SG Yelken İngilizce Archive

This past spring, I started ­sailing a Naples Sabot, which is a Southern California kids’ boat, somewhat like an Opti. There have always been adults, as well as kids, in this class, but when the pandemic hit, a lot of […]

Winning the last race and the tiebreaker, Doug Clark and his team win Charleston Race Week’s top one-design trophy, plus insights from across all fleets. Charleston Race Week race committees on all four inside circles banged off two races in […]

Events in 2020 laid bare a host of ­societal shortcomings. Inspiration says we must take action. In the next minute, the cynic in me shouts out that suddenly every institution from Harvard to your local YC to Gus’ Gas and […]

Laura Muma Gary Schwarting’s crew on the Melges 24 Obsession celebrates its Helly Hansen NOOD St. Petersburg class win. (Courtesy Sandy Thayer/) Long-time Melges 24 sailor Gary Schwarting believes he had some help from above this weekend to win the […]

It’s natural to get a pit in your stomach before the start of a big race. Even more so when the fleet is large and the line is crowded. This is partly because the boats are very close together, the […]

My wife, Sarah, is my secret weapon for a lot of things, especially when it comes to mark roundings on Barnegat Bay, where she learned to sail. About 60 years later, she and I are racing our brand new Melges […]

Nicolas Henard, president of the French Sailing Federation, was charged by the Paris 2024 committee to be bold and brave in his promotion of new Olympic sailing events. Like the dramatic gold-medal design of Marianne—the female symbol of the French […]

Etchells sailor Argyle Campbell won the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta overall title today in San Diego, winning his fleet by a narrow margin and being selected among the regatta’s other class winners to represent San Diego at the NOOD Caribbean […]

The complete Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta San Diego roster took to the waters off San Diego today for a mix of fleet and distance racing, including the inaugural North Sails Doublehanded Distance Race. A new element to the NOOD Regatta […]

The high-performance International 14s, Vipers, and 29er sailboat fleets buzzed around San Diego’s South Bay today to officially kick off the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta San Diego, the opening event for North America’s largest regatta series. Today’s three races provided […]

By Dave Reed Organizers and Race Committee chairs welcome NOOD racers with an Zoom-style skipper’s meeting. Here’s all the all the details you need to have a great weekend of racing in San Diego. Source: sailing world

Now that the talking—and hoping for a longer series—is done, the reality of this all-too-brief regatta is that yet again the faster boat and the better sailing team triumphed in sailing’s ultimate test of technology, speed and smarts. One-hundred-and-fifty plus […]

Race 9 of the 36th America’s Cup was Luna Rossa’s race to lose, and lose it they did in spectacular fashion to put the first-to-seven series at 6-3. One call did it all, and this one was squarely on Francesco […]

My alarm goes off. I roll over to grab my phone. The bright light pierces my eyes. It’s 5:00 a.m. Half asleep, I silence it and continue to drool all over my pillow. Next, a knock on my ­bedroom door. […]

Simulators are now a critical component of every America’s Cup campaign, as are top-level coaches. But coaches for the simulators, too? Yep. The AC is now AI. Amongst the million-dollar budgets, high-tech equipment and world-class sailors, one thing is seemingly […]

After giving up the lead and losing both races, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli now has four races to win the Cup. The New Zealanders only need two. At some point during the press conference following a mind-bending Race Day 5 […]

The first two races of the 36th America’s Cup—in 10 to 13 knots—results in a draw, but allows us to draw at least one conclusion: Luna Rossa must engage. To get a keen understanding of the 36th America’s Cup opening […]

The first two races of the 36th America’s Cup—in 10 to 13 knots—results in a draw, but allows us to draw at least one conclusion: Luna Rossa must engage. To get a keen understanding of the 36th America’s Cup opening […]

In the hours ahead of the 36th America’s Cup’s opening races, anticipation, nerves and expectations remain high. Four years of development and training from two very different teams finally comes to a head in Auckland. On the morning of the […]

The elapsed time for Ari Huusela is 116 days 18 hours 15 minutes and 46 seconds and he closes the Vendee Globe finish line 36 days after winner Yannick Bestaven and Charlie Dalin crossed. Huusela’s low risk ‘one chance only’ […]

In the most recent meeting on Transpac Race planning, Transpacific Yacht Club rear commodore Bill Guilfoyle presented a 22-page draft plan, via Zoom, of course. About 40 minutes into discussing page one, Guilfoyle observed, “It’s a 22-page document, but it […]

For nearly three decades, the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta national series kicked off in St. Petersburg, Florida, in February, but a shift in the 2021 calendar will put Southern California sailing front and center with the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta […]

We go upwind. We go downwind…the sort of sausage-style racing we’ve all grown accustomed to. Yes, reach legs are a rarity in most one-design fleets, but not with Newport YC’s Turnabout Frostbite series, where every race finish is recorded from […]

“You can’t win with a slow boat,” they say. Or, there’s the corollary: “The fastest boat always wins.” This truism has been repeated ad nauseum through the Prada Cup Challenger Series and the crew of Ineos Team UK felt the […]

What’s a Monday without some Monday morning quarterbacking? We’re on it. The ATSW squad looks back at the PRADA Cup Final’s second day. A shocker for INEOS Team UK. Plus, news on the MarksetBot front and the high-stakes winter showdown […]

One of the most interesting sailors on Britannia, Ineos Team UK’s Nick Holroyd-designed AC75 that is now taking on Luna Rossa in the Prada Cup final, is a young man named Bleddyn Môn who hails from the island of Anglesey […]

The United States SailGP Team announced this week the launch of a nationwide, open application process for American female athletes as part of its ongoing roster selection process. Interested female athletes can CLICK HERE to complete and submit their application, which must be submitted […]

Kojiro Shiraishi takes 16th in Vendee Globe, First Asian Skipper Ever To Finish The Race Kojiro Shiraishi, the 53-year-old Japanese solo skipper of DMG MORI, crossed the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at 10:52:58hrs UTC this Thursday 11th February […]

There will be pushing and shoving as these two teams battle for the mountain top, and Spithill the spar master knows how to land a blow. The question is: can Ainslie bob and weave his way off the starting line […]

“My boat is sinking. This is not a joke! MAYDAY.” This text message from PRB skipper Kevin Escoffier to his shore team was made seconds before he was forced into his survival suit, then his life raft, after his IMOCA […]

The United States SailGP Team unveiled details regarding its athlete roster, beginning with the announcement that it has retained American Magic sailors Andrew Campbell, Cooper Dressler and Alex Sinclair. U.S. SailGP Team helm Jimmy Spithill wasted no time in making […]

The final Florida event of the West Marine US Open Sailing Series wrapped up in Clearwater with exhilarating conditions. On Super Bowl Sunday the greater Tampa/St. Pete area was consumed by national and local media attention and fanfare for the […]

As the Prada Cup’s final round-robin races are set to get underway on Saturday in Auckland, New Zealand, American Magic’s shore team is racing to complete repairs to the team’s AC75, Patriot, which remains in triage as structural hull repairs […]

In June 2020, Michigan sailors were starting to emerge from early COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. With the promise of summer and hopes for some return to normalcy along the waterfronts on the Great Lakes, volunteers of Little Traverse YC, in Harbor […]

In addition to Bermuda (April 24-25) and previously announced new host cities Taranto (ITA, June 5-6), Plymouth (GBR, July 17-18), Aarhus (DEN, August 20-21), Saint-Tropez (FRA, September 11-12) and Cadiz (ESP, October 9-10), SailGP will also make its first visit […]

Robby Swift Enjoying the First Waves of the Fall At Ho’okipa The first waves of the fall have been hitting Maui’s north shore in the last week and so bringing a welcome change after a windy, but relatively flat summer. […]

Meg Reilly is co-skipper and co-founder of Ocean Racers, an international offshore training and racing team. In honor of the COVID-canceled Annapolis Boat Show (October 8-12), the team was hosting a virtual Boat Show on their social media channels @oceanracers […]

While shorthanded sailing has a long history, and there are legitimate superstars in this segment, the focus of the sport remains elsewhere in fully crewed keelboats or dinghies. However, that appears to be changing. When in 2018 World Sailing selected […]

A diminished fleet of 37 teams competed in San Diego Yacht Club’s signature event, the 2020 Yachting Cup on October 10-11 in San Diego, CA. With local COVID-19 regulations postponing the event from its annual spring slot, and with uncertainty […]

James ‘Jim’ / ‘Bubba’ Titgemeyer, 81, died peacefully on October 5 at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. If you raced sailboats on Lake Erie, you knew / heard him racing Thistles-PHRF-IOR boats during the 1960s thru the mid […]

The Fourth Annual Riverport Women’s Sailing Conference has opened registration for its new, virtual event taking place on November 6-7, 2020. Featuring keynote presentations from Dawn Riley and Tracy Edwards, the goal of the conference is to energize and empower […]

Fifteen teams competed in the 2020 Melges 20 World Championship, held October 7-10 in Cala Galera, Italy. With competitors from Great Britain, Italy, Monaco, Malta, and Russia, Filippo Pacinotti’s Brontolo Racing (ITA) won the World title with a race to […]

If you spend any time listening to USA political news, you hear a lot of about how 2020 is the most consequential presidential election ever. However, it is also possible the World Sailing presidential election this month will be far-reaching […]

Newport, RI (October 4, 2020) – Donald Tofias has an expression he’s quite fond of. So fond, In fact, he trademarked it and put it on the back of a crew shirt for his W-76 Wild Horses. “Yachting is the […]

The 2020 Optimist Atlantic Coast Championships attracted 114 sailors on October 3-4 in Larchmont, NY. With safety of all competitors, families, coaches, and regatta personnel the top priority, strict COVID-19 protocols were enacted for the event, including competitors launching from […]

Newport, RI (October 4, 2020) – Pacific Yankee was crowned the 2020 Melges IC37 US National Champion as the West Coast-based team, co-owned by Bill Ruh and Drew Freides, finished with a resounding 13-point lead after nine races. “We’ve sailed […]

For the USA-based 11th Hour Racing Team, their ambition to compete in and win The Ocean Race 2022-23 has taken a significant step by revealing the Team is building a brand new IMOCA 60 in Brittany, France. Led by American […]

Attersee, Austria (October 4, 2020) – The Germans won both the 49er and 49erFX fleets on the final day of the 2020 Forward WIP European Championship, while Italy foiled to victory in the Nacra 17 catamaran fleet. Although the 49erFX […]

While each team can build two boats, the rules of the 36th America’s Cup stipulate that no two boat testing will be allowed, except by the Defender but only during the Challenger Selection Series. As a result, the challengers (and […]

Newport, RI (October 3, 2020) – First sailed in 1846, the 166th edition of New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta got underway today with a challenging forecast for the fleets racing in ORC, PHRF, and one design. It didn’t look […]

Newport, RI (October 3, 2020) – The New York Yacht Club Race Committee fired off another three races on Day Two of the Melges IC37 US National Championship. Teams were held onshore under postponement until the sea breeze built up […]

Attersee, Austria (October 3, 2020) – The fifth day of the 2020 European Championships was its windiest yet but Lake Attersee continued to dish out serious randomness for the 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 classes. Hammer time in Nacra 17 […]

Newport, RI (October 2, 2020) – With the 166th Annual Regatta set for tomorrow, a preview got underway today as 47 boats raced around Conanicut Island on a course which has become a fixture on the day before North America’s […]

Attersee, Austria (October 2, 2020) – The fourth day of the 2020 European Championships for the 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 classes was frustrating for many, but a very successful day for one of the local Austrian teams, 49er sailors […]

The reputation of expense invades sailing like a leaky bilge. Perhaps it’s well-earned with our private clubs, varnished yachts, and blazer jackets. And yes, sailing can be like standing in a cold shower ripping up $100-dollar bills, but it also […]

Home of America’s Cup matches from 1930 to 1983, Newport holds a special place in the Cup’s past. For Rhode Island’ seaside city on Aquidneck Island, tangible reminders of Cup racing are everywhere. From Newport’s “America’s Cup Avenue” to paintings […]

With 31 World Titles Between Them What Do Victor Fernandez, Pierre Mortefon, Philip Köster, Delphine Cousin Questel & Sarah-Quita Offringa Miss The Most About Competing? There’s no doubting the competitive blood that runs through the veins of our next group […]

A Collection Of Ricardo Campello’s Best Turns Ricardo Campello (Naish / Naish Sails) has been busy going through his hard drive footage in the search for his best turns… and it’s quite a collection and well worth a watch if […]

(October 1, 2020) – The second race boat built by INEOS TEAM UK in their bid to win the 36th America’s Cup has landed in Auckland, New Zealand. The new 75-foot boat, code-named RB2, touched down at 20:55PM New Zealand […]

Attersee, Austria (October 1, 2020) – After a lack of wind meant no racing yesterday at the 2020 European Championships for the 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 classes, light but sufficient winds allowed for a full day on Lake Attersee. […]

While for decades the Coast Guard has permitted women to serve in every job – from aviator to captain of a ship to boarding officer, there are roles in the service that have remained predominately filled by men. That tide […]

The Sail Canada Nominating Committee has announced the final list of candidates for the Board of Directors to be elected at the Sail Canada virtual Annual General Meeting on Friday, October 16, 2020. The positions of the Board of Directors […]

With the Tokyo Olympics just 10 months away, US Sailing provides this update on the US Olympic Sailing program, team, and athletes: The Beginning: We are pleased to present a brief update on the US Olympic Sailing program, team, and […]

First sailed in 1846, New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta is traditionally held at the start of the Newport sailing season, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was pushed back first to late August before finally settling on October […]

Sun Communities (SUI), a real estate investment trust involved in manufactured housing and recreational vehicle communities, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Safe Harbor Marinas, the largest and most diversified marina owner and operator in the United […]

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, said the games would go on next year “no matter what happens.” The former prime minister was speaking at a party held by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s […]

In the second of a series of preview articles in the lead-up to the solo, non-stop Vendée Globe start on November 8, Ed Gorman talks to three-time Vendée Globe veteran Loïck Peyron about the race ahead. Everyone is well aware […]

The Hague, The Netherlands will become the international sailing capital in 2023 following a joint decision by World Sailing, the Royal Netherlands Watersport Association, the municipality of The Hague, and TIG Sports to move the 2022 Sailing World Championships to […]

by Chris Szepessy, WindCheck magazine A specialist in the construction of composite boats, structures, and components since 1990, Brandon Linton has worked with many of the world’s foremost yacht designers and engineers. His CV includes the management and construction of […]

The ninth edition of the Star Winter Series will extend from November 2020 to February 2021, with host Coral Reef Yacht Club approving a set of COVID-19 regulations for the Star Class racing. The schedule is made up of four […]

Toby G. Ritter, 88, died peacefully last week in his home (Larchmont, NY) after a long bout with lymphoma. Toby served as Commodore of Beach Point Yacht Club (Mamaroneck, NY) and was a long time member of The New York […]

With shorthanded sailing gaining attention a year ago with the selection by World Sailing for a Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore event at the Paris 2024 Olympics, interest in the USA prompted new events to test this unfamiliar format. Annapolis […]

The border restrictions by the New Zealand government due to COVID-19 has put a dent in the 2020-21 America’s Cup schedule, cancelling the Youth America’s Cup while hastening tourism plans for the big event. And despite the cyclone season approaching […]

At the age of 15, Fred Hecklinger built a 15-foot lumberman’s bateau from a design he found in Boys’ Life magazine and named it Pride. One year later, after dropping out of school, he left home and headed for Oxford […]

(September 28, 2020) – The second race boat built by challenger INEOS TEAM UK in their bid to win the America’s Cup is bound for New Zealand. The journey to Auckland began on September 25th from the team’s base in […]

From Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah, a 40 minute drive upwards along Interstate 80 offers well known ski resorts in Park City and Deer Valley, but during the summer season, adjoining Jordanelle State Park has accrued a reputation […]

The 56th Congressional Cup is scheduled to be held May 11 to 16, 2021. Founded and hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club (Long Beach, CA) since 1965, the Grade One competition is known as the ‘grandfather of match racing’ and […]