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Foiling windsurf
IQFOIL International Games Youth and junior : Double italian win at Campione del Garda
A great sailing day of sailing and sport at Univela Campione, with 18 races finished on the water for all three categories at the iQFOiL INTERNATIONAL GAMES YOUTH & JUNIOR, thanks to the return to normality of the World renowned Garda weather conditions. Early in the morning three Course races for all, with a 13/14 knot wind from the (...) -
600 nm Offshore Race | Antigua
RORC Caribbean 600 : Christopher Sheehan’s Pac52 Warrior Won was the overall winner
The 2022 RORC Caribbean 600 attracted 74 teams with 738 sailors from 32 different nations. The Caribbean classic is back with the most impressive fleet in the 14-year history of the race. Moderate trade winds faded to a lighter breeze during the five days of the race, but that did not stop Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo setting a new (...) -
Land Speed Record
Emirates Team New Zealand to Attempt Wind Powered Land Speed World Record
Some childhood dreams can become realities, others remain just that- dreams. For a 10-year-old boy growing up in Bendigo Australia, his childhood dream was to go faster than anyone else had done, powered by the wind. -
Racing inshore | Persico 69F
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Team Argentina wins first act of four
The 69F swapped the cool mountain water of Lake Garda for the sultry seas of Miami’s Biscayne Bay with the opening act of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup last week, and by all accounts it was a brilliant success. The first act of four in the 2022 season that splits events between the United States and Europe saw a mix of American, European (...) -
AC40 Class
Richard Meacham: "there are already 8 AC40’s under order with McConaghy’s"
Just over 11 months since Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC75 AC75 #AC75 ‘Te Rehutai’ crossed the finish line to claim the 36th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup , its younger sister class- the AC40 is already in production. While much of the world was having a well-earned break during the transition from 2021 (...) -
Transat Lanzarote - Grenada
RORC Transatlantic Race : Giovanni Soldini’s Multi70 Maserati has taken Multihull Line Honours
Giovanni Soldini’s Multi70 Multi70 #multi70 Maserati (ITA) has taken Multihull Line Honours in the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race, crossing the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada at 05:51:41 UTC on Saturday 15th January (Corrected: 6d 18h 51m 41s). After eight days of extraordinary racing, Maserati (...) -
New York Yacht Club American Magic
37th America’s Cup: American Magic and the NYYC "hungry and highly motivated"
American Magic is pleased to confirm that it intends to compete in the 37th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup (AC37) and represent the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) against the field of challengers and the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand for the most coveted prize in (...) -
Offshore racing | Australia
2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race : Black Jack first to finish in 2 days 12 hours
The maxi yacht Black Jack, owned by Peter Harburg and skippered by Mark Bradford, was first to finish the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race covering the 628-nautical mile course in a time of two days, 12 hours, 37 minutes & 17 seconds. LawConnect was second over the line, two hours, 36 minutes behind her rival, with SHK Scallywag in (...) -
Racing | Kitefoil
KiteFoil World Series : Axel Mazella and Poema Newland crowned champions of the 2021 season
Axel Mazella and Poema Newland have become champions of Gran Canaria, the fifth and final event of the 2021 KiteFoil World Series. Both French riders have also been crowned champions of the 2021 season. For Mazella, this is his third World Series title to go with his victories in 2017 and 2019. For Newland, her maiden victory in the Series is (...) -
Racing | Windsurfing
PWA World Cup: Offringa, Mortefon, Goyard and Vrieswijk crowned 2021 world champions
The 2021 SOMWR Movement 10 x Marignane PWA Grand Slam, presented by Greentech Festival, saw the best windsurfers in the world congregate in Le Jaï & Carro for the world title showdowns. Unfortunately the wind God’s weren’t really on our side over the last 10 days, which meant that results weren’t gained in racing or the (...)
