Archive for Kasım, 2024

Daniel Escudero has chalked up quite a 2024, which combined disappointment at the US Olympic trials along with major victories at events like ILCA North Americans and most recently winning college nationals in the ILCA 7. He also recently became […]

While Sailing seeks to heighten its commercial profile with broadcast friendly formats for the America’s Cup and SailGP, the real measure is athlete awareness. Watching fast boats is one thing; recognizing the athletes walking down a street on Tuesday is […]

Tasked with leading a crew of up to 22 adventure-seekers around the world, the role of a Clipper Race Skipper is one of the most demanding leadership positions in the industry. Once the successful Skippers get through a rigorous selection […]

When Lara Dallman-Weiss and Stuart McNay set sail together at the 2024 Paris Olympics, they weren’t just navigating open waters, they were challenging traditional norms in a sport historically dominated by single-gender teams. As the first U.S. mixed-gender team to […]

Foiling Week Pensacola 2025’s line-up has been bolstered with the addition of three fast-foiling boards and an open class discipline, taking it to fourteen classes participating so far. Foiling Week is the premier international foiling event, and the World Sailing […]

The stage is set for an electrifying 16th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, starting from Antigua on February 24, 2025. The early entries in IRC Zero reveal a fierce battle among some of the most advanced offshore racing machines […]

In their Extraordinary Boats series, Yachting World profiles the Cayman 28 Rooster, a ‘gentleman’s skiff’, and a 28ft sportsboat with racks, originally designed for the shallow waters of the Inner Sound in the Cayman Islands. Zipping through the herd of […]

The 2024 US Sailing Youth Racing Camps are poised to bring the nation’s top youth sailors together for intensive training and collaboration. For the first time, this annual event will take place on both coasts, with the East Coast Camp […]

Sail Newport, Rhode Island’s Public Sailing Center, has been selected to host a unique national sailing event next year with the remote-controlled DragonFlite95 (DF95) National Championship. The regatta will occur October 16-19, 2025, and will be the first radio-controlled national […]

by Wally Cross, Quantum Sails Choosing 10 boat improvements each year will lead to consistent and faster results. This is the perfect time of the year to review everything that affects to your boat’s speed. Many sailors choose improvements such […]

From the Williams sisters to the Brownlee brothers, plenty of talented families have graced the Olympic Games. And if there is one athlete who has seen success in the prestigious sporting event shared out across generations, it’s Brazilian sailor Martine […]

Buenos Aires, Argentina (November 23, 2024) – The 2024 Star South American Championship wrapped up in spectacular fashion at Club Náutico Olivos, with Paul Cayard (USA) and Pedro Trouche (BRA) claiming the title after three days of exhilarating and closely […]

New Zealand has planted its flag in the 2025 SailGP Season, beating Emirates GBR and the United States to claim a dominant win in Dubai over November 23-24, 2024. It marks the second consecutive win for Peter Burling’s Kiwi crew […]

Applications are now open for match racing skippers wishing to compete in the 2025 California Dreamin’ Series. This long-standing series features events at four prominent yacht clubs on the West Coast. The Organizing Authority’s Invitation Committee will review requests received […]

The wait is over. Red Bull Italy SailGP Team has officially been unveiled as the 12th and final nation to join the 2025 Season of SailGP. Italy enters the fast-paced sailing series for the first time with an ambitious roster, […]

Sailing World’s Dave Reed takes a look at the new squads, new looks and a new season for the teams of SailGP, which steps off in Dubai for the long year ahead. SailGP Season 4 is so yesterday, and today […]

Buenos Aires, Argentina (November 20, 2024) – The 2024 Star Class South American Championship is set to kick off in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 20 to 23, bringing together 31 teams from around the world. Hosted in Buenos Aires, […]

One week on exactly since Nico Lunven (IMOCA Holcim-PRB) set a new solo 24-hours monohull distance record on the second day of the 2024-25 Vendée Globe, Paprec Arkéa solo skipper Yoann Richomme dramatically bettered that mark on the Vendée Globe, […]

Racing sets sail November 21 out of Nanny Cay, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands for the concluding event of the 2024 44Cup. At present the battle for the season’s title looks set to be between Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team Nika […]

(November 21, 2024; Day 12) – Thomas Ruyant (VULNERABLE) took over the lead of the Vendée Globe solo race round the world very early this morning benefiting from his position to the west of his rivals which include his teammate […]

The Boat Builder Awards were handed out during a ceremony at the Amsterdam Maritime Museum in conjunction with 2024 Metstrade. Organized by International Boat Industry and Metstrade, the annual awards program recognized boatbuilders across 11 categories. For the 10th edition […]

US Sailing, the National Governing Body for sailing in the United States, announced the athlete selection system and requirements for the highly anticipated 2025 Team Race World Championship. The event will be hosted by the New York Yacht Club in […]

Since its inauguration nearly 80 years ago, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has built an esteemed global reputation and become one of the most famous fixtures on the international sporting calendar. Rolex has partnered the event and its organizer, […]

  The walls of Scuttlebutt HQ include the Ultimate Sailing calendar by Sharon Green, with Betsy Senescu sharing this behind-the-scenes story regarding the November 2024 images. Can you believe it’s already November? The year has flown by … but luckily […]

Bristol, RI (19 November 19, 2024) – Luke Muller (Fort Pierce, FL) was elected as the next Team USA Athletes’ Commission Representative for US Sailing, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport. Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, CA) was elected […]

The Kiwis beat Britannia to retain the Auld Mug in the Cup’s 37th match in Barcelona in October, becoming the first team in the modern era to win the trophy three times in a row. As expected, the British team, […]

This year the DAME Design Awards Jury inspected 114 entries from 28 countries. It nominated a total of 58 products for inclusion in the DAME Design Awards showcase which were then entered in the final rounds of judging. Fifty-eight products […]

Getting smacked by a flying fish during an offshore race won’t make headlines, but what a shark coming onboard a dinghy competition? This story by Alison O’Leary comes close: We were sailing east from the west passage of Narragansett Bay, […]

When US Sailing hired sports and entertainment industry professional Alan Ostfield in April 2021 as its Chief Executive Officer, it was a change in course for the national sailing federation. Prior to Ostfield, the position was held by someone within […]

The Notice of Race is online for the 2025 Channel Islands 500 which starts March 14 in Santa Barbara, CA. There will be several course routing options available to choose for the two-night race depending on forecasted wind conditions, and […]

With the fifth season of SailGP set to begin in the Middle East on November 23-24, the United States SailGP Team has a new color. Gone is the traditional flag blue, replaced by the blue-green tone of the Statue of […]

(November 18, 2024; Day 9) – Descending the North Atlantic in the Vendée Globe is typically a sleigh ride of trade wind sailing, but it has been one pothole after another as the fleet seeks passage across of rivers of […]

The 8-person crew on the AC75 for the 37th America’s Cup had four people sailing the boat, and four people on cycles to power the systems. The cyclors were mostly not known within the sailing community, having excelled outside of […]

With ten team competing in Sonars, Boston College won the 2024 College Match Race National Championship held November 15-17 in Oyster Bay, NY. BC blanked Brown 3-0 in the Final match, with Coast Guard topping Stanford 2-1 in the Petit […]

The World Sailing Boat of the Year was introduced as an annual award in 2018, with recognition* going to the Carkeek design Fast 40+ Ran VII (2018), F50 (2019), Vortex Pod Racer (2022), and AC40 (2023). But for 2024, the […]

(November 15, 2024; Day 6) – Maxime Sorel (FRA), the 38 year old skipper of V and B – Monbana – Mayenne, is the first skipper to abandon the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe. After finishing 10th on the […]

Performance catamaran racing is growing hugely in popularity. Helena Darvelid shares some key learnings from her 84-foot Nigel Irens designed catamaran with Andy Rice for Yachting World: Modern cruiser/racer multihulls have a high level of safety provided you know what […]

During the Newport Bermuda Race this year, the J/122 Alliance struck a submerged object in the Gulf Stream in the middle of the night, suffering damage that caused her to sink (A Eulogy for Alliance). Fellow racers aboard Ceilidh, a […]

Across the bay from Scuttlebutt World Headquarters is docked the 212-foot Star of India, the world’s oldest active sailing ship, located in San Diego, CA. Her rigging, outlined in lights amid the downtown skyline, provides a reminder each evening of […]

When the 184-foot Bayesian sank at anchor as it endured a storm off the Sicilian coast, seven of 22 people on board perished. It remains under investigation for how this Perini Navi luxury superyacht could fail so tragically, with the […]

(November 14, 2024; Day 5) – After successive leaders Charlie Dalin, Sam Goodchild, and Yoann Richomme, the Vendée Globe solo non-stop race around the world has another new leader in Nicolas Lunven (HOLCIM PRB). As the lead group passes the […]

The Flying Scot Sailing Association is raffling a new Flying Scot boat with proceeds to support class activity. A limit of 200 tickets for $200.00 each are being sold with the winning tickets to be drawn in January 2025.- Details […]

The merry-go-round keeps spinning in Great Britain with the news that Dylan Fletcher will helm the SailGP Team for Season 5. Fletcher drove the British team in SailGP’s first ever season in 2019, but when the team was bought and […]

San Diego Yacht Club’s 2025 Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta (WWIR) is on February 14-16 in San Diego, CA. The annual event is held in club-owned J/22s, just off the docks where competitors enjoy close competition and camaraderie. This invitation-only event […]

There have been previous attempts by World Sailing to highlight the Olympic Sailing pathway and provide exposure to the athletes, with the latest effort coming from the events which have organized the Sailing Grand Slam (SGS). This 5-event series unites […]