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Sail Canada’s Sailor of the Month award acknowledges sailing achievements by Canadians involved or associated with the sport in all its forms. Here is the latest recipient. Ready and determined, Laser, Laser Radial, and Laser 4.7 sailors gathered in Fort […]

Australian Sailing is the governing body for the sport of Sailing in Australia, with this update coming from their February Edition of Club News: One of Australian Sailing’s key goals as per our strategic plan is to grow participation in […]

Due to the mandated 42-month expiration date from date of manufacture, most boaters need to replace their boat’s emergency flares after three seasons of boating. However, without a system to safely accept and dispose of outdated flares, they continue to […]

With the exception of South Florida and most of Mexico, the balance of North American can present a compelling case for closing the cold season. Enough is enough, right? It is time for the backside of winter to become the […]

Antigua (February 20, 2019) – David & Peter Askew (USA) racing their Volvo 70 Wizard (above) have taken Monohull Line Honors in the RORC Caribbean 600 crossing the finish line today at 07:08:44 AST in an elapsed time of 1d […]

(February 20, 2019; Day 235) – The third placed Estonian skipper Uku Randmaa has escaped disqualification from the Golden Globe Race after breaching the strict rules forbidding outside assistance, but has been handed a 72-hour penalty for asking and receiving […]

The 2019 DN Gold Cup attracted an international field of 110 sailors to seek the world title February 17-19 on Indian Lake, Ohio. While conditions on the final day failed to deliver, racing on the two other days allowed for […]

Antigua (February 19, 2019) – Maserati Multi 70 skippered by Giovanni Soldini (ITA) crossed the finish line of the RORC Caribbean 600 at 20:49:00 AST today in an elapsed time of 1 day, 06 hours 49 minutes and 00 seconds, […]

If you’re the kind of person that likes to stump others with your vast knowledge of ‘stuff’, here’s a list stuff on the Great Lakes courtesy of RCR Yachts Sailor’s News: 1. Lake Superior is actually not a lake at […]

Rachel and Matt Goetting own Sailorcise, a business that combines coaching, fitness, and nutrition to improve a sailors performance. Like most people in the marine industry, they love sailing too and compiled this love list: • You can do it […]

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, […]

After a hard-earned third-place finish in IRC Class 3 in the 2015 Transatlantic Race, the Prospector team is back for the 2019 edition with a new boat, many of the same crew and an itch to better their performance from […]

Twenty-four teams competed in the first of two events being used to select the US 29er teams to represent USA in the 2019 Youth World Sailing Championships (Gdynia, Poland). Held February 16-18, Canada also chose to use it for their […]

Antigua (February 19, 2019) – The morning report for the second day of the RORC Caribbean 600 finds the Multi70 Maserati (ITA) and MOD70 Argo (USA) ripping up the race track, well over 30 knots of boat speed recorded on […]

Sarah Burn and Gabby Delbello won the 2019 I420 Midwinter Championship held February 16-18 in Miami, FL. Posting four bullets and only one race out of the top 3, they dominated the 31-boat fleet, building a 16-point margin over Max […]

The 2019 Club 420 Midwinter Championship attracted 103 teams on February 16-18 in Jensen Beach, FL. The regatta format was two days of a qualifying round, where the fleet was divided into two groups and seeded by formula. The final […]

Seven professional teams, seven identical boats and 39,000 miles to prove themselves. Overall victory came down to the final gybe of the final leg into the finish at the Hague making the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean race the closest in the […]

by Carol Cronin When Kim Couranz first suggested we represent Severn Sailing Association at San Diego Yacht Club’s Women’s Winter Invite on February 16-17, I was excited to get “the band” back together again. It had been almost a decade […]

The regime representing Golden Gate Yacht Club sought to create fan interest in the America’s Cup while hosting in 2013 and 2017, yet unwilling to use the big hammer in the tool box. New fans cheer for national teams, yet […]

Franck Cammas is legendary in France with a career bursting full of world records and historic offshore multihull victories. He proved able in monohulls too by winning the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race, though his quest to bring the America’s Cup […]

As the first Asian competitor to take part in the Vendee Globe, Kojiro Shiraishi was one of the stand-out figures in the headline event of the 2016 IMOCA circuit. But Shiraishi was forced to retire after dismasting 29 days into […]

Antigua (February 18, 2019) – The 11th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 gets underway today with five starts scheduled from 1100-1140 local time with the multihulls in the final start. The build-up to the non-stop race around 11 Caribbean […]

St. Petersburg, FL (February 17, 2019) – Once the sea breeze filled in this morning at the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta, racing got underway and most classes completed two races for a regatta total of eight […]

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 […]