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Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger won the 2024 J/24 North American Championship hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club on April 12-14 in St. Petersburg, FL. The winning team included Monica Morgan (bow), Dave Hughes (trim), Jay Miles (tactics), and Jeff Sullivan (twings/strategy), […]

Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University are predicting an “extremely active” 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, citing warmer than normal temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and the expected return of La Niña conditions. The 2024 forecast marks the highest hurricane prediction […]

The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. This episode introduces a trio of sailors, […]

After the French government insisted there was no Plan B for its unprecedented decision to host the Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics outside the secure confines of a stadium, the French Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, […]

The Olympic marina in Marseille, which will host the sailing events of the Paris Games this summer, was inaugurated on April 2 in the presence of the president of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, who praised a facility designed for […]

On May 8, the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will arrive from Greece by boat into the ancient port of France’s second-largest city, Marseille – much as the first Greek settlers arrived to found the town almost three […]

The 2024 Charleston Race Week has attracted over 170 entrants for racing on April 19-21 in Charleston, SC. The 28th edition will host 16 classes along with a Pro-Am event after racing on April 20. Ten teams will compete in […]

(April 3, 2024) – The weekly SailRank list for College Sailing has the top Open School as Harvard followed by Stanford and Yale, while leading the Women’s rank is Stanford followed by Yale and Georgetown. The leading skippers are Lachlain […]

Adrian Morgan treats us to his monthly column for Classic Boat, offering a reflection on the world of social media, ropes jargon and nautical terminology: Sailing and Social Media Misinformation You may have noticed how every large, old, possibly wooden, […]

The 2024 Triple Crown Series is expanding to five events, significantly increasing domestic competitive training opportunities and prize grants for athletes. The expanded series is jointly hosted by Oakcliff, Windmark, and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Six of the Olympic boats – ILCA […]

British wave sailing champion – Lucas Meldrum – shares his travel and warmup sessions ahead of the official event. Lucas Meldum (Fanatic / Duotone) became the British wave sailing champion for the first time in his career last year. Now […]

Seventeen years after her first Olympics in 2004, Nikola Girke competed in her fifth in Tokyo. She was pretty sure it would be her last. But then the Olympics changed windsurfing — her sailing event in three Games — to […]

As the business end of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, all the teams have spent the month of March getting ready for the arrival and final preparations of their new AC75 yachts. These yachts will be the pinnacle […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and naval architect and offshore sailor Antoine Koch nominated Amaryllis. Here’s his report: Amaryllis, and her replica Amaryllis II, […]

Renowned iceboating administer Deb Whitehouse reports from the notable landsailing venue of Ivanpah, Nevada: I spent a few days as a tourist at the 2024 America’s Landsailing Cup where competitors remarked that the playa was in the best condition they had seen […]

While the US Olympic Sailing Program struggles to share their operations to the public, this report by US Sailing indicates there is proof of life: The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has granted significant additional funding to the […]

Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/04/02/americas-cup-secrecy-and-plastic-waste/

Allan Terhune Jr., of Annapolis, Maryland, finally found himself among the illustrious short-listers of the 2023 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year award. As a sailmaker 15 years and counting, Terhune has won plenty of regattas as both skipper and crew, […]

by Nikki Henderson, Yachting World For Leg 3 of the Ocean Globe Race, L’Esprit d’équipe (FR) and Neptune (FR) were granted dispensation to sail with an all-male crew. The Notice of Race stipulates that every yacht must sail with a […]

The 50th St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR) hosted a wide range of fleets on March 29-31 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Unusual westerly winds gave sailors a tactical run for their money during the regatta’s first two days, with […]

The WASZP Class headed to Hawaii for the 2024 US National Championship on March 24-26 and the Americas Championship on March 28-31. With 34 competitors from Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and the USA, they all witnessed a clinic by Denmark’s Magnus Overbeck who won […]

The next event on the Caribbean racing circuit is the 51st edition of the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival. The schedule begins with the Sailing Festival, a warm-up event, on April 2 with the traditional Round Tortola Race and […]

by Frank Lanier, Practical Sailor One of the often overlooked maintenance items in the pre-season rush to the water is the AC shorepower system. Over the years of surveying, I’ve amassed a small collection of scary photos from past surveys […]

The 11 teams competing in the 2023-24 Clipper Race began the longest ocean crossing of the circumnavigation when they started the 5,340nm course from Qingdao in China to Seattle in the USA on March 28. The start took place in […]

2022 PWA Slalom World Champion – Maciek Rutkowski – joins NeilPryde for 2024 The 2022 Slalom World Champion, Maciek Rutkowski (NeilPryde) has announced he will be teaming up with NeilPryde for the 2024 season in a bid to win his […]

Sometimes returning back home isn’t as bad as it seems… Alessio Stillrich scores some fun sessions in Pozo after his recent trip to Cape Town, South Africa Alessio Stillrich (Simmer / Simmer Sails) recently returned home to Pozo Izquierdo after […]

by WM Nixon, Afloat Magazine Olympians are different from you and me. In the final analysis, that’s what being Olympian is all about. For whether we like it or not, the vivid clarity of an Olympic medal is one of […]

Short-handed racing between Bermuda and Newport, RI now offers yearly competition, and the opportunity has been seized by emerging women in the sport. Sara Stone and Catherine “Cat” Hunt in a Sunfast 3300 won the inaugural Bermuda Short-Handed Return (BSHR) race in […]

American Magic reached a significant milestone in its challenge for the 37th America’s Cup as its newly constructed AC75 boat – B3 – completed its journey from the build facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to the team’s base in Barcelona, […]

For the the 53rd edition of the Transpac Yacht Race, a rating system for the 2225 nm course from Los Angeles to Honolulu will be based on weather predictions following an analysis of previous race data. The 2025 race will […]

The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. This episode highlights a team from Seattle […]

It was shocking video to wake up to on March 26, 2024 with the accident to have widespread and unimaginable impact. As one of the world’s oldest continuously running journals, the British-based Lloyd’s List has been providing weekly shipping news since 1734, […]

Matt Sheahan and his PlanetSail team share the latest episode in a regular series of features about the road to the America’s Cup that will take us from the first official event in Vilanova to the Cup match itself in October 2024 […]

The Atlantic hurricane season officially gets underway on June 1 and runs through the end of November, and AccuWeather’s team of long-range forecasters say now is the time to prepare for a frenzy of tropical systems. There are signs that […]

Promoting environmental causes has become an attention-seeking tactic in sailing to gain commercial interest, and while it often seems self-serving, protecting the earth is never a bad thing. This has been a foundational aspect of the SailGP sports league, which is […]

There are times when the sport melts the internet, and Cole Brauer did that when she finished the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge. We all got to know the 29-year old Cole for 130 days as she shared her non-stop race around the world, […]

The Race to Alaska will hold its 8th edition in 2024, continuing with its 750-mile course from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. And now there is a podcast series prior to the June 9 start. This episode highlights two teams, both alike […]

The 55th edition of French Olympic Week will the last major multi-series meeting for the world’s best sailors before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In 2024, it will take on an additional purpose as it features two events on April […]

Andrea Mura (ITA) on his Open 50 Vento di Sardegna is expected to be the third finisher in the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge, with his arrival on March 16 or 17 in A Coruña, Spain. Of the initial 16 starters, […]

While the America’s Cup grinding position may have been more about muscle than sailing ability, the skills were still similar to big boat needs in recreational sailing. Relatable, right? But there is little about the 37th America’s Cup that has […]

Former world champion Pierre Mortefon joins FMX Racing for Slalom X As one of only two riders to win an elimination on the fin in 2023, with the separation of fin and foil racing, Pierre Mortefon (FMX Racing / Phantom […]

When the second leg of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race (now The Ocean Race) started from Cape Town, and had a northerly course in the Indian Ocean toward Abu Dhabi, crossing through the doldrums was not the only concern. The […]

Registration is open for the 2024 Boat Builder Awards as the 10th anniversary hosts categories that draw strong focus on three key pillars that lie at the heart of future sector success – innovation, the environment, and people. The Boat […]

The form guide is forming for the ten Sailing events at the Paris 2024 Olympics as revealed by the World Sailing Rankings latest update. Below are the top three nations in each event along with Canada and USA if they rank […]

Type II Fun: An experience that’s miserable in real time but great once it’s astern. It’s also the kind of fun that Christina and Justin Wolfe, of Orcas Island, Washington, gravitate toward. Case in point: Christina, the 2023 Rolex Yachtswoman […]

A South Florida man is grateful to be alive after being bitten by a crocodile on March 10. Speaking to Local 10 News from his hospital bed, the 68-year-old Rodrigo Constain was grateful to be alive. It happened just before 5:00 pm […]

Before The Ocean Race 2023 got underway, eventual winner Charlie Enright admitted their use of an autopilot on the IMOCA was over 90% of the time. The use was partly because the boat was not well configured for hand steering, but […]

Since Anna Tunnicliffe won gold at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the USA has been struggling to get back to the podium for the Women’s One Person Dinghy event. The 30-year old Erika Reineke has been trying to change that, and in […]