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505 World Championship 2026 – Hayling Island Sailing Club
Hayling Island Sailing Club will host the 505 World Championship, opening the regatta with a UK Nationals/Pre Worlds event this Friday 3 July. The 2026 World Championship will start Monday 6 July with over 90 crews entered from nine countries. The last time the Championship was held at HISC was in 2006 when home club…
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Here come Les Bleus . . . French launch their rebuilt AC75 for 38th America’s Cup
The French America’s Team, La Roche-Posay Racing Team, unveiled the new livery of their 2023 AC75 hull on Monday in Lorient. This is the third AC75 to be relaunched by a team competing in the 38th America’s Cup, the La Roche-Posay Racing Team’s boat – now resplendent in the azure blue and white colours of…
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Manuel Bragança is 2026 Optimist World Champion
Manuel Bragança of Brazil delivered an outstanding performance in Tangier, Morocco, to win the 2026 Optimist World Championship. Finishing first overall in the 284 strong fleet with a net score of 65 points, Bragança received the Beacon Challenge Cup, and the Peter Barclay Trophy as the first boy. The overall podium was completed by Elliot…
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International 14 – POW win for Andy Shaw and Rob Struckett
The one-race Prince of Wales (POW) National Championship was won by Andy Shaw and Rob Struckett of Itchenor SC. Second were Tim Saxton and George Yeoman also of Itchenor SC, and third Andy and Tom Partington of Hayling Island SC. The iconic event – first raced for at Cowes on 1 August 1927 – was held…
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Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille win for Kim Schindelhauer’s ‘Win Win’
The overall title at The Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille regatta went to the expertly sailed ‘Win Win’, which became only the second yacht to ever win the event three times. The distinctive 33m Baltic Yacht had been a previous winner in both 2016 and 2019, and now joins Rose – which last year took…
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Newport Bermuda Race – Overall title goes to to Thomas Campbell’s Cal 40 Nicole
The 2026 Newport Bermuda Race’s most prestigious prize, the St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy, went to Cal 40 Nicole, owned and skippered by Thomas Campbell for winning the St. David’s Lighthouse Division overall title. Line honours, as well as the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Trophy and division title was secured by the largest boat in the race,…
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Day 1 of the Argentario Sailing Week – Miramis Trophy, celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The opening races saw three of the few surviving Herreshoff NY 40s duelling on the stunning Argentario sea, along with 130-year-old Cariad and other pages of 100+ years of yachting history battling it out on the water. The fifty-strong fleet of classic and vintage yachts is divided into eight classes: Big Boats, Gaff Vintage, Marconi…
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Martijn van Muyden is the 2026 Finn European Champion
Martijn van Muyden, of The Netherlands, has won the 2026 Open Finn European Championship in Gdynia, Poland after three final races were sailed on Saturday. Defending champion, Valerian Lebrun, from France, won two of the races to end up second with Peter Peet, also from The Netherlands, in third. Poland’s Michał Krasodomski placed fourth overall…
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International 14 – Prince of Wales Cup Week Day 2
One race was completed on day 2 of the International 14 – Prince of Wales Cup Week at Largs Sailing Club on Friday. This was a second race win for POW Week leaders, Andy Shaw and Rub Struckett, who now count two race wins after the discard was applied. Second are Andy and Tom Partington…
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No racing again on day 4 of Finn Europeans
Once again, no races were possible at the 2026 Open and U29 Finn European Championship in Gdynia, Poland, due to very light winds. The fleet attempted one race in the early afternoon, but it was abandoned on the first downwind as the breeze evaporated into Polish thin air. After four days, Bas de Waal, from…