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Andy Du Port explores which rules need to be followed to the letter to avoid collisions at sea and considers those which can be safely ignored: Saying ‘International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea’ is something of a […]

The Laureus World Sports Awards is an annual award ceremony honoring individuals and teams from the world of sports along with sporting achievements throughout the year. The 25th edition has South African Kirsten Neuschäfer as the sole sailing nominee being recognized for […]

There’s no set formula for evaluating the entry list for an invitational event. But among the critical criteria would be a healthy number of former champions, geographic diversity, and a handful of new entries. Collectively, the selected entrants for the […]

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

Spring nationals is the annual highlight and conclusion of the College sailing season, with a new format pairing the Open and Women’s Team Race Championship to be held a few weeks before the corresponding fleet race dinghy nationals. Giving an early preview […]

Over 170 non-professional sailors, including 25 Americans, are on board a fleet of eleven 70-foot yachts en route to the USA on the latest leg of the 2023-24 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Teams are currently crossing the world’s […]

It is a big year for the IMOCA solo skippers as they prepare for the 2024-25 Vendée Globe, and one of the early tests for the solo, non-stop, round the world race will be New York Vendée-Les Sables d’Olonne. With […]

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1, and early speculation is that this could be a hyper-charged year as far as the number of storms is concerned. The Atlantic basin includes the Atlantic Ocean as well as […]

Ten yacht club teams across the USA and Sweden competed for the Palmer Trophy at the Grandmasters Team Race event, hosted by Newport Harbor Yacht Club on April 14-16 in Newport Beach, CA. The home team topped the double round […]

Training in a group increases improvement. Whether your pursuit is the Olympics or local club racing, working with others – and sharing all information – benefits the group. This approach has been mirrored by the French offshore sailing community, with this […]

The 2024 World Match Racing Tour gets underway with 17 teams and over 100 of the world’s top match racing sailors competing across back-to-back events in Long Beach, CA. Using Catalina 37s, the Grade 2 Ficker Cup (April 19-21) is […]

Sail Canada’s four youth and senior National Championships will be hosted by CORK/Sail Kingston in 2024 at in Kingston, ON. The first championships will feature Formula Kite, one of the two new classes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Sail […]

The 2023 movie Gran Turismo tells the true story of British teenager Jann Mardenborough, a player of the racing simulation video game Gran Turismo, who wins a series of GT competitions that help him became a professional racing car driver. Mardenborough had […]

Cowes, UK (April 16, 2024) – The teams are finishing the fourth and final leg of the 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race, completing the 6599 nm course from Punta del Este, Uruguay. The anticipated finish of the 58-foot Maiden occurred today […]

Darrell Pendergrass shares for the Ashland Daily Press his introduction to sailing: The idea was that I would sail aboard the Chewbacca during Bayfield Race Week (Bayfield, WI) and write a first-hand account of my experience. As I was not even 30 […]

Over 180 teams have entered the 2024 Charleston Race Week on April 19-21 in Charleston, SC. The 28th edition will host a variety of one-design classes, many of which have been clashing during the winter circuit season. Trevor Parekh, on […]

When racing offshore, the distractions of land are eliminated, allowing the mind to go down rabbit holes. As crew in the 2023-24 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, with the 11 teams on the 5,340nm course from China to the […]

Our grass-roots racing is the most important foundation of the sport, and where we sail and what we sail is what matters most. Story by Dave Powlison for Sailing World: When I was recently prompted about what I love about […]

When Malin Burnam and Lowell North won the 1945 Star World Championship, they were 17 and 15 years, respectively. Three-time Olympic medalist Mark Reynolds spent his teen years alongside his dad who crewed for Dennis Conner to win 1971 Star […]

Watching sailboat racing is hard. Viewing distance is far and angles are misleading. Short courses off the docks is doable, but full races on a spectator boat is more about socializing. But big events like the America’s Cup or SailGP […]

It is crystal ball time as anticipation builds in North America for the annual Atlantic Ocean storm season which begins June 1. George Day share his reading in this Cruising Compass report: Having spent so much of my life on the high seas where […]

For the past 30 years, Andrew Burton has been trying to put himself out of a job—because he doesn’t want owners of the boats to miss out. “A lot of delivery skippers won’t have the owner on board,” he says. […]

Just when it seems that everything a little reckless and a lot of fun has been crushed by laws and liability concerns, the Worrell 1000 returns to remind us that adventure is part of living. Twelve teams representing five countries […]

The 2024 A Class Catamaran North American Championship required patience for the 35 entrants seeking to race April 9-13 in Pensacola, FL. With a class wind limit of 21 knots and under, the first three days were blown out but […]

Thirty-three teams competed in the 2024 Star Western Hemisphere Championship, won by Tomas Hornos and Mauricio Bueno on April 12-14 in Miami, FL. After posting a 15 in the first race, Hornos/ Bueno had top four scores in six of […]

Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger won the 2024 J/24 North American Championship hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club on April 12-14 in St. Petersburg, FL. The winning team included Monica Morgan (bow), Dave Hughes (trim), Jay Miles (tactics), and Jeff Sullivan (twings/strategy), […]

Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University are predicting an “extremely active” 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, citing warmer than normal temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and the expected return of La Niña conditions. The 2024 forecast marks the highest hurricane prediction […]

The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. This episode introduces a trio of sailors, […]

After the French government insisted there was no Plan B for its unprecedented decision to host the Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics outside the secure confines of a stadium, the French Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, […]

The Olympic marina in Marseille, which will host the sailing events of the Paris Games this summer, was inaugurated on April 2 in the presence of the president of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, who praised a facility designed for […]

On May 8, the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will arrive from Greece by boat into the ancient port of France’s second-largest city, Marseille – much as the first Greek settlers arrived to found the town almost three […]

The 2024 Charleston Race Week has attracted over 170 entrants for racing on April 19-21 in Charleston, SC. The 28th edition will host 16 classes along with a Pro-Am event after racing on April 20. Ten teams will compete in […]

(April 3, 2024) – The weekly SailRank list for College Sailing has the top Open School as Harvard followed by Stanford and Yale, while leading the Women’s rank is Stanford followed by Yale and Georgetown. The leading skippers are Lachlain […]

Adrian Morgan treats us to his monthly column for Classic Boat, offering a reflection on the world of social media, ropes jargon and nautical terminology: Sailing and Social Media Misinformation You may have noticed how every large, old, possibly wooden, […]

The 2024 Triple Crown Series is expanding to five events, significantly increasing domestic competitive training opportunities and prize grants for athletes. The expanded series is jointly hosted by Oakcliff, Windmark, and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Six of the Olympic boats – ILCA […]

British wave sailing champion – Lucas Meldrum – shares his travel and warmup sessions ahead of the official event. Lucas Meldum (Fanatic / Duotone) became the British wave sailing champion for the first time in his career last year. Now […]

Seventeen years after her first Olympics in 2004, Nikola Girke competed in her fifth in Tokyo. She was pretty sure it would be her last. But then the Olympics changed windsurfing — her sailing event in three Games — to […]

As the business end of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, all the teams have spent the month of March getting ready for the arrival and final preparations of their new AC75 yachts. These yachts will be the pinnacle […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and naval architect and offshore sailor Antoine Koch nominated Amaryllis. Here’s his report: Amaryllis, and her replica Amaryllis II, […]

Renowned iceboating administer Deb Whitehouse reports from the notable landsailing venue of Ivanpah, Nevada: I spent a few days as a tourist at the 2024 America’s Landsailing Cup where competitors remarked that the playa was in the best condition they had seen […]

While the US Olympic Sailing Program struggles to share their operations to the public, this report by US Sailing indicates there is proof of life: The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has granted significant additional funding to the […]

Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/02/americas-cup-secrecy-and-plastic-waste/

Allan Terhune Jr., of Annapolis, Maryland, finally found himself among the illustrious short-listers of the 2023 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year award. As a sailmaker 15 years and counting, Terhune has won plenty of regattas as both skipper and crew, […]

by Nikki Henderson, Yachting World For Leg 3 of the Ocean Globe Race, L’Esprit d’équipe (FR) and Neptune (FR) were granted dispensation to sail with an all-male crew. The Notice of Race stipulates that every yacht must sail with a […]

The 50th St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR) hosted a wide range of fleets on March 29-31 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Unusual westerly winds gave sailors a tactical run for their money during the regatta’s first two days, with […]

The WASZP Class headed to Hawaii for the 2024 US National Championship on March 24-26 and the Americas Championship on March 28-31. With 34 competitors from Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and the USA, they all witnessed a clinic by Denmark’s Magnus Overbeck who won […]

The next event on the Caribbean racing circuit is the 51st edition of the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival. The schedule begins with the Sailing Festival, a warm-up event, on April 2 with the traditional Round Tortola Race and […]

by Frank Lanier, Practical Sailor One of the often overlooked maintenance items in the pre-season rush to the water is the AC shorepower system. Over the years of surveying, I’ve amassed a small collection of scary photos from past surveys […]

The 11 teams competing in the 2023-24 Clipper Race began the longest ocean crossing of the circumnavigation when they started the 5,340nm course from Qingdao in China to Seattle in the USA on March 28. The start took place in […]

2022 PWA Slalom World Champion – Maciek Rutkowski – joins NeilPryde for 2024 The 2022 Slalom World Champion, Maciek Rutkowski (NeilPryde) has announced he will be teaming up with NeilPryde for the 2024 season in a bid to win his […]

Sometimes returning back home isn’t as bad as it seems… Alessio Stillrich scores some fun sessions in Pozo after his recent trip to Cape Town, South Africa Alessio Stillrich (Simmer / Simmer Sails) recently returned home to Pozo Izquierdo after […]

by WM Nixon, Afloat Magazine Olympians are different from you and me. In the final analysis, that’s what being Olympian is all about. For whether we like it or not, the vivid clarity of an Olympic medal is one of […]

Short-handed racing between Bermuda and Newport, RI now offers yearly competition, and the opportunity has been seized by emerging women in the sport. Sara Stone and Catherine “Cat” Hunt in a Sunfast 3300 won the inaugural Bermuda Short-Handed Return (BSHR) race in […]

American Magic reached a significant milestone in its challenge for the 37th America’s Cup as its newly constructed AC75 boat – B3 – completed its journey from the build facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to the team’s base in Barcelona, […]

For the the 53rd edition of the Transpac Yacht Race, a rating system for the 2225 nm course from Los Angeles to Honolulu will be based on weather predictions following an analysis of previous race data. The 2025 race will […]

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

It was shocking video to wake up to on March 26, 2024 with the accident to have widespread and unimaginable impact. As one of the world’s oldest continuously running journals, the British-based Lloyd’s List has been providing weekly shipping news since 1734, […]

Matt Sheahan and his PlanetSail team share the latest episode in a regular series of features about the road to the America’s Cup that will take us from the first official event in Vilanova to the Cup match itself in October 2024 […]

The Atlantic hurricane season officially gets underway on June 1 and runs through the end of November, and AccuWeather’s team of long-range forecasters say now is the time to prepare for a frenzy of tropical systems. There are signs that […]

Promoting environmental causes has become an attention-seeking tactic in sailing to gain commercial interest, and while it often seems self-serving, protecting the earth is never a bad thing. This has been a foundational aspect of the SailGP sports league, which is […]

There are times when the sport melts the internet, and Cole Brauer did that when she finished the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge. We all got to know the 29-year old Cole for 130 days as she shared her non-stop race around the world, […]

The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. This episode highlights two teams, both alike […]

The 55th edition of French Olympic Week will the last major multi-series meeting for the world’s best sailors before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In 2024, it will take on an additional purpose as it features two events on April […]

Andrea Mura (ITA) on his Open 50 Vento di Sardegna is expected to be the third finisher in the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge, with his arrival on March 16 or 17 in A Coruña, Spain. Of the initial 16 starters, […]

While the America’s Cup grinding position may have been more about muscle than sailing ability, the skills were still similar to big boat needs in recreational sailing. Relatable, right? But there is little about the 37th America’s Cup that has […]

Former world champion Pierre Mortefon joins FMX Racing for Slalom X As one of only two riders to win an elimination on the fin in 2023, with the separation of fin and foil racing, Pierre Mortefon (FMX Racing / Phantom […]

When the second leg of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race (now The Ocean Race) started from Cape Town, and had a northerly course in the Indian Ocean toward Abu Dhabi, crossing through the doldrums was not the only concern. The […]

Registration is open for the 2024 Boat Builder Awards as the 10th anniversary hosts categories that draw strong focus on three key pillars that lie at the heart of future sector success – innovation, the environment, and people. The Boat […]

The form guide is forming for the ten Sailing events at the Paris 2024 Olympics as revealed by the World Sailing Rankings latest update. Below are the top three nations in each event along with Canada and USA if they rank […]

Type II Fun: An experience that’s miserable in real time but great once it’s astern. It’s also the kind of fun that Christina and Justin Wolfe, of Orcas Island, Washington, gravitate toward. Case in point: Christina, the 2023 Rolex Yachtswoman […]

A South Florida man is grateful to be alive after being bitten by a crocodile on March 10. Speaking to Local 10 News from his hospital bed, the 68-year-old Rodrigo Constain was grateful to be alive. It happened just before 5:00 pm […]

Before The Ocean Race 2023 got underway, eventual winner Charlie Enright admitted their use of an autopilot on the IMOCA was over 90% of the time. The use was partly because the boat was not well configured for hand steering, but […]

Since Anna Tunnicliffe won gold at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the USA has been struggling to get back to the podium for the Women’s One Person Dinghy event. The 30-year old Erika Reineke has been trying to change that, and in […]

Among the five challengers for the 37th America’s Cup is an entry from Italy, a nation that’s involvement began with Gianni Agnelli, a lawyer by trade with a winning and divisive reputation. It was at a time when professional sailing […]

Registration is open for the 2024 Yacht Racing Forum to be held alongside the METSTRADE fair on November 20-22 in Amsterdam. The 14th edition of the event seeks to offer a platform for industry professionals to explore and discuss the […]

North Sails president and DragonFlite 95 remote control yacht racer Ken Read hosts a boat tuning clinic in Newport, RI. Also, fleet member Jeff Roy explains the deeper menus and fine tuning of the FlySky remote control unit. Source: scuttlebutt […]

Robert L. Johnstone, lll has been named the 2023 recipient of the Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy, US Sailing’s most prestigious annual award, going to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the sport of sailing in this country […]

The Sailing venue at the Paris 2024 Olympics may be 400+ miles to the south in Marseille, but there will still be plenty of boating in the capital of France as 180 boats float down the River Seine for the […]

The Yandoo team of Micah Lane, Fang Warren, and Lewis Brake won the 2024 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on March 2-10 in Sydney Harbor after scoring a brilliant win in the final race of what has been one of […]

Erwan Fischer and Clement Pequin (FRA) and Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz (NED) claimed the top titles at the 2024 49er and 49erFX World Championships held March 5-10 in Lanzarote, Spain. For Canada, the 8th place finish by Georgia and Antonia […]

The commitment by the International Olympic Committee to gender equality has led to a steady increase in the number of female athletes at the Olympic Games year on year. Starting with just 2.2% in Paris 1900, where women competed at […]

The windmill, located alongside a working farm to crush grain or pump water, had a certain charm. But while harnessing the wind for agricultural processes feels good, wind farms cluttering nature landscapes for electrical needs feels less good. First it […]

Marco Nannini, organizer of the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge, reflects on the future following the second-place finish of American Cole Brauer, and her intention to pursue the highest mountain in solo offshore sailing – the Vendée Globe: The Global Solo Challenge […]

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour has added a new event for the 2024 season to be held October 28 to November 3 in Bermuda. Joining five previously announced events, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club will host the women alongside the […]

Maine Maritime claimed victory in the 16th running of The Port of Los Angeles/Cal Maritime Harbor Cup Regatta on March 8-10 in San Pedro, CA. Champions of the 2008 and 2009 regatta, the Mariners topped the 10-team field racing Catalina […]

For the first time in the 173-year history of the America’s Cup, there will be in 2024 a stand-alone women’s event open to all female athletes regardless of age. Alongside teams from the America’s Cup entrants – New Zealand, Great […]

The port side of Joel Ronning’s J/70 Catapult takes one for the team at the 2024 Bacardi Cup Invitational Regatta in Miami, FL. Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/03/08/video-j-70-collision-in-miami/

What happens when you combine 40 knots of wind and waves with Nico Prien & Amado Vrieswijk on slalom gear? Recently Tenerife has been enjoying a solid run of wind and waves. As many of you will already be aware, […]

The 97th Bacardi Cup and Bacardi Invitational Regatta (Miami, FL) brought together over 200 teams, setting a new record in 2024. With the Stars racing on March 4-9, and the J/70, Melges 24, Snipe, Viper 640, and VX One classes […]

Yachting World editor Helen Fretter takes a look at 10 women who are driving success in competitive sailing at the moment: With a Women’s America’s Cup due to start in 2024, a gender balanced sailing event at the Paris 2024 […]

While the maxi crowd point their bows toward Superyacht Challenge Antigua and St. Barths Bucket Regatta, the 2024 St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR) is where mainstream yachting will be on March 29-31 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. With its focus on delivering […]

Full gender parity will be achieved for the first time at the Paris 2024 Olympics with half of the 10,500 total athletes being female. This milestone has been a long time in the making and quotas have steadily increased over […]

Both Canada and USA are using the 2024 49erFX World Championship as the first of two events for their Paris 2024 Olympic selection in the Women’s Skiff event. After three days of racing, Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance (CAN) and Stephanie […]

The 2023-24 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race had the Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam team claim victory for the 645 nm race from Ha Long Bay, Vietnam to Zhuhai, China, with the 11 teams preparing for the 1370 nm which starts […]

(February 29, 2024; Day 54) – Charles Caudrelier, winner of the 2024 Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest, may have been granted dream conditions for his victorious finish but thousands of well wishers braved the Breton drizzle to welcome home second placed Thomas Coville […]

A veteran offshore sailor with nearly two decades of professional racing experience, Jesse Fielding has been named the next head offshore sailing coach at the US Naval Academy. The founder, CEO and skipper of Open Ocean USA, Fielding has an […]

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

Matt Sheahan and his PlanetSail team share the latest episode in a regular series of features about the road to the America’s Cup that will take us from the first official event in Vilanova to the Cup match itself in October 2024 […]

The 97th Bacardi Cup and the Bacardi Invitational Regatta will break all past entry records with an unprecedented 213 teams gearing up in 2024 to compete in Miami, FL. The regatta begins with the six-day schedule for the Star Class […]