SUALTI Gazetesi

Fairhope, Alabama (May 24, 2019) – The opening day at the 2019 Melges 24 US National Championship endured record-breaking temps and light to moderate breezes out of the South-Southwest. Four races were completed with Georgia’s K.C. Shannon at the helm […]

Newport, RI (May 24, 2019) – The Quantum Women’s Sailor of the Year and Women’s All-Americans and Honorable Mentions were announced during an awards presentation following racing in the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Championship at Sail Newport Sailing Center. […]

Sardinia, Italy (May 24, 2019) – With the forecasters predicting light winds, day two of the GC32 Villasimius Cup switched on its wind machine, allowing the full schedule of five races to be held. At this half way stage for […]

Menorca, Spain (May 24, 2019) – From a long day that finally yielded just one race, Quantum Racing emerged with an increased lead at the top of the leaderboard of the Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. The 2018 defending […]

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (May 24, 2019) – The fifth day of the Laser Europeans delivered great sailing conditions for the Standard Rig men and Radial Rig women on the penultimate day of the championship. Two more races were […]

By Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt With nearly 90 years of history, the International Snipe Class is rooted in many classic traditions of the sport. Among them is celebrating prizegivings where old, famous, and coveted trophies are awarded. Having raced in the […]

Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” So when it comes to creating excitement and interest for regattas, doing something different can be […]

Event Summary: Cousin Questel Completes Clean Sweep While Iachino Bounces Back & a Week of Firsts in Men’s Fleet After a slow start to the week with rain and light winds keeping the contest on hold the 2019 Ulsan PWA […]

Day 6: Cousin Questel & Iachino Strike on Drama Filled Final Day in South Korea The forecast for the final day of the 2019 Ulsan PWA World Cup looked the lightest day of the week on paper, but it actually […]

San Diego, CA (May 23, 2019) – After the opening day of the International Star Class 2019 Western Hemisphere Championship was cancelled due to strong winds and a difficult sea-state, today’s challenge for the 24 teams vying for the Silver […]

Sarah Douglas reflects on experiences that fuel her drive toward representing Canada at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We sail at the sufferance of wind, waves, tides and whatever else the environment throws at us. For all the days of champagne […]

Newport, RI (May 23, 2019) – After two days of qualifying, the field of 36 teams was reduced to the top 18 schools which today began the College Sailing Sperry Women’s National Championship. After Yale, Brown, and Boston College showed […]

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (May 23, 2019) – The Laser European Championship began the final stage with the top 54 Standard Rig men and 60 Radial Rig women advancing to gold fleet. Two races were completed today with Olympic […]

by Joe Borrison, SpinSheet Don’t you love the racing stories that begin with, “Remember when we had 75 or 100 boats for the Such-and-Such Regatta? The parties were great, and the racing was fantastic.” These old stories are told frequently, […]

Menorca, Spain (May 23, 2019) – On an uncompromising, very much one-sided race course off Mahón, Quantum Racing proved the top scoring boat at the Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week to take the overall lead at the first circuit […]

Sail Canada has finalized the Internal Selection Process for the Canadian Team to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. A major change for the 2020 Olympics is that once Canada qualifies for entry in any of the ten Sailing […]

Interest in distance racing finds California Offshore Race Week preparing for its fourth edition which once again connect three distances races into a full offshore race week series. Over 40 boats on May 25 will tackle the first stage, the […]

Each year, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) tallies the most popular boat names. The tradition dates back a quarter century, with the list derived from adding up requests for boat name designs from BoatUS Boat Graphics. Here […]

Sardinia, Italy (May 23, 2019) – The opening day of the GC32 Villasimius Cup, the first event on the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour, saw a stiff southwesterly buffeting the ten GC32 catamarans while moored in the Marina di Villasimus as […]

The Royal Western Yacht Club of England, the organizing authority of the OSTAR and TWOSTAR, confirms that it will again run the transatlantic races in 2020 with the start on May 10. Held every four years since the first race […]

Newport, RI (May 22, 2019) – The Sperry College Sailing Women’s Semifinal Championship wrapped up today for the 36 teams with the top nine from each of the 18-boat groups advancing to the final two days for the National Championship. […]

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (May 22, 2019) – Light winds returned for the Laser European Championship but conditions were suitable for two more races to complete a 6-race qualifying series for the Standard rig men and the Radial rig […]

Day 5: Jordy Vonk Claims First World Tour Bullet While Lena Erdil Wins First Elimination Since Returning From Injury The first Slalom eliminations of the 2019 Ulsan PWA World Cup were finally completed on the penultimate day in South Korea […]

One hundred sixty-six yachts are entered in the 76th Swiftsure International Yacht Race on May 25. The multihull and monohull fleet will use either PHRF or ORC rating system for one of the six courses ranging from 79 to 138 […]

High School Sailing (Interscholastic Sailing Association – ISSA) concludes the spring championship season with the Team Racing Nationals on May 25-26 in Portland, Maine. Twelve schools across the USA will compete for the Baker Trophy, dedicated in 1990 to honor […]

The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup was first run in 2009 alongside a newly launched fleet of one-design Swan 42 yachts – the eighth one-design class initiated by the New York Yacht Club. As the amateur inter-club competition […]

Menorca, Spain (May 22, 2019) – The forecasted light sea breeze failed to materialize today for the 11-boat fleet of TP52s at the Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, and so racing had to be cancelled for the day. The […]

Sailing is not an easy activity. You need costly equipment, access to a venue, and appropriate guidance. These hurdles hasten entrance… a pain also felt by golf which is now utilizing superheroes to turn the tide of attrition. To encourage […]

The foiling AC75 monohull to be sailed in the 36th America’s Cup relies on an innovative foil arm and canting system to provide ballast and lift, and it was decided by the Defender and Challenger of Record for these parts […]

by Chris Caswell, Sailing Magazine I have a few rants that pop up from time to time, so consider yourself warned. This is going to be one of them. One of my rants has been the late, great, America’s Cup, […]

Falling overboard can occur unexpectedly and end tragically. Staying onboard is always a priority, but even the most experienced can find themselves off the boat. Richard Hayes shares his experiences. The first unintended dunking was during an early sailing lesson […]

Newport, RI (May 21, 2019) – The College Women’s Nationals got underway today for the 36 teams that qualified for the four day championship. With schools divided into two 18-team semifinal groups, winds of 15 to 20 knots allowed for […]

Twenty-seven teams have signed up for the International Star Class 2019 Western Hemisphere Championship to be held May 22 to 25 in San Diego, CA. A primarily west coast fleet will vie for this Silver Star honor that began in […]

Menorca, Spain (May 21, 2019) – The Italian-Argentine Azzurra team made a very strong start to the 2019 52 SUPER SERIES with a second and first from the first two races to jump out to a clear early lead at […]

As the first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race, the 60th anniversary of the Transat will carve out a new path in May 2020 as the city of Brest in northern Brittany will host the start of the four-yearly classic. The […]

The college racing season closes on a crescendo as the best schools across the seven districts of the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) compete for three national titles – Women’s Dinghy, Team Race, and Coed Dinghy – on May 21 to […]

Day 4: Cousin Questel Extends Foil Advantage While Men’s Slalom Sees a Multitude of Big Name Casualties in Tricky Conditions Day 4 of the 2019 Ulsan PWA World Cup produced the most racing of the week so far with a […]

Day 3: Delphine Cousin Questel Leads the Way After Opening Foil Eliminations The early skippers’ meeting paid off on Day 3 of the 2019 Ulsan PWA World Cup with the opening Women’s Foil eliminations of the week being completed during […]

Terry Hutchinson, skipper of New York Yacht Club’s team that’s challenging for the 36th America’s Cup, has been patient. The plan was for American Magic to launch their first AC75 by the first date permitted, March 31st. That was Plan […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt With decisions to be made as to the Equipment for the 10 Events at the Paris 2024 Olympics, there weren’t a lot of surprises at the 2019 World Sailing Mid-Year Meeting. While the debate whether to […]

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (May 20, 2019) – Light winds prevailed as the Laser European Championship began today with the qualifying stage for the Standard rig men and the Radial rig women. German Philipp Buhl and Spaniard Joaquin Blanco […]

The 2018-19 season for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) comes to a close as the best teams in the USA vie for three national titles – Women’s Dinghy, Team Race, and Coed Dinghy – on May 21 to 31 in […]

Professional sailor and coach Andrew Palfrey has been working with Hasso and Tina Plattner’s two-boat TP52 program, helping them ramp up for the 52 SUPER SERIES in 2019. In this report, he shares the process for coaching the two Phoenix […]

Australian Laser gold medallist and America’s Cup winner Tom Slingsby has planned an interesting year for himself. He will be joining Graeme Taylor at the Etchells Worlds, he is skippering the hyper-performance F50 in the SailGP circuit, and is tactician […]

The Race to Alaska, now in its 5th year, just closed its registration and 46 teams will be at the start line for this foolhardy adventure along 750 cold water miles from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska. There were […]

Menorca, Spain (May 20, 2019) – When the highly competitive fleet of 11 TP52s representing eight different nations line up to start the first points races of the 2019 52 SUPER SERIES season tomorrow, it will be a wide open […]

Launched in 1969, the Laser continues to be the benchmark for all one design singlehanded dinghies. Its inclusion in the Olympic Games began with the Open One Person Dinghy Event for Atlanta 1996, then switching to a Men’s Event for […]

Rival del Garda, Italy (May 19, 2019) – Robert Scheidt (BRA) and Henry Boening (BRA) have won the combined Star European Championship and Star Sailors League Grand Slam Breeze, earning the lion’s share of the $100,000 prize pot over the […]

Les Sables d’Olonne, France (May 19, 2019) – Finnish skipper Tapio Lehtinen, the fifth and final placed competitor in the Golden Globe Race, crossed the finish line today at 20:21. Sailing his Gaia 36 Asteria with spinnaker set in glorious […]

Thirty-seven Melges 24s are slated to compete in the US National Championship to be held May 24-26 in Fairhope, Alabama. With at least 14 teams qualified for the all-amateur Corinthian division, the racing on Mobile Bay anticipates a steady sea […]

Weymouth, England (May 19, 2019) – With six boats all within 12 points of the gold medal at the Nacra 17 European Championship, the medal race was always going to be a difficult one to predict and a big battle […]

Weymouth, England (May 19, 2019) – The final day of the 49er and 49erFX European Championship ended with the Rio 2016 Olympic champions on the top step of the podium again. 49erFX: Brazil win, but Dutch survive pressure to win […]

London, England (May 19, 2019) – World Sailing’s Council made key decisions today on the Equipment to be used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition as the Mid-Year Meeting came to a close. The Laser was selected as the […]

An elite field is entered for the Laser European Championship to be held May 20-25 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Competition will be held three divisions – Laser Standard Senior (164 entries), Laser Radial Women’s Senior (123 entries), and […]

First organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club in 1906, the biennial Transpacific Yacht Race or Transpac is an offshore sailing race from Point Fermin in Los Angeles to Diamond Head, just east of Honolulu, a distance of 2225 nm. Notable […]

10-18 Mayıs tarihleri arasında Atina’da düzenlenen 2019 Finn Avrupa Şampiyonası’nda Olimpik Milli Sporcumuz Alican Kaynar (Fenerbahçe Doğuş Yelken) 4.oldu. Alican Kaynar şampiyonada 98 net puanla 4.sırayı alırken İngiltere’den Giles Scott Avrupa Şampiyonu oldu. İkinci Macaristan’dan Zsombor Berecz olurken Hollanda’dan Nicholas […]

Weymouth, England (May 18, 2019) – Lighter winds set the stage as the 49er and 49erFX Europeans sort the order for tomorrow’s medal race 49erFX: Scandinavians deliver while leaders falter On the penultimate day of gold fleet racing, after a […]

Athens, Greece (May 18, 2019) – Giles Scott (above) secured his third European Finn title today after holding off world champion Zsombor Berecz, from Hungary, on the final day of the Finn Open European Championship. Andy Maloney, from New Zealand, […]

Rival del Garda, Italy (May 18, 2019) – With only one day of racing remaining, Robert Scheidt (BRA) and Henry Boening (BRA) have lost the lead for the first time this week at the combined Star European Championship and Star […]

London, England (May 18, 2019) – World Sailing’s Equipment Committee met today at the 2019 Mid-Year Meeting, and the Equipment to be used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition was at the top of the agenda as the Committee […]

Rival del Garda, Italy (May 17, 2019) – Very light winds with patchy cloud coverage made for tough conditions on the third day of the Star European Championships and SSL Breeze Grand Slam which saw many top teams suffer a […]

Day 2: A Morning Exploring Seoknamsa Temple Followed by an Afternoon Close Call With light winds expected on the morning of Day 2 of the 2019 Ulsan PWA World Cup, the sailors were taken on a tour to explore the […]