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The brisk Meltemi has continued to persist into the second day of the AEGEAN 600 with the breeze at 15-20 knots, giving all teams fast reaching and downwind rides throughout the first half of the 605-mile race. Race leaders in elapsed time – Claudio Demartis’s Reichel/Pugh 90 PROSECCO DOC SHOCKWAVE 3 (ITA) and George Procopiou’s…

The 2026 Swallow National Championship hosted by Seaview YC on the Isle of Wight, featured fourteen Swallows from the Fleet home club Itchenor SC. Championship Winners were: Carolyn Brigg, Oliver Sloper and David Sloper sailing Marengo (S82). Second were Charles Peacock, Andy Gasser and Mike Ewart-Smith in Buccaneer (S66) and third Mike Wigmore, Charles Hyatt…

Day 1 of the 505 Class 2026 World Championship at Hayling Island Sailing Club. Jan-Philipp Hofmann and Felix Brockerhoff of Germany are the early leaders after two races, with a 4, 2 scoreline for a three point advantage ahead of Mike Holt and Carl Smit of the USA with a 3 and 6 score. In…

Overall winner of the 2026 RORC Cowes Dinard St Malo Race under IRC, claiming the historic King Edward VII Challenge Cup, was the French J/133 Sun Hill IV, skippered by François Charles. Line Honours went to Johnny Vincent’s Volvo 70 Pace. Second overall was James Neville’s Botin 52 Ino Veritas, which also won IRC Zero. Completing the…

American match racing star Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing team reclaimed the GKSS Match Cup Sweden title on Saturday, while France’s Pauline Courtois / Match in Pink successfully defended the Nordea Women’s Trophy. Poole and his Riptide Racing crew of Adam Minoprio, Mal Parker and Luke Payne defeated local favourite Sweden’s Oscar Engström and…

A brisk Meltemi breeze of 25-30 knots prompted reefed mainsails and small jibs for this year’s fleet at Sunday’s start of the 6th edition of the AEGEAN 600, organized by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC) and Olympic Marine. After a short leg upwind towards the turning mark at the foot of the cliff below…

After the Preliminary Regatta Sardinia, the Italian AC team has returned its focus to the development of the AC75 Luna Rossa, the boat with which it will compete in the 38th America’s Cup in 2027. The modified AC75 returned to the water in Cagliari a few weeks ago and after the tow test and the…

The 2026 29er World Championship opened on Friday, with all six fleets launched and racing on schedule off the Olympic Sailing Center Kiel-Schilksee. Three qualifying races were completed across three race areas. Top of the leaderboard are Argentina’s Felix Llauro and Lucas Cozar with a perfect scoreline and discaring a race win, sitting on just…

Howie Hamlin and Andy Zinn of the USA didn’t need the final race to stake their claim to the 505 Class 2026 Pre-World Regatta and UK National Championship at Hayling Island SC. Two third places on the second day were enough, together with their stunning day 1 score – 1, 1, 2 – to close-out…

The world’s top young windsurfers have arrived on Spain’s Costa Brava for the 2026 iQFOiL Youth & Junior World Championships at Club de Vela La Ballena Alegre. From 3 to 10 July, a total of 399 athletes representing 36 nations will compete across eight days of racing to crown the new Under 19 and Under…