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Four more Slalom races completed at the iQFOiL U23 World Championships in changing conditions. In the Women’s fleet, New Zealander Aimee Bright added four more race wins to her scorecard to retain the overall lead with 21 pts after three days of competition. Maya Gysler NOR remains close behind in second with 29 pts, while…

With the 2nd America’s Cup preliminary event wrapped-up, the spotlight swings onto the SailGP US$2 million winner-takes-all, Championship-deciding Grand Final in Abu Dahbi. Russell Coutts has been quiet regarding whether the Dubai and Abu Dhabi SailGP season ending events will take place – continuing ticket promotions for both – but must be weighing up whether…

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez’s record-sized maxi fleet of 51 for a second day saw Maxi 1 and the J Class racing windward-leewards from the Baie de Pampelonne, while Maxi 3, 4 and 5 were dispatched southwest on a 28 mile coastal course to a mark off Cavalaire-sur-Mer. In the 13-strong Maxi 1 racing for the…

Day 2 saw the fleets switching from Course Racing to Slalom and completing four races on the Bay of Puck. In the Women’s fleet, the top three remains unchanged. Aimee Bright of New Zealand continues to lead the championship, ahead of Maya Gysler NOR in second and Tuva Oppedal NOR in third. Stella Bilger AUS…

Alex Jackson and Rebecca Videlo took the 2026 Merlin Rocket Allen Inland Championship. Hosted by the Oxford Sailing Club, six races were completed in everything from drifting conditions to big gusts which produced six different winners and a tied championship, with the title decided on countback. Jackson and Videlo finished with 14 points, tied with…

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, the final event of the International Maxi Association’s 2026 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge got underway with a record fleet of 51 maxis competing, including the welcome return of three J Class yachts – Svea, Hanuman and Rainbow. J Class Svea won their first ever race at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez in…

The 2026 iQFOiL U23 World Championships got underway Monday on the Bay of Puck, Poland, with 148 sailors from 34 nations. In the Men’s fleet, Federico Alan Pilloni (ITA) made the strongest start to the championship, putting together a consistent opening series to take the provisional overall lead tied on 4 pts with Côme Joly…

After nearly two weeks, several hundred kilometers by road and a crossing of the Mediterranean, the AC75 of La Roche-Posay Racing Team has arrived in Naples from Lorient. Having departed from Brittany on 10 September, the French boat arrived in Bagnoli on Thursday 24 September, at the end of a logistical operation that was as…

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Sir Ben Ainslie and Sir Jim Ratcliffe are in talks to settle their legal dispute over the ownership of the current British America’s Cup boat. Ainslie is reported to have been more conciliatory when discussing the present state of the legal dispute during last weekends America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta…

‘GB1 delivered its strongest racing of the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta in Naples, battling at the front of the fleet to secure two fourth-place finishes on the final day’ That seems a strange tag-line to issue after you scrape a second-to-last finish, but Team GB1 has become used to making the best…