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The light winds gave the A Class Classic Catamarans an advantage over their foiling course mates, who did not have enough wind to take advantage of their foils. It will be a different story when the wind picks up, but […]

SailGP Sydney 2019 was held February 15-16 in Sydney, Australia. Video published by Crosbie Lorimer on Feb 17, 2019. ABOUT SAILGP: Established in 2018 and headquartered in London and San Francisco, SailGP seeks to be an annual, global sports league […]

St. Petersburg, FL (February 16, 2019) – Racing got started on time this morning in beautiful conditions for the second day of racing in the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta with most classes sailing four races in […]

In SailGP’s inaugural event, the six national teams met February 15-16 on Sydney Harbour in a proof of concept occassion. Can fast boats, skilled teams, broadcast tools, and a tight venue deliver an intriguing fan product? While it is too […]

St. Petersburg, FL (February 15, 2019) – The first day of racing for the 2019 Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) season had a late start due to a postponement for light winds in the morning. Racing was underway […]

With Two-Time PWA Youth Slalom World Champion Basile Jacquin Basile Jacquin (I-99 / Point-7) is one of the brightest young prospects on the PWA Slalom World Tour. The 20-year-old has already won two PWA Youth Slalom World Championships and is […]

With Two-Time PWA Youth Slalom World Champion Basile Jacquin Basile Jacquin (I-99 / Point-7) is one of the brightest young prospects on the PWA Slalom World Tour. The 20-year-old has already won two PWA Youth Slalom World Championships and is […]

by Steve Bodner Imagine your favorite pillow. White and fluffy and as soft as a baby lamb’s coat. Rolling contours envelope the surface creating a personal palace for your head to sink into. Now imagine the same landscape but instead […]

Double Olympic Gold Medallist Shirley Robertson (GBR) tells her story. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

Sydney, Australia (February 15, 2019) – In front of thousands of spectators on Sydney Harbor, the new sailing league SailGP got underway with widely anticipated favorite Japan SailGP Team leading the 6-team field to top the rank after day one. […]

This week’s “World on Water” global sailing news show produced by www.boatson.tv. In this week’s “WoW TV”: • CEO SailGP Sir Russell Coutts talks to the WoW about the boats, wind and regatta wind speeds, new additions to the boats […]

The Notice of Race is now available for the 2019 Youth Match Racing World Championship which will be held August 12-17 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Gubernskiy Yacht Club Komatek will host up to 16 skippers who will be invited by World […]

In this report by America’s Cup defender Emirates Team New Zealand, they relive the development period for the 34th America’s Cup in which, as a challenger, they changed the face of top-level yacht racing forever. In late August 2012, a […]

Oakcliff Sailing is a training center which offers a proving ground to develop skills in the three big veins of professional sailing: the America’s Cup, the Olympics, and around-the-world races. With a goal to elevate American sailing back to the […]

Sydney, Australia (February 14, 2019) – The launch of SailGP gets underway tomorrow when the world’s most technologically advanced race boats, crewed by some of the world’s best sailors, will go head to head in the nation-versus-nation battle on Sydney […]

Daniel Hearn, an active DN racer and administrator from Madison, WI, shares in this report for true.ink the magic of the hard water: If you’ve never been out in the middle of a lake as a frozen sheet of ice […]

Evinrude, a global manufacturer of outboard marine engines, has partnered with the American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) and the National Marine Distributors Association (NMDA) to donate two million dollars’ worth of Evinrude ETEC G2 3.4L V6 outboard engines to […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Designed in 1947 by Clark Mills, the Optimist had the pure intentions as a boat that could be built in a garage by a father and his son. World War ll had ended and it was […]

A crew training session on Dublin Bay in Ireland went terribly wrong when a Man Overboard incident occurred in the challenging conditions. The crew on the J/97 Windjammer was made up of current and former INSS sailing instructors: Aisling O’Grady, […]

The 31st season for the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta begins on February 15 to 17 in St. Petersburg, FL. The NOODs aren’t purely OD anymore, as Sailing World editor Dave Reed reports in this event preview: […]

Beginning and experienced woman sailors can jump-start their sailing lives at the National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA) 18th Annual Women’s Sailing Conference on June 1 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The 2019 event, to be held at the Corinthian Yacht Club, features […]

While the US Coast Guard is empowered as the coastal defense and maritime law enforcement branch of the United States Armed Forces, it is also the security net for when mariners need help. Petty Officer 2nd Class Corinne Zilnicki relives […]

If planning for your honeymoon includes stealing a 40-foot catamaran, love has made you stupid, a discovery now for a Florida Keys couple after a federal judge sentenced them to 2 1/2 years in prison. Instead of a honeymoon, when […]

It was 6pm when an unusual rainbow-colored boat, made of recycled plastic waste and discarded flip-flops gathered from beaches and roadsides, dropped anchor off the beach at Mtwapa, near Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa. The 9-meter-long dhow, The Flipflopi, was […]

Portsmouth Olympic Harbour will be the venue for the 2019 Laser Radial Youth World Championship (Jul 24-31) and 2019 Laser 4.7 Youth World Championship (Aug 16-23) in Kingston, Ontario. The championship are part of the 50th anniversary of CORK – […]

(February 13, 2019; Day 228) – There has been good and bad news from Uku Randmaa and his Rustler 36 One and All in the effort to finish in third position for the Golden Globe Race in Les Sables d’Olonne, […]

Blooper footage from 49erFX team of Paris Henken and Anna Tobias. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

Antigua suffered minimal damage in 2017 when Hurricane Irma and Maria ravaged the Caribbean region, and are now preparing for a hurricane of another kind: hosting the 2019 Optimist World Championship. With an expectation of 300 young sailors from over […]

Sailing offers a recreational outlet that is as unique as each person that embraces it. Sail Canada, the national governing body for the sport of sailing, is recognizing sailors across the nation who share a passion for the sport. Nikka […]

World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, is inviting Class Associations and Equipment Manufacturers to tender for the Mixed Two Person Dinghy and Mixed Kiteboard events that are among the Sailing program for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt While the authenticity of the Challenge from The Netherlands for the 36th America’s Cup is being questioned by the event Arbitration Panel, which is rumored to be due to a failure to meet the entry obligations, […]

Celia Willison and her RNZYS Youth Training Programme NZ Women’s Match Racing Team have taken out the NZ Women’s Match Racing Championship, held in Elliott 7ms on February 9-12 at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland, NZL. Eight […]

In a record year of interest, it’s perhaps fitting that the 100th entry to the 50th edition of the Transpacific Yacht Club’s biennial 2225-mile Transpac race from LA to Honolulu is at 55 years old one of the oldest in […]

by Robert Nutter, Chair, 2019 Bayview Mackinac Race We are entering the time of year when owners start thinking about assembling their crew for the season. Some owners grow their crew with the purchase of the boat and others rotate […]

The J/105 Class Association has fleets throughout North America, with one of the more active groups located in Toronto, Ontario. Doug Bullock, who races from this fleet and was 2018 Class President, shares his thoughts on what makes a successful […]

(February 11, 2019; Day 43) – Alex Alley (GBR) is now riding the southern latitude freight train that will send him eastward in his pursuit to break the Solo Non-Stop Around the World Record in his 40-foot yacht – Pixel […]

With limited practice time, and no preseason, the first event of the inaugural SailGP season is going to unveil on the world stage the latest attempt to deliver a commercially viable sailing product for spectator consumption. Funded by billionaire Larry […]

Conceived by professional sailors and designed by an international team of designers, engineers and naval architects, the Eagle Class 53 seeks to provide the most advanced boat without needing expert skills to sail it. With the latest in foiling and […]

SailGP, which seeks to deliver a commercially viable international circuit of high speed competition, has secured broadcast agreements that ensure coverage in 90 countries, across five continents. The first of five events in 2019 begins February 15-16 in Sydney, Australia. […]

SailGP’s inaugural event of Season 1 kicks off February 15-16 when rival national teams from Australia, China, France, Great Britain, Japan and the United States will fight it out on Sydney Harbour in the high speed F50 catamarans. And joining […]

The 31st season for the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta begins with the first of five USA events on February 15 to 17 in St. Petersburg, FL. The opening stage has over 160 boats entered in 14 […]

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One of the most enthusiastic 18ft Skiff sailors in the world must be the Northern California-based Katie Love, who is presently spending the 2018-2019 Australian summer as skipper of the Panasonic Lumix-sponsored boat in the Australian 18 Footers League fleet […]

The 2019 U.S. Youth Match Racing Championship, an invitational event open to sailors between 16 and 20 years old, will be held June 26-30 in San Diego, CA. The event will use J/22s for up to ten teams to compete […]

The Notice of Race for the U.S. Youth Championships is available for the 2019 event to be held June 21-25 in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Competition will be held in six events with no gender restrictions. Details. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

Competition for all 10 Olympic events came to the USA at the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami which began January 29 with Medal Races on Saturday, February 2 and Sunday, February 3. Competition details – Results – Facebook The […]

We are fans of the wall calendar, and the start of each month welcomes new imagery from our J/Boats, Onne van der Wal, and Sharon Green calendars. Here Sharon shares the behind-the-scenes story from February of her 2019 Ultimate Sailing […]

This week’s “World on Water” global sailing news show produced by www.boatson.tv. In this week’s “WoW TV”: • Spindrift 2 damaged their starboard rudder and were forced to abandon their record attempt. • The Dutch 36th America’s Cup Challenge syndicate […]

US Sailing and the NBC Sports Group are partnering to present World Sailing’s prestigious Hempel World Cup Series to U.S. viewers on the Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, OlympicChannel.com, the Olympic Channel app, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. […]

Los Angeles, CA (February 7, 2019) – The Transpacific Yacht Club and Archipelagoes Tahiti are organizing the 15th edition of the Transpac Tahiti Race in late May 2020. This is one of the world’s longest classic ocean races, a 3570-mile […]

The US Naval Academy Midshipmen will return to defend their title at the 2019 Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup regatta on March 8-10 in San Pedro, CA. Competing in every Harbor Cup since its inception, Navy’s victory last year […]

Through its eight editions, the Vendee Globe has grown in reputation to be the most extraordinary test of solo offshore racing. Combined with the IMOCA, an immensely powerful 60-foot class boat which now includes lifting foils, this non-stop around the […]

We could forgive The Australian Financial Review for not being tuned into sport, but when the sportsman is New Zealand’s highest-profile international yachtsman, and was once its highest paid athlete, you’d think Sir Russell Coutts would be better known on […]

The boatbuilding craftsmanship in Maine is legendary, a skill that’s passed down from one generation to the next. It’s hard to calculate how many builders are in the state where there’s a mix of established names with large production runs […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt As a columnist for Sailing World, I reflected on my appreciation for record setting. Our sport can be a blur of boat types and race formats, but we all dabble in record setting. How many days […]

Multihulls have been racing in the RORC Caribbean 600 since the very first race in 2009 when Claude Thelier’s (FRA) Region Guadeloupe, skippered by John Burnie (GBR), set a record that was not bettered until 2015. In recent years the […]

Swells off Portugal’s famed Praia do Norte can become so massive even drones have a tough time keeping a safe distance. Like this one… Source: sailingscuttlebutt

Sydney, Australia (February 7, 2019) – As the inaugural SailGP season nears its first event, Sydney Harbor witnessed the SailGP F50s of Australia, China, Great Britain, France, Japan and the United States lined up for the first time prior to […]

When the team at Scuttlebutt HQ does local sailing, it is on San Diego Bay where the kelp is a frequent nuisance. On a bad day, it is hard to find water without obstacles, which is sort of what this […]

When the Viper 640 racing is cancelled because the wind is 30+ knots, one team was not taking no for an answer. Video published on Feb 6, 2019. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

Miami, FL (February 6, 2019) – American sailor Luke Lawrence with crew Alexey Selivanov won the inaugural Star Junior World Champion Under 30 after a six race regatta in the water of Biscayne Bay. The championship started off well for […]

The commitment of the Volvo Ocean Race to deliver raw and unfiltered storytelling to fans during the 2017-18 edition has seen the Race shortlisted for a prestigious 2019 Yahoo Sports Technology Award, despite the challenge of telling the story of […]

Once upon a time, a one-design class was launched with a piece of paper that carried on it the dimensions from which the boat would be built. If popular, class interest would foster multiple suppliers to provide the best options […]

The key to increasing participation is to increase the comfort level for possible entrants, and when the greatest group of prospects are those with lower performance boats, that means taking a close look at their needs. The irony is how […]

The Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium, the world’s longest running technical forum dedicated to advancing the study of the art and science of sailing yacht design technology, will be held March 15-16 at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. […]

What it is that connects us to Sailing. Video published on Feb 6, 2019. Source: sailingscuttlebutt

“No waiting in lift lines. No over priced lift tickets. Just you, the kite and a pair of skis or snowboard.” – Steve Bodner Source: sailingscuttlebutt

The entry list is forming for the 2019 Argo Group Gold Cup, the oldest match racing regatta for one-design yachts which is scheduled May 6-11 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Twelve teams will be vying for a $100,000 prize purse, with the […]