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Mattia Di Martino and Nina Cittar of Italy are the 2026 Nacra 15 World Champions, despite a strong final day challenge by compatriots Alessandro Vargiu and Noa Lisci. Vargiu and Lisci won the two final races but Martino and Cittar had done enough to confirm their overall victory. Third place went to Anahita Fontanille and…

Following a two-hour postponement, over 6,000 sailors were rewarded with definitive Solent conditions. A building 20-knot sea breeze and more than 640 boats racing across the Solent met the ebb tide to produce the short, steep chop for which the racecourse is famous. The new Vintage Class opened the racing, followed by a fleet of…

Two hundred years after seven yachts gathered off Cowes for the first race in 1826, The Princess Royal returned to the Isle of Wight for the opening weekend of the Bicentenary Regatta, which this year has brought more than 630 boats to the Solent. HRH The Princess Royal joined sailors, organisers and the Cowes community…

As Cowes Week celebrates its landmark 200th anniversary, Sir Ben Ainslie will return to the Solent to race alongside the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. Competing across four days of the regatta, Ainslie, GB1 sailor Ben Cornish and Emirates GBR SailGP Team sailor Neil Hunter will race with members of the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. The initiative forms part…

2026 Fireball World Champions are DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend, finishing 18.5 pts clear of Simon Kings and Jono Loe. Kings and Loe’s boat was holed on the penultimate day and they received redress. But a 68 in the first race (discarded) of the final day spoiled their championship hopes, despite recovering with a second…

AC38 GB1 GB1 CEO, Ian Walker, checks in on the build of GB1’s AC75 race boat ahead of the 38th America’s Cup in Naples. The British America’s Cup team – GB1 – Has finally broken cover to reveal the latest build stage of their AC75, currently undergoing conversion to meet the AC38 protocol design changes.…

The Royal London Yacht Club (RLYC) hosted an epic edition of the Rovika Open UK SB20 Nationals and Open Championships at Cowes. Gathering 31 teams from across Australia, France, Belgium, Singapore and the UK, four days of action spanned from 25-knot Solent blasts to nail-biting light-air tactical battles setting a new benchmark for the UK…

After their dramatic earlier nosedive during training on the 15 July, Luna Rossa’s B3 AC75 has spent the last 14 days in the team’s hangar being inspected and modified. Returning to the water off Cagliari, Sardinia, Wednesday 29 July, with near perfect conditions of flat water and a thermal breeze of 11-13 knots that faded to…

The Nacra 15 World Championship is underway in Plymouth, UK and with seven races completed over the first two days, there have been seven different winners. European Champions Alessandro Vargiu and Noa Lisci of Italy are overall leaders with five finishes in the top three including a win in race 3, they have 15 pts…

Discard Day duly shuffled the fleet on the third day of the 2026 Fireball Worlds at Torbay. The new leaders all dropped a maximum point discard after six races. New leader is DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend who added a 5 and 1 to lead with 12 pts, second Georgia Booth and Oliver Davenport, recovering…