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The first National Championship of the 2024-25 College season commences with the Open and Women’s Singlehanded titles on November 9-10 in St. Petersburg. Eighteen sailors will compete for each title, using the ILCA 7 for the Open division and the […]

The Italian Sea Group (TISG), a luxury yacht builder with Perini Navi in its portfolio, has been in the spotlight since the 184-foot Bayesian capsized at anchor, killing seven of 22 people on board. When a report by The New […]

Sail Canada has confirmed its Board of Directors for 2024-2025, with two new members – Martha Henderson (Toronto, ON) and Hugh Goodday (Chester, N.S.) – joining current members Kate MacLennan, Chair of the Board of Directors, as well as directors […]

The Magenta Project connects with Sam Davies, Pip Hare, and Mariana Lobato as they share their personal pathways to the top of the sport. Overcoming challenges and chasing big dreams, these women show that the path to progress in the […]

The second edition of the Junior Pan American Games will be held in 2025 on August 9-23 in Asunción, Paraguay. The winners in each division gain automatic entry to the 2027 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. This opportunity for […]

by Wendy Mitman Clarke, SAIL Editor-in-Chief This is the column where I hopelessly date myself, and it came to me in the weirdest place—the short passage just beyond the bar at The Black Pearl in Newport, Rhode Island. I was […]

The new 2025-2028 Racing Rules of Sailing go live on January 1, 2025. Don’t expect any earth-shattering changes, but the rulemakers have made a few tweaks to make the rules a bit clearer and more logical. Here’s a quick quiz […]

Following ratification at the IRC International Congress, the IRC Rating Technical Committee has published the IRC 2025 Rule which takes effect from January 1, 2025 (in countries using a June-May validity period it will apply from June 1, 2025). After […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News Events need consistent branding which should not include sponsors in the name. Sponsors are never forever, and change causes disruption. More so, sponsors expect a free ride in the media. We have bills to […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News My involvement on the Selection Committee for the US National Hall of Fame taught me that people get nominated and inducted based on familiarity, and recent achievement looks shinier than when considering the early […]

Based on the nine past editions of the Vendée Globe, on average only 60% of competitors finish. Most retirements are due to technical issues, while some are either forced to pull out or continue badly crippled following collision damage. But […]

More than 250 boats were featured among the ten events at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with 330 athletes representing 65 nations. But before the competition, there were even more vying for entry, and all that equipment and people had to […]

The 2024 Rolex World Sailor of the Year awards – the 30th year of the awards – were presented to Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist Marit Bouwmeester, the most successful female sailor at the Olympics in the sport, and the […]

The World Sailing Awards were confirmed during the 2024 World Sailing Annual Conference on 4-9 in Singapore. Nominations for the 2024 awards considered accomplishments from January 1 to September 30, with finalists advanced for a vote in which the winners […]

Singapore (November 5, 2024) – Representatives of boat owners and sailors from the 41 nations around the world that use rating certificates from the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) met today at the 55th edition of their annual Congress meeting. At […]

The high speed of the America’s Cup draws comparison to Formula One, but the INEOS Britania owner brought football into the conversation: Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe subtly expressed his disappointment with the club’s first-team squad, suggesting that the […]

It was all triumph for Clarisse Crémer (FRA) in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe as the first female skipper to finish from the field of 33 starters. Her finish time set a new around the world eastabout women’s record in both […]

Travis Odenbach had “one of those years” in 2024 which he reflects on in this report: I stared at my computer for thirty minutes, trying to figure out how to recap the last eight months. After talking to a few […]

When the 2013 America’s Cup shifted from monhulls to multihulls, the goal was to create an entertainment product that would attract spectators and sponsors. Sailing enthusiasts were expected to follow as the event pursued travel and leisure markets, and that […]

The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to Mark Fruin and his crew for the rescue of a competitor. The incident occurred on September 10 during the 2023 Hobelman Memorial Regatta at the […]

Peter Swanson’s Loose Cannon blog has been reviewing the Perini Navi built 184-foot luxury yacht which capsized at anchor, leading to seven of 22 people on board perishing. Here’s his latest report: In an extraordinary effort, The New York Times […]

The maritime city-state of Singapore is hosting the 2024 World Sailing Annual Conference and World Sailing Awards on November 4-9, bringing over 400 delegates and some of the world’s best sailors together to shape the future of the sport and […]

Shirley Robertson In this edition of Shirley Robertson’s Sailing Podcast, the double Olympic gold medalist is in Barcelona just days after the end of the 37th America’s Cup, seeking to learn from the people involved in the competition. With the […]

When the entry period closed, the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race had attracted 112 yachts – 30 to 100 feet of varying designs – for the start of the 79th edition on December 26. Four very different looking 100 […]

After several active seasons in Europe, the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) is partnering with the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association (WISSA) to bring the Ice and Snow Sailing World Championships to the USA. The 2025 event is set to […]

For the first season of the SailGP league in 2019, teams from established sailing nations needed 100% nationality for the crew while developing teams could start with a 40%nationality requirement, which would then increase by 20%annually. But as the league […]

Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and Sam Davies nominated Niñita. Here’s the report: “The coolest boat of all time is called Niñita, and […]

The New York Yacht Club will host the inaugural International Women’s Championship, a female-only competition that will be sailed in the Club’s fleet of 37-foot IC37 yachts, on September 12-19, 2026. “The New York Yacht Club envisions that this event, […]

You can’t be what you can’t see, so the old saying goes, with Australia’s national sailing federation reporting the growth of women in the sport: The likes of former Flying 11s National Champion Zoe Dransfield, current Australian 16ft Champion skipper […]

The Boating Barrister is a monthly feature in WindCheck magazine by John K. Fulweiler, Esq. In the October 2024 edition, John offers “clarifications” from previous columns: March 2021 – While John Fulweiler claims his close friend collaborated with him on […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News WindCheck magazine publisher Benjamin Cesare offers comments about the sport in the October 2024 edition, and while I agree with his observations, I contend they are symptoms of how youth programming has changed. An […]

Meteorologists are occasionally criticized for inaccurate forecasts; however, recent hurricane track forecasts have been remarkably accurate, leading to a puzzling trend. Instead of being lauded for early, life-saving predictions, some are blaming the government for steering hurricanes toward certain areas […]

If you’ve ever been to Los Angeles, you’d be forgiven for laughing at the goal of the 2028 Olympics to be a car-free and traffic jam-free Games. That City is spread out, and god-awful commutes are a way of life […]

Shevaun Bruland was elected as President of Australian Sailing – the first woman to hold the position. Bruland has been a member of the Australian Sailing board for five years, serving the last two as Vice President to outgoing President […]

Barcelona has been saying no lately after hosting the 37th America’s Cup. In the same week the Catalonia capital told Team New Zealand that they would not be paying to host the 38th edition, Barcelona City Council have voted against […]

The 10th edition of the Vendée Globe, with 40 IMOCAs to start on November 10, features a record-equaling entry of six female skippers to match the 2020-21 race. For 2024-25, the female contingent is led by the British veteran Sam […]

The start of the SailGP season brings anticipation, but none more than for the two new teams entering the league. While little is known about the Italian team, the spotlight will be brightest for the Brazil SailGP Team which features […]

In his recent column for SpinSheet magazine, David Flynn of Quantum Sails discussed the situations that required being patient on the racecourse. In this column, he will look at the flip side: when it is critical to be decisive and […]

Foiling Week, which hosts events dedicated to foiling boats, their sailors, designers and manufacturers, will be coming to the USA in 2025 for Foiling Week Pensacola on February 24-March 2 in Pensacola, FL. The event coincides with Pensacola Mardi Gras […]

The entry list for the 2024 Etchells World Championship (January 10-14; Melbourne, AUS) has attracted a new team looking to parlay their 2024 Star World title – John Kostecki and Austin Sperry (USA). However, this time the boat owner is […]

Is the America’s Cup a futures influencer? Or just a billionaire’s playground and a big waste of money? Jan Pehrson looks for answers following the4 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona, Spain: Some people feel the money spent around the America’s […]

Travis Odenbach won the 2024 J/22 World Championship held October 23-26 in Annapolis, MD. With 48 boats representing 15 states and four countries, Odenbach and his crew Geoff Becker and Justin Damore avoided deep scores in the 10-race series to […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News There are a few things I can anticipate when the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe gets underway on November 10 from Les Sables d’Olonne, France: • My geography will get a refresher. As […]

It’s become a popular term – pathway. In sailing, how do you get to where you want to go? When pondering the pathway to The Ocean Race, event organizers asked some of the people that had already arrived. Here’s what […]

Italy’s Caterina Banti and her teammate Ruggero Tita have dominated the Olympic Mixed Multihull event, winning four World titles and Gold at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. But at age 37, Banti decided to retire from her competitive career. In […]

The Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race starts and finishes in Les Sables D’Olonne, France, with 40 IMOCA sailors to get underway on November 10, 2024. Here’s a look at the line up and who might do what… THE FAVORITES. A […]

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News An 11-person panel was tasked by World Sailing with evaluating the entries and advancing four nominees for the Female Rolex World Sailor of the Year. This list is then put forth for voting, with […]

US Sailing, the National Governing Body for the sport of sailing in the United States, has advanced Henry Brauer (above), who had been on the Board of Directors as Vice President, to be the new President of the organization. Rich […]

Fifty-eight products from 28 countries have been nominated to enter the final rounds of assessment for the 33rd edition of the globally recognized DAME Design Awards. Winners will be announced at 2024 METSTRADE, the world’s largest marine trade exhibition, on […]

The Youth America’s Cup has been celebrated as a pathway toward bigger things. That’s hard to dispute when Peter Burling, Blair Tuke, and Andy Maloney, who just won the 37th America’s Cup, had won the inaugural Youth America’s Cup in […]

The New Zealand defender needed six days to win the 37th America’s Cup Match, beating Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia by a score of 7-2 in the best of 13 series in Barcelona, Spain. This video replays all nine races. […]