SG Yelken Archive

The Route du Rhum is among the famous shorthanded races, a transatlantic solo event taking place every four years within the international calendar of offshore competition. The 3543nm race from France to Guadeloupe, when translated, is ‘Rum Route’ in French… […]

There’s a lot of education and effort to provide perfect races, and while events often promote their perfection to attract participation, what people want is a lot less complicated. Keep it simple, keep it casual, keep it fun. Joe Berkeley […]

Auckland, New Zealand (September 21, 2022) – The moment of truth arrived today with a very successful maiden sail for the AC40 on the familiar waters of the ‘back paddock’ between Auckland’s Waiheke Island and Howick Beachlands. The 37th America’s […]

Quanhai Li (CHN) was elected as World Sailing President at World Sailing’s Virtual General Assembly on November 1, 2020. Li unseated incumbent Kim Andersen (DEN), and nearly two years later his term has been most remarkable for its lack of […]

The 60-foot IMOCA is the grand prix offshore class, and with a slew of these new foilers lining up for The Ocean Race 2022-23 and Véndee Globe 2024, the round-the-world racing scene is going gangbusters. Report by Ed Gorman for […]

by Kevin Gunn It’s 4:45pm on a Friday afternoon in New Orleans and thirteen 420s with high school sailors aboard have lined up for a start on Lake Pontchartrain. Parents decked out in their kid’s school colors set up their […]

Part one of Ricardo Campello’s summer in Gran Canaria Ricardo Campello (Naish / Naish Sails): “It took a while, but here you can see all my best shots from Gran Canaria 2022, shots are from before, during and after the […]

US Sailing is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month which occurs annually from September 15 to October 15. The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under US President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to […]

The Gstaad Yacht Club was founded in 1998 by a group of sailor enthusiasts with the vision to ‘create a unique global yacht club away from the waters, instead of another local club by the waters’. Based in the Swiss […]

San Francisco, CA (September 18, 2022) – The final day of racing at the 2022 Rolex Big Boat Series began with seldom-seen southerly airs, big puffs and scattered rain. While this year’s edition had plenty of big seabreeze racing, the […]

(September 18, 2022; Day 15) – Guy deBoer (USA), a competitor in the 2022 Golden Globe Race, has run aground on the North coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. It was South African GGR entrant Kirsten Neuschäfer (SA) who […]

It’s been a year since the US-based 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team launched the IMOCA they will use in The Ocean Race 2022-23, and they just finally got a measure of it at the 2022 Défi Azimut – a multi-stage […]

The Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup, founded in 1902, is considered the oldest annual sailing event in the United States. While it hasn’t been too annual lately, having last been raced in 2010, the 2022 plan was to hold it again […]

Ben Proffitt breaks down the pushloop into bite sized tips Have you been considering to learn to pushloop, but don’t have the courage to throw yourself into your first rotations? Well, don’t worry, Ben Proffitt is on hand to break […]

Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger dominated the 2022 J/22 North American Championship, held September 15-17 in East Tawas, MI. With crew Geoff Becker and Billy Farmer, the Rochester Yacht Club-based team posted all top four scores to secure the title before the […]

The doublehanded 470 dinghy may be the most senior of boats in the Olympic Games, having been used since Montreal 1976, these are early days with the class converting to a mixed format for Paris 2024. From the most evolved, […]

Diego Negri and Sergio Lambertenghi (ITA) won the 100th anniversary of the Star World Championship held September 11-17 in Marblehead, MA. The 2022 event had the full range of weather from light winds in the beginning, a cancelled day due […]

The glitterati of the sailing world has gathered for the 2022 Etchells Worlds hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, UK. Originally planned for September 19 through 24, the nine race series will start a day later to pay […]

Newport, RI (September 17, 2022) – After displaying remarkable consistency across a range of conditions over the first three days of the 2022 Resolute Cup, Corinthian Yacht Club (Marblehead, MA) decided to dispense with the pleasantries. The team representing the […]

San Francisco, CA (September 17, 2022) – A morning ebb tide that ran smack-dab into an escalating westerly breeze, stirring up square-faced chop for the first race of Day 3 at Rolex Big Boat Series. Breeze continued to build as […]

San Francisco, CA (September 16, 2022) – Moderate airs, sunny skies, and flatter seas defined the second day of competition and offered crews some reprieve from yesterday’s heavier conditions at the Rolex Big Boat Series. Peak-puff metrics might have dipped […]

Newport, RI (September 16, 2022) – On a shifty, puffy and generally frustrating day on Narragansett Bay, the key to success in the 2022 Resolute Cup was patience and conservative decision making, at least according to the two skippers currently […]

Day 6: Event Champions crowned on the final day of the Cold Hawaii Youth PWA World Cup We made it. The last competition on the Youth PWA World Tour is officially finished. Everybody went through the fire and the flames […]

The fourth season of the global sports league SailGP has released its tentative schedule, expanding from 11 to 14 events through 14 months in 2023-2024. The number of events is nearly triple that of Season 1 in 2019. SailGP Season […]

San Francisco, CA (September 15, 2022) – The weather gods delivered plenty of get-up-and-go on the first day of racing at the 2022 Rolex Big Boat Series. Morning conditions for the 76 boats had 8-12 knots of breeze and flat […]

Newport, RI (September 15, 2022) – Mike Tyson is famous for saying that everyone has a good plan until they get punched in the mouth. For the Shelter Island Yacht Club team competing in the 2022 Resolute Cup, Day 1 […]

The Tulane sailing team is a team to look out for this school year. This is arguably one of their best seasons since becoming a varsity sport in 2018 at Tulane, and the reigning National Champions are looking to secure […]

The inaugural Global Solo Challenge 2023-24 seeks to be a budget-friendly solo, non-stop race around the world. For boats from 32 to 55 feet with an IRC rating below 1.370, a pursuit start over 11 weeks begins in A Coruña, […]

Day 5: Liam Dunkerbeck wins U20 Wave World Title, whilst Tobias Bjørnå fights back to win home event in U17s Watch out! Iceberg ahead – or is it just the rock submerged in front of the fish factory which once […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News The 32nd edition of Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup included an outlier amongst its stately monohulls when it accepted the entry of Roberto Lacorte’s 60-foot Flying Nikka, the first ever flying maxi, based on AC75 […]

Seventy-six teams have gathered at St. Francis Yacht Club for the 2022 Rolex Big Boat Series with racing on September 15-18 in San Francisco, CA. Annually the end of high level racing on the West Coast, there awaits perpetual trophies […]

Newport, RI (September 14, 2022) – Experience counts at the Resolute Cup. It’s been said before and it’ll be said again, but it’s more convincing to look at the hard evidence. After a sparkling day of sailing on lower Narragansett […]

Harken Marketing Intern Samuel Bartel is obsessed with ice sailing. To him, hard water yachting is the pinnacle of fun. Candidly, he’s more than a little bit obsessed. There’s one thing he really regrets: not getting into it sooner! In […]

Day 4: Maria Morales Navarro & Peter Gobisch Secure Victories in U20 Girl’s & U15 Boy’s respectively If you pulled up at the former fish powder factory in Hanstholm you could see some smooth sailing today. Due to the drop […]

United States SailGP Team skipper Jimmy Spithill shares an update after winning the fifth event of the 2022-23 SailGP Season: Taking our first SailGP win at the France Sail Grand Prix this weekend was a pivotal moment for our team – and it […]

American Joe Harris along with Roger Junet are competing in the Globe40, a multi-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams now on the third leg from Mauritius […]

It was September 2020 when Scuttlebutt first reported on the mobile app Buoy Zone which was assisting race officers to set courses and take the guess work out for support boats. At the time it was only available in Australia and New Zealand, but […]

Launched as the bigger Hobie 14, the Hobie 16 revolutionized the multihull scene when it first appeared in 1971. For the next two decades, this little catamaran was found throughout beaches and boat years, and is among the top boats […]

Newport, RI (September 13, 2022) – At 10:30 am tomorrow, teams representing 23 top yacht clubs from around the country will commence battle in pursuit of the Resolute Cup, one of sailing’s most prestigious Corinthian trophies. With racing though September […]

There is excitement within the US Olympic Sailing Program. National Sailing Hall of Famer Paul Cayard is now the Executive Director and is determined to return the country to prominence by Los Angeles 2024. He’s initiated a lot of change, has attracted […]

The US-based 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team is focused on The Ocean Race 2022-23, but they have entered in the IMOCA division, a class of boat with very little experience in the USA. Now in France, American skipper Charlie Enright […]

While the 37th America’s Cup will accept late entries until May 31, 2023, it will be a shocker if the field expands beyond the four teams revealed to challenge defender Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL): • INEOS Britannia (GBR) • […]

The 2022 Star World Championship has had a slow start for the 84 teams competing September 11-17 in Marblehead, MA. After beginning the 100th anniversary event with two light air days, rain and less wind on day three kept the […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News The effort to get sailing on television has led to creative formats that have changed the sport from what occurs on most weekends. But sailing is unlike any other sport in that it offers […]

In the year since Charlie Enright and Mark Towill’s 11th Hour Racing Team became the first of The Ocean Race IMOCA syndicates to launch their new 60-foot boat, the USA squad has crossed the Atlantic no less than four times […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News I prefer sailing to watching sailing, so I am not a die-hard SailGP spectator. While I follow the league and events closely, you typically won’t find me rearranging my life to watch the live […]

The Royal Ocean Racing Club will host the inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 Series in Antigua on February 14-24, 2023. The series will include three days of racing followed by the main event; the 14th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600. […]

Day 3: 6 metre waves and 40 knot winds make for a memorable day at Middles The competition kicked off around midday on Tuesday. The location was a true Danish classic, middles. Middles is the place where the hills are […]

Two lay days to open in Denmark, but all set for big Tuesday at Hanstholm After a slow and relaxing couple of days to start the 2022 Cold Hawaii PWA Youth Windsurf World Cup, which has allowed the Youth’s to […]

The 2022 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup was held September 4-10, with racing held for boats from 60 feet to 143 feet in length. While the wind was too strong on the final day, the teams had four previous days of […]

Phenomenal Freestyle featuring Yentel Caers, Marco Lufen and Sam Esteve If you’ve been missing a bit of freestyle action this next clip is sure to settle all of your needs as 2019 Freestyle World Champion – Yentel Caers (JP / […]

Mauritius (September 11, 2022) – The GLOBE40 competitors began the third leg today, a course of nearly 7,000 nm from Mauritius to New Zealand. The ranking remains wide open and at the end of this leg the five Class40 boats […]

New Zealand sailor Dean Barker has revealed he was battling cancer while training for American Magic’s 2021 America’s Cup campaign. The former Team New Zealand skipper appeared on TVNZ’s Sunday to share his story of being diagnosed with bowel cancer […]

Robert Wilson Ball, age 79 (August 24, 1943 – September 9, 2022) loved life and lived it to the fullest. He was an engaged husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend who cared deeply for the people in his life. Rob […]

Doug Clark and Jeff Eiber (USA) only needed six of the seven races to claim the 2022 VX One North American Championship, held September 8-10 in Toronto, ON. Winning three races and posting all top five scores, the duo sat […]

Peru dominated the 2022 Sunfish World Championships, topping the results overall along with victories in the women’s and grand masters’ classifications, with racing held September 6-10 in Torbole sul Garda, Italy. Jean Paul De Trazegnies easily won the World title, […]

The introduction of on-the-water umpiring began with Pete Ives who recently passed, and his impact on the sport has been felt worldwide. Henry Menin (USVI) – former Chairman of the World Sailing Match Racing Committee and America’s Cup Umpire and […]

Ross Brady had always loved the sea, and it was after his tour with the Royal Marines ended in 2015 that he thankfully found his calling. In this report, Brady offers how he is sharing it with others: I met […]

The walls of Scuttlebutt HQ include the Ultimate Sailing calendar, and in this report Sharon Green shares the behind-the-scenes story regarding the September 2022 images. Some of the most spectacular sailing venues are in the Tropics, like the Caribbean and […]

Saint-Tropez, France (September 9, 2022) – The Sail GP event format has been boosted at the Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix on September 10-11. The addition of one qualifying race – taking place on the second day of every […]

(September 8, 2022; Day 5) – The September 4 start date for the Golden Globe Race has not made it easy departing Les Sables d’Olonne, France. It is a transitional season in the Bay of Biscay and the route towards […]

Following a truly dominant College Sailing season which saw Yale University claim both the Women’s Team Race Nationals and the Open Team Race Nationals, the Bulldogs look to build upon its success this year. The team also won the Fowle […]

Saint-Tropez, France (September 8, 2022) – The entire SailGP fleet took to the waters today for the first time ahead of their fifth event of the season on September 10-11. Practice time is controlled and limited, so it is critical […]

by Chris Caswell, Sailing magazine As often happens for my musings in this column, three things converged like a perfect storm to make me start thinking. First, being a car nut as well as a boataholic, I visited a friend […]

In this report by The Newport Daily News, an incident with four notable Rhode Island residents was nearly tragic: They never really saw it coming. Rob and Pat Connerney, along with two others, were aboard their 30-foot sailboat competing in […]

As seen September 7, 2022 on Strands Beach in Dana Point, CA. Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2022/09/08/video-this-doesnt-end-well/