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Palma, Spain (November 14, 2019) – The finale of the 2019 44Cup Series will need to wait another day as winds gusting up to 40 knots and a heinous seastate out on the Bay of Palma kept the 44Cup fleet […]

How did you get involved with sailing? The first time I started sailing was during a summer vacation in Bodrum. Nobody sails in my family. I found out that a frıend of mine had gone and just started by wondering […]

Malcolm Page dominated the 20-boat fleet to win the 54th E Scow Blue Chip Regatta on September 20-22 in Pewaukee, WI. The historic event is invitational only, attracting the highest level of E Scow competitors from around the country, but […]

Marseille, France (September 22, 2019) – In a season of highs and lows, the United States SailGP Team, the youngest team in the SailGP Championship, fell hard as the inaugural season came to a close today at Marseille SailGP. “A […]

Rochester, NY (September 22, 2019) – Mike Wilde (USA) and his Goin’ Left team topped the 24-boat fleet to win the Sonar World Championship. Their consistent 12-race series resulted in three wins with a pair of sixth place finishes as […]

What’s great about America’s Cup challenger American Magic’s base in Newport, RI is that it’s also a hub for yachting photographers. Here Stephen Cloutier snaps the team’s AC75 in flight. In addition to Challenges from Italy, USA, and Great Britain […]

The 2019 Etchells US National Championship endured light and shifty conditions during a 4-race series on September 20-22 in Rye, NY. Jim Cunningham and his team of Steve Hunt, Erik Shampain, and Carrie Wiley won on countback over George Francisco […]

Aside from a 20th, Mike Marshall and his team of Madeline Gill and Jo Ann Fisher posted all top three scores to win the 2019 VX One North American Championship held September 20-22 in Newport, RI. Amid the 36-boat fleet, […]

Marseille, France (September 22, 2019) – Tom Slingsby today made history, helming the Australia SailGP Team to victory over Nathan Outteridge’s Japan SailGP Team in the SailGP Season 1 Championship Final Race. The global league’s inaugural season culminated with a […]

Chicago, IL (September 21, 2019) – The 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta kicked off with a 20 to 30 knot breeze out of the southwest, with some oscillation and puffs as high as 33 knots. The race committee did […]

Rochester, NY (September 21, 2019) – For the first two days at the Sonar Worlds, once the sea breeze kicked-in, the persistent shifts were to the left. Today, after a two-hour shore delay, the 5-7 knot sea breeze filled in […]

Originally planned to start on September 22, the lively wind conditions and sea state in the Bay of Biscay and offshore of Cape Finisterre mean that it won’t be possible to reschedule the start of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019 […]

Marseille, France (September 21, 2019) – On a day that saw three different teams score wins in three races, the United States SailGP Team was left wanting as a weather system on Marseille’s Race Nord race course served up unpredictable […]

Marseille, France (September 21, 2019) – Phil Robertson and the China SailGP Team triumphed with a first-ever race win on the penultimate day of the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final. Meanwhile, the battle between Tom Slingsby’s Australian team and […]

(September 21, 2019; Race 2, Day 6) – Close match racing has been the order of the day as the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race continues to Punta del Este, Uruguay. Incredibly after around 1,000 nautical miles of […]

Bonaire (September 20, 2019) – David Hernandez, a 23-year-old sailor from Guatemala, captured the 2019 Sunfish World Championship’s top honor for 2019 with smart sailing in light-to-medium air for all twelve races over four days. However, the win wasn’t without […]

Rochester, NY (September 20, 2019) – With half the regatta completed (two days and seven races), Rochester Sailor Mike Wilde has held his lead on the fleet and opened his points advantage with a 6-2-4 performance today giving him a […]

One of San Diego Yacht Club’s most prized regattas returns to South San Diego Bay October 18-20 for the 2019 International Masters Regatta (IMR). An invited group of 11 Master sailors from across North America will come for a three-day […]

Marseille, France (September 20, 2019) – As they sought to secure a place on the podium, the United States SailGP Team buried themselves on the first day of Marseille SailGP when their board-down line, a critical system on the foil […]

Marseille, France (September 20, 2019) – Tensions heightened in front of the fan-lined Seawall as Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge went head to head on the Rade Nord racecourse at the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final. The two helmsmen […]

World Sailing’s Board of Directors has approved and published a revised version of its Proposal to Reform the Governance of World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport. The proposal, “Refreshing the Foundations for Our Future” was published in […]

(September 20, 2019) – The strength of the Australian Olympic Team was on display today when reigning Men’s 470 World Champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan and back-to-back Laser European Champion Matt Wearn were announced as the first athletes selected […]

(September 20, 2019; Race 2, Day 5) – The Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race slides along the east of Western Sahara towards Cape Verde which has brought changeable conditions for the 11 teams; with steady trade winds carrying […]

This week’s “World on Water” global sailing news show produced by www.boatson.tv. In this week’s “WoW TV”: • Alex Thomson’s first footage of his new Hugo Boss foiling at speed. • The New York Yacht Club name their first AC75 […]

It is an amazing world we live in when people can cruise the world, recording their travels to post on YouTube, and have the income streams from the internet pay for their journey. Among this enterprising sector are Australian travel […]

Rochester, NY (September 19, 2019) – The opening day of the 2019 Sonar World Championship hosted by the Rochester Yacht Club was dominated by local sailor Michael Wilde. Wilde’s scoreline was 2-1-2-1, and there likely would have been another first […]

The World Sailing Rankings seek to establish an order of ability based on the results of certain events over a 24 month period. The rankings focus on the 10 Olympic events and Open and Women’s Match Racing. In match racing, […]

An independent analysis report compiled by Meltwater on media coverage secured during the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race shows that the Race gained US$185m worth of coverage world-wide. Les Sables d’Olonne, which will be the host start and finish port again […]

In the history of one design classes, legendary champion Paul Elvstrom noted, “It is much harder to build a strong and vibrant International Class Association than design a new boat.” But what is even harder is to maintain that class. […]

The US Olympic Sailing Team has had a bad week. After Greg Fisher resigned as Chief Operating Officer of Olympic Sailing, news now comes from US Sailing that another key member of management is gone. Here is the US Sailing […]

(September 19, 2019) – The new IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, set to be raced by British sailor Alex Thomson, launched today at an official christening ceremony on The River Thames in London. Built with a focus on improved sustainability, innovation, […]

Initially scheduled for September 22, the start for the 87 solo sailors competing in the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère has been postponed until a later date. The reasons for this are boisterous wind conditions and sea state […]

(September 19, 2019; Race 2, Day 4) – The 11 teams in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race are unanimous that they have been welcomed by favorable sailing conditions as the crew surf their way past the Canary […]

Bonaire (September 18, 2019) – The third day at the 2019 Sunfish World Championship faced light and fickle winds that forced delays and allowed for only two races. After posting a 11-3, overall leader David Hernández (GUA) saw his margin […]

Following the big reveal of Defiant, the first AC75 of America’s Cup challenger American Magic, a letter from Ed Vitrano gave us a good chuckle. “Well . . . all the traditionalists screamed ‘Bring back the monohulls to the AC.’ […]

The 2019 Sonar World Championship will be offering four days of racing from September 19 through 22 in Rochester, NY. Competing in the biennial event are 25 teams representing Canada, Ireland, and the USA which include Paralympic silver medalist Rick […]

Portimão, Portugal (September 15, 2019) – It was a brilliant start for the Punta del Este team as the second race got underway for the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race. The 11 teams will carry on for 5195 […]

Riva del Garda, Italy (September 15, 2019) – While Alinghi has led at the end of every day of racing at the 2019 GC32 Riva Cup, the Swiss team was on the ropes this afternoon when their arch-rivals Oman Air, […]

Thirty-one teams competed in the 2019 Star North American Championship held September 11-14 in Toms River, New Jersey. After stumbling with a 13th in the first race, Augie Diaz and Henry Boening worked their way through the fleet to win […]

Newport, RI (September 14, 2019) – After an estimated 76,000 combined hours of fabrication and finishing work by the production and shore teams of American Magic, the U.S. Challenger’s first AC75 racing boat was officially named and launched this morning. […]

San Francisco, CA (September 14, 2019) – After two days of light-air racing, Mother Nature finally flipped the fun switch today at the 2019 Rolex Big Boat Series, giving all 79 competing teams the kinds of big-air grins that make […]

Newport, RI (September 14, 2019) – It all came down to the final race, as it should. Two teams of accomplished and motivated amateur sailors from opposite corners of the globe battling on a lumpy, windy Narragansett Bay for one […]

The 2019 Laser Masters World Championships offered nine age titles amid the 151 Full Rig and 145 Radial Rig competitors, with racing held September 8 to 14 in Port Zélande, Netherlands. With all entrants over 35 years, the top North […]

Riva del Garda, Italy (September 14, 2019) – Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi started the day four points ahead of Oman Air and – after six races on two different courses, during which they lost the lead, then fought back hard to […]

Newport, RI (September 13, 2019) – As with the previous day, danger lurked around every corner on the penultimate day of the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the premier one-design keelboat championship for amateur sailors. Today, however, […]

Mallorca, Spain (August 29, 2019) – Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team won the 2019 Rolex TP52 World Championship title on the Bay of Palma today, but the German-flagged team, led by the Hamburg-based owner-driver did not make it easy for themselves […]

Newport, RI (August 29, 2019) – For three United States yacht clubs, the figurative road to the sixth edition of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup was significantly more challenging than the literal one. While the 17 foreign […]

For more than 35 years, Practical Sailor has been taking the guesswork out of boat and gear buying with bold, independent boat tests, and product-test reports for serious sailors and boaters. In this report, Darrell Nicholson offers tips on preparing […]

Racing will start on Monday, September 2 at the Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championships, hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club. This will be the sixth edition of the J/70 World Championship and the first to take place in […]

Riva del Garda, Italy (August 29, 2019) – With a less than promising forecast for the afternoon Ora, the call was made to start racing on this penultimate day of the 2019 M32 World Championship at 0830 to make the […]

Enoshima, Japan (August 29, 2019) – The physical limits of the 496 sailors from 46 nations racing at the Hempel World Cup Series regatta in Enoshima, Japan were pushed today as big waves rolled through Sagami Bay. With thousands of […]

The Seahorse International Sailing Sailor of the Month Hall of Fame for September 2019 was announced, the honor going to Roy P. Disney. He and the team on his Andrews 68 Pyewacket were recognized for the rescue of the crew […]