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Transpacific YC Commodore Jim Eddy led the crowd of 2021 Transpac sailors and their friends and family with this traditional greeting that has so many meanings in Hawaiian: Hello, Welcome, Goodbye, or as an expression of love and affection. On […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 28, 2021) – Enoshima is famous, notorious even, for its big wave action, and that’s what the sailors got on day four of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. Alongside the big waves across Sagami Bay, the […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 27, 2021) – The excitement kicked up a gear on the third day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition as the women in the 49erFX Skiff put on a display of high speed boat handling and […]

Antoine Albert Scoring Some Super Fun Down-The-Line Conditions in Gran Canaria in the Peak of Summer When most people think of Gran Canaria they instinctively probably think of Pozo Izquierdo – famed for its howling winds and onshore jumping and […]

Newport Beach, CA (July 27, 2021) – Racing started today for ten teams competing in the 2021 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship. Due to the pandemic, a revised entry list was necessary when crews from Australia, New Zealand, […]

The fleet showing the biggest growth within the Rolex Fastnet Race is the Class40. Currently 39 of these mini IMOCAs are entered, a significant increase from the 19 that competed in 2019. The 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race now forms part […]

2021 Transpac Race analysis with Dobbs Davis of Seahorse Magazine with navigator Peter Isler of Pyewacket, Roy Disney’s turbo Volvo 70. Isler gives insightful comments on not only their experience on Pyewacket, but the race in historic context. Source: scuttlebutt […]

In 1995, Boston sailor Maureen McKinnon tripped while pushing her bicycle and fell 13 feet off a seawall in Rockland, Maine. Landing in shallow water she became paralyzed from the waist down. As a paraplegic, Maureen thought her sailing days […]

The 2015 TransPac aboard the 1907 schooner MARTHA. The Schooner MARTHA was built in May of 1907, and has been meticulously restored by Robert and Holly D’Arcy (a labor of love) as a Foundation Vessel with limited funds provided by […]

More than 100 three-person teams will descend on the Cleveland Yachting Club in Rocky River, Ohio to compete for the 75th Thistle National Championship, taking place July 31 to August 6, 2021. Situated on an island at the mouth of […]

Arco, Italy (July 27, 2021) – It was a tough day on the water for the Race Committee at the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Youth World Championships in northern Lake Garda. With a less than promising forecast, the committee sent […]

Hamilton, Bermuda (July 26, 2021) – Organizers for the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s Bermuda Gold Cup match racing tournament announced that the 2021 regatta will not be held. The regatta, an event of the World Match Racing Tour, had been […]

Enoshima, Japan (July 26, 2021) – There was more wind than expected for the second day of racing at the Olympic Sailing Competition which was just as well as the lumpy, confused wave pattern made it hard to get into […]

The 2021 USODA Girls National Championship concluded on Sunday, July 25th in Norfolk, VA. Ninety nine entries sailed four races in total, in 10-15 knots of breeze from the southwest. Racing area was in the mouth of the Lafayette River […]

There were mere points between the top boats in several classes and one tie that needed to be broken on the morning of the final day of the 2021 Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta at Marblehead Race Week, held July 22-25. […]

In the face of a tricky weather forecast the SailGP Plymouth event delivered more action than many had expected including boats speeds hitting three times the wind speed and fleet racing that turned inside out with every race. Plus, there […]

(July 25, 2021) – Several intrepid sailors are still on course to Hawaii. Here is an update from Team Favonius… Conditions have lightened up as the breeze has backed off to 15 to 18 kts; so we are focused on […]

Edgartown, MA (July 25, 2021) – Sailing doublehanded on the Jeanneau Sunfast 3300 Alchemist, Rhode Islanders Ken Read (Portsmouth) and Susie Nairn (Jamestown), collected a boatload of trophies for their ‘Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race performance at the annual Edgartown Race Weekend, […]

The 1975 Transatlantic Race, from Newport (USA) to Cowes (GBR), on the Swan 48 Weald. Source: scuttlebutt – https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2021/07/25/video-offshore-racing-back-in-the-day/

Enoshima, Japan (July 25, 2021) – After two weeks of training in steady onshore breezes, the sailors were dealt a very different and more difficult hand for the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. On the Enoshima […]

(July 24, 2021) – Although several teams have finished, there are still some on course persevering…. Last night was a great night of sailing under a full moon, scattered clouds, and rolling seas, giving HORIZON ample opportunities to surf down […]

You can’t win an Olympic medal in sailing without having a fast boat. Just like in motor racing where winning comes from a combination of man and machine working together in harmony, the same is true in Olympic sailing. To […]

(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 […]