 event, making it the largest group of entrants and boats since the start of […]

In recognition of International Day for Women and Girls in Science on February 11, US Sailing talked to Whitney Kent, Program Director at Sheboygan Youth Sailing Center (Sheboygan, WI), regarding their Girls Who Sail program: What was the idea behind […]

Bradley Adam and Thomas Walker topped 21 teams to win the 2024 Snipe Midwinter Championship on February 9-11 in Key Largo, FL. Posting bullets in four of the 9 races, Adam and Walker beat out Ivan Shestopolov and Lexi Pline […]

The 2024 Star Midwinter Championship attracted 40 teams for the 8-race series on February 8-11 in Miami, FL. Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen won the first race and led throughout to build a 17-point winning margin over Jack Jennings/ Pedro […]

Nine new ILCA World Champions have been crowned at the 2024 ILCA Masters Worlds held February 4-10 in Adelaide, Australia. There were 221 competitors racing in either the ILCA 6 or 7 with USA taking wins in the ILCA 6 […]

Twenty-eight teams started the 2024 Islands Race in Southern California which features a 142nm course from San Pedro, around Catalina and San Clemente Islands, into San Diego for the finish. The overall winner was Tom Holthus’ Botin 56 BadPak while […]

Taylor Swift has the answer for everything these days. With musical dominance and football supremacy, her song ‘Karma’ reminds us not to screw around with fate: ‘Cause karma is the thunder Rattling your ground Karma’s on your scent like a bounty […]

The top two Americans at the 2024 ILCA 7 World Championship were 24-year-old twin brothers Ford and Marshall McCann who sat down with Olympian Caleb Paine for his Paineful Truth podcast. It was a brilliant 74-minute conversation which shared their campaign toward the Paris 2024 Olympics. In this […]

Gary Magwood wrote this while sitting in a boatyard full of unused sailboats… There are many, many glossy magazines That lure us into the world of broken dreams. Cruising World and Sail, Gam on Yachting, The Cruising Life and more […]

Superb drone footage of Jaeger Stone in Geraldton, WA Although he may not have competed on the PWA Wave World Tour since Covid, Jaeger Stone (Severne / Severne Sails) remains one of the best wave sailors in the world. It’s […]

America One Racing, as the largest private financial supporter of US sailing athletes campaigning for the Olympic Games, provides this 60-day Performance Report for December 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024: 1. Executing textbook preparation for the 2024 ILCA 6 […]

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour confirmed its 2024 season of five events which features returning events in the USA, France, and Denmark with a new event in Marstrand, Sweden. Now in its third season after re-launching in 2022, the […]

(February 8, 2024; Day 33) – While 2024 Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest leader Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild) climbs the coast of South America in the Atlantic, holding a 2300 nm advantage, the second and third placed rivals are making […]

Since the inaugural J/70 World Championship in 2014, the event has recognized the top Corinthian team, and in those nine editions, the best that team has done is fifth place overall. Alec Cutler wants to do better. Cutler, who was […]

It is curious how the 11-foot foiling Moth continues to draw 100+ boats to its World Championships. For certain, it is a groundbreaking Class which attracts the stars of the sport. But as a development class in which new boats […]

Peter Becker, who had previously reported about the upgrades to the batteries and charging system on a J/105 for offshore racing, provides the results of these upgrades: First a quick recap of how all this started. In 2021, I sailed an amazing […]

Since its inception in 2012, Reach, US Sailing’s education initiative, teaches science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts using sailing as an educational platform. To measure program performance, US Sailing has released the 2023 Reach Initiative Impact Report. The report focuses on the 2023 […]

The Royal Ocean Racing Club is all set for the 15th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, organized in association with the Antigua Yacht Club. Over 60 teams are expected to be competing with 500 sailors from 26 different countries […]

A few scientific sailing minds delve into the forces at play when it comes to these common boathandling techniques. Report by Mike Ingham for Sailing World: I’m about to lose the surf, so I lean in, steering up to a […]

New research reaches some surprising conclusions about which propulsion systems might actually have the lowest carbon footprint. Theo Stocker digs into the numbers for Yachting Monthly: A white sail on a blue sea. What could be cleaner than that?’ Sailing […]

Just Thomas Traversa doing what he does best… Everyone knows how much Thomas Traversa (Tabou / GA Sails) loves hunting down wind and more importantly waves and the Frenchman recently scored an epic one week trip, where he sailed one […]

In recognition of National Day of Girls and Women in Sports on February 7, US Sailing shares the story of Emily Verdoia: When Emily Verdoia joined the University of Texas at Austin’s sailing team, she didn’t expect to end up as the […]

At the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, Paul Foerster and Steve Bourdow won a silver medal for USA in the Flying Dutchman. This was a dominant era for the US Olympic Sailing Program, and seemingly a distant memory considering the current state of […]

Vice-World Champion Ricardo Campello to miss the 2024 competitive season after parting ways with Naish The current Wave Vice-World Champion, Ricardo Campello has confirmed that following his departure from sponsors Naish, he will not be competing on the PWA x […]

Caleb Paine, Rio 2016 Olympic Medalist and World Champion, hosts the Paineful Truth podcast. Here is the episode description: In this podcast episode, Olympian Caleb Paine welcomes Ford and Marshall McCann, twin brothers and standouts in the competitive sailing scene. […]

Sailing magazines recruit the elite sailors to share their secrets for success, but nothing matches what you can learn in Scuttlebutt. This list of exercises, originally published in 2003, will give you something to think about for the 2024 sailing […]

It is rare that offshore accomplishments get recognized for the US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year Awards, and never yet had a woman been the recipient. That changed for the 2023 awards, but as Libby Johnson McKee […]

While the top of J/70 one design racing is laden with hot professional crew and crisp sails, the J/70 International Class Association hopes to boost activity in the new edition of the J/70 Class Rules which includes two new initiatives: […]

by Marco Nannini, Global Solo Challenge (February 5, 2024) – Cape Horn has been the primary focus of attention for quite a few days now in the Global Solo Challenge, with Ronnie Simpson (USA) on his Open 50 as the […]

Over 200 competitors came out for the 2024 ILCA Midwinters East on February 1-4 in St. Petersburg, FL. The winners were David Coates in the ILCA 4, William Baker in the ILCA 6, and Hamilton Barclay in the ILCA 7. […]

The 2024 Thistle Midwinters West attracted 36 teams on February 1-3 in San Diego, CA. Consistency was key through the six race series as Wayne Pignolet and his team of Jerry Pignolet, and Elaina Pignolet won only one race but […]

The Los Angeles 2028 Games is a rare opportunity for the USA to boost its Olympic Sailing Program, yet it is unclear how that will occur. Frequent leadership turnover impacts credibility, with the online portal providing little direction. Unable or unwilling to […]

Sarah-Quita Offringa & Oda Brødholt tick off Peru from their bucket list on an all out wave mission. Windsurfing University: Travelling to Peru has been on the bucket list for a long time! We’ve seen so many of our friends […]

While February is the windiest month of the year in the Caribbean, Mother Nature missed the memo as the 2024 Caribbean Multihull Challenge had a bit less for the sixth edition held February 1-4 in Sint Maarten. However, the show […]

The 2024 J/70 Midwinter Championship attracted 51 teams from seven nations for a 9-race series on February 2-4 in Tampa, FL. But without enough wind for racing on the first two days, a front passed through on day three delivering […]

US Sailing awarded their annual One Design and Adaptive Awards to recognize individuals and organizations that were nominated by their peers in the sailing community: One Design Awards • One Design Club Award – Pentwater Yacht Club (Pentwater, MI) • […]

The International Snipe Class (SCIRA) has revealed its 2023 Inductees for the Snipe Class Hall of Fame, recognizing five individuals for the fifth induction class. The SCIRA Hall of Fame evaluates individuals who have made a significant impact to the […]

More than 300 teams representing over fifty countries have already registered for the 53rd edition of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca on April 1-6, with the Spanish island hosting all ten sailing classes which will race at the Paris 2024 […]

As a past military and commercial airline pilot, Craig Warner knows a thing or two about safety. In the February 2024 newsletter for the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation, he shares an observation on the topic: Last year, I met a fellow racer […]

Significant contributors to the sport were the recipients of the 2023 US Sailing Association Awards. Race Administration • Harman Hawkins Trophy – awarded to Rob Overton (Alameda, CA) • St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy – awarded to Newport Harbor Yacht […]

Justin Callahan (USA) and his twin brother Mitchell won the 2024 Snipe Junior World Championship in their hometown of Miami, FL. Back now at Harvard University for their studies and college sailing, Pietro Fantoni catches up with Justin for this Snipe Class interview: […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and Yoann Richomme nominated the Class40 Lift 2. Here’s the report: The highly competitive Class40 fleet has long been […]

Sail Canada is has launched its new Long-Term Development in Sailing (LTDS) model. Called LTDS 3.0, the model responds to evolutions in sailing and sport since the first version was introduced in 2011. LTDS 3.0 is an important piece to […]

US Sailing celebrated individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions with their annual Community Sailing Awards. The 2023 recipients were nominated by their peers in the sailing community through a public nomination form and reviewed and selected by current […]

Charlie Enright (Barrington, RI) and Christina Wolfe (Orcas, WA) were awarded the 2023 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year Award, deemed the “best in the U.S.” for on-the-water excellence at prominent sailing events while representing the United States in […]

Simmer Style welcome World No.4 Marc Paré back home for 2024 Marc Paré (Simmer / Simmer) enjoyed his best season to date on the PWA Wave World Tour, which saw the Spaniard in contention for the world title heading into […]

  The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Victoria, BC. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. In this episode, […]

Sail Canada has confirmed the hiring of Ryan Kelly as its new Chief Executive Officer starting March 11, 2024. A lifelong sailor, Kelly worked for a long period of time in support of the Cadets Canada Sailing Program and he […]

There are seven months until racing toward the 37th America’s Cup begins, which means design decisions are complete and each team’s AC75 race boat is well under construction. But there is still plenty to learn as team’s shift to race […]

Fourteen Formula 18 teams representing six countries will compete in the Worrell 1000 50th Anniversary Race which begins May 12 in Hollywood, FL. The 1000-mile course has overnight stops at 13 different locations up the coast to the finish at […]

Reigning Olympic Champion Matt Wearn (AUS) won his second consecutive ILCA 7 Men’s World title at the 2024 Championship on January 26-31 in Adelaide, Australia. Completing the podium was Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR) in second and Michael Beckett (GBR) in third. […]

Overnight anchoring around seven Biscayne Bay islands might be a thing of the past. Report by Cruising World: The state of Florida has long had a challenge in balancing the rights of responsible boat owners against the owners of poorly […]

If you’ve recently been bareboat cruising or attended boat shows, you’ve noticed the explosion of big catamarans. So has the Research and Markets department of Yahoo Finance: The global catamarans market is experiencing robust growth, anticipated to reach USD 1.96 […]