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From the age of four, Eastern Michigan University professor Derrick Fries has been captivated by sailing, a sport that has brought him immense joy. His passion has led him to participate in sailing and triathlons for nearly three decades, traveling […]

The SailGP sports league moves to Bermuda for the next event on May 4-5, and while the US SailGP Team has slid down the Season 4 ranking since the new ownership group has taken control, they are not opposed to […]

For the 2024 edition of the J/70 North American Championship on May 1-4, the Vallarta Yacht Club in Nuevo Nayarit has attracted 26 teams from the USA, Mexico, Canada, and Argentina. Situated just around the famous Bahia de Banderas to […]

Olympian, America’s Cup winner and New Zealand Champion in multiple classes, Jon Bilger, explains how to use tides and tidal currents: We all know the tide ebbs and flows. It’s as predictable as the sun rising or the seasons changing, […]

Long Beach, CA (April 28, 2024) – As the opening event for the 2024 World Match Racing Tour, the 59th Congressional Cup reached its peak today as USA’s Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team won his second consecutive Congressional […]

Brittany turned on its best Spring sailing weather – sunshine, puffy cumulus clouds and a decent 10-15 knots of Westerly wind – to send the 2024 Transat CIC fleet on its way from Lorient towards New York for the start […]

There may be no sailing community in the USA that is as well connected to a College Sailing Team as Charleston, SC. This was on display at the 28th edition of Charleston Race Week in which some 70 alumni and students from […]

Ford McCann had won the USA Trials in his event, Men’s One Person Dinghy (ILCA 7), but still needed to be among the top three nations at the final qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics. That didn’t happen, with the Olympic tickets given […]

NOAA electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC®) are vector data sets that support all types of marine navigation. Originally designed for large commercial vessels, ENCs are used in computer navigation programs and mobile applications on many types of ships, including recreational […]

With the new contract for Project 411, Dutch custom superyacht builder Royal Huisman enters record territory with Noir, a 264-foot sailing yacht. Noir has been conceived by an owner and his team for the pleasure of sailing with his loved […]

While it would seem like pure fantasy that video sailing games will attract participants to the sport, they do bolster commercial interest, and that’s a goal for the America’s Cup when it launched AC Sailing for gamers along with its first-ever e-sports […]

As the national governing body for sailing in the United States, US Sailing is seeking nominations to fill five open seats on the US Sailing Board of Directors. Application must be submitted no later than May 15, 2024. – Details Source: scuttlebutt […]

After the Alinghi Red Bull Racing had a swanky reveal for their AC75 on Friday, and the Kiwis splashed their new boat for its first sail on Friday, now its the INEOS Britannia, the British Challenger of Record, that pulled back the […]

Sara Stone (USA), who has been selected by UpWind by MerConcept as crew on their Ocean Fifty trimaran, shares her story in this interview: What path led you to ocean racing? I actually started out as a competitive rower, which is an […]

The UpWind by MerConcept project begins in 2024 with this new racing program seeking to provide female sailors with racing opportunities at the highest levels of the sport. Francesca Clapcich, two time Olympian and the only Italian to win The Ocean Race, […]

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, […]