While it is popular for recent generations to consider the future of sailing to be with foiling boats, it generally does not follow that greater cost and skill leads toward a healthier activity.
The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) has selected three individuals to receive the 2024 Hall of Fame Afterguard Division Awards: • Campbell Family Award for Lifetime Service: Gail McCarthy Turluck • Meritorious Service Award: George H.
Sail Canada has released the list of sailors who will be part of the 2024-25 Canadian Sailing Team and Canadian Sailing Development Squad. The 28 athletes were selected based on the Canadian Sailing Team Sport Canada Carding Criteria as well as on their overall performance over the 2023-24 season.
The Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA) held its annual conference on May 31-June 2 in Antigua, gathering regatta organizers, sailing program managers, race officials and CSA measurers from across the region.
The Scorpion class made up the largest fleet at the two day Lymington Dinghy Regatta last weekend. The Lymington Dinghy Regatta is co-hosted by the two Lymington sailing clubs the "Royal" and the "Town" - don't ask, it's historic.
The first ever J/70 Corinthian World Championship has attracted more than 100 boats from 14 nations for the 2024 event on June 4-8 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The X account for Latest in Space offered the fun fact for how it was possible to sail from India to the USA in a completely straight line, without touching a single piece of land.
As the first full month of new-generation AC75 training, May was a watershed month for all of the teams as they brought their new technology to the forefront of their campaigns and firmly began the debate about who has the fastest boat.
Entries have opened for the 2027-28 Global Solo Challenge (GSC), following the inaugural edition in 2023-24 which offered a an affordable framework for non-elite sailors to achieve a common dream of completing a solo nonstop circumnavigation via the three great capes.
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The latest K1 Open Meeting was held over the weekend of 1st/2nd June at Carsington Sailing Club. An entry of twenty boats demonstrated how popular the K1 is becoming, having had similar numbers at both Barnt Green and Datchet earlier in the calender.
Whilst the two leaders, Charlie Dalin and Boris Herrmann might be feeling quite isolated as they passed their theoretical half way point of the solo Transatlantic course, the very opposite is true for the two main groups which are valiantly pursuing them.
The GSC offers a framework for non-elite sailors to achieve a common dream of completing a solo nonstop circumnavigation via the three great capes.
Nine teams, each consisting of four Optimists, gathered at Oxford Sailing Club on 18th June for the second IOCA UK Optimist Team Racing Championship. The weather gods were smiling on us and laid on two days of sunshine.
Things happen a bit differently in the Pacific Northwest. Take our sailing calendar. While the season is in full swing in most parts of North America, the bigger races on Puget Sound wrapped up with last weekend's Blake Island Race.
Sixteen boats competed in hopes of being crowned Northern Champions for 2024 as the RS400 Rooster National Tour and the Trident UK Northern Tour combined over the weekend of 1st & 2nd June.
The fleet of fourteen competitors including eight Salcombe Yawls started cleanly in a light easterly breeze and a slack high tide on a long beat to Yalton.
The weekend of 1st/2nd June starting with the second running of a training day run by Adam Bowers for the Contender fleet, organised by the BCA for its members and supported by Oxford Sailing Club.
The third Avon Sailing Club (ASC), Yachting World Dayboat open meeting was held on Saturday 1st June. Race officer Peter Keighley learnt from previous years that keeping the course simple, was the key to a quiet day at the office.
The weekend of the 1st and 2nd of June was officially the start of summer and boy was it, as the Merlin Rocket Craftinsure Silver Tiller headed to sunny Starcross Yacht Club.
It's a strategy that has got everyone talking. Can Boris Herrmann sail right round the top of the recourse - skirting a huge area of high pressure - and still beat Charlie Dalin and everyone else to the south of him?
22 ILCAs lined up for the first 2 races of the QMSC summer series. The wind was a gusty and shifty 5 to 14 knots from the north with wall-to-wall sunshine.
The top four places at this year's EUROSAF Beneteau First 18 SE & Seascape18 Open European Championship on Lake Chiemsee were taken by teams from Slovenia.
Great weather, warmth, sun and good winds ensured an enjoyable weekend sailing for all competitors at the Dovestone Open Meeting, the final event in the Northern Travellers Series.
The newly announced Kraken 44 will be launched in 2025 and will join the other serious cruisers in the Kraken range It’s no secret that Kraken Yachts has been planning new models to join its existing range of serious cruising yachts.
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