SG Yelken İngilizce Archive

(July 22, 2021) – All eyes are on the YB trackers now to anticipate the arrival of the first finishers in the 2021 Transpac. The favorable weather in this year’s race of 2225 miles from LA to Honolulu has resulted […]

Kingston, ONT (July 22, 2021) – High Performance Sailing in Canada will reach new heights with the development of National Sail Training Centres, which include sites in the Atlantic, Central and Pacific areas of the country. Through programs and services […]

Corpus Christi, TX (July 22, 2021) – On the penultimate day of the J/22 World Championship, the discard race came into play but didn’t knock Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles from the top of the leaderboard. With crew Paul Foerster and […]

For most of the past five years since Rio, the fight for 470 supremacy has swung back and forth between three men’s teams – the Swedes, the Spanish, and the Australians. In recent times, however, things have got more complicated. […]

While it was always possible for women to compete in Olympic Events in the ‘open era’, the reality was that very few did. So for the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games in Korea, the first ever women’s sailing event was created, […]

Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Japan’s Ocean Day is being celebrated across the nation on July 22, 2021. The day marks the return of Emperor Meiji from a steamship trip to the Tohoku Region of Japan […]

July 22, 2021) – With many countries around the world, including those in southern Europe, still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the GC32 Racing Tour delayed the start of their 2021 season. Skipping the May and June events […]

The debut of Whidbey Island Race Week came in 1983 when this pop-up regatta was launched in Oak Harbor, WA. For nearly four decades, Race Week had called Whidbey Island home, but when the facilities required a venue change, the […]

July 21, 2021) – The predictions of this year’s 51st edition of the biennial Transpac race from LA to Honolulu as being a fast race appear to be holding true: all teams that left the mainland starting about a week […]

Corpus Christi, TX (July 21, 2021) – The second day of the 2021 J/22 World Championship saw day one leader Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles with crew Paul Foerster and Rod Favela add two more bullets and a sixth to remain […]

As US Sailing seeks to use the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics as an opportunity for the sport, so does national federation Australian Sailing with the announcement by the International Olympic Committee that Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. […]

Since the first competition in 1870, the America’s Cup has been an evolving competition. But whereas the storied history has shown it to be a design contest, the recent narrative has been to create a show too. For Chris Collings, […]

Since winning Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff – 49er at Rio 2016 five years ago, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) have packed a whole lifetime of sailing achievement into their busy careers. In 2017 Burling steered Emirates Team […]

The 49erFX made its first Olympic appearance at Rio five years ago, when the battle for gold and silver remained in the balance until the final stages of the Medal Race. The gold and silver medalists from Rio 2016 – […]

Mackinac Island, MI (July 20, 2021) – “We didn’t get to race last year (because of the pandemic), but this year we got to sail twice as long,” joked one of the 3000 or more sailors that just completed the […]

James Muldoon, President of US Sailing in 1997-2000, was inducted into the Boating Safety Hall of Fame. As a national catalyst for recreational boating safety, it is the National Safe Boating Council’s most prestigious award which recognizes those who provided […]

Corpus Christi, TX (July 20, 2021) – Forty-two USA teams representing 14 states took to the waters of Corpus Christi Bay for the opening day of the 2021 J/22 World Championship. Unsettled conditions only permitted one race, dominated by Jeff […]

July 20, 2021) – With most of the iconic offshore races hovering at 600-700 nm, the biennial Transpac Race is another kind of beast at 2225 nm. Staggered starts offer a four day jump for the slower boats which have […]

The Summer Olympics, held every four years, is not one event but an umbrella that covers all the competing sports, with each sport responsible to conduct their competition program. For Sailing, that is the domain of World Sailing led by […]

Five years ago, Santiago Lange and Cecilia Caranza Saroli (ARG) set the Games alight with their victory in the Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 event at Rio 2016. First was the fact that Lange was 54 years old competing in […]

July 19, 2021) – The current monohull course record for the biennial Transpac Race was set by the VPLP 100 Comanche in 2017 which completed the 2225nm course from Los Angeles to Honolulu in 05:01:55:26, an average speed of over […]

When Peter Isler doesn’t have a guitar in his hands, or isn’t analyzing weather data to navigate race boats, he writes about life on the Volvo 70 Pyewacket 70 while flying along on the 2021 Transpac Race. Here is his […]

While the International Olympic Committee denied the Mixed Offshore Keelboat event for the Paris 2024 Games, interest remains high on this segment of the sport, with 91 duos among the 400+ entrants set to start the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race […]

Entries have opened for the 30th edition of the DAME (Design Award at METSTRADE) Awards. Participation is open to manufacturers and authorized suppliers who are registered as exhibitors or co-exhibitors at the in-person METSTRADE 2021 show in RAI Amsterdam. Entries […]

One hundred twenty four competitors raced in three different fleets at the 2021 ILCA North American Championships on July 15-18 in San Francisco. CA. Typical of San Francisco Bay in the summer, the breeze was up for the 10-race series, […]

Newport, RI (July 18, 2021) – Over the first two days of the Melges IC37 US National Championship, the defending champion Pacific Yankee team was dominant, winning three of four races and building a substantial lead. But, says skipper Drew […]

Larchmont, NY (July 18, 2021) – In this first post-pandemic summer, Larchmont Race Week confirmed that it is the most important annual regatta on Long Island Sound. In its 123rd edition, 140 senior boats competed on the weekends of July […]

(July 18, 2021) – The three starting groups are making tracks along the 2225 nm 2021 Transpac Race course, with the wind clocking to the north east for the leaders, the reward for enduring the early days of tight reaching […]

Plymouth, UK (July 18, 2021) – The Australia SailGP Team celebrated its first event win of SailGP Season 2, being crowned champion of the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix on Plymouth Sound. The Aussies, skippered by Tom Slingsby, beat France […]

With silver and gold from the past two Olympic Games, Marit Bouwmeester (NED) looks well placed to score a hat trick of medals in the Laser Radial at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. The Dutch sailor will be hard […]

After the O’pen Skiff World Championships could not take place in 2020, the event came back to the scheduled 2020 destination to host 205 sailors from six countries for the 2021 edition on July 13-17 in Sardinia, Italy. While pandemic […]

Winner of the past three RS:X World Championships, Kiran Badloe (NED) is the clear favorite for Men’s Windsurfing gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition, and with Lilian de Geus in the women’s division, it could be a Dutch […]

Ninety-one teams competed in the 2021 Club 420 North American Championship on July 14-17 in Rochester, NY. Recently crowned I420 World Champions Freddie Parkin and Thomas Whidden shifted gears to win the 15-race series, edging out Nick Budington/ Liam Gronda […]

San Pedro, CA (July 17, 2021) – Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles […]

Plymouth, UK (July 17, 2021) – The opening day for Great Britain Sail Grand Prix delivered better than expected winds for the eight teams to begin the third event of 2021-22 SailGP schedule. Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team opened in […]

The 2021 Flying Scot North American Championship was held July 12-15 in Westport, CT. After a qualifying stage for the 44 teams on the first day divided the fleet in half, the final stage held two heavy air races and […]

When America’s Cup defender Emirates Team New Zealand confirmed in March 2021 that their club, Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, had accepted a Notice of Challenge for the 37th America’s Cup (AC37) from the Royal Yacht Squadron Racing (GBR), represented […]

For Croatia’s Šime Fantela to win a sailing gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics was not a surprise as he had the talent, but he was a square peg in a round hole. At 6-feet tall, he was not […]

Here are some Olympic updates for Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024: TOKYO 2020: The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics are shaping up as a TV-only event with few spectators — if any — being allowed when they open in just over two […]

The West Marine US Open Sailing Series continues the summer swing through California as the fifth event in the 2021 schedule is held July 9-11 in Long Beach, one of the nation’s most popular sailing locations. As the site of […]

Marina Degli Aregai, Italy (July 6, 2021) – After there was no racing on the opening day of the 2021 420 World Championship due to a lack of wind, champagne sailing conditions today allowed the action to start early in […]

The ClubSwan range of boats for Nautor’s Swan deliver a heightened level of performance, with the recently launched ClubSwan 125 now raising the bar with her debut to come in the 2021 Fastnet Race. Source: Sailing Scuttle Butt

Day 4: Rutkowski Remains in the Lead, but Marotti Closes in | Wennekes Dominating Women’s Slalom & Foil After a slight pause in the action on Sunday, the wind returned on Day 4 of the 2021 Zoo Station Bol, Croatia, […]

Riva del Garda, Italy (July 5, 2021) – Change of pace for the Optimist World Championship, where the three qualifying days concluded yesterday for the individual World Championship gave way to the first of two days for 48 nations pursuing […]

When a region has a history of strong high school sailing programs, and developing successful college sailors, it is due an organizational focus on that segment of youth sailing. That’s been the case in Southern California, which can make it […]

Marstrand, Sweden (July 4, 2021) – It is rare even between the ultra-close RC44s for an event to go to the wire in such an extreme way as it did at the conclusion of the 44Cup Marstrand. Going into the […]

Every sailing town is eager, or should be, for exposing its recreation in mainstream media. Critical to growing the sport is to expose it, and there’s no better way than to take the media for a sail… really! Not unlike […]

Marstrand, Sweden (July 1, 2021) – The 44Cup Marstrand had a tricky start today as a weather front slowly moving across the west coast of Sweden brought with it solid 25 knots winds, 30+ gusts and the real prospect of […]

When the 2021 J/70 World Championship is held in the USA, it will be a victory for the sport. While there remain international teams with travel challenges, the entry list has 77 teams from 16 countries for the August event […]

The sailing organizations of the Inland Lake Yachting Association are among the best examples of what works in the sport, with Eric Hood sharing his observations on the growth within the MC Class: The numbers speak for themselves! One hundred […]

The Finn may have been designed in 1949 for the Helsinki 1952 Olympics, but the one design class organization has progressed far beyond the quadrennial pursuit, attracting people of all ages and interests to the 15-foot singlehander. After 18 consecutive […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News After the Kiwi government did not meet the asking price of Team New Zealand for hosting the next America’s Cup, the defender is now shopping the event offshore to find a venue that considers […]

Students at Delft University of Technology in Netherlands believe they have created the first flying hydrogen boat in the world. The hydrofoils lift the 1100 kg hydrogen powered trimaran at 12 knots, with top speed at 22 knots. Source: Sailing […]

Summer in Tarifa Can Mean Only One Thing… High Wind Freestyle Ft. Antoine Albert Antoine Albert (Goya Windsuring) has left his home in New Caledonia to return to the windy European summer in Spain. Albert is currently in Gran Canaria, […]

For sailing, eager to be more gender inclusive, attracting more women requires already having female participants. It is the irony of making progress, but trendsetters are always needed to offer examples of what is possible. When a record fleet of […]

In The One Design Line, US Sailing’s e-Newsletter for one design sailors, Amanda Callahan reports on the rise of the women’s keelboat team race circuit in the USA: Back in 2004, the first U.S. women’s dinghy team race took place […]

Source: Sailing Scuttle Butte

Twelve international teams competed in the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe, with the new three week-long multi-stage event providing a preview of what’s to come in the 2022-23 Ocean Race. North Sails president Ken Read offers this report […]

A flare is a pyrotechnic type of Visual Distress Signal (VDS), and all boaters are required by the US Coast Guard to carry both day and night VDS any time they are operating on coastal waters, the Great Lakes, or […]

The 2021 ILCA Midwinters West hosted 105 sailors competing on June 25-27 in Long Beach, CA. Matheo Capasso and Ava Anderson finished tied in the ILCA 4 with Capasso winning on countback. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Charlie Buckingham dominated the ILCA […]

Nineteen teams competed at the 2021 A Scow US National Championship, completing a four race series on June 25-27 in Pewaukee, WI. Tom Freytag and his MadCap team topped the field, winning two races enroute to a three point winning […]

An objective of the 36th America’s Cup was for it to be the most watched edition ever, and in this report by the event organizer, they claim to have achieved their broadcast and viewership goal: An in-depth broadcast and media […]

Jeffrey Petersen (Newport Beach, CA) of the Balboa Yacht Club won the 2021 US Youth Match Racing Championship for the Rose Cup held June 25-27 in Rochester, NY. Joining Petersen as part of the 2021 Rose Cup winning team was […]

The Notice of Race for the 2021 CORK International Regatta and Sail Canada Youth Championships is now available for the competitions to be held August 9-12 in Kingston, Ontario. The regatta is open to boats of the ILCA 4 and […]

The price of high performance boats in the Olympics is injury as the characteristics of skiffs and catamarans can be hard on the crew. The latest casualty hits the New Zealand Sailing Team in advance of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. […]